IMF Chairman Arrested for Sexual Assault by NYPD

[Ed Anger]

All I know is, Le Monde and Liberation is a bit funny to read in the past few days.

[HisMajestyBOB]

All I know is, Le Monde and Liberation is a bit funny to read in the past few days.

What's the French equivalent of "Freedom Fries"?

[jimmy olsen]

All I know is, Le Monde and Liberation is a bit funny to read in the past few days.

What's the French equivalent of "Freedom Fries"?

French Fries

[Syt]

So, who'll succeed to the IMF lordship?

[Drakken]

At least Berlusconi didn't rape anyone, so my vote goes to Il Cavaliere. 

[CountDeMoney]

So, who'll succeed to the IMF lordship?

The Iron Mike Fund has a nice ring to it.

[Grey Fox]

At least Berlusconi didn't rape anyone, so my vote goes to Il Cavaliere. 

Yeah, atleast Berlu's as the decency to pay at the end of the nite.

It might have been mentioned, I haven't read the thread, but the French Press is leaning "conspiracy" on this one.

[Ed Anger]

All I know is, Le Monde and Liberation is a bit funny to read in the past few days.

What's the French equivalent of "Freedom Fries"?

French Fries

[DGuller]

At least Berlusconi didn't rape anyone, so my vote goes to Il Cavaliere. 

Yeah, atleast Berlu's as the decency to pay at the end of the nite.

It might have been mentioned, I haven't read the thread, but the French Press is leaning "conspiracy" on this one.

  It always amuses me how people from third world countries assume that America works just like their homeland.

[Grey Fox]

At least Berlusconi didn't rape anyone, so my vote goes to Il Cavaliere. 

Yeah, atleast Berlu's as the decency to pay at the end of the nite.

It might have been mentioned, I haven't read the thread, but the French Press is leaning "conspiracy" on this one.

  It always amuses me how people from third world countries assume that America works just like their homeland.

That's also funny. France is totally the opposite of America on sexual behavior of political persons. Everything is swept under the rub at the highest positions. Sarkozy apparently was very good at it when he was Minister of the Interior.

[viper37]

Hey Zoupa!  What do you think of this:
Article de Cyberpresse concernant Sexus politicus

Apparently, rape and juvenile prostitution are widely tolerated for politicians in France, wich explains why so many media seem so surprised DSK was arrested.

[KRonn]

Hey Zoupa!  What do you think of this:
Article de Cyberpresse concernant Sexus politicus

Apparently, rape and juvenile prostitution are widely tolerated for politicians in France, wich explains why so many media seem so surprised DSK was arrested.

Really?      That's France's problem then; too bad for guys like this that they can't get away with rape, assault and brutality so easily in the US. 

[jimmy olsen]

Hey Zoupa!  What do you think of this:
Article de Cyberpresse concernant Sexus politicus

Apparently, rape and juvenile prostitution are widely tolerated for politicians in France, wich explains why so many media seem so surprised DSK was arrested.

Translate it!

[CountDeMoney]

Duh, everybody knows France loves rape since Depardieu made it cool.

[MadImmortalMan]

Hey Zoupa!  What do you think of this:
Article de Cyberpresse concernant Sexus politicus

Apparently, rape and juvenile prostitution are widely tolerated for politicians in France, wich explains why so many media seem so surprised DSK was arrested.

Translate it!

Ran it through Google translator:

French to English translation
A jewel of the French political class is arrested for sexual assault in New York. France is in turmoil. France is accustomed to that kind of history remains hidden under the covers.

This is not me saying that.

This is the book Sexus Politicus, a survey of journalists and Christophe Dubois Christophe Deloire on the habits of 'political' French, published in 2006.

The investigation of MM. Dubois Deloire and confirms that, in libertinism elected officials, France is a cultural exception. It is in this regard, the exact opposite of prudish America.

The American politician caught in the act of adultery can reasonably expect that the new one makes the Washington Post.

The president, himself, may have a mistress, a child and make him the confidence to stay at the presidential palace without being troubled by the media, the new fall silent.

This was the case, famous, Francois Mitterrand.

Of course, you can admire the French reservation in respect of the private lives of politicians. I am. But this reserve is not a lack of interest: Sexus politicus highlights the obsession of French political ecosystem for the sex lives of its members.

An ecosystem where the cops and spies of the state "provide information" as interior minister or president as the intimate secrets of such an enemy, like rival of such an object of desire ...

What MM. Deloire and Dubois describe, especially, is a climate of extreme tolerance for sexual excesses of French politicians. A climate where the cops on the orders of their political masters, close their eyes when they surprised a high placed in a compromising position of potentially criminal nature.

Page 234 of Sexus Politicus: "Over 10 years later, under another government, even the former minister was arrested with a young boy of 15 years in the underground car park of the Centre Beaubourg. And thanks to a fairy godmother, the matter will again be stifled. This indulgence is also the limit of this system for protecting many notables. "

Further, page 280, about famous people "arrested in positions scabrous," the authors write that former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin "also tells anyone who will listen that generally, it settled for a phone call with Sarkozy (then Minister of Interior) and that nobody had heard. "

A phone call, and it is buried.

Back to Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Sexus politicus discusses the sexual escapades of the man who was already considered in 2006 as "presidential." One chapter, "The case DSK", she even spent! It talks about his advances "displaced" to French journalists, but kill things known, and his attendance of a libertine club.

Also mentioned by the authors: the disturbing story of this writer 24 years, Tristane Banon, who had to physically repel the advances of DSK. Today, the story of Ms. Banon returns to haunt the deposed leader of the IMF. But at the time? Omerta. Page 365: "The case, at the time, caused an uproar in the corridors of power, but the press ignores it."

I repeat: the French press knows that a flagship of the Socialist Party has made what amounts to advance "tough" to a young woman of 24 years.

But the press does not investigate. She does not worry DSK.

I summarize ...

You are a French politician. Historically, you know that France is a cultural exception, not the pranks she n'ébruite deprived of its political class. Even when they are of public interest.

Historically, the excuse of the right to "privacy" conveniently covers all the nonsense you do with your dick. Even when these are potentially criminal mischief.

Journalists are in cahoots. As the cops. As your friends - and even your enemies - political. We know. But it remains silent.

With this impunity, maybe one day when you go out naked in the bathroom of your hotel room, maybe the back of the maid, please ...

You forget - the flesh is weak - that the hotel room where you walk in hair is in a country where political culture, judicial and media is the exact opposite of that of la douce France.

A country where impunity, at least for these things, does not exist. Page 208 of Sexus Politicus: "For America and sex is quite a story, and different from ours. The drives are the same as in France, but not social rules. "