BCMP RAID! EMERY IN JAIL

**Fyrefly1** · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:59 am Post subject:

Here' s another story:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=841&e=1&u=/nm/20050729/wl_canada_nm/canada_crime_canada_usa_drugs_col
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**Ferre** · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

more...

Rev.Holden Greene · Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:46 am Post subject:

found this on another site

http://www.cannabisculture.com/foru...032#Post1126185

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/Mar...1152768-cp.html

Quote:
Vancouver police raid pot business

Broadcast News

July 29, 2005

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VANCOUVER -- Police have raided a Vancouver business run by the head of the B.C. Marijuana Party.

And it looks like the raid was ordered by the U.S.

Leader Marc Emery was not at the marijuana seed store when it was raided by police today.

But police say he has been arrested in Halifax.

A store employee says police arrived with a search warrant this morning.

The charges outlined in the warrant indicate it is on behalf of the American government.

Emery and two other people are accused of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, conspiracy to distribute seeds, and money laundering.

The search warrant named Emery, Gregory Williams and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek. Bennett said Williams was taken into police custody at the store on Friday while Rainey-Fenkarek was arrested at her home on Thursday night.

Police were not immediately available to comment on whether any arrests had been made.

The store, named Toker's Bowl, is adjacent to the New Amsterdam Cafe where people have been smoking marijuana openly for years.

Several people gathered outside the store to protest the raid, many holding anti-American signs.

Police sealed off the store and covered the windows with paper while they conducted their search.

The search warrant sets out a long list of requests made by the United States to the Vancouver police department.

In the warrant, the U.S. alleges that those named in it have conspired to manufacture marijuana, conspired to distribute marijuana seeds and conspired to engage in money laundering.

The warrant requests that police seize cash and receipts, client lists and other records identifying purchasers of goods from Emery, and employee records, including applications for employment.

It also asks for business and company incorporation documents, leases, rental agreements, computers, hard drives, diskettes and CD-ROMS.

Quote:
BULLETIN

This morning, Canadian police, acting on a request from the United
States Drug Enforcement Administration raided the British Columbia Marijuana
Party
Bookstore and Headquarters in Vancouver, BC. Several employees inside at
the time
have been arrested. The BCMP Headquarters contains several businesses inside
including: The BC Marijuana Party Bookstore, Marc Emery Direct Seed Company,
Urban Shaman Entheobotanicals, the BC Marijuana Party offices and Pot
Television studios.

There is a US extradition order placed on Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey and
Greg (aka Marijuana Man) which was what inspired this raid.

Vancouver activist David Malmo-Levine asks that everyone COME DOWN TO
307 WEST HASTINGS, VANCOUVER and show your support against this
DEA-INITIATED RAID of the BCMP & to spread the word to local media so they
can document what is taking place.

For the latest information, tune to the Cannabis Culture forums:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums

Thanks for your support!
Love & freedom,
Renee Boje
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indicaspice · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

Was wondering how long it would take for this get posted here...lol! I am just furious about this. And i don't know who I am more furious with; the American government for sticking their nose into something they shouldn't, or my spineless government for not telling the yanks to keep out of our business.
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-=//Mika~Pants\\=- · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: Draconian Pigs

Yup,.. The bush admin./New Natzi party has passed c.a.f.t.a.
against the vehement protests of the people of the United States.

Now, our jackbooted thugs can go a-kickin' in doors all over the American continent. (Canada, Mexico, South America,....)

Finally,.. George bush, hand in hand with Jesus, can skip merrily across our land, freely rapeing and pilliaging our freedoms and our persons.

Now Jesus can hold us down while Bush Natzis anally rape us in any country!!!

Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!Zeig-Heil!!!

vingers

-=Mika~Pants=- rocker

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-=//Mika~Pants\\=- · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: better now,...

Sorry 'bout the rant,..
There's nothing like wakeing up to bad news.
Just so all of our pals in the U.S. know,..
The natzis will find every address that seeds were shipped to in the computers.
They will then raid all addresses and "confiscate" ALL property at the addresses. cars, computers, boats and the house itself.
Under American/Natzi drug sezure/forfiture laws.
They will then sell it all at auction to raise more money for the natzi party.
The pigs here stand to make a tidy sum out of the data in the "Confiscated" computers.
Please be "AWARE", my friends!!!
And take all nessasary steps to avoid the inevitable boot to your front door!!

Your Friend -=mika~Pants=- rocker

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US Marijuana Party Statement on Marc Emery Arrest

At a time when Osama bin Laden is still hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, when we have 2000 soldiers dead in Iraq and more dying everyday with no end in sight, when our country houses 2.5 million prisoners (more than any other country in the world), when the whole country and even Congress are slamming the ONDCP because they have used their $11 billion budget to target pot smokers while meth has run rampant we somehow find the resources to invade our sister country Canada and enforce our draconian drug laws on her citizens over some pot seeds.

This action would not be justifiable even if our drug policies were working but to force another country to abide by US laws that have failed miserably and have caused untold societal damage and erosion of our constitutional rights and civil liberties defies all logic.

Is it any wonder that people all around the world sit and plot our destruction? It is this very kind of "Imperialist Intervention" in the affairs of sovereign nations that causes Americans to be targets of "terrorists".

And until we as Americans take a strong stand against it we will never be safe in this country again...nor do we really deserve to be.

I call on all Americans, regardless of their position on marijuana, to join forces and let it be known that the citizens of our country do not support the actions of the D.E.A.
We never elected the D.E.A. and they DO NOT represent us or our interests.

FREE MARC EMERY!!!

Loretta Nall
US Marijuana Party

**Mystic Power** · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

**Mystic Power** · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject:

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**Fyrefly1** · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

The GCW · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 430

The disobedience of George Bush is not a reflection on Jesus Christ who says to "love one another."

That George kills, murders and caging humans for using what Christ God Our Father says is good, is very revealing and what it shows is that George does not have Christ.

That's the problem; He does not have what He should have. When We do not obey Jesus Christ and "love one another," We end up without the "Spirit of truth". We get what George Bush has; the "deluding influence," and it exposes the "self-condemned."

George Bush is a disobedient Christian.

999

Here is a news item that caught My eye on the subject.

CN MB: Column: Freakin' Outrage Over Emery Bust

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1240/a04.html?101486

Pubdate: Thu, 04 Aug 2005

Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)

FREAKIN' OUTRAGE OVER EMERY BUST

Talk about a freak-out. The arrest of "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery on a U.S. warrant for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet has triggered a midsummer avalanche of protests from Sun readers.

Dripping with scorn toward the Bush administration and contempt for the Canadian government for allowing the extradition case to proceed, readers have mounted the most vocal offensive we've seen in recent memory in the ongoing "war on a herb."

Chuck Beyer of Port Alberni, B.C., is typical in his vitriol.

"The present U.S. administration is one of the biggest criminal syndicates of all time," he writes. "Causing the arrest of Mr. Emery is just another diversion from their high crimes and misdemeanors. I am concerned not only for Canadian sovereignty -- but for the future of what was once a republic next door. Mr. Emery is Mother Teresa compared to this bunch and should not be extradited."

More sedately, R. Mckie of Brighton, Ont., writes: "If Marc Emery has broken a law in Canada let our authorities carry out their job. If what Mr. Emery has done is illegal in the U.S.A. then I guess he had better be careful when entering the States and make sure he does not have any pot seeds on him. To have our own courts complicit in having him extradited for an offence which he did not commit in the U.S.A. is ridiculous."

Writes Wayne Pitts ( "& Family" ) of London, Ont.: "Mark Emery is the leader of a legitimate political party, and the Canadian government has knowingly collected taxes from his U.S. seed sales for a decade, and Mr. Emery has operated openly without interference from Canadian police since 1998. Canada should not be sending political activists to jail in foreign countries, especially when their actions are not even considered to be an 'arrestable offence' in Canada."

American readers are also rushing to Emery's defence -- and some clearly believe he has God on his side.

"A very large percentage of Americans do not support North America's discredited cannabis laws or attacking Marc Emery over any cannabis-related issues," writes Stan White of Dillon, Colo. "It is regrettable to witness the United States persist in this anti-Christian activity, attempting to prohibit, persecute and exterminate cannabis and the cannabis culture. Caging humans for selling plant seeds is hideous and uncivilized and must not be allowed."

Colleen Minter ( aka Bonnie Colleen McCool ) of Stephenville, Tex., writes: "Support for the federal war on drugs is inconsistent with support for individual freedom, constitutional government and the teachings of Jesus."

She adds: "Our present system causes more violence, pain, suffering and death than the drugs themselves and is destroying all that America once stood for. Leaders responsible for promoting our present nonsensical policy will answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity."

For reader after reader, the "criminals" in this story are the authorities prosecuting Emery -- which raises an interesting point.

Say what you want about them, but pot activists like Emery -- and Winnipeg's Chris Buors, who was sent to jail for six months last winter for running a medicinal grow-op -- are fighting to wrestle the lucrative cannabis trade away from organized crime. That's the rich irony of the situation.

In the 1920s, prohibitionists meant well. They wanted to wipe out the scourge of alcohol addiction and save millions of women and children from the abuse of drunken, violent men. What cause could be more noble?

What they succeeded in doing during their decade-long booze ban, though, was outfit organized crime in America with the means to climb from the streets to the boardroom.

Today it's no different. The anti-drug crusaders going after the likes of Emery are organized crime's best friend. And none of that will change up here in Canada with the Liberals' boneheaded decriminalization law.

Responding to the Emery bust, Ontarian Jack Jordan predicts, "What the U.S. government is attempting to do here will only unite Canadians to forward the legalization of marijuana, just out of spite. It will ... backfire on the U.S."

In light of how eagerly Canadian authorities rolled over to serve the U.S. extradition order on Emery, that sounds like a pipe dream to us, Jack.

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