Pleased to see well known figures in France disgusted with the US manner of filming people in courts in handcuffs and the circus around it etc.

Sad to see the British media weaving tales of the sex lives of French politicians..mistresses and so on as an opportunity to comment on Strauss-Khan printing tittle tattle as though it must be true.

I don't buy it..a powerful figure 'raping' a cleaner in a hotel. I just don't buy it.

I am no conspiracy theorist, but my immediate reaction was that there is something very dodgy in all this.

Strauss-Kahn was shortly to announce his candidacy for the French Presidency next year and looked as tho he had good chances of trouncing Sarkozy. Sarkozy's UMP party had said that if DSK announced his candidacy they would use the 'nuclear option' on him. hmmmm......

God bless America,and all those who sail away from her:)

The worst possible outcome of all this is that his job may go to Gordon Brown !!!!

If someone couldn't run the family economy would you put him in charge of the country's finances? NO !

Why should someone who couldn't run the country's finances then end up running the world's finances??

It defies belief.

In The Know wrote:
The worst possible outcome of all this is that his job may go to Gordon Brown !!!!

If someone couldn't run the family economy would you put him in charge of the country's finances? NO !

Why should someone who couldn't run the country's finances then end up running the world's finances??

It defies belief.

Wasn't there some mention of him taking over the IMF before this blew up?

Some former US police chief was on Radio 4's PM this evening saying that the New York police deliberately parade people in public in handcuffs looking tired and unshaven after a couple of days' interrogation in order to make them look defeated (and therefore guilty in the jury's eyes).

david wrote:
Some former US police chief was on Radio 4's PM this evening saying that the New York police deliberately parade people in public in handcuffs looking tired and unshaven after a couple of days' interrogation in order to make them look defeated (and therefore guilty in the jury's eyes).

yes they did that to Russell Crowe but being a movie star it just made him look more glamorous.

I'm mindful of a huge case here about 10 years where a Chief of Detectives heading an enquiry into a serial rapist was arrested for the crimes in a bizarre case that was like a Hollywood movie and the same thing was done..publicly paraded etc.

The whole case collapsed and the 2 arresting detectives -one committed suicide and the other resigned and emigrated..it was so obviously a set-up but the desired affect was achieved. The man's life was destroyed and he died from a heart attack about 3 years later.

The accusation is enough.

Solihull Exile wrote:
Wasn't there some mention of him taking over the IMF before this blew up?

Yes, you're right - and Cameron seems to have put a block on it (I knew he had some brains !)

david wrote:
Some former US police chief was on Radio 4's PM this evening saying that the New York police deliberately parade people in public in handcuffs looking tired and unshaven after a couple of days' interrogation in order to make them look defeated (and therefore guilty in the jury's eyes).

... and also to "encourage" others to come forward and "prop up" spurious claims ?

One thing is for sure; as some of us have noticed - he is guilty unless he can prove his innocence.

so far he is being blamed for the entire French nation's attitude towards sex

JK2006 wrote:
One thing is for sure; as some of us have noticed - he is guilty unless he can prove his innocence.

Indeed.

I just heard something shocking with regard to the practice of parading people accused of crimes in front of the cameras when they are unshaven and tired after days of interrogation.

Interviewed on the excellent French current affairs programme C'est Dans L'air a former New York mayor (I think, didn't get his exact title) said words to the effect of 'If you don't want to be paraded like that, don't commit a crime.' Errrrm, if DSK is guilty, let him get what he deserves, but why parade suspects like that?

Well, if Gordon gets the job, I'm sure that sex will be the last thing on his mind. You could say that he's definitely a safe pair of hands (and that's coming from the horse's mouth).

Jilted John wrote:
(and that's coming from the horse's mouth).

the mind boggles

interesting piece on the controversy over the so-called 'Perp Walk':

www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seealso/2011/05/dail...re_over_perp_wa.html

... and why did the hotel wait AN HOUR before making a complaint ?


uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19/us-str...dUKTRE74I0GW20110519

so he has resigned.

Strauss-Kahn challenged the Empire.

He said (the greatest scam) globalisation had delivered huge benefits for a few but was plunging millions of people into poverty. True

He said that in 5 years China will be the most powerful trading country and the era of US domination was over. True.

The accusation is always enough. The outcome is of no consequence.