POT CRUSADER RAPPED FOR CALLING JUSTICE MINISTER 'NAZI-JEW'

NDP House Leader Objects To Marc Emery's 'Jail Blog' Posting

OTTAWA (CP) -- Marijuana crusader Marc Emery was under fire this week as
web-loggers scrutinized the content of his websites, including a posting
from his "jail blog" last summer that called federal Justice Minister Irwin
Cotler a "Nazi-Jew."

With the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration after him, the case of B.C.'s
"Prince of Pot" has become a cause celebre. Since his arrest a month ago,
Emery faces possible extradition to the United States for selling marijuana
seeds to U.S. customers.

Emery, 47, 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.