In an interview April 28 with the French daily newspaper Liberation, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he could imagine "a woman who would be raped in a parking lot and who would then be promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story." See http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/18/new.york.imf.head/?hpt=Sbin
Last Saturday, less than three weeks after that interview, a hotel housekeeping employee said that Mr. Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her.
Those who have already assumed Strauss-Kahn guilty would ask, why would he have imagined such a thing, unless he had already raped someone or planned to rape someone?
The answer is obvious. It's not as if other internationally prominent men haven't been accused under circumstances that raise questions about the veracity of the accusations.
Can you say Julian Assange? Al Gore? And we won't get into the celebrities -- the David Copperfields and the athletes, both European and American. Prominent men are easy targets.
Let us be blunt. Men who engage consensually on a frequent basis with women they don't know well run a great risk of being falsely accused. Strauss-Kahn admits to being a ladies man.
It's the law of averages: the more women you interact with, the greater the chance that one will falsely accuse you of rape.
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The American gender-Raunch community are working feverishly to gag all access to information that they don't like.
One must now go "beyond the US curtain of perversion and misinformation" to get any real facts about the girl who has accused Khan of rape.
It would be interesting to see what the rest of the world is saying about this. You know, kinda "go beyond the New york Times perversion spin".
This doesn't smell like a false rape situation to me. What about Strauss-Kahn’s rapid flight from the hotel room to an airplane leaving the country, even forgetting his cell phone in the room? How about the excuse of having dinner with his daughter, which was suddenly changed to an "admission" of consensual sex when it became clear that there was evidence proving sexual contact. Lastly, if you're going to put together a 'honey pot' situation, the woman has to at least be at a certain level of attractiveness, and presumably young. What would have prompted anyone to use a woman like this? Not a case of false rape, in my view.
Anonymous - ”This doesn't smell like a false rape situation to me.”
But, then again, aren’t you one of the few who still believe that those Duke Lacrosse boys got away with rape?
”What about Strauss-Kahn’s rapid flight from the hotel room to an airplane leaving the country, even forgetting his cell phone in the room?”
There seems to have been a hasty exit from the hotel, not to a waiting plane, but to a lunch date with his daughter (weird thing to do if one is fleeing a crime). And he had a meeting scheduled in Germany the next day, so he was already planning to leave the country, and would have done so if no maid had entered his hotel room either before or after he had left it.
None of that is really evidence of flight from criminal conduct. The guy was rich enough to hire a private jet and leave the country ASAP if he felt he needed to. Instead, he seemed to be going about “business as usual”, taking a commercial flight.
None of which exonerates him either, of course.
And, it seems the alibi of having lunch with his daughter was put forth by his attorney when it was originally believed that the crime had happened at around 1 PM, when he could be shown to have been at the restaurant. Additionally, it seem that as far as “changing stories” go, her account seems to have changed from around 1 PM to around noon AFTER it was learned that he had checked out before 12:30 PM.
Again, nothing there to clear him, but it does call her story into question.
Hotel workers are supposed to leave the door propped open when working in a guest room, yet we are hearing nothing of the electronic evidence about what times a door card was used (and the use of employee cards can be differentiated from guest cards). Nor are we being told anything of the video surveillance.
Why is that?
Still nothing to exonerate him, but, likewise, nothing to actually demonstrate any guilt on his part either.
And what of this DNA evidence? Some accounts claim it was blood on the bed. How does that fit in with the account she has given? And, why didn’t she report the incident sooner?
The fact is that there are still too many questions to be answered before anyone can be reasonably certain about what happened. Unless of course, someone simply believes that they “just know it” in their hearts. But, of course, that’s what the fans of Crystal Mangum are basing their certain knowledge that she was raped by those rich white Duke boys.
Slwner, I haven't been here in a coon's age. You raise good questions for me, as a doubter, to rethink.
Elly
"It's the law of averages: the more women you interact with, the greater the chance that one will falsely accuse you of rape."
How dare you!
Nobody asks to be the victim of a false rape accusation! Blaming the poor victim detracts from the real problem which is the attitude of those making the false accusations. Strauss-Kahn should be free to be as promiscuous as he likes and demand no consequences!
...or is this concept only pertinent to one one crime- and one gender?
This doesn't smell like a false rape situation to me.
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Like hell it doesn't. Try clearing the snot out and try again.
The moral of this sad story is that if you are a man in this society, you aren't safe. You can't even go to hotels on a regular basis without being put at risk by our wonderful legal system.
Nutty women, being above the law, can destroy you on a whim.
"Slwner, I haven't been here in a coon's age. You raise good questions for me, as a doubter, to rethink.
Elly"
Elly is that fucker Georgia Girl, with her dreams of having been raped. Fucker!
For crying ut loud - I just left my phone in the Aria last January...
Christ! What if I'm accused of rape?
They kindly mailed to to me...so they know my address!
Oh my God!
If I were only 70 years old and still able to rape women, I'd be in BIG trouble!
This case is quite complicated. I think we should follow our own advice and wait for the results.
Too many conflicting arguments. DSK is innocent. He is currently the accused in a rape. That's it. He is not falsely accused, nor is he a rapist.
It's like Shroedinger's Cat. Except we have to wait.
I agree with Zarko.
9:42: why don't you joke some more about it, asshole? Yeah, being 70 years old makes you TOTALLY safe from FRAs.
Idiots like you are the reason why so many innocent men are in prison in this country.
My understanding is that one of the things he is accused of is fucking her in the ass (against her will).
So this really is pretty simple: is her asshole all torn up, like it would be if it was rape? Or is it not all torn up, like it would be if she were NOT raped?
You know, you might think that law enforcement would ask basic questions like this, before dragging a man's name through the mud. But it doesn't. Medical evidence gets VERY short shrift in our glorious legal system.
Common sense is nowhere to be found.
What would have prompted anyone to use a woman like this? Not a case of false rape, in my view.
How about the fact that she lives in an apt. that was set aside by the city for AIDS sufferers? And also has a teenage daughter to take care of? A female like this who can catch a cold and die very quickly due to the AIDS would be the very type who is desparate for money not just for herself but to take care of the daughter when she's gone.People in these situations may do anything and have nothing to lose.
And P.S.-don't believe anything you read in the papers.
And let me remind you that it is the defendant who has the rights not the accuser. The acuser is not being arrested,charged with a crime, jailed and put on trial.And freedom of the press does not mean they have a right to publish hearsay and defame a man before a trial.Freedom of the press mostly had to do with political speech not publishing defamatory gossip when a man is on trial. It also had to do with the press being able to sit in on government trials to ensure that secret trials weren't being conducted and everything was out in the open.A defendant's right to a fair unbiased trial trumps any right the press has to publish gossip and unfounded hearsay.
And why is it that in all of these "rape" trials that females seem to come out of the woodwork and claim that the guy did something to them 20 yrs. ago. It's prejudicial to even publish nonsense like that.
And P.S.-don't believe anything you read in the papers.
And let me remind you that it is the defendant who has the rights not the accuser. The acuser is not being arrested,charged with a crime, jailed and put on trial.And freedom of the press does not mean they have a right to publish hearsay and defame a man before a trial.
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The defendent is SUPPOSED to have rights. But those rights have become a joke.
And sadly, the media is allowed to discriminate against the victims of FRAs, which they do all the time. It is considered a sin to even question a totally unsupported rape accusation against a man with no criminal history.
Our society sucks!
I wander if Strauss kahns wife and daughter think he raped that skank?? Maybe they will become part of the forces that dismantle this "entrenched perversion" of American law enforcement.
Something smells "fishy" about this accusation.
Moral of the story, If one is to engage in hetero-sex acts in the US, you must always protect yerself with a cell phone video, to prove you didn't force her into it.
Even if shes just blowin ya.
Its interesting, Im reading main stream media articles on Strauss, and it seems like the US media are kinda lynching him for his politics.
How did this turn into a political lynching, and is this a responsible act on the part of main stream media in the US, to be lynching the possible next president of a sovereign nation??
Anonymous May 20, 2011 8:07:00 AM,
The U.S. mainstream media will crucify any man accused of rape on the sayso of any woman.
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