Are politicians now saying that you can commit all sorts of crime before going into politics .?

Question

and that would be classified as private life before entering politics?

Answer 1

Most politicians believe they can do anything they want. As long as they keep their party happy they will have support.

Answer 2

Yes! Not only that they can continue to make laws that make their own crimes acceptable. They can lie, have their staff lie for them while at the same time, for the same crimes our prisons are overcrowded with 'the nobody's' who commit less serious crimes.

Why are we so stupid that we giggle and excuse past behavior of politicians, in and out of office, as though it was youthful mistakes and they 'rehabilitated' themselves while the general public are locked away for long times for non-violent crimes made by corrupt politicians in order to gain our votes?

Without term limits for both the good and bad this corruption will continue and as has become obvious we will no longer be a government 'of the people and for the people'.

Insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results. so why do we get sucked up in their 'political speech' when we know that the 'whip' will whip them into to voting along party lines or Speakers will so they can get inside awards and support.

Senator Liberman has the right idea: be independent so you can think for yourself and vote according to your own beliefs of what is best for the country. Then we could get rid of them knowing their true record.

As it stands, they are mostly all wimps!

Answer 3

Absolutely! politics is representation by the people for the people. Curiously enough, people every once in a while commit a crime!

What's the alternative? And who gets to decide which crimes are "acceptable" and which are not? The point of democracy surely is that we all decide through the ballot box if the past behaviour is ok or not.

Answer 4

I guess you mean Cameron for smoking a dooby when he was at school,SO what if he did it just makes him human in my eyes.
Most politicians are liars and cheats anyway. I bet nobody could name a single Politician in history that got into politics to help the world or even their local community.Politics is power and an politician without a shady past,well they've all got skeletons in their closets it's just that we don't hear about them all the time.

Answer 5

In the EU parliament if you refer to someones past convictions you can be arrested and prosecuted. France is at least one country where politicians can be found guilty of serious crimes such as fraud and pardoned. It is the illegal to make public in the present what happened in the past.

Here at the moment anything can be printed as long as you only claim as fact what you can prove. All David Cameron has done in his case is say he is not going to comment on the articles in the newspapers based on a non official biography. We would be in a police state if you were not allowed to decline to answer a personal question asked in public.

Answer 6

Definitely NO to 'ALL sorts of crime'. That statement includes rape, murder, GBH, burglary and other transgressions.

Assuming you are referring to the smoking of cannabis it must be put into context.

Years ago cannabis was relatively weak and harmless but it was a criminal offence to possess or smoke it.

Today cannabis has evolved into 'skunk', which is much more harmful than its predecessor, paradoxically downgraded to a Class C drug, and police are encouraged to turn a blind eye to its use.

Are you suggesting no one with a suspected criminal past should be allowed to move on and enter politics?

Where would that put at least two current MPs Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness?

Would you include Tony Blair for his (alleged) illegal invasion of Iraq?

Sweeping generalisations serve no useful purpose.

Answer 7

For politicians a prior criminal record is considered on the job training for any future political plans.

Answer 8

mmmmm.This needs a lot of thought, if we say that one cant enter politics unless one is unspotted, it means nobody can enter,
because nobody is beyond critisism,if one has misspent is life in someway and changed then one has the experiance of having lived the good and the bad, and understands bothe. If he wants to bring the wrongness with him and fight to have things made wrong and use craftiness to make it work then no defenately not.
If they are prepared to fight for what is right then yes thats fine,
ontheres an old saying from the bible, "by their fruits ye shall know them" If an x drugi wants to keep drugs and legalise them and make it easy for them to be pushed, then his fruits have gon rotten. and he never realy repented.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When didn't they say this? Of course politicians think this way.