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May 26, 2013
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<\/p>\nKilling protesters described as \u201cnecessary\u201d and \u201cmoral.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Students at British Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s alma mater, Eton College, were asked if they would shoot protesters. <\/p>\n
The question was posed as part of an exam to win one of fourteen King\u2019s Scholarships at the prestigious boarding school in 2011.<\/p>\n
In addition to Cameron, past alumni include generations of British and foreign aristocracy and members of the Royal family, most recently Prince William and his brother Prince Harry.<\/p>\n
Other former pupils at Eon include nineteen former prime ministers spanning from Sir Robert Walpole to Harold Macmillan.<\/p>\n
Eton was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. The college is situated next to Windsor Castle, the longest-occupied palace in Europe, built by William the Conqueror in the decade after the Norman conquest of 1066<\/p>\n
The exam question appeared as follows:<\/p>\n
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According to Huffington Post<\/a>, the exam topic concerned \u201ccruelty and clemency, and whether it is better to be loved than feared.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe question starts with that well-known section from Machiavelli\u2019s The Prince about whether it is better to be feared than loved as a ruler, and then asks candidates to imagine a situation where law and order is breaking down, oil crisis, troops on the streets have killed protestors,\u201d Tony Little, headmaster of Eton College, told the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, a 2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Jim Garrow<\/a>, was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration\u2019s \u201clitmus test\u201d for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 1:23 pm<\/p>\n Tags: foreign affairs<\/a>, police state<\/a><\/p>\n
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