From the
IOKIYAR File
Wheelchair-confined Richard Paey committed almost exactly the same violations of Florida prescription drug laws that radio personality Rush Limbaugh did, with a different result: Limbaugh's sentence, in May, was addiction treatment, and Paey's, in 2004, was 25 years in prison. Both illegally possessed large quantities of painkillers for personal use, which Paey defiantly argued was (and will be) necessary to relieve nearly constant pain from unsuccessful spinal surgeries after an auto accident, but which Limbaugh admitted was simply the result of addiction. (In fact, if Limbaugh complies with his plea bargain, his conviction will be erased.) Paey's sentence now rests with a state Court of Appeal.
While neither of whom deserved to be locked up, only one of them engages in sheer hypocrisy
"I'm appauled at the people who simply want to look at this abhorrent behavior and say "People are going to do drugs anyway - let's legalize it". It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea, and those who are for it are purely, 100 percent selfish"
-Rush Limbaugh, Sept 23, 2003