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Prescription drug addiction & UFO's
In early October 2003 and in the same week as the McNabb controversy, the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh was being investigated for illegally buying prescription drugs. Limbaugh's former housekeeper, under investigation for drug dealing, alleged that Limbaugh used prescription opioid painkillers such as OxyContin and Lorcet (a combination of Paracetamol (acetaminophen) and hydrocodone) and that he went through detox twice. Other news outlets quickly confirmed the beginnings of an investigation.
Limbaugh has been a vocal critic of drug users as well as an avid supporter of the War on Drugs (see the "On Drug Users" section of Limbaugh's quotations at Wikiquotes, cited at the bottom of this article).
On October 10, 2003, Limbaugh admitted to listeners on his radio show that he had abused prescription painkillers and stated that he would enter inpatient treatment for 30 days, immediately following the broadcast. He did not specifically mention which pain medications he had been abusing. Speaking about his behavior, Limbaugh went on to say:
"I am not making any excuses. You know, over the years, athletes and celebrities have emerged from treatment centers to great fanfare and praise for conquering great demons. They are said to be great role models and examples for others. Well, I am no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes."
"They are the role models. I am no victim and do not portray myself as such. I take full responsibility for my problem. At the present time the authorities are conducting an investigation, and I have been asked to limit my public comments until this investigation is complete."
Following Limbaugh's admission of drug abuse, his detractors reviewed prior statements by him about drug use as examples of hypocrisy. Several statements were found, in particular, on October 5, 1995:
"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."
"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."
and on August 8, 2003:
"These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?"
and on March 12, 1998:
"What is missing in the drug fight 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."
This last quote, however, contradicts several previous statements in which Limbaugh condemned legalization. For example, on his TV show on December 9, 1993:
"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say, "Hey, you know, we can't control it anymore. 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."
An article in the January 12, 2004 issue of Human Events (The National Conservative Weekly) presented its reaction to the media attention of Limbaugh's addiction, calling it a 'Network War' against Limbaugh. It charged network anchors with engaging in exaggerated and inflammatory rhetoric by implying Limbaugh was involved in "drug sales" or "drug gangs." Human Events Online reported in January 2004 a timeline of events in this matter from September through December 2003.
An investigation into "doctor shopping" concluded in the state of Florida under the Palm Beach State Attorney in April 2006. Limbaugh's attorney Roy Black alleged that the chief county prosecutor investigating Limbaugh, an elected Democrat, is politically motivated. The ACLU, an organization often lambasted by Limbaugh, has come to his defense, claiming that the district attorney violated Limbaugh's constitutional rights by "fishing" through his private medical records. Assistant State Attorney James L. Martz, on November 9, 2005, stated "I have no idea if Mr. Limbaugh has completed the elements of any offense yet." Then on December 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow decided to prohibit the State from questioning Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the healthcare practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."
Limbaugh has said his addiction to painkillers came as a result of long-term back pain he had been suffering for several years, and a botched surgery that came as a result of that. Limbaugh opposed the prosecutor's efforts to interview his doctors on the basis of patient privacy rights, and has argued that the prosecutor has in fact violated his Fourth Amendment civil rights by illegally seizing his medical records. Thus far, the Florida courts have upheld Limbaugh's confidentiality.
On June 26, 2006, Limbaugh was detained at Palm Beach International Airport for allegedly possessing a bottle of Viagra without a prescription. He was returning to the U.S. on his private plane from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. According to Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the bottle of Viagra was not in Limbaugh’s name but in the name of two Florida doctors. Limbaugh claims the Viagra was for his use, that he obtained it from his doctors and that his name was not listed on the prescription for privacy reasons (Viagra is commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction). The drugs were confiscated and a report is being filed with the Florida attorney's office. This latest case may simply be dismissed if prosecutors can confirm with Limbaugh's doctor that the prescription was indeed for Limbaugh, said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney in Florida.
Mr. Limbaugh did not offer any explanation regarding his use of Viagra. On his June 27, 2006 show he joked about the occurrence, saying he had no idea how Bob Dole's luggage was on his airplane, and then said his doctor misunderstood him when he said he had concerns about the upcoming election. Limbaugh also joked that Customs officials did not believe him when he told them that he got the pills from the Clinton Library. He unabashedly talked up the "great time" he had in the Dominican Republic and mentioned to his audience and staff, "I wish I could tell you about it." He said that he stayed at Casa de Campo with various unnamed cast and crew from the television show 24 for a "guy's weekend." A well-known cigar afficiando, Limbaugh also mentioned that he visited the Fuente tobacco farm and cigar factory in Santiago and made an ambiguous mention of some "amazing charity work" involving the farm.
Texe Marrs is anti-Catholic. [1]. He is also highly critical of Freemasonry and the New Age movement. He believes the King James Version of the Bible to be the only accurate translation. Marrs often distributes in anti-Semitic propaganda, alleging vast Jewish and Zionist plots against the United States , although he denies these allegations and his supporters claim that he has attacked anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial openly .
He presents a series of laberynthine conspiracy theories involving Jewish bankers such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, Freemasons, Satanists, communists, and the Vatican. He is extremely conservative in his politics and opposes Zionism.
In December 1999 U.S. News and World Report reported that Texe Marrs and David Icke had accused former President and Vice President George H.W. Bush of being involved in a black mass.
President of Power of Prophecy Ministries and RiverCrest Publishing in Austin, Texas, Texe Marrs is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows throughout the U.S.A. and Canada.Marrs claims to be an expert on Bible prophecy, secret societies, the New Age movement, and world affairs. He has written a number of books including New Age Cults and Religions, Circle of Intrigue, Project L.U.C.I.D., and Days of Hunger, Days of Chaos, in which he argues that world events are driven by conspiratorial forces towards a New World Order. Texe Marrs’ monthly newsletter is distributed to tens of thousands of subscribers around the world. His radio program, Power of Prophecy, is beamed to over 125 nations around the globe.
Texe and his co-laborers believe and teach fellow Christians to believe that: "Jesus Christ is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and that He is, was, and forever shall be God and is the one mediator between man and God. They believe that the King James Bible is God's perfect word, is without error, and is man's authoritative guide for how they should live. They put great faith in the power of prayer, and that God alone has salvation power through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for our sins and in the belief that God is infinitely more powerful than the devil (Satan, or Lucifer), whom God has already defeated. As Christians they believe they are commanded to expose evil-doers and their works, that they must courageously stand up for truth and justice, that they must confront and defeat corruption wherever they find it, and that they have the right and the obligation to stand fast against wickedness in high places, whether on Earth or in the heavens."
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David
Duke is a malignant narcissist.
He invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or
to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and the
trappings of power further exacerbate this. Real life authority and David
Duke’s predilection to surround him with obsequious sycophants support David
Duke’s grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience.
David Duke's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate
even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and
suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or
discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as
"victims of persecution".
Duke fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an
institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism,
and mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically
denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to
dedicate himself fully to his calling.
Duke is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself
so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and
suppressing his humanity, Duke became a distorted version of Nietzsche's
"superman". But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual
and a-moral.
In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post-modernist and moral
relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by
engendering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural" - or by
strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to, as
"nature" is not natural at all.
Duke invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully
orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by
his followers. Narcissistic leadership is about reproduced copies, not about
originals. It is about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism
or true conservatism.
In short: narcissistic leadership is about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the
spectacle (and be subsumed by it), the leader demands the suspension of
judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis is tantamount, in
this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self-annulment.
Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very
language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihilism - and
the cult's leader serves as a role model, annihilating the Man, only to
re-appear as a pre-ordained and irresistible force of nature.
Narcissistic leadership often poses as a rebellion against the "old
ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established
religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic movements are
puerile, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon David Duke like (and
rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state, or group, or upon the leader.
Minorities or "others" - often arbitrarily selected - constitute a
perfect, easily identifiable, embodiment of all that is "wrong". They
are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan,
they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", they are
hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual
orientation, origin ... They are different, they are narcissistic (feel and act
as morally superior), they are everywhere, they are defenseless, they are
credulous, they are adaptable (and thus can be co-opted to collaborate in their
own destruction). They are the perfect hate figure. Narcissists thrive on hatred
and pathological envy.
This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich
Fromm - together with Stalin - as a malignant narcissist. He was an inverted
human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed
drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that
lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was
like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp
and many did not emerge. He was not the devil. He was one of us. He was what
Arendt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed,
failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through
disturbed and failing times. He was the perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and
the very depth of our souls.
Duke prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the
tedium and method of real accomplishments. His reign is all smoke and mirrors,
devoid of substances, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the
aftermath of his regime - Duke having died, been deposed, or voted out of office
- it all unravels. The tireless and constant prestidigitation ceases and the
entire edifice crumbles. What looked like an economic miracle turns out to have
been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely held empires disintegrate. Laboriously
assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and
"revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited.
Social experiments end in mayhem.
It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic. It
must accord with the self-image of David Duke. It must abet and sustain his
grandiose fantasies and feed his sense of entitlement. It must conform David
Duke like narrative. Thus, David Duke who regards himself as the benefactor of
the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the
disenfranchised, the champion of the dispossessed against the corrupt elite - is
highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when David
Duke has become convinced that the very people he purported to speak for, his
constituency, his grassroots fans, and the prime sources of his narcissistic
supply - have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain
the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, David Duke strives to explain
away the sudden reversal of sentiment. "The people are being duped by (the
media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)", "they don't
really know what they are doing", "following a rude awakening, they
will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered
personal mythology fail, David Duke becomes injured. Narcissistic injury
inevitably leads to narcissistic rage and to a terrifying display of unbridled
aggression. The pent-up frustration and hurt translate into devaluation. That
which was previously idealized - is now discarded with contempt and hatred. This
primitive defense mechanism is called "splitting". To David Duke,
things and people are either entirely bad (evil) or entirely good. He projects
onto others his own shortcomings and negative emotions, thus becoming a totally
good object. Duke is likely to justify the butchering of his own people by
claiming that they intended to kill him, undo the revolution, devastate the
economy, or the country, etc. The "small people", the "rank and
file", and the "loyal soldiers" of David Duke - his flock, his
nation, and his employees - they pay the price. The disillusionment and
disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the
ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and
manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to
love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the
erstwhile followers of David Duke. This is his sole legacy: a massive
post-traumatic stress disorder.
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David
Duke is a malignant narcissist.
He invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or
to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and the
trappings of power further exacerbate this. Real life authority and David
Duke’s predilection to surround him with obsequious sycophants support David
Duke’s grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience.
David Duke's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate
even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and
suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or
discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as
"victims of persecution".
Duke fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an
institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism,
and mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically
denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to
dedicate himself fully to his calling.
Duke is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself
so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and
suppressing his humanity, Duke became a distorted version of Nietzsche's
"superman". But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual
and a-moral.
In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post-modernist and moral
relativists. They project to the masses an androgynous figure and enhance it by
engendering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural" - or by
strongly repressing these feelings. But what they refer to, as
"nature" is not natural at all.
Duke invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully
orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by
his followers. Narcissistic leadership is about reproduced copies, not about
originals. It is about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism
or true conservatism.
In short: narcissistic leadership is about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the
spectacle (and be subsumed by it), the leader demands the suspension of
judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis is tantamount, in
this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self-annulment.
Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very
language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihilism - and
the cult's leader serves as a role model, annihilating the Man, only to
re-appear as a pre-ordained and irresistible force of nature.
Narcissistic leadership often poses as a rebellion against the "old
ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established
religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic movements are
puerile, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon David Duke like (and
rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state, or group, or upon the leader.
Minorities or "others" - often arbitrarily selected - constitute a
perfect, easily identifiable, embodiment of all that is "wrong". They
are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan,
they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", they are
hated on religious and socio-economic grounds, or because of their race, sexual
orientation, origin ... They are different, they are narcissistic (feel and act
as morally superior), they are everywhere, they are defenseless, they are
credulous, they are adaptable (and thus can be co-opted to collaborate in their
own destruction). They are the perfect hate figure. Narcissists thrive on hatred
and pathological envy.
This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich
Fromm - together with Stalin - as a malignant narcissist. He was an inverted
human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed
drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that
lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was
like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp
and many did not emerge. He was not the devil. He was one of us. He was what
Arendt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed,
failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through
disturbed and failing times. He was the perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and
the very depth of our souls.
Duke prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the
tedium and method of real accomplishments. His reign is all smoke and mirrors,
devoid of substances, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the
aftermath of his regime - Duke having died, been deposed, or voted out of office
- it all unravels. The tireless and constant prestidigitation ceases and the
entire edifice crumbles. What looked like an economic miracle turns out to have
been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely held empires disintegrate. Laboriously
assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. "Earth shattering" and
"revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited.
Social experiments end in mayhem.
It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic. It
must accord with the self-image of David Duke. It must abet and sustain his
grandiose fantasies and feed his sense of entitlement. It must conform David
Duke like narrative. Thus, David Duke who regards himself as the benefactor of
the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the
disenfranchised, the champion of the dispossessed against the corrupt elite - is
highly unlikely to use violence at first. The pacific mask crumbles when David
Duke has become convinced that the very people he purported to speak for, his
constituency, his grassroots fans, and the prime sources of his narcissistic
supply - have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain
the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, David Duke strives to explain
away the sudden reversal of sentiment. "The people are being duped by (the
media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)", "they don't
really know what they are doing", "following a rude awakening, they
will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered
personal mythology fail, David Duke becomes injured. Narcissistic injury
inevitably leads to narcissistic rage and to a terrifying display of unbridled
aggression. The pent-up frustration and hurt translate into devaluation. That
which was previously idealized - is now discarded with contempt and hatred. This
primitive defense mechanism is called "splitting". To David Duke,
things and people are either entirely bad (evil) or entirely good. He projects
onto others his own shortcomings and negative emotions, thus becoming a totally
good object. Duke is likely to justify the butchering of his own people by
claiming that they intended to kill him, undo the revolution, devastate the
economy, or the country, etc. The "small people", the "rank and
file", and the "loyal soldiers" of David Duke - his flock, his
nation, and his employees - they pay the price. The disillusionment and
disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the
ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and
manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to
love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the
erstwhile followers of David Duke. This is his sole legacy: a massive
post-traumatic stress disorder.
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