I agree with your compassionate analysis of this disgraceful situation.

And am intrigued by your final paragraph. Does this mean wealthy men prefer the carpet to the $3000 a night bed? What's that about? It's almost a topic for a masters in sociology.

I always said the idea of the encounter being "consensual" is a good one for a porn movie - a hotel maid entering a room she believed to be empty spontaneously offers herself for consensual rough sex on the carpet with the naked head of the IMF who emerges from the dunny apparently e(l)ect, and all in the space of nine minutes. Yep, I can see that on the naughty screen. But in real life? Stretches all credibility.

The one matter, certainly the most important matter that the author did not mention was the Jewish connections of Strauss-Kahn.

So a court case heard in the city of New York was never going to receive justice, in any form whatsoever. As well, in a country where 80% of the Congress dances to the Israeli tune, (slightly less in the Senate) the insidious nature of that sort of influence meant that this case was dead in the water from day one. Just took a little longer as they needed to seriously work on the victim and they did a thorough job there. She was an easy target.

That's the way it is over there.

The shrewdness of Strauss-Kahn's legal team, thick on the ground, was to ensure that he was not placed in a position where he was forced to answer a single question, thereby not subject to cross-examination. This they were able to do by using the shortcomings in American law, which, like taxation, is designed for the rich.

The treatment therefore was to concentrate on the poor, uneducated African girl, a simple task for Jewish money. When one can afford a hotel room at $3,000 per day, hiring a team of investigators was of little consequence to someone like Strauss-Kahn. Tea money, so to speak.

The one consolation in the whole matter is that because sufficient decent and honest people know of his guilt, in a political climate like France, well away from the US, of course, his actions may be judged by his own countrymen hopefully and have some bearing on his future prospects.

Once a sleeze, always a sleeze regardless of the hymn book from which one sings.

As for the multiple stains on the carpet indicating other activities of perhaps a similar nature but more importantly, a poor regime of cleaning, I have removed this hotel at $3,000 a day from my list of future accomodation options.

I'm struck by the the metaphor here.... it matches perfectly the treatment inflicted by the IMF on developing countries in Africa (and elsewhere)....and that organisation's true motives and conduct go largely unexamined as well.

It is interesting to speculate how differently this may have turned out in a non-adversarial judicial system.

The DA system is not designed to elicit the facts, as perhaps might have happened under a juge d'instruction in France, but to assess whether the case would survive the court process.

In my view, the NY district attorney took the only path open to him, since he knew full well that the victim's evidence would have been ripped apart by a string of highly-paid defense lawyers.

And the presiding judge was obliged to agree with him. Why go to the expense of a lengthy trial - the lawyers would make sure it was drawn out as much as possible - whose only result would be even more embarrassment and humiliation for the poor girl? It would be romantic folly to believe any other outcome possible, outside the realms of pulp fiction.

Justice, US-style. Sometimes it's not a pretty sight.

C'mon. NOBODY, apart from the two involved, knows what happened. The complainant is here portrayed as the classic 'victim' while the rich, white European is portrayed as the classic perpetrator. Yet this is all a fantasy of the author.

The court determined that the complainant is an unreliable witness and any conclusion about guilt or innocence of Strauss-Kahn merely reflects one's ingrained biases, be they political or sociological.

Author promoting and approves of lying as modus operandi of potential immigrants. End justifies the means in his opinion. It casts dark shadows on honest legal immigrants who do not need to obtain an entrance visa on false pretences and on the government agencies that admit them.
He based his article on lies, not facts. He defines it as “confidential information leaked to the press by one of DSK's victims.” (Read: DSK’s enemies).
“The cavalry charge DSK made, totally naked” is not a proven fact (the author was not in that hotel room, sadly), but the fruit of pathological imagination of a serial liar.
The notion that it was made “in pure hussar style” is totally ridiculous. What is pure hassar style? Running naked?
“There were traces not only of DSK's semen but of three other, unidentified, men as well. How about that for hygiene in a $US 3 000 a night luxury suite” states the article. Exemplary hotel maid Nafi did not clean very well after all.