[lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Thu Aug 25 11:49:36 PDT 2011


On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:11 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> i think what creeps me out is the weird desire to root out left shiboleths and say, "see! see! i've found it. there it is. I so KNEW that all lefties were fucked up. i'm so special because i see the problem and most of the rest of 'em don't. what is WRONG with these people anyway. i'm just not even sure i want to be part of that gang. ugh!"

Yeah, I got the feeling that SA is downright embarrassed by most of the rest of us :-).


> why do they know so much about her past?
>
> why were they listening in on her conversations? why did they know about her bank account.
>
> somewhere i read an anti-rape activist say that a woman's past doesn't matter in a rape trial, but apparently it does in this case. how can it possibly be OK for either the prosecution or defense to have access to her financial transactions?
>
> shouldn't that shit be off limits?

Yes, seriously. Was the prosecution’s suspicion/claim of inconsistency in her testimony the excuse to go scavenging as deep and wide as they seem to have done?

—ravi



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