Warriors,
Victims and the Law
A
Clarification Regarding the Difference
between
Matt
Mernagh v. Dr. Rob Kamermans
At the
beginning of August I wrote An
Open Letter To Matt Mernagh that resulted in a back and forth series of
increasingly revealing e-mails that effectively destroyed the high regard in
which I held him. I expected to contact a compassionate Medical Marijuana
proponent, knowledgeable, and most importantly someone up to date on the impact
that the vindictive application of the Law can have on a victim. So much for
expectations based on propaganda.
What did I
find?
A complete
and total asshole! I was advised that all Dr. Kamermans had to do was hang in
and just do as he had done and everything would work out fine. Matt didn’t
believe that Doctor Kamermans was in any sort of money trouble! If his pro-bono College provided lawyers had weaseled out
he wouldn’t have any trouble getting a new crew, all he had to do was pay for
them. Ho! Ho! Ho!
To say I
was surprised is an understatement so I decided to check out just what Matt had
done to earn his reputation as The King of Pot. Just how relevant was his
conflict with the Law to that of Dr. Kamermans? Turns out Matt’s high opinion
of his own legal expertise is based on fuck all except patience and
perseverance.
It took him
ten years, a crew of supporters, and a hotshot lawyer to lose and consent to
get a License from Health Canada. Big deal, he lost but in the
narrow mind of his followers he’s a hero because he had the balls to attack
before he became a victim. That makes any similarity between the two cases a
straight impossibility.
What
further destroys Matt in my eyes is that he’s got a loose fucking mouth. In one
of my communications to Matt I specifically asked that he keep confidential the
information that I was considering asking Bob Erb to consider helping Dr. K.
I never
followed through with that intention but within one week, the slimy fake name
slander artist Coe Hill was spouting my confidential information on Facebook. I
have no idea who Coe Hill might be and I don’t care. When I see Matt and I have
one mutual friend we share and that is Johnny Fredette, then that is all the
linkage I need to establish his source of facts about Dr. Kamermans to be
coming directly from The Baleful Bitches of Bancroft. He’s a believer in gutter
gossip and not to be trusted.
Sorry for
the departure into Character analysis when what needs clarification is the
difference in the two cases and that means outlining what each of these legal
combatants faced in the years of legal confrontation and therein lays the
difference.
Matt is a Warrior: Dr. Kamermans is a victim.
Let’s take
a look at what happened to Matt, the warrior, during the course of his
encounter with the law.
First off, Matt
was guilty of a crime! He admits that. He was smart enough to realize
that the MMAR was a crock of shit and there was an excellent possibility he
could evade arrest and the consequences by challenging the law itself. He was
right.
I have no
idea how he did it or what help he had, but he managed to prepare an acceptable
submission and on a day of his choosing he walked into a courthouse and
presented a package of argument that admitted his guilt but asserted there was
no crime because of legal deficiency. The filing fee was paid and he walked out
on his own recognizance, blanketed with an immunity that prevented his arrest
as a confessed criminal until such time as the case was resolved. It took ten
years of relative peace and freedom from stress until he lost and the penalty
for his crime was submitting to a court order to either get a License or
actually do some minimal time. To the disgust of many of his supporters, Matt
caved and applied for a License.
Note that
because he was a warrior and began the fight he successfully evaded every nasty
consequence that could have; more likely would have, been inflicted on him. He
has absolutely no idea or expertise in handling anything from a defensive
position and victim.
Following
is what happened to Dr. Kamermans. If you are a Mernagh fan and consider him
some sort of a legal advisor just ask yourself how either he or you yourself
would have dealt with the following;
1. You are a Medical Doctor and you
become aware of the victimization of Medical Marijuana applicants who have an
acceptable qualifying illness their doctor has successfully diagnosed and
documented. The whole damned crew of your Canadian Medical Association brethren
have refused to sign and betrayed their oath to do no harm. You check with a
lawyer who advises by signing applications you are not approving or
recommending anything but simply declaring: on the basis of their documented
diagnosis they qualify for acceptance by Health Canada. There is no crime involved in what
you are going to do.
2. You accept your legal advice and for
two years you sign, at an ever increasing rate, a flood of applications and
then in the course of your normal daily office routine you get surprised. A
combined force of OPP and RCMP complete with a SWAT Team with terrorist
firepower and asshole leadership oozing Cop mentality storm in and hand you a
search warrant. The leader of the wolf pack is one Sergeant Mark Duval: King
Turd of Coe Hill, the same son of a bitch who is still committing Criminal
Negligence. You are not arrested but they slap both you and your wife into
handcuffs, jam you into a Cop car, slam you into a cell and subject you to a
fun filled day of hostile Cop interrogation before releasing you without
charges. WTF?
3. You return to your office to
discover that all the confidential patient files relating to Medical Marijuana
have been seized and removed and for the next four months you are subjected to
a vicious harassment and slander attacks from the politically correct police
perverts. They conspicuously stake out your office and home, regular local
patients are unnecessarily stopped when they leave after a visit. They are
falsely accused of being a druggie and lowlife in the most hostile and intimidating
manner. Slowly but surely your practice and income base are getting destroyed
by fear of the Gestapo tactics encountered by your patients.
4. In April the axe finally falls. The
decision to arrest you is made and Sergeant Rob Henderson takes the initiative
to make that arrest in the most damaging way possible. Rather than wait until
the next morning to arrest you at home, Ratfucker Rob takes a crew and drives
200 miles to arrest you in mid-shift at the Sturgeon Falls Emergency Room so
that you will be deprived of that source of income. The fact they leave the
community they are supposed to serve with no resource if a medical emergency
arises is not as important to them as ruining you.
5. In the following six months and that
is as far as I will go, you have to come up with $60,000 bail money of stay
caged, you go to your bank and withdraw money to pay your US mortgages and get
arrested for trying to launder the proceeds of crime. The cops use that as
leverage to force all your financial resources (Two banks and the Credit Union)
to cancel all your accounts including your credit cards. This had the effect of
establishing that you were subject to arrest at any time and accordingly your
only other source of significant income was lost. Your other ER position was
lost because of the possibility of another mid-shift arrest. You are slapped
with a No Contact gag Order that prevents you from defending yourself, your
phone is tapped, they’ve bugged your house and office and you have no idea what
they’ve installed into your computers when they had access to them so forget
any confidential e-mail traffic.
If Matt is
so certain Dr. K has a pisspot full of money stashed somewhere then where is
it. Why would a guy with a pile of cash have been depending on pro-bono legal
services from College insurance if he had other funds available? None of that illegal
money is in any Canadian account nor is it in the USA or the IRS and DEA would be all
over his ass.
I’m going
to end here. I’m tired of being forced to listen to comments about Matt Mernagh
as if he were doing something to help Medical Marijuana at present. He gained a
position of respect and a voice that would be listened to if he had taken
advantage and come out as a voice for the victims who are facing ruination with
the MMRP.
All Matt
has done since he caved in is promote himself as a TV clown and expert on
marijuana cultivation, strain selection, the resultant products and methods of
use. Big fucking deal! That might be some use if it wasn’t totally useless in
an environment where all personal growth is illegal. All he’s doing is advising
how to get maximum benefit from your illegal activity when you decide to grow
your own.
The
majority of opinion I see on Facebook by current Licensees is that the MMRP is
going to be ignored and people are going to intentionally break the law and
grow their own because of medical and financial necessity. They are fully aware
that they are probably going to be arrested and while Matt may be a useful
source of grow advice he could do better service trying to prevent their arrest
in the first place by raising a voice of protest now. Unfortunately that
prospect never occurred to him because he has never ever been arrested and suffered
any of the consequences of victimization like Dr. K.
Matt, my
boy: If you have a problem with this I’m prepared to defend my conclusions. As
my evidence base I’ve got all those secret confidential communications between
us I don’t think you want seen.
Challenge
me and I’ll publish the whole goddamned list and let my readers make their own
judgment of the King of Pot.
Balls in
your court you asshole
Blaine Barrett
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