Posted on 12/26/2003 4:21:34 AM PST by logic101.net
Hike. Kayak. Hunt. Fish. Read. Freep.
Sure is, for now, anyway. Some things are on their way out -- smoking is the most visible casualty. Plenty of others want to tell you what you can read. Do you have any doubt that obese Americans will soon be told, in part at least, what they can eat? Hopefully, Freeping won't run afoul of the new campaign laws like free speech has, but who can say for certain? If the "wrong" people get in charge, you (or your wife/girlfriend) could find your/herself in a burka.
For my part, I prefer to keep government power on the tighest leash. Abuse of power frightens me far more than abuse of drugs.
NOBODY should be surprised about this, especially folks on this website. It should come as no surprise to most anyone that that the left will use any-n-all manner of attack to silence people like Rush, Hannity, Savage, or anyone else who dare speak the truth about the "leftist agenda." That's why it is incumbent upon Rush, Hannity, Savage, et al. NOT to give their detractors any ammo to use against them, and unfortunately, this is precisely what Rush has done.
Speak for yourself, not me. I made no such claims. If I were speeding the law has every right to charge me. And the fact that the LEO or prosecuting attorney might differ from my politics has nothing to do with the charge. If Rush was doctor shopping or buying drugs illegally they have ever right to investigate and/or charge him.
There's is absolutely no evidence to show that the law is being applied subjectively to Rush. All I see is attempts to make sure no evidence is allowed to surface. This "poor victim" BS makes me sick. Whatever happened to "if ya got nothing to hide you shouldn't worry", that's the mantra used for everything else.
This fabricated "fact" of yours is not proven, yet AGAIN you falsly assert it as fact. You don't seem to be capable of learning. Even the simple 2 lines of reasoning you posted is not necessarily true in every case, anyhow.
FACT: Legal authroities believe there is probable cause to investigate Rush and 2 judges have agreed.
The method of getting Rush's records may have violated the 4th amendment, and Florida's right to privacy law. Which is why you are wrong again on your assertion:
The ruling has been either revoked or overturned.
I was thinking you were smart enough to quit making false statements of "fact", but I was so wrong.
Because he "bashed" liberals and druggies? Is barbed humor and sattire really "bashing?" You obviously think it is and have become another "offended victim!"
Judas Priest! I've never seen such a relentless erection on anyone over an allegation!!! Especially on FR!!! Are you envious of his success? Or what???
I hope you'll correct me if I'm mistaken, or have somehow misunderstood your feverish replies on this thread and others, but it sounds to me like nothing would bring you more orgasmic joy than to see the man crucified, literally and figuratively!!!
When I was a young man I developed a pain problem for which no etiology could be determined. I went to see all kinds of specialists (even head-shrinkers), each of whom had his or her own idea of what was causing it but none could cure it.
The pain was severe enough to require mild narcotics (Tylenol#3 and Tylenol#4) and was highly distracting.
Then I came across a neurologist who told me, "You know, I think I know what is causing this. It is a very, very rare neural disorder that causes a pain path to be set up and that path had to be "jumbled" (my term)." He told me that this possibly could be cured by a drug he used often in his practice. He gave me the medication (a non-narcotic used by people who have epilepsy), which in a period of six weeks or so, erased the pain. That was in 1982 and I have been pain-free ever since.
If this had happened in Florida (it didn't), I suppose I would be in jail.
I'm not sure who you are considering as others involved. Certainly the addict's family is involved but I can't support the government legislating that relationship any more than I could them (gov't) setting rules on who gets the TV remote and when, or who decides how to spend the family paycheck.
If you refer to society, through medicare, etc. paying the costs of addiction, I'd urge to solve that problem by favoring the elimination of those requirements rathering than legislating what all of us can and can't do.
I see you've gone from a young man to an OldPossum. Have you tried seeing a doctor for that?
Yeah. What a bad person he is.
(In case you hadn't noticed, Rush does a three hour a day extemporaneous radio program. This should give the detractors plenty of ammo. But that's not their method. They prefer to kneecap their oppostion.)
ML/NJ
Behind the "addicts affect everyone" agrument you find the same dubious, false, and often outright reversed (e.g. the social costs of motorcycle head injuries) arguments as against red meat, cigarettes, alcohol, seatbelts laws, etc.
All of these "causes" are the invitation the government gives itself to make intrusive, freedom-killing, "soft cage" police-state laws. This is why your money is no longer yours, why your doctor no longer works for you, etc. What do want more? Freedom? Or the ability to use government tools to enforce "goodness" that goes well past the absence of real criminal behavior?
That's why all of us are so in favor of good FBI files.
ML/NJ
Well, now, you're striking a discordant tone at this festival of boot-lickers!
The lawyers can't pervert the American legal system fast enough to maintain their cash-flow as it is.
Heavens! Can't have citizens making their own choices!
Onwards to the final triumph of American Socialism!
Um.../sarc.
Obviously you forgot that a failed blackmailer snitched on Rush, and that a prosecutor found those "oaths and affirmations" credible. With just one of the five Benjamins in my wallet I could buy the same statement about anyone, including Mr. Absolute Justice.
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