{"id":2065,"date":"2011-05-20T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:42:03","slug":"french-politicians-pigs-american-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"French Politicians, Pigs & American Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending three nights\u00a0at Riker’s Island Prison in New York for allegedly raping a 32 year-old maid in his $3,000 a night hotel room,\u00a0Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now former head of the International Monetary Fund, has been freed on $6 million bail.\u00a0 While awaiting trial, he will live in an Upper East Side condo <\/a>where apartments rent for $8,800 per month.\u00a0 If you don’t want to rent, you can pony up to\u00a0$26 million to buy one.\u00a0 The condo\u00a0complex comes with 24-hour concierge service and a\u00a0swimming pool.\u00a0 Oh, and maid service (no joke) is included.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, May 14, Strauss-Kahn was pulled out of the First Class cabin of an Air France jet just minutes before take-off to France, an “ally” of the United States with which we have no extradition treaty.\u00a0 Earlier that day, he allegedly sexually assaulted a 32 year-old single mom who is an immigrant from the North African nation of Guinea.\u00a0 Had Strauss-Kahn made it out of the\u00a0country, he would have never\u00a0faced\u00a0American justice.\u00a0 The Roman Polanski’s of the world just love France.\u00a0\u00a0Strauss-Kahn, a thrice married socialist leader in his native country, has been called\u00a0by some “a great seducer,”\u00a0\u00a0“a politician whose relationships with women have landed him in trouble.”<\/a>\u00a0 Now that’s a shock!\u00a0\u00a0To say that he’s had women troubles is a nice way of saying the man is a cad.\u00a0 In America,\u00a0some might call a man like Strauss-Kahn is a pig.\u00a0 Well, that is if he was conservative.\u00a0 Because he’s a socialist, he’ll probably get a pass from our nation’s elitists.<\/p>\n

And, apparently, he is a pig<\/del>\u00a0man with a past that may come back to bite him.\u00a0 Not only has he been charged with the sexual assault of this New York maid, he has also been accused of rough behavior with several ladies sent from Manhattan madam Kristin Davis’s escort service back in 2006\u00a0(at\u00a0$2,500).<\/a><\/p>\n

As a general rule, none of Strauss-Kahn’s alleged past can be used against him at trial (although there are limited exceptions to this rule).\u00a0 However, that doesn’t mean that people in the court of public opinion have to ignore the sordid facts that continue to emerge about this 63 year-old now disgraced politician.<\/p>\n

Despite Strauss-Kahn’s alleged\u00a0history with women — not all of it good — and the facts that have already emerged in the current case, many within France are apparently turning a blind eye now.\u00a0 Maybe that explains\u00a0the sexist culture that apparently existed within the IMF in recent years.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The more libertine culture that exists in Europe may also explain why 57% of adults in France think Strauss-Kahn was set up.\u00a0 If you’re a socialist in that country, the number of conspiracy theorists rises to a wopping 70%.<\/a>\u00a0 These are probably the same people that think\u00a0France won World War II all by themselves or that Roman Polanski has gotten a bum rap.<\/p>\n

Thankfully for the victim — not Strauss-Kahn — we are not in France, but in the United States of America.\u00a0 While we are not perfect, we have the greatest legal system in the world, for both those accused of a crime and the victims of crime.\u00a0 Mr. Strauss-Kahn, by virtue of the American Constitution, is entitled to a presumption of innocence.\u00a0 But, even though\u00a0he must be proven to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, Strauss-Kahn has been treated like an ordinary, common criminal, something that neither he nor his fellow\u00a0Frenchmen may understand.<\/p>\n

According to NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly “said the case was handled like any other, noting that the NYPD would face criticism if the Frenchman received any special treatment.”<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>Someone like Strauss-Kahn, one fo the world’s elites, has probably never been treated like anyone else.\u00a0 He has lived the pampered life of\u00a0one of the world’s rich and famous, receiving special treatment wherever he goes.\u00a0 Whether staying at a $3,000 a night hotel in Manhattan or jetting around the world in First Class, this Frenchman must be completely dumbfounded to have found himself behind bars in Riker’s Island.\u00a0 He must truly be at a loss because his word has not been automatically believed over the testimony of a 32 year-old maid from North Africa.<\/p>\n

But, alas, the beauty of the American justice system.\u00a0 Where\u00a0an immigrant to the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave,” is seen as credible by the authorities <\/a>while one of Europe’s finest elites is thrown in the slammer.\u00a0 Said Police Commissioner Kelly:<\/p>\n

“We handled this as a normal arrest.\u00a0 Perhaps people in France are just not familiar with our system.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, the people of France and one Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn better get familiar with our justice system.\u00a0 Because, at the end of the day, there will be justice for all, not just the rich and famous.\u00a0 Mr. Strauss-Kahn may ultimately walk away a free man or he may spend his retirement years in prison.\u00a0 And, it will come down to a verdict (unless plea bargained) of his peers.\u00a0 Thankfully in the United States of America, that jury will be composed of ordinary citizens who, more often than not, can smell a pig from a mile away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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