This has been bothering me all day, this case just shows the lengths the US gov will go to keep all us sheeps in line. They don't care about the drugs, that's just an excuse. What they are threatened by is the lack of control they had over Silk road. They couldn't make a buck out of it.

The Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht are not the thing that government and the media make them out to be. Perhaps government doesn't completely lie, but its focus is so skewed that it might as well be lying.

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/deep-web-silk-road-alex-winter/



EDIT: If you ever want freedom from the stupid, picky things that people use government to do to you, you better fight government in this case. It might be late, but we can still set Ross - and ourselves, thereby - free.

Gullible much?

If you go to the store, buy a knife and stab yourself to death, is that the stores fault ?    Just wondering, how your logic works..

Do you have any solid evidence to prove that he attempted to kill people, other than the pathetic arguments framed up by the cops? This can happen to anyone. Just remember that even you yourself are not safe. Ross Ullbricht was targeted, just because he dared to oppose the big three (drug cartels, pharma cartels, and banking cartels).

Prison industry is actually quite a large-scale business in the United States. In the rural US (especially in the Southern states such as Texas and Louisiana), entire communities sometimes depend upon the prison business. And this might be one of the reasons why the prison population in the US (at around 2,500,000 inmates) is the largest in the world.

Do you know how many people die from prescription drugs? People who want drugs are going to get drugs. The punishment did not fit the crime. There were many people who have done far worse and barely served any jail time. Look at the cash for kids scandal. If anything these judges should have got life. Should have stacked everything and ran it consecutively.

In the end he knew about the strict drug laws in the US and he still broke it. It doesn't matter how musch people think this is unfair. You don't even need to know the law of your country to still be responsible when breaking it. If you spend your holidays in a country, where you get jail for "public kissing", it doesn't help saying you didn't know. Ross is an intelligent guy. He can't tell the people, that this was an "economic experiment", when in fact he was simply earning commission from illegal goods, just like Pablo Escobar  and all the other leaders of drug empires. Even worse, he didn't organise his business eye to eye, but everything with the anonimity of the internet. Simply write some lines and somebody gets killed! It's as easy as that. No more meetings with shady killers and handing over big money in a paperbag. He might have been a nice guy once, but based on the presented evidence it looks like he has changed a lot into a mercyless drug lord.

I think you can argue it was an economic experiment as it was the first of its kind, but that doesn't mean it wasn't highly illegal. Maybe SR and the markets that follow will pave the way for drug reform or a change in the laws or at least decentralized markets which LE will have a very tricky time trying to police given their nature. I think Ross was silly to have been a resident in the states whilst running it. He seemed to travel a lot so he should have just holed up in some far away country and operated it from there  and they would have had a very difficult time trying to arrest him then.

Everyone knows what he did was wrong in the eyes of the law and he profited substantially from it without paying taxes on earnings, but you can argue that selling drugs and also taxes are not immoral or you shouldn't have to pay them any way, but I could have respected him and what he created had he not tried to have people murdered as they made me lose all respect for him. Sadly I think the position he was in as the anonymous and mysterious DPR corrupted his vision and beliefs and he got lost in a world that he was never really cut out for or should have been a part of.