It seems that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former head of the
IMF who was charged but ultimately cleared of raping a maid in a
Washington hotel, is in the news again. This time it looks like the
charges might stick as the Washington Post reported yesterday:
On Monday, the man many thought would one day be president of France
will stand trial in the city of Lille in northern France. He’s faced
with charges he helped procure sex workers for sex parties from Paris to
Brussels to Washington. Dubbed the Carlton affair because it involves
the Hotel Carlton in Lille, the case stars luxury hotel managers,
Freemasons, Viagra, purple carpet and even a brothel owner called “Dodo
the Pimp” (Dodo la Saumure). In a charging document that runs 240 pages,
French authorities said Strauss-Kahn may have helped organize the
affairs, during which female attendants were allegedly paid to have sex
with businessmen.
This juicy tidbit reminded me that I had intended to write something
about Jeffrey Epstein, the superrich American financier who spent time
in prison seven years ago for soliciting prostitutes. The charge hardly
does justice to the actual crime, which involved lavishing large amounts
of money on impressionable teenage girls, one only fourteen years old,
to tempt them into what first looked like a glamorous world. Needless to
say, the prospects of giving Alan Dershowitz a blow job must have
disabused them of that notion rather quickly.
This year Epstein is in the news again because one of the women who have
launched a civil suit seeking damages has identified Prince Andrew and
Alan Dershowitz as two of the men that were serviced by Epstein’s harem.
I will have something to say about Prince Andrew and Dershowitz after
putting Epstein under a microscope. He, like Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
symbolizes the affinity between economic power and sexual domination
that rarely gets discussed in a mainstream media, which sees such
scandals as the failings of an individual rather than an economic system.
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2015/02/03/the-divine-right-of-the-bourgeoisie/
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