Stand in them, fine. But don't run in them.
Posted on 07/06/2011 6:04:39 AM PDT by flowerplough
Revalations about the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault suggest that she embellished claims of abuse to receive asylum, fudged her tax returns, had ties to people with criminal backgrounds, had unexplained deposits in her bank account and changed the account of the encounter she gave investigators. Yet those who would rush to judge her should consider the context.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s accuser is from Guinea, also the home country of Amadou Diallo, the street peddler who was shot to death in the doorway of his Bronx apartment building by four New York City police officers in 1999. Guineans leave their country in large numbers, partly because of grinding poverty; 70 percent live on less than $1.25 a day , despite the fact that Guinea has almost half of the world’s bauxite (from which aluminum is made), as well as iron, gold, uranium, diamonds and offshore oil.
The same leaders whose theft and mismanagement have kept so many Guineans poor in the decades since independence from France, in 1958, have also been ferociously violent, massacring as many as 186 unarmed demonstrators calling for democratic reforms in 2007, and at least 157 demanding the same in 2009. After the latter massacre, members of the state security forces gang-raped dozens of women to punish them for protesting and to terrorize men and women into silence.
While the American government condemned the massacres, the bauxite kept shipping, supplying Americans with aluminum cookware and automobile parts. That’s no surprise; the biggest mining companies doing business in Guinea are based in the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia.
People fleeing state-sponsored violence and extreme poverty will do anything to leave. I receive requests every few weeks to write expert-witness affidavits for West African asylum claimants. As a personal matter of conscience, ...
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“Heels”, perhaps?
Please show a picture of her. I am sure you can tell whether she is guilty or innocent just by looking at her.
Marxist Socialist Scumbag Meets Illegal Alien Lying Scheming Prostitute
Whatever happens... it’s all good.
Stand in them, fine. But don't run in them.
The foundation of the moral relativism that drives so much of the progressive agenda is captured well in that single sentence. We just need to see everything in proper context, you know...
Il n'ya pas de hors-texte.
Libs live in an alternate reality...
The context is called “perjury.” Or “Bearing false witness.”
If she can’t be deported, she needs to be in prison.
Just as I suspected from the very outset-———Bush’s Fault!!!!
Before you judge her, you should consider her CHARACTER. Nothing else is really relevant. I do judge her, I actually dare to have an opinion, and I will label her actions — reprehensible, low-life, illegal, slander.
Walk a mile in her shoes?
Sure, the same way I’d walk a mile in Casey Anthony’s shoes.
I don’t give one wit about her life story and experiences that led her to lie and commit a vial act against another human being.
It isn’t a cause but a pathology.
The woman has several hundred thousand dollars in the bank, all ill-gained. This was to be the big one, and it looks like it’s backfiring on her. No pity for her here. She pursued the American dream illegally, and needs to be jailed and/or deported.
People are not sensitive to others life experiences and how it affects them.
It’s just sad....
Well, what can you say, really? It’s ok for an illegal alien to illegally lie on a Federal asylum application and illegally destroy the reputation of an innocent sleazeball because you and I have automobile parts derived from bauxite imported from her wicked country? Bauxite made her do it? Hey, ya just gotta love that New York Times! They never fail to disappoint!
If she was a prostitute, we would have never heard a word. He would have paid her.
If she is a ho, my guess is that he played a little rough, she complained, he refused to pay and she cleaned the floor with his life.
If she was a maid, he treated her like a prostitute and she cleaned the floor with his life. Either way, this globalist idiot made a really bad decision.
ML/NJ
So it is ok that an innocent man is jailed
Another “poor people can’t be expected to do the right thing” article.
Everybody has a price
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