Documents on the I may even find time to write a fourth — on one of the events of September 11, 2001, whose anniversary is just approaching again Above : David Irving speaks after dinner in Atlanta, USA,
on August 8, 2008 | download high resolution image (2 MB) [ Previous Radical’s Diary ] August 17, 2008 (Sunday) Key West (Florida) BREAKFAST at the Banana Café as always on Sundays; but the usual gang is not there. My spectacle-lens remains firmly lost, and with a hurricane coming this way the banks and stores in Key West will probably be closed for two or three days. E-mails probably shut down, and no postal mail-out possible. Thank you, God.
At 1:38 pm I tell a friend: “I shall hang around unless it gets dire. The forecasts say there will be no storm surge, which is the thing to fear most.” I have yesterday evening told G. that I shall not be employing her cousin, The Lump, for the rest of my tour.
She is too lethargic, and her driving scares me. 8:20 pm To make my cup of happiness run over, a drainy-voiced gentleman identifying himself only as Gabriel , of all things (he declines to provide any surname ) of PayPal Executive Escalation Department or some such weird title, phones my landline telephone number to assure me they have reviewed our account and stand by their autocratic decision to “sever all further contacts” with us; I ask what will happen to the funds PayPal they are sitting
on and he retorts that they are not showing such funds. There are, I assure him. I repeat that I doubt whether he is genuinely a PayPal officer, given his illiterate and rude manner. He says they do not wish to have dealings with my books or my speeches: Welcome to Censorship America, or at least to Some-Exclusions-Apply America! I ask whether it is normal to make such communications verbally, by phone; he says it is a courtesy.
I indicate that the books offered by my bookstore are all published by the world’s leading publishers; he ignores the remark. He says defensively that it will be pointless to complain higher up the executive chain at PayPal, as all complaints will merely be referred