Most thinking people have come to believe we are on the verge of an economic restructuring. How big? How dramatic? How catastrophic? That depends on who you talk to, what you’re reading and what you’re seeing.
Will it be a long, slow march downward? Will we all just slog in the Malaise or will it break, explode, crack and turn into a violent Malestorm? I’d say the answer to those questions depends on where you’re sitting and what you’re seeing, but it seems instructive to me to remember that when such changes come, you’re dealing with a radical restructuring of the existing social order.
Early Christianity, The Protestant Reformation, The American Revolution, The Civil War, World War II
Just think of each of these events. Powerful, society cracking struggles…huge tolls paid in bloody sacrifice. Is it possible that our world has evolved to such a point that we’re not capable of such sacrifice again? We may not want to, we may try to avoid it, but there’s that whole thing about history repeating itself….
The Money Changers From The Temple
And not to go too Glenn Beckish, but consider the news that just broke today that the case against International Monetary Fund leader Strauss Kahn has collapsed. Strauss-Kahn was/is a world leader, a guest in our country who has been charged with a violent sexual assault. He immediately claims his innocence and loudly exclaims that he was set up. The whole thing sounds absolutely crazy from the beginning….this old rich white dude becomes sex crazed then violently attacks a maid?
Authorities arrest him, then send him parading before a phalanx of flash bulbs and reporters….much to the horror and disgust of the rest of the world…..and now there seems to be some support for this claims that it was all a set up???? What would it mean for modern day international relations if the new leader of one of our allies really was the victim of a spectacular set up?….
A French Socialist Party council member called for a delay in the party’s presidential primaries to allow Dominique Strauss-Kahn to run if he’s cleared of sexual assault charges, while another sought a political role for him.
Even as the Socialist leadership limited its comments to messages of personal support for the former head of the International Monetary Fund and a one-time leading candidate for the 2012 French presidential elections, several party members called for his return to politics.
I viewed the news of the trials witness problems differently. I have prosecuted sexual battery charges and I have defended persons accused of sexual battery. What struck me was that the witness problems were played out universally across the press this morning. NPR,CBS, NBC and the NYT all shrieked that the case was falling apart perhaps because of witness credibility problems. How exactly does mid discovery information such as credibility problems of the accuser get out into the press while the prosecution continues? This was selective leaking by the Strauss Kahn defenders. In essence they were/are trying the case in the press. No one wants to see anyone falsely accused but no one should want to see cases tried by press headlines and sensationalism, either for the prosecution or for the accuser. And NYT reporting carries no weight with me.
This is obviously a ploy to get the restrictions of bail reduced, but does it really mean the case is collapsing? Maybe but I don’t think so.
Total setup.
I don’t know the reasons, for the social coup performed on Mr Kahn, but all indications appear to be just that.
Why would a man who had just committed a sexual assault send his aid back to get a cellphone?
Why would the police act so quickly against the leader of the IMF, based on the word of a maid?
This was a power grab, committed by unknown people for unknown reasons.
But very large crooks at work in this case.