As a politician, you'd think running from the room post haste would be prudent. especially if your party's platform is settled nicely on a law and order stance...;-)
Agreed. Still innocent until proven guilty though. I'll give a funny example that had happened to me once in China. I was walking down the street one sunny day and all of a sudden the rain came poring down. Naturally the crowd ran for the nearest cover. As it turned out, I along with other men, women and children found myself in the lobby of what appeared very much to me to be a brothel!
Now, that city is known in summer for its sudden, heavy yet short-lived torrents, so we all decided to wait it out a few minutes and sure enough, it was the end of that and we all went on our merry ways. I'd never confirmed that it was a brothel, yet I'm still thoroughly convinced it was (not the kind of place I'd normally walk into to find out what it was; whether or not it was a brothel, it was clearly a sleazy place of some kind at least).
Now, would it be reasonable for someone to accuse me of *****-mongering because of that incident?
Even if a politician should be found near drugs, prostitutes, etc., he still has a right to defend himself and explain how he got near those drugs, or whether he was aware of the presence of drugs or prostitutes in the room, etc.
Is it not conceivable that a person could find himself in the presence of drugs or prostitutes without being aware of the fact? And if that's the case, is he still guilty?
