The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

The poor useth intreaties but the rich answereth roughly.

But the Georgia crisis provided a rude awakening.

And what they do is step, very coarsely at first, and then very finely afterward.

For example, in a widely noted and disputed incident, Pardo was grabbed by police on the street, along with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, and roughed up.

And I remembered back to about 10 years ago when I read a book by Susan Faludi called Stiffed The Betrayal of the American Man, in which she described how hard the recession had hit men, and I started to think about whether it had gotten worse this time around in this recession.

Indeed, one of Schroeder s first major foreign policy experiences was the EU summit of 1999, where the leaders of France and Britain played rough with the newcomer from Berlin.

In other cases, individuals who were captured and later released with no charges have reported abusive acts by CF, including being handcuffed, hooded, earmuffed and roughly handled while being transported to detention facilities.

This bellicosity has had the effect of pushing Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, into distancing herself from Obama. Like Hollande, she has to assuage public fear by talking tough and promising more military action.