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The New York prosecutor has had to tell the judge that the police and prosecutors have lost confidence in their sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The judge has released DSK from house arrest and returned his bail and bond money.
The prosecutors say that
the immigrant hotel maid lied to the police about the incident and about other
things, and the police have revealed that the "victim" discussed with an
imprisoned man the possibility of turning the case into extortion. According to
the New York Times, the maid's jailed confidant was among a number of people who
had made multiple cash deposits totaling $100,000 to the maid's bank
account. The police now suspect that the maid has connections to illegal drugs
and money laundering.
The prosecutor says that
he will continue to investigate the case. What that means is that the
prosecutor, a politically ambitious Cy Vance, is going for a misdemeanor plea
from DSK to save the prosecutor's face from injudiciously being drawn into an
extortion/reputation-destroying plot against the man who French polls indicated
was the public's favorite in the upcoming French presidential election in which
President Sarkozy, Washington's puppet, is seeking reelection. The prosecutor is
sending DSK's legal team the message that the case is being kept open and could
be reinstated unless DSK's attorneys secure DSK's permission to negotiate a deal
on a minor charge, which essentially has no punishment, but saves the faces of
the NY prosecutor and police.
We will probably never
know whether the maid thought the scheme up on her own or whether it came from
Sarkozy's operatives and their US allies. One indication that DSK's political
enemies are implicated is the fact, made public by the French press, that
Sarkozy's political team in France knew about DSK's arrest before the NY
police announced it. This fact did not stop the NY prosecutor and police from
painting DSK as guilty in numerous public statements and in unethical if not
illegal leaks to reporters.
When police and
prosecutors convict a suspect in the media before he is even charged, it
typically means that there is no evidence against him and that demonization is
serving as the substitute. Conviction is what is important to the system, not a
determination of innocence or guilt.
On numerous Internet
sites, I pointed out the problems with the case against DSK. For informing
people of the obvious, I was denounced by the right-wing and the
left-wing.
The right-wing gave me the
finger for doubting the word and integrity of police and prosecutor. Didn't I
know that these are the honorable guardians who protect the public from
crime? How dare I question anything the police and prosecutor did or do. What
was I, some kind of pinko-liberal-commie?
The left-wing also gave me
the finger and said that I had revealed my real self as nothing but an apologist
for the rich and powerful and for men who seduce women. How much was I paid for
my service to the rich and powerful and seducers of innocent
women?
The feminist left
denounced me as a misogynist. Only a woman-hater could take the side of a rapist
against his victim.
It is all so tiresome to
endure the stupidity of people. Little wonder they are losing their liberty,
their jobs and incomes, and their country and self-respect.
With DSK's reputation in
tatters and DSK knocked out of the French presidential election and removed from
the IMF, where he was beginning to raise questions about the establishment's use
of the IMF to bail out rich bankers on the backs of poor peasants, the "justice
system" has done its work. It is now safer for the authorities to release him
than to risk a trial. The shrill bleating of the maid's legal team signifies
their agony at having lost their share of the hoped-to-be extorted millions now
that a monetary settlement would clearly indicate obstruction of justice and
prison for them all.
Those few who actually
care about justice, not only for DSK and everyman, but also for the Greek,
Spanish, Irish, and Portuguese people, can find comfort in the fact that
apparently DSK had come to New York in order to speak with Nobel economist Joe
Stiglitz about a more humane and democratic way to resolve the sovereign debt
crisis in Europe than the one imposed by the private creditor
banks.
Obviously, anyone who
would consult with Stiglitz is perceived by the rich and powerful as a threat to
their interest.
However, this obvious fact
has made no impression on the left-wing, which has issued its shrill cries that,
once again, the money of the rich and powerful has prevailed over law and
justice.
