Silk Road Founder Gets Life w/o Parole

[Bible_Belt]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/29/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-sentenced

Thirty-one-year-old behind illegal online drug emporium handed five sentences – including two for life – to be served concurrently with no chance of parole

 

[backbreaker]

jesus christ they ain't playin

then again there was some real **** going on there

 

[TheVirtualMind]

jesus christ they ain't playin

then again there was some real **** going on there

Yeah...I think the fact he put so much effort in and kept texting and emailing about his "empire," kind of burned him.

 

[Jaylan]

Damn man..I just cannot understand why this country is so tough on drugs, but so light on other things (in comparison). Oh wells, the guy should have known better.

 

[backbreaker]

it was more than drugs. dudes was murdering mother****ers and ****. child porn and ****. it's not like dude was just selling blow online

 

[Deep Dish]

I just cannot understand why this country is so tough on drugs, but so light on other things (in comparison).

"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue... that we couldn't resist it."
—John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon

"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
—H.R. Halderman, Nixon White House Chief of Staff

“The reason some drugs are legal and others are not has nothing to do with science or health or the risk of drugs, and everything to do with who uses, and is perceived to use, certain drugs. If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars.”
—Ethan Nadelmann

 

[user43770]

"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue... that we couldn't resist it."
—John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon

"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
—H.R. Halderman, Nixon White House Chief of Staff

“The reason some drugs are legal and others are not has nothing to do with science or health or the risk of drugs, and everything to do with who uses, and is perceived to use, certain drugs. If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars.”
—Ethan Nadelmann

Of course! There's a government conspiracy to keep the black man down!

That is what you're implying, isn't it? How long have you been saving those choice quotes, deep dish? The only time you ever chime in is when marijuana is up for discussion. You're the epitome of bias. And after reading that post, I assume you're also a black man with a chip on your shoulder.

 

[user43770]

Your mixtapes used to be tight, though. I'll give you that.

 

[Deep Dish]

Of course! There's a government conspiracy to keep the black man down!

That is what you're implying, isn't it? How long have you been saving those choice quotes, deep dish? The only time you ever chime in is when marijuana is up for discussion. You're the epitome of bias. And after reading that post, I assume you're also a black man with a chip on your shoulder.

The American Civil Liberties Union report on disproportionate drug arrests, along with the White House sources, along with the corporate private for-profit prison industry, should be adequate evidence of probable cause.

And after reading that post, I assume you're also a black man with a chip on your shoulder.

You should click on my name to see my profile pic before making such an assumption. I don’t intend to get into further discussion.

 

[Deep Dish]

(On a side note, there is also civil asset forfeiture. The government can seize your home or car or your cash without you ever being charged with a crime.)

 

[Jaylan]

(On a side note, there is also civil asset forfeiture. The government can seize your home or car or all your cash without you ever being charged with a crime.)

Speaking of that:

"How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...savings-without-ever-charging-him-of-a-crime/

I was disgusted that they did that to this kid. But it totally ties into your posts in this thread.

 

[Steady Eddie]

the U.S. justice department is literally an extension of government. There are no degrees of separation and even the appearance of such, is gone.

This is just another example of a country in the grip of a police state.

 

[Maximus Rex]

As Mr. Mackey Would Say

Damn man..I just cannot understand why this country is so tough on drugs, but so light on other things (in comparison). Oh wells, the guy should have known better.

Because drugs are bad, mmmmkay.

the U.S. justice department is literally an extension of government.

Huh??? I guess you missed that day of class in 8th grade or 12th grade government. Dude, the Department of Justice isn't an extension of the government, it is a part of the government. The DOJ is a law enforcement agency.

 

[speed dawg]

This guy was making bank and the government used emotion to get a piece of it.

Check out the emotional power:

Two parents of children (identified only by their first names and last initials) who had died while using drugs obtained on Silk Road spoke to the court. Richard B., whose 25-year-old son died of a heroin overdose, expressed his anger at the people who have defended Ulbricht publicly. “Since Mr Ulbricht’s arrest, we have endured the persistent drumbeat of his supporters and their insistence that Silk Road was victimless,” he said. “I strongly believe that my son would be here today if Silk Road had never existed.”

Vicky B, whose 16-year-old son died after taking a powerful synthetic at a party and jumping from a second-story roof, said that the time since her son’s death had been unbearable. “This is the photo of the last kiss from my son,” she said, holding up a photo of herself with her son Preston before the school ball where he died.

“We keep Preston’s ashes at home,” she said, her voice breaking. “Sometimes I just hold them. Sometimes I get under a blanket with them and try to get warm.”

No....it wasn't the kids' fault for smoking heroine and spice, it was the dealers, because I'm sure he put a gun to their head and forced them to go online and buy his stuff. Not to mention that yes, it's true, use Silk Road and you don't have to f*ck with street dealers, which makes it safer.

What a racket. People suck.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/agora-bigger-than-silk-road/

 

[Wisconsin144]

Damn. They were not easy on the guy lol

 

[backbreaker]

Im an alpha bay person myself

 

[Who Dares Win]

Has to be a coincidence that leftists who support government presence everywhere to tell the citizen what do to fully support such punishment while conservative and libertarians are somehow less harsh on that.

I guess the whole silk road point is not about drug but about freedom and control.

 

[Skyline]

Has to be a coincidence that leftists who support government presence everywhere to tell the citizen what do to fully support such punishment while conservative and libertarians are somehow less harsh on that.

I guess the whole silk road point is not about drug but about freedom and control.

Well the deep dark web is the basis of "freedom without control."

You would be amazed at how well some of those hackers actually are.