Re: Florida Supreme Court Declines to Review Richard Paey's Sentence

Dear Codeee and gang,

I got sick of sitting here thinking about this thread and the 8 years or
whatever Paey's been locked up in that cell, rolling up and down the cell
block while he dies by inches with the kids graduating school and him
missing their lives for want of adequate pain care availability in Florida.

So I went to MSNBC, I am pretty sure Rita Cosby was the one that brought
Dwayne "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman to the attention of the country, so I
pretty much wrote a basic summary of the "Tale of Richard Paey", even if he
doesn't have his own TV show, with a little background on long term chronic
opioid/narcotic therapy for life, and how as the baby boomers age and the
need for chronic pain control increases, and as we get back our servicemen
and women back home after leaving a limb or two rotting in the desert sun,
the need for such therapies surely is not going to go away.

So whether it's going to do any good or not, if you're just feeling good and
pissed and need to vent to someone other than the regular gang (not that we
don't always appreciate a good venting) her address is easy: Rita at MSNBC
dot com.
I hate to take a shot at "fellow advocates" but some of them seem to push
too hard on the membership donations, video tapes, bumper stickers and
refrigerator magnets. I find my MR. YUK stickers sufficient for my needs at
the moment. Excellent gift tags at Christmas - Bah Humbug.

A painfree evening to all--og


"OldGoat" <oldgoatmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear Codeee,

I think you hit the nail on the head. A jury of ones peers. Not a jury of
the peers the way the government looks for peers, though assholes are
indeed plentiful, peers as in patients experienced in matters of chronic
pain. Does that set a precedent that a burglar can only be tried by other
burglars? That's too deep a question for a simple guy like me. But what's
not too deep is that a guy has been in jail for 8 years now for being in
pain and trying to do what he could for a quality of life. If the cops
were not such lazy assholes and Paey was such a criminal mastermind, why
didn't they wait for the first "buy" to go down before branding him a dope
dealer. He had a lot of drugs, claimed them to be for personal use, so
what harm to wait and see?
But the real crime is I have a child rapist living on my block that was in
jail less time than Paey. Local churches and the Vatican are crawling with
them, but if caught they get transferred to a new town to ruin more
children's lives and God bless them, as long as they confess and perform
their contrition (such as community service at the boys club, if busted by
the cops) all is forgiven. I'm glad I'm headed for hell when I die, cause
the first thing I'm doing is kicking some pedophile priest's ass.
All this time I thought it was Jeb Bush just being a Bush. Just like the
Orlando paper that wrote all that drug war fantasy, nobody saw the
retraction, hidden among the Jai Alli scores, that the entire drug crazed
series of reports was complete fiction, so Mr. Paey is being made an
example of. Florida is tough on drugs. You could get life in an electric
chair. Which is exactly what Paey got. Life in jail, driving his Rascal up
and down the cell block. He won't make the rest of his 17 years in jail
and the only way he's coming out is horizontal in a body bag.
Does any one recall the name of the CNN reporter who hopped on the "Dog
the Bounty Hunter" case with such enthusiasm? Rita Cosby? I'm ready to try
Jon Stewart at this point. This foolishness has gone on long enough. We
each should get down and dirty about this. It could have easily have been
any of us doing whatever we had to to rid ourselves of the pain. It's nice
and comforting to think we would never bend, much less break a law to get
out of pain, but until any of us are in Paey's shoes, we should be slow
and cautious to judge him.
If I remember the details of the case rightly, according to the courts,
he'd have been much safer buying a large quantity of heroin in the streets
and alleyways of Miami than procure an actual medication from a foreign
pharmacy. Hell of a message Florida guys. After all the election games
played in that state and all the other f**ked things, like illegal Cubans
collecting unemployment and taking advantage of our little bit of
socialized medical care for the poor, it may just be time to cut off the
"wang" of the United States. Will Lorena Bobbit please come forward?

"Chop off the U.S.'s wang" bumper stickers will available in the lobby as
you leave--og


<Codeee01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:12:06 -0400, Joe B
<mong-gu-di-fu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12 Mar 2007 16:47:47 -0700, sadhant@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://reason.com/blog/show/119085.html


And, the worst part of the whole case, IMO is that the jury would have
gone for NG except that the foreman insisted that he would get only
probabtion.


Absolutely INSANE!

I'm certain that if someone had written a fictional account
of a similar situation, it would have been considered too
far fetched to publish.

What do we expect of juries who are more ignorant than the
people who should know about the treatment of pain, but
sadly often don't.
How much worse a panel of "civilians" who know nothing
but the hyperbole they may have seen on television must be...
but I'd love to have five minutes with that foreman!

This could never be a panel of his "peers".

Becker did an episode about jury duty that wasn't too far off of the
mark. He couldn't get on a case after waiting and reading all day,
and letting them know he was a doctor who'd given up his practice
to serve.
It was only after he appeared to drop about 70 IQ points that they
gladly called him in to decide on a life and death matter.






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