Pardoning Ulbricht is the incredibly thin silver lining of Trump’s presidency. These drug war advocates talk like they really believe this problem can be solved with criminal justice, meanwhile they defund harm reduction education and make healthcare inaccessible. It’s diabolical.
I had never heard of him or the Silk Road. I just looked it up and it seems like there was some benefit to creating a place where people could find drugs without the dangerous human encounters that can happen during these sales but it also said that the site was used to trade in illegal weapons, hacking tools and tutorials, hit men for hire and other unlawful goods and services. Doesn’t sound like much of a silver lining to me. More like an aluminum lining.
Would you trade in weapons or hacking tools? Those are societal problems and locking up a single person makes literally zero difference to that problem. The reality is that there are now many competing sites offering the same items and worse. The opioid crisis in America was created by literally one family, the Sackler’s, why aren’t they in prison? This is a justice system that behaves like a banana republic.
This is a criminal justice system where penalties scale with skin colour and inversely with wealth. They got pissy with Ulbricht due to the sheer scale of the manhunt required to get one person, a vast sum was spent that could have been spent on healthcare and harm reduction. They don’t actually care about the damage that drugs do or rehabilitation, this is about punishment. Everyone needs to take responsibility for their actions, except wealthy white people.
The war on drugs is not ethical and the very last people I will get behind are law enforcement. The case against Ulbricht was a tissue of lies and fabrication.
Pardoning Ulbricht is the incredibly thin silver lining of Trump’s presidency. These drug war advocates talk like they really believe this problem can be solved with criminal justice, meanwhile they defund harm reduction education and make healthcare inaccessible. It’s diabolical.
I had never heard of him or the Silk Road. I just looked it up and it seems like there was some benefit to creating a place where people could find drugs without the dangerous human encounters that can happen during these sales but it also said that the site was used to trade in illegal weapons, hacking tools and tutorials, hit men for hire and other unlawful goods and services. Doesn’t sound like much of a silver lining to me. More like an aluminum lining.
Would you trade in weapons or hacking tools? Those are societal problems and locking up a single person makes literally zero difference to that problem. The reality is that there are now many competing sites offering the same items and worse. The opioid crisis in America was created by literally one family, the Sackler’s, why aren’t they in prison? This is a justice system that behaves like a banana republic.
Your agreement could be used for the crime of mass shootings. It’s a societal problem, what’s the use in locking up one person?
I think if it’s true, he should be locked up AND the Sacklers right next to him.
This is a criminal justice system where penalties scale with skin colour and inversely with wealth. They got pissy with Ulbricht due to the sheer scale of the manhunt required to get one person, a vast sum was spent that could have been spent on healthcare and harm reduction. They don’t actually care about the damage that drugs do or rehabilitation, this is about punishment. Everyone needs to take responsibility for their actions, except wealthy white people.
I agree.
There were no hitmen for hire on silk road.
Ulbricht was a sack of shit. He tried to hire several hitmen to kill agents investigating his stuff. He isn’t someone you want to get behind.
The war on drugs is not ethical and the very last people I will get behind are law enforcement. The case against Ulbricht was a tissue of lies and fabrication.
In Ross’ defense people should defend themselves from violent prohibitionists who lock encage, torture, and murder people.
Prohibitionists are the true sacks of shit. Endlessly profiting from drugs and violence.
Dude he hired FBI agents whom he thought were hitmen. If he knew they were Feds he would not have done it.
I believe in lifting prohibitions on drugs. But that doesn’t make people like Ross stand up guys. He is genuine sack of human shit.
…prohibiting the sale of child pornography, weapons, and drugs. But I see you’re neatly setting some of these aside.
‘criminal justice’ would be cool; we should try it sometime. closest I’ve seen was pinned on some italian dude in new york.