Marc Emery: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out.
By Brent Colbert (08/03/05)
Some here in Canada have jumped to the defence of Canadian drug dealer Marc Emery who has been arrested by the RCMP under the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act at the request of the American DEA. Mr. Emery runs an on-line drug distribution network that sells among other items, marijuana seeds. Mr. Emery is alleged to have sold and shipped these seeds across the border into the U.S.
Selling viable pot seeds is a punishable offence under the Canadian Criminal Code yet our government picks and chooses which laws they wish to enforce. While 4 RCMP officers were shot and killed while exercising a warrant on an illegal drug facility in Mayerthorpe back in March of this year, Mr. Emery was operating a storefront selling the very seeds that these grow-ops need.
The American government acting on information they collected as part of their drug enforcement policy learned that Mr. Emery the self proclaimed “Prince of Pot” was supplying their citizens with a controlled substance and requested that he be detained pending an extradition order for him to face charges in a U.S. court.
People on the left and the right have suggested that the Canadian government ignore the request and refuse to detain Mr. Emery and to refuse to deport him. It has been suggested that our co-operation is somehow a loss of sovereignty and that we should not be taking orders from the Americans.
Well they are half right. We should not have to rely on the Americans to police our streets and prosecute those that break our laws. Mr. Emery is facing charges for his alleged trafficking of seeds to the U.S. but faces no charges for operating his “business” and trafficking in illegal drugs here in Canada.
According to Police Mr. Emery earns over $3 million a year as a drug dealer yet our government does not see fit to charge him under the criminal code. Our government has given up on protecting our communities from the dangers of illegal drug use and this endorsement of the drug trade has seen grow-ops spring up in virtually every community in Canada.
If we are unwilling to stop the spread of drugs in our country we should not criticize our neighbours that are doing something about the problem. Drug addiction is on the rise among our young people. We can expect to see those numbers rise dramatically if the Liberal government is successful in decriminalizing marijuana. We must begin to take the threats posed by drugs seriously, they are a threat to our safety and destroy the lives of so many of our young people.
Our current government will not prosecute Mr. Emery so I say put him on the next plane south to face justice. Maybe after 10 years or so in a U.S. prison we’ll have a new government here that takes criminal behaviour seriously and then maybe we’ll take a turn hosting him in our of our institutions.
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