Sherry Wolf sets her sights on Dominique Strauss-Kahn
5.18.2011 2 Comments
After ridiculing Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French Socialist Party, the French media and the International Monetary Fund, Sherry Wolf concluded her article by pointing out that:
We rarely, if ever, see such a powerful man fall, and never for the rape of a Black immigrant woman. I can only assume that he’s pissed off people much higher up who decided to cut the cord.
In coming weeks we’ll see the institutions he represents and his former hangers-on scurry about to cover their asses, but for now we can take a bit of pleasure in the political, social and personal collapse of such a man. Let’s use his fall to shine a light on the organizations that have protected him all these years.
Au revoir, Monsieur Pig! FSP and IMF, j’accuse!
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All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go 
I remember attending an anti-IMF demonstration in Kingston, Jamaica some years ago and was impressed by a dreadlocked Rastafarian contingent carrying banners that read “IMF= International Mother Fuckers!” The Strauss-Kahn incident in NYC gives new meaning to that old Rastafarian insight.
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It’s amazing Strauss-Khan was even considered a reformer. Of course, he did not need to be much of a humanitarian in order to be considered a dangerous reformer of the IMF! He needed only to propose the implementation of a minor change in the neoliberal project.
I imagine the Wall Streeters would react to Strauss-Kahn’s reforms much as demons would react had one of them put a neon crucifix in the demon locker-room!
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