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 I agree with exception of Ulbricht 
 seriously?? what do tou think he did thaf he shouldnt be pardoned from a double life sentence for non-violent crimes?? 
 I need to proofread more often. This Primal autocorrect bug is balls 
 The way I understand it is he pissed off the DOJ. Those fuckers will persecute you if you helped an old lady accross the street while they were trying to run her over.
What they uncovered is he paid for a contract for murder against someone he blamed for stealing from him. I haven't heard this refuted.
Multiple life sentences? Yes, that's ridiculous. They justify it by claiming he facilitated other illegal acts, though its difficult to convict for a crime he was not party to.
Paying a contract for murder is far from a non-violent crime. 
 The hire for murder was thrown out in court and the individual the FBI set up to be murdered doesnt even believe Ross attempted to murder him. The FBI had admin privileges of Ross's account and easily could have staged that (and likely did!) 99% of people who still think Ross should be in prison don't know the trumped up murder for hire charges were thrown out in court, but they will remember the headline. What was done to Ross was unjust and it has no equal. 
 Just because something gets thrown out doesn't mean it's not true. 

Oldest trick in the book - I was hacked or so many people have access to that account, it gets passed around more than a 10$ hooker... who knows who did what. 
 true or false. we won't know, but that story likely tained the jury. 

exactly my point. anyone could have done that. many people had admin mode rights when that happened 
 Well, I guess we can only speculate.  
 my point is speculation isnt accepatble for a doubls life sentence. it should be case closed 💯 proven to throw a man's life away like that 2x 
 I can be persuaded to believe the charges were faked. I didnt watch the trial, but i doubt it would make a difference. Do you know there are still people rooting on Faketoshi even through covering this COPA trial? 
 I mean, he got multiple times longer prison sentence than Maxine Ghislaine. That's just? 
 Surely the Fed is to blame for this one and Bitcoin will fix this. What happened in 1971? 
 I agree the sentence is exaggerated, but he should be accountable for attempting murder 
 “Attempting murder”?

Hey Brunswick, maybe you should familiarize yourself with the Ulbricht case before spouting off demonstrably false nonsense like that.  It is public information, after all. 

For “attempted murder,” a court would have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he attempted to kill someone.  However, in the Ulbricht case, the judge determined that *did not* happen.

You are confusing that with the allegations that Ross agreed to pay a contract to kill someone. 

And yet, Ross was never charged at trial with “murder for hire” and thus this charge was never ruled on by a jury. In fact, these unproven and unprosecuted allegations were dismissed *with prejudice* in 2018. 

What did happen?  During the trial, prosecutors alleged that he discussed and paid a contract, but this was only presented as evidence by the prosecutors and was weak. Why weak?  Because “the accusations relied on anonymous chats and text files never proven to have been authored by Ross.  Hard evidence and testimony, including from the lead Silk Road investigator, showed that, over time, multiple people were behind the site admin’s DPR handle.  Most significantly, two corrupt investigators (who later sent to prison) also had unfettered access to Silk Road and were admittedly involved in numerous plots.”

Ross has always denied being involved with these allegations, and even Curtis Green, the only alleged victim ever identified, is a longtime, fervent supporter of Ross’s release. 
 Am I the only one that has this question? No 
 I'll accept your explanation and look further into it 
 He created a website ? 
 Of course I don't think he should be incriminated for running a website. The problem is with him personally putting out a contract for murder. 
 #gangsterment #brainwash  is an amazing tool!

Politicians as well as a myriad of their servants routinely put out extrajudicial contracts for murder, as well as commit ALL the largest mass murders , usually with complete impunity , for any tosh reason they dream up.

All who remember #Ulbricht’s trial, saw that it was a rigged  show trial, which had nothing to do with #justice, including the #murder #contract charge.

All who orchestrated it, got away with crimes, even under their own #laws, much less #morality.

This #ClownWorld #PrisonPlanet would be far more peaceful, if murder contracts on #politicians were common.

#AnimalFarm