Practical Lessons from the Strauss-Kahn ‘Assassination’
by quill Tuesday, May 17 2011, 11:02pm
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This analysis will concern itself less with the popular ‘guilt or innocence debate’ than it will with practical lessons to be learnt by various States, groups, bodies, institutions and capable individuals around the globe, but particularly in Europe.
One of the world’s most influential men is now languishing in a New York jail because a corrupt – legalised torture -- judiciary refused bail for a man who would stand to lose everything if he absconded.
Refusing bail based on unsubstantiated allegations/accusations is not uncommon in criminal America – the world’s leading civilian killing therefore terrorist state – however, consider Strauss-Kahn’s achievements to date and the measure of his political success in the world and realise that an impulsive, unstable personality (spontaneous rape) would have failed years before. Discretion is a lesson learnt early by all public figures, especially those with much to lose. The current accusation of the (impulsive) attempted rape of a hotel chamber maid involves one of the greatest indiscretions imaginable and 2+2 never equals 7!
We are faced with a political figure from the socialist left that many analysts around the globe predicted would easily defeat ultra-right, American asset, Nicolas Sarkozy for the French presidency. Add to that prospect the known opposition to Strauss-Kahn’s soft approach on sovereign debt in Europe, which infuriated elite Bankers, and a picture begins to form.
As Chief of the IMF, Strauss-Kahn refused to impose harsh austerity measures on Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, stating openly that such measures would lead to social unrest, economic stagnation and destabilisation – in that assessment Strauss Kahn was perfectly correct. He also derided those who supported harsh austerity measures labelling them, “mad men;” an accusation that not unintentionally targeted most of his peers! Needless to say, elite international banking interests were infuriated that an arrogant french socialist refused to tighten the debt vice on nations duped into taking enormous loans by the banking elite -- creating debt slavery is the primary objective of the IMF and World Bank.
In view of the above verifiable information it may prove helpful to reconsider accusations of the ‘impulsive attempted rape of a hotel chamber maid’ in a city that hosts some of the most discreet, sophisticated and glamorous 'escort services' on the planet! The implausibility of accusations against Strauss-Kahn become acute in the light of reason and in a background of American political intrigue.
What of value is to be learnt from this outrageous, rustic gesture from the world’s leading terrorist State, America? Quite simply and I will end it with this advice; the issuing of warrants and immediate arrest in Europe of all American and UK high officials known for war and other crimes against humanity and the immediate arrest and jailing of all banking elites known to have plunged the world into economic chaos! The same standard must be applied to America that it applies to other nations -- the USA must be taught that its standards also apply to itself. Imagine American officials too frightened to step foot on foreign soil due to the possibility of facing war crimes and other KNOWN criminal charges, which carry the severest of all legal penalties?