On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
in the sense of completely unfettered commerce i guess it is. but its also popular among people on both sides that want to decriminalize hard drugs
doesnt matter tho. he compared ulbricht to rosa parks. LOL
in stuff like piracy/drugs/etc. it doesn't really matter what actually is happening, people take sides before even thinking about it. Like people who think Kim Dotcom is a really cool guy sticking up to the man.
To be fair its kinda like that everywhere, politics are dumb because people will always defend the side they support no matter how much they have to twist logic to do so.
On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
in the sense of completely unfettered commerce i guess it is. but its also popular among people on both sides that want to decriminalize hard drugs
doesnt matter tho. he compared ulbricht to rosa parks. LOL
Don't want cash, don't want card Want it fast, want it hard Don't need money, don't need fame I just want to make a change I just wanna change
On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
Yes, to the point that is a true, free market without government, based purely on trust. But then you hire a hitman to kill other people and it comes sort of insane.
wait what I thought it was for drugs what the fuck
On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
Yes, to the point that is a true, free market without government, based purely on trust. But then you hire a hitman to kill other people and it comes sort of insane.
wait what I thought it was for drugs what the fuck
I mean it was for buying and selling illegal things, including services
On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
Yes, to the point that is a true, free market without government, based purely on trust. But then you hire a hitman to kill other people and it comes sort of insane.
wait what I thought it was for drugs what the fuck
yea it was for drug trafficking and money laundering, among a host of other things
he was charged for the hitman hires, but they were 'alleged' and supposedly didn't actually take place and the sentencing didnt encompass those charges. whatever i doubt he's going to get life i think the judge was just a hardliner. should be easy to appeal right? p6 help
On June 03 2015 02:44 andyrau wrote: yea it was for drug trafficking and money laundering, among a host of other things
he was charged for the hitman hires, but they were 'alleged' and supposedly didn't actually take place and the sentencing didnt encompass those charges. whatever i doubt he's going to get life i think the judge was just a hardliner. should be easy to appeal right?
On June 03 2015 02:07 PassiveAce wrote: i dont really know him but he compared ross ulbricht to rosa parks in the silk road thread so im sure hes pretty amazing
idk isn't silk road a very right wing concept?
you know, in theory.
Yes, to the point that is a true, free market without government, based purely on trust. But then you hire a hitman to kill other people and it comes sort of insane.
wait what I thought it was for drugs what the fuck
yea it was for drug trafficking and money laundering, among a host of other things
he was charged for the hitman hires, but they were 'alleged' and supposedly didn't actually take place and the sentencing didnt encompass those charges. whatever i doubt he's going to get life i think the judge was just a hardliner. should be easy to appeal right? p6 help
He got life without parole. The case showed overwhelming evidence of his crimes, so I doubt they will be able to get the 7 charges overturned. An appeal might be possible if there was some flaw in sentencing process. Proving the judge was to harsh with his sentencing is very hard. And if the jury handed down the sentence and decided on no parole, he is fucked.
So, unless they can prove someone fucked up by not giving him the option of parole, he is in jail for life.
On June 03 2015 02:44 andyrau wrote: yea it was for drug trafficking and money laundering, among a host of other things
he was charged for the hitman hires, but they were 'alleged' and supposedly didn't actually take place and the sentencing didnt encompass those charges. whatever i doubt he's going to get life i think the judge was just a hardliner. should be easy to appeal right?
didn't he already get sentenced to life?
he did but they plan to appeal
Ulbricht’s defense team has already said it will seek an appeal in his case. That call for a new trial will be based in part on recent revelations that two Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration agents involved in the investigation of the Silk Road allegedly stole millions of dollars of bitcoin from the site. One of the agents is even accused of blackmailing Ulbricht, and of allegedly selling him law enforcement information as a mole inside the DEA. But the judge in Ulbricht’s case ruled that those Baltimore-based agents weren’t involved in the New York FBI-led investigation that eventually took down the Silk Road, preventing their alleged corruption from affecting Ulbricht’s fate.
also some of the emotional pandering that the prosecutors did was fucking dumb
In emotional statements at the hearing, the parents of drug users who had overdosed and died from drugs purchased from the Silk Road called for a long sentence for Ulbricht. “I strongly believe my son would still be alive today if Mr. Ulbricht had never created Silk Road,” said one father whose 25-year old son had died from an overdose of heroin[...]
"oh yea i also believe my son would be alive today if the internet were not invented." what a joke
Life imprisonment in denmark averages out to like 16 years in denmark. The person with the longest sentence in denmark had 33 years for brutally murdering 4 police officers.
Only individuals considered too dangerous are locked up indefinitely.
The american prison systems seems incredibly bad at the whole rehabilitation thing.