Re: TURMEL: Don Appleby death making news

john--the courts and opionions of iddiot judges simply dont work

its long-past time canadians siezed thier freedom at the point of a gun and
simply executed any iddiot judge, cop, or poltition that stands in their
way...

oh, that wont work--fergot they took the guns away from us

Mike
"John Turmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> JCT: Any bets whether the media use the internet to search
> out the fact Appleby was the first Canadian to overturn a
> Health Canada exemption refusal? How many people remember
> Don's stirring speeches to Justice Teitelbaum and Blais? We
> have his testimony to the Gatineau Superior Court on tape
> and in transcript. My next post will repost my reports of
> his personal appearances before the Federal Court. He also
> was a claimant with Paquette for some of Lady Dy's marijuana
> crop in Cobourg.
>
> Imagine, once the cops had burned the marijuana that was
> clearly claimed by Appleby and Paquette in Cobourg, it was
> claim for the 2.5K apiece at the cops' rate of $10,000/Kg.
> But Lady Dy wouldn't take the stand to admit that Paquette
> and Appleby were the owners. So their claims in Cobourg were
> put off. And now it's too late for Appleby to collect. What
> would have happened had Dianne Bruce taken the stand and
> admitted that she was growing for Marc and Donny, as she had
> stated in all the newspaper stories about growing for
> exemptees? Would Donny have been boiling shake in butane if
> she had testified to the truth? Why wouldn't she testify?
>
> Don's guerrilla law battles were fought in courts in
> Toronto, Cobourg, Gatineau and Ottawa. There's a whole
> history of Turmel-armed combat that very few know about. But
> Don was one of my greatest soldiers for abolition of
> prohibition. His points towards the win will always be
> honored in my book.
>
> Now the media spin:
>
> >Pot activist dies of burns
> >Ottawa Sun
> >Sat, November 1, 2003
> >By NELLY ELAYOUBI,
>
> NE: Blaze sparked while processing marijuana
>
> AN OUTSPOKEN advocate of marijuana for medicinal purposes
> died Thursday after succumbing to burns he suffered when he
> tried to extract oil from marijuana. Donny Appleby died at
> the Ottawa Hospital General campus, surrounded by a group of
> friends. "He ended his life peacefully and surrounded by
> friends," said Mike Foster, a longtime friend and owner of
> Crosstown Traffic, a cannabis paraphernalia store.
>
> JCT: Mike Foster was an Ottawa supporter of Marc-Boris St-
> Maurice at the Marijuana Party of Canada leadership
> convention where the vote was called off. He's their Ottawa
> man and thinks I was rude for not taking Boris cancelling
> the election quietly like a man.
>
> NE: Appleby was an AIDS patient on a disability pension and
> couldn't afford the marijuana he used for his illness.
>
> JCT: Thanks to high prices due to prohibition. And with no
> let-up in sight since the Commons Committee is working on
> dobling penalties to make supply even more dangerous and
> expensive too. Sure, Doherty Goudge and Simmons let Donny
> die but so did the politicians with the power once they were
> told. Even Mauril, his own MP, has to be feeling a little
> guilty about being a Liberal who didn't keep the promise
> made by the courts to enable Don's access to his medicine.
> And making it an higher-priced black market is no
> improvement.
>
> NE: While his friends are trying not to turn his death into
> a political issue, many can't help but blame the federal
> government for restricted access to marijuana for medicinal
> purposes.
>
> JCT: I'd like to turn his death into a political issue. But
> I guess I'm alone. His friends would prefer his passing be
> noted quietly...
>
> NE: 'A TRAVESTY'
>
> "It's a travesty that people don't have access to this stuff
> -- a clean, safe good source and supply of it," said Eugene
> Oscapella, a lawyer with the Canadian Foundation for Drug
> Policy and a friend to Appleby.
>
> JCT: It's a travesty that Don dies while the law remains
> invalid and no one told it so. Right?
>
> If all those people now screaming that the courts do not
> have the power to bring the law back alive, then Don died
> while prohibition remains invalid and Don died because it's
> not known!
>
> We know the law's still dead and yet Don still died because
> the authorities act like it's still alive! Black magic.
> Media Manipulation Magic.
>
> Canada had not been told that the law remains invalid and
> growers should get busy on providing supply. Supply is not
> forthcoming because prohibition still impedes. It still
> violates Section 7 right to life.
>
> Here's the problem. The judges have ordained that the right
> to life argument can't be made because I'm not dead yet. I
> can't prove it's violating my right to life because I'm not
> dead. Just like I can't prove doctors refusing to sign
> violates my right to life because some might. It seems I
> have to be dead to invoke the right to life.
>
> So now Donny's dead. Can he now invoke his right to life? He
> couldn't before because they weren't sure? Remember, we all
> on Turmel's team use the "right to life" card. We'd never
> even heard of the right to government supply card till
> Hitzig. But now Donny's dead. Is there someway for our
> "right-to-life" teammate to finally make the right-to-life
> argument now that it's official that he died because he
> needed his prohibited medicine?
>
> NE: About two weeks ago Appleby was trying to extract oil
> from low-grade cannabis using butane, which exploded in his
> Vanier apartment, and Appleby suffered severe burns. He had
> been in hospital on a ventilator until his death on Thursday
> at 12:45 a.m. and had no chance for survival. "He ended up
> doing things that may have ultimately cost him his life,"
> Oscapella said.
>
> JCT: To get his constitutionally legal medicine, he had to
> overcome all the obstacles created by the government's
> prohibition. Put there by politicos, left there by the
> courts.
>
> NE: Oscapella described Appleby as an "activist who tried to
> help people." He was also by Appleby's side when he died.
> "The guy didn't have a lot of strength physically but he had
> a lot of strength in other ways and I think you've got to
> hand it to him," Oscapella said. In a July protest on
> Parliament Hill, Appleby smoked a joint and burned his
> Health Canada exemptions to demonstrate dismay over the
> feds' handling of medical marijuana.
>
> ACT TOGETHER
>
> "Where are people supposed to be coming up with this money?
> Five dollars a gram for second-grade medicine is not worth
> it," Appleby told the Sun in July. Meanwhile, Foster doesn't
> feel the feds are entirely to blame but wished "they'd get
> their act together."
>
> JCT: No, Donny's partly to blame. The feds aren't entirely
> to blame. Mike Foster, a close-friend of the victim doesn't
> want government blamed. No, Mike Foster, marijuana champion
> doesn't want the government entirely blamed, others must
> share that blame somewhere so the government isn't entirely
> to blame.
>
> Turmel says the government is "entirely to blame." Foster
> adds to the media spin that the government is "not entirely
> to blame." I wonder who Foster thinks is to blame? Donny?
> For being desperate and reckless? If not the government to
> be blamed, then who would Foster want to share some of it
> with the government "that's not entirely to blame?" Have you
> noticed how the Young/Emery/St-Maurice supporters always
> help add to the government spin? Here again, a marijuana
> supporter takes center stage to not blame government.
>
> NE: Appleby was also an activist in the AIDS community.
> Foster remembered him as someone who would go the extra mile
> to help others. "He was a good guy and helped people who
> fell through the cracks," Foster said.
>
> JCT: Once a year, he'd blow a bundle on a feed for all the
> kids around the school-yard behind his place. I'm sure he'll
> be missed.
>
> >Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:58:56 +0000
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Paquette)
> >Subject: Re: Pot activist dies of burns..Ottawa Sun article
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> MP: HEALTH "HELL" CANADA is 100% fully responsible for Don's
> death!
>
> JCT: Yes, but the ones who last had the power in their hands
> to declare his medicine legal and did not were our judges,
> Doherty Goudge Simmons JJ.A. They put the last knife in his
> corpse. They withheld the last possible relief. They were
> last to have had the chance to legalize and throw him a
> life-vest and instead they chose to throw it away.
>
> MP: If Don and all other Exemptees would have been supplied
> with quality buds as promised many years ago, Don would not
> have had the necessity of making oil from shake.
>
> JCT: And if Don and all other Exemptees would have been told
> by the Marijuana lawyers that the law is still dead so
> cultivation could pick up pace, same thing. Not only did the
> courts kill the idea that we were still free but Alan Young
> helped them instill the idea that were were still not free.
> And that way, with cops believing what Alan Young says on
> TV, people will now be busted again and Don's medicine stays
> illegal in everyone's minds though we know it's really never
> been re-made illegal by the courts.
> Of course, had Alan Young not interfered with the Pitt
> decision and Parker had won 18 months ago, same thing.
> Donny's alive. Alan Young had as much of a hand in Don
> Appleby's death as the bumblers on the bench.
>
> MP: I guess that Mike Foster didn't realize this. Peace,
> Marc
>
> JCT: Sure. Mike Foster didn't realize. He just couldn't help
> himself when he thought of poor little-ole government taking
> the entire blame. Nice of someone to be thinking of the
> government's best interests when friends like Donny die. I'm
> sure that Foster's reassuring everyone that government
> weren't entirely responsible will go over real well at the
> funeral home. Hope someone asks him who else should get to
> share some blame?
> =====
>
> >Marijuana activist dies following explosion
> >Saturday, November 01, 2003
> >The Ottawa Citizen
> >by James Gordon
>
> JG: Don Appleby's fight against the aids virus that was
> sapping him was made more difficult by a tragic paradox.
> While the Ottawa man was one of the few Canadians who could
> legally smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, he could
> rarely afford it due to his minuscule disability pension.
>
> JCT: And it took him over a year to beat his exemption out
> of the Minister. After all that fighting, they just sent it
> to him, no apology for having been wrong in at first
> refusing his doctor's recommendation and then admitting it.
>
> JG: In the end, he was killed in the struggle to produce the
> drug that was helping him survive. On Oct. 12, Mr. Appleby
> was in the bathroom of his Blake Boulevard apartment, trying
> a dangerous method to get some use out of the non-smokable
> parts of his marijuana plants. By injecting butane into a
> plastic container with the plant in it, he hoped to make a
> concentrated oil he could use. Friends suspect he then tried
> to light a joint, igniting an explosion that blew the
> bathroom door off its hinges. Residents of the apartment
> above his heard the explosion, and rushed him to the Ottawa
> Hospital's General campus. It's where he remained in
> intensive care since the incident, and where he died
> Thursday morning.
>
> Ron Whelan was Mr. Appleby's close friend, and was living
> under the same circumstances. He said yesterday that Mr.
> Appleby never should have died the way he did.
>
> JCT: Canadians dependent on any other drug get it right
> away. Only Canadians dependent on marijuana need government,
> rather than doctor, permission.
>
> JG: Both 44, they received about $900 a month on disability,
> not nearly enough to pay for both marijuana and food. While
> the government would pay for the $1,500-$2,000 of aids
> medication Mr. Appleby needed, they wouldn't pick up the
> cost of the marijuana. Nausea was a side-effect of the
> pills, and without the drug, he couldn't keep them down.
>
> Forced to buy marijuana himself and pay rent, his friends
> say Mr. Appleby was reduced to scrounging through dumpsters
> to find the food he could no longer afford. He would go
> searching behind restaurants late at night so nobody would
> see him. At the same time, he wasn't shy about asking people
> with marijuana gardens to help him. "You do what you have to
> do to survive, whether it's beg, borrow or steal," Mr.
> Whelan said. If one had a bag of dry macaroni from the food
> bank, he would often go to the other's place to share.
>
> Mr. Appleby decided to try and save some money by growing
> his own marijuana, and after two failed gardens, things were
> starting to work out for him.
>
> JCT: Another Health Canada "Oops" resulting in dead people.
> Oops, they forgot to take into account that gardens fail
> when they limited the number of plants to one quarter of
> what was necessary. Average yields are 7-8grams per plant
> and Health Canada equations expect yields of 30grams.
>
> JG: Still, the cost to grow was still high. With no other
> source of medicine, he resorted to the butane method. He
> never recovered from the burns that covered 75 per cent of
> his body and his scorched lungs. Mr. Whelan said although
> Mr. Appleby experienced difficult times in the past, he
> really blossomed after meeting people similar to him. He
> loved participating in marijuana rallies, and helping
> others. "The world needs more people like Donny," he said.
> "He was there for the underdog, and it's a terrible loss for
> everyone who knew him."
>
> Mr. Whelan said he doesn't blame the government for what
> happened to his friend, but said it should take more
> responsibility and provide for people like him.
>
> JCT: Gee, exactly the same spin by Whelan here in the
> Citizen as by Mike Foster in the Sun, taking the heat off
> government for what happened.
>
> I guess the media couldn't impartially find any of Don's
> friends in the pro-marijuana movement who think the
> government has no excuse.
>
> What to expect from the Cannabis Culture Coterie?
>
>
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