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"You guys are letting Rush off easy"
Rush sure hasn’t been let off easy. Quite the contrary. It’s not an emotional issue and should be based solely on the law. You are ready to prosecute this man without facts just propaganda being fed to you by the ones who want to ruin him any way they can. Please consider your sources.
Rush hasn’t been charged. They have been looking for something to charge him with since day one (almost five months ago) and have not been able to do so. There is nothing that indicates he got these drugs illegally, as you stated, or he would have certainly been charged by these people by now. Florida’s prosecutors have been spending an unprecedented amount of time trying to charge him with anything. Looking and fishing. This is a witch hunt.
Do you still believe he was money laundering? A trumped up charge, among many.. Absurd! He was being blackmailed. Are the blackmailers being charged? Hmm, wonder why I haven’t heard about that. Oh, that’s right, they got immunity. Hmm, wonder why.

It's Innocent until proven guilty in our Free America. Not the other way around. It’s a very sad day when this is how the Justice System of America can precede. This is the main point. One should be outraged by the way Florida’s justice system are behaving. They are doing everything by their own rules to create a case to take after someone because they don’t like what he stands for. It’s a scary precedence being set..

I am not really disagreeing with your sentiments here, I'm just sort of amused when I see people so genuinely surprised that such things could go on in America. This is nothing new. Things like this go on all the time all across America. Prosecutors nail the heck out of one guy for doing the same thing they just let five others skate on. They offer this guy a better deal or even let him off because someone in the office knows his family, and they put the screws to another guy because someone in the office doesn't like his family, or they don't like his lawyer or his race or his appearance, or he didn't have as much money to pay up front on a fine or better yet, an asset forfeiture.

Our judicial system is probably the best in the world, but it is not always fair, not by a long shot. I'm a criminal defense attorney and what I hope that people get out of things like this is a little more rounded outlook when they are called to sit in the jury box. Don't just take for granted that that nice prosecuting attorney standing before you or that nice police officer sitting on the stand testifying are honest, fair and ethical people who will always shoot you straight. Some of these people are more crooked than the defendants or even their attorneys ;-) .