I have been thinking about this for a week now. I have been thinking about Rush. While I do not agree with every word the man has spoken, and I am sure many of you here do not agree with many things he has said, it is apparent that he has made comments that I still find to be true about drugs.
[Q]"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."[/Q]
I find nothing wrong with this statement.It seems to make sense to me. Yes it definitely makes him a hypocrite, but does that change the fact that the words he spoke on the topic were correct?
[Q]Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."[/Q]
It is interesting that while many here claim he is a racist, his take is not that of a racist. Are these words wrong? Is the answer to let people out of jail or to punish everyone equally?
[Q]"What is missing in the drug fight," he said, "is legalization. If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. License the Cali cartel. Make them taxpayers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."[/Q]
he said this in 1998. Interesting idea.
Just curious.....does his hypocracy change the truth in the words he spoke?
[Q]"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."[/Q]
I find nothing wrong with this statement.It seems to make sense to me. Yes it definitely makes him a hypocrite, but does that change the fact that the words he spoke on the topic were correct?
[Q]Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."[/Q]
It is interesting that while many here claim he is a racist, his take is not that of a racist. Are these words wrong? Is the answer to let people out of jail or to punish everyone equally?
[Q]"What is missing in the drug fight," he said, "is legalization. If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. License the Cali cartel. Make them taxpayers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."[/Q]
he said this in 1998. Interesting idea.
Just curious.....does his hypocracy change the truth in the words he spoke?