Source: Reuters
He probably is...look who he works for. About time you catch on, Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Bush appointees have this black cloud of "crime" and "corruption" which follows them wherever they go.
LONDON (Reuters) -- London's rambunctious mayor, already fighting suspension for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard, landed in fresh hot water on Tuesday for likening the U.S. ambassador to a "chiseling little crook."
Mayor Ken Livingstone has been quarrelling with the U.S. embassy since last year, when it announced it would not pay the "congestion charge" fee imposed on cars entering the city center.
The embassy says the charge is a tax and that diplomats are immune under treaty. Livingstone says the charge, one of his flagship policies, is a road toll which diplomats have to pay.
"It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge like everybody else and not skive out of it like some chiseling little crook," the mayor told a television reporter.
Any foreign politician should be well-schooled in knowing that anyone working for the current Bush administration is above international, state, and local laws. Have you been in the "jungles of Africa" for the last five years?
I'm not condoning it by any means, but it happens more and more everyday.
I do say, Mr. Livingstone, you play the game of politics very well. Good day.
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