Pubdate: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 Source: Windsor Star (CN ON) Copyright: The Windsor Star 2005 Contact: http://www.canada.com/windsor/windsorstar/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501 Author: Chris Buors SCALE OF JUSTICE TIPPED AGAINST MARC EMERY Letter writer Tom Cattermole is mistaken. Justice is symbolized by the blind lady with the scale. That scale of justice was tipped considerably when St. George, in the form of the American therapeutic state, was unleashed to battle the so-called dangerous drugs dragon. All scapegoat persecutions are fought with the thumb of St. George on the scale of justice. Marc Emery will not be permitted to make the argument that the law is unjust to a jury of his peers. That is called jury nullification today and is an example of the scale of justice gone askew. It was meant to be that the purpose of the jury was to not only decide guilt or innocence, but to test the justness of the law. It was also the duty of the jury to mete out the penalty. That is a far cry from what Marc Emery will encounter. Marc Emery does not poke justice in the eye. Marc just poked St. George in the eye. St. George has left a lot of bodies and destroyed lives in his wake. Respect for the rule of law is absent because we taste the will of the tyrant, not the fruits of liberty. Marc wants everybody to be free of Big Brother in the guise of St. George. Liberty means liberty in a country with just laws. There is a difference between vice and crime. Crime implies harm to another person or their property. Turning vices to crime kind of throws the old justice scale out of whack a touch too, wouldn't you say? CHRIS BUORS Winnipeg, Man. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth