head of IMF arrested at JFK for sex assault

[onethatcares]

it's on the front page fo MSN news.

[Me.]

1. Jesus Wept

He sodomized a hotel maid and had to be hauled off an Sir France plane/. The head of the IMF behaves like this?

[dems_rightnow]

2. Forced a maid at the hotel

to perform oral sex on him, then ran for the airport when she escaped.

That's the initial story anyway.

[malaise]

5. Power, arrogance and hubris!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/nyregion/imf-head-is-arrested-and-accused-of-sexual-attack.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken in custody on Saturday, minutes before he was to fly to Paris from John F. Kennedy International Airport, the authorities said.

He was accused of a sex attack on a maid earlier in the day at a Times Square hotel, the authorities said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a candidate for president of France, was taken off an Air France flight by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and turned over to Manhattan detectives, according to a Port Authority spokesman. He was expected to be taken to the offices of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit at P.S.A. 5 in Manhattan, another official said.

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If this is true - throw away the fucking keys

[madokie]

24. Put him so far back in the jail they'll have to pipe sunshine in to him

where they'll have to shoot beans to him with a gun

[orpupilofnature57]

3. That Mount Olympus status doesn't seem to build moral fortitude,Hmmmm

Are jackals and ceo's conducive.

[annabanana]

4. Absolute power etc etc etc. . .n/t

[malaise]

6. Let's rec this to the greatest page

Fuck this scumbag who fucks the world on a daily basis.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. disgusting.

[xchrom]

8. Recommend

[Zax2me]

9. Strauss-Kahn,leader of France's Socialist Party to unseat Sarkozy?!

Dominique Strauss-Kahn - is this the man to defeat Sarkozy?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/24/new-europe-france-french-left

Not likely anymore.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43035172/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts


In fact, this is not the first sex scandal for him -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4972855.ece

[orpupilofnature57]

10. Nice links ,Thanks

[Hannah Bell]

16. he's not the party leader, he's a potential SP presidential candidate.

which should tell you something about the french socialist party, when a neolib privatizer might be its candidate.

[socialist_n_TN]

20. BINGO! He's a SINO...........

Of course most non Marxist (and quite a few Marxist ones :))socialist parties are pretty useless because they're tools of the bourgeoisie. They just use a "working class" face to help the exploiters keep the workers under control.

[Zax2me]

22. Those weren't my words - copied from article link here -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43035172/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
Near the end of article
Strauss-Kahn, leader of France's Socialist Party, was scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Sunday.

[midnight]

11. I have to read more about this story, but just knowing this guy is running against

Nicolas Sarkozy who is considered an extremely unpopular president because he backs the rich, and this guy doesn't... I don't know, but I wonder if this could be manufactured....

" Nicolas Sarkozy is the most unpopular president in the 50-odd-year history of France's fifth republic. Damned as the bling-bling "president of the rich" who championed the market on the eve of its greatest crisis in the postwar era, barely one in five think he's doing a good job.

There is even speculation that he may not stand for a second term. And whatever bounce the embattled president might derive from his new role as a war leader in the Libyan conflict is thought unlikely to last. But although the main opposition Socialist party led the field in countrywide local elections last Sunday with 25% of the vote, while Sarkozy's centre-right Union for a Popular Movement scored a humiliating 17%, it was the far-right National Front that registered the strongest advance, coming in less than two percentage points behind the ruling party. Already the Sarkozy camp is in disarray about how to respond to the front's success, having failed to win back supporters with attacks on multiculturalism, an anti-Roma migrant campaign and a legal ban on the Islamic face veil. In some polls, the front's new leader, Marine Le Pen, was ranked second for the crucial runoff in next year's presidential elections."http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/24/new-europe-france-french-left

[malaise]

12. Hope he wasn't set up

If he's guilty throw away the key

[JDPriestly]

26. The guy is 62. Are we seriously supposed to believe that a man of that age would/could rape

someone?

Do men of that age rape women?

Am I just naive?

[Hannah Bell]

17. sarkhozy backed him for the imf post. he's a neo-lib privatizer.

not a "socialist" in any way shape or form.

he's more like those rich kids who joined something vaguely socialist in the 60s & then became conservatives in the 80s. reverting to type, if they weren't just spies in the first place.

[Keith Bee]

13. When you think about it, it's really not all that surprising

The IMF rapes millions of people every day.

[malaise]

14. Yep they

have fucked up an entire planet

[Hannah Bell]

15. dominque strauss-kahn? wow. i wonder what the backstory is on that one.

i've always speculated that he was some relation of the strauss & kahn banking families but not able to get enough genealogical info to confirm or disconfirm.

it's my memory his wife anne sinclair had an interesting pedigree but can't remember the details now.

i'm going say I don't believe or disbelieve this report on first glance. it's possible. also possible there are some kind of dirty tricks involved.

[JDPriestly]

29. It's her word against his.

He said; she said.

I'm not defending anyone. I just don't want to jump to conclusions.

[aquart]

18. Give him a brain scan.

[somone]

19. And he was not handcuffed

Wealth has its privileges

[PufPuf23]

21. Must have gone off the Reservation nt.

[Odin2005]

23. String him up and toss this Socialist-In-Name-Only rapist in the clink.

[JDPriestly]

25. Not typical behavior for a man aged 62

I'm not sure I believe this story as it has been presented.

[Nye Bevan]

27. Well, no, it's not "typical" behavior for a man of *any* age.

Most men are not rapists, so rape is never "typical" behavior. But a 62 year old man is certainly capable of raping someone. Why are you eager to jump to this guy's defense?

[MH1]

28. not defending, but doesn't it seem odd for a guy with all that power

to do something so blatantly stupid? My first question was whether he was drugged or had an underlying pathology.

Shit, he could've hired a hooker to role play his fantasy. Why throw his life away? It just doesn't make sense. But that doesn't mean he was set up.