Let’s start with a giant disclaimer that the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is accused of forcibly sodomizing a hotel maid and we have no idea whether it’s true. There are even rumors that this is a plot hatched by Nikolas Sarkozy to cripple a potential rival in advance of next year’s French presidential election.
I suppose I could make a comment here about the arrogance of the political class and their view that they’re above the law.
But I’m such a fiscal policy dork that I’m especially outraged by the fact that Mr. Strauss-Kahn gets a gigantic tax-free salary. And then, to add insult to injury, he was staying in a hotel room that costs $3,000 per night!
I rapped Congressman Ron Paul across the knuckles for his disapproval of the Osama bin Laden raid, but I give him kudos for drawing the right conclusion about this sordid story. Here are some excerpts from a Fox News report.
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate told “Fox News Sunday” that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was pulled off an Air France flight moments before take-off from New York Saturday and arrested on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, said the whole course of events “is a bit ironic.” Paul, who makes no secret about his disgust of IMF policies, said Strauss-Kahn demonstrates why the Fund has problems. “These are the kind of people that are running the IMF and we want to turn the world finances and the control of the money supply to them,” Paul said. “That should awaken everybody to the fact that they ought to look into the IMF and find out why we shouldn’t be sacrificing more sovereignty to an organization like that and an individual like he was.”
[…] policy? Do they go to left-wing conferences and hear stories from Dominique Strauss-Kahn , the infamous former head of the IMF. Or do they get briefings from my one-time debating opponent Elliot Spitzer, who also was disgraced […]
I don’t know why Americans put up with this stuff. But it’s pretty clear by now that many socialists and communists have the philosophy “Socialism for you, capitalism for me!” Their socialism is just a vehicle with which they express their opposition to the old order. They want to be the new boss, and when they get to be the new boss they are a lot worse than the old boss. Or so history suggests.
[…] part because politicians and international bureaucrats (when they’re not getting arrested for molesting hotel maids) have a compulsion to squander other people’s money. But it also should be noted that the […]
[…] happened in part because politicians and international bureaucrats (when they’re not busy molesting hotel maids) have a compulsion to squander other people’s money. But it also should be noted that the […]
The dude is a two bit looser, how can the French be so supportive of a man who boasts about his sexual misconduct? There is no secret plot, the woman is a hard working maid, simple truth. He, on the other hand is a ruthless dirt bag who spends the worlds tax dollars on $3000 a night hotel suites, I thought Socialists were supposed to behave humble while representing working people. The African woman is most likely very Religious, he’s an Atheist… I hope he gets what he deserves, a couple of years in jail. Maybe then France will stop protecting jerks like him and go after all the rapists in their country.
The French would give him a medal, but if this man was a US citizen our legal system would simply let him go, because like this fund manager for smith Barney that ran over a cyclist (Doctor no less) and left him for dead our legal system now determines that people with a specific amount of wealth to be above the law, so since this crime happened on US soil let him go because he is rich, sound fair.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/08/wealthy-fund-manager-avoids-felony-charges-running-cyclist/
The French shall likely give him a medal.
Certainly they would never allow him to be extadited.
One only need recall that they arrogantly dismissed an even worse crim by Roman Polanski.