Posted on 05/01/2006 11:21:29 AM PDT by veronica
Rush took total responsibility. The "common man" would not have been charged in this case.
You sound more like the sorts who get their "political commentary" from The Daily Kos...
They sometimes go after regular people for things like doctor shopping where I live. I think it's a really crappy thing for them to do, but some prosecutors are just zealots. It is not at all uncommon for people prescribed highly addictive drugs to become addicted to them. The longer people are taking such prescriptions, the greater the likelihood the patient will become addicted. Once addicted, these people are likely to result to doctor shopping and even worse to feed their addictions. Where I live we don't see a lot of these prosecutions, but we do see some. I think we are seeing less now that they had a case where a person well known in the community was charged and the jury refused to convict. It was jury nullification pure and simple, and I'm glad they did it. This was a good guy with a serious health condition for which he was frequently prescribed heavy duty pain medications. He did get addicted and he did go to doctors all over town getting prescriptions. He didn't do this though because he's such a terrible person. He did it because he happened to be one of those unlucky enough to become addicted to pain medications he was prescribed for a legitimate health problem. This is one area where prosecutors need to use their discretion not to prosecute, or should at least handle the cases in a fashion where the people will not end up with criminal records. The final outcome with Rush is probably not that bad of an outcome actually. For a non-famous person it wouldn't be bad at all. It would ensure that he gets help, but not leave him with a criminal record. That's about as close as we can get under our current system with treating a health problem like a health problem instead of a criminal problem. Where I live though our jerk prosecutors want to stick these people with felony convictions. They aren't really looking for prison time but they want felony convictions and several years of probation where at any time for any minor violation probation can be revoked and these people can be shipped off to prison.
LOL.
To read later.
"likely to result to doctor shopping"
Should have said: "likely to _resort_ to doctor shopping"
Nothing stopped liberals from trashing Rush' credibility before the revelations. And there is nothing to stop them from making an invalid argument now based on the fact that Mr. Limbaugh became addicted to pain meds.
On what logical basis do you make such an argument?
We also get that for you, Rush is guilty until proven innocent. Even the prosecutor couldn't show guilt beyond reasonable doubt. But you know better. Good for you.
You obviously didn't read the article. It supports his claim of innocence. It was all RAT politics, nothing more.
Well...Elvis was known to use large doses of pain killers for recreational uses...nobody appears to putting down his good name. The media needed something I guess to clam their nerves over conservatives speaking out...so Rush was their fix.
Despite everything Rush has been through I pray something comes out of this mess.
-lbjgal
This whole disgraceful episode was done for one reason: The Political Left was trying to get Rush off the air. After the '02 mid-term shellacking the Democrats took, Daschle publicly announced that Rush's audience was NOT primarily conservative mind-numbed robots; they're were actually LIBERALS listening to his show that began to abandon the Democratic Party because of Rush.
As a result, this pathetic persucution began. And to his credit, Rush beat all of them.
That very much has the ring of the Great One.
I love Rush but this is the kind of B.S politicians do. I'd also have preferred he fought it to its conclusion and won but I know this was the easier and definitely cheaper way out. Funny how a Baldwin brother arrested for COCAINE had his charges DROPPED! Ahh, to be one of the beautiful people.
Release the Viking Kitties! IB4TZ!!
Did Rush Limbaugh get off too easily?
Here's a previous thread on Free Repubublic.
Limbaugh turns himself in for doctor-shopping (FReep poll on same page as story)
Palm Beach Post ^ | 04-29-06 | susan_spencer_wendel@pbpost.com
Posted on 04/29/2006 3:11:56 PM CDT by veritas3
They didn't have to criminalize human tragedy. The War on Drugs did that for them long ago.
From day one he has maintained he is innocent of any crimes.
I like Rush, but I still don't buy that. He could have only gotten the number of pills he was taking through illegal means, either by doctor shopping or by obtaining them from an illegal source. Of course, I'm not saying the prosecutor wasn't vindictive and going for headlines, or that having an addiction being a criminal offense is just.
In the hundreds of such offices across the country, dedicated men and women figure out what actual criminal activity threatens their communities and marshal their sparse resources against those threats.
Oh, come on! We all know that in the WoD they love the easy collars. Cancer patients with a few pot plants growing in their back yards aren't a danger to the community, but the feds sure like to bust them. Growing pot legally under state law threatens the fed's power in the WoD, so they cannot have it happen.
Real prosecutors do not engage in selective enforcement.
See above.
I'd say he's lost credibility if he ever promotes criminal prosecution for drug offenses, but on a personal level he can criticize those with drug problems who make excuses, won't seek treatment or won't kick the addiction, because he did all of those.
With Rush cheering them on. That's what fuels the schadenfrude.
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