[rightbanker]

I don't wish anybody ill.

Our prisons are filled with people, black, white, hispanic, who's main "crime" is simple possession of an illegal substance to which they are addicted.

Unlike Rush, most of them have no money and so many of them do steal to support their habits. So you might think they deserve to rot in hell for that.

But many of them were not caught stealing, just possessing.

Do you think Rush should go to jail?

if you don't is it because you agree with his politics and like his show? Or do you think that a rich white Republican guy is just more deserving of sympathy and mercy than a poor black or hispanic toughies from the inner cities and barrios?

I really don't have any anger toward any of these folks -- not Rush, not the inner city junkie. So I don't want to see Rush go to jail.

But I do wonder why all this sympathy for rich, white, Republican junkie, and utter indifference to the plight of all those others caught up in our insane and inane drug laws?

[jsbankston]

I really don't have any anger toward any of these folks -- not Rush, not the inner city junkie. So I don't want to see Rush go to jail.

Earlier I posted on FR that I thought the Drug allegations were simply a fabrication of the media and that Rush could never become a drug addict. Looks, like I was wrong. A sad day for all true Americans.

Hopefully Rush will see his way through this and Americans can re-evaluate the Drug War. Is Rush any different than a crack head on the Lower East Side or a junkie in Hell's Kitchen?

I would hope that he is but each is responsible for their predicament if we are going to have a Drug War each should be held legally accountable.

[LenS]

Two reasons for the lack of sympathy. First, the vast majority of those in prison on drug charges took the drugs to get high, not because they had a pain problem. Second, most of them have robbed or mugged or hurt other people in their quest to get high.

[TheDon]

But I do wonder why all this sympathy for rich, white, Republican junkie, and utter indifference to the plight of all those others caught up in our insane and inane drug laws?

I think most people would like everyone who has an addiction to overcome it. As for jail, most drug addicts who end up there, do so for other crimes, i.e. theft, DUI, etc. I am one who doesn't believe drugs should be any more illegal than our most favorite recreational drug, alcohol.

I don't think it is too surprising that those who have listened to Rush for years, myself since the first Persian Gulf War, should have more sympathy for him than for others who we have never heard of.

I certainly wish Rush the very best in overcoming his drug addiction, and will be waiting to listen to him once again upon his return to the golden mic.

[Solson]

If he's guilty of a crime, he should do his time. Just like every other junkie out there.

The problem is NOT the drug laws but the DRUGS themselves.

[jmc813]

I'd be interested in your response to post 222.

[cogitator]

I really don't have any anger toward any of these folks -- not Rush, not the inner city junkie. So I don't want to see Rush go to jail.

Neither do I. But then, that would actually go against one of his "undeniable truths":

"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."

So I wonder if Rush would agree that if he didn't obey the law (which has yet to be proven, of course), then he should be punished?

Well, either way, I hope he kicks his habit.

[mhking]

But I do wonder why all this sympathy for rich, white, Republican junkie, and utter indifference to the plight of all those others caught up in our insane and inane drug laws?

Sounds like a personal problem to me...

[cinFLA]

Our prisons are filled with people, black, white, hispanic, who's main "crime" is simple possession of an illegal substance to which they are addicted.

Druggie propaganda alert!