I totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take that, whoever posted the irrelevent graphics!
Posted on 10/16/2003 10:48:07 AM PDT by noprob
The entire nation owes radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh a debt of gratitude, Libertarians say, because his ordeal has exposed every drug warrior in America as a rank hypocrite.
"One thing we don't hear from American politicians very often is silence," said Joe Seehusen, Libertarian Party executive director. "By refusing to criticize Rush Limbaugh, every drug warrior has just been exposed as a shameless, despicable hypocrite.
"And that's good news, because the next time they do speak up, there'll be no reason for anyone to listen."
The revelation that Limbaugh had become addicted to painkillers -- drugs he is accused of procuring illegally from his Palm Beach housekeeper -- has caused a media sensation ever since the megastar's shocking, on-air confession last week.
As the Limbaugh saga continues, here's an important question for Americans to ask, Libertarians say: Why are all the drug warriors suddenly so silent?
"Republican and Democratic politicians have written laws that have condemned more than 400,000 Americans to prison for committing the same 'crime' as Rush Limbaugh," Seehusen pointed out. "If this pill-popping pontificator deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card, these drug warriors had better explain why."
Given their longstanding support for the Drug War, it's fair to ask:
Why haven't President George Bush or his tough-on-crime attorney general, John Ashcroft, uttered a word criticizing Limbaugh's law-breaking?
Why aren't drug czar John P. Walters or his predecessor, Barry McCaffrey, lambasting Limbaugh as a menace to society and a threat to "our children?"
Why aren't federal DEA agents storming Limbaugh's $30 million Florida mansion in a frantic search for criminal evidence?
Why haven't federal, state, and local police agencies seized the celebrity's homes and luxury cars under asset-forfeiture laws?
Finally, why aren't bloviating blabbermouths like William Bennett publicly explaining how America would be better off if Limbaugh were prosecuted, locked in a steel cage and forced to abandon his wife, his friends, and his career?
The answer is obvious, Seehusen said: "America's drug warriors are shameless hypocrites who believe in one standard of justice for ordinary Americans and another for themselves, their families and their political allies.
"That alone should completely discredit them."
But there's an even more disturbing possibility, Seehusen said: that the people who are prosecuting the Drug War don't even believe in its central premise -- which is that public safety requires that drug users be jailed.
"The Bushes and Ashcrofts and McCaffreys of the world may believe, correctly, that individuals fighting a drug addiction deserve medical, not criminal treatment," he said. "That would explain why they're not demanding that Limbaugh be jailed.
"But if that's the case, these politicians have spent decades tearing apart American families for their own political gain. And that's an unforgivable crime."
Nothing wrong with that; hypocrites deserve to be annoyed...
I totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take that, whoever posted the irrelevent graphics!
The evidence is clear, you are in denial.
Re. Rush again, he's said he'll reveal the details when he's able.
Oh I forgot, they forced him not to say that he didn't do it. Those darn lawyers, even when you are innocent, they always tell you to clam up and act guilty. (or not)
*If* in the future he's charged and convicted of doing something illegal, he should serve the appropriate penalty under law. And I don't think Rush himself would disagree.
Now you are delusional. Your moral compass is spinning backwards. he did it or he didn't, the law means nothing in that regard. And if you think if he is guilty and knows it himself he's going to fess up so he can go to jail or serve the appropriate penalty you are seriously delusional.
This is my impression as well (in addition to the side offenses that you mentioned). I believe that it is disingenuous to equate Rush's situation with those who have been imprisoned. To throw around a big prison number and relate it to prescription drug addiction (as this article has done) is to imply that anyone can be thrown in jail for behavior that is out of their control - which is simply not true.
I do like the irony of your posting a larger, animated graphic to protest my smaller pic.
If you are going to lie about me, at least grow some b-lls and say it to my face.
I understand more about the government than you ever knew. And I told you I understood it.
The problem is you think legal and illegal is the same as right and wrong. You are so childish that you think that a finding of guilty or not guilty is not the necessarily the same a real guilt or innocence.
It figures though, for someone who has worshipped government all their lives is not expected to know that government isn't God. To you folks, OJ was innocent.
Pathetic.
BTW, how've you been? ;-)
Says who? LOL! No matter, you guys deserve to be annoyed even more. But you're probably used to it by now.
Ah.. typically subtle and persuasuve. No wonder all the intelligent libertarians I know are quick to explain they're the small "l" kind, and not associated with the party of the same name.
You misread, I said the evidence is clear that you are in denial.
Re. Rush again, he hasn't even been charged, and you're going bonkers
I'm going bonkers? LOL, you poor apologists are tripping all over yourselves to defend the boob because you tied your wagon to a fallen star. I'm not even excited much less bonkers.
You seem to have a problem understanding my position. I'll go even slower for you this time. I don't care if he is charged. I don't care if he is convicted. I think the law is BS.
None of that would change whether he did it or not. If he did it, he's a hypocrite. I knew that anyway so I don't care.
And he did it, despite your goofy insistence on the legal systems minutia.
If you really think that if he had a prescription for all the drugs has admitted to be addicted to, and which he bought and you think he bought them at a pharmacy, you are delusional.
Do what you're best at.
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