If Rush is successful

[PsN2Wind]

in getting a plea bargain or acquittal because his ILLEGAL drug use was due to great physical pain, will that defense then be known as the 'Inflamed asshole" defense, like Dan White's "Twinkie defense"?

[citizen snips]

1. I will be angry if he is successful.

I will be damn angry if Rush gets an aqquittal. I do not know what I will do.

[tridim]

2. I'm sure there will also be lots of angry

convicts who are serving their 10 year minimums for minor drug offenses much less serious than Rush's.

[LatteLib]

3. Wouldn't that set a precedent?

If Limbaugh's lawyers are successful at keeping him out of jail and vindicating him from these charges, wouldn't people that are incarcerated and/or up on the same charges as Rush be able to appeal their decision and win by using his case as a precedent?

[Old and In the Way]

5. I think it would be a legitimate cite.

Regardless, it will expose the capricious hypocrisy of drug law and enforcement in this country. It would hasten the day that a rational and honest appraisal of how Big Money is made in LE, Incarceration, and Rehab.....the sooner, the better.

[E Pluribus Unum]

8. I am curious as to why people think

he will be charged with a crime. Don't you have to either sell or buy illegal drugs from a law enforcement officer before you can be charged? Has anyone ever heard of someone being charged because someone else told a police oficer that the guilty party was using illegal drugs. I never have. Anyone?

[PsN2Wind]

9. Illegal drugs

are illegal, whatever the source. Jails and prisons are full of people there for the possession of drugs or even "drug paraphenalia".

[E Pluribus Unum]

10. What you say is true but a law

enforcement officer has to catch you with it right?
They do not arrest people on other peoples say so.

[PsN2Wind]

13. They might not arrest

people on the say-so of other people (especially rich , white guys)
but they investigate people on the say-so of snitches all the time. If that investigation confirms there has been a violation of the law then the person is subject to arrest. Rush being a rich, white, and well connected guy with the wherewithal to hire the best of those trial lawyers he hates so bad, is much less likely to ever be arrested than, say, almost anybody that isn't rich, white and well connested.

[E Pluribus Unum]

14. I will ask the same question again.

Have you ever heard of anyone being arrested for drug charges on the say so of a non law enforcement person?

[rasputin1952]

12. Most certainly you DO NOT have to purchase/receive...

drugs from a "police officer".

Prisons are filled with people that had little more than a small amount of pot on their person when they were searched for whatever reason.

In Limbaughs case....it is the incredible AMOUNT of pills that were purchased, (illegally), by his housekeeper. It can also be added that he "DR Shopped", but that is a Class III felony in FL; what REALLY matters, is that there are THOUSANDS of pills that were purchased without an Rx, under cover of night, sold, allegedly, by two pharmacists. The mere possession of that many narcotics sets up a whole slew of possible charges, including trafficking.

This is much deeper than what is being reported in the mainstream media. (i.e.; 'bad back, intense pain', yet never failing to play a quick 18 holes whenever he found it convenient).

BTW: the whole "Prescription Medication" argument is a red herring; Just because it requires an RX, does not mean it cannot, or will not be obtained illegally. Remeber, it is the incredible AMOUNT of pills Limbaugh received that counts.

Watch the sidebars, and read between the lines; make realistic conclusions as to the evidence. Limbaugh, like everyone, is considered innocent until proven guilty....but his own mouth is digging his grave.

O8)

[Bandit]

15. Doctor Shopping is a felony in Florida

Worth five years and they have his medical records as evidence. He is guilty of a felony and should suffer the consequences IMHO.

[PsN2Wind]

4. Hello, Hello

tap tap, "Hey, is this thing on"

[Cannikin]

6. I'd love to see him following the twelve steps.....

Can you imagine Rush apoligizing to people he's wronged? There arent enough hours in the day...

[Loonman]

7. If he's successful, he'll trip up, again, eventually

Junkies never change.

[MadHound]

11. Quite frankly Rush, for his health's sake, should hope for jailtime

At least five years, so that he can get clean and stay clean. Every thirty day rehab program that I've seen has a very high rate of lapsing. Generally within three months the people who go through these programs are using again, they can't help themselves, their addicts. A five year stay at an iron bar hotel would cleanse him thourghly, both physically and psychologically, enabling him to successfully deal with his addiction when he is released.

Otherwise, with the amount of pills he is purported to have been taking, Rush will be needling it shortly, if he hasn't anyway. Once you start shooting up downers(or most any other drug) great suffering and death are close behind. I've seen it happen to many times.

For the sake of your health Rush, do the jail time.