Pubdate: Tue, 05 Aug 2014
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2014 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact: http://www.torontosun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Warren Kinsella
Page: 15

A GRIT? NOT ONE BIT

Is Marc Emery a secret agent for the Conservative Party of Canada? It
sure looks that way.

It's impossible that you have not heard of the World's Most Famous
Pothead.

But, in the event that you have been in a coma for the past while,
consider this a primer, gratis.

Marc Emery is from B.C. Presently, he is a guest of the U.S. prison
system, but is returning to Canada this month. He got himself in
prison by selling drug stuff in the U.S. His business was called Marc
Emery Direct Marijuana Seeds, which pretty accurately describes what
he does for a living.

Emery is also an advocate, however. Most of the time, he is an
advocate only for himself.

He has therefore run for mayor of Vancouver three times, and lost each
time. He has run for the Libertarian Party federally and received 197
votes. He has also helped to start up no less than four political
parties - the Freedom Party, the Marijuana Party of Canada, the B.C.
Marijuana Party, and something called the Unparty.

He's been in jail plenty of times before being imprisoned in the U.S.
He's been jailed for selling obscene stuff, for drug trafficking, and
even for breaking Sunday shopping laws.

He's also an idiot. For instance, after he was arrested, Emery called
then Justice Minister Irwin Cotler - one of the greatest
parliamentarians this country has ever had - a "Nazi Jew" and a
"Jewish Nazi."

Those are quotes. He said that Cotler, who is indeed Jewish, is
"identical intellectually" to the Nazis.

Oh, and he likened marijuana prohibition to the Holocaust. He actually
said that. When a reporter suggested to Emery that comparing pot laws
to the Holocaust is hurtful to Jews and gays and others, Emery
sniffed: "(Some) people like to think they have the monopoly on pain."

So, he's a jerk. But he's a liar, too.

Emery used to say he'd smoked marijuana with Justin Trudeau. Here's a
quote: "(He's) smoked with me four or five times, so it really pisses
me off when I see Justin Trudeau, who took big gaggers with me, is in
Parliament actually voting for (a bill which would have imposed
mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences, including
marijuana)."

Emery didn't qualify that statement, that's what he said. When Trudeau
heard about it, and said that Emery was lying - and when Sun News
confronted him with it - Emery finally admitted he was, in fact, a
liar.

Said he: "I am indeed recorded telling a falsehood that until now, I
was unaware was out there.

"I'm totally embarrassed about it. I take my reputation very
seriously, as of course, does Mr. Trudeau, and I'm really saddened
that I have caused him some grief by this clear misrepresentation."

Catch that first part? It was a lie, and he was prepared to let the
lie stand, until someone - Trudeau, Sun News - challenged him on it.

Now, as noted at the outset, the Conservative Party loves Marc
Emery.

He has said he wants to run for the Liberals. So has his wife - who
has even claimed unnamed Liberals approached her to do so.

Liberal spokesman Dave Sommer - a great guy who, full disclosure, used 
to work with us at Sun News - had this to say about the Emerys: "The 
Liberal Party does not endorse the Emerys' plans in any way. They are 
not affiliated with the party."

If I'd been Dave, I would have been a lot tougher. I would have said
this: "Marc Emery is a confessed liar. He is also a disgrace - for
what he has said about Jews, and the Holocaust, and a great, great man
like Irwin Cotler.

"He's unfit to be in the same room as Irwin Cotler. Moreover, Marc
Emery doesn't belong in the Liberal Party.

"He belongs in jail in the U.S., for life, for being a loathsome
creep."
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