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Title: Marijuana advocate Marc Emery vows 'political revenge' against Tories
Category: Political
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2014-07-31 06:35:59
Canadian

[jj2424]

That guy hasn't had a toke in 5 years yet he is still pie eyed. Looks good on Trudope!

[DrCaleb]

jj2424 jj2424:

That guy hasn't had a toke in 5 years yet he is still pie eyed. Looks good on Trudope!

What Emery did wasn't illegal in Canada, and the US prosecutor that got the conviction of Emery is responsible for writing the Washington State legalization laws.

Looks good on Harper too!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

jj2424 jj2424:

That guy hasn't had a toke in 5 years yet he is still pie eyed. Looks good on Trudope!

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

[DrCaleb]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

Emery, a citizen, gets put on a plane for 5 years detention because of political agendas; but Michael Stanley and possibly hundreds like him have zero chance of being returned to us. That's what I have a problem with.

And, yes I have a problem with the rest of it. And yes, I know you were addressing JJ, but he lives in Arizona so they aren't really 'foreign agents' to him now are they?

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

jj2424 jj2424:

That guy hasn't had a toke in 5 years yet he is still pie eyed. Looks good on Trudope!

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

How did he get extradited if what he did wasn't illegal in Canada? I thought we didn't do that.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

Emery, a citizen, gets put on a plane for 5 years detention because of political agendas; but Michael Stanley and possibly hundreds like him have zero chance of being returned to us. That's what I have a problem with.

And, yes I have a problem with the rest of it. And yes, I know you were addressing JJ, but he lives in Arizona so they aren't really 'foreign agents' to him now are they?

Michael Stanley is a US citizen who committed crimes in the US as well. Why the hell should he be returned to us?

[jj2424]

andyt andyt:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

jj2424 jj2424:

That guy hasn't had a toke in 5 years yet he is still pie eyed. Looks good on Trudope!

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

How did he get extradited if what he did wasn't illegal in Canada? I thought we didn't do that.

He turned himself in so that he could stand on political soapbox. The BShitting pothead knows it too. If he would have just ignored the charges they would have eventually let it slide and he wouldn't have done 5 minutes in the can.


"Prior to sentencing, Emery admitted breaking the law by selling marijuana seeds to U.S. customers and promised he would not break the law again.

Emery was arrested at his Vancouver shop in 2005 by Vancouver police, who were working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. He was accused of selling marijuana seeds to U.S. customers through his mail order business.

Since Emery voluntarily surrendered for extradition in May, he has been held at the maximum-security SeaTac Federal Detention Centre"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... n-1.906667

[andyt]

Wow, that took fortitude to let yourself be falsely imprisoned for 5 years. The guy must really believe in what he's fighting for. Not many people would do that.

[herbie]

He committed no crime in Canada. He was arrested by RCMP on behalf of a foreign agency. Deported by Canada on behalf of a foreign agency.
And that's where my support of Emery stops.
In his rush to become a marijuana martyr, he did not fight his extradition on the grounds it was illegal, unconstitutional and a violation of Canadian sovereignty.
Our bumboy lackey politicians - which in this case began while Paul Martin was still in office did not stand up as Canadians - they wimped out to the DEA. Their actions aid the USA in its presumptions that it can apply US laws beyond it's borders.

[Zipperfish]

Basically a political prisoner. Locking him up in a maximum security prison is a dead giveaway.

[DrCaleb]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

So you have no problem with foreign agents entering the country illegally, investigating a Canadian without knowledge or consent of local authorities or the govt, and then charging and arresting him for something that isn't illegal in Canada?

Emery, a citizen, gets put on a plane for 5 years detention because of political agendas; but Michael Stanley and possibly hundreds like him have zero chance of being returned to us. That's what I have a problem with.

And, yes I have a problem with the rest of it. And yes, I know you were addressing JJ, but he lives in Arizona so they aren't really 'foreign agents' to him now are they?

Michael Stanley is a US citizen who committed crimes in the US as well. Why the hell should he be returned to us?

He broke our laws too (albeit, much less severe than he did down there, but that isn't the point). Mark Emery is a Canadian citizen who broke no laws here, why should he have been extradited? I don't see the quid pro quo here; we send our own citizens to face their law, but they won't send theirs to face ours.

[Thanos]

King of Pot vows a terrible revenge, still can't manage to get out of bed before 11 AM, PM reportedly 'not worried at all'.

[andyt]

Emery certainly managed to bet out of bed early enough, and put down the Doritos often enough, to make millions.

$1:

In the end, Emery said, he recognizes the irony that many people, including his U.S. prosecutor John McKay, who opposed his work years ago, are now advocates for the legalization of marijuana themselves.

"Nonetheless, I'm the one that's triumphant. They're the ones that changed the way in their mind to come to where I'm standing, and that's all you want when you're a person like me, that's all that matters," he said.

[Xort]

herbie herbie:

He committed no crime in Canada. He was arrested by RCMP on behalf of a foreign agency. Deported by Canada on behalf of a foreign agency.
And that's where my support of Emery stops.
In his rush to become a marijuana martyr, he did not fight his extradition on the grounds it was illegal, unconstitutional and a violation of Canadian sovereignty.

I'm not sure I agree with you. If you violate the laws of another nation you can be sent to face punishment in those nations.

Wouldn't you want a person that violated firearms laws in Canada returned to Canada from the US? Even if what they did was legal in the US?

Its not like he was arrested for his legal actions in Canada and sent to the US for trial. It was illegal actions in the US.