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Deborah:
For release: October 16, 2003
America owes talk host Rush Limbaugh
a debt of gratitude, Libertarians say

WASHINGTON, DC -- The entire nation owes radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh a debt of gratitude, Libertarians say, because his ordeal has exposed every drug warrior in America as a rank hypocrite.

"One thing we don't hear from American politicians very often is silence," said Joe Seehusen, Libertarian Party executive director. "By refusing to criticize Rush Limbaugh, every drug warrior has just been exposed as a shameless, despicable hypocrite. And that's good news, because the next time they do speak up, there'll be no reason for anyone to listen."

The revelation that Limbaugh had become addicted to painkillers -- drugs he is accused of procuring illegally from his housekeeper -- has
caused a media sensation ever since the megastar's shocking, on-air confession last week.

As the Limbaugh saga continues, here's an important question for Americans to ask, Libertarians say: Why are all the drug warriors
suddenly so silent?

"Republican and Democratic politicians have written laws that have condemned more than 400,000 Americans to prison for committing the same 'crime' as Rush Limbaugh," Seehusen pointed out. "If this pill-popping pontificator deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card, these drug warriors
had better explain why."

Given their longstanding support for the Drug War, it's fair to ask:

Why haven't President George Bush or his tough-on-crime attorney general, John Ashcroft, uttered a word criticizing Limbaugh's law-breaking?

Why aren't drug czar John P. Walters or his predecessor, Barry McCaffrey, lambasting Limbaugh as a menace to society and a threat to
"our children?"

Why aren't federal DEA agents storming Limbaugh's $30 million Florida mansion in a frantic search for criminal evidence?

Why haven't federal, state, and local police agencies seized the celebrity's homes and luxury cars under asset-forfeiture laws?

Finally, why aren't bloviating blabbermouths like William Bennett publicly explaining how America would be better off if Limbaugh were prosecuted, locked in a steel cage and forced to abandon his wife, his friends, and his career?

The answer is obvious, Seehusen said: "America's drug warriors are shameless hypocrites who believe in one standard of justice for ordinary Americans and another for themselves, their families and their political allies.

"That alone should completely discredit them."

But there's an even more disturbing possibility, Seehusen said: that the people who are prosecuting the Drug War don't even believe in its central premise -- which is that public safety requires that drug users be jailed.

"The Bushes and Ashcrofts and McCaffreys of the world may believe, correctly, that individuals fighting a drug addiction deserve medical,
not criminal treatment," he said. "That would explain why they're not demanding that Limbaugh be jailed.

"But if that's the case, these politicians have spent decades tearing apart American families for their own political gain. And that's an
unforgivable crime."
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And let us not forget the preferential treatment to the nephew of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, who received probation after a felony conviction in state court for growing 60 marijuana plants with intent to distribute.
http://dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2 ... index.html


OR
The president's niece accused of trying to use a forged prescription to buy Xanax and then was accused of having crack cocaine in her shoe while in drug rehab.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... bush_x.htm

Deborah:
What's up? Why do the Bushes have anxiety?

http://disc.server.com/=20discussion.cg ... tle=3DAPFN

The President's Drug Problem
Nov 2, 2003

"Our Man in Nirvana" is how the New York Times headlined an op-ed column (1/22/92) detailing the fact that President Bush has been taking benzodiazepene in the form of the prescription drug Halcion when he travels. Halcion is banned in England and three other countries. "When Halcion hits you," according to the Times column,
"it's as if an angel of the Lord appears in your bedroom and tells you that nothing is important, that everything you were worried about is happening on Mars and that nirvana, Lethe and the warm arms of mother are all waiting for you. People who have used heroin tell me Halcion is better than heroin for making bad thoughts simply
disappear. . . . It clouds judgment and forecloses careful analysis.
It makes the user alternately supremely confident and then panicky with an unnameable dread. It causes intense, truly terrifying forgetfulness, as well as a serene bliss about that forgetfulness."
This news was not picked up by the Associated Press or the mainstream media despite the warning in the penultimate paragraph that a "president with a chemical between himself and reality is the last thing America needs."

Journalists traveling with the president have expressed concern about Bush's zany behavior, irritability and difficulties in syntax, all of
which may be related to his drug problem. For example, the president complained to an aide over a microphone he thought had been turned off that he was tired of the snags that had embarrassed him at press conferences. His staff makes a list of questions to be asked by the audience and then hands him prepared answers. One question had been
asked out of order and the president later blew his top. "We've got to get this sorted out here," he said testily. "It happened last week, too. . .=A0 If I think it's going to be here [on the card with the answer] I don't listen to the question. I just look at this."

One day in New Hampshire he giddily referred to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band as "the Nitty Ditty Nitty Gritty Great Bird." He astonished reporters by responding to a question about his political problems with a non sequitur: "Don't cry for me, Argentina!" Asked about the possibility of extending unemployment benefits, he answered: "If a frog had wings, he wouldn't hit his tail on the ground. Too hypothetical."

Consider the shambles of the president's recent trip to the Far East. It began with an obscene and insulting gesture the president gave
demonstrators in the Australian capital as he drove by in his armored limousine-equivalent to the rude middle-finger salute in the United
States. It culminated in the humiliating scene when he vomited in the lap of the Japanese prime minister at a state dinner. The media placidly accepted the official report that he was suffering from "intestinal flu," although a Des Moines Register columnist pointedly asked "when was the last time you heard of anyone fainting from the flu? . . . Doctor friends tell me this is almost unheard of."
Researchers have reported that Halcion can cause anxiety, confusion, psychosis or seizures.

The president's press secretary revealed that Bush used Halcion "to fight jet lag" during his 12-day tour of Australia and Asia. The president's doctor says he will not exclude the possibility of prescribing Halcion in the future "if it is medically indicated."

It was the gossip columnist, Liz Smith-not our bland syndicated establishment-oriented editorial-page columnists or broadcast commentators-who had the guts to ask: "Can our Peerless Leader possibly be the victim of unwitting substance abuse?" Months earlier she had reported that Halcion was the "drug of choice" and was "being
taken in epidemic numbers on Air Force One by both an exhausted press and jet-lagged administration insiders." There are drug problems and there are drug problems, but the orthodox press picks and chooses the ones it wants to address-too often in inverse order of their
importance.
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_02.1 ... ed0213.htm

All expressed concern about the terrifying side effects of Halcion -- bliss and supreme confidence followed by intense anxiety, hallucinations, amnesia, confusion, hostility and, in rare cases, violence. Some of the articles wondered whether the drug might explain Bush's extremely bizarre behavior and speech patterns during a mid-January trip to New Hampshire.

Now I'm also concerned about Brian Mulroney. We have seen an unsettling, obsequious harmony performed by Muldoon whenever Bush opens his yap. First there was George the Education President. Followed by Brian the Education Prime Minister. Then George the War on Drugs President (no jokes about Iraq and Halcion, please). Followed by Brian the War on Drugs Prime Minister. George the Get Thee Gone Sununu President. Followed by Brian the Get Thee Gone Norman Specter Prime Minister. Then George The Halcion President. Followed by ... two interesting columns from Toronto Sun columnist and former Muldoon flack Michel Gratton.

Gratton wrote on Feb. 8 and 9 about the Prime Minister's behavior at the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa. "The guests weren't so surprised by the PM's presence at a party for his former chief of staff and constitutional adviser as they were by his joviality. More than one commented they couldn't understand how he could be in such a pleasant mood when the sky is falling on his head." I don't know either, but Benjamin Stein wrote in the Jan. 22 NYTimes that Halcion, a "...chemical first-cousin to the tranquilizer Xanax, is in a class by itself for mind-altering effects. It is not a classic sedative, which basically just slow things down. No, benzodiazepenes are described by Halcion's maker, the Upjohn Company, as `anxiolytics,' meaning they literally cut the anxiety in your brain."

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_01.3 ... ed0130.htm

Anonymous:
Why Such a long post, if we wanted to read the news we would have went to a news site. Anyways, it sounds like a left wing conspiracy to me.

Anonymous:
That's my feeling about it to anon. And there is the Open Free For All for posts of this nature.

Froderik:
Ooops, that was me..

That's my feeling about it too, anon. Too long, and this isn't a news site. Plus, there is the Open Free For All for posts of this nature...

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