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Originally Posted by MiSaNtHrOpE
Marc is a good friend, and has been a tenacious activist since long before roach or palmspringsbum or many others were ever heard of.
Hope some will continue to support him in whatever way possible.
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Why? He never supported me.
He tried to use me, but support? No, never.
And, quite frankly, after the crap he pulled with my cousin Loretta several years ago, any friend of his is an enemy of mine.
A few minutes later...
What I find so unforgiveable about Emery & Co. is that they do things and then expect you not to mention them "for the good of the movement". The nicest face I could put on that is co-dependent entanglement. And that is far too charitable a concept to describe what they do. Blackmail and/or blackball is closer to the mark. Now, I'm talking about things they said and did in public; on the internet, in their forum and related websites.
Someone mentioned Emery's advocacy of free speech? They obviously never participated, or tried to participate, in his forum. I left when he began editing MY posts. He edited other people's posts as well.
A few minutes after that...
And then there's Imler. When Imler was going to trial Emery & Co. were screaming he was a narc and urging people not to support him. Imler, who got the backing of the city of West Hollywood...and was recently quoted in the L.A. Times as saying that thanks to the federal raids of anyone who actually gave a crap about patients organized crime was now firmly entrenched in the movement.
Now, I'm talking about -public- statements and actions made on the internet; their forum and related sites. I made copies of that, as did a lot of other people. And I have suffered many years in large part because I refused to 'sit down and shut up for the good of the movement' over that.
Emery & Co. first tried to hide under Imler's skirts - use him as a front - and then when they (McWilliams and McCormick) got raided, blamed him.
They set back activism in Los Angeles (where it matters) ten years.
A few minutes after that...
And then there was the time Dennis Peron and John Entwistle got busted in Utah. For those of you that don't know, Dennis Peron and his San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club (name change to 'Cultivators Club' upon the passage of 215) are the reason California passed The Compassionate Use Act of 1996.
Anyway, when Dennis and John were busted in Utah and I was keen for any news, any detail, I see Steve Kubby on Pot-TV say something like, 'oh, and Dennis and John got busted in Utah but don't worry about them, they're pros, they'll be fine...'
I could go on and on and on and on with similar anecdotes, and have been banned from pretty much all the major cannabis internet sites for doing so, which says more about the movement than it does about me, if you ask me.