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good good. now PLEASE legalize marijuana, tax it to pay off the olympic debt and free Marc Emery.
by notastartup 13y ago
good good. now PLEASE legalize marijuana, tax it to pay off the olympic debt and free Marc Emery.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThis article is about Canada.
- ehPReth 13y agoI think (s)he knows that, the references all apply to Canada.
- sliverstorm 13y agoMarc Emery is Canadian, but imprisoned in the USA. So how could Canada free him?
- dragonwriter 13y agoThere are mechanisms that nation-states have used to free people imprisoned in other nation-states without the cooperation of the imprisoning nation-state -- they frequently, however, have significant repercussions in the relations between the nation-states that make it inadvisable for a less-powerful nation-state to use them against a more-powerful one even if they have the capacity to acheive short-term success.
- vacri 13y agoNeither Canada nor the US are nation-states. That term specifically means a country where the people are pretty ethnically or culturally homogenous.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe exact level of shared culture necessary to have a "nation" in the sense of "nation-state" is infinitely debatable, but the statement at issue is just true of states generally, so while your point might arguably be true, its not all that relevant.
- vacri 13y agoI didn't mean to counter what you were saying - I was just mentioning that nation-state is not the appropriate term for these entities.
- aroberge 13y agoCanada could make a request for him to serve in sentence back in Canada and could decide to release him early. However, this is not going to happen with a Conservative government in power.
- redthrowaway 13y agoConsidering Harper couldn't be arsed to bring Omar Khadr[1] home, I somehow doubt they'd budge for Emery. That, and, Emery's a gigantic dick who spent years forcing the government to arrest him. He's not exactly a sympathetic character. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr