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Courts shouldn’t go easy on Limbaugh
The Co.umbia, Missouri Daily Trib. ^ | Sunday, October 16, 2005 | Robert Wolszon

Posted on 10/16/2005 3:15:52 PM PDT by rface

Editor, the Tribune: Rush Limbaugh is not deserving of our pity. He is alleged to have committed the crime of obtaining narcotics unlawfully by going to multiple doctors to get more narcotics for the same condition. The crime is not that he became addicted.

Going through rehab is not atonement for criminal behavior. His rigorous defense and appeals through the courts indicate he has no intention of admitting wrongdoing. Should we drop prosecution of the addict who steals if he admits to being an addict?

Prescription opiates like the ones Limbaugh abused are for sale on the streets of Columbia because of addicts’ behavior of "doctor shopping." Doctors risk losing their licenses when the Drug Enforcement Agency, which monitors narcotic prescriptions, questions their prescribing. Limbaugh went to the Florida Supreme Court to keep his privacy. That same "privacy" keeps doctors from knowing where else he is going for drugs. A great example of Limbaugh’s "principle-driven life." There are real consequences to his behavior.

People who need medication don’t get it because doctors question their intentions. Every day our emergency room has addicts come in with the sole intention of getting narcotics. They tie up emergency room doctors with claims of pain that cannot be disproved. Limbaugh does not deserve special treatment.

The "tough on drug addict" rhetoric that he pushes has come around to haunt him. As it should.

Robert Wolszon

address deleted, but available at link

Columbia, Missouri


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: doctorshopping; dontbustourdoper; eib; florida; floriduh; limbaugh; rushlimbaugh
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The looney left is mean spirited, and I see and hear examples of this truth every single day. It is strange to me that the looney left is blind to this fact.....even highly educated lefties that I work with toss around blanket cruelties without giving it a second thought! Read the DUmmies and the list of examples of this strange fact is almost infinite.

There is nothing more astounding to me than the vicious left!

mean people suck!

I actually know that their mean spirit is dooming them to political falure --- so I am a little chagrined (sp??) at my attitude of amplifying their mean spirit....but that is my strategy.


1 posted on 10/16/2005 3:15:53 PM PDT by rface
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To: rface

Perhaps his punishment could be equal to that of perjury before a grand jury or stealing classified documents from the National Archives.


2 posted on 10/16/2005 3:19:30 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: rface

Just another exampl;e of a Democratic Prosecutor out of control.


3 posted on 10/16/2005 3:19:54 PM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
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To: rface

Well, technically he's liable to a whole lot, but it's astonishing that he's being pursued far more harshly than virtually any other person caught in the same circumstances. If it looks like politics, sounds like politics, and walks like politics, then it must be ....


4 posted on 10/16/2005 3:19:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: rface

As far as I can tell, Rush hasn't been accused of anything at all. Am I missing something? Have charges been filed? Has the Grand Jury heard evidence?


5 posted on 10/16/2005 3:20:15 PM PDT by Guyin4Os (My name says Guyin40s but now I have an exotic, daring, new nickname..... Guyin50s)
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To: rface
Every day our emergency room has addicts come in with the sole intention of getting narcotics. They tie up emergency room doctors with claims of pain that cannot be disproved. Limbaugh does not deserve special treatment.

I daresay the addicts the writer describes do not get arrested, but are instead sent on their way. I would further speculate that their complete medical records are not subpoenaed so a prosecutor can make a high profile case.

6 posted on 10/16/2005 3:20:55 PM PDT by Huntress (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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Should we drop prosecution of the addict who steals if he admits to being an addict?

No. But I doubt Rush stole from anyone. He makes way too much money to "steal".

7 posted on 10/16/2005 3:21:29 PM PDT by manwiththehands
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To: HiTech RedNeck
yes, he is being punished in the media for his politics, not for his drug abuse.

Another example of the criminalization of politics.

8 posted on 10/16/2005 3:22:03 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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To: rface
Limbaugh's attorneys have made the logical point that a judge in the same jurisdiction, faced with the same prosecutor, and having the same situation (prescription drug addiction and abuse), was NOT prosecuted. Instead, the judge went into a diversion program and was not permanently removed from the bench, IIRC.

Now, the judge was a Democrat, and the prosecutor is a Democrat, so that could explain the difference in treatment. But the law cannot mean one thing for one defendant yet the exact opposite for another. Diversion for first offense is the usual practice in almost all jurisdictions, for nonviolent offenses.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Racially-Based, Academic Nonsense"

9 posted on 10/16/2005 3:23:48 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Quoted by Rush, again, this Thursday. Hoohah.)
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To: rface

Little Bobby Wolszon gratuitously uses the word "alleged" at the beginning of his rant and then has Rush convicted for the remainder of his rant. Cool.


10 posted on 10/16/2005 3:24:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
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To: manwiththehands

I guess with all that dough he could have gotten creative and hired out his own poppy field in Afghanistan or something... /black humor


11 posted on 10/16/2005 3:24:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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I think the pursuit of Mr. Limbaugh is politics and some is because of his holier then though attitude. You read what you sow.AWB


12 posted on 10/16/2005 3:25:46 PM PDT by Americanwolfsbrother (Don't hate on someone for using their mind.)
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To: rface

If the author is saying lets hang every first time drug offender I can agree with him.
If the author is saying lets give all first time offenders a pass but hang Rush, then the author is a biased Piece of crap.
You be the judge.


13 posted on 10/16/2005 3:26:05 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: golfisnr1

Just another example of the insanity of the War on Drugs - another bloke prosecuted for seeking pain relief.


14 posted on 10/16/2005 3:27:21 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: rface
I bet if you google that text, you'll find it submitted to 50 different papers under 50 different names...
15 posted on 10/16/2005 3:28:41 PM PDT by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Loved it John when Rush read your article. Yea, I caught that.

They just consider Rush another target. Ho-Hum. Funny, their not hitting targets and their fishing in the Dead Seas.

16 posted on 10/16/2005 3:29:22 PM PDT by AGreatPer
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To: Americanwolfsbrother
I think the pursuit of Mr. Limbaugh is politics and some is because of his holier then though attitude. You read what you sow.

But Rush hadn't really spoken about drugs for years, so it's not the hypocracy that they're after. It's the leftist tactic of generating dirt on an opponent, so they can dismiss anything he says with an ad homenim later.

17 posted on 10/16/2005 3:29:39 PM PDT by cryptical
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Limbaugh, DeLay, Rove....When you can't beat them on ideology, set the prosecutors on them.


18 posted on 10/16/2005 3:30:45 PM PDT by clintonh8r (In God we trust. All others pay cash.)
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To: xcamel

He didn't steal. And the war on drugs has been a miserable failure and it is about time we quit it and dedicate ourselves to a real war.

All that has happened in this war on drugs is that we have made the comodity (drugs) way more valuable and profitable to sell and produce. And we have lost more of our rights under this war than through any other federal government attack on our rights.


19 posted on 10/16/2005 3:31:14 PM PDT by TrailofTears (."We mock loyalty and are shocked at finding traitors in our midst." CS Lewis)
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To: rface

This sounds like a letter to the editor. Hardly worth getting worked up about.


20 posted on 10/16/2005 3:31:35 PM PDT by Honestfreedom
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