The government has no business in forbidding 'drugs' to citizens. If you believe otherwise, you're a socialist, plain and simple.
Go, Rush, and eff 'em all!
I agree except for the last line. Rush has been a strong supporter of the WOD. By your definition Rush is a Socialist. Rush is either innocent and wrongly accused or guilty. If he is guilty he is also a loud obnoxious hypocrit, like fellow moralist/conservative Bill Bennett. If he's guilty I hope they give him the legal maximum to make an example of him. This might finally get a lot of Conservative/Socialists to start questioning their pre-conceptions.
It will also be interesting to see if *his* support for the WOD changes if he is guilty. To be consistent, if he still supports it and is guilty, perhaps he should plead guilty and do the time. That I would respect.
Why is it that libertarians call anyone who disagrees with them a socialist?
At any rate, in case you did not know, our drug laws are quite lenient towards drug addicts, and rightfully so. They receive minimal punishment if they agree to go into rehab and show progress. My guess is that Rush is probably already in rehab, or maybe has already completed it.
The only people who get the book thrown at them, and rightfully so, are dealers. No one is accusing Rush of being a dealer.
If Rush gets away with rehab and a slap on the wrist, which seems to be the most likely outcome, he'll have been treated like everyone else. Furthermore, if he accepts the consequences like a man, you can't possibly accuse hims of hypocrisy.
Bennet, BTW, is no hypocrite either. He admitted he had a problem and has taken steps to alleviate it.
Where do you get this idiotic notion that you have to be sinless in order to not be a hypocrite?
Supporters of the WOD are guilty of great crimes against their neighbors.
A true believing drug warrior who applies the drug laws to himself after he is caught deserves no respect. For that matter, a drug warrior who turns himself in deserves no respect.
A drug warrior deserves respect only after he repents to his victims for his crimes and promises to commit no further crimes.
The odds are probably about 1000 to 1 that Rush's blatant hypocrisy will provoke an epiphany that will lead him to realize that he is criminal supporter of the WOD. It is such a sure thing, that I doubt any off-shore internet casino would dare take action on such a proposition. But, if an internet casino offered such a listing and you bet on it, then watch out--Ashcroft and Bill Bennet will be on your ass next!