IN DEFENSE OF RUSH
I’ve come to the conclusion that we may be being too hard on Rush. Poor Rush is an addict and should be treated with pity.
I’d like to point out that the relapse rate for Heroin addicts is staggering. A Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration study showed relapse rates of 87 percent after drug treatment for heroin and opiate users of Rush’s age – the highest among all drug users. So, the odds are that Rush has already relapsed. His behavior indicates that he has.
Rush refuses to accept that he is in fact an addict. His denial is, in and of itself, a classic sign of addiction. I think it’s safe to assume that if you are willing to commit a felony to facilitate your drug habit, you are quite likely an addict. And as the saying goes; once an addict, always an addict.
It’s pretty clear that he is an addict. Does anyone even remotely familiar with the scourge of opiate addiction believe that someone can just turn off the urges? I mean this guy was so addicted he was driving around to random doctors and fraudulently obtaining prescriptions to feed his habit. THAT friends, is the definition of an addict.
Addicts frequently have difficulties keeping relationships. Check. Heroin addicts often act out in an uncontrolled, compulsive and disruptive manner. They behave dishonestly – especially when drug seeking. Check, check, check, and check. They also exhibit traits like excessive smoking, drinking, disability, and psychological distress. Check, check, check, and check again. Since psychological distress is a very prominent trait among heroin addicts, we can only assume that he also suffers from severe psychological distress. We can safely describe his behavior as addled, and if Rush can’t think clearly, how can he be taken seriously?
But, Rush himself has made very specific and definitive statements, regarding his feelings on how drug addicts should be treated by the legal system, that do merit being taken seriously. In fact, I think Rush actually wants to be accused and exposed as an addict – he’s said as much himself. Personally, I think the statements he’s made on drug addicts and drug crimes are cries for help.
Rush believes that he himself is, in fact, a criminal that should be incarcerated. In case anyone forgot what Rush has said about drug addicts in the past, here is a quote from the man himself:
"There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. 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."
There is no way for Rush to prove that he is NOT currently on drugs, save for him agreeing to publicly take weekly blood and urine tests, but he sure does exhibit the tell-tale characteristics of an active heroin addict."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." – October 5th, 1995.
So, Rush Limbaugh is a Heroin addict, too drug addled to be taken seriously, who by his own admission should be accused, convicted and incarcerated. He feels that as a user, he is destroying society – that he and his kind are destroying the nation. He knows that as a white man, he’s been given a pass, and deep down he wants to be found out. Deep down Rush wants justice. Rush deserves justice.
Well, I’m here to help you Rush. I promise to keep up the good fight. I promise not to take offense to anything you say on-air – I know it’s only the disease talking. I promise to continue to accuse you and call for your incarceration so that one day you can be free of the monster of addiction and not end up being carted off of Palm Beach by the coroner in a double-wide stretcher like some Neo-Con John Belushi. I know that’s what you want, even if you are too addled to articulate it.
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