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The charges are trumped up.

I disagree. First of all, he still has not officially been charged with anything. Secondly, he's already admitted to culpability in a crime, if not the actual commision of it.

I didn't like the "raid" on the doctors offices, nor the seizure of records (did they think the doctors would not cooperate voluntarily?), nor some of the misrepresentations I've seen in the media.

But if you clean that all away, there still seems to be some fire behind the smoke. I guess the maid doesn't come across as a credible enough witness so they're looking for something more to back their case.

Disagree with the law if you will and lament that Rush fell into the trap of addiction and the purchase of black-market drugs if you wish, but a crime is still a crime. Even in Palm Beach County, they still have to have a trial before a conviction. Only then, will the air be cleared and everyone can make up their own minds.

To believe Rush got the sheer QUANTITY of pills he got by "shopping doctors" (what I think they mean behind all the obfuscation is getting overlapping prescriptions, which is the only actual no-no in the law; Rush is NOT at fault if an individual doctor chooses to overprescribe) would be even more zany than to believe he got it through his maid.

I wish I could be as idealistic as you are. First, he's admitted culpability to no crime. The use of prescription drugs are legal. I don't know what you're referring to by "black-market" drugs. Second, the "crime" he's supposedly committed is doctor-shopping. This ranks up there with jaywalking. This is an enormous waste of taxpayer resources on a politically motivated lawsuit.