Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.
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Let’s accept that as fact. What rules did they have in place not to sell drugs to minors? If they can directly link 6 deaths to this guys website. There was likely a large multipler more. Also sold counterfeit documents. Yeah really needed this guy’s services.
Add in his attempts at facilitating multiple hits. Not seeing this guy worth a pardon.
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Who is this kook going to pardon next? Posthumously his love bud Jeffrey Epstein?
It’s not as if this guy didn’t have the best lawyers to argue his case and appeals. I guess the only leg to stand on is over prosecution.
Trump: "... if we don't get tough on drug dealers, we're wasting our time, just remember that, we're wasting our time, and that toughness includes the death penalty,"
Also Trump: Pardons worldwide drug kingpin because his sentence was "ridiculous"
Also Trump: Pardons worldwide drug kingpin because his sentence was "ridiculous"
Also Trump: we are going to send special forces to take out the cartels to stop the flow of drugs
Mexican cartels are taking jobs from American drug traffickers.
I’m still interested to see the unintended consequences of an operation like that. Cartels aren’t just going to give up or fight a conventional war. They’ll go after soft targets in response. Escalation can go from turning places in Mexico into war zones to places in the lower 48.
They sold over a billion dollars worth of illegal goods.
You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.
But they had rules against anything toooo bad. Which I’m sure were strictly followed.
Shaw presented an analysis he made of what was sold on Silk Road, based on the server data. The site provided a platform for a total of $182.9 million worth of drugs, he testified. (That's far less than an earlier government statement that the site had sold $1.2 billion). Only four percent of Silk Road sales, by value, were non-drug products.
Other illicit sales included around $1 million of fake IDs and passports and just over $3 million worth of currency, Bitcoin, gold, and silver. (Some Silk Road vendors offered cash in exchange for bitcoins.)
In all, the site contained 1.53 million transactions and hosted 3,748 seller accounts and 115,391 buyer accounts. The total revenue was $213.8 million, or 9,912,070 bitcoins. The site earned earned $13.17 million worth of commissions or 642,455 bitcoins. Those commissions were charged each time a sale was made. (In Shaw's analysis, dollar values were given to bitcoins based on the time of the sale.)
Only a million in fake ID’s. That’s reassuring.
Selling drugs without accountability. One star. This vendor sold my 16 year old son an LSD clone. Sorry he can’t write the review himself. He’s brain dead.
Like going blind from bathtub gin, government prohibition efforts tend to cause more harm than good.
People don't buy crack online. Crackheads are notoriously impatient and desperate.
THERE SHE IS!! There’s the deflection.
I can’t believe I almost caught up without seeing one goldie whataboutism post.
I have no whataboutisms, precious.
However I do see that YOU are flailing a bit.
Try harder, mkay? 😉
I’d rather not give a false sense of security that the substances sold weren’t dangerous. Or similar to weed. LSD, cocaine, barbiturates, PCP, etc are illegal and off shoots are controlled by doctors for a reason. It shouldn’t be mail ordered. These weren’t limp dick pills. Minors and young males don’t have fully developed brains yet. There was reason the hippy movement died out. Far too many free love and drug users simply became walking zombies.
I’m not a prude all for legal weed and edibles. A major deterrent from people using hardcore substances is dealing with dangerous scumbags.
HuNTeR has been sober for years. Why hate someone from getting their life in order and openly admitting he harmed people with his bad choices?
To the point of the thread, do you think it is a positive to pardon this man, or, does it delegitimize Trump's stated goals of reducing illegal drugs in the US?
Do you believe the Trump DoJ will pursue cases against large scale traffickers like this, or turn a blind eye due to personal relationships and donations?
Asking for the board
