Drug Raid In Israel - Bitcoin Involved

[Minor Miner]

Money does not buy drugs, people do.

According to the Government Media Complex
-Guns kill people (Guns are notorious for their unquenchable thirst for blood and propensity to initiate violence.)

Guns rarely kill people, more often it is the bullets that come out of the guns.   Guns make poor blunt force trauma instruments.  /sarc

[Timbert33]

Sorry, I couldn't read the article through all the clutter on that website

[virtualmaster]

Journalists are people with limited understanding but good demagogue abilities.
They don't have the time to understand everything but they want to write about everything.
So they can only push emotions-buttons.

Many people read about bitcoin but didn't understood it - this created a bad feeling which is stored in the brain.
They will forget the logical aspects but will remember the bad felling.
Drugs are also associated with bad emotions. They forget that pharmacists call every medicine as drug which help you against diseases.
Woman's are using every day cosmetics from drugstores.

Now a journalist with no idea about technique with limited information supply about what happened writes an article. He picks up two key words: drugs and bitcoins.
He just groups the words which created in his(and in many others) brain bad feelings and it seems everything plausible.
Why should he loose his time to make some investigations and find out at least what is the name of the drugs which is involved ? It was a really bad substance or just a medicine for hearth disease not registered(with a complicated process) in the country ?(the pharmaceutical industry can be very selfish and their own win is more important than the life of the patients) Doesn't matter. Important is he have done quickly his job and the newspaper has more reader. This is a general problem in the mass media. Political manipulations, demagogue articles and no real, balanced and informative content.

[Rampion]

"Drug Raid in Israel - Cash Involved"

Wow man, we must ban cash. Too difficult to trace, and it's the choice of criminals.

[Jakewell]

Bitcoins is only another way to do business, if the drug addicts dont have access to dark net, they will buy the drugs in another part and usually with cash.

[CasinoBit]

Article here: http://www.jpost.com/National-News/30-arrested-in-raid-on-online-drug-distribution-ring-312441

Thoughts if Bitcoin is really indeed involved here:

1) So while the media has been incessantly talking about the supposed link between Bitcoin and online illegal drug sales, there is now direct evidence supporting this claim and I envision this story to be referenced ad infinitum from here onwards - a permanent smear that will hurt public perception.

2) Apparently undercover detective were involved buying drugs from the darknet. How does this affect Silk Road and anyone who sells/buys on there, surely precautions will be taken and this could hurt that service severely.

3) The trend of online drug sales shifting online with Bitcoin serving as the monetary agent allowing the transactions to be possible will not be lost on the authorities.  They will either step up such honey trap efforts and catch more culprits or alternatively a more severe crackdown on the currency is possible (not sure how this would be imposed).

Not the end of Bitcoin, but certainly could be a bump on the road.

What actually happened:
1. The cops have arrested multiple people involved with the Kiosk designer drugs that became illegal a couple of days prior.
2. The Kiosk owners are all "nice kids" that were slapped a couple of times so they have snitched on the people selling them the designer drugs.
3. Of course the same people that have sold them the designer drugs are the same people selling it on you-know-where.

The media is just twisting it to give the Israeli police more credit, in reality they are a bunch of 70 IQ donut eating idiots with most of the detectives unable to track the shit in their large intestine let alone catch someone on the darknet (who isn't a complete fool).

Everything is 99% snitches in Israel, the law enforcement is non-existent and impotent just like the politicians. I had a friend who was an Admin in an Israeli community board and there was a member posting links with pedophilic content, so the admin has grabbed his IP and wanted to give it to the police station on his way to work, when he got there and tried to explain everything nobody knew what an IP was, then they put handcuffs on him, put him into the investigation room and slapped him around for about two hours asking him to take the blame for posting the pics. I absolutely cannot convey with words just how idiotic these people are.