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Adventurer
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 Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Cameron 'smoked drugs at school' |
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Cameron 'smoked drugs at school'
Mr Cameron has said everyone is entitled to err and stray
Conservative leader David Cameron took drugs while he was a pupil at Eton College, a new biography has claimed.
The book, serialised in the Independent on Sunday, says Mr Cameron, then aged 15, was one of several boys caught smoking cannabis at Eton.
He confessed and was grounded. Some of the other boys were expelled.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "David has always maintained politicians have a right to a private life before they come into politics."
He pointed out that the alleged incident happened almost 25 years ago. Mr Cameron, now 40, has so far made no comment.
Honesty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6350909.stm |
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On the other hand
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Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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A Conservative Party spokesman said: "David has always maintained politicians have a right to a private life before they come into politics."
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I'm curious as to when breaking the law got filed under the protective heading of "private life". Do non-politicians who get spotted by the police smoking weed have the same right to a private life? |
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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He was 15, he was not prosecuted, nor caught by the police. Even most American colleges and high schools don't involve the police when someone gets caught smoking pot.
I know it was a 100 buck fine at my college, and not much else. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, everyone makes mistakes. We are only human beings. Yes, it is illegal to take drugs, but more than half of British Columbia has smoke cannabis. It is still technically illegal in Canada. Also, how many people who are pontificating didn't consume an alcoholic beverage before turning 19 (Ontario drinking age) or 21 (U.S. drinking age)? So those who might judge Cameron should remember they have violated some laws regarding drugs in a way. At least, that is my take on it. However, I would not want a politician who currently takes drugs to be in office or has a drinking problem or took drugs while being 35 or something like that. |
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Much like I would rather not have someone addicted to intoxicating chemicals enforcing laws in my . . .
*beep*. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:05 am Post subject: |
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He was 15, he was not prosecuted, nor caught by the police. Even most American colleges and high schools don't involve the police when someone gets caught smoking pot.
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A friend of mine got busted in Canada for smoking weed outside a nightclub. He got a criminal record, plus the indignity of being locked out of his house when the arresting officer, who had confiscated the contents of his pocket, forgot to give him his keys back. Mind you, this was in the mid-90s some time.
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| I know it was a 100 buck fine at my college, and not much else. |
Your college had its own court system?
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| So those who might judge Cameron should remember they have violated some laws regarding drugs in a way. |
I'm not judging Cameron for smoking pot. I've smoked tons of weed myself. I'm judging him, and his party, for talking about "the right to a private life" in regards to drug use, while at the same time upholding laws that recognize no such right.
Any politician who wants to plead "privacy" in regards to his own drug use should have to endorse the legalization of whatever drugs he took. Otherwise, it's just pure hypocrisy. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: ... |
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| I know it was a 100 buck fine at my college, and not much else. |
Could you just pay in advance?
Nolo contendre. Here's my hundered bucks. Now, let the good times roll! |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| I wonder if David call me Dave! Cameron will also admit to being (or ever having been) a coke-head in the next few weeks/months? |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: |
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Madness! Pure, insane madness!!!
Why is smoking weed still an issue? Why is it illegal? I just don't get it. And I never will. |
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English_Ocean
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
Location: You don't have the right to abuse me!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: |
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By God, if God made the stuff then no one has the rights to tell me I can't have it... truly, is it in the Bible that Bob is illegal? 
BTW I was waiting to inhale.  |
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| By God, if God made the stuff then no one has the rights to tell me I can't have it... |
God gave us the capacity to combine:
Psuedoephedrine
Iodine crystals
Red Phosphorus
Muriatic Acid
Acetone
denatured alcohol
Red Devil Lye
and then freebase it, too. |
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igotthisguitar
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Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| If it was CRACK, i'd certainly see a "judgement" problem. |
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Teufelswacht
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Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| Cameron should be like Clinton and claim he didn't inhale. |
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