The founder of the dark web drug marketplace Silk Road has been behind bars since 2013. Will the president-elect keep the pledge he made at last year's Libertarian Party convention?
Ulbricht put out a hit on two people. The feds intercepted the plan and Ulbricht was led to believe that the two people he paid to have killed were successfully eliminated. He does not deserve to be pardoned.
Was he prosecuted for those charges? Was he given his day in court to defend the allegations? Since the answer is no to those rhetorical questions, you can't take that into account when considering his case. The Feds aren't ones to drop murder charges when they have a case.
I appreciate her perspective; the laws aren’t good.
Agree with her wholeheartedly about the scent of Marijuana. There was a good article from Virginia Postrel complaining about it being all over SoCal. DC, MDDR, and VA are similarly terrible after it was allowed.
(Never smoked it. No imterest. The psych docs at Georgetown are really interested in knowing what various substances do to my scarred brain. Sorry, y’all. Not really interested, and I sleep with a Fed….)
I’m sympathetic, but I’d like to know more about the attempted murder charges. Are they baseless or is there something there? I wouldn’t want him to be released and then it to turn out he was Walter White.
I don't think there is anything to the charges, esp. given how fast they dropped the indictment of which they were a part and that the two feds who were convicted of stealing bitcoin were key members of that task force. The charges--widely aired but never actually proven, or even really supported by anything other press releases--really seem like a classic case of the govt using pr effectively to bias the public against a defendant.
Ulbricht put out a hit on two people. The feds intercepted the plan and Ulbricht was led to believe that the two people he paid to have killed were successfully eliminated. He does not deserve to be pardoned.
Was he prosecuted for those charges? Was he given his day in court to defend the allegations? Since the answer is no to those rhetorical questions, you can't take that into account when considering his case. The Feds aren't ones to drop murder charges when they have a case.
I appreciate her perspective; the laws aren’t good.
Agree with her wholeheartedly about the scent of Marijuana. There was a good article from Virginia Postrel complaining about it being all over SoCal. DC, MDDR, and VA are similarly terrible after it was allowed.
(Never smoked it. No imterest. The psych docs at Georgetown are really interested in knowing what various substances do to my scarred brain. Sorry, y’all. Not really interested, and I sleep with a Fed….)
I’m sympathetic, but I’d like to know more about the attempted murder charges. Are they baseless or is there something there? I wouldn’t want him to be released and then it to turn out he was Walter White.
I don't think there is anything to the charges, esp. given how fast they dropped the indictment of which they were a part and that the two feds who were convicted of stealing bitcoin were key members of that task force. The charges--widely aired but never actually proven, or even really supported by anything other press releases--really seem like a classic case of the govt using pr effectively to bias the public against a defendant.
That makes sense. We have a standard of innocent until proven guilty and those charges were never proven against him.
So why didn’t he do it eight years ago? And pardon Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange?
And his promise to “make marijuana legal In all fifty states”?