Posted on 12/26/2003 4:21:34 AM PST by logic101.net
THE PERSECUTION OF RUSH GOES ON MARK A SITY 12/26/03
Years ago, Brett Favre had a problem with pain killers. He was buying them illegally after a prescription ran out for after an injury that still hurt. He became addicted. After the news came out, he apologized to his fans, went into treatment, and all was right with the world. Not a soul seems to be interested in investigating Ozzy Osbourne’s drug use, but there might be a reason for this. Ozzy seems to be attempting to prove the theory of evolution by devolving into lower forms of life before our eyes. Ozzie is an interesting scientific experiment.
Yet, Rush Limbaugh is reported to have a problem with an addiction to pain killers, admits it and goes into treatment, and all is still not right with the world. Rumors are reported first that he’s part of a drug ring investigation. Ok, it seems this is true in that his name turned up as a customer. Then rumors were reported that he was buying these prescription pain killers in 1000+ lots. Then rumors were reported that he was involved in selling the drugs (like he really needs the money!). Then it was money laundering. Now he is under investigation for the very serious crime of “DOCTOR SHOPPING”. It seems this is a huge crime in Florida.
This makes me wonder. If I take my family to Florida for a vacation, and our daughter hurts herself, let’s say she hurts her leg. Being from Wisconsin we wouldn’t know who the good FL doctors are and who the quacks are. We’d probably take her to the closest doctor. So let’s say we get Dr Quack. Dr Quack takes her into the X-ray room, and comes out with an X ray showing a hairline fracture in her calf bone. We would assume a leg cast is in order. Dr Quack comes back with not the plaster cart, but a laughing gas cart and then pulls out a big meat saw. Dr Quack tells us he will have to amputate her leg for the hairline fracture. If we decide to take her out of the office (with both legs attached) and look for a second opinion are we in violation of FL law for “DOCTOR SHOPPING”?
I don’t claim to have any inside information on Rush’s situation, but drawing on what he has said, it seems that he had a painful back problem and went to Dr Quack. Dr Quack recommended surgery. Dr Quack messed up the surgery. Dr Quack prescribed a pain killer to Rush for temporary relief of a long term problem. Dr Quack’s prescription ran out on Rush, leaving him in debilitating pain. Rush knew the pain killer could allow him mobility, and Dr Quack offered no option other than permanent debilitating pain for the rest of his natural life. It seems to me that Rush should have been “doctor shopping” a long time ago!
Why is Rush on trial here, without even any charges being filed? Shouldn’t Dr Quack be the one being investigated for leading an innocent victim down the path of lawlessness and drug use? Where is the AMA? Could it be that they, along with the press have an anti-Rush agenda? Nah, couldn’t be. If I believed that I’d be one of the black helicopter conspiracy types then, wouldn’t I?
MARK A SITY
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There's going to be a different standard for Rush. He's been living in a glass house for years and throwing stones at Democrats. It's payback time for them. The fact that you feel he's being treated unfairly is meaningless. They're going after him, and if they can put him in jail, they will.
I've heard O'Reilly say that people are trying to dig up dirt so they can silence him. Rush has handed himself over to liberals on a silver platter. He will not get fair treatment, and he's whining about it. I'm annoyed that he was such a druggie that he forgot he was a target.
Actually, I think that had I been in FL, I may have violated that "Dr shopping" law.
I had seen an orthopedist, and I was having problems with my back, foot, and leg... 3 different issues. For the pain, he prescribed vicodin. Well, one night, my foot really got worse, and it turns out that this Dr completely missed the fact that I had 4 broken bones in my foot. He didn't even bother with an x-ray, even though my foot was swollen to the point that I couldn't tie my shoe, and it hurt, even though I have nerve damage, and I have practicly no feeling in my foot. So, I went and found another orthopedist.
When I got to him, he found a more serious problem, and sent me to a neurosurgeon. But in the mean time, he offered me a Rx for percocet. I told him that I didn't need it, because I had a Rx for vicodin, but I did ask if he could give me an Rx for something weaker (I'm hypersensative to hydrocodone: When I take one, I need to go lay down for about 9 hours). So, he gave me a Rx for Darvocet. The neurosurgeon decided that I needed surgury, and in the mean time, gave me an Rx for oxycontin.
Frankly, I'm scared to death of becoming addicted to these sort of drugs, and I feel that I've got a pretty high threshold for pain. My grandfather got addicted to Rx pain killers in the 1950's, so I've always avoided them unless I had no choice. Out of the vicodin Rx for 60 tabs, I took 3, and only one of the oxycontin, immediately after my surgery. I did take quite a few of the darvocet, but never more than 2 at a time, no more than twice a day... They just took a bit of the edge off the pain.
I can understand how easy it would be to become addicted to those pain killers. If not for my irrational (maybe it is rational) fear of addiction, I'm sure that I could have eased my pain. But I'd rather deal with pain than take a chance of addiction.
Mark
There's a difference between cooperating with an investigation, and putting your head on a chopping block.
Mark
You're kidding me, right? Prosecutor's are allowed to apply different standards to different people? I didn't know that. I guess Rush's goose is cooked, then. He should just stop defending himself and throw himself at the feet of the prosecution and beg for mercy. What a load.
I found a law, under search warrants.
"Upon proper affidavits being made, a search warrant may be issued under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the following grounds: ... When any property constitutes evidence relevant to proving that a felony has been committed ... This section also applies to any papers or documents used as a means of or in aid of the commission of any offense against the laws of the state."
It's pretty clear that the prosecutor has every right by law to have those medical records.
L He is divorced and remarried (2 or 3 times) he doesn't go to Church, he doesn't believe homosexual acts are sinful, he avoided the draft when it was his time to serve, he repeatedly told his listeners he was being hoinest when he was lying his ass off ect ect.
His legal dificulties are all his own doing and are a severe form of "payback" from the liberal county he chose to establish residence in. He personalised all his political battles with liberals and mocked and slammed his political enemies and so it is scandalous he retorts to the girlish and jejune "victimhood" appeal for sympathy when it is his turn to face the music from the liberal authorities in power in the liberal county he choose to live in.
He only went public when he was worried about being some bad boy's boyfriend in prison. His "repentance" and "admission of addiction" doesn't convince me of sincerity. It was done at the end of a barrel of a political and legal gun. I find his entire "admission of addiction" has the same ring of veracity as Clinton's "admisssion" of guilt everytime he was confronted with the truth.
And, Rush ought be subjected to the same crimes as others - you know, all the same other multimillionaires able to hire Roy Black to defend themselves against possession/use of crack-for-the-wealthy (oxycontin). IN other words, he walks.
He is the OJ of the Right. Not that being a Doper is the same as murder. Just that this isn't a nation of laws. Proof? Multimillionaire Celebrities like OJ and Rush don't go to jail. We poor folks do.
They are the actions of adults being babysat. I guarantee you that if, for some reason the government decided to overstep its bounds and forbade me from seeing my children, I wouldn't hesitate to clandestinely meet them in a parking lot. Hiding one's activities is directly proportionate to the level of tyranny in a society. Conversely, openess is directly proportionate to the level of liberty.
The questioning (in the SCOTUS hearing) at one point went like this: You can't see the photos because you don't already have evidence of murder. But the photos might be the evidence. Well, you can't see the photos unless you have evidence of murder.
In Rush's case, it would be "You can't see the medical records because you don't already have evidence of doctor shopping.
Those who detest Rush because he said a thing or two against druggies would like to see him serve jail time while at the same time argue that people who smoke marijuana (or do crack cocaine or heroin) should be free to do that without consequences. I'm rather surprised that they aren't defending his right to medical records privacy.
Isn't this case on the same "slippery slope" that leads to every American's right to privacy being endangered? What about the search and seizure laws that they complain infringe upon an individual's freedom? I would think those who are against the WOD would actually be supportive of Rush for these reasons.
Wrong. On his show Rush said he wouldn't take the drugs around others because, "I didn't want to share the high."
Note he seldom mentions this subject anyomore. Roy Black has the muzzle on Mr. Free Speech/Tough-Talker.
WEre this Clinton or Gore or a Hollywood Pinko the was the Doper, the Freepers would be reaming him a new one - not a good sign for Freeperville
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