Nafissatou Diallo Said "NO" To Dominique Strauss-Kahn!

"I said no."

This is what the rape victim character Sarah Tobias played by Jodie Foster in the film The Accused said in the courtroom.  Sarah was what is widely called a "loose" woman. Flirtatious, willing to sleep around. One night at the bar she is gang raped. In the ensuing rape trial the defence says that since Sarah had lax morals; she in fact invited the gang-rape. Sarah said, "I said, no." She won the case and the rapists were convicted.

Then why all this talk about of dropping the rape charges against Dominique Strauss Kahn? Nafissatou Diallo, the maid at Sofitel Hotel, is hardly a woman of loose morals. She is a poor woman from Guinea, (who was raped by two soldiers there) who came over to the USA for a better life. She is illiterate, she lived in a lousy neighbourhood and had unsavoury friends. Does it mean that she can be raped at will by powerful men who can then just walk away?

But she was sexually assaulted by the all-powerful DSK. Is it not a crime? Then why all this talk of "weak case" and dropping charges against DSK? Is Diallo not a woman? Who felt deeply traumatised when she was forced upon by a powerful man? When will the case go ahead as it should? If Diallo had been a woman of influence in society? Or if DSK had been a no-body?

Justice is Justice. It should prevail. That is why we admire America. When a poor hotel maid is sexually assaulted by a very powerful man, he is whisked off a plane and arrested and thrown in jail. That is why we admire America.

Sarah Tobias said "NO!" in the film The Accused. Nafissatou Diallo too said no.

I quote from Newsweek....

Diallo is about 5 feet 10, considerably taller than Strauss-Kahn, and she has a sturdy build. “You’re beautiful,” Strauss-Kahn told her, wrestling her toward the bedroom. “I said, ‘Sir, stop this.”


Diallo kept pushing him away: “I don’t want to hurt him,” she told us. “I don’t want to lose my job.”

Diaollo said "NO".

Laws are meant to protect the weak from the excesses of the rich and powerful. When they are not followed the foundation of society begins to crumble.

The way the case progresses will determine whether my esteem for America decreases or increases.