Strauss-Kahn now wants immunity for rape.

After getting off from criminal rape charges because his victim had a dubious past, Strauss-
Kahn now has the gall to ask for diplomatic immunity against the sexual-assault lawsuit his victim is pursuing against him.

Even though he doesn't have diplomatic status now, he was head of the IMF during the crime so he feels he should be immune from prosecution for any crimes he committed at the time. This claim does wonders for explaining where his head was at while he raped the housekeeper. He truly felt that he was above the law.

In this article, notice the last chapter where the housekeeper's lawyers enumerate the reasons he should be denied immunity:
(1) he is not a diplomat;
(2) according to his own story, he was in New York on ‘personal’ business;
(3) he, not the I.M.F., paid for his room at the Sofitel; and
(4) he was obviously acting in his personal capacity when he violently attacked Ms. Diallo

Meanwhile one of his many other victims has come forth and is pursuing rape charges against him in Paris.

This time the victim, Tristane Barone, has an unblemished past and makes a more believable witness. Let's see how the weasel tries to get out of this one.

Leader gets away with rape

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Released

Well, it looks like you can get away with even a high-profile rape if your victim has enough of a criminal background to make a less-than-credible witness. So here's the lesson to all would-be rapists: check out the background of your victims first and you too can go scot-free afterwards.

Take a look below at the smug face of this jerk as he receives his walking papers.

It would all make me terribly sick if it weren't for the one silver lining to the case. Because of the publicity of this case, one of his previous victims has come forward to pursue him with her own rape allegations. Let's hope she is more successful.

Tristane Baron

Here are some of her allegations in the article:  "He grabbed her in a nearly empty apartment as she was interviewing him and dragged her to the floor, pulling off some of her clothes and forcing his hand into her underwear. She said she escaped by kicking him desperately."

How will these people learn that they are not above the law if they keep getting away with crimes like this?

Weiner quits, but not with wife at his side.

Weiner finally decided to quit after hearing about it from everybody. His opponents, his own party members, his own constituents, probably his own family. About time he faced up to his mistakes. But notice who is missing in this now-familiar 'mea culpa' speech:

No wife, right? Well isn't that refreshing? Too many times in the past we have to see the humiliated wife 'standing by her man' as he admits to the world that he cheated on her. Remember these familiar faces?

Bill admitting to Monica, McGreevy admitting he's a 'gay American' and Spitzer admitting to using protitutes. The script has been used hundreds of times with "The Good Wife' standing there, showing support for her sleazy husband. I always wondered what these women were thinking as they stood there. They all seem to have the same expression on their faces.

Well, I'm glad to see that Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, wasn't present for this humiliation. According to a Times Article this is a mini trend that started with Jenny Sanford in 2009 and continued with Maria Shriver last month. Let's hope this trend continues and more of these men are left twisting in the wind.

Weiner shows all but his wiener

Yet another leader thinks he's immune to proper behavior. This time its a Democratic congressman trying to get away with sending mostly naked pictures of himself to female admirers. What gives with these guys?

I believe that the higher up these men get, the more they think they can get away with anything. They harangue their peers in the house and suddenly think they're some kind of elite warrior class, entitled to whatever they want. Watch him below in full testosterone-charged battle.

Listen to the man's apology. Personally I think he's full of crap. Just because he wasn't caught having sex with these women doesn't mean these relationships were purely electronic. I bet he's been showing his wiener live as well as over the airwaves.

Frankly, I'm getting a little sick of it. Its bad enough when it happens in the private world, but these people have a serious job to do. Our country is being crushed by debt, is struggling with unemployment, is fighting a meaningless war (now that Bin Laden is dead) and is facing a Medicare and Social Security fiasco. How about keeping your wieners in your pants and doing your job for a couple of terms, guys? 
Weiner still wants to keep his job. So after his speech, he got into his car and drove home to his pregnant wife...Read below for more

Powerful men think they have immunity

In addition to the usual shenanigans of Berlusconi and others, we have revelations of Arnold fathering an illigetimate child and a high official of the IMF raping a hotel maid. Why is it that men in such positions of power feel that they can get away with anything? It seems to be even worse in France where people are accusing the US of being too harsh on the man. Apparently, in France they would have simply hushed the woman up. Are you serious? This wasn't a grope, he forced her to perform oral sex on him! In the U.S. we call that rape.

So what are the answers? Is it a matter of money and opportunity? Powerful men have the money to buy expensive women, Eliot Spitzer, and they are away from their families for extended periods, (poor lonely babies) so they have the opportunity. But I think it's more than that. They are surrounded by yes-men who laugh at their minor lapses, find women who will do many things for money and soon believe that they can literally get away with anything. They keep pushing the envelope and have powerful people below and around them who hush up their bad behaviour until they finally get caught.

I hope this man doesn't avoid our justice the way Roman Polanski has been doing and spends some time in a US jail to think about the way he treated this poor woman.

And as for Arnold, really? The maid, in your wife's bed, and while your wife was pregnant? Come on!

 At least he waited until his political career was over. Hollywood is a lot more forgiving.