Former high-ranking U.S. treasury bureaucrat questions official story on Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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      North American newspapers have not been kind to International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who's facing rape and unlawful-imprisonment charges in New York.

      This came after a hotel maid—a single mother from West Africa—filed a police complaint that he attacked her.

      But a former U.S. assistant secretary of the Treasury and iconoclastic writer, Paul Craig Roberts, has a different view.

      In an article called "The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward" in the online Foreign Policy Journal, Roberts suggests that Strauss-Kahn might have been framed—because the U.S. government did not want him replacing Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France.

      "President Bill Clinton survived his sexual escapades because he was a servant to the system, not a threat," Roberts writes. "But Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted from the power ranks."

      Roberts also notes that "Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks."

      Roberts, a former Wall Street Journal columnist, doesn't discount the possibility that the complainant was bribed. He also compares what's happening to Strauss-Kahn to the allegations against WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, who is also a threat to U.S. hegemony.

      In a postcript to the column, Roberts adds: "In the several hours since I wrote this article, authorities have announced that Strauss-Kahn, who was refused bail on specious grounds, has been put on suicide watch. Why announce it unless it serves an agenda? From the beginning, every statement and action of the authorities is designed to convey the impression of guilt. Is putting Strauss-Kahn on suicide watch a way to paint a picture of a person who can’t face the public humiliation of his crime? Is it a way to use the humiliation of constant interruption to break down his character and resolve? Or might it be to plant the idea that should he expire in prison, suicide is the explanation?"

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      Tessa

      May 19, 2011 at 10:17pm

      Are you kidding me? Clinton had consensual sexual relations with a woman he wasn't married with, DSK is accused of attempting to rape a hotel maid and forcible confinement on top of a litany of past sexual abuses dating back years and years. This is a pattern of sexual abuse that has gone unchecked and ignored repeatedly, and finally for once he's facing the consequences.

      I look forward to a time when we sexual violence against women is taken seriously and not immediately assumed to be a plot (though honestly, it could easily be a plot and he could be guilty at the same time. It wouldn't take much for DSK's political opponants to set up a situation where he would likely behave badly).

      kaur

      May 20, 2011 at 6:50am

      @Tessa, you contradict yourself when you say that you look forward to a time when sexual violence against women is taken seriously & not immediately assumed to be a plot and then you say this could very likely be a plot in this case. I look forward to a time when Feminists don't immediately jump to conclusions and blame without knowing the full story about someone's life. I also hope that they will start showing some more Humanity for men.

      As I mentioned in another post, Men’s Sexuality is their Achilles Heel and this is often exploited in countless ways. Women don't take ownership of victimhood.

      Even if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was framed, it sounds like he has a ”˜womanizing’ problem. It could very likely be a Sex Addiction. On the surface it may appear that someone with this condition is living an envious and indulgent lifestyle but anyone who knows about addiction knows that it’s really about a person being out-of-control. What they really need is help, understanding and intervention before there is crash and burn.

      It’s sad to hear that Strauss-Kahn is currently on suicide watch. My heart goes out to all those impacted in this unfortunate situation.