Ross William Ulbricht not Pardoned!

[Gleb Gamow]

He's the poster boy for something the government detests the idea of. he'd be the last person to get a pardon no matter who was the president.

Then let's start a grassroots movement to have Ross' sentence commuted to time served plus. I'll get out the knitting needles and start knitting a ... what should we knit now that pussyhats has already been done?

[edgar]

an alpaca 'No! No! Naughty Nate' butt protection plug

[Vlad2Vlad]

Ulbright deserves prison just for being stupid enough to give interviews while running the biggest online drug planet.  Then holding all his Bitcoins [600k] on his laptop while playing on the internets from the local library.  What an epic idiot.  The Feds really picked the perfect useful idiot to "put in charge". 

Besides, if you free Ross-boy then you gotta free El Pancho and that guy got greedy and cut too much into the fed's dope routes.  That's a big no-no. 

[Sithara007]

Selling drugs that kill people some other way. They killed more people than the bloodiest serial killer. I think he got a decent sentence. If it depends from me I would all the drug dealers were put in the electric chair.

It is not the drug dealers who are killing people. All these people would still be alive, had the government legalized the drugs and made them available through licensed shops. Do you even know that the number of people killed as a result of the "war on drugs" in Mexico is 1,000 times higher than the number of people who die of drug overdose every year in the United States?

[Betwrong]

outrageous, but hardly surprising.

is there a list of those who did get pardoned & their crimes?

Thanks to John McCain not blocking my access to Google here in Arizona (else would've had to travel across the river to Nevada), mes found it: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons

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Unfortunately I didn't manage to find any life sentence in the list of pardons, so it's hard to compare to Ulbricht's case. As far as I remeber he ordered murders and torture operating the largest online drug market in the world at the same time, so considering to pardon him was a tough call.

[Gleb Gamow]

outrageous, but hardly surprising.

is there a list of those who did get pardoned & their crimes?

Thanks to John McCain not blocking my access to Google here in Arizona (else would've had to travel across the river to Nevada), mes found it: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons

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Unfortunately I didn't manage to find any life sentence in the list of pardons, so it's hard to compare to Ulbricht's case. As far as I remeber he ordered murders and torture operating the largest online drug market in the world at the same time, so considering to pardon him was a tough call.

Jesus motherfuckin' Christ! I had to put on my underwear and swim the Colorado River to Nevada so to Google given that you, too, don't have access, hence the helping hand on my part.

Full list of 64 individuals pardoned and 209 sentences commuted by President Obama: http://wgntv.com/2017/01/17/full-list-of-64-individuals-pardoned-and-209-sentences-commuted-by-president-obama/

WASHINGTON – President Obama commuted the sentences of 209 individuals and pardoned 64 others Tuesday as one of his last acts as president.

According to the White House website, Obama has now commuted more sentences than any president in the country’s history, with a total of 1,385 including 504 life sentences, and he has issued a total of 212 pardons.

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