Head of IMF arrested and accused of sexual assault

[Jan Klimkowski]

From Paul Craig Roberts' article:

Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn's book is that he was far ahead of America's French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections. Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.

It is possible that Strauss-Kahn eliminated himself and saved Washington the trouble. However, as a well-travelled person who has often stayed in New York hotels and in hotels in cities around the world, I have never experienced a maid entering unannounced into my room, much less when I was in the shower.

In the spun story, Strauss-Kahn is portrayed as so deprived of sex that he attempted to rape a hotel maid. Anyone who ever served on the staff of a powerful public figure knows that this is unlikely. On a senator's staff on which I served, there were two aides whose job was to make certain that no woman, with the exception of his wife, was ever alone with the senator. This was done to protect the senator both from female power groupies, who lust after celebrities and powerful men, and from women sent by a rival on missions to compromise an opponent. A powerful man such as Strauss-Kahn would not have been starved for women, and as a multi-millionaire he could certainly afford to make his own discreet arrangements.

As Henry Kissinger said, "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." In politics, sex is handed out as favors and payoffs, and it is used as a honey trap. Some Americans will remember that Senator Packwood's long career (1969-1995) was destroyed by a female lobbyist, suspected, according to rumors, of sexual conquests of Senators, who charged that Packwood propositioned her in his office. Perhaps what inspired the charge was that Packwood was in the way of her employer's legislative agenda.

Even those who exercise care can be framed by allegations of an event to which there are no witnesses. On May 16 the British Daily Mail reported that prior to Strauss-Kahn's fateful departure for New York, the French newspaper, Liberation, published comments he made while discussing his plans to challenge Sarkozy for the presidency of France. Strauss-Kahn said that as he was the clear favorite to beat Sarkozy, he would be subjected to a smear campaign by Sarkozy and his interior minister, Glaude Gueant. Strauss-Kahn predicted that a woman would be offered between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros (more than $1,000,000) to make up a story that he raped her.

Strauss-Kahn clearly likes a shag. Indeed, one of his new French accusers accuses DSK of behaving like a "rutting chimpanzee". Which conjures a memorable and highly damaging image, ridiculing DSK and transforming him into an uncontrolled, irrational, beast.

If DSK raped, or attempted to rape, the maid, then he can rot in Hell (an American private for profit prison).

However, as this thread has clearly demonstrated, there is a deep political rationale for the ruling elites to "get Strauss-Kahn" , and the sexual blackmail of a man with an established track record as a "womanizer" (curiously suppressed by conventions of the French press), is an obvious play.

None of us were in the hotel room with DSK.

However, the chances of this being a (character) assassination of a man who refused to do as he was told are very high.

Strauss-Kahn has, most probably, been Spitzered.