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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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 Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:25 am Post subject: French IMF Head Arrested For Sexual Assault in NY |
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| Update: DSK Now In Police Custody; IMF Head Dragged Off A Plane, Arrested Following Hotel Maid Allegations Of Forced Head |
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| If there was any threat that the IMF would launch an SDR alternative to the USD, it is all over now. According to the NYPost, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan (no Bob Pisani, it is not a she) was just arrested on board the first class cabin (thank you taxpayers) of a New York-Paris flight as it was about to take off. And here is where the story gets surreal: "Around noon today, a maid at the hotel knocked on the door of Strauss-Khan�s room. After letting the maid in, Strauss-Khan allegedly threw the maid on the room�s bed and forced her to perform oral sex on him, said police sources. Strauss-Khan let the maid leave � and soon afterward, headed off to Kennedy Airport for his flight to Paris." Of course this will not be the first sexual misconduct for the head of the world's global pseudo bail out organization: as a reminder back in 2008 the IMF hired a law firm to investigate whether its chief had an improper relationship with a female employee, Piroska Nagy. Back then he got off. This time he won't (even though he did... in a way), and it appears that the IMF is about to lose its head, meaning the fate of literally unlimited bailout funding is now up in the air. Also, it appears that being head of major bureaucracy does not automatically mean getting head on an ad hoc, and involuntary basis. Lastly, we are stunned it was not Herman Von Rompuy or G-Pap on the receiving end. |
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/imf-head-strauss-khan-dragged-plane-arrested-following-hotel-maid-sodomy-charges
Conspiracy theories are swirling. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Strauss-Kahn's Case for Diplomatic Immunity.
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As the sexual assault charges stack up against IMF head Dominque Strauss-Kahn, and the political and economic communities tabulate their losses, one of the major legal questions that has been raised is whether Strauss-Kahn's position with the IMF might afford him some form of diplomatic immunity. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity, Reuters reports, but he did not elaborate on why he believes diplomatic immunity does not apply. Thus the issue is ripe for some legal speculation.
Under the IMF's Articles of Agreement, employees are granted a limited form of diplomatic immunity, the so-called "official acts" immunity, for actions related to activities performed in the course of their work for the Fund. International law expert Kurt Taylor Gaubatz was doubtful that this type of immunity would apply here:
Acts immunity only covers actions taken in the course of his duties. Coming out of your bathroom stark naked and attacking a chambermaid probably doesn't qualify.
However, "official acts" immunity, as Duncan Hollis explains at Opinio Juris, is different from "diplomatic immunity," which makes diplomats "absolutely immune in almost all cases from criminal arrest or civil suit." Diplomatic immunity is far more protective. And as the IMF is a specialized agency of the United Nations, diplomatic immunity might apply to IMF members. From the U.N.'s �Headquarters Agreement� with the U.S., Article 15 provides that:
Principal resident representatives of members of a specialized agency... shall... be entitled in the territory of the United States to the same privileges and immunities... as it accords to diplomatic envoys accredited to it.
Still, Hollis doubts this will do the trick.
I�m guessing he does not qualify because he�s not representing anyone other than the IMF as its Managing Director. But that creates the rather odd result that a lesser IMF official might have absolute/diplomatic immunity denied to the titular head of the IMF...
Brian Glow at Reuters suggests that Strauss-Kahn could still try to leverage his status as a quasi-diplomat by applying the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations, which grant broad immunity from prosecution to diplomats serving in foreign countries. While this law does not immunize a diplomat from actions "outside his official function," it can be interpreted pretty broadly. For example:
On April 26, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington threw out a case alleging that Lebanese Ambassador Antoine Chedid and his wife underpaid and verbally abused their maid. His decision relied, in part, on a State Department filing in a separate case, which found that hiring household workers for assistance during diplomatic service is covered by the Vienna Convention's immunity provisions.
In any event, the Telegraph hypothesizes that Strauss-Kahn will not have much assistance from either the IMF or his political opponent Sarkozy's French government in his quest for immunity.
In a short statement, the IMF did not mention immunity and referred inquiries to Mr Strauss-Kahn's "personal lawyer and to the local authorities" It also appears that Nicolas Sarkozy's government is not making any attempt to protect Mr Strauss-Kahn. |
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legrande
Joined: 23 Nov 2010
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Saving the world economy, one rape at a time????? |
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legrande
Joined: 23 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, employing the missionary to keep themselves on top. |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| I guess Sarkozy will win another mandate then. |
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Theme
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:18 pm Post subject: rape is a power crime |
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I hope the guy didn't do this because he is an idiot if he did.
Rape is a power crime.
After I applied for a teaching position at a Kindergarten in Taiwan back around 2000, the owner, whose husband was a Psychiatrist , wanted an hour of my time under the auspicies of me "helping" or consulting him about taking a graduate level course at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. Problem was, I graduated from a second tier affiliate in the UW system , but that was not the point.
It seems that he did not care about my advice regarding how to get into the course back in my home country anyway - he was just trying to determine if I was going to molest the children or rape anyone. He mentioned how rape was a crime of control or power.
I cannot remember how I figured that out anymore but I guess it just became apparent to me over time.
I have a 14 year old daughter and my concern for her is always on my mind.
I have also walked away after being told "no' on numerous occasions in my youth and not so youth.
Sexual assault seems to be a crime of control as this MD was saying to me in that interview. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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Abe Scrap
Joined: 01 May 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| You'd think the guy with his pulse on the trillions controlled by the IMF would spring for $100 for a hooker rather than jump on the chambermaid. Heck, he could get a BJ in Queens Plaza for $15. |
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legrande
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but not the same twisted power rush and feeling of domination that comes from being 'above the law', and forcing yourself on someone who doesn't want it. |
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Abe Scrap
Joined: 01 May 2011
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| ^ I just read an article where they are trying to add the diagnosis Paraphilic Coercive Disorder to the proposed DSM5, but is rape really a mental disorder? |
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Kepler
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Sounds like the case would have been handled much differently in France:
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The photos of a potential French president � handcuffed, stooped, unshaven, tieless and whisked away to court before photographers � knocked the breath out of the French public.
The initial response was a collective "that would not happen here."....
Despite the weight of the charges, it is likely, experts say, that had the alleged hotel scene taken place in Paris, Strauss-Kahn's dignity would have remained intact.
In France, unlike the U.S., the judicial process takes place largely behind closed doors and the political powers-that-be hold sway over prosecutors. It is also a country where for centuries, infidelities were a royal ritual and bedroom secrets known to all were never more than court chatter.
That unwritten bedroom code of silence is still largely respected, although the practice is bit by bit giving way to a demand for more public accountability.
"The French accept many more moral transgressions of their president, of their political class, of their elite. There is something ... a bit aristocratic" in French moral and legal culture, said Antoine Garapon, a magistrate and author of the book "To Judge in America and in France."
"The American culture is more democratic. You can head the IMF and be a citizen like others," he told The Associated Press....
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110518/ap_on_bi_ge/imf_head_assault_culture_clash |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| In France, unlike the U.S., the judicial process takes place largely behind closed doors and the political powers-that-be hold sway over prosecutors. It is also a country where for centuries, infidelities were a royal ritual and bedroom secrets known to all were never more than court chatter. |
Police are charging DSK with sexual assault, not mere infidelity. I can understand how the French would view the political persecution of Bill Clinton as Puritan while yet approving of the prosecution against DSK.
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Strauss-Kahn's reputation as a seducer may have titillated the French, but the actual charge of attempted rape was a shocker.
"People knew he was a womanizer, even a quite extreme womanizer, but I don't think people were ready to face the accusation of sexual assault and attempted rape," Moisi told Associated Press Television News. |
But there is definitely a legitimate culture clash when it comes to interpretations of the Freedom of the Press.
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In France, there are no cameras in the courtroom or perp walks, when police, sometimes en route to court, parade suspects past waiting photographers. A 2000 law forbids even portraying photo images or TV film of a suspect in handcuffs to ensure the presumption of innocence.
France's audiovisual authority, the CSA, sent out a reminder Tuesday of the French media's legal obligations. Dominique de Leusse, a lawyer specializing in defamation issues who has joined the Strauss-Kahn team, told The Associated Press he is considering filing a legal complaint about the images shown in the French media. |
I can understand the motivations behind these French standards, so different from our own. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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I can't wait for the Law & Order episode.  |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| You'd think the guy with his pulse on the trillions controlled by the IMF would spring for $100 for a hooker rather than jump on the chambermaid. Heck, he could get a BJ in Queens Plaza for $15. |
It's intriguing, the guy is too smart for what supposedly happened..and for him to do something so stupid just goes to show that anyone can exercise bad judgement every now and then.
I wonder how much coverage this story got in Korea. It's pretty much still on the news every 15 minutes back home. |
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