Never on Sunday
Taki lives the High Life
Spitzer was right in breaking up prostitution rings but I have yet to read that any of the pimps are in jail. It was all soundbites and publicity handouts. The same applies here in London. If any of the fuzz really cared to put a stop to it, all it has to do is go to the expensive hotels around Belgravia and Mayfair and follow the rich Arabs and Russians who hang out there. I guarantee a 100 per cent success rate. I suppose escort services, like the one Spitzer used, offer more protection to the girls, but the scuttlebutt has it that this modern Elmer Gantry even asked for unsafe sex. Spitzer’s old man is in real estate, and the Murdoch network described him as old money. It’s old money all right, during the late 80s. The 1980s. His holier-than-thou offspring, having been caught in flagrante, promises to come back and work for the public good in future. Puhlease, as they say in the Bagel. Save it for those who believe that the earth is flat. Or for your poor wife who enjoyed being the state’s first lady. She should now sue for divorce and demand a large share of the old man’s fortune. What Spitzer should be forced to do is time, then community service in Eastern Europe, lecturing pimps about the evils of using women. Now that would really be atonement.
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slinkybender
March 19th, 2008 8:49pmLetting Spitzer rattle on to the pimps of Eastern Europe wouldn't be anything like atonement. If the Duke of Westminster can resign his military commission and re-enlist as a trooper in penance for a similar offense, surely Spitzer can find comparable re-employment. Personally, I'd like to see him as a runner on the floor of the Stock Exchange.
Laurie Macdonell-Sanchez
March 20th, 2008 4:28pmBravo, Taki, on all points made. The UK Methodist Church has been doing important work in rescuing E. European women & girls brought to the West for the sex trade. Good, brave people dealing w/true horror.
Angela Stewart
March 25th, 2008 8:52pmTaki is always the first column I turn to in this marvellous magazine. Thank you for the straight and truthful talk about this ghastly business of selling women it is the equivalent of battery hen farming or rearing pigs for slaughter in the industrialised west.