Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

[David Barrett]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 4:19 PM Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 7:12 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf>
> wrote:
>
>>         That's nonsense. It was all just drugs, and there's absolutely no
>> reason to apologize for it.
>>
>
I agree IF you are in support of unrestricted sale of hard narcotics, then
that's fine.  It just happens to be that in the US (and virtually
everywhere else in the world), most people aren't, and the legal structure
reflects that.


>         We have YET ANOTHER US govt turd alias 'david barnett' posting the
>> most idiotic trolling nonsense one can imagine :  "But but, the US govt is
>> good and drugs are baad!" - Please.
>>
>
> David's able to speak so rationally, how do we protect him?
>

Thank you, I appreciate that!  The idea that everyone who speaks up in
defense of the US government is automatically a government plant comes from
a pretty sad worldview.  In the real world, our representative democracy
was built by people who largely agree with it (tautologically so) -- which
means we largely agree with it's fundamental structure, it's general
workings, and it's overall results.  I know it's not very fashionable to be
patriotic these days (Trump was about the worst thing I can imagine for
"Brand USA"), but I think part of democracy is recognizing that it's *ok*
to dislike the outcome of a good process, while still agreeing the process
itself is good.

For someone to say they are ok with Silk Road and what appear to be genuine
attempts to hire killers, proven instances of the sale of hard narcotics,
and the widespread platform for money laundering and tax evasion -- is kind
of to say they are a pretty extreme outlier.  It's not our government's job
to reflect the attitude of every outlier -- and anyone who wishes it did,
almost surely would not support all the other equally extreme but very
different attitudes our government also correctly ignores.

-david
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