By Ian Mulgrew
Canada's so-called "Prince of Pot" has been told he won't be allowed a prison transfer and must serve his entire sentence in the United States.
Kirk Tousaw, a Canadian lawyer for Vancouver resident Marc Emery, said American authorities told his client in a letter received Friday that the U.S. government refused his transfer on April 6 due to the "seriousness of the offence" and "law enforcement concerns."
He received the news in a federal holding institution in Oklahoma awaiting transfer to a prison in Mississippi.
Emery, who had been imprisoned in Georgia, pleaded guilty May 24 in Seattle to selling marijuana seeds to Americans through his Vancouver-based catalogue company and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Tousaw said he can re-apply for transfer to a Canadian institution again for two years.
Emery's wife Jodie was disheartened.
"There's nothing we can do at this point beyond asking for a presidential pardon in the U.S., which I'm going to start campaigning for, actually, because I have to do whatever I can to get Marc home," she said Friday. "We're both devastated to hear this news. The idea of him spending the next three or four years in the U.S. federal prison system for political activism financed by seed sales — sales that now happen legally across America every day — is sickening and heartbreaking,"
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Stumble It!
Let him rot.
Why?
Don't worry boy's when Taliban Jack becomes PM old, Marc won't only be repatriated to serve his time in a Canadian Prison, he'll likely be made the first NDP Senator.
Ain't it funny though, that, after "Taliban Jack" suggested negotiating with the Taliban, the latest thing is to negotiate with the Taliban?
How about crawling back under that rock you emerged from? The light of day doesn't agree with you.
As for Marc Emery becoming a senator, he'd be a lot more useful than those 18 appoinitments made by Harper.
Don't worry boy's when Taliban Jack becomes PM old, Marc won't only be repatriated to serve his time in a Canadian Prison, he'll likely be made the first NDP Senator.
Ain't it funny though, that, after "Taliban Jack" suggested negotiating with the Taliban, the latest thing is to negotiate with the Taliban?
How about crawling back under that rock you emerged from? The light of day doesn't agree with you.
As for Marc Emery becoming a senator, he'd be a lot more useful than those 18 appoinitments made by Harper.
I'd crawl under the rock but there's to many of you tinfoil hat types taking up all the space.
I do have a question though. Take off the tinfoil for a second and put away the partisan politics and kindly explain why Harpers Senate appointments were all bad but Chretiens and Martins were all good?
FYI though, the Senate as it is constructed is useless. But Harper promised he would NEVER appoint senators when he was in opposition (among the many, many promises that evaporated in 2006).
http://harperlies.blogspot.com/
I see you are not apologizing for the "Taliban Jack" misnomer - which invalidates any further comments from you, as far as anything constructive goes.
FYI though, the Senate as it is constructed is useless. But Harper promised he would NEVER appoint senators when he was in opposition (among the many, many promises that evaporated in 2006).
http://harperlies.blogspot.com/
I left the Taliban Jack stuff out because the only people who are seriously considering negotiations with the Taliban are Kharzi, Pakistan, and of course Layton.
So once Canada's left Afghanistan, I'm all in favor of Layton and Kharzi doing a Kissinger/Nixon thing by negotiating with the Taliban and bringing peace, prosperity and freedom instead of corruption, pain and suffering to the country...................if they can.
And for the record I do agree with you that the Senate is useless and it should either be elected or abolished, preferably the latter. And yes Harper said he'd never appoint Senators but, because of the Liberal domination of the upper house, if he hadn't none of his bills would have ever passed. But if we're gonna hold politicians to their promises, maybe we should go back a decade and see how Chretien did with the GST?
Might just be that all politicians are prevaricators of the truth.
As for Chretien, he freely admitted (once he retired) that he lied about the GST and National Daycare. He was as useless as Harper is.