That's another bizarre aspect. The religious right making a deal with the devil to instill their agenda! Just too wierd. Must be the end times 8^)

BGreen

LOL!! I hope that cop will be a dharma bum!

The next time a cop asks me where I'm coming from and where I'm going I'm going to say "I'm coming from Stalingrad and heading towards Leningrad," and then watch to see if the stupid SOB even gets it.

I most felt the presence of this shift in Americans during the days that followed 911. There was an almost insane fierceness of wanting to strike out at anyone! And the pressure to display the flag was Orwellian. I felt at that moment my America was lost. More disturbing are the questions around 911. Who knew what and when? It was so incredibly convenient for Bush with his flagging public support. Sometimes the most revealing question is, who benefits?

It seems the people were softened up for this psychological trauma by the drug war. For decades they had been terrified by horror stories of crazed, violent marijuana fiends!

So freedoms were, and continue to be, sacrificed for "security." We watch as the Bush boys carry out their plans to conquer the world with Bush stating, "If you aren't with us, you're against us!"

What country wouldn't be against a marauder out to devour the planet? Just the sidekicks.

The same ultimatum is leveled at the population, making those with any conscience left enemies of state. Most can't resist the pressure and so patriotically bless our "war against terrorism," and the corresponding war on our freedoms and rights.

Denial. People want to believe our "leaders" so bad so they can think they're still the good guys, they sacrifice critical thought and cannot/will not see what is really happening. Society is sick - mentally ill. Seems that's what it takes to install fascism.

If you get a chance, rent the old Jimmy Stewart movie, "The Mortal Storm." Oddly enough, Stewart plays a member of well-respected family in pre-Nazi Germany. But he does a good job.

The movie follows the spread of fascism through the population of a town and how this affects Stewart's family - with tragic consequences. It is chillingly familiar to our atmosphere today!

I do not follow liars nor murderers.

A sin is putting it mildly! I'm afraid we are at the cusp of entering a new dark age - a time dominated by - no other way to put it - evil.

The best article I have ever read that captures what is happening is still, "The Nazi Comparison." I've probably mentioned it before, but if you would like to visit it again, and for those who have not read it, here is the link.

As much as I have worked, I am in awe of the tremendous job you have consistently done here for 8 YEARS! Incredible!

NORML, MPP and the ACLU are wonderful organizations. But it is the work of stalwart reformers like you that will make the difference.

As someone once said, "It's amazing how much can be achieved if you don't care who gets the credit."

Supreme court decides against Raids on CA. Yesterday we had Cannabis not a medicene Today this

can any one say crack down. Which if you look at the polls your actions and falsehood, will only make you loose more support.

But I am somewhat discouraged by their institutional approach. One has to wonder how much they are motivated by preserving their own survival in their actions.

That is natural for any organization, but these desperate times call for bold leadership that is not afraid to take risks.

And, to be honest, the heads of those orgs are not exactly what you would call charismatic. Ethan Nadlemann seems the most erudite, but he still lacks that certain something, the spark, if you will, to inspire a massive grass roots movement.

I agree with you that on our present course, relief from this persecution does not appear on the immediate horizon.

So I feel we must break with our course - and I see no one better equipped to steer toward a prompt victory than Emery. I think even activists can become complacent with the status quo, feeling like they are doing all they can do.

We MUST believe we can achieve our goal soon, or we will unintentionally self-fulfill our pessimistic outlook. And that belief must also be instilled in the many millions of marijuana consumers who have also given up that things can change for them.

I think Emery is the best hope for creating that necessary vision - that spark.

I also believe we may only have one moment in our lifetimes when the flood of events presents us with the opportunity to channel the momentum, act boldly, and yes, take risks, to reach for victory with all the strength and faith we can muster.

We must be ready for that moment when it happens, or we may regret it forever.

But I have been convinced for some time that we need a leader to wake up the vast majority of the Cannabis Culture that have so far remained silent and out of the reform movement.

It is difficult to obtain solid numbers, but estimates of the numbers of U.S. marijuana consumers range from 20 to 50 million. When you add their family and friends, the amount of people who should be storming the barricades should be a 100 million!

I believe the right leader could stir that sleeping giant, and in my search I have found no one who is better qualified and positioned than Marc Emery.

He is not perfect. His high profile hedonism is distasteful to some, but his political actions are 99 percent on target, and he is extremely charismatic. Most important, from what I have observed so far, his genuine-ness and committment to marijuana reform is impeccable.

He may not be THE ONE, but at the moment, no one else comes close.

IMHO - 8^)

Nobody who makes good friends and betrays them for a living can just walk away unscathed.

They build false emotional ties to open vulnerable people. But even false emotional ties feel real to the human heart.

The DEA are breaking their OWN hearts, and they don't even know it.

Some of us frogs have been stuggling to hang on to the rim of the pot while we figure out how to get the rest out. Now, DEAland wants to scrape us off back into the boiling water!

In my opinion, Marc Emery is the head of the worldwide marijuana reform movement. His epistle, Pot TV, has energized our Cannabis Culture for years, and his leadership example has been near flawless.

So this is a major attack on US! Since they are making this big move, other coordinated attacks on our movement are likely. All of us should be on HIGH ALERT!

Vancouver is now the eye of the prohibition storm. Richard Cowan promises to keep us updated at Marijuana News.

PS: Celaya & Nuevo Mexican it's good to see you. What a sad state of affairs this world is in now.

Initially, the U.S. population seemed to fail in their response to the last crisis - the war on Iraq, but there is still a grumbling resistance - enough so that we cannot totally write that one off yet.

From the forum (Under "Community") at Cannabis Culture Magazine:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/

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We need financial help. Please, please find it somewhere inside your heart to send some money to us.

The BCMP Bookstore needs business.

Emery Seeds is gone. They shut it down entirely.

Pot-TV is shut down for now. No money for it.

CC magazine is going to have some trouble, just when things were really looking great for us.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

Send donations in any form to me at this address:

Jodie Giesz-Ramsay 2102-1155 Seymour st. Vancouver BC V6B1K2

I beg of you all, help us now after all of these years. Marc started Emery Seeds in 1994 to fund the marijuana revolution, and now that business is gone. After helping others in their worst times for years and years, it's our turn to seek aid.

Please tell everyone that we need all the help we can get.

This is truly our most desperate hour.

Do NOT let them take Marc to the USA...

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Assistant Editor, Cannabis Culture magazine

Jodie@cannabisculture.com

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Thank you Marc and all you have done for our sanity!

You will not spend life in prison, that we know for sure, so it looks like the final blow for prohibiton now that the US has exposed our true concern, and it is NOT terrorism, but to Terrorize!

Anybody disagree?

We as Americans, terrorize the world more than anyone terrorist organization ever could, or want to.

I know you think 911 was terrible FOM, but the truth is, bush brought it all about, and it STill THE PRESIDENT! wtf!

Now we are are arresting Canadians IN THERE COUNTRY! There is no Rule of Law, just look at Karl Rove, Traitor on the loose, and STill HAS A SECURITY CLEARANCE. This country is a joke and the whole world knows it now! The jig is up!!!

We get what we deserve!

Canada will stand up to our terrorism, and this is the best thing that could happen, as it exposes the drup war sham for what it is. Jackboots at their door, whaddya gonna do?

Where is everyones faith in the Uni-verse? Increasing I would think, as this is literally akin to 'the shot heard around the world'! And we know what that led to, back in Concord in the Seventeen Hundreds!

I know Marc will be out, and Cannabis will be legal soon. Everyone here does have the ability to see into the future, with Cannabis that is! You know Marc does!

I have an ink jet printer and some iron-on transfers and today there is a big farmer's market in town.

FREE MARK EMERY

I think I'll go look for some good sweet corn. It's in season now.

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Sitting here in limbo, waiting for the dice to roll

Sitting here in limbo, got some time to search my soul

Well, they're putting up resistance

Captivity required from us a song.

How can we sing King Alpha's song

in a strange land?

So let the words of our mouth

And the meditation of our heart

Be acceptable in Thy sight

What do they have on their side? Power.

But they do not have honesty, courage or love on their side, and I have to believe that honesty, courage and love will triumph over their dishonest, cowardly, and hateful use of power.

Look. Find a local protest organizer, get involved, make signs, flyers, march, show your face and solidarity against tyranny, or live in it. I've been to four protests this year. I volunteered for secutity in three of them. Bush's Illegal Inauguration, Tomball KKK protest, Bush's Social Security scam, and Galveston County Police Brutality protest. We are now organizing an "End Cannabis Prohibition March" in front of the DEA headquarters in Houston. It is your right, no your duty, to protest tryranny. Electronic transmissions are fine for convenience and speed, but your body in the street, on the sidewalk, in a gathering place, is, well, PRICELESS. Overwhelm Uncle Sam. It's YOUR country, not HIS!

Legal proceedings and changing of laws have already happened as a result of the KKK protest and the Police Brutality protest. Afterdowningstreet is pending. Ending Cannabis Prohibition is on the front burner, along with ending the War in Iraq.

Peace to those who fight.

Barbara's little shrub George W. Stalin has placed the cap stone on our freedoms. Can you say, hello Orwell?

Good morning all.

The really strange thing is, you could sell seeds for any of a number of potentially VERY harmful plants/fungi - jimsonweed, nightshade, oleander, spores of deadly "death cap" mushrooms, etc. - and no governmental harm would befall you. Just because it's cannabis, it has some otherworldly spectral powers to obliterate millions of people and therefore anyone who sells its seeds must face the full wrath of Uncle Sam, even if that person lives in another nation.

And all our bumbling officials can muster in support of this action are the same old crap that all but the most rabid anti-pot activists must be tired of hearing - "pot is harmful" (not the plant itself, but its prohibition), and "more kids in treatment for pot than anything else" (we all know the story on that.) If it were such a hideous, damning drug we'd hear new bad stuff about it all the time (like we do about meth.) But these wack jobs have to say something to justify their miserable existence and that's all that comes out because, face it, there is nothing bad they CAN say without distorting the truth or lying outright.

It's too bad that Canada lacks a backbone. Many other countries that want to assert their soverignty would have told US officials to f*** off and keep their anti-drug quagmire to themselves. The Netherlands comes to mind.

I wish Marc Emery the best, and hope that he doesn't become yet another poor soul locked up due to drug war insanity.

We ARE making progress. It's slow going and as The Boss sang once, it's one step forward and two steps back at times. But people are beginning to wake up and realize what's going on. Just look at all the pro-cannabis editorials around the country the past few weeks. Through the Internet in general, and C-News in particular, all of this information is readily available to anyone willing to seek it out. The little curtain the prohibs are hiding behind is getting thinner by the day and soon little Toto is gonna rip it open and expose them for the frauds they are.

Hoping for a simpler, greener future...

I think the following statement is completely outrageous!