Think about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF leader arrested for attacking a maid in a New York hotel and now sitting under suicide watch at Rikers Island. You couldn't make this stuff up if you wrote a movie script, yet it's real. Here's one of the world's most brilliant men - academically - with great leadership skills, possibly the next President of France, who has a problem with controlling his sexual impulses. If the charges prove to be true - and so far I agree that he's innocent until proven guilty - this could be a crime of gigantic proportions that it would be comparable to our seeing one of our top U.S. leaders going to jail in a foreign country for committing a comparable crime.
I feel for the French however, in their view of the "perp walk" ruling out a fair trial for Mr. Strauss-Kahn in light of the worldwide publicity he's receiving and those horrible close-up photos of him unshaven and looking exhausted with bags under his eyes. I think that nomatter what, he should be treated like any other accused person and not given special privileges. That said, if he's entitled to bail, he should get it and if they're afraid he's a flight risk, he should get one of those ankle alarms and stay with his daughter in New York awaiting trial.
This will certainly be another "case of the century" for all those trial addicts who used to love Court TV.
It will also make for a great movie and I see Harrison Ford playing Mr. Strauss-Kahn! (Remember The Fugitive?)
I'm anxiously waiting to see what happens in this case as I'm sure millions of others are as well.
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