Is the Head of the IMF a Sex Criminal?

Oh with hundreds or thousands of these panic buttons existing can you just see the reaction of someone paying thousands of dollars a night when a maid accidentally set an alarm off and his room get flooded with security looking to save the maid from him?

I heard Shapiro make that statement. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he is being truthful. I also heard or read that she wears a Muslim headscarf.

So once more there is zero hard backing for the claim.

I suspect that the maids regret getting them, as presumably they have GPS so management can now track employees movement while on the job, and catch them goofing off. More workplace monitoring of employees in the name of safety, how unusual......

I just can't imagine why any bloke who has any serious dough would ever set foot in New York again. And we've seen already how quick some French wimmins have tried a dart at the gravy train. So I'm keeping out of London as a precaution.

She is also a widow and she has a 15 year old daughter.

So, they may want to know who is contacting her--and why--and who knows her location. They may also be watching for any possible witness tampering--people who might contact her and offer her bribes not to testify or people who might call and threaten her.

So we are left with those who might offer bribes. Unless claims of threatening women are more credible than threating men

The use of panic buttons sounds like an excellent safety measure.

What exactly is a "multiple sex offender"?

I take the position that the computer translations are now good enough to often get the gist of the idea and thus are valid. You are as always free to come to a different conclusion.

Nine years ago, Anne Mansouret dissuaded her daughter from filing a legal complaint for attempted rape against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a prominent member of the Socialist Party in France and the former husband of one of her best friends.

But now she is speaking out about what happened and what other Socialist leaders knew. And some Socialists — deeply embarrassed by the allegations against the wealthy man who was likely to be their presidential candidate next year — have called for her expulsion from the party.

In a series of interviews, Mrs. Mansouret — by turns defensive, emotional, argumentative and uncompromising — said she did it to protect her daughter, Tristane Banon, now 31, and the party itself.

Ms. Banon, a journalist and novelist, asserts that Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who is facing criminal charges in New York of attempted rape of a hotel housekeeper, tried to rape her during an interview in an empty apartment in 2002 — grabbing her arm, pulling off her bra, trying to unzip her jeans, fighting with her on the floor and ignoring her cries of “no.” She described him as “a chimpanzee in rut.”

Party leaders knew of her daughter’s experience with Mr. Strauss-Kahn, Mrs. Mansouret said, but chose to ignore it. And she herself felt stymied, in part, because Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, was one of her best friends and the godmother of Ms. Banon.

“Many people knew the story, but didn’t want to talk about it,” Mrs. Mansouret said.

New Revelations Keep Popping Up, As Book Claims DSK Assaulted A Mexican Maid
Katya Wachtel
May 18, 2011

A woman who claims to be a former colleague of Dominique Strauss-Kahn wrote a book that says the IMF chief is "credited with several alleged sexual assaults, including a Mexican maid."

According to a translation of an article by El Universal, the book, written in French, was penned "by a former collaborator of Strauss-Kahn who used the pseudonym "Cassandre" to refer to details of the officer's personal life."

The mystery author of "D.S.K: The Secrets of a Presidential Contender," alleges that the IMF chief sexually assaulted a maid in Mexico, "when he made an official working visit.. Apparently this incident was not reported to the authorities."

A Mexican news agency, El Universal, cited an article in an Italian paper called Corriere della Sera that discusses the book.

The Mexican chambermaid allegation was also cited in the Daily Mail today.

The book, which is apparently zooming up the Amazon charts in France, was published last year, according to the New Yorker, and includes this passage about Strauss-Kahn:

He is always on the hunt for new women. He is a pleasure seeker. Like all great political animals, he has trouble controlling himself. His eye for women is sharp as a laser. When he enters a cafe, an office or any public place, the ritual is the same.

He does a little survey, turning his head almost imperceptibly to the left, then to the right, while carrying on talking. It lasts only a few seconds, just enough time to evaluate his chances. After identifying his prey, he bombards them with text messages, usually with the opening salvo “I want you”.

According to the New Yorker, when the book was first released, it "was met both with disbelief (cries then, as now, that it must be part of a “campaign” or “plot” to ruin D.S.K.’s presidential bid), and with renewed interest in some old stories that had been floating around, without, it seems, anyone doing much about them."

Corriere della Sera and the Daily Mail also quoted a French radio journalist called Thierry Ardisson, who claims that at least 14 other women have been "jumped" by DSK.

According to the Mail,

Thierry Ardisson said: ‘Everyone knew about it. I have 14 women pals who have told me: “He tried to jump me.” I think that guy has an illness: you can enjoy s*******, but not to that point. He needs therapy.’

The Mail also learned that his alleged philandering may have seen him try to befriend a former ‘victim’ in the weeks leading up to charges for sexual assault and attempted rape in New York.
http://www.businessinsider.com/book-by-former-dsk-colleague-alleges-he-assaulted-a-mexican-maid-too-2011-5

Nine years ago, Anne Mansouret dissuaded her daughter from filing a legal complaint for attempted rape against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a prominent member of the Socialist Party in France and the former husband of one of her best friends

The disturbing truths at the heart of the fiction that she subsequently wrote were shaped by the author’s own life. I Forgot to Kill Her, the title of Banon’s first novel, tracks the strained relations between Tristane and her mother Anne Mansouret, a longtime politico in Normandy. The book got a lot of attention, especially in venues such as Régine, where she signed copies by the coat check from 11 to 2 in the morning. But who, exactly, would the author like to kill in a book Banon readily describes as autobiographical? Her story features an ambitious, unflinching mother who chooses politics over maternity and leaves her child in the hands of a Moroccan nanny who drinks so much that her young charge learns to recognize the difference between Irish and Scottish whisky with her eyes closed. The more alcohol the nanny consumes, the more she beats her young charge, usually favoring the child’s back. Banon narrates this personal story in such a flat, featureless tone that a reader might never have suspected that the story was real.

Mansouret describes herself as “a mother, a matriarch, not a mommy” during her first television appearance with Banon in 2008. Mansouret’s short, backswept hair and chiseled face look harsh next to her daughter’s delicate features. Sweeping aside the blond hair that tumbles into her eyes, Banon describes a mother who is “cold, square,” a woman who made it clear that she “didn’t like children.” Yet this same woman is “pragmatic,” someone her daughter claims she would call as soon as she had a problem. The camera cuts away to stunning photographs of a younger Mansouret that fill Banon’s bedroom as she reaches over to touch the picture of her mother.

I would be more impressed if you could see your way clear to give me credit for being open minded or for encouraging people to make up their own minds.

What it tells be is that the only other major woman who claims that DSK was out of line is also comes from an abuse background. This leads be to believe that their perceptions are off, that DSK is flirty and entitled, but not not the abuser that they perceive. Part of the perpetuation of the abuse dynamic is the taking of the victim mentality, that making up in the mind that they are being abused when in fact their is not only no intent to abuse but the alleged abuser is not even aware that the victim perceives abuse.

Thierry Ardisson said: ‘Everyone knew about it. I have 14 women pals who have told me: “He tried to jump me.” I think that guy has an illness: you can enjoy s*******, but not to that point. He needs therapy.’

You boast about how you would disregard criminal sexual assault laws, well Strauss-Kahn might now be dealing with the reality of what happens when those laws are disregarded. Somehow I don't think his lawyers will cite Martin Luther King, Jr., and notions of "civil obedience", in his defense--as you do, in your own defense.