Our evil DEA is trying to extradite the publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine

[Rocketman]

Any of you creative folk have an idea how we can help the BC3 cannabis activists?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4831.html

Extradition Hearing Begins May 28th 2007
by Marc Emery

The BC3 face an Extradition Hearing that will last 5 days. The USA seeks to extradite them to face life in US federal prison. Please help!


In what is scheduled to be a five-day hearing in a BC Supreme Court, Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams will begin the USA Extradition hearing on May 28th, 2007. The US seeks to take them into the US to stand trial and face ten years to life in the US federal prison system for marijuana seed sales in Canada.

The DEA on CNN's 'Lou Dobbs' claimed I was perhaps the largest marijuana producer of all time because of my seed distribution activities. "We believe he is responsible for over 100,000 pounds of marijuana for every year he was in business." Eleven years in the seed business times 100,000 pounds is 1.1 million pounds, worth conservatively $2.5 billion US.

If its true, I'm proud of bringing such wealth to our community, and using the money that was sent for those seeds to thwart the US government in elections, conferences, activities around the globe. And remarks, such as the ones made on CNN, guarantee that I get the highest sentence possible in a US federal court; and since I am proud of my activities, and wish I did even more, I am in no way repentent.

The future process works like this: the hearing lasts for a week. A verdict from the Extradition Hearing will be made in June, July or August 2007, when the judge comes back with a "Committal" or "Refusal" order. If it comes back "Commit", then the political phase of influencing Canada's Justice Minister to refuse the extradition begins.

I and everyone who supports us has to lobby the Canadian Justice Minister to Refuse Extradition, because he has the power to make that decision. There are many great reasons why he should agree with you, and will need to be overwhelmed with letters and calls urging him to refuse extradition. But he could decide immediately, as I'm sure he will, and can order me, or all three of us, surrendered by September or November 2007.

Then we can appeal that decision to the BC Court of Appeal. If I lose there, it is pretty well over. That process would take us to November 2008, the month of the US elections. A Canadian election will happen by then also. Alberto Gonzales, the Bush-appointed Attorney-General, has made me a special target and the prosecutions are being supervised by the Western Washington District Attorney John McKay, another hardline Bush appointee. A change in US President or Attorney-General could be very influential to my outcome. A change in the Canadian government is less likely to produce a change because both the current Conservative government and previous Liberal government want me sent to a US Gulag.

My lawyer Ian Donaldson is an expert extradition lawyer. He's very overbooked and overworked, and has received very little money, but he works constantly on figuring out a way to stop the extradition. If I were to ask people any one thing it would be to send a check or money order for $25 or $50 to Ian Donaldson, Donalson-Jette, 490-1090 Homer St. Vancouver BC, Canada, V6B 2W9. You can make any donation out to "Ian Donaldson In Trust (Marc Emery)". Nonetheless, great as my lawyer is, he admits I'm 98% doomed. Even though I'm a nice guy who hasn't hurt anyone and there are no victims here, the law is not in my favor. So my time is now going through the hourglass...




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From the Department of Justice Canada website:

Correspondence to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

If you wish to send correspondence addressed to the Minister through the regular mail, please use the following mailing address:

The Honourable Robert Nicholson
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
284 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8

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The Extradition Hearing Begins on May 28th, 2007 and will last for 5 days.
Please read here for more information.

How To Help!

- Information and updates about the extradition case are always posted in the CC online Extradition forum

- To make a donation to the BC3 (Marc, Greg, Michelle) or to buy a No Extradition shirt, visit the CC Store.

- Print a petition, or write a letter! You can email Jodie Emery and ask for the petition file or the information handout. Send them in to us (address provided with files), as we need copies for court to prove that there is strong opposition to extradition!






The DEA's statement about Emery's arrest:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4685.html

[Pat K]

Life in prison for selling seeds.


Yep they hate us for our freedom.

[Dreepa]

Is he breaking any Canadian laws?  Shouldn't they try him if he did?

Those evil evil seeds.

[Rocketman]

Is he breaking any Canadian laws?  Shouldn't they try him if he did?

Those evil evil seeds.

Marc's whole story is here.  What a friggin' activist this guy has been!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-xBGxSHAyc6.MkEqFJiju?p=9

[Tom Sawyer]

Yeah the guy is a dynamo... changed the world.

[earthhaven]

A quick letter has been written and will go out tomorrow.

Free talk Live's interview with him:

http://www.freetalklive.com/files/emery.mp3

[LiveFree]

So he sold some SEEDS, for a PLANT, to VOLUNTARY CUSTOMERS, in CANADA, and the US federal government wants to put him in a US federal prison???

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Yeah, I guess we're tossing out the ol' 6th amendment yet again.  Shit, let's just get rid of the jury part, too.  And the public part.  You know what?  Screw the trial, just summarily shoot the bastard.

You know what?  WTF, just tear up the whole damn piece of paper.  We're not even using it.

[aries]

It's a whole new world.
The legal system is panicking because technology often makes it impossible to determine where crimes were committed or who even committed them. It's wonderful.

[Tom Sawyer]

The Prince of Pot Makes a Pitch to Conservatives
Jacob Sullum | February 22, 2008

http://reason.com/blog/show/125129.html

the effort to arrest and extradite him began after he heckled John Walters during the U.S. drug czar's visit to Vancouver in November 2002. "That's really what this is all about," he says. "Three days later, his friends at the Vancouver Police Department opened an investigation of me." This is not as far-fetched as it might sound, since the day of Emery's arrest in July 2005 DEA head Karen Tandy admitted it was politically motivated, implying that Emery was being punished for his activism and philanthropy:

Today's arrest of Mark [sic] Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.

As I noted last month, Emery has tentatively accepted a Justice Department deal under which he would serve five years and his two co-defendants (one of whom uses marijuana to relieve the symptoms of Crohn's disease) would be released.