Ulbricht was the guy who set up the "Dark Web" site The Silk Road. I am a little conflicted about this.
On the one hand, he made money on each drug deal that went through his site. There's no question that this was dirty money.
On the other hand, his 2 life sentences without the possibility of parole was hideously excessive. People have pointed out (rightly) that drug dealers convicted of using the site to sell their wares got much less time.
And on the gripping hand, a place where people can spend their money without the 24/7 government surveillance of everything sure seemed like it was a good thing.
I wonder if Trump would have issued the pardon if he hadn't been railroaded through the legal system himself. All in all, the "Justice system" here has taken a huge credibility hit.
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Black markets are a fact of life with predatory and authoritarian gubbimints. I dunno either BP. Ours are getting so bad that anyone that plays by the rules is a sucker.
I think that may be a raised middle finger at The Swamp.
The ridiculous punitive sentences they have been handing out to their political foes are really a problem. A distortion of the legal system that is often overlooked.
Agree with Glen.
From BP's post: All in all, the "Justice system" here has taken a huge credibility hit.
Since when did the legal systems here ever have any credibility? They certainly haven't had any credibility since I have been old enough to pay attention, which is 50+ years.
The legal system seems to have decided on self-immolation and they've been embarked on that path as long as I've been alive. The Supremes have literally been kicking the can an itty bit down the road since Plessy and everyone knows it. Won't do anything about it because they know it will just be tossed aside the next time the 'other party' gets the upper hand a majority on the Court.
I think the pardon was well deserved since it corrected a wild injustice perpetrated by the State with nothing but ill-intent.
The law seems to only apply to those who abide by it. Otherwise, it's only benefit is "revenue enhancement" through fines, or getting one to vote in a particular direction. The Biden crime family "preemptive" pardons pretty much blew a hole in the credibility of law... If law doesn't apply to all, it applies to none...
Using pardons to send a signal is wrong in many ways. Chiefly it is that everyone will now expect a greatly better deal.
Expected will be a sweeter deal for the less heinous criminal. And when that doesn't happen, kiss good bye an enormous amount of political capital just vanished within a very short time. Resentment will set in like sepsis.
This is far less heinous than commuting a convicted cop killer to home arrest or most all the other pardons and commutations from the Biden Regime.
There have been no "good people" in either the FBI nor the DoJ since AT LEAST Whitey Bulgerr.
Whitey Bulger
Hutaree militia
Ruby Ridge
Senator Stevens
Boston
Waco
Fast and Furious (they were neck-deeo in that as well)
Bundy Ranch
Malheur
Garland, Texa
And probably even "four grandpas in a Waffle House"
Execute every one of them for their treason. Then put their heads on pikes around the Beltway.
Pour encourager les autres!
Pardons are the only tool Presidents or governors have to correct the excesses of a corrupt legal system. We really need to have some way to deal with rogue prosecutors and judges. Trump seems to be gearing up to indict the J6 prosecutors but the judges seem to be above the law.
There ARE ways to deal with rogue prosecutors and judges.
But they are NOT legal!
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