US Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht - He actually fulfilled his promise

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Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
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US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son.

Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using the virtual currency Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"

During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200m (£131m) worth of drugs anonymously.

The Silk Road took its name from the historic trade routes spanning Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.

The site achieved notoriety through media reports and online chatter. But users could only access the site through Tor - a system that lets people use the web without revealing who they are or which country they are in.

Court documents from the FBI said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they did not know how many were active.

Sentencing Ulbricht - who has two college degrees - District Judge Katherine Forrest said he was "no better a person than any other drug dealer".

She said the site had been his "carefully planned life's work".

The judge noted the lengthy sentence also acted as a message to copycats that there would be "very serious consequences".

"I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity," Ulbricht said at his sentencing hearing in May 2015.

Trump previously teased he planned to commute Ulbricht's sentence during a May speech at the Libertarian National Convention.

The Libertarian party had been advocating for Ulbricht's release and said his case was an example of government overreach.
 
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man he must literally feel like hes been born again. they added a banner on his website thanking trump but otherwise havent updated it yet at all. fucking imagine being in his shoes
his essays from prison are some fucking real shit tbqh: https://freeross.org/death/
wherein he mentions among other things that hes pretty much forgotten what its like to be on the outside. he spent a quarter of his entire life in prison
 
CEO of Gay dijo:
Weren't those chat logs tampered with by one of the feds that later got jail time for how corruptly the case was handled?
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Not to my knowledge. DEA agent Carl Force basically started playing both sides and stole bitcoin from Ulbricht but AFAIK he didn't have access to the backend shit.

I think the only thing that comes close is when he was working with one of the Silk Road moderators and he was instructing him on some stuff to write back to DPR.
 
Autistic Integrity dijo:
He hasn't been convicted though right? I think last they approved extradition. Then he had a bad stroke and disappeared, hasn't posted on twitter in half a year.
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Well there is atleast a case against him, unlike fauci and co.

also the whole case is 100% political. small hat people from CA were very mad about piracy.
 
Lapsus of the bepsus dijo:
man he must literally feel like hes been born again. they added a banner on his website thanking trump but otherwise havent updated it yet at all. fucking imagine being in his shoes
his essays from prison are some fucking real shit tbqh: https://freeross.org/death/
wherein he mentions among other things that hes pretty much forgotten what its like to be on the outside. he spent a quarter of his entire life in prison
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Hell be fine. He's getting out soon and his family is still around and he has a story to tell.
 
I finished the Ross video, and I can only imagine his feelings now that he's a free man. When you are separated from society and re-enter the free world, you develop a newfound appreciation for stuff
  • Being able to use the bathroom by yourself
  • Not having to eat shitty prison food on a time crunch
  • Not having to socialize with society's scum
  • Being able to sleep on a nice bed
  • Being able to wake up whenever the fuck you want
  • Being outside
I'm sure he's still in the honeymoon phase of being released, but he should take as much time as he needs to enjoy himself and get situated.
Thel Vadam dijo:
Must be crazy spending 12 year's in prison believing you'll die there.
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Somebody posted it in this thread, but I read Ross's essay on the topic of death and it's really grim when you put it in the context of serving a life sentence in prison. I can't even really conceptualize spending the rest of my life in prison. It's a pretty interesting read if you care to learn more about his thoughts.


Death​

by Ross Ulbricht (2021)
My future died that day in court when I was sentenced to life without parole. When I got back to the federal detention center, I did not go straight to my cell block as usual. This time, I was interviewed first to judge whether I was suicidal. I wasn’t, and thankfully, I convinced them I wasn’t, or I would have spent a few days in one of the dreaded “suicide watch” cells. I understand why they did that though. Lots of lifers are suicidal. There is no parole in the federal system, so life means your whole life. It is the same as a death sentence. It just takes longer.

At 29 years old, my own death had always been an abstraction, something far in the future. Now it was right in my face. As I looked around at the painted concrete and steel bars, a voice in my head pointed out to me, “This is it. This is it until you die.” I mourned the death of my future. I mourned the death of my freedom.
I never considered suicide. Early on, I resolved to put the thought out of my mind. For one, it would cause even more pain in those I love. (On top of the pain my imprisonment has caused them.) I would endure anything to avoid that. But even if all my loved ones were gone (and that’s very possible after a lifetime in prison), I resolved to go on living.
Deep down, I fear death. I fear it so much I don’t even want to think about it or acknowledge it. I pretend I have all the time in the world, that the days will just keep coming and coming as they always have. Normally they do just keep coming, year after year, decade after decade, and then one day, they don’t. Most people don’t prepare for that day. We don’t want to think about it. We cling to life until we are too weak to hold on. But coming to prison changed that for me. Suddenly the days didn’t just keep coming and coming, not like they used to.
Prison is a kind of afterlife. My life before — my life in freedom — feels like a distant dream now. My memories from before prison don’t even feel like my own. My family and friends mourned my loss of freedom in the same way they would have mourned my death.
But I am not dead. I have died without dying, and by going through this experience, I have been disabused of the illusion that my days are abundant. No, life is short indeed. I see that now. Every day I spend in this cage is a day lost, a day spent in death. I can fast forward in my mind the years and decades ahead of me until the day I breathe my last. I have met men who have been locked up continuously since the 1970s and 80s. That’s me in 2060, still here in the afterlife, in purgatory.
Then, I snap back to the present moment. The present always reasserts itself. No matter how much I resist or ignore it. The present moment is its own kind of death because each moment dies the instant it comes to be. This moment — the one right now as you read this — is both a birth and a death, something brand new that never existed before, and in the same instant, it is gone forever.
In that sense, I have died countless times already. Where is the boy who played in the creek with his dog and wanted to eat cereal instead of spinach? He is gone, and there is no getting him back. He is dead. My awkward teenage self is dead. My over-confident young adult self is dead. My self who wrote the words above just a moment ago, he is dead too. And your self who read them? Yep. Gone forever.
Even this notion of death is disturbing. I want to believe that the little boy is somehow still around, that I have continuity and permanence, that my memories represent something that still is. But this is not the case. Death permeates our lives. It is the constant cessation of what is to make room for what can be, for that next fleeting moment. It is only when I cling to these moments, to this illusion of a persistent self, that I fear death and struggle frantically to regain my life as it once was, to put the pieces back together.
Marcus Aurelius, the emperor and stoic, wrote: “Imagine you are dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” No one makes it out alive. In the end, they put you in a hole in the ground and throw dirt in your face. But having accepted this, the question one must face is “now what?” Will you live this day as if life is just another thing to take for granted? Will you waste it bored and cynical? I never knew just how precious life is until I lost it. When I stop and look at myself, my life, the universe and everything, I am deeply humbled. I am grateful for what little I have left. I am grateful for this very moment.
Death is coming. Make no mistake. And in a thousand years (probably much sooner) all of your problems will be less than petty. They will be forgotten. All you know will cease. Let this sink in. Let I disturb you. Let it disturb the self-centered illusions you live in. You are dead. Now what?
That is up to you. Being dead, there is nothing to lose. Being dead, there is nothing to fear. Even (perhaps especially) for a man condemned to die in a cage, that feels a bit like freedom.

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I thought his sentences were some real bullshit but I'm sort of pissed he got a full pardon. Commutation, yes. Completely clean record, no. Mother fucker tried to hire out a hit. Honestly I think he should have done another 10.

I guess the other thing that urks me is he's a race mixer his girlfriend at the time of his arrest was black I don't think he's learned any lessons other than "don't get caught next time". I get being big mad when they fuck you with unlubed Steely Dan from Yokohama to make an example, but my nigga you did untold harm enabling criminals and encouraging addicts.
 
Useful_Mistake dijo:
Ross speaks up
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Dude, I am excited to hear this. We need Ross Ulbricht on Joe Rogan.
FieldPiece dijo:
Kim dotcom is a faggot and Mega is dogshit compared to mediafire.
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I know people hate Kim Dotcom, but I never really understood it. Is it just because he is kind of a grifter and fat, or what? I always found him likable.
Osama Bin Laden dijo:
Somebody posted it in this thread, but I read Ross's essay on the topic of death and it's really grim when you put it in the context of serving a life sentence in prison. I can't even really conceptualize spending the rest of my life in prison. It's a pretty interesting read if you care to learn more about his thoughts.
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Ross is a super smart guy. People sometimes overlook it, but he got an SAT score in the top 1 percent, if I'm not mistaken, and he has a master's degree from Penn State. He also comes off as a very emotionally sensitive guy. There's a really interesting interview with him and his roommate from San Francisco. I'm sure someone has posted it in his thread.
 
Ghostse dijo:
I thought his sentences were some real bullshit but I'm sort of pissed he got a full pardon. Commutation, yes. Completely clean record, no. Mother fucker tried to hire out a hit. Honestly I think he should have done another 10.

I guess the other thing that urks me is he's a race mixer his girlfriend at the time of his arrest was black I don't think he's learned any lessons other than "don't get caught next time". I get being big mad when they fuck you with unlubed Steely Dan from Yokohama to make an example, but my nigga you did untold harm enabling criminals and encouraging addicts.
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You're going to get your comeuppance one day. You bootlicking faggot, you really believe the gov't when they claim he tried to hire a hit? There was absolutely no evidence for that and he was never tried or convicted for it. Fuck you, nigger.

#FreeRoss dijo:
Dude, I am excited to hear this. We need Ross Ulbricht on Joe Rogan.

I know people hate Kim Dotcom, but I never really understood it. Is it just because he is kind of a grifter and fat, or what? I always found him likable.

Ross is a super smart guy. People sometimes overlook it, but he got an SAT score in the top 1 percent, if I'm not mistaken, and he has a master's degree from Penn State. He also comes off as a very emotionally sensitive guy. There's a really interesting interview with him and his roommate from San Francisco. I'm sure someone has posted it in his thread.
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Fat + accent + dogshit takes on everything and desperately trying to stay relevant by shoehorning his fat ass into every online discourse.
 
#FreeRoss dijo:
Dude, I am excited to hear this. We need Ross Ulbricht on Joe Rogan.

I know people hate Kim Dotcom, but I never really understood it. Is it just because he is kind of a grifter and fat, or what? I always found him likable.
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He's fat and a faggot and obviously doesn't have any real beliefs outside of what will make him money. Also fat white dude who lived in Thailand which is a major red flag for pedo.
 

Ghostse dijo:
I thought his sentences were some real bullshit but I'm sort of pissed he got a full pardon. Commutation, yes. Completely clean record, no. Mother fucker tried to hire out a hit. Honestly I think he should have done another 10.

I guess the other thing that urks me is he's a race mixer his girlfriend at the time of his arrest was black I don't think he's learned any lessons other than "don't get caught next time". I get being big mad when they fuck you with unlubed Steely Dan from Yokohama to make an example, but my nigga you did untold harm enabling criminals and encouraging addicts.
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A clean record won’t help him much he’s one of the most famous criminals ever. The only difference between getting the sentence commuted and a pardon is shit like gun ownership or whatever.

Also remember that everyone in those logs except for the dread pirate Robert’s is a glowie. And one of the mods claims that multiple people had access to the DPR account so it might’ve not even been ross.
 
Anakin Soywalker dijo:
You're going to get your comeuppance one day. You bootlicking faggot, you really believe the gov't when they claim he tried to hire a hit? There was absolutely no evidence for that and he was never tried or convicted for it. Fuck you, nigger.
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Yes. There are chat logs from the site, unalterable thanks to the same encryption that let him profit from enabling misery, and proof in the bitcoin ledger showing he sent the Bitcoin to someone he believed was a member of the Hell's Angels to kill someone. He sent them more after he got pictures of what looked like a dead body.

They did charge him, and then dropped those charges when it was clear he was going away for life on the drug stuff.

Again, the sentence for the drug shit was excessive but he wasn't some innocent.
 
Ghostse dijo:
I guess the other thing that urks me is he's a race mixer his girlfriend at the time of his arrest was black I don't think he's learned any lessons other than "don't get caught next time". I get being big mad when they fuck you with unlubed Steely Dan from Yokohama to make an example, but my nigga you did untold harm enabling criminals and encouraging addicts.
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Are you seriously mad? He dated a half-Black chick who I think was a model lol lmao. Also, Ross acknowledged and expressed remorse for the drug addicts that used his site. It wasn't his intention to harm people; he saw the Silk Road as being a harm-reducing platform because you could acquire clean drugs, and it was part of his youthful libertarian philosophy that we should have the freedom to do drugs.
 
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