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Northern exposure
American soldiers are fleeing the Iraq war for Canada -- and U.S. officials may be on their trail. North of the border is no longer the safe haven it was during the Vietnam era.
By Gregory Levey [2007-05-03]

  • By the way

    I just want to say one more thing.

    For whatever reason, Salon chose not to report on American DEA agents dragging a medical marijuana activist out of a Canadian hospital in handcuffs, while he was delirious from prescribed morphine, and had a urinary catheter still hanging out of his penis.

    But if you had reported on that, you would have already gotten a big head start on your soldier story.

    But hey, I guess this all off topic, right? Oh well.

    But to make it relevant to soldiering -- the guy was a veteran -- in fact he needed medical marijuana because he had chronic pain from a crippling spine injury that occurred when his parachute failed to open during a training exercise.

    So the American DEA dragged a crippled veteran from his hospital bed in Canada while Canadian officals did nothing.

    If they can do that, then of course American law enforcement is going to get away with going after soldiers.

    If you're in the marijuana movement long enough, NOTHING this country does is a surprise.

    All the nasty tactics employed in the War on Pot eventually find their way into other government wars.

    --Anonymous
    Thursday, May 3, 2007 08:57 AM
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