Do you remember how Nafissatou Diallo, an immigrant maid in New York, was trashed as a whore because she accused famous establishment socialist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of rape?

That trashing was recycled even by at least one libertarian blog (EPJ), where I was commenting at the time. You’d think libertarians would love someone who lied to the Immigration & Naturalization Services, to commit the non-crime of emigrating to another country.

In fact, I was hoping that Diallo would be lauded by at least one American libertarian for her keen entrepreneurial ability, her resolution and drive in crossing continents and oceans to get to the US, and her indifference to legal niceties, in allegedly lying/exaggerating to the INS.

Had she been a New York financier setting up a shell company in the Virgin Islands in order to pump-and-dump stock, the same people would have been posting  long-winded theories about why her behavior was both morally correct and economically productive.

However, given that Diallo was an immigrant of the darker persuasion, her libertarian attitudes only got her what unconventional women usually get – the label of whore.

New York Daily News:

The hotel maid who claims she was sexually assaulted by would-be French president Dominique Strauss Kahn is poised to ink a multi-million settlement Monday to end her civil suit against the randy European.

In a sign that a deal is imminent, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon has ordered up an interpreter for the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant, a court official said this weekend.

Strauss Kahn will not be there, the official said.

The settlement would bring a end to a saga that ended the career of the egotistical French politician known globally by his initials DSK.

In May, 2011, Diallo claimed Strauss-Kahn forced her to perform oral sex when he was a guest at the midtown Sofitel Hotel where she worked.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance eventually dropped the criminal case, citing inconsistencies in Diallo’s statements, so she sued Strauss Kahn in civil court.

In May, Strauss Kahn countersued, accusing Diallo, 33, of ruining his reputation with a claim that sent him falling from his post as head of the International Monetary Fund poised to become the president of France.

Last week, lawyers reached the broad outlines of a deal, sources said, though Strauss Kahn’s team denied a published report that he would shell out $6 million.

Meanwhile, Diallo has settled a defamation lawsuit against The New York Post, which reported she was a prostitute, citing sources close to DSK’s defense.

A court spokesman said the Post case was settled after McKeon incorporated that lawsuit into the settlement discussions between Diallo and DSK.

“The judge had the lawyers for the parties (Diallo and DSK) in his chambers trying to discuss a settlement. It only made sense for the sake of judicial economy to settle all of the related cases at one time,” said the spokesman, David Bookstaver.

The terms of the settlement are unclear because the parties have signed a confidentiality agreement, Bookstaver said.”

Comment: Well, feisty New York papers and big-name Socialist politicians do not settle claims for multi-millions of dollars, coupled with confidentiality agreements, without being GUILTY AS HELL.

ND could have no interest in confidentiality, since her life has already been publicly raked through and trashed.

I was very sympathetic to DSK, in so far as the state treated him like a perp from the get-go. And in sexual crime cases, I really find the public nature of the proceedings and the violation of privacy involved disgusting.  I commented as much at Wenzel’s EPJ. But I also said at the time that because ND might have lied in some proceeding with the INS (and since when do libertarians care about people lying to some bureaucratic paper-pushers, anyway?), it did not mean that she was a whore, and that most likely the NY papers (the NY Post is a Murdoch rag), were simply libeling her.

My theory was that both of them has been used in some way. DSK was perhaps set up by someone who knew he was given to assaulting maids. Most likely he called in for a hooker and then someone had a legit maid sent his way. She might not have known.

But, at the time, Wenzel ran triumphantly with the Post’s version….which was that she was a hooker. It always makes for a lot of hits to call a woman a whore….even if there’s no evidence.

Meanwhile, I notice the silence of that same blog on the character of Ms. Mees, also an immigrant, who after all is an alleged PERP, not an alleged VICTIM….. for whose crime there seem to be at least one thousand pieces of evidence (her emails).

That piece of obvious bias was the reason, along with Wenzel’s gratuitous hit-garnering attacks on Ayn Rand, that I stopped posting there. I returned the favor by applying the same critical eye to Mr. Rothbard on my blog, although with much more evidence and argumentative skill.

Hint to libs:

There is a way to advance the legitimate interests of men, without diminishing those of women.  Using the same tactics as the MSM only makes you like them, only less powerful.

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