Pubdate: Sat, 20 Jun 2009
Source: News Tribune, The (Tacoma, WA)
Copyright: 2009 Tacoma News Inc.
Contact:  http://www.thenewstribune.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/442
Author: Dan Grice, Vancouver, B.C.

DON'T SPEND TAXES ON ALLEGED POT SEED DEAL?

Washington state is facing some tough decisions on which taxes to
raise or which services to cut. Yet residents should be extremely
frustrated by Attorney General Rob McKenna's push to extradite a
Canadian activist to Seattle, where residents will have to pay
hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute and imprison him, money
which could be better spent on teachers or keeping taxes low.

Marc Emery is facing five to eight years in prison for selling novelty
pot seeds to customers in Washington state. As a resident of Canada,
our government has not bothered to spend our taxpayer dollars on
prosecuting Mr. Emery, yet soon his new jail cell will be furnished at
the expense of Washington residents.

I encourage every frustrated taxpayer to contact Gov. Gregoire and
Attorney General McKenna and ask them to keep Emery out of Washington.
You've got better ways to spend your taxes.
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MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr