Selfless: Aging Canadian soldier being pushed in his wheelchair to Vancouver’s cenotaph:
Selfish: Wife of imprisoned drug millionaire, Marc Emery, failed Green Party candidate, and vacuous pothead, Jodie Emery:
Mrs. Emery was waving her Canadian flag quietly throughout much of the 2011 Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver until the end when the attention seeking #$!@% couldn’t help herself and started lecturing the soldiers and civilians below about the perils of war. It was all along the lines of this banner that had been displayed beside her the entire time:
What a “deep”, “meaningful” message, eh? So incredibly simplistic is the thinking of Radical Lefties like Dear Jodie. All who agree with such intellectual emptiness must, by definition, support the horrific oppression of victims around the world by totalitarian regimes. After all, one mustn’t ever go to war, because … repeat with me . . . “War = Death”. If you look up “Useful Idiot” in the dictionary you’ll see pot-induced smile.
But what would one expect from a person who recently on Twitter offered these gems:
– “War is costly big-government & anti-liberty…”
– “Harper & Cons are such war-mongers!”
– “But the prison is making budget cuts all over, since the USA is sinking into a hole of war-ravaged despair. So many abuses…”
Besides every single one of these comments being a lie, you’d find more depth by dipping a thimble into a single raindrop.
Brain dead pothead 101!!! And on top of it, insulting the very people that fought to preserve a society where this brain dead twit could do what she did and not have a .30 cal. hole appear in her forehead.
Lest we forget…that the very thing these people fought and died for was the right to speak our minds and not fear repression by totalitarian regimes. Seems to me like you are asking for her to be quiet because you disagree with her opinions. Seems like the free speech you claim to advocate is only free for those who agree with you. Agree or disagree?
Ryan:
Apparantly you missed the class on “propriety”…ie…there is a time and a place for everything. Remembrance Day is not the time for some vacuous, pot-addled b!tch to promote their pet causes.
NOW do you get it?
Free speech is about your right to say what you want and not have to fear prosecution from the state. It does not mean you get to say what you want and be free from criticism.
Want to say it, go ahead. Those who disagree are equally free to do so.
Emery and his spouse have the temerity to presume they should be able to do and say anything without repercussions, and that nobody else has the authority or right to talk back to them.
News flash, breaking the law is not free speech, and insulting behavior does not get a free pass.
Look on the bright side.
The amount of time she spent making an ass of herself protesting was equal to the amount of time she was NOT out there selling drugs to children.
I don’t have an issue with Ms. Emery. While she may speak from the left, war is hell. She reminds Remembrance Day celebrants (more about that word in a moment) that while the deeds and sacrifices of the men and women who are sent into harm’s way, that harm’s way is indeed, a horrible place. Every soldier who’s been in theatre gets a horrific lesson in what war is when the first bomb strikes close to home. One’s perspective is never the same after that. As thold adage goes, “they also serve, who only stand and wait”. Wait for loved cones to come home, wait for peace to break out, wait for the end to the terroe in combatant’s and victim’s lives alike.
At the service at our office this week (which is elaborate and reverent – piper, trooping of the colours, speakers of conflicts past and present, hymns and prayers, and a display detailing every casualty of the effort in Afghanistan), The emcee had a little difficulty finding the right word for what we were doing, and tripped into “celebration”. It was an innocent, loss for words, choice, but seemed to provide a bit of a discord.
Yes, it was a celebration of the lives of those who served and perished, but there loss is not something to celebrate.
The emcee was a young(er) woman who did not have any direct experience with any of the conflicts, and indeed from any at all, either though age, friends or relatives, and young enough to not yet know the depth of loss that will come later when she begins to lose relatives, friends.
Remembrance Day is not a celebration. Its a very sombre reminder that what we take for granted is bought and fought for with blood. We should fight as hard for peace, as for war. Ms. Emery is not wrong in that respect. What really matters, is that both sides have an earned right, for which we honour those who’ve scarificed to maintain it.
Phantom idiocies aside, she is a vacuous moron who so richly deserves to be a green party candidate.
My her drug peddling hubby find comfort with Bubba in a comfy US jail because he so richly deserves that.
And for all Veterans and spectators who were there on Friday, we should never forget the sacrifices made by those who served are what provide the opportunity for pin headed idiots to express their puddle deep thoughts.
If you want peace, be prepared for war.
I don’t know which is stronger – the urge to puke or the urge to spit.
Louise and Bruce, exactly.
Mrs. Emery and her husband deserve each other.
Btw, to the moron @ 9:36, many of us have.
November 11 is Canada’s national day of recognition and honour for those killed in conflicts serving their country. Could we beat the drum for free speech on another day?
I’m pretty sure pot has killed fewer folks then alcohol, anyone who is against pot just because big daddy government say so is a true slave and you are welcome to your servitude. Some laws need to be broken.
Perhaps no one told her that
SURRENDER = DEATH TOO
When we win we let them live and much more.
If they ever win we are toast.
Naive doesn’t begin to cover this fool.
I used to thing war was horrid and we should be able live without it, but I grew up and began to understand human nature and that there are megalomaniacal ;psychopaths out there who get control of a nation and then they go pick a big fight,
Hitler was a good example, so is Stalin and Mao to name three of the bigs.
Here is an article profiling my father-in-law and what he did as a fighter pilot against HItler.
War Hero
For that, I show respect,
I see there are still some guys who can’t understand the difference between:
A) People who willfully breach propriety like Jody Emery being loudly told to f- off, and
B) Government agencies dragging you into court and fining you tens of thousands of dollars for something you said.
These are different things, goofs. Grow a grey cell.
Where would we be without the inalienable right to be an asshole?
And to suffer the consequences.
Yes Phantom, being prosecuted/persecuted for what you say and having your inane comments deleted by the person who owns/pays for the web site is the same thing.
Got something to say, buy your own domain and server space and say it until your hearts content.
What is it with you people who think free speech means somebody else has to pay for it?
By the way, the above comment was for the fake Phantom @9:32, not the guy @10:37 who was spot on.
“cdn immigration under the Harpoon regime has seen fit to summarily EXCLUDE an afghan interpreter (who garnered great praise form his Cdn military handlers). why? uh, because he practised some free speech and went to the media with his plight.”
I guess he didn’t pass the IQ test. Stupid or what? Afghanistan’s future lies in leaving educated people there. I’m not sure why we took even one interpreter.
I reject the jejune division of humanity into the “selfless” and “selfish”.
I don’t think there is any such thing as a “selfless” person (who is healthy, that is).
I include the iconic Mother Teresa in that view.
I think that old man in the wheelchair would be embarrassed by that concept.
Yes, respect our surviving WW2 warriors but can we please stop deifying them, stop making them blush in their dotage and their lonely graves.
Emery should not be in JAIL anymore than should that farmer who sold wheat outside the CWB.
Sure war is inevitable but also more easily entered into with our open-ended fiat-currency gubment-bank cartel, what?
Does anyone here doubt that the economic implosion is at least partly due to the tragically unnecessary Iraq and A’stan wars.
I can fully understand Mrs. Emery’s anger.
I’m pretty sure those World War II vets, and now our Afghanistan vets understand fully what war means. So much so its hard to get them to actually talk about it. So putting up a sign that says “War = Death” seems an odd stupidity to me. If you’ve lost friends in battle you would know that war can result in death. These guys are acutely aware that war might have resulted in their own death, and yet they went anyhow! God Bless veterans.
“the other thing that galls me about right wingers is how so many of them are so gung ho about war. except when THEY are the ones expected to get in the range of the artillery shells.”
Of course this statement is absolutely incorrect. Lefties have gotten us into many wars, like South Africa, WWII, Korea, Afghanistan. The Cons got us into WWI.
US – lefties WWII, Korea, Vietnam – the biggies. Cons Iraq and Afghanistan.
I’m still gobsmacked that a Canadian citizen is sitting in an American prison for breaking American laws while residing in Canada. Are we a sovereign nation, or not?
I say this as someone with no use for pot or the retards who abuse it.
“If you’ve lost friends in battle you would know that war can result in death.”
Exactly. It’s galling these twerps feel they have the moral status to lecture veterans on this reality. It’s not deifying veterans to recognize their superior experience in this area. Equally galling, of course, is the moronic suggestion that her anger about drug laws should be expressed at a Remembrance ceremony.
Save your sympathy. Emery is a brain-damaged attention whore. Not only are his wounds self-inflicted, he intentionally sought out arrest. He wanted to be a martyr, declared he and his cause to be the equivalent of MLK and the civil rights movement.
Then, when he got everything he wanted, changed his mind. Well, perhaps he got more than he bargained for, them’s the chances you take when you choose to willingly break the law.
And to pile hypocrisy on hypocrisy, demanded rescue from the cruel Amerikkkans by the same government he publicly scorned.
Let him rot. If Emery wants to change pot laws, he can run for office.
Kate,
You do not just protect the children or dogs that speak kindly of you.
Let him rot. If Emery wants to change pot laws, he can run for office.`
Bad laws are made to be broken in order to show their hypocritical and arbitrary stoooopidity.
Isn`t this how women fought for our rights..by breaking the law of the day…
If you are a slave to pot, pot laws need to be broken? It’s just bizarre how substances can take over people’s lives. A pothead=an alcoholic, typically an anti-social underachieving asshole.
It’s about propriety,as someone said earlier. IF Emery had any class she’d have found another venue to make her point,which she’s free to do because of the veterans she insulted.
To those who disagree,what would you have said if I had attended Jack Layton’s funeral carrying a sign that said “Good riddance to the commie S.O.B.”,which I’d never do out of respect for the grieving,BUT it was my RIGHT to do so, wasn’t it?
I attended the Remembrance Day ceremonies in North Delta this year,with my two brothers,one a Veteran,and my 91 year old Mother, a 75 year Legion member,whose Dad was one of the founders of that organization, WW1 cavalry veteran. My Dad served in WW2,died of cancer in 1994.
The service featured a cadet corps,and I was pleased to see many Asian kids in the corps,they looked great, representing the future of our Country,through the military. Attendance was about a thousand, all very sober and respectful.
When it ended,a cute little five year old girl came up to Mom and handed her a hand-made card with a poppy and the words,”Thank You”.
I haven’t seen Mom with such a smile in a long time,she was very touched,as we all were by the little girl’s gesture. Mom held that card all the way home.
There were no activists at that ceremony,just a lot of people of all ethnic backgrounds,paying respect to the memory of the soldiers who gave so much for us.
Looking at that crowd,and all those young people,it gave me a very positive feeling that there IS hope for the future generations and our Country.
In the meantime, we have to tolerate the actions of self-centered assholes like Ms.Emery,as it’s her RIGHT .
Considering the Suffragettes threw acid and committed arson that’s not the brilliant analogy you believe, Grey Lady. (They also hated coloured immigrants and religious minorities. Ask the eugenicist Famous Five and Margaret Sanger.)
So, is it okay for me to kill Morgenthaler then if breaking the law to change the law is so wonderful?
No Dandy it is not,
Breaking the law to grow a substance that was perfectly legal when these men went to war for our FREEDOMS is not the same as killing an individual. I suspect that even you might sus the fine subtle difference presented.
Thank you Grey Lady for the much needed injection of reality.
So using that logic we should break the law because the death penalty and corporal punishment used to be legal?Slightly off topic, we are constantly told about the dangers not only of smoking, but of second hand smoke. This danger has from the pressure of interest groups, motivated many levels of govenment to restrict smokers in an effort to mitigate the harm caused by smoking.
If Emery was soooooo concerned about humanity, why does he and his spouse advocate for smoking?
Smoking = death.
“Breaking the law to grow a substance that was perfectly legal when these men went to war.”
1923? Which men? They’re all dead. And I don’t believe the fought for the right to smoke pot.
“War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil”, wrote George Orwell, who had been a soldier in the Spanish Civil War.
The worst bloodlettings have been crimes of peace or, like the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis,
irrelevant to war and interfering with conduct of war. Stalin, Mao, did their worst killings in peace.
Joesph your logic is illogical.
Having Marc sent to USA jail for breaking their laws here in our own sovereign nation is the same as sending a woman that drove a car in Canada to Saudi Arabia to be whipped a hundred times by their religious police..
dmorris, exactly and thank you.
Mrs Emery can spew her bile on another day and I will defend her right to do so, as much as she makes me want to puke.
She’s bit out of her station, but her sign is basically right. And you really shouldn’t talk of stupid empty statements and then make a stupid statement like All who agree with such intellectual emptiness must, by definition, support the horrific oppression of victims around the world by totalitarian regimes. Just because we don’t want to go to war with them doesn’t mean we support those evil regimes. War is extremely costly and does empower the state. MND is also right these ceremonies are becoming maudlin and there is no good reason for Emery to be charged with anything unless you think indulging Kate’s authoritarian power fantasies is a good reason.
37 but who’s being picky
John Lewis @ 12:47, exactly and George Orwell sums it up precisely by writing “War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil”.
Re the bad laws are made to be broken arguement.
I guess it depends on what laws you are talking about and who thinks they should be broken. NAMBLA has some ideas on that.
Nothing was going to happen to Emry in Canada – and certainly not while he resided in BC.
If Emery wants to peddle his dope here, and the courts want to let him get away with it, and the legislators do nothing to toughen up the laws – well lucky for Mr. Emery.
Emery was selling an illegal substance into the US market, from the safety of the Canadian side of the border – while beaking off about it and giving American authorities the finger.
Like it or not the Americans have stiff penalties they enforce when it comes to drugs. A prececent needed to be set that you could not break American law from the safety of Canada and its largely unenforced pot laws.
And I would guess that that was made emminently clear to the Canadian Government.
The only people who know just what kind of hell war is are those who fought in it. Thousands of them have been to hell, and brought the memories back with them.
Me no Dhimmi – which of the veterans are you speaking of when you say “Yes, respect our surviving WW2 warriors but can we please stop deifying them, stop making them blush in their dotage and their lonely graves.”?
Who do you men by that? Those who didn’t do any actual fighting but still attend the Remembrance service? Or do you mean those who did serve in the field of battle and suffer the consequences still?
I’ve news for you Dhimmi: they don’t blush. They’re grateful. As Canadians they’re unused to this kind of attention, that’s all. Yes, even in their dotage, their memories continue to haunt, but a quiet “thank you” is all it takes to show our gratitude without stirring up those memories.
A 95 yr old veteran from my town goes into the schools (the only one doing so)and he won’t tell the children the true horrors of war. And it’s not just to protect them, but also because he knows after each visit, it takes a few night to clear his mind. That’s a great price to pay at his age, when he should be able to put it all behind him. But we need to know that war is neither glamourous nor glorious.
Re the bad laws are made to be broken arguement.
I guess it depends on what laws you are talking about and who thinks they should be broken. NAMBLA has some ideas on that.
Nothing was going to happen to Emery in Canada – and certainly not while he resided in BC.
If Emery wants to peddle his dope here, and the courts want to let him get away with it, and the legislators do nothing to toughen up the laws – well lucky for Mr. Emery.
Emery was selling an illegal substance into the US market, from the safety of the Canadian side of the border – while beaking off about it and giving American authorities the finger.
Like it or not the Americans have stiff penalties they enforce when it comes to drugs. A precedent needed to be set that you could not break American drug laws from the safety of Canada and its largely unenforced pot laws.
And I would guess that that was made emminently clear to the Canadian Government.
war, when executed sucessfully, (if it can be seen as sucessfull)acts as a deterent to future “crimes” perpetuated agaisnt man
thus this nonsense about wars death and evilness needs context if one wants to use it
Grey Lady
pot ain’t quit as benign as some would believe, so if one does not like the LAW, one uses the political route, and breaking that law is not the political route (yes I’v used pot, and have friends that still, and believe we need a change of law, but think that emery deserves what he got)
can we please stick to comparing apples to apples. Comparing an act that agresses on others, especially innocent children to an act that agresses on no one is not worthy of adult discussion. Just to be clear when I tried pot in high school it just made me sleepy and have no interest for myself.
I just noticed that Mrs Emery is wearing a white poppy. Not surprising.
GYM,
Nothing is benign as some would believe, not pot, not alcohol, not sugar, not fats, most medications. I am not arguing harmlessness, I am arguing freedom to imbibe the same as the other mentioned items. Well fats, salt and sugar are next on the list if the heart and stroke foundation has it’s way.
BTW, you know women in Canada got the right to vote federally because of the First World War don’t you?
Yes if Canadian women (mostly nurses) we good enough to die for their country then they ought to have the vote no?
@ Grey Lady,
My grandfather who was very well decorated from WWII, multiple acts of bravery and escaped twice from captivity agreed very much with what your point is. He hated war. He accepted that removing Hitler was a necessity but he strongly frowned and disagreed with many of our dubious adventures overseas. He also felt that our oppression of Germany after WWI helped Hitler get into power.
He knew what he was talking about. Personally I’m well familiar with the effects and management of bullet wounds…
As to Mark Emery, I don’t smoke pot but I support his right and the rest of his followers to make and smoke as much pot as they can buy with their own money. Its called freedom, either you support it or you don’t.
We have reciprocating extradition laws for a reason, that criminals from another jurisdiction, cannot hide out in another country to avoid their crimes.
Burns and Rafay, the lying murderers come to mind.
Emery knew exactly what he was doing, and the consequences possible. If he wasn’t prepared to face justice, he shouldn’t have sold his seeds across the border angering a law enforcement environment that is known for its stiff, draconian drug prosecution laws. Given Emery’s propensity for the love of pot, he was just too stoned to fully comprehend his own stupidity. Pot does that to you.
Damn, that flame burns when you get too close to it! He reaped what he sowed.
And as for ‘bad laws’, then, if you don’t like it, get your party to form government, and repeal/change the law. Until then, accept the consequences for willful ignorance of legitimate laws.
When you speak that way, GL, you use the same excuses that BCTF/CUPE/leftwing nutbar org. uses when it thinks its above the law.