Though many conservatives took some schadenfreude in seeing the Socialist fat-cat Dominique Strauss-Kahn being perp-walked several weeks ago in New York City, I see what happened to Mr. Strauss-Kahn differently. As someone who admires the US Constitution, I agree with the French that the prosecutor-media collaboration of a perp-walk is unjust and a violation of the presumption of innocence ideal. In France for this reason the perp-walk is illegal. Here in the USA the same media that can't wait to smear the image of a famous and accomplished man, keeps the accuser's identity hidden. Why? And why does the media all follow each other in lockstep? Where is the maverick in the media who says "if we are going to participate in the accused man being perp-walked (and creating an image that will poison the jury pool), then we must also publish the identity of the accuser woman"? Even when the accuser is discovered to be a fraud, such as in the Duke Lacrosse case, the media still for the most part keeps the accuser's identity a secret. And even after the fake-rape discovery, the media still....
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