Free Marc Emery

Let's Bring Marc Home!

EMERY’S RIGHTS DENIED

submitted by on June 4, 2010
Michael J. Dee, Langley Advance
 
Dear Editor,
 
I do not know about Canada, but in the United States, law enforcement officials who under the colour of law deprive individuals their rights is a crime.
 
In response to Matthew Claxton [Stoners need better arguments, April 30 Painful Truth, Langley Advance], the Canadian and American judiciary have reviewed the marijuana laws by rational review.
 
Rational review is used by the courts when no fundamental rights are affected by the law. Judicial review of these criminal laws by rational review is deprivation of rights under the colour of law.
 
Poor Mark Emery is not recognized as a person; neither am I. He is being deprived of his liberty for political reasons.
 
The lawyers in both countries do not care that these criminal laws affect individual rights to liberty, to property, and to privacy secured from unreasonable deprivation by your Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Bill of Rights of the United States.
 
Due process of law, the rule of law requires laws that affect fundamental rights to be reasonable and necessary. The laws must be demonstrably justified by a compelling state interest, to protect public health and public safety, to be reasonable.
 
To be reasonable, the laws must protect you from me and me from you, not me from myself.
 
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
 
Selling marijuana seeds through the mail does not threaten the rights of others.
 
The private growing and private use of marijuana is not a threat to public safety.
 
So why is Marc Emery going to prison in the United States?
 
Deprivation of his rights, under the colour of law, is a criminal offence.
 
Michael J. Dee,
 
Windham, Maine, USA