Pubdate: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 Source: Interlake Spectator, The (CN MB) Copyright: 2005 The Interlake Spectator Contact: http://www.interlakespectator.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2164 Author: Chris Buors MARIHUANIAC A PERFECT SCAPEGOAT Dear Editor: The Drug Enforcement Agency used the little known Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters to have the Prince of Pot, Marc Emery and friends, arrested for conspiracy to sell cannabis seeds. For good measure the DEA would like to make Marc responsible for every plant those seeds produced and every dollar anyone in the underground has ever earned. Marc is the perfect scapegoat for all of America problems. Canadians ought to be concerned about extraditing citizens to face the American Gulag. The American prison system trained the guards at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison. The Americans have adopted the moral code of the Christian Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisition. Canadians would do our duty as a friend to wash the mote from the American eye. The American have 'information bombed' themselves back into the Stone Age as far repealing drug prohibition is concerned. The Americans will seek a term of 10 years to life for Marc Emery putting him into the Karla Homolka sentencing range. That ought to shock the conscious of every Canadian. Moral righteousness blinds Americans to any semblance of justice. Reasoned arguments have been lost to the passions of fear. And what do Americans fear? Well, everything. The law was meant to assist in 'Criminal Matters'. The Americans have not been able to distinguish between sin and crime for a very long time. Canadians ought not feed into that fear by delivering up sinners like Marc Emery. Chris Buors President Manitoba Marijuana Party - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake