PETE DOHERTY JAILED

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You all sound like Daily Mail readers!
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Actually I despise the DM and I do have some sympathy for anyone suffering from addiction. You are right, other people take drugs and get away with it but that is not the point. He has repeatedly been arrested on drugs-related offences and has avoided prison on the grounds that he gets help. He may be "running away from something" but again he has had ample opportunity to face up to and get help for this but has not done so. He made that choice and he should face the consequences. The man has done very little to help himself and so why should all the rules be changed just because he is a "talented musician"?
 
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Yes he has had a number of occasions to get help. But what are we all the drugs squad. People say yeah I did drugs and got away with it. Or I didn't become like Pete Doherty and stopped. Some people are running away from something and perhaps he is. It just annoys me when people are sooo pleased he has been given a stint in jail and then make stupid comments about him having a bath. This is a person. When did we all become trial, judge and jury about someone elses life? You all sound like Daily Mail readers!
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I don't read the Daily Mail.

He is a grubby individual.

He committed a crime (well has done repeatedly) and is being punished for it.

It doesn't give me any pleasure to see him or anybody else in jail, I would much prefer he had taken one of the many opportunities to stop taking drugs.

I also think he is a talented musician, but that doesn't make his lifestyle choices OK
 
He's a rock star! It's his job! What self respecting rock star isn't rock and roll? How many of you Daily Mail readers enjoy the Rolling Stones? Keith doesn't do drugs?

Jimmy Hendrix, anyone?

Jim Morrison, anyone?

Janis Joplin, anyone?

Oh and wait for it... Edith Piaf?

Please go back and bury your head in your sanctimonious rags...

Next you will all be wanting Jason Donovan jailed, oh hang on a minute, he washes and is well groomed...
 
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He's a rock star! It's his job! What self respecting rock star isn't rock and roll? How many of you Daily Mail readers enjoy the Rolling Stones? Keith doesn't do drugs?

Jimmy Hendrix, anyone?

Jim Morrison, anyone?

Janis Joplin, anyone?

Oh and wait for it... Edith Piaf?

Please go back and bury your head in your sanctimonious rags...

Next you will all be wanting Jason Donovan jailed, oh hang on a minute, he washes and is well groomed...

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you are almost humorous.......
 
Oh some other famous drug addicts..

Shelley, Byrom, John Wilmot, John Lennon, the list really is endless. Give me rock and roll over a Daily Mail mentality any day.

Anyway, you are taking your eye off the ball here and losing the war on terror.
 
it's Byron, with an "N"...

remind me, what "rock n roll" classics were Shelley and Byron involved as i seem to have forgotten....
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Do you think it is the absolute destiny of rock stars to die of drug excesses? What a waste.

Jason Donovan is hardly a rock star but yes, has apparently had drug problems in the past. He wasn't obvious about them and appears to be clear of drugs now.

What Pete Doherty doesn't realise is that he is a role model, people are influenced by how he behaves - and he has been seen to flout the rules too many times. This sentence was inevitable
 
Excuse the typo.

Poetry was the rock and roll of their time and they were rock and roll.

Next you will be telling me you are a Michael Jackson fan...
 
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Do you think it is the absolute destiny of rock stars to die of drug excesses? What a waste.

Jason Donovan is hardly a rock star but yes, has apparently had drug problems in the past. He wasn't obvious about them and appears to be clear of drugs now.

What Pete Doherty doesn't realise is that he is a role model, people are influenced by how he behaves - and he has been seen to flout the rules too many times. This sentence was inevitable

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Role model? He has never asked to be a role model. He is a rock and roll star and an artist. Give me Pete Doherty any day over the soul less, heartless, dishwater, dross, dished up by clean living role models. Christ.

Artists suffer and don't sell out and don't advertise Diet Cola...
 
Whether he's talented, nice or 'rock and roll' is a matter of personal taste and opinion, and beside the point. He's been found guilty of repeated drugs offenses and has finally been given a custodial sentence. About bl**dy time too.
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The romantic poets may well have been adicted to a number of narcotic substances, however at the time the use of these substances was not illegal, so the analogy does not really work.
 
As i understand it, he was in breach of his probation.

Whether or not he deserves to go to prison and suffer the lyrianan relish of those of you gloating in his suffering is too, a matter of opinion.

edit to add: Re, romantic poets. It is only now they are illegal that drugs are a bad thing? Get a grip.

 
Oh Senty! I am with you that he is VERY talented and VERY intelligent and the high intelligence is probably where the problem with addiction comes from. However, it is no excuse for his behaviour and his addiction and absolute disregard to all of the people who love him and want him to get clean. His mother has cried a million rivers for him only to have every promise chucked back in her face. He has admitted that he isn't *ready* to be clean yet and enjoys being a smackhead - it is a dreadful waste of a brilliant mind and he needs to grow up and sit up and realise how much hurt he is causing those around him.

And I agree with mother_hen, he DOES need to wash more often.

And no, I am not a DM reader, cannot stand the paper or its principles.
 
i'm sure all those hurting around him can take some comfort from the collective compassion shown by most in this thread...

The thing that gets me, is that i'm sure he can afford his poison. You really all shouldn't be troubled about him either way, it's the ones who can't you need to getting all hot and bothered about.

Still one junky off the streets, don't have nightmares, do sleep well...
 
I'm a bit bemused by how reading the Daily Mail has suddenly turned into an insult.
I also read The Times and if anyone leaves one around, the News of the World for a giggle, because I can't believe anyone actually reads such rubbish.
I understand very well everything you read in the paper's isn't the truth, but the Mail has several excellent pages on new drugs, finance etc, so why do you think it's clever to patronise people who read it?
Do you assume I'm thick because I do?
It's a sort of arrogance that seriously pi**** me off, like saying anyone from North of Watford etc., or being sarcastic about anyone who doesn't actually compete their horses.
I enjoy being entertained by my newspaper, and watch the tv for the majority of my news info.
I'm afraid you're merely showing how arrogant as well as ignorant you really are, no matter what YOU read....
 
Henry, I'm sure your newspaper will be entertaining for you tomorrow... ENJOY!

I'll arrogantly and ignorantly be oblivious in the knowledge that my money isn't fueling their nonsense dressed up as 'the news'.
 
I agree in part with what you're saying. But TBh the guy has had more opportunity than most to help himself and he won't. Thousands of drug addicts would do ANYTHING for the help this guy has on a platter. They don't get the opportunity, tthey land up in jail and end up worse off.

He broke the law, simple. He's not some kind of God in that he can break the law and get away with it, he is just like you or I, except with talent and money. He IS a role model, and he CHOSE to chase fame and in that CHOSE to be in the public eye (and so become a role model). I think this world can do without drug addicts as role models.
 
You are getting all mixed up about role models.

Had he come out and said drugs are bad, then he'd be a role model. As far as i can tell, all he's ever said is drugs are good - that, it seems to me, is his crime.

with regards to breaking the law, i should think that speeders and drivers who don't pay riders the respect they deserve on the roads are much more of a danger to our society as a whole.

Ho-Hum, so it goes. At least you are all happy with this little bit of justice.
 
Drugs kill and destroy lives and familes end of story - he is in the public eye, he is a role model to others and therefore I think, along with Amy (who DOES have talent) and Kate Moss and I think they make drugs look more glamorous and acceptable. About time he had the punishment he deserves, sadly he will have no problem getting hold of the drugs he wants inside.

Anyone who is a parent lives in fear of their children 'discovering' drugs, probably one of our biggest fears
 
StinkerStonkersMum.....well put.

Class A drugs do kill and they do destroy lives, not only the lives of the people who take them.

Along with Class A's come the dealers,gangsters, guns, murders (sometimes of the innocent family members) and your absolutely right.......Superstars are making it very glamorous and acceptable to the young people who worship and look up to them as role models.

I think that these superstars need to be made examples of instead of being shown pitty as they encourage young people to do what they are doing.
 
Totally agree.

Can they arrest Whiny-house next please and lock her up for committing crimes by using drugs and damaging my ears.

Oh and Kerry Katona.

Blatant drug use by "celebs" who get away with it as they are supposedly famous (though not necessarily for being talented!) is totally wrong.

If they can lock up ordinary people for being found with a chunk of cannabis (and I know someone who was - this was an 18 year old girl, never been in trouble before - got 18 months, wasn't even hers she took th fall for her BF) they can certainly lock up the famous people on class A drugs.

Its giving out a terrible message if they get away with it every time.
 
This is fairly off topic but I started reading 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' by Thomas De Quincey today and I was flicking through the foreward (written by an American lady in the late 60's) and read this -

'Severe addicts, such as Coleridge and De Quincey and the vast majority of the addicted in our society, alsways show a previous emotional maladjustment that makes them far more susceptible to addiction than the normal person and far more difficult to cure or even stabilise. Although they do in fact deteriorate during addiction, the only possibility of cure lies not in breaking the habit but in treating the underlying neurosis.
The problem today is of course vastly complicated by our narcotics laws, which not only drive the addict into the criminal world to obtain his drug, thereby compounding his psychological difficulties, but also give the criminal drug seller a highly profitable motive for recruiting addicts in the first place.'

As I said, not directly relating but I found it fairly relevant/interesting.
 
Sorry that so many of you feel that way about Pete. Unfortunately he is an incredibly, incredibly intelligent, talented guy with infinate musical and lyrical ability, it's such a shame that he does this to himself. I also don't think that prison will do him any good at all, he's been there before and it didn't change anything then and nothing will until he's ready to help himself. Until then, as much i hate the thought of him in prison he can't get away with breaking the law.

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If any of you revelers in pete's misery are unfortunate enough to fall off and break something in the process you'll be more thankful than you'll ever believe possible when they administer you his drug of choice...
 
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