http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/Irving/RadDi/2009/211009.html

Back at our hotel Jae goes online to check on this nice freedom-loving NY assemblyman, Dov Hikind: she calls out from her room that Hikind was one of several Jews charged by the NY public prosecutor, Robert Morgenthau, with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jewish organisations and New York taxpayers to fund his private lifestyle and trips to Israel, and indicted by the Grand Jury, but subsequently -- no surprises here -- acquitted.

He is now among the fervent supporters of Roman Polanski, the pedophile who jumped bail in California after sodomising a thirteen-year old girl, drugging and raping her, and forcing oral sex upon her. I suspect -- and this may be an injustice -- he also campaigns for the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. As said, a really nice guy.

I ponder the subtle hypocrisy, or is it moral cowardice, of the American Express Corporation, assuming that their spokeswoman is telling the truth. Their AmEx cards are notoriously accepted by every sleazy porno website and erotic bookstore and by not a few hookers too. As Internet commentators immediately begin asking, are they going to pull the contracts with gas stations where I buy gas? With every McDonalds where I stop for coffee and go online? With the bookstores that sell my books? With the Viking Press, Simon & Schuster, and every famous publisher that has ever published them? The Hiltons, Embassy Suites, Marriotts and every other hotel where we stay and meet our friends?