Many progressives have been harsh towards Conrad Black, the fraud who has been convicted of multiple charges despite a phalanx of lawyers and friends in high places. He really is that guilty. Then again, many other progressives feel that he penalty was too harsh and feel sorry for dark lord. Almost all conservatives sympathize mightily with Black and love him all the more for his crimes.
Nobody, conservative or progressive, gives a shit about Marc Emery, who was sentenced to a similar term to Black’s for merely selling marijuana seeds. Nobody was hurt by what Emery did. That doesn’t bother progressives nor conservatives. What Emery did in the eyes of most folks was ‘bad’ while poor, rich Conrad Black is somehow deserving of pity.
Emery was given over to a foreign country by our government without a fight. He has no army of lawyers fighting to appeal. He is largely forgotten and defenceless while Conrad Black, because of his money and power, serves only a tiny portion of his sentence.
Black’s wife faints at his latest sentence and is treated like the second coming of Princess Diana. Emery, on the other hand is forgotten, his lovely wife unknown and left to tweet her husband’s travails in prison. Money can buy a lot of things, including the justice system. What it can’t buy, as related by Jodie Emery, is coolness.
“On July 2nd, the band I am bassist in, called STUCK – because we are stuck in prison – performs live and amplified for the other inmates. We’re going to play Sunshine of Your Love (Cream), Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry), Red House (Hendrix), Little Wing (Hendrix), Tightrope (S.R. Vaughan), Voodoo Child (Hendrix), Star Spangled Banner (Hendrix, a solo song by lead guitarist Terry), and All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix).”
