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This may not be mainstream extopian but I wonder if there is not a
case to show individual<br>
rights over ones's physical body to be made as a case in point as
documented below.<br>
<br>
Does one government have the right to extend its cultural more's to
prevent the more's of<br>
another country from being available to free willed citizens?<br>
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If the documented case allows USA to seize from Canada a citizen who
has provided the<br>
free market the ability to access materials for personal consumption
and threaten to<br>
lock him away in a foreign jail for longer than some serial killers,
strip him of all his worldly goods<br>
and hang him from the yardarms as a sign onto others who might dare to
do likewise<br>
have not individual personal rights to self determination been
trampled.<br>
<br>
If this case is a test case, then perhaps other activities such as
radical life extension or<br>
person body enhancement could be outlawed and those who anywhere in the
world<br>
might provide information of or access to the ways and means to acheive
these goals<br>
might also be at risk.<br>
<br>
If one were a citizen of Canada who felt a foreign power had
overstepped its<br>
bounds what are the choices for countermeasures?<br>
<br>
Morris<br>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: 100%;">Prince of <span
style="color: green;">Pot</span> waits for U.S. extradition in East
Coast jail</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 100%;">Protesters keep up
vigil in Vancouver over arrest of Marc Emery</span> <br>
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Andrea Woo <br>
CanWest News Service <br>
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Sunday, July 31, 2005<br>
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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.<br>
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Meanwhile, a group of about 100 toke-toting supporters gathered in
Vancouver Saturday to protest Marc Emery's arrest.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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It's expected Emery will return to Vancouver this week, where he also
faces possible extradition to the United States.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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If Emery is extradited to the U.S., he could face life in prison.<br>
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Emery's arrest came shortly after Vancouver police raided a business in
that city owned by Emery.<br>
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On
Saturday, about 100 supporters demonstrated at Vancouver's Victoria
Square Park to express their disgust over the police raid.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
"Turn in your pot! I own you," the Uncle Scam mascot yelled into the
crowd as he mock-beat protesters with an American flag.<br>
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The protest was held in a park across the street from the site of
Emery's raided business.<br>
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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.<br>
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Vancouver police conducted the raid acting on a
Canadian search warrant based on American charges through the Mutual
Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters act.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Emery, 47, was arrested at a Nova Scotia pro-pot rally, organized by
the group Maritimers Unite for Medical Marijuana.<br>
<br>
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."<br>
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