Normally, a photoshop and comments posted at a forum wouldn’t be worthy of mention, especially ones deleted by admin (at the request of Libby Davies, NDP MP for Vancouver East).
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“NEOCON-KAPO irwin cotler is signing depotation orders for CANNABIS CULTURE people wanted in the united states because he is secretly trying to get israeli spy Jonathan Pollard out of jail in the united states…. “ |
But, in this case, they seem to have received marching orders;
“I thought the term Jewish-Nazi, or Nazi-Jew, was an oxymoron until Cotler became the Injustice Minister.” Marc Emery, BC Marijuana Party jail “blog”
The Prince of Pot is no prince of peace, either;
Mosca, volunteer president of the Grandview-Woodlands Community Policing Centre, told me yesterday she’s been harassed unmercifully since complaining to a Vancouver TV reporter that the city was allowing the Da Kine cafe to sell pot a block away from a local elementary school.
And it’s little wonder this is happening, given the bullying e-blast she received soon after on the Marijuana Party’s website from the blogging Emery (who got her first name wrong).
“I noted that there is a person called Irene, of the Grandview/Woodlands community policing centre, and she must be picketed at that policing centre,” Emery wrote. “Two people should be there with signs every day, saying that she is a Nazi, or having a swastika by her name, or some kind of strong, anti-prohibitionist sentiment, as she is clearly trying to shut down one of our temples for the cannabis culture, with absolutely no grounds or basis whatsoever other than her hatred . . .”
Don’t you just feel the love.
Update via Thrasymachus in the comments – “Feel the love”, indeed. (graphic content)
Cotler a neo-con? Thats the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Libby reads Cannibis Culture?? I gotta start looking at this forum – looks like gold in there.
I did a little digging.. Anyone with a daughter should cringe, Emery posts publically about which DRUGS eg: Coke, will get a woman to perform what sexual acts… *shudder*
“#1 2C-B. This will,make her an incredible sucking, vibrating, bouncing, pleasure seeking fiend for 4 – 5 hours straight. Absolutely 100% goddamn right … We should put it in their food. Daily. Its unfortunately, incredibly difficult to obtain, but I don’t know why? …Then its agreed, for the sake of us all, let’s put it in chocolate so they just absorb small quantities on a regulat basis. ”
“#4 Cocaine. If you want to fuck her ass, this is deriguer. ”
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=sex&Number=215774&Forum=sex&Words=coke&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=2533&Old=allposts&Main=215774&Search=true#Post215774
And people still defend this guy in public? SVEND ROBINSON who’s about as well regarded as Emery has taken up the task. Svend has been on the radio defending Emery in the last week and here is a recent OP ED he took the time to write. How chummy. And they say theres no honour among thieves.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=current&Number=1130407&Forum=current&Words=SveND%20ROBINSON&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=2533&Old=allposts&Main=1130407&Search=true#Post1130407
I hope someone is saving this stuff and forwarding it to the attention of the oblivious mainstream media, once people start paying attention these type of quotations and candur tend to…disappear.
Unbelievable. Emery is another David Duke- in more ways than one.
Of course! NOW I see the resemblance to Ghandi and Martin Luther King. How could I have ever missed it?
I wonder if there’s a link between drug use and being a left-wing extremist? It certainly dulls the intellect and judgement, certainly in the short run anyway. Most lefties and Liberals I have known have done (and still do after so many years) dope, and they do have questionable judgement. Probably that’s why I don’t hang with that high-school era crowd any longer. I’d have been better off today if I’d been hanging with the conservative nerds, of whom I admittedly must be one! I was simply exposed to too many freaky moonbats!
Don’t forget that this is the same man who also ran on a political platform of not paying for hospitalization for anyone over 70. It costs too much and it is “undignfied”. This man is a real piece of work.
Btw, I ran into a range of chat on DU over the arrest and a bunch of people claimed that Emery had a bad rep in pot circles for cheating people out of money.
This man is out for one person, and that’s himself.
Remember, as to his giving his profits away,anyone who does illeagle things for money just may lie about what he does with those profits.The SOB should be casterated if his main use of drugs is to enhance sexual performance.Wheres all the compassion for cancer patients in his blog that he regularly spouts?
Emery may be one of the most gross people in Canada. That still does not make it right that he be extradited at the wish of a foreign nation.
That should be the focus of any discussion. Cotler et al must have an ulterior motive. The famous Charter of Rights gave us SSM to protect Equality, so why does the same Charter not apply to the rights of a Canadian citizen and protect him/her from extradition?
The DEA does not have any business setting up shop in Canada and the Liberal Injustice Minister does not have the freedom to sign away a Canadians rights either.
Marc Emery: A Class Act
Lest my last post on Marc Emery be construed as a wholesale defense of the man, allow me to re-post some thoughts from the Prince of Virtue on the relationship between drugs and gettin’ some. Turns out Emery has a real pedagogical side to him. Un…
Extradition treaties are just that – treaties. Whether or not his case qualifies I’ll leave up to more knowledgable persons to comment on.
The debate here, as it is always, is informal. More interesting than the Emery story itself has been the astonishing hostility of his supporters to those who disagree with them. Some are on such a short fuse and their response so disproportionate that it makes me wonder whether long term pot use doesn’t indeed have consequences for brain function.
Think about it – this is a person who claims to be willing to spend the rest of his life in jail to get a mood altering chemical legalized.
If that isn’t an anti-drug message in itself, I don’t know what is.
Does Nancy Reagan know about this? This, kiddies, is how your mouth runs on drugs. Sadly, it’s the same old-same old from the left. Smear and fear – works every time. Wonder how his buddy Layton feels when he hears all this crap? And shouldn’t Elections Canada be looking into how money was laundered through political parties? Did they learn nothing with Gomery?
As one commenter says: “Don’t mess with Texas”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463363/posts
Shots fired near Bush protesters
news.com.au ^
Posted on 08/14/2005 4:35:19 PM PDT by jmc1969
A FRUSTRATED local farmer fired shots into the air today near hundreds of protesters who began their second week of demonstrations against the Iraq war outside US President George W Bush’s ranch.
Larry Mattlage, who lives next to the Bush ranch where the president is spending a five week vacation, complained about the 200 protesters, media and government security officials occupying the road outside his own residence after firing a rifle into the air several times.
“Five weeks of this is too much. We live here, this is our community,” Mattlage said in footage shown by CNN television, while insisting the gunshots were just him “getting ready for dove season”. “I shot at a bird, and missed it a while ago,” he said.
Asked if the gunshots had another message, Mattlage told reporters: “Figure it out for yourself”.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au …
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U.S. Constitution: Second Amendment
Second Amendment – Bearing Arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In fairness to Emery, these two particular quotes should be completed.
In the thread on sex linked to in the update, Emery goes on to write:
Also, in the comments about Cotler, Emery concludes by saying:
The insinuation that Emery is a mysoginist or anti-semite is not borne out by the complete quotes.
George has it pretty much right in terms of the principles involved being rather more important than the man.
Emery’s track record is far more libertarian than leftwing. In fact he was supposed to be at the Ontario Liberty Seminar which is hardly a hotbed of lefties.
Finally, why slag Emery? Do you really think it is a good idea for him to be extradited? Do you really think it is wise for Canada to send people to the rather draconian American justice system for an action which is, barely, a traffic ticket in Canada?
It should also be noted that the thread on sex that is referred to, is just that. It a forum on all kinds of consenual sexual activity.
If Emery’s complete post on sex is read, there are also instructions about what drugs work for men as well.
The discussion of the affects of drugs on women and sex is clearly in the context of a consensual relation, and is nothing to do with date rape, as has been implied.
Focus on sex all you want, but you know, “the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.”
And before this is through, what people grow in their closets, and on their balconies, will be of no concern to the state either.
For Stephen McAllister,
Emery is an idiot, but, as Jay said, this does not mean the issues involved are not serious nor does mean that a handful of blogging Tories, who have commented on the issue, (North American patriot, Tory blue, Canadianna, Doxology etc) have not come off as having what Kolberg would call a Preconventional Obedience and Punishment Orientation — the first stage of moral development.
The information from Mosca is a YEAR OLD. Sept 15 2004. Nobody sold pot to kids, no proof Emery or his people slashed Mosca’s tires, just Emery’s folks picketing outside the POLICE centre where self-styled vigilante president Mosca has been hanging out for 24 years playing cop wannabe, while making enemies in her neighbourhood.
Considering Mosca’s libels in the Vancouver Province, if she cast such aspersions at me I don’t think I’d love her either.
Yeah, Emery sounds crazy for saying Cotler was going to extradite him to free Pollard to Israel. Paranoia is understandable when people are actually jailing you and smearing you with year old warmed over innuendo, I guess.
I continue to be just amazed at the Emery defenders and apologists.
Is this really appropriate or becoming behaviour for a public figure worthy of all the ink and press comparing him to gandhi and mlk jr and forwarding his personal and political agenda?
Would we not hold social conservative, or any other social activists to a higher standard than we are Emery and cease giving them public credability if their true extremist philosophies were revealed in such extensive and offensive detail?
Emery’s anti-semetic ignorance is NOT a left/right matter of ignorance as Libby Davies was quick to note her own extreme offence to the anti-semetic characterizations made by Emery and his organization. It’s a matter of Canadian sensabilities, and if you think Canadians would let this guy into their homes or to lecture them on marijuana laws after calling the Justice Minster (who is a jewish human rights defender) a NAZI JEW, and talking about using various drugs to yes elicit the desired sexual activities from women. AS for it being consensual, anyone see that part about “we should slip it in their food”? HARDLY sound consenual to me, sounds like something Mr. Emery may have done in the past and it doesnt like he’s counselling others to do the same. Where the hell dose this guy get off publicly saying this stuff? Would any politician/person in public life get away with this and get nothing but smells like roses coverage in the media?
I did even MORE digging, and here is some more nuggets to add to Emery’s hall of shame. I’d like to continue to see his defenders try and justify this, and yes there is oh so much more…
“Judith Retchen, of the Superior Court of Washington D.C. sentenced a man, this man, this quadriplegic with a breathing apparatus, to jail for 10 days … Jonathan Magbie died in jail. Murdered by the state; murdered by Judge Judith Retchen. … part of me says “kill that judge, kill judge Judith Retchen; somebody, some American with any compassion, sympathy, and patriotism should kill this judge; it would be an act of mercy for our culture, it would be an act of mercy for all peoples of the United States; this is the devil put behind a desk, sent out to murder people”
So there you have it all you Emeryheads out there, Emery not only calls the Justice Minister a NAZI JEW, tells people what drugs to slip in women and girls foods to make their judgment just off enough to enter into sex acts they might not under sober conscience — THE LEADER OF A PROVINCIAL PARTY PUBLICLY MUSED AND COUNSELLED HIS FOLLOWERS THAT KILLING A US SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE WOULD BE A COMPASSIONATE ACT.
SOURCE; http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/archive/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html
But hey this is Marc Emery we’re talking about, right? and this is about Canada’s horrible evil marijuana laws and our threatened soverignty!
This isn’t about a man who knowing full well what the risks and reprocussions would be, sold millions of dollars of illegal drugs through the mail across the border and now expects the media to spin this in a whole sovereignty debate so he can get off the hook. ….right?!
I dont care how you feel about the marijuana laws. Breaking laws in other countries, especially knowing full well what you are doing, that it is illegal, and that there are reprocussions, that is the issue here. Not to mention THE CONTENT OF THE CHARACTER of a man who the media likes to compare to Martin Luther King Jr.
Where dose it end?
Thrasymachus, your hatred of Emery is glowingly clear. It clouds your judgement and reading comprehension. I could just see you wiping the foam and spittle off your face after reading your rant.
Marijuana seeds are not a drug. Learn the difference.
Euthanasia is a longstanding political issue which the Eugenisists, who wrote the Marijuana Prohibition laws in the 1930s, promoted.
Emery’s sex talk was in the context of a sexual discussion involving the effect drugs have on sex. The ‘we should slip it in their food’ quip was obviously tongue in cheek.
Ghandi and ML King were both into ‘illicit’ sex themselves.
Emery makes it clear he doesn’t believe jews as a group are nazis.
Emery equates fascism with nazism because nazism is easier to comprehend for the masses.
Irwin Cotler may support Israel’s human rights but, like a good fascist Liberal(the Liberals were the authors of the Narcotics Control Act) doesn’t care about the human rights of a CANADIAN named Marc Emery.
Emery sold marijuana seeds, by mail, to citizens in the US. US law is the reason marijuana prohibition still exists ANYWHERE. If the US rescinded their draconian human rights violating marijuana laws, this type of legislation would be rapidly and gladly punted from every other western nation. The reason it hasn’t been done to date, is that the US bully threatens trade sanctions and treaty suspensions.
Pot prohibitionists have NEVER made a case for prohibition. That’s why they smear people like Emery, to misdirect and hide the hollowness of their hated prohibitionist position.
20 Packs of CanadaJoints at any and every corner store for $90 a pack.
Takes the firearms, the extreme profits, the availability to kids, the grow-ops and the pit-bulls out of pot.
It’s Meth and H that require costly federal policing, not pot. 73s TG
Speller, while many people will agree with you that the prohibition of marijuana is a bad thing and harms all those involved, that doesn’t change the fact that Marc Emery encouraged/attempted to encourage his own followers to KILL a judge in his blogs. There is no excuse in the world for his actions or comments about Mr. Cotler or Ms. Mosca or this judge. If the marijuana activists want people to start taking them seriously, maybe they should grow up and stop the name calling and threats and concentrate on the task at hand. Marc Emery broke the laws of another country, he’s not being charged for Canadian seed sales, he is being charged with selling to the USA and for that he has to answer to their laws. If you go to any other country and break a law, you have to face the consequences for that law in that country. I feel really sorry for the people who are deluded into thinking Marc Emery needs their money considering he lived the lifestyle of the privileged few with new cars, a huge home with panoramic views and expensive parties. This man doesn’t need your money, he needs to learn what its like not to live in the lap of luxury and live like the majority of Canadians.
Cerridwen, “thinking Marc Emery needs their money considering he lived the lifestyle of the privileged few with new cars, a huge home with panoramic views and expensive parties.”
Your envy is showing. If the US government succeeds in having Emery extradited, seizing and freezing his assets will surely follow.
He broke the US laws because they are unjust and the only way to overturn unjust laws is to break them. Civil disobedience.
I’m tired of marijuana prohibitionist arguements amounting to nothing more than, “pot is illegal because it’s against the law.” Intellectually vapid circular reasoning.
The vigilante Mosca was picketed. Nothing wrong with that. No case has been made for anything else. Where are the threats, other than in your imagination? What name calling do you speak of?
Calling fascists, fascists? Or is it calling fascists, nazis? What is name calling compared to imprisonment for civil disobedience?
Marc Emery is a political prisoner. The Canadian government has been trying to repeal the marijuana laws for years. The US bully says NO, the Canadian government will do as it’s told or ELSE.
Cerridwen sez, “If you go to any other country and break a law, you have to face the consequences for that law in that country.”
Emery didn’t go to the US and break their laws, that’s why they want him extradited.
The people who imported his seeds broke the US laws. Considering how much Emery is reported to have made, the dockets in US courtrooms should be filled with their trials. But they’re not, are they. The political cost to the US government would be staggering. Enter Marc Emery, the Judas Goat.
I can’t find a link for the ‘threats’ against the US judge. I’ve read some of it but can’t remeber where. What I read looked like Emery was advocating euthanasia. If he was threatening her, which I doubt, I could see it as self defense. US Attorney General Janet Reno had 74 men, women, and children killed at Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.
You’ve all missed the point. The thrust of the legalization spin is that the federal government can then TAX the trade.
The feds are addicted to the idea of revenue stream; not the drug. Consequences of uses be damned, the feds want a piece of the Hells Angels drug action.
All the other schtick is just for the cameras, it is really about the MONEY!!!
I cannot think of a single thing to envy about a crass anti-Semite who has to resort to drugging up women to get off. Clearly his drug money was no use to him, as they took it all away in the end and it ended up, potentially, costing him life in a US jail. I pity him and I pity you for defending this dangerous loser.
As for the link with Emery literally *BEGGING* one of his fringe wingnut followers to kill a US Superior Court Judge, it was posted above, but in case you missed it, here it is again along with some more select Emery leadership advice on dispatching US Superior Court Judges involved in the War on Drugs who in Emery’s opinion are equivallent to Nazi’s:
“…and one part of me says to kill her, put her picture up everywhere and kill her as soon as you see her, just kill her. ”
“I think this woman should die, she has no right to live; she should be abdicated of the right to be a judge, the right to be a human being on this earth. She’s a killing machine of no morality who will kill again if given the opportunity..”
http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/archive/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html
Is Emery worth defending?
Cerridwen, unsurprisingly your link doesn’t work. Maybe you could name the judge.
I don’t believe Emery is an anti-semite, which W.L. McKenzie King( None{jews} is Too Many) surely was. King was the author of the Narcotics Control Act. King labeled marijuana a narcotic against all testimony to the contrary by medical doctors, because King, who hated Chinese, associated it with opium, marijuana being smoked.
Cerridwen sez, “I pity him and I pity you for defending this dangerous loser.”
Pity? You think people should be JAILED for smoking an herb which has a history thousands of years old with no ill effects, and talk of pity? You’re the dangerous one.
What a poser. Pity is sorrow and compassion for anothers suffering, cause for regret. You demean the word. You and those who oppress other’s liberties for no just cause, applaud while armed men inflict needless sorrow and are without compassion. I’m sure you have neither regret nor conscience in this matter. Pity? Puhshaw.
Have you addressed one of my points? Name the judge, give me a working link, and I’ll see for myself if Emery threatened the judge without cause.
I see you still can’t comprehend the difference between seeds and drugs, and still have no case to present for imprisoning people. People who would be shot for escaping, for simply smoking, cultivating, or trading in marijuana seeds.
The marijuana prohibitionist’s reasoning for imprisoning and killing other citizens:(in a nutshell)
Big Brother has said marijuana is illegal, therefore, it is against the law. Lock them away for they have broken the law. Then pretend pity.
Here’s a REAL link. A speech by a virgina law professor at a symposium of California JUDGES.
The History of the Non-Medical use of Marijuana Laws. Professor Whitebread’s specialty is not drugs, but rather PROHIBITION. A long, but easy, read. Professor Whitebread has a pleasing Virginian accent.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
Hey speller, just because you don’t know how to work a computer is no reason to get upset. Try adding ‘www.’ to the front of that link.
Not all browsers do that automatically for you but that link fully works for everyone else, making you look kinda silly for making your biggest argument that the link is broken in your stupefying defence of this fool and his foolish actions and public comments. I assure you these comments are his and exist, try copy and pasting segments of those quotes into google along with the word ‘bcmarijuanaparty’ I’m sure it will pop up.
Clearly Emery can do just about anything, and because the war on drugs is wrong, he is in your opinion justified.
What’s not clear is whether the majority of his offensive comments and behaviour would sit well with the rest of Canadians, I suspect not.
I’m sure Emery would find it comforting to know that there are still some out there who are dillusional enough to defend his outrageous actions no matter what laws he breaks or who he subjects to harassment or death threats.
Have a seat next to Svend (but watch your jewellery!)
UPDATE: A sure sign of honest brokerage, word has gotten to Emery that his comments are circulating and he has removed what he has said so no one can see it.
Luckily you can’t hide shit from google cache, read it here:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:PGWTRc0MypIJ:bcmarijuanaparty.com/main/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html+bcmarijuanaparty+part+of+me+says&hl=en&client=firefox-a
OR do a google search for ‘bcmarijuanaparty part of me says’
Sorry this is the link:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:PGWTRc0MypIJ:bcmarijuanaparty.com/main/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html+bcmarijuanaparty+part+of+me+says&hl=en&client=firefox-a
Cerridwen, I tried your link again and it does work. I strenuously recommend everyone go to this site and read Marc Emery’s diary. Not only has Cerridwen cherry picked this information, but Cerridwen has TOTALLY MISREPRESENTED these writings and their meaning. For the edification and education of the readers of this thread:
http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/archive/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html
It’s a lie to claim Emery is begging his supporters to kill Judge Retchen.
Emery, human as he is, wrestles with his feelings of vengence because, “The Judge, Judith Retchen, of the Superior Court of Washington D.C. sentenced a man, this man, this quadriplegic with a breathing apparatus, to jail for 10 days � which in itself is appalling � but he died after they removed his breathing apparatus in jail. Can you imagine? The absolute callousness, the heartlessness, the viciousness, the wickedness of a judge who would sentence a quadriplegic person whose whole life is built around suffering, to jail for 10 days � and not that anyone should ever go to jail for marijuana ever, for any reason � but the wickedness inherent in the human being that would send someone to jail in such a compromised state of health, for 10 days, and to have that person die. Jonathan Magbie died in jail. Murdered by the state; murdered by Judge Judith Retchen.”
I can understand Emery’s initial feelings of rage, as he shares them with everyone. Then Emery tells us how he turns away from his vengeful first impressions and sees that evil only begets evil.
Shame, on Cerridwen. Shame, on Judge Retchen.
Thrasymachus, I had a comment prior to yours which started out with the same paragraph. It somehow disappeared.
The link still works, so I see you’re as proficient as I am. It never was my biggest arguement, or any arguement at all. It is now. You never answered my others, did you?
Misdirection, misrepresentation, look at the character of the Drug Warriors. Cowards. Liars. Hollow, factless smears and accusations from morally bankrupt characters. When will you justify killing and imprisoning your fellow citizens because they want to order their own lives?
I want to emphasize, to readers, the importance of Cerridwen misrepresenting Marc Emery’s diary. Think about it. Think about what it says about Cerridwen’s character, to twist this
http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/archive/rethinking.about.a.lot.of.things.html
information while judging Marc Emery with smears and innuendo.
Think about Thrasymachus’ ad hominem attack on my linking failure and Thrasymachus’ avoidance of discussing real issues which have been raised.
If you really want a taste of truly sick minds, head over to DEAwatch.com. I was reading how one thought that making “RU-486” birth control illegal would be a good thing, not because he’s anti-abortion but…..get this…because it would be be driven underground, thereby insuring more work for him and his fellows who rely on prohibition for their paycheck. Take a look. Truly sick minds with guns and badges….it’s frightening.
Mycos
Prohibition Funds Terrorism
It’s long been an observation of mine, one that has repeatedly shown to be accurate by subsequent events; that being that if one side in a debate needs to lie in order to make their point, then they have already lost it.
Mycos
Prohibition Funds Terrorism
After reading this rather lame attempt to discredit Marc Emery and the cannabis reform movement in general for the comparisons being made between the current crack down and scapegoating of the cannabis culture and that of the horrors faced by the Jews from the Nazis only a generation ago. Such comparisons are best made before they are completely fulfilled and realized, rather than afterwards when they will be of little use to the victims. History often repeats, especially when history is not regarded for the important lessons it holds.
Only a few years ago, the American Politician Newt Gingrich (a former pot smoker) suggested that anyone smuggling more than an ounce of the herb into the US should be executed, and former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates said something to the effect of “Casual drug users should be shot”. Republican Representative Dan Burton backed the death penalty for drug traffickers, but when his son Dan II was convicted of felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in 1994, the elder Burton asked the judge for leniency. Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham also advocated the death penalty for drug dealers, until his son Randy was convicted of having 400 pounds of pot. He pled for mercy for his son. Also, there seems little talk on foreign policy, in either Canada or the US, about the execution of drug dealers and users in a number of eastern and middle eastern countries, like China, where their organs are sold afterwards, with the fatal shot depending on the need for what organ was to be salvaged and sold, often to foreign recipients (more money in that than soap)…….
Considering this, is not the Drug War Holocaust already happening and on the threat of intensifying due to the combination of the War on Terror with the War on Drugs? Are the ideas of “Drug War Executions” not almost acceptable on the American political scene already as they have become in other countries in the Mid-East, Asia and Africa ?
The US Prison system currently holds 2.5 million people, that is 1 in every 120 Americans. Comparatively in Canada the ratio is about 1 in every 750. The reason for the over 600% increase in jail population per capita in the US is directly related to the failure of the War on Drugs. With 5% of the World’s population, America harbors more than 25% of the World’s prisoners, making the one time Land of the Free the world’s leading jailer. ( I ask anyone, is there any greater definer of freedom than the amount of people a country holds in its prisons?) Irwin Cotler wants to bring American style drug laws to Canada and if he is successful then we can begin to see massive increases in people jailed for non-violent victimless drug offenses and our jail populations grow by 100%, 200% , 300% until we reach the 600% increase that is being experienced in the USA.
People like Kate who are afraid of this analogy, hold that the difference in numbers is too much, so the analogy does not hold true. I don’t see the need to wait till marijuana users are being taken out and shot on a daily basis, as the usefulness of the analogy will be defeated when the numbers reach those proportions, as well be the chance for change. What is important is to note that the systematic events which lead to cultural genocide are in place, and the fertile ground for an increase in these violations of human rights and liberties has already been laid.
As a blogger, Kates entitled to her own views, But one wonders how a Canadian Justice Minister such as Irwin Cotler, a former human rights lawyer and a man so familiar with cultural scapegoating and persecution would be overcome with the same sort of evil he started out to fight against.
Even a 100% increase in per capita prison populations would be astounding to most Canadians. But a 600% increase in the prison population of our closest neighbor? and Cotler instead of alarming Canadians to this horrible fact, tries to bring Canada on board to the American war on Drugs, and seems intent on seeing a number of Canadians sent to the American Gulag to face 10 years or more for watering plants, selling seeds or using medical marijuana. Further, the direction Mr. Cotler is taking Canadian marijuana policy and his decision regarding the extradition of people associated with this plant goes against that of the Canadians Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs which recommended legalized regulated marijuana distribution and the conclusions of the similar House of Commons report which recommended decimalization, as well as every major Canadian poll on this subject. Mr. Cotler has betrayed Canadian Values and in this area his loyalties lay with the White House Admiinistration and he is the Canadian perpetuator of their insane War on Drugs.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it Kate.
Sincerly Chris Bennett,
Manager of Pot TV