You need something more like "Nixon goes to China".
Limbaugh has had a problem with drugs, so it would be difficult to accept his new position as something other than expediency. |
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The first and last drug warrior I ever voted for was Ronald Reagan in 1984. If Rush ever screwed up the courage to do this I might actually listen to him.
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Even if Limbaugh were moved to such a position, his lawyer would kill him were he to announce it during his probationary period. It would attract the ire of the prosecutor’s office like little else could. And, as Mark Flacy notes, he would be accused of adopting a self-serving position.
Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t, I just don’t think he ever will. |
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I think Mona is correct that Limbaugh’s legal staff would oppose it. However, I believe he could do much by enlisting the support of privacy warriors like the NYT and LAT with their misbegotten privacy concerns over NSA and SWIFT. His medical records search was seriously intrusive and yet nary a peep from these "defenders of privacy" and many proclaimed Libertarians. |
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Of course Limbaugh might surprise youze guyz and simply say, "I support the War on Drugs." Also under the Nixon going to China approach. Just thought I’d point that out.... |
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Of course Limbaugh might surprise youze guyz and simply say, "I support the War on Drugs." Also under the Nixon going to China approach. Good one! |
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Tom Scott writes: His medical records search was seriously intrusive and yet nary a peep from these "defenders of privacy" and many proclaimed Libertarians. This was and is a matter of Florida law. ACLU [of Florida] Asks Court to Protect Confidentiality of Rush Limbaugh’s Medical Records
PALM BEACH, FL - In a motion filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said state law enforcement officers violated Rush Limbaugh’s privacy rights by seizing the conservative radio talk show host’s medical records as part of a criminal investigation involving alleged "doctor-shopping."
"While this case involves the right of Rush Limbaugh to maintain the privacy of his medical records, the precedent set in this case will impact the security of medical records and the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship of every person in Florida," said Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida.
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Let me get this straight, the libertarian view is that all drugs should be legal and obtainable with out control, both prescription and "recreational"? |
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This is probably unlikely to change without some clear evidence of a more effective path, and the only practical way to provide such evidence is through the "laboratories of Democracy". Better watch it. Start hinting that you could accept anything less than the total and immediate nationwide legalization of drugs and you’ll get kicked out of the Libertarian Club, followed by a beatdown in the parking lot with hardback copies of Atlas Shrugged. |
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Let me get this straight, the libertarian view is that all drugs should be legal and obtainable with out control, both prescription and "recreational"? Why would you think that to be Jon’s view? |
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Let me get this straight, the libertarian view is that all drugs should be legal and obtainable with out control, both prescription and "recreational"? Well, this libertarian’s view is that it isn’t the state’s business what mood-altering substances any adult chooses to sell to another adult, or which such any adult chooses to ingest, inhale or inject. Now, when it comes to prescription drugs like many antibiotics there is a valid state interest in controlling access to those, since popping them like candy when they are not needed causes them to lose efficacy, which poses a public health threat vis-a-vis contagious illness. |
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Rush Limbaugh and Drugs.
Recently the great pontificator, Bush Limbauth
was detained because he had some Viagra without a
prescription in his name. He was returning from a vacaion in the Dominican Republic.
Why would somebody who lives on the ocean in Palm Beach, Florida take a vacation in the Dominican Republic? To find out, I suggest that you Google
"Dominican Republic" and "gay travel" or
"Dominican Republic" and "sex tourism."
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Thank you for that Mona. But I was really angling for the Libertarians. What did Radley Balko have to say about the outrageous invasion of privacy. Here is the only post I could find.Given Limbaugh’s childish comments on medical marijuana last month, he doesn’t seem to have learned much of anything from the Florida prosecutors’ exuberant persecution of him. Wow! That’s an exuberant example of defending privacy. Balko wants to replace the War on Drugs with a War on Conservatives. Take a look at his Obligitory Duk LaCrosse Post. See also the typically snide closing remarks. Radley views everything through a racial prism that bends his views. Just like the seriously erroneous Corey Maye and the "all white" jury. Wrong.
His site search engine appears not to be working.
Please to note that the ACLU was less concerned with Limbaugh’s privacy then they were with future doctor-patient relationships. |
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Try Googling Dominican Republic resorts
Then try Puerto Rico and gay
Or Puerto Rico and sex tourism
Or for that matter just about anywhere with those combinations.
Brilliant comment, just brilliant. Inuendo by Google ... what will they sink too next? |
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Stampede to the gutter? Whatever are you talking about? It’s no doubt only small web sites, and not worthy of condemnation. Now, let’s talk about how foul Coulter is and that knuckledragger Rush. |
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Please to note that the ACLU was less concerned with Limbaugh’s privacy then they were with future doctor-patient relationships. When one is defending a polarizing person hated by many, it is only intelligent in a publicity release to point out that the issue is beyond that person, so that the release garners larger support for the legal position. But the point is, the ACLU came to Limbaugh’s defense. Out of principle.
As for Radley Balko, I agree with his comment about Rush. Further, he publishes corrections when he is wrong about something, including any details of the Corey Maye saga.
Libertarians, I will say again, are not conservatives. We have no obligation to speak out on every aspect of a Florida prosecution of Rush Limbaugh in order to observe that he has demanded long prison sentences for those who use drugs illegally, and to note that now he is one of those who supposedly should rot in prison. Rush’s hypocrisy about the legions he happily condemns to hellholes is breathtaking, and whatever you contrive of Balko’s failure to sufficiently opine about the medical records issue, is as nothing in comparison.
Radley Balko, btw, also attacks the food Nazis of the left, and has a whole web site dedicated to doing so. I admire his work.
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Browse the comments threads to the Kelo posts at Kos or Atrios. Note how much more outraged the commenters are than the pundits. Commenters at these sites are rank and filers. They’re the conscience of the left. Principle still matters to them. That’s why they’re generally outraged by Kelo. And it’s why they’re shocked to find themselves on the same side as Thomas, Rhenquist, and O’Connor — three figures the Elite Left have misled them into believing are evil concentrate. Radly Balko; a libertarian who, as such, gets that it isn’t about left v. right;just read the whole thing. |
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I think a better spokesman for the abolition of the "drug war" would be Neal Boortz rather than Rush Limbaugh. |
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Wow. All these posts and not one mention of Richard Paey. If we talk about Rush, drugs and "intrusive record searches" we better bring Paey’s name into the equation.
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Commenters at these sites are rank and filers. They’re the conscience of the left. Principle still matters to them. Unless, of course, the commenters are saying something that Mona doesn’t approve of: say, threatening the life of some figure on the right or something else similarly extreme. Then you should ignore whatever they say because mere commenters are just extreme, unprincipled outliers that are hijacking the threads and not "representatives of the "conscience of the left." |
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Terry writes: Unless, of course, the commenters are saying something that Mona doesn’t approve of: say, threatening the life of some figure on the right or something else similarly extreme. Then you should ignore whatever they say because mere commenters are just extreme, unprincipled outliers that are hijacking the threads and not "representatives of the "conscience of the left." First, that was Radly Balko’s quote, and my point was that he was outraged at Kos and Atrios for not understanding how vile Kelo is, and noting that the spontaneous reaction of their commenters was morally correct — notwithstanding that, according to Balko, these commenters have been "misled" into believing that justices Thomas, Rehnquist and O’Connor are "evil." Radly Balko entirely understands how some of the leftist agenda is, well, putrid, and he isn’t shy about saying so.
Second, the left, like the right, does have some core impulses that are good (and others no defender of liberty would accept.) On matters of civil liberties I am far more partial to the left than the right, where authoritarianism tends to overcome commitment to individual rights. Nobody can rage more aggressively than I about the many sins — some amounting to treason — of the Stalinist, Communist Party USA members in 20th century America; but the fact is they, and many other non-communist leftists, got right the evil of Jim Crow and racism when National Review was still defending it.
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If the War on Drugs is ever gong to end, it will require the support of millions of people to do so. That boils down to getting people to understand two simple ideas: first, we don’t actually have the right to punish people over what they do to themselves; and second, we don’t really have a reason to either.
The "no right" issue should be blindingly obvious. And the "no reason" part of the equation comes courtesy of the US federal government having collected data about various aspects of drug use and its impact on society over the past four decades. However, they never provide it in form that can be easuily understood by the average person — so I did it for them.
Visit my site and you’ll find all the ammunition you need: http://www.briancbennett.com
And to get some idea of the breadth and depth of the information I’m making available (and more importantly, very easy to understand) have a look at the "sitemap:" http://www.briancbennett.com/pagelist.htm |
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"National Review was still defending it"
National Review was defending rascism and Jim Crow? Sorry, but I find that difficult to believe. |
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