Pubdate: Fri, 12 Aug 2005
Source: South Delta Leader (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 South Delta Leader
Contact:  http://www.southdeltaleader.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1241

EMERY PORTRAYED AS 'PERVERSE MARTYR'

Editor:

Thank you for lending a voice of reason in this obnoxious debate over the 
arrest of Marc Emery.Other news organizations have blindly embraced and 
stoked the hostility towards U.S. authorities expressed by Emery's 
degenerate flock of supporters, characterizing him as some perverse martyr.

The argument that there has been an encroachment of Canadian sovereignty is 
utterly vacuous.If Canada is to successfully combat social evils like drug 
trafficking then it is imperative that our police forces work with their 
counterparts abroad.Vancouver police were acting on behalf of the U.S. Drug 
Enforcement Administration pursuant to a law passed by our sovereign and 
democratically-elected Parliament.

Emery will not be subjected to torture or racial persecution if extradited; 
he will face justice in a country whose citizens enjoy the same rights and 
immunities as Canadians.

But this means nothing to Emery's apologists who would prefer that the 
justice minister be selective in extraditing Canadian citizens. As Canada 
continues to be passive in the war on drugs, we can only pray that more 
Canadian drug lords will run afoul of the U.S. and face a more ruthless and 
efficient dispenser of punishment than the mockery that is Canadian justice.

Steven Austin

Ladner 
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