Rush to Judgment (Democrat State Attorney Krischer's Obsession with Limbaugh)

Sacred Cow Burgers ^ | 12/07/2003 | Sacred Cow Burgers

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[South40]

[solitas]

"...can spend all their time and energy going after a harmless little fuzzball..." who MAY HAVE BEEN buying PRESCRIPTION DRUGS not from doctors, but from a PRIVATE CITIZEN: an illegal action.

[ladyinred]

The line Rush is "speaking" is killer!

[ladyinred]

ROTFL! That is Prime Stuff!

[concerned about politics]

OZZY Osborn was just caught taking 42 pills a day. They're taking the doctors licence away.
I suppose now the FBI will also go after Hollywood entertainers going to rehab and find out where they get their drugs. If they were getting them from this doctor, they're in for a really rough withdrawel period. Expect a Hollywood meltdown.
If you think they're bad now, wait'll their drug supplier is gone.

[Enterprise]

Well, why don't the voters spend their efforts to get this guy out of office?

[Jacquerie]

Lighten up Francis.

[BigBobber]

Perhaps this persecution of Rush will be the turning point in the War-on-Drugs. That is, a lot of hard core drug warriors are going to realize what a waste of time and money it has been, when they see how it can be used against someone on their side.

[Kay Soze]

Rush will be fine.

He is tough as nails and knows if you dish it out it will come back.

The more they go after him the more latitude we now have to pursue the dims.

I want an autopsy preformed on Ted Kennedys vitim- MArry Joe!

I want the Clinton rape cases opened.

These wer NOT victimless crimes and we demand asnwers!

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"...can spend all their time and energy going after a harmless little fuzzball..." who MAY HAVE BEEN buying PRESCRIPTION DRUGS not from doctors, but from a PRIVATE CITIZEN: an illegal action.

Go ahead and try to tell me -- with a straight face -- that if the offender were anyone but Limbaugh, this would even be on State Attorney Krischer's radar. Go ahead. C'mon.

Hell, if the offender had been a Democrat, the Left would be falling over themselves trying to paint the whole thing as a failure of current pain management therapies and call for socialized medicine!

Go ahead. Try to tell me I'm wrong on either count.

[robertpaulsen]

"That is, a lot of hard core drug warriors are going to realize what a waste of time and money it has been"

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of time and money do you think is being spent on cases like Rush (prescription drug users who become addicted and are rumored to be obtaining illegal drugs) as opposed to going after trafficking, manufacturing, dealing, distributing, and recreational use?

Do you think it might be greater than .1%?

[Reagan Man]

America's National Drug Control Policy has been a positive effort and money well spent. The pushers/dealers/dopers/ druggies and their enablers in the pro-legalization camp, should have learned by now, the American people want the federal government to enforce the drug laws. Interdiction and incareration are still the top remedies for drug control. You do the crime, you do the time. Also, the vast majority of American's don't believe "[p]eople should be allowed to take any drug they want, so long as they don't hurt someone else". There are plenty of countries in the world where dopers can live out their lives stoned. The US isn't one of those them.

[witnesstothefall]

My face is straight, and you're wrong on both counts.

High-profile prosecutions are always coveted by ambitious DA's. The political corruption to watch out for is whether the putative defendant has the connections to scuttle an investigation, as we saw so many times in the Clinton years (Mary Jo White disease).

But your assertions are not true. Take Robert Downey Jr., a darling of the Left. How many times has he been prosecuted? Sure the system failed to incarcerate him for long terms, but the DA doesn't sentence, he prosecutes.

Downey Jr. starred in a documentary about the '92 Dem convention that established his Rat credentials beyond doubt.

Yet the DA in a Dem stronghold went after him again and again and again, and rightly so.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

will be the turning point in the War-on-Drugs

Sorry Losertarian, drugs are staying illegal, like they should be. Us "hard core drug warriors" -otherwise known as Adults realize what a disaster listening to the Legalize Drugs Cranks would be.

You wanna whine about law enforcement costs to the taxpayer? Clearly you have no understanding what social safety-net costs would be if the government could no longer lock people up for being strung out Junkies.

[corkoman]

America's National Drug Control Policy has been a positive effort and money well spent.

Bwahahaha - you must be high.

The pushers/dealers/dopers/ druggies and their enablers in the pro-legalization camp, should have learned by now, the American people want the federal government to enforce the drug laws.

So, those of us who recognize that the same damage is being done today as it was during alcohol prohibition and ask that we reconsider these actions - we are enablers to the pushers? How?

Interdiction and incareration are still the top remedies for drug control.

Sure - when all you resources go to military interdiction in foreign countries. But for folks who have problems getting off things like painkillers? What resources are aimed at helping them?

You do the crime, you do the time. Also, the vast majority of American's don't believe "[p]eople should be allowed to take any drug they want, so long as they don't hurt someone else".

No, you are wrong - most people want others to mind their own business. And the citizen efforts to get pot laws defanged - who are they? All Pusher Enablers?

There are plenty of countries in the world where dopers can live out their lives stoned. The US isn't one of those them.

You certainly proved your point Church Lady - I really am seeing this so differently now.

The rascally totalitarians march on, oblivious to the sounds of liberty squealing under their tank tracks.