Rape Or Something Else

If you have stayed current with the national news, then I'm sure you are aware of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) chief who has been accused of raping a chambermaid at a ritzy New York hotel. The incident has become an international headline as Dominique Strauss-Kahn was hauled off to sit on Riker's Island.

It is easy to think that this is oh so typical of those who operate at the highest echelons of society. These people are used to getting whatever they demand and, if you fail to service them, they simply take what they want! There is no question that this is indeed what may have happened in this situation; but it is equally plausible that Strauss-Kahn's arrest is about something altogether different.

Mike Whitney has suggested that something other than rape may be afoot.

Can I tell you what this is all about? It's about the dollar. That's right. Strauss-Kahn was mounting an attack against the dollar and now the wrath of the Empire has descended on him like ton-of-bricks. Here's the scoop from the UK Telegraph:

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has called for a new world currency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar and protect against future financial instability.....

He suggested adding emerging market countries' currencies, such as the yuan, to a basket of currencies that the IMF administers could add stability to the global system....Strauss-Kahn saw a greater role for the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, (SDRs) which is currently composed of the dollar, sterling, euro and yen, over time but said it will take a great deal of international cooperation to make that work." ("International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn calls for new world currency", UK Telegraph)

So, Strauss-Kahn finds himself in the same crowd as Saddam Hussein and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, right? You may recall that Saddam switched from dollars to euros about a year before the war. 12 months later Iraq was invaded, Saddam was hanged, and the dollar was restored to power. Gaddafi made a similar mistake when "he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar." ("Libya: All About Oil, or All About Central Banking?" Ellen Brown, Op-Ed News) Libya has since come under attack by US and NATO forces which have armed a motley group of dissidents, malcontents and terrorists to depose Gaddafi and reimpose dollar hegemony.

And now it's Strauss-Kahn's turn to get torn to shreds. And for good reason. After all, DSK actually poses a much greater threat to the dollar than either Saddam or Gaddafi because he's in the perfect position to shape policy and to persuade foreign heads of state that replacing the dollar is in their best interests. And that is precisely what he was doing; badmouthing the buck. Only he was too dense to figure out that the dollar is the US Mafia's mealticket, the main way that shifty banksters and corporate scalawags extort tribute from the poorest people on earth. Strauss-Kahn was rocking the boat, and now he's going to pay...

Decades ago I would never have considered that the current "incident" might be nothing more than an elaborate setup. Like most of the sheep, I tended to take the news at face value. If someone was accused of the serious crime of rape, I readily assumed that there was a woman who had been wronged and the state was trying to protect her interests.

But I am not so gullible anymore! I've learned that it's important to try to figure out the back story to any situation. Often what's going on behind the scenes tells a person far more than what the ruling elites allow us to see.

I grant this may be a straightforward case -- a man with gross sexual appetites who doesn't take no for an answer. It may be a setup. More likely, in my estimation, it is some sort of a combination of the two.