SCALE OF JUSTICE TIPPED AGAINST MARC EMERY

Letter writer Tom Cattermole is mistaken. Justice is symbolized by the
blind lady with the scale. That scale of justice was tipped considerably
when St. George, in the form of the American therapeutic state, was
unleashed to battle the so-called dangerous drugs dragon.

All scapegoat persecutions are fought with the thumb of St. George on the
scale of justice.

Marc Emery will not be permitted to make the argument that the law is
unjust to a jury of his peers. That is called jury nullification today and
is an example of the scale of justice gone askew.

It was meant to be that the purpose of the jury was to not only decide
guilt or innocence, but to test the justness of the law. It was also the
duty of the jury to mete out the penalty. That is a far cry from what Marc
Emery will encounter.

Marc Emery does not poke justice in the eye. Marc just poked St. George in
the eye. St. George has left a lot of bodies and destroyed lives in his
wake. Respect for the rule of law is absent because we taste the will of
the tyrant, not the fruits of liberty.

Marc wants everybody to be free of Big Brother in the guise of St. George.
Liberty means liberty in a country with just laws.

There is a difference between vice and crime. Crime implies harm to another
person or their property.

Turning vices to crime kind of throws the old justice scale out of whack a
touch too, wouldn't you say?

CHRIS BUORS

Winnipeg, Man.