Posted on 06/25/2016 8:45:50 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Johnny Manziel's father, who predicted earlier this year that his son wouldn't live to see his 24th birthday if he didn't get help, says the troubled quarterback is "a druggie" and that he's done talking about him.
"If I have to bury him, I'll bury him. That's the fact," Paul Manziel told ESPN's Josina Anderson on Friday in a phone interview. "So if not, if he calls me and needs help, I'll go get him. Until then, he's on his own. I've done everything I can do. There is nothing [else] I can do as a father. Nothing. ... It is, what it is. He's a druggie and everybody needs to accept it."
"He has more money than me, so he can outrun me," Paul Manziel said.
"I mean, I hate to say it, but I hope he goes to jail. I mean, that would be the best place for him."
Earlier Friday, a lawyer for Johnny Manziel expressed doubts that he can stay clean.
Defense attorney Bob Hinton, who's handling Manziel's domestic violence case, revealed that Manziel may have spent more than $1,000 at a drug paraphernalia store just 15 hours after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash last week.
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Probably was the actual cause.........
It’s also a dangerous misdirection of the fundamentals of due or of responsibility, which is not even to people but to God.
Oh if we only got draconian about this or that, we would transition into Shangri-La.
No.
“The people who blame drugs are like skin cancer doctors that are blaming Band-Aids.”
Spot on.
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In every other aspect of market economy, everyone understands that the consumer controls the market.
However, when it comes to drugs, people want to believe that the suppliers control the market.
Or the temptation into which Johnny fell.
I predict a dire end for this young man.....
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Yes. They failed as parents. Now they will reap what they have sown.....
In older times, we believed in morality in marketing, which is why people were expected to ask the pharmacy (if not also the doctor) for medications that could easily be a means of throwing their lives into chaos if misused. We wouldn’t have open air drug bazaars as we did not believe in open temptation. But we also realized that almost no amount of gate keeping would suffice to stop the determined abuser. The abuser needs intervention, and maybe the drugs actually make it easier to see the problem.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the touchy feelies are right about the existence of “a call for help.” The churches used to be far more aggressive about getting the gospel out to this crowd too, to tell them that God could manage what no mortal could.
POSSIBLY. Unless he gets committed to recovery, and his addiction seems so bad that this ought to qualify as a mental illness.
The Left says “Guns and gun manufacturers kill people.”
Rational people say “People, not guns kill people.”
But with drugs, people say, “Drugs and drug suppliers kill people.”
But in reality, it’s “People kill themselves with drugs.”
Somebody had to get the addict started, didn’t they? Dealers have to entice weak-willed people to try junk in the first place. This is really one of those chicken-egg arguments.
Send the drug dealers to the Philippines. Duterte will give them what they deserve.
They do that.
This is where churches ought to be shining, as beacons of a better way. “Your drugs are killing you, but we wish to introduce you to a living Lord who will more than save your life.”
Sometimes the effect of our earthly attempts to put a lid on the symptom of a problem are like that of trying to put a gasoline fire out with a water hose. It can easily spread the blaze.
Unless we make the world into a rubber room, there will always be a source to feed a call.
Use tough love Dad. I did with my daughter and now she is clean and sober over 4 years.
And will break a lot of other eggs too, but who’s calling anyone to account? It’s all private vigilante “law.”
That’s easy to say, hard to follow the formula of.
GENERALLY hypocrites do not make good teachers.
By the way, change that lasts can’t be based on people’s approval, no matter what temporary oasis might be worked that way.
“Somebody had to get the addict started, didn’t they? Dealers have to entice weak-willed people to try junk in the first place. This is really one of those chicken-egg arguments.”
Absolutely not.
Again, it’s economics. Without demand, there would be no supply. Moreover, supply does not control demand.
However, if you want to blame drug dealers for the death caused by the consumption of drugs, are you also going to blame Mc Donald’s for death caused by high intake of fatty foods, and are you going to blame gun manufacturers when ever a person kills themselves or other people with a gun?
Yes, his family absolutely enabled his reckless lifestyle. His coaches at A&M did the same. He go to the NFL where it is actually a job and everyone around you was the top 1% on their college team and he couldn’t hack it.
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