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 World Spirit
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 Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: smack]
#11186282 - 10/05/09 10:21 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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My letter to Judge Martinez (rough draft)...
To: Judge Ricardo S. Martinez
U.S. Courthouse
700 Stewart Street, Suite 13134
Seattle, WA 98101-9906
From: My name and address here
Re: Marc Emery
Date: Oct 4th, 2009
To the Honorable Judge Martinez,
I’m writing today about a Canadian man in his fifties who is, for some strange and contrary reason, being extradited to the Land of the Free where men and women are supposed to be guaranteed liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.
This case involves a Canadian resident who is a Canadian citizen.
This case began under the Bush administration and under questionable intentions.
The man involved has run a Canadian tax-paying business that once sold and mailed cannabis seeds.
The man involved neither harmed anyone and if there was a crime, it was without one victim.
The man involved has been openly and peacefully engaged in activism alongside his business and because of this, he became a scapegoat. He then faced enormous pressure and was absolutely forced to agree to plea bargain.
This case will speak volumes about how we bully other nations, families, and individuals both in America and throughout the World.
This case will speak volumes about how we actually interpret “the pursuit of happiness.”
This case, if not properly aligned, will show that you can pay taxes on your business and not receive legal fortitude from your own nation.
This case, if not properly aligned, will show America is controlling the freedom of the world, a right it should not have nor want. We are proponents of freedom, not thieves of it.
You, your honor, do have the power to make this case a justifiable exception.
You, your honor, do possess the fortitude to push this back to Canada.
Your honor, I ask that you send this case to Canada on the grounds that Canada did not provide Marc with a government spine despite Canada receiving faithfully business and sales taxes that exceeded $500,000 issued provincially and federally in Canada.
Please do not let Marc spend one minute in prison. Refuse the plea bargain on the grounds that extradition is not constitutional for a victimless crime. Refuse the option to federally imprison him in America for a victimless crime while a Canadian citizen and resident. Refuse the extradition entirely.
Thank you for your consideration in this, Judge Martinez. I hope you are with us.
My name
City, State
United States Citizen and OIF Veteran
Could you please let me know you received my letter and reviewed it? My email is xyz .
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11186677 - 10/05/09 11:26 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice letter. 
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: TacticalBongRip]
#11189404 - 10/05/09 06:15 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: smack]
#11193421 - 10/06/09 11:30 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Are you tired of the paranoia involved with having a plant in your own house?
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11193468 - 10/06/09 11:37 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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There's protests organized in every city.. Join the facebook group and see the list. In Seattle, we organized by the Space Needle.
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Vibes]
#11195049 - 10/06/09 03:37 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Vibes said:
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wolf fish said:
fuck emery with a passion. dudes a fag. when you break the law in the open and then run to Canada cause your scared of going to jail. hes not a martyr hes a hypocrite. hope he dies in jail
You should really do some research before posting stuff like this.
I live in van, I've smoked with Marc many many times, and yea, he's a creeper (wraps arms around girls and such) and he's kinda odd (he'll throw a bud into the bowl, torch it with a jet lighter, and then throw the rest of the bud, only hairs and outer crystals for Mr.emery sometimes it seems xD) but it's total bullshit to throw him in jail for selling seeds specially when the last time my friend got seeds, he ordered them from Cali! (they didn't have og kush in at the time, and it was cheaper to online then buy in another store)
I call shenanigans!!!
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"d00d. I'm totally tripping balls."
"Don't attempt to stifle his experimentation because you have a hardon for me." -RogerRabbit
LEARN TENACITY - HAVE PATIENCE.
WITHOUT IT - YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED AT THIS HOBBY. -Agar
THIS SHIT IS MAGICAL TRIPSTALMETH STOP JUDGEMENTING ON MY HABITS
Oh no there aint no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Boom]
#11195061 - 10/06/09 03:39 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Boom said:
Eh what are you going to do...
He ran an illegal business and made millions of dollars off of it.
legal business.
Actually.
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"d00d. I'm totally tripping balls."
"Don't attempt to stifle his experimentation because you have a hardon for me." -RogerRabbit
LEARN TENACITY - HAVE PATIENCE.
WITHOUT IT - YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED AT THIS HOBBY. -Agar
THIS SHIT IS MAGICAL TRIPSTALMETH STOP JUDGEMENTING ON MY HABITS
Oh no there aint no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Ingrimus]
#11195329 - 10/06/09 04:19 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
legal business.
Actually.
How long has "conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance" been legalized?
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11196131 - 10/06/09 06:27 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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when you break the law in the open and then run to canada cause your scared of going to jail. hes not a myrtar hes a hypocrite.
Technically, closeted activists would be hypocritical - if you can still call this activism.
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"The same seeds I sold are being sold right in America . . . There's a terrible hypocrisy at work here," said Emery. "There isn't a single victim in my case, no one who can stand up and say, 'I was hurt by Marc Emery.' No one."
Not a martyr?
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Boom]
#11196187 - 10/06/09 06:35 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Boom said:
Eh what are you going to do...
He ran an illegal business and made millions of dollars off of it.
Do your research, sir. He gave EVERY penny of profit that he made to the movement to decriminalize or to help patients.
He did this transparently and openly, in fact sending the information to both U.S. and Canadian politicians of all types.
The DEA, when he was arrested, said:
"Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow ... to the legalization movement." - Karen Tandy
Marc was arrested not because he supplied seeds. There are many seed supply companies, look around. These are in it for money. Marc gave his money away and thus became a political target.
Marc is the victim of politicligion. Dead ideas and old, misguided values.
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Boom]
#11197815 - 10/06/09 10:30 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Twenty four minutes of powerful statements...watch the very end!
Guys & Gals, if nothing else, print out a Free Marc Emery sheet and mail it to someone, preferably here:
The Honourable Robert Douglas Nicholson
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
284 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0H8
You don't have to be rich
You don't have to be special
You definitely don't want to be paranoid as that's just weak
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11197825 - 10/06/09 10:32 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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We don't have much time. We all need to pitch in. This is your once or twice in a lifetime opportunity to do something practical and possible to change the Earth for good.
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11199824 - 10/07/09 10:04 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Also...
Jodie is now overseeing Marc's Cannabis Culture
Torch Passed to Prince of Pot's Wife
By Janaya Fuller-Evans, The Vancouver Courier - Wednesday, October 7 2009
TAGS: HEADLINE NEWS CANNABIS CULTURE CCHQ JODIE EMERY MARC EMERY
Jodie Emery has replaced husband Marc as sole director of Avalon Sunsplash Ltd. (Photo by Dan Toulgoet)
Jodie Emery, wife of the self-styled Prince of Pot Marc Emery, is moving ahead with business plans for the Cannabis Culture Headquarters store.
Emery is replacing her husband as sole director of Avalon Sunsplash Ltd., the parent company of Cannabis Culture, following his arrest last week.
Marc Emery was taken into custody at B.C.'s Supreme Court Sept. 28. He faces the possibility of extradition to the United States on charges of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and is expected to plead guilty in return for a five-year sentence.
A previous licence application to the city for the business at 307 W. Hastings St. was denied last summer, in part because of her husband's previous convictions on drug-related charges.
The new application should be filed within the next two weeks, according to Emery, who said she's "almost 100 per cent certain" the application will go through, as the majority of city council's problems with the business concerned her husband's involvement.
Emery doesn't have a criminal record, she said.
A search of B.C. court records did not turn up any charges or convictions against Emery.
Council can refuse licence applications if the applicant has been convicted of a crime within the past five years, particularly if the crime relates to the proposed business.
Emery is also maintaining her political career as policing critic for the Green Party of B.C., and is slated to run in the Vancouver South riding in the next federal election.
She said the campaign is intended to inform the public about her platform, not necessarily to win seats.
"I'm not running to get votes. I'm running to get the message out," Emery said.
Avalon Sunsplash's additional business application for the 420 Convenience Store at 316 W. Hastings St. was denied, and the store was shut down, last year.
The company withdrew an application for the Hastings Pot Block's upstairs administrative offices last July because there was no need for a business licence for the political headquarters of the B.C. Marijuana Party, according to lawyer Kirk Tousaw.
Tousaw, who is representing Avalon Sunsplash, said he expects the licence for Cannabis Culture's retail store to be approved.
"I can't think of a reason why the city would refuse a business licence," said Tousaw, who is also executive director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation.
Cannabis Culture attracts tourists and reflects the culture of the Hastings neighbourhood, according to Tousaw.
He added that there are at least half a dozen similar stores in Vancouver. "Tourists leave, maybe having bought some hemp clothes or literature," Tousaw said. "I don't think the city should be in the business of [restricting commerce]."
Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs said city staff would review the application when it comes in.
He added that he does not have any reservations about the licence application right now but will form an opinion once staff has presented the relevant information to council.
"I can't say I have any at this point, not knowing anything behind it," Meggs said.
Marc Emery's lawyers are filing a submission to fight his extradition to the U.S. Tousaw said it could be a month or more before a decision is made.
- Article from The Vancouver Courier.
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: smack]
#11201418 - 10/07/09 02:42 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ingrimus
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#11233048 - 10/12/09 11:56 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Selling pot seeds is legal in Canada.
if emery was illegal, so is pretty much EVERY SHROOMERY SPONSOR.
he didn't sell the pot seeds to grow, he sold them for people to make hemp seed extracts and such, RIGHT!?!?!?
right. just like all the grow logs here were done from mushrooms they just had growing around, with no knowledge of their legality.
and they ordered the spore syringes from the web to study under their microscopes.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON.
NOBODY GROWS MUSH OR POT FOR ILLEGAL USES, ITS ALL ACCIDENTS.
Shit man, that seed totally wrapped itself in wet paper towel and germinated then planted itself man!
fuck! I better trim this bud so the plant doesn't fall down from the weight!
huh, some animal could eat this, better burn it and dispose of it!
fuck man! we can't burn it in the field, it might start a wildfire, anybody got a burning bucket?
naw dude, but I got this bowl you can burn it in, it's glass so I guess it'll work, and we can filter out the really bad shit before we put it into the air if we fill it with water first!
riiiiight.
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"d00d. I'm totally tripping balls."
"Don't attempt to stifle his experimentation because you have a hardon for me." -RogerRabbit
LEARN TENACITY - HAVE PATIENCE.
WITHOUT IT - YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED AT THIS HOBBY. -Agar
THIS SHIT IS MAGICAL TRIPSTALMETH STOP JUDGEMENTING ON MY HABITS
Oh no there aint no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.
Edited by Ingrimus (10/12/09 12:00 PM)
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: durian_2008]
#11233063 - 10/12/09 11:59 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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durian_2008 said:
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when you break the law in the open and then run to canada cause your scared of going to jail. hes not a myrtar hes a hypocrite.
uhm, when the fuck was he in the states?
he's lived in Canada for quite a long time.
You gonna go bitch out my neighbour cause he ditched 'nam and hates that they're in iraq?
douchemuffin.
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"d00d. I'm totally tripping balls."
"Don't attempt to stifle his experimentation because you have a hardon for me." -RogerRabbit
LEARN TENACITY - HAVE PATIENCE.
WITHOUT IT - YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED AT THIS HOBBY. -Agar
THIS SHIT IS MAGICAL TRIPSTALMETH STOP JUDGEMENTING ON MY HABITS
Oh no there aint no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes for good.
Edited by Ingrimus (10/12/09 12:01 PM)
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World Spirit
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Ingrimus]
#11239869 - 10/13/09 01:27 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://freemarc.ca/
You can write Marc to his Vancouver jail address.
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: World Spirit]
#11243366 - 10/13/09 10:25 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Some of the states in the US have medicinal marijuana growers. Even if the intent was to produce marijuana, it is not necessarily illegal.
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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
- Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now.
Conquer's Club
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: ScavengerType]
#11250900 - 10/15/09 02:20 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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This is messed up!!!
I can't belive they would extradite him when he had a legal business and payed taxes...
Isn't there some kind of signature campaign to free him?
We shall not give up before Emery is free
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Re: Marc Emery in jail awaiting extradition to U.S.!! [Re: Ingrimus]
#11254054 - 10/15/09 02:24 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
durian_2008 did not say:
when you break the law in the open and then run to canada cause your scared of going to jail. hes not a myrtar hes a hypocrite.
I was quoting someone else, Ingrimus, but I've also mixed up names before. 
That was wolf fish, who calls himself King of the Jews.
Being that I'm a Messianic Jew, I found that doubly offensive, though I understand that he has a Constitutional right to voice his opinion, under the First Amendment.
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Ingrimus said:
uhm, when the fuck was he in the states?
he's lived in Canada for quite a long time.
You gonna go bitch out my neighbour cause he ditched 'nam and hates that they're in iraq?
douchemuffin.
I understand that the founding fathers of the US were strict non-interventionists, and, though I am not a person of interest, I am open to expatriating to a free-market country, which honors my civil liberties.
From what I've read, that probably won't be Canada, because they offer no guarantee of sanctuary.
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