[extropy-chat] The issue of Freedom over one's person and freedom to communicate

Sun Jul 31 20:01:46 UTC 2005

This may not be mainstream extopian  but I wonder if there is not a case 
to show individual
rights over ones's physical body to be made as a case in point as 
documented below.

Does one government have the right to extend its cultural more's to 
prevent the more's of
another country from being available to free willed citizens?

If the documented case allows USA to seize from Canada a citizen who has 
provided the
free market the ability to access materials for personal consumption and 
threaten to
lock him away in a foreign jail for longer than some serial killers, 
strip him of all his worldly goods
and hang him from the yardarms as a sign onto others who might dare to 
do likewise
have not individual personal rights to self determination been  trampled.

If this case is a test case, then perhaps other activities such as 
radical life extension or
person body enhancement could be outlawed and those who anywhere in the 
world
might provide information of or access to the ways and means to acheive 
these goals
might also be at risk.

If one were a citizen of Canada who felt a foreign power had overstepped its
bounds what are the choices for countermeasures?

Morris
306-447-4944
mfj.eav at gmail.com
http://www.lifespanpharma.com
Box 33 Beaubier, Saskatchewan, Canada, S0C-0H0

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Prince of Pot waits for U.S. extradition in East Coast jail

Protesters keep up vigil in Vancouver over arrest of Marc Emery

Andrea Woo
CanWest News Service

Sunday, July 31, 2005

VANCOUVER -- Canada's self-proclaimed Prince of Pot is spending the 
weekend in a Nova Scotia jail, awaiting a return to Vancouver to face 
multiple drug-related charges.

Meanwhile, a group of about 100 toke-toting supporters gathered in 
Vancouver Saturday to protest Marc Emery's arrest.

Emery, leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party, was arrested Friday by police 
in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, where he was scheduled as a guest 
speaker at a pro-pot rally.

Const. Mark Hobeck of the Halifax Regional Police said Saturday that 
Emery, 47, spent Friday night in a Halifax holding cell, and will spend 
the rest of the weekend in another correctional facility.

It's expected Emery will return to Vancouver this week, where he also 
faces possible extradition to the United States.

Though no Canadian charges have been laid against Emery, Jeff Eig, 
public information officer for the Seattle division of the U.S. federal 
Drug Enforcement Administration, said that Emery will face charges of 
conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, conspiracy to distribute marijuana 
seeds and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

American officials allege that Emery sold millions of dollars worth of 
marijuana seeds over the Internet to people in the U.S., which accounted 
for 75 per cent of his market.

If Emery is extradited to the U.S., he could face life in prison.

Emery's arrest came shortly after Vancouver police raided a business in 
that city owned by Emery.

On Saturday, about 100 supporters demonstrated at Vancouver's Victoria 
Square Park to express their disgust over the police raid.

Among the protesters, many of whom were toking in solidarity with Emery, 
was a man dressed up as the American icon "Uncle Scam." He reflected the 
anti-American sentiment of the crowd.

"Turn in your pot! I own you," the Uncle Scam mascot yelled into the 
crowd as he mock-beat protesters with an American flag.

The protest was held in a park across the street from the site of 
Emery's raided business.

The raid is the result of an 18-month-long investigation involving the 
Vancouver Police Department, the U.S. Attorney's office and 38 DEA offices.

Vancouver police conducted the raid acting on a Canadian search warrant 
based on American charges through the Mutual Legal Assistance in 
Criminal Matters act.

Two other people were also arrested Friday. Gregory Keith Williams, 50, 
of North Vancouver, was arrested at the scene, while Michelle 
Rainey-Fenkarek, also known as Michelle K. Kale, Emery's 34-year-old 
assistant, was arrested at her home.

Emery, 47, was arrested at a Nova Scotia pro-pot rally, organized by the 
group Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana.

In a statement, DEA administrator Karen Tandy said Emery and his 
organization was "one of the attorney general's most wanted 
international drug trafficking organizational targets -- one of only 46 
in the world, and the only one from Canada." Jeff Sullivan, assistant 
U.S. attorney, said it could be "anywhere from six months to two years 
before [Emery] is in America facing charges."

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