Leader of IMF Charged with Attempted Rape

Originally posted by sh76
Wow, this is a bizarre story...

It's sooooooooooooooooo, I don't know, "symbolic" perhaps? The head of the IMF accused of attempting to rape a maid who happens to be an African immigrant.

One couldn't dream up a more apt metaphor(?).

EDIT: Someone beat me to it:

I don’t like using the word rape as a metaphor, but the charge against the head of the International Monetary Fund is almost a perfect metaphor for the IMF’s role in the world.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of attempted rape against an African maid in a luxury hotel in New York City.

And while the truth of this allegation remains for the legal system to sort out, screwing helpless people over in the Third World (and Eastern Europe: see Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine&rdquo😉 is what the IMF is all about.


For decades now, the International Monetary Fund — this instrument of the U.S. Treasury and global capitalism — has required developing countries that are in financial trouble to devalue their currency, slash employment in the public sector, and slash government subsidies for such essentials as food and fuel.

If the countries refuse to follow this advice, they don’t get the IMF’s bailout money and their economies continue to go down the drain.

This is coercion of the worst sort.

It results in drastic cuts in the living standards of millions of people literally overnight. It leads to mass unemployment— and often to food riots.

And while the IMF twists the arms of these developing countries, it also demands that they open up their economies to multinational corporations and banks, which imperils their sovereignty.

The IMF abuses power to get its way.

And that’s what the IMF’s chief is accused of doing, too.

http://www.progressive.org/wx051611.html

Originally posted by no1marauder
What does it say about French "Socialists" that their most likely candidate for the Presidency was someone who leads an agency with a history of proposing policies which are to the detriment of workers and the benefit of economic elites the world over?

The French political system is similar to the American one. The Socialist Party is therefore very similar to the ruling UMP.

Originally posted by Sam The Sham
Let's not rush to judgement here, the story sounds a bit fishy.

A man in his position gets out of the shower in a $3000 a day hotel room, sees a maid in the room, chases her down and forces her to have oral and anal sex?

Remember the Duke rape case fiasco?
Or the McMartin preschool horror that kept a bunch of innocent people in jail for years?:

I agree.

Until we see some real evidence in this case beyond the alleged victim's say-so I don't see how everyone can just assume that he's guilty.

He may be guilty; and his history certainly suggests he's capable of this sort of thing, but I want to see more before I convict him in my own mind.

Originally posted by sh76

Former Culture Minister Jack Lang described the treatment of the Socialist presidential frontrunner -- whose political career is now in tatters -- as a "lynching" that had "provoked horror and aroused disgust."

Boo Hoo

:'(:'(:'(

I would suggest that Mr. Lang Google the work "lynching." Being handcuffed and photographed is not quite a "lynching."

Lost in translation, perhaps?

The French have a strange set of values.

They are "outraged" that someone accused of violent sexual crimes is shown handcuffed. However, they have no problems revealing the name of the alleged victim:

Her identity has been withheld in U.S. media publications, in accordance with standard journalistic practice. But media outlets in France, where Strauss-Kahn is from, began reporting her name Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43073200/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

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