DOMINIQUE STRAUS KAHN "FREED", THE RICH WILL ALWAYS HAVE THEIR WAY!

Icheoku says nonsensical as the issue on trial is not the accusers immigration petition status or her other domestic activities or even her alleged questionable associations with detained petty drug peddlers. No, what is at stake here is an alleged criminal rape of a hotel janitor by a powerful and influential French millionaire and former IMF president Dominique Strauss Kahn. Therefore it is very irrational and unreasonable to say because the accuser have some questionable past that her present allegation of being raped by the French man is now suspect. Icheoku asks, even if she is herself a criminal, does that now make her loose her inalienable right not to be sexually violated by anyone including Dominique? 

The finding of fact that she lied about details on her application for asylum in the United States of America, including her unproven allegation that she had been previously raped in her native Guinea should not be any attenuating circumstance to the present allegation of rape; admitted it might weigh much on the credibility of her testimony at trial. Borrowing the words of accuser's attorney, Icheoku reechoes that the hotel maid could have made some mistakes in her past, but that does not and should not mean that she is not a rape victim.  However the lawyer seem to have added another twist to the previous account of what allegedly transpired between DSK and the hotel maid when contrary to the "polishing of the knob" which the victim earlier alleged, her lawyer now says that "Strauss-Kahn bruised her genitals". This greatly triggers her credibility question as her lawyer appears to suggests that there was indeed penetration of her vaginal walls while the victims account only alleged a forced blow job? Icheoku believes this mix-up is not similar to the understanding of what constitutes sex as President Bill Clinton once did when he said "I did not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky"; misunderstanding or misinterpreting sex to exclude blow job. Hopefully the mix-up would be resolved by lawyer and his client.

It is indeed regrettable that the prosecution came to this conclusion despite the facts of the matter as made available to the public - here was a DSK who initially denied that anything or contact of any nature took place until his semen was found where it was spitted on the carpet by the accuser; then he changed his story to being consensual; and now it is the prosecution that is helping DSK defend his case by stating that the accuser's veracity for truth is suspect? Icheoku says give me a break as this is yet another high-powered game being played by high-powered men with the help of very high-powered lawyers against a helpless Guinea immigrant from West Africa. Admitted that Icheoku had previously written that the accuser's story is weak and feeble at best, that it is not water-tight; our objection to the current "free on bail" status of Dominique is that such determination should not be based on the accuser's past conduct or lack of truthfulness; but on the strength of her present criminal allegation against the French Dominique Strauss Kahn. Any other explaining away or attempt to crucify the accuser because of her past conduct or penchant for untruthfulness as to deprive or deny her the right to a redress is unconscionable and smacks of great injustice. 

Icheoku maintains that it is not the place of the prosecution to do the case for the defense in this matter; and instead of the prosecution conducting "an extensive background investigation of the hotel housekeeper accusing DSK of sexual assault" which  "gave them pause", the prosecution should have spent its time investigating the background of the French man including his many sexual liaisons even in his native France. The very fact that the accused tried to escape justice by attempting to run away but was nabbed inside a ready to take off French plane back to Paris is by itself a weighty evidence of some wrongdoing. Also his initial flat denial of any wrongdoing including that no contact of any nature whatsoever took place between him and the hotel janitor should have been taken into account as well. Lastly the very fact that he was forced to later recant himself following the discovery of his semen, DNA evidence, should have been additional grounds to carry out "extensive background investigation" on Dominique Strauss Kahn for his untruthfulness but certainly not the other way round. 

How did the prosecution suddenly switch sides and now become an advocate for the accused, literally doing their case for them and conducting "extensive background check and investigation on the accuser"; instead of naturally going after a prospective criminal rapist who violated a hotel janitor's womanhood with absolute impunity? Or was it a case of a poor black African immigrant going up against the mighty and all powerful white Frenchman Dominique Strauss Kahn that should be placed where she belonged? Icheoku reiterates that an injustice to one is an injustice to all as we are convinced that this lenient "free on bail without preconditions" is a prelude to setting DSK free. The good news however is that every person shall die someday and if the biblical tales are true, then face judgement before the On High who has no prejudices against the poor or black or immigrant; and has no regard for a person's social or financial status. On that day, Icheoku wonders what DSK will say to his maker in defense of his alleged rape of a helpless hotel janitor? 

Unfortunately though, Icheoku is sometimes wont to believe the bible story as may fable, otherwise why would Catholic priests, who should know better, rape and molest alter boys fully aware that they would face judgment on account of their stewardship here on earth as Christ ambassadors? Also how about the other numerous injustices pervading the earth, being perpetrated by supposedly men and women of God and some God-full nations? But borrowing the phraseology of former American Defense minister Donald Rumsfeld, Icheoku says that there are simply so many things we don't know about the nature of man; there are things we know that we do not know - the many known unknowns of this world. Icheoku empathises with the accuser for being unnecessarily harangued in this case because of her not too stellar past as we bemoan the lopsidedness of our justice system which tends to categorise people based on their net worth, the "we and them stuff" and sometimes race; despite the fact of its alleged blindness? Or is it possible that justice sometimes peeps through its blindfold whenever it chooses or is rather convenient for it to see the parties seeking its intervention in order to make up its mind on how to strike its sword? Just asking! 

If every other thing outside Dominique's bail condition are to remain as it is - his passport surrendered, his not going to leave the country and his sexual assault charges to remain; Icheoku asks, what then is the ground of removing his bail conditions? If the accuser's case is not such as would easily find the accused culpable, why only remove DSK's bail terms and not completely set him free with profuse apologies for being "wrongly" accused in the first place by a hopeless African immigrant hotel janitor? By extension of this line of thought, may be DSK should also be given back his gig at the IMF and apologized to by Madame Christine Lagarde for prematurely usurping his office just because he was wrongly accused of sexual impropriety by an ordinary African immigrant hotel maid? Based on the trajectory of the case, this is the natural thing to do except if Dominique Strauss Kahn is a victim of a global conspiracy and gang up which used a hotel maid to nail him and get rid of him both from French presidential politics as well as the IMF? 

What a world we live in that is both unfair and unjust and were Dominique Strauss Kahn a poor nigger, would the prosecution have acted so swiftly to discredit his accuser and allowed such a very lenient freedom to be granted? Those poor expendables; even where they are wrongfully murdered by the law enforcement agents those agents are too often found not guilty; and you wonder if keeping the nigger's population in check is an unspoken standing rule within some law enforcement departments. Anyway pardon the side digressions as Dominique is the object here and should have remained the sole issue; but the brain often wanders about.