Marc Emery's Extradition Hearing is Set

[Durchii]

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...

I have little physical beliefs in God.. And what I've seen in my life has led me to question God's purpose.. But I also have no animosity towards God, and I am praying for Marc Emery.. Because it is a sin and a harm to the world to imprison the BC 3.

Please, go to http://cannabisculture.com and donate for Marc Emery's legal defense. If the forum administrators have a problem with the link, I'll take it down.. But please don't close this thread.

[emagdnim13]

what a shame.


haha, they say he's responsible for 1.1 million pounds. how the FUCK do you come up with that?

track down his seed orders, and ask the growers how much they harvested?

or just make up a REALLY high amount of pot so no one would have compassion for such a person.


disgusting.

[Lil Loko]

i dont believe that Marc Emery should be extradited and tried in the U.S. he sold seeds IN CANADA, therefore he should be tried... IN CANADA!! this reminds me of the extradition of Jorge Ochoa....:

In Spain . . . you're faced with extradition. How were you able to beat the Americans?

I think that I won because I was right. . . . God helped me and I was right. I was being charged with drug trafficking between Colombia and the United States. And the natural thing is that one should be judged in one's own country, not in a country that is not one's own. So it was a very hard legal battle and thank God we won . . . .and I was extradited over here.

[Durchii]

Originally Posted by emagdnim13

what a shame.


haha, they say he's responsible for 1.1 million pounds. how the FUCK do you come up with that?

track down his seed orders, and ask the growers how much they harvested?

or just make up a REALLY high amount of pot so no one would have compassion for such a person.


disgusting.

Numbers and statistics speak louder than letters and words.

[Durchii]

Originally Posted by Lil Loko

i dont believe that Marc Emery should be extradited and tried in the U.S. he sold seeds IN CANADA, therefore he should be tried... IN CANADA!! this reminds me of the extradition of Jorge Ochoa....:

He shipped them all over the world.. To the US as well.. That's why the DEA wants to rape him.

[Lil Loko]

Originally Posted by Durchii

He shipped them all over the world.. To the US as well.. That's why the DEA wants to rape him.

i know that... but when i mean "IN CANADA", i mean that that is where he is from... he didnt live in the U.S... he operated in Canada, not the United States... therefore, i think he should be tried in Canada.

[StonedCrusader]

Originally Posted by Lil Loko

i know that... but when i mean "IN CANADA", i mean that that is where he is from... he didnt live in the U.S... he operated in Canada, not the United States... therefore, i think he should be tried in Canada.

I don't think hes in trouble in Canada I think hes in trouble here.

[Rasta_Man]

I'd smuggle in herb for his everyday.

[cheebaa]

If we ould only feel as strongly as marc emery does about pot- we would all be in a better place.

You know what our "Prince of Pot" was cocky and arogent, to this I say good.


Now for our existence to survive it is time for all of us to be cocky and arogent.

Come on, smoking marijuana is NOT BAD- WE need to help out in this fight. Smoking pot/selling seeds is not horrible- fucking people killing others, people killing themselves, goverments killing people, famine killing people, disease killing people- these are issues worth taking up our leaders time, and gaining peoples attention.


Not marc emery has sold seeds to the citizens of the US..... Big fucking deal.

[AK Infinity]

I never bought any of Marc's seeds because I always thought that they were too overpriced but I think his magazine Cannabis Culture is the best out there on the subject of Marijuana. Love him or hate him he's done a lot for the community and it would be a shame if he were extradited to America to serve a life sentence. He's sold a lot of seeds and if a fraction of the people that bought his seeds stood up and donated or protested this action by the Federal Government they would be speaking with a voice that could not be ignored.

How many more nonviolent people have to go to federal prison and waste their lives and taxpayer dollars before users, growers, and people that generally believe Marijuana isn't that harmful stand up?

The fate of one, is the fate of all.

Q. "I've been told that the percentage of marijuana in prison is a very small percentage of the total number of people in prison for other drug offenses."

~Interviewer~

A. "It's a pretty large number, in the sense that, certainly, in the federal system, about one out of every six federal inmates is in federal prison for marijuana. That's a very large number. There are more people now in federal prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses. Out of the 1.1 million people in American prisons, the marijuana offenders are not the majority. But there are a lot of them. And certainly, at a time when there's a shortage of prison space and when murderers are serving on average about six years in prison, it seems absurd to have non-violent marijuana offenders locked up in those large numbers."

~Eric Schlosser-Frontline, "Busted - America's War on Marijuana"~

Stay free and stay green.

[Blazin'Talon]

Never bought his seeds and never read the magazine, but you can be damn sure I'll be sending letters to Ottawa and the media. And when I get working full time again I'll be donating to his lawyer as well.

It's about time a lot more pro-marijuana people stood up, and I can only hope this encourages them.

[Ars moriendi]

Originally Posted by Durchii

He shipped them all over the world.. To the US as well.. That's why the DEA wants to rape him.

if anything he helped poor families and they inturn made it possible by creating a high profit market for pot

if it aint illegal it's not worth more than the soil it's planeted in

americans seriously need to wake the fuck up and contest this disgusting bullshit here 'n now

junkies are only reality when their access to the drug is limited or only reached by truely criminal means... lose the iron fisted policies in place to create such states of mind and leave people the fuck alone period no spying no bullshit

hell another prime example is meth and crack

meth is risky to produce if untrainted in poor settings yet it has profit potential that pushed the poor to create it

crack isn't as pure as a more dangerous chemical basing of cocaine

just stop the shit and create quality control via alcohol/cigarette like purchase of drugs in general and you won't fucking have a problem cuz no one will buy this street level impure garbage!

[Floydian]

At least we have a martyr of some sort.

[chronictoker]

Marc Emery is no different than any other international businessman. I don't see how they can put him in jail, whilst others are free to sell their products. Marijuana is a product, no different than booze or pharmaceuticals or oil or McDonalds. Marijuana is a legitimate product, and Emery has helped immensely to secure marijuana as a legal product. I foresee a time when u will be able to purchase marijuana from your local drive thru liquor store. This is going to happen with the help of ppl like Marc Emery. It's not only possible, but an easily achievable goal, unlike equality this is something which we can easily produce (marijuana) and thus, as supply and demand grows, legitimacy will follow. Before the antidrug movement in the 1980s marijuana was very close to legalization, and with today's technology, and an organized movement, It's ten times easier to achieve our marijuana goals.

[Durchii]

Our plan is already in motion. After my sister and I get enough money saved.. We'll be touring to Canada and starting our own shop.. There we will fight for marijuana liberation by speaking at rallies and doing what Marc Emery did (And still does) that so drastically changed Canada's views on cannabis.


The reason I am doing this is we need more people like Marc.. We can't all just revolve around him and follow. We need more leaders, and me and my sister are prepared to lead and teach.

By the way, when we do open a shop.. Anybody that donates over 20 dollars gets a free bubbler. Just a thought.