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Deadbeat said:
Thanks, but I'd rather have people with a bit of colour to their past than rigid, squeaky-clean stiffs with a pristine sheet.

Also, yes - they make a fine example to today's youth. PM, deputy PM, Mayor of London - pretty high aspirations when coming from pasts with a little civil disobedience to mar them.

You should really stop making politically-themed posts. You seem to do little more than make yourself look simple, bitter and pathetic. Maybe it'd be best for the political groups you support if you stopped openly supporting them.
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Do you happen to know what sanctions - criminal or otherwise were taken against them for their transgressions/youthful highjinks (however you want to label them)? I don't hence asking the question but if they suffered nothing more than a stern telling off then perhaps it could be argued that it is slightly hypocritical to demand harsher punishments than they would have received for similar acts.

I don't know precisely what was done in the Bullingdon club or what Mr Clegg's act of arson was in Germany, nor as I stating unequivocally that the actions of all the rioters are of similar mavity - merely that in some cases people demand much harsher punishments than they themselves received and suggest that it's necessary to bring discipline back, rather inexplicably ignoring the inequity involved or that they've managed without corporal punishment/whatever.
 
3 descriptions that go to prove their past and present personal misdemenors mean nothing!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Associated with crooked politicians, and consulted with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smoked and drank 8 to 10 Martinis a day.

Winston Churchill
He was kicked out of office twice, slept until noon, used opium in college and drank a quart of whiskey every evening.

Adolf Hitler
He was a decorated war hero. He's was vegetarian, didn't smoke, drank an occasional beer and never committed adultery.
 
stockhausen said:
. . . or sent to jail for your youthful high-jinks. . . as so enthusiastically advocated by these upstanding hypocrites :confused:
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The point I was making is that minor offences that normally get a caution are not the same as full on rioting and looting.

If those Tories had been looting and rioting as per the other week and were caught they most likely would have gone to jail.

In the same way that the rioters who have been recently arrested/jailed would have most likely got with away with just a cautions for similar 'high-jinks' that Cameron et al did.

Nearly everyone's a hypocrite, what do you suggest we do? Ban everyone from making comments that lead to them being a hypocrite?

People grow up and change over their lives....but I'm not really sure why I'm bothering to argue this, it's just another lolstockhausen thread.
 
alx said:
The point I was making is that minor offences that normally get a caution are not the same as full on rioting and looting.
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Other than the fact that a riot is a threat to the establishment while Bullingdon Club hi-jinx only threatens the small people. What possible justification is there for treating the same crime differently just because of what else was going on at the time?
 
scorza said:
Other than the fact that a riot is a threat to the establishment while Bullingdon Club hi-jinx only threatens the small people. What possible justification is there for treating the same crime differently just because of what else was going on at the time?
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The bit of your post I put in bold is why they were given harsher sentences, and damn right to.
 
As disparaging as everyone is being, is this not an interesting point? Our country's leaders have committed roughly the same level of serious crime / youthful hijinks (delete as necessary) as a number of rioters and all anyone is willing to say is "lol stockhausen".

Surely there is something interesting to discuss as to why we see Nick Clegg committing arson as just a laugh as a kid, and some rioter setting a car on fire as scum of the earth.
 
I once threw up on a pub table, jumped on a taxi bonnet, hid in a bush from the police and then got driven home by my angry mum.

Your point?
 
My good lord, I just looked through his posting history, the amount of threads he has created is ludicrous, 14 pages and 95% of them are the same political crap over and over again.

It's one of those cases where he needs to sit down and think, "Is everyone else mad, or is it just me?" (The answer is, you, you are mad, you mad, sad, sad man.) :(
 
scorza said:
Other than the fact that a riot is a threat to the establishment while Bullingdon Club hi-jinx only threatens the small people. What possible justification is there for treating the same crime differently just because of what else was going on at the time?
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Are they actually the same though? Bit of drunken disorderly vs looting and criminal damage.

Feel free to correct me though, just using info based on the OP. As far as I'm aware Cameron et al didn't steal anything.
 
iDroid84 said:
Stop cyber bullying stockhausen,, bunch of thugs. Quite frankly this is sick....
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You are possibly the biggest wet lettuce on this forum.
Stockhausen is big and ugly enough to fight his own battles (battles that he openly invites, I might add)
 
None of them are any better regardless of party affiliation.
You could take three random names of MP's out of a hat and be able to do the same as in the OP.

It's really getting tiresome now.
 
stockhausen said:
What fine examples these Tory Toffs are to the youth of today ;)
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Can we come and burn your house down whilst at the same time pinch your POS computer that you post this crap with?

In a couple of years I will look back on it and say "well we do things that we regret". In this case, I will be talking out of my arse! I will still be chuffed that I stopped you from posting utter tosh for a couple of weeks.
 
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