Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

[Karl]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 7:35 PM David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Be well, David.  I don't know you at all.

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.
>

It's best if we think of ways to improve it.

For someone to say they are ok with Silk Road and what appear to be genuine
> attempts to hire killers, proven instances of
>

???? Did you miss my last reply?  The link you posted had to use a private
conversation as evidence since there was no trade records of such things,
and the prosecutor admitted there was no indication killers were actually
hired.

the sale of hard narcotics, and the
>

To be clear here, the person in prison did not sell narcotics, right?  They
provided a platform for general trade, where others sold narcotics.

widespread platform for money laundering and tax evasion -- is kind of to
> say they are a
>

???? Bitcoin already exists and people are finally realising it doesn't
make anything private.  Ross Ulbricht didn't invent bitcoin.

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
>

Looks like you've won here.

>
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