RUSH Limbaugh Arrested!!!

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: bctbct

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: JS80
"
-- After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the
State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.

"

"the first charge in the nearly 3-year-old case"


They reached a settlement for a single charge. More will be pending I'm sure.

No this was part of the bribe, err....agreement, investigation ends here.

Yea, they spend three years digging... get a judge to break patient/doctor privacy rules and finally arrest him. He goes to court on one charge, pleads not guilty and coughs up $30k. The DA says he will drop the charge if Rush does what he has been doing for ages.

Uh-huh.. big win there. just the ppl lose, now that a judge can dimiss privacy rules on a whim.

 

[mflacy]

I thought this was something new. That drug stuff is ancient.

 

[BlueFlamme]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the state attorney's office, said agency spokeswoman Teri Barbera.

The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and was released an hour later on $3,000 bail, Barbera said.

The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.

Seems everybody is missing this pretty important point even after FoBoT posted it. He got busted because he lied, not for obtaining overlapping legal prescriptions.

Heck, Palmero pretty much lied to Congress' face and gets nothing because they cannot prove the timeline on when he took the steroids.

 

[raildogg]

The people who say that we should not arrest drug users are now happy with arresting a particular drug user. Why?

He is a conservative and they don't like his politics.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: raildogg
The people who say that we should not arrest drug users are now happy with arresting a particular drug user. Why?

He is a conservative and they don't like his politics.

No he is just your average hypocritical republican that says drug users should be locked up. Yet when he gets caught he uses his name and money and gets off for the thing he is against.

As BoomerD already posted?

Nope, only self-serving assholes like this, who always rave that anyone with a drug problem should be locked up...

""Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: bctbct

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: JS80
"
-- After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the
State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.

"

"the first charge in the nearly 3-year-old case"


They reached a settlement for a single charge. More will be pending I'm sure.

No this was part of the bribe, err....agreement, investigation ends here.

Yea, they spend three years digging... get a judge to break patient/doctor privacy rules and finally arrest him. He goes to court on one charge, pleads not guilty and coughs up $30k. The DA says he will drop the charge if Rush does what he has been doing for ages.

Uh-huh.. big win there. just the ppl lose, now that a judge can dimiss privacy rules on a whim.

Figures. All the huballoo about HIPAA and the government can just go and violate it anytime they see fit.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'd need drugs to spew the crap Limbaugh spews every day.

Come on!!! Is this really a surprise to anyone???

 

[moshquerade]

sucks being an addict

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Nope, only self-serving assholes like this, who always rave that anyone with a drug problem should be locked up...

""Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

Oxycontin...AKA hillbilly heroin...

Oh come on, he didn't say any of that. Never.


Or at least that's what he'll say when he's back on the radio.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: mflacy
I thought this was something new. That drug stuff is ancient.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: mflacy
I thought this was something new. That drug stuff is ancient.

No he has had his lawyers dragging it out and trying to get it erased since he is special. Unlike all the other drug users out there that shoudl be locked up by his words. :roll:

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: raildogg
The people who say that we should not arrest drug users are now happy with arresting a particular drug user. Why?

He is a conservative and they don't like his politics.

I think they don't like his hypocrisy

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: BoomerD
MUCH to my dismay, there's nothing on any of the news sites that I can find about this...HOPEFULLY, it will turn out to be true... About time Mr. Anal-cyst did time for his drug problem...

Yes, because everyone with a drug problem should be locked up.

Christ. :roll:

Nope, only self-serving assholes like this, who always rave that anyone with a drug problem should be locked up...

""Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

Oxycontin...AKA hillbilly heroin...

Thank you for that sir, very telling.

yup sweet self pwnage🙂 let him hang!

 

[Midlander]

I didn't know there were so many "hang 'em high" liberals around here. Wow...

 

[rocadelpunk]

my dad had to take the same pain medication that rush got addicted to :/ (percocet I believe)

It was really difficult to watch him regulate his usage, he was supposed to take whole pills, but would cut it up into fourths and try and live with the pain.

 

[mflacy]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: mflacy
I thought this was something new. That drug stuff is ancient.

No he has had his lawyers dragging it out and trying to get it erased since he is special. Unlike all the other drug users out there that shoudl be locked up by his words. :roll:

No sh!t, sherlock. Still isn't new.

 

[Fritzo]

Saw a recent pic of him- he's getting fat again too.

He lost like a zillion pounds a couple of years ago, but he's now almost back to the point where he has his own gravitational field.

 

[Rastus]

No perp walk 🙁

 

[Vette73]

Liberal Prosecutors Let Known Drug Offender Go Free

"Boy, you gotta imagine law-and-order conservatives are going to be up in arms about this latest outrage by our morally depraved, bleeding heart, revolving door criminal justice system.

I bet Rush will REALLY give 'em some hell on his next show.

Posted by billmon at April 29, 2006 12:16 AM "

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: raildogg
The people who say that we should not arrest drug users are now happy with arresting a particular drug user. Why?

He is a conservative and they don't like his politics.

I don't think they don't like his hypocrisy

That entire hypocrisy thing; sort of ironic, isn't it?

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: bctbct
Just hearing the details on the news. Could anyone buy a better deal than he is getting?

Clinton could.. 😛

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: bctbct
Just hearing the details on the news. Could anyone buy a better deal than he is getting?

Clinton could.. 😛

How so?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Now if we could just get Dr Laura on some kind of scandal...:evil:

 

[Rastus]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Now if we could just get Dr Laura on some kind of scandal...:evil:

Google images is your friend.

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Tom

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
if they did arrest him... that would suck, because that would mean the government would be allowed to trump patient/doc priviledge to go on a hunting expedition.

not to say that rush is innocent. i dont know if he is or not. but there was a huge fight over this because the DA went to court to get his medical records because it was the only way they could determine whether or not he did anything wrong.

If they got a court order, what's the problem ?

the problem is because there was supposed to be patient/doctor privacy rights. if the courts can just dimiss them on a whim, they are not protected.

in this particular case... well, let me preface by saying that i dont know if rush was innocent or guilty but from reading the gype, i would say there was no smoke without fire. but in this case, there was no open proof or evidence of him doing anything wrong. the DA said that they could not say if there was or was not anything to charge him with, without first getting ahold of his medical records... which are supposed to be protected by the doc/patient privacy laws.

On a whim ? I am just speculating, but I assume he was caught with some amount of a prescription medication that the judge believed was sufficient probable cause to grant a warrant.

That is exactly how the system is supposed to work. There is no absolute right to privacy.