SIDE-EYE POST OF THE DAY: French Socialists: "America's Treatment Of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Is A Disgusting Lynching That Offends Human Dignity"

Mon dieu! He had to do the perp walk. He's unshaven & look at his clothes!

I guess the dignity of the West African maid that the IMF chief and French presidential candidate allegedly raped in a New York City hotel doesn't count. And comparing this situation to the lynching that black Americans went through is double foul. Y'all can go pound sand, especially after you've harbored pedophile Roman Polanski for 30 years. From Reuters (hat tip: RagingElephants.org): "French Socialist politicians voiced outrage on Tuesday at the parading of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn handcuffed and unshaven in the United States before he has a chance to defend himself on charges of attempted rape. Arrested on Saturday and charged with sexually assaulting a chambermaid at a luxury New York hotel, Strauss-Kahn was made by police to walk manacled in front of cameras on his way to a courthouse, and his appearance before a judge was televised."

1930: what a real lynching & degrading, inhumane image looks like

The article continues: "Former Culture Minister Jack Lang described the treatment of the Socialist presidential frontrunner -- whose political career is now in tatters -- as a 'lynching' that had 'provoked horror and aroused disgust. The U.S. justice system, he said, was 'politicized' and the judge appeared to have been determined to 'make a Frenchman pay' by denying the head of the International Monetary Fund bail even though his lawyer had offered to post a $1 million bond. To many Americans, the handling of Strauss-Kahn reflected an egalitarian tradition that all crime suspects get the same treatment, regardless of their wealth or power."

More whining from French leftists: "Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry denounced 'degrading images' and said France was lucky to have a law on the presumption of innocence that bars media from showing defendants in handcuffs before they are convicted. Former Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou, who drafted that law, called the pre-trial publicity 'absolutely sickening.' 'The power of these images of a Dominique Strauss-Kahn who hasn't been allowed to shave, tired, and not dressed properly, all that offends human dignity,' she told Europe 1 radio."

By  Booker Rising