“The charge against Strauss-Kahn is disgusting and shocking. However, it is also extremely disturbing that this man has already been tried and convicted in the press. Whatever happened until innocent proven guilty? No matter how terrible the CHARGE, everyone deserves the presumption of innocence until the resolution of their day in court.

“The fact that the press was immediately fed details of his alleged crimes — some of which were incorrect in key respects — and then furnished with a new damning set of details, makes me suspect that someone is doing to Strauss-Kahn what they have attempted to do to Julian Assange. Once someone is charged with a horrible sex crime, the theory goes, nobody will listen to them or take them seriously again. The way this affair has been handled makes me wonder if Strauss-Kahn was saying “dangerous” things or getting in the way of “the plan,” as it were.”