Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
Someone made a very serious accusation against him. When the police responded to the complaint, they found him getting on a plane to France. What would you have had them do? Say "Someone claims you raped her, will you promise to come back in a few weeks to stand trial? Normally we'd lock you up, but we can see you're an important man so we'll let you go off on your important business?"
Yes, I know that is what sensationalist journalists kept repeating. Can't anyone grasp the fact that the man was on his Normal Plan On The Way To a Meeting?? In the IMF?

Should he have said: hey, I'd better cancel my meeting in case someone wants to accuse me of rape?

Police don't have the luxury of waiting till all the lawyers have finished arguing before they act. They have to decide on the spot, and take the shit if they decide wrong.
I may be wrong, but that is not normally what you do. You envestigate a case Before you arrest someone, and I have never heard of a rape case when the alleged perpertrator was taken before you knew if you had a case or not. A lot of cases are refused due to lack of evidence, that is, unfortunately, in the nature of many rape cases. Unless you have some good evidence like serious violence, it is word against word. In this case, after taking looking at the case, they found out that they did not have enough of one to keep him.

We should all be equal in the eyes of the law, but we aren't. In this case politics were heavy in the case: we have a foreign, high ranking politician hauled off to jail Before you even know if there is a case to answer, all because of the poor maid's tears?

I may be naive in some ways, but even I do not believe that. Life should be like that, but it isn't. Can anyone imagine an American president candidate being hauled off to jail BEfore you know if you have any evidence - in france, or in US?

Faced with a weeping woman and a man about to fly away, they did what any honest cop would do and stopped him.
Yes, it is really touching, isn't it? They did not even stop because they were causing an international crisis.

And is now being exonerated in those same papers, perhaps just as prematurely, and his accuser condemned. That's the media business.
At least some of the media have the grace to blush at this point.. They acknowledge that the man was slaughtered in press with no way of defending himself, and all reason to believe a jury influenced. Everybody was on his case with such hate and glee it was disgusting. That was another thing that caught my attention with this case.

From what I read, it may well have decided it in SK's favour. Even before he was released, 60% of the French thought he was framed.
Yes, odd, isn't it? But that did not help him stay in the election.

That has probably increased massively since the the media were filled with questions about his accuser. If he's cleared, he could gather massive support as the man the might of the US tried to crush and failed.
Actually the Frech are apparently divived on this, now. And since the US courts are more interested in saving their buts than doing the right thing (being apparently of a less moral fibre than the police), he is not free of charge although they realize they have no case, and he may never be compeltely exonerated.

At last report (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/bu...al/04euro.html) the IMF had approved the new loans to Greece, which the conspiracy theory holds that SK was removed to prevent. The European Monetary Union may still be hanging by a thread, but the IMF's policy towards it doesn't appear to have changed with the change of leadership.
We shall see. There might also be other reasons besides. I any case, the US wanted him out, and he is out.

I still say, for a conspiracy, this one seems pretty incompetent.There are two very different things here: a man put in jail after arrest because there is reason to think he might flee justice (and from the way he rushed to the plane, I'd have worried about that in the police's shoes), and him being jailed as the result of a court case. Which seems pretty unlikely unless the prosecution have some killer evidence they have not yet disclosed.
Whatever happens he is out of the IMF, and too late for the French election, unless they prolong the deadline for candidates? Can't you see that unless he is compeletely declared innocent his career is over, and even if he is, there will always be mud on him? And he as not fleeing, he was going to a scheduled meeting.

The problem is, finding someone not guilty, and finding their accuser guilty of a false charge, are two very different things. Evidence to prove the first doesn't necessarily prove the second, to the standards of a criminal conviction. And a good thing too. Who would dare lodge a complaint, if they knew they would take the rap if the defendant got off?
So, false accusations are just part of the game? Who exactly is being raped here?

It now looks as if the accuser is probably going to be deported back to Africa, maybe after serving time for perjury in her immigration application. Regardless of the outcome of the rape case. That should warn other black immigrants to keep quiet about abuse by rich white men.
A white man - even a rich, powerful one - is not guilty by default. A black women - not even an immigrant one - is innocent by default. Justice for Loke as well as for Thor.

And personally I do not feel very sorry for a person who is lying about stuff that can destroy other people's lives. Rape is a despiceable crime. Lying about rape is just rape in court.