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A President, a Chancellor and a Prime Minister welcome the cameras into their railway carriage. The President notices a white object on the table and speedily palms it.
"That was a baggie of cocaine" goes everybody.
Except, that is, for people speaking on behalf of the three governments (which seems these days to include the mainstream media) and they go "disinformation, fake news, conspiracy theory"
The comment I liked best was from the guy who wrote, "I grew up in Miami in the '80s; I know what I saw"
Personally I don't mind political leaders taking drugs. I don't mind anyone taking drugs. Personal choice, personal risk, all that sort of thing. What I do mind is political leaders taking drugs while upholding laws that criminalise drug taking for the rest of us....
"That was a baggie of cocaine" goes everybody.
Except, that is, for people speaking on behalf of the three governments (which seems these days to include the mainstream media) and they go "disinformation, fake news, conspiracy theory"
The comment I liked best was from the guy who wrote, "I grew up in Miami in the '80s; I know what I saw"
Personally I don't mind political leaders taking drugs. I don't mind anyone taking drugs. Personal choice, personal risk, all that sort of thing. What I do mind is political leaders taking drugs while upholding laws that criminalise drug taking for the rest of us....
