[lbo-talk] BHL defends DSK

[Wendy Lyon]

On 18 May 2011 10:47, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 4:13 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
>> It was brought into sharp focus Tuesday when French broadcast authorities
>> warned news organizations that images of suspects in handcuffs, not unusual
>> with noncelebrity suspects, contravened the law regarding the "dignity" of
>> detainees.
>
> If a police post ever tried to arrange a perp walk in France -- an unknown
> phenomenon there -- someone would be fired. And if papers ran the photo,
> they would be fined. The scare quotes around "dignity" speak volumes.

By way of comparison, here's a letter about it in today's Irish Times:

Madam, – It is hard to know which of the following was the least
surprising. That the head of an organisation that has imposed punitive
sanctions on the Irish economy was staying in a hotel suite costing
over $3,000 a night. That he considered himself a socialist. Or that
as a French politician he was accused of a sexual scandal.

In contrast, what was surprising was to see how the US authorities
treated a powerful man as the equal of the man in the street by
removing Dominique Strauss-Kahn to jail in handcuffs. I guess that’s
what they do in a genuine republic. – Yours, etc,

KEVIN O’SULLIVAN,
Ballyraine Park,
Letterkenny, Co Donegal.