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"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

"Happening now, breaking news. The conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh arrested on a prescription fraud charge. It's 7:00 p.m. in Florida, where Limbaugh turned himself in after apparently striking a deal with prosecutors."
-Wolf Blitzer, CNN News, "Rush Limbaugh Arrested on Prescription Drug Charge," April 28, 2006
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/28/sitroom.03.html

"I am addicted to prescription pain medication."
—Rush Limbaugh, October 10, 2003

"The networks must have gotten tired of paying Rush Limbaugh that $285-million contract. 100-pills a day of Oxycontin is Hillbilly heroin."
—Alex Jones, Infowars.com Radio

"When someone sells you 4,000 pain pills, you don't call them a 'maid', you call them a 'dealer'."
—Chris Rock

"When I went to Israel this year, I took my rabbi with me."
—Rush Limbaugh

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Includes President Bill Clinton-Blythe Rockefeller's Thank You letter to John Lee of Pirate News

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"Last Tuesday, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress treated me for Gastroenteritis," a stomach illness. According to Kennedy, the attending physician prescribed Phenergan, an anti-nausea medication, which in addition to treating gastroenteritis, "I now know it can cause drowsiness and sedation. Following the last series of votes Wednesday evening, I returned to my home on Capitol Hill and took the prescribed amount of Phenergan and Ambien (chemical lobotomy), which was also prescribed by the Attending Physician some time ago and I occasionally take to fall asleep. Some time around 2:45am, I drove the few blocks to the Capitol Complex believing I needed to vote."
-Congressman Patrick Kennedy

"U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed "no alcohol" before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash. "He was drinking a little bit," said the woman, who works at the Hawk & Dove and would not give her name. Leaving his office late last night, Kennedy refused to say whether he'd been to the Hawk & Dove the night before."
-Dave Wedge, Boston Herald, "Pat cites pills in car wreck," May 5, 2006
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?
articleid=137995&format=text

Anterograde Amnesia.
A temporary form of anterograde amnesia is also induced by some medications. Benzodiazepines all have varying degrees of anterograde amnesic effects. This is utilised in the use of benzodiazepines such as temazepam and lorazepam as premedicatants. A more sinister, criminal abuse is in date rape (chemical submission). Also, unplanned effects of this drug effect are seen in cases of amnesia automatism induced by prescription drugs, often in association with moderate alcohol intake. Victims have memory gaps for a period shortly after taking the drug concerned, which causes embarrassment and fear for what might have happened. In some cases, victims realise they have changed planes during their memory gap or discover that they rented a car. Disinhibited and uncharacteristic behaviour (sometimes together with carrying out quite complex tasks - e.g. cooking and serving a nice meal, but in the nude) is sometimes witnessed during such episodes, which adds further embarrassment and distress.
-Wikipedia
http://answers.com/topic/anterograde-amnesia-1

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
—First Amendment, Bill of Rights, US Constitution

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Limbaugh wasn't convicted of anything. He pleaded ' not guilty' and will have his record wiped clean after 18 months.

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Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Felony Charge For Prescription Drug Fraud

By Peter Franceschina
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
April 29, 2006

Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on a doctor-shopping charge in the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office's long-running investigation into his drug use, and agreed to supervision for 18 months while he continues his rehabilitation.


Jew "Rush" Limbaugh aka "Christian" Jeff Christy
"Race" = "White" Khazar Ashkenazi Euro Jew
www.piratenews.org

Limbaugh, 55, a Palm Beach resident, his lawyers and prosecutors reached an agreement on the single felony charge, and the conservative radio talk show host surrendered at the Palm Beach County Jail late Friday afternoon. He spent less than an hour in custody and was fingerprinted before being released on $3,000 bail.

The agreement requires Limbaugh to continue seeing the therapist who has been treating him since he admitted to an addiction to painkillers in October 2003 and entered a month-long treatment program. It also requires him to undergo drug testing and pay $30,000 toward the cost of the investigation, according to prosecutors.

If Limbaugh successfully completes the terms of his 18 months of supervision, the felony charge will be dismissed and Limbaugh's record will be clean.

"If he does not successfully complete it, then the state will go forward with the charge," Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Edmondson said.

Prosecutors routinely use such "pre-trial intervention" agreements with drug offenders, Edmondson said.

"It is a resolution that is standard for first-time offenders with no other criminal history or arrests and individuals with a history of drug addiction," Edmondson said.

The doctor-shopping charge alleges Limbaugh obtained overlapping prescriptions from three doctors, one in New York and two in Palm Beach County, without telling them. That is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

While Limbaugh was being treated for back pain at the Jupiter Outpatient Surgery Center, he signed a pain-management contract that required him to get all his drugs from the center and reveal which pharmacy he would use to fill the prescriptions, according to Limbaugh's arrest affidavit.

The pharmacy was the Lewis Pharmacy on Palm Beach, owned by Michael Carbone, who was interviewed by investigators in November of 2003, according to the affidavit.

"During the interview Carbone stated he became suspicious of Mr. Limbaugh's medication use," the affidavit says. "Carbone further stated that he became concerned due to the amount of pain medications Limbaugh was receiving and the number of doctors that were providing prescriptions for Mr. Limbaugh."

Limbaugh came under investigation after his former housekeeper went to prosecutors in December 2002 and told them she and her husband had been selling Limbaugh large quantities of hydrocodone, OxyContin and other prescription drugs for several years, according to search warrants used to seize Limbaugh's medical records from four doctors.

The agreement announced Friday came as prosecutors were considering taking their evidence before a grand jury.

At a Friday news conference, Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, would not say the resolution was a victory for Limbaugh.

Black reiterated that Limbaugh adamantly denies committing any crimes, explaining that his client agreed to the single doctor-shopping charge because it's necessary for a charge to be filed to enter a diversion program. Limbaugh has entered a not-guilty plea with the court, Black said. What Limbaugh admits to, Black said, is having a drug addiction.

During talks with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, Black said it was the state that requested $30,000 for the cost of prosecution. Black said he didn't have a problem with the figure.

Palm Beach County criminal defense attorney Robert Gershman, who was not involved in the case, said Limbaugh's diversion program is common for first-time drug offenders, but the $30,000 is not. A typical offender pays about $50 a month for the cost of supervision and nothing more, Gershman said.

"I think, sadly, sometimes money comes into play, because that is a lot of money," Gershman said. "The only thing uncommon about Limbaugh's case is the time, effort and money spent on one case to end up a diversion."

www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking06/RushArrest.html


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

If RWED is going to be essentially a Troll Country annex, then why not change its title? Would save time for lots of folks who mistakenly came here to discuss Real World Events.

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"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

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Originally posted by piratenews:
AURAPTOR

Rush was found guilty of a felony with a jail sentence of 1 year and 6 months, "suspended" on condition of surviving probation.

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Originally posted by DallasFirefly:
I'm not sure how it works in Florida but I think Limbaugh was given a very sweet deal. If he were in Texas he would have plead not guilty or no contest, the judge would have then deferred his judgment until Limbaugh's probationary period was up, which is 18 months in this case. At the end of 18 months (assuming he doesn't violate his terms of probation in the meantime) the judge will enter a finding of no guilt if Limbaugh meets all terms of probation.

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Originally posted by DallasFirefly:
I'm not sure how it works in Florida but I think Limbaugh was given a very sweet deal. If he were in Texas he would have plead not guilty or no contest, the judge would have then deferred his judgment until Limbaugh's probationary period was up, which is 18 months in this case. At the end of 18 months (assuming he doesn't violate his terms of probation in the meantime) the judge will enter a finding of no guilt if Limbaugh meets all terms of probation. If this is the deal he received he will technically not be convicted of anything so long as he successfully completes his probation, so the only thing on his criminal record will be the arrest, which he won't be able to expunge. This kind of deal is available in Texas to most non violent first time offenders. Drug related crimes are sometimes the exception to that rule, but generally only dealers are not eligible for deferred adjudication.

I wanna be Mr. Baccarin!

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The $285-Million Man, er, $284-Million Man

"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

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