A Shameful Lack of Principle

            How do you get American and European liberals to support a wealthy white banker accused of sexual assault against a working class woman?  No problem, if the wealthy white banker is also a socialist liberal.  It has always amazed me how quickly liberals will abandon one principle in an attempt to lend support to another.Dominique Strauss-Kahn 

          The beliefs that women should not be sexual objects and that violence against women is wrong has long been a hallmark of western, and especially liberal, thought.  However, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was recently arrested for sexual assault on a hotel chambermaid, the liberal media quickly touted wild conspiracy theories in his defense.  Such quick abandonment of principle would be shocking if it did not have a long history within the liberal community.      

          As I reported in an earlier blogpost, back in 1977 using the guise of a modeling shoot, Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a combination of champagne and Quaaludes. He then told her to lie on a bed, strip and despite her repeated protests and resistance; performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on her.  Polanski fled the country to avoid jail.  Instead of applauding his arrested in 2009, well over a hundred Hollywood and media elitist jumped to his defense, signing a Free Roman Polanski petition.  Whoopi Goldberg even defended the child molester with, “It wasn’t ‘rape’ rape.’”    

            Another example of liberal abandonment of principle occurred when Paula Jones accused President Bill Clinton of sexual assault.  The liberals didn’t wait for a hearing and immediately labeled her trailer-park trash, but in an out-of-court settlement, the president paid her nearly $80,000.     

          That brings us back to Dominique Strauss-Kahn who, in France, is known as Great Seducer for a prior affair and alleged assault.  The IMF, which he continues to head, has investigated and cleared him on charges of harassment, favoritism or abuse of power. 

          According to various published reports, the hotel chambermaid entered Strauss-Kahn’s room just after noon on May 14, to clean it.  She alleges that he immediately attacked her, forcing her to engage in oral and anal sex and attempting forcible intercourse with her.  He then left for the airport in a hotel limo, while she reported the assault.  Strauss-Kahn was arrested minutes before his Air France flight departed.    

          However, such accusations by a working class woman are of no concern to liberals of the mainstream media in America, England and France who have accused the chambermaid of being an agent of Strauss-Kahn’s political opponents.  Such accusations would be laughable if they were not so shameful.                 

          Lacking any fixed standard of conduct, liberals flounder around searching for an answer that allows them to feel good.  If a wealthy and well-known liberal is accused of sexual assault it cannot be their fault, it must be an evil conspiracy hatched with the aid of an immoral chambermaid. 

          Just as they consider the Constitution to be a living document, subject to “modern” interpretation, the principles that liberals live by are a stormy sea of ever-changing emotions and feelings.  Apparently to liberals, one-moment women are a sexually oppressed gender, the next moment they are trailer-trash seducing good liberal men like Roman Polanski, Bill Clinton, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.