My memory is not the best on that case, but the hitman stuff seems to have been a kind of set-up by the feds who lured Ulbricht into it.
Afaik, the murder allegations were dismissed in the end.
I do not know if it a pre-planned setup into getting him to hire killers or if it was his own plan. But ultimately, giving the order was Ross's own decision. He thought they were real killers at the time and he gave them the order to murder 6 people. Whether he was egged on by the FBI or not does not really matter to me after that point. I do not see how anyone can defend him. He himself does not deny this.
I'm not a fan of him and I think he is responsible for his decisions.
But it's not easy for me to decide what he did or did not do, only by reading a bunch of news stories.
If he did order the hits as it's written in the transcripts (
1,
2), I'd say fuck him. Luckily it was all fake and the hits didn't happen.
But ordering the murder of other humans often shows at least some asshole hubris, to say it very mildly.
And listening to his phone call to the '21 Bitcoin conference, I felt some of that vibe in his talking... quite self-absorbed and egoistic.
I was court ordered to AA years ago and went up there and called them all a bunch of weak willed pussies and was told I was a disrupting influence and they signed off on my court mandated meetings.
*I was pissed right off the bat when I read the steps and one of them was to accept jesus as my lord and savior and told them there is no way I was going to do that.
many of these AA and NA groups are gateways into religion... though it may help some to get rid of drugs, I think they only change one addiction/obsession for another
Fuck That. Nine years of Catholic School k to 8 was more than enough religion for me.
30+ waiting for a lot more than that.
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