Don't do the crime if you can't do the time............
I disagree that a "crime" was committed by Marc Emery. First the definition of "crime" should be confined to instances when an actual person was harmed, stolen from or suffered property damage. Marc Emery did none of those things. Whether we like Marc Emery or not, (I don't know him personally) shouldn't matter, HE should NOT be in jail. He harmed nobody.
Being black in this "free country" used to earn people a lifetime of servitude. Should they not have "done the crime of being black" to avoid "doing the time"?
American citizens of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II in internment camps in THIS country. What "crime" did they commit?
Marc Emery has every reason to hate where he is, and yes whine about it if he wants to, he shouldn't be there! He was captured by the government of a country that will and has killed millions of people to maintain it's power. Marc Emery, like him or not, is a POLITICAL prisoner. He is obviously a more visible prisoner than the thousands of people we don't know who share his fate. Please don't be so quick to dismiss a real person and laugh at their misfortune. Marc Emery is a real person, with emotions and a life he deserves to have. Hating on him because he was successful is up to you, but misses the point. NOBODY should be in jail for excercising freedom. Marc Emery has my support, but so do ALL of the other nameless and faceless people that are also political prisoners.
We spend hours here on this forum debating, discussing and learning. Let's never forget there are many who can't be here, because they have been victimized and sit in cages for the "crime" of self ownership. I honor them. No victim. No crime. Peace.