Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn set up??

First off, I am no conspiracy theorist, wacky tales amuse me, like most people but I always would declare to be a realist.  The most plausible solution is commonly the solution.

But Strauss-Kahn’s case does pose some questions.  For instance if someone or organisation did want Strauss-Kahn out of the way who were they?

Top of the list of course is Sarkozy.  

With his popularity plummeting below 30% and him trailing Strauss-Kahn in opinion polls for the French presidency he fits some of the billing.  Although known for his ruthlessness I cannot see him risking a connection to this directly.  If someone did do it to aid the incumbent premier then it was not with the knowledge of the man himself. 

The most intriguing conspiracy theory stems from the US side.  Could the head of the IMF have been sidelined to protect the Dollar?  

Forget the recent press coverage that the Euro has suffered and Dollar gained because of the arrest.  That was a blimp rectified in a few hours.  Look at the significant comments made by Strauss-Kahn himself last February.  He declared it a real possibility to replace the Dollar as the world’s defacto currency with a universal SDR system.  His reasoning was that world markets are too dependent of the internal volatility of the US Economy and indeed there are other economies that are surpassing the US benchmark.  The key position of the Dollar was and is strategic to the US.  It can exert proxy control of significant market forces.  But who in the US would pull off such a feat.  I mean it is a banking issue we are talking about.  This isn’t the hijacking of the Dollar by Bin Laden’s cronies.  To be honest there is always enough over patriotic arseholes throughout Washington and the vast, over equipped, murky intelligence network to see that a snotty nosed French Champagne socialist be brought down to earth.  It is anyone’s guess.  Once this isn’t a Watergate moment with Obama pulling the strings we shouldn’t worry.

Strauss-Kahn was right though.  The US Economy should not be soley relied upon to balance our own economies against.  For the eleventh time since the Law was past the US Government is being force to raise the Debt Ceiling that is can amass.  Currently set at over 14 Trillion with the sale (hopeful sale I may add) of 99 Billion in US Treasury Bonds this is being breached.  Without the raising of the celling the US risks a catastrophic default on its debts.  Forget the sole US economy, US bonds are held the world over for their reliability second only to hard cash or gold.  Countries and Senior Bondholders would be crumpling all over the world.  Indeed the IMF would be powerless to rescue this because of the fact that the US is the major IMF creditor.

Now the realities of it.  A woman says she was raped and she should be believed.  I mean the accusations are serious and the US authorities are being very effective in dealing with this.  They made the right decision to take him off that plane, innocent or not.  Justice now has to take its course, the presumption of innocence must be protected but the crime (if committed of course) and punishment must be brought to bear on the attacker.