POT ACTIVIST EMERY IN MORE HOT WATER

JAIL BLOG: Attacks on justice minister cited as 'offensive'

OTTAWA -- Marijuana crusader Marc Emery has come under fire over a posting
from his "jail blog" last summer that called federal Justice Minister Irwin
Cotler a "Nazi-Jew."

Arrested a month ago, Emery faces possible extradition to the U.S. for
selling marijuana seeds to U.S. customers.

The 47-year-old Vancouver activist was serving a three-month sentence in
Saskatoon last summer for passing a joint at a marijuana rally when he wrote
the "jail blog," which he dictated to associates over the phone. It was then
posted on the Internet.

In it, he complained that Cotler went from being a human-rights advocate to
a justice minister who, as attorney-general, allows for the prosecution of
cannabis users.

"I thought the term Jewish-Nazi, or Nazi-Jew, was an oxymoron until Cotler
became the Injustice Minister," Emery's posting said.

"What a disgrace he is to his Jewish roots. He should -- so much -- know
better."

In June, the content on Emery's main website -- cannabisculture.com, which
he edits, publishes and uses to help sell millions of dollars' worth of
marijuana seeds -- prompted NDP House leader Libby Davies to write to one of
Emery's employees, Chris Bennett.

"I have been extremely disturbed by the tone and characterization of the
Minister of Justice, Mr. Cotler, as a Nazi Jew and the Gestapo," wrote
Davies, who found "the anti-Semitic characterization of Mr. Cotler based on
his religious beliefs to be very offensive and completely
counterproductive."

Four days after Davies' letter was posted to the site, Emery wrote he had a
better word for Cotler: "capo."

"If you're going to make comparisons," he advised, "the term for Irwin
Cotler might be 'capo.' These were the Jews during the Holocaust who were
fated to deliver their fellow Jews to their death . . . "

In this case, Cotler would deliver his fellow Canadians to his American
"masters," Emery suggests.

Cotler declined to be interviewed. A representative said the minister did
not wish to risk prejudicing Emery's extradition case.