IMF Chief and prospective French Presidential candidate attempted to
rape a hotel maid from Africa in his $3,000 per night suite in
mid-town New York.
Here is yet another sordid but all too familiar tale of men in
positions of power acting dangerously and harmfully. There have been
a number of serious studies dissecting comparatively behavioral
patterns of those in power-wealth (corporate executives, political
leaders, generals, heads of openly organized crimes as opposed to
sanctioned, essentially criminal organizations like governments,
democratic or otherwise).
These men (and a few women) commonly share total disregard for ethics
and rules. One rule for themselves, which is no rule, and another set
of rules for the rest of us.
Think of the late US Senator and US presidential candidate Ted
Kennedy, soaked in power, privileges and wealth. As he drunk-drove a
car into a river, but saved his own life and let his lover drown with
the sunk car, and didn't even bother to report to the police. The
Kennedy clan bought the silence of the woman's family, subsequently.
While it thwarted Kennedy's presidential ambitions, the US power
structure - and the middle America's electorate - kept him in office
as one of the most powerful Senators until his death.
Disregard for law (and ethics) amongst these men of power and
privilege may be as old as the emergence of political organizations.
Thomas Jefferson, the man who drafted the American Declaration of
Independence, was #1 smuggler of agricultural products and seeds from
Europe while he was based in Paris as the Minister of France. For the
US's agrarian economy then the protecting of local agriculture was of
prime importance, and there he was involved in making laws for other
people, which he obviously didn't think apply to him.
IMF chief's problem is not that he committed what my old acquaintance
Ralph Nader called 'a suite crime, but that he got caught. These men
behavior criminally or display borderline behavior, whatever the
rhetoric or glow of the Office, is a given.
Propaganda is such that we the people are to look for leadership,
moral and intellectual, from these men (and women)!
Don't hold your breath.
zarni
Source: Dr Zarni
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