Straus-Kahn-Diallo case spells out the meaning of wealth and poverty
By Dr. Opiyo Oloya
THE case of the alleged rape of a New York hotel worker from Guinea by former International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn referred to by his initials simply as DSK is dead. It was dead from the start anyway, not because the alleged rape never happened.
To the contrary, something did happen in that hotel room, and it is possible that the 32-year-old woman now identified as Nafissatou Diallo, was a victim. There is nothing to suggest Diallo was not telling the truth when she said she was forced by DSK to commit some very indecent sexual acts a month ago. But as a poor African immigrant, her case was almost dead before it even began.
Start, for example, with the revelation late last week that she lied on her immigration application in December 2004 that she was gang-raped back home in Guinea. Now, it is against the law of every country in the world for a would-be immigrant to tell lies in order to gain entry at the border. However, many migrate from poor nations like Guinea because of dire circumstances back home. If things were good, they would not be immigrating in the first place.
It is not uncommon for immigrants to say just about anything to ensure that they gain a toe-hold in the new country. If today a machine was invented to detect improbable stories immigrants tell to gain immigration in the West, hundreds of millions of people would be forced to return to their country of origin. Essentially, in a very lopsided world where the poor have to live by their wits, storytelling to find opportunity in developed metropolis is not really a big issue unless you are in a position similar to Diallo’s where your credibility is on the line. There is also the issue of Diallo’s association with a convicted felon in a US federal penitentiary. Here again, there is a double standard with the insinuation that her connection with a criminal makes DSK’s denial believable that he did not rape her.
The problem is that DSK is a powerful man who all his life lived within a certain privileged circle of prestige and power. He likely could never have connection to a criminal unless that criminal was himself. Meanwhile, as an African immigrant eking a paltry living in the mean streets of New York, Diallo was more likely to know two or three people who have run afoul of the law. That, however, does not mean she herself was and is a woman of base character, a cheat, a liar and conniver.
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The Romanian government may want to reconsider the new taxes it imposed. Top on the list of new taxes are fees imposed on fortune tellers and witches. The witches are not happy about it.
A dozen witches are heading to the Danube River to hurl the mandrake plant and a host of spell ingredients into its waters “so evil will befall” the government officials.
“This law is foolish. What is there to tax, when we hardly earn anything? The lawmakers don’t look at themselves, at how much they make, their tricks; they steal and they come to us asking us to put spells on their enemies,” said a witch known as Alisia.
Queen witch Bratara Buzea, who was imprisoned under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, has devised a particularly potent spell for the taxmen. She planned to use cat excrement and a dead dog, along with a chorus of witches.
The supernatural has many followers in Romania. Even government officials are likely to feel uneasy. In the 2009 Presidential election, some blamed the defeat of the losing candidate on the negative energy from his opponent’s advisor.
Perhaps if he had run on a platform of no new taxes for witches …
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