This was one of the biggest requests of the Libertarian Party and Trump followed through with it. Could you imagine the Democratic Party agreeing to any demand from the Green Party in an attempt to get votes?
I can imagine them agreeing to all sorts of things!<br>
He referred to the prosecutors as scum and said they were the ones who were persecuting him like it was some purely political shit when he is an incredibly prolific fraudsters, rapist, and traitor. He should have been arrested during the Jan 6th insurrection and never allowed free again.
His reasoning was that Ross was a libertarian and this is to honor the libertarian movement that supported him… dude! He labeled the fucking drug cartels terrorist organizations and Ross enabled so much drug trafficking it isn’t funny. How the fuck do people not see through that?
Here’s my convoluted conspiracy theory for how this makes sense.
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Trump launches Trump Coin
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Trump pardons crypto drug dealer, but not paper drug dealers
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Crypto market booms
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Trump sells coin to whichever idiots he hasn’t scammed yet
I also think this is some crypto bro shenanigans. Ulbricht might even have billions in Bitcoin stashed away somewhere for a juicy payback.
That cryptoscan was to allow untraceable bribes from enemy nations.
You can already do that with any cryptocurrency using a mixer. And some of them already have strong privacy built in or available as add-ons.
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Trump is a demon, but this was a good call. His sentence was wildly disproportionate to what he did.
Didn’t he try to hire a hitman?
No. The evidence against him was fabricated because they didn’t have any evidence.
I somehpw doubt that considering some if the evidence used to convict him was used to convict his DEA mole later
Nonetheless, he was not convicted on those charges.
The judicial system in America is obviously not about what is written in their legal statutes or the veracity of the evidence presented. Otherwise war criminals, fraudsters and rapists like Bush, Cheney, Trump and Clinton would be in prison. It is about advancing an agenda for a white male US hegemony and that explains most of the outcomes, e.g. black people being enslaved in prison. Ulbricht thumbed his nose at the establishment and they got pissy. Assange and Snowden revealed their crimes and they hunted them to the ends of the earth. The CIA and their stooges, the Swedes, fabricated a rape allegation against Assange that was quietly dismissed, unfulfilled, seven years later. This establishment will stop at nothing to assert their authority and you wonder about evidence in the Ulbricht case?
No I don’t wonder because again that evidence was used to convict the DEA agents that stole from Silk Road. You are linking a bunch of things that have nothing to do with each other. The pattern you are seeing is an illusion
The pattern I’m seeing is a corrupt government not to be trusted. You have a fraudster in charge and his henchmen are Nazis. The fact that those agents were convicted of stealing money is not a good sign.
it was to kill competition who were threatening to kill him. id say if the law won’t protect you, you are free to protect yourself
Edit: I wrote a whole comment about this and the corrupt DEA agents involved in pushing him into a murder-for-hire scheme who were also working as moderators for the Silk Road, and later went to prison for crimes surrounding the ordeal.
But I decided against it, because the fact remains that it is likely he did attempt to have people killed. It was due to threats of exposing him, not threats on his life. And the fact is that him likely being entrapped is a good legal defense but not a good moral one.
If we ignore everything involving the possible contract murder deals, I say that his release is wonderful. Considering he was never convicted of any of the murder for hire stuff, his sentence was draconian, and marked a real shift in the freedom of the internet. As to Trump, even a broken clock is right twice every 78 years.
But this release is not so sweet knowing what Ross may have and likely tried to do in order to hang onto his crumbling empire.
Could prosecutors still charge him with murder for hire, ultimately forcing Trump to double down?
I really don’t know, but I doubt they would. It’s possible for the original 5 instances he was accused of, as he was never tried but the district court conceded he probably did it.
The 6th, later and more famous instance? Probably not. He was actually indicted for that in Maryland, but it was a weak case that was dropped once he was convicted of his other drug and financial crimes. In the later incident, the hitman who he purportedly hired was Carl Force; the corrupt DEA agent. At best, Force’s action constituted entrapment. At worst, the whole story is unreliable. Either way, I can’t see any government agency thrilled about dragging the details of that situation out of obscurity.
even a broken clock is right twice a day…
this was probably timed to distract from the whole, nazi salute controversy.
I remember this guy being a fucking idiot that paid for several fake assassinations of fake rivals. It was pretty funny.
It is funny in hindsight, knowing the assassinations were a scam. But he thought they were real, he talked in great detail about them and payed for them. This is missing from the article, I believe it was part of his indictment.
Oh yeah, he’s a piece of shit for sure. I just think it’s funny that he’s also a moron. What kind of drug lord gets a message saying “Hey, I heard of a guy who wants to take you down, wire me a cool mil and I’ll kill him for you, k?” and just… sends the money? More than once?! He definitely tried to rescue an overthrown Nigerian prince as a kid.
Don’t forget, he was caught because he posted his email in a public forum while advertising the Silk Road. That email address contained his real name.
lol I totally forgot about that. He should be used as evidence that meritocracy isn’t real.
Honestly, the only reason he’s famous at all is because the Silk Road was used to drum up shock by the media, so the government used him as an example to those who would make them look bad. Otherwise, he would have faded into obscurity like every other idiot criminal who stumbled into short term riches.
Don’t forget, he was caught because he posted his email in a public forum while advertising the Silk Road
Even better, he asked a question on StackOverflow lol
Don’t you know? All the best darknet marketplaces are cobbled together from code strangers gave you on SO.
Yeah, when I watched a synopsis of the story, multiple alarm bells rang in my head midway through watching it. He’s so gullible for how rich he fucking was
So the twist that was that they were all the same person, didn’t even surprise me, you could see that it was a scam a mile away if you were paying attention
The scammer was pretty good, though, I will give them that. Too bad the scammer was also pretty dumb about how the handle the money after the fact, and got caught lmao.
Didn’t Donald the Jester say something about fighting crime before the election? And then he drops thousands of hard criminals back on the street?
Wow that brings me joy. Silkroad is where I bought my first drugs
Snowden next?
Lol, fat chance
He will have him executed.
Lol explain the logic here… Russian asset gonna execute another Russian asset cuZ?
Asset doesn’t mean Russia has full power over them, only that they’re acting to their advantage
Putler does it all the time
It’s so easy to see who bough his bitcoin “scam” now, isn’t it?
You think Ross did from prison?
Absolutely I do.
Of course they do. This is how they cope with anything Trump related. They come up with conspiracy theories.
Kodak black paid 2mil for a pardon the first time. This is highly likely to be true, you are either uniformed, a bot, or in on the grift.
Ross was an idiot, that’s why he was caught. They seized all his remaining bitcoin, what hadn’t been stolen by hackers because, again, he was an idiot and the Silk Road was slapped together from code cobbled from other places. There’s no way the dude was smart enough to set some aside for bribes in case he got caught, because he was so sure he wouldn’t that he advertised the Silk Road using his personal email with his real name in forum posts.
While I don’t think he deserved life in prison, he sure as hell ended up there because of how ridiculously idiotic he was. The dude isn’t smart enough to be a manager at Arby’s, let alone run a criminal enterprise.
isn’t smart enough to be a manager at Arby’s
Hey buddy, chill, there’s almost certainly talented doctors from other countries who couldn’t afford to recertify managing at least 2 Arby’s…and those will be the only 2 you don’t get food poisoning from.
That is completely missing my point. I’m sure there’s literal rocket scientists who have had to work at Arby’s to make ends meet, but that has nothing to do with Ross lacking the intellect to properly manage one. We’re not talking about immigrant doctors in this thread.
Sure, or you can read my comment again and realise the joke I was making.
they didn’t catch him because of bad opsec, unless you consider Tor to be bad opsec. they caught him with a parallel reconstruction after the NSA illegally spied on him.
change my mind
You can watch any documentary on Silk Road. Or for that matter, the Wikipedia article says the same damn thing. But I don’t need to change your mind. You’re some random person on the internet, nothing any of us says really matters to anyone else here. Believe it or don’t, it’s up to you.
- How did he pay all that money while in prison?
- Where are you getting your facts about Ross from besides your ass?
How does being in prison prohibit moving around assets?
This is incredibly stupid. Prison officials will do everything they can to prevent an inmate from moving around assets for VERY OBVIOUS reasons. But, after thinking about it, it may not be so obvious for this echo chamber so let me explain the obvious.
You are an inmate in prison. You made millions doing your illegal thing while free but you hare now doing hard time. You don’t like hard time, you want easy or no time. How do you make your life better while in prison. Wait, you have millions. You’ll just use that money to have your way with the guards and prison system. Guard giving you trouble? Use your assets that you’ve amassed to “get rid of them”.
The prison system has protocols and processes in place to prevent all inmates from being able to control any assets they have on the outside. This prevents them from committing further crimes, exerting influence, or running an enterprise (criminal or legal) while incarcerated.
Wardens do not have access to financial of prisoners. Why would you think that would be the case?
You are naive.
Again, I’m gonna suggest you look up lawyers and what they do.
Here’s some resources:
Lawyer (children’s edition)
Revocable Living Trust (apologies, but this one isn’t very kid friendly)
How prisons work (children’s edition)
Lawyers or anyone that has power of attorney can make payments on your behalf. How do you think people pay mortgages or make payments in jail?
That is literally NOT the definition of a lawyer.
I never said it was. I specified who can make payments for you while you are serving time. The fact you think this can’t happen or that the prison has any involvement in this is really off
edit: It should say Lawyers OR not ir perhaps that’s the confusion?
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Lawyers and setting up trust funds.
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Try this website:
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You can’t see Trump is for sale?
I never said he wasn’t. If I had the cash I would ask for favors too.
Then why would you think this is a conspiracy theory?
I don’t think that Ulbricht had the capability to bribe Trump. I think that Lemmy and Reddit users are trying to justify Trump’s pardon by saying it was done through illegal activity (bribery) instead of campaign promises. That’s why I say they are making up conspiracy theories. Now I believe he can be bribed because of all the felonies he got from issuing bribes.
Gotcha, I still think he got paid for this because Ross was in for hiring a hitman which is an odd thing for Trump to pardon.
Soooo…. Do you not know what lawyers and trusts are and what they do? If not, have an adult explain these things to you when you can, and if so….
Why embarrass yourself wish such an ignorant comment?
I didn’t even notice that this happened:
Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence.
commuted the remainder of his sentence.
Commuted it to home fucking arrest, not even full clemancy.
Oh… He’s not even the real Dread Pirate Roberts!
OMG Trump did a positive thing 🤯, maybe by mistake
If you read the article Trump called his mother to tell her personally so not really an accident
Freeing a drug lord is a good thing?
He was white with a white name. If it was Carlos Fernandez he would had his life sentence upgraded to death and had his executed ASAP.
Drug cartels are cheering.
Amazing
This is a win for drug cartels
Imagine having millions of dollars worth of bitcoin in 2013 and then being imprisoned until 2024.
I hope he made a good backup of at least a few thousand coins.
His coins were all seized by the government. Or what was left of them. You see, Ross was not a very smart person, and what he didn’t give to fake hitmen to knock off people he didn’t like, got pillaged by hackers because he wasn’t a programmer and the Silk Road was held together with spit and a whole lot of optimism. He got caught because he posted his personal email in a public forum while advertising the Silk Road, and his email address contained his real name.
He’s an absolute idiot, and half the people in this thread could have run the site better than him.
You’re making assumptions.
Also, he wasn’t an idiot. He just didn’t have any prior experience or training as a Dev or in opsec.
Glen geeenwald is not an idiot and he was just as ignorant when Snowden tried to contact him.
Listen, if you think being the admin of a darknet drug marketplace and using your real name in public forums doesn’t make you an idiot, then you’re an idiot too.
Also, Glen Greenwald is absolutely an idiot.
I feel like if you’re running an online black market, step number one is not using your real name or regular email (it was gmail, no less, so hello NSA). I’m not opsec, that’s just insanely dumb.
no, Glen Greenwald is an idiot
