Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S

[NotLambchop]

^Bankers have better lawyers and are less convenient/advantageous to prosecute.  Most people realize that the justice system is unfair, but don't draw attention to it because etiquette.  When you smell a fart in a movie theater, do you yell "somebody farted"?   No.  It's pointless, and makes those around you feel awkward.

[Wandererfromthenorth]

I wouldn't say it's just about better lawyers and being less convenient to prosecute, it's also about fucked up drug laws (and those CAN be changed).


Knowing the ridiculous reasons for it doesn't make it less of a gigantic disgusting contradiction though.
It's people's entire lives we are talking about here, not a fart in a movie theater.

[adaseb]

Yes but they got what they deserved. What they were doing was illegal and what did they expect.

[ssmc2]

https://medium.com/@abarisser/silk-road-317-0-shut-down-b12470515b74

[Wandererfromthenorth]

https://medium.com/@abarisser/silk-road-317-0-shut-down-b12470515b74

That article actually made me lol

[NotLambchop]

I wouldn't say it's just about better lawyers and being less convenient to prosecute, it's also about fucked up drug laws (and those CAN be changed).


Knowing the ridiculous reasons for it doesn't make it less of a gigantic disgusting contradiction though.
It's people's entire lives we are talking about here, not a fart in a movie theater.

What can I tell you?  Complaining on speculation forums won't change things.



We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man.
...and we wanna get loaded!

[inca]

^Bankers have better lawyers and are less convenient/advantageous to prosecute.  Most people realize that the justice system is unfair, but don't draw attention to it because etiquette.  When you smell a fart in a movie theater, do you yell "somebody farted"?   No.  It's pointless, and makes those around you feel awkward.


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Quite the apologist for the status quo aren't you?

[NotLambchop]

^Bankers have better lawyers and are less convenient/advantageous to prosecute.  Most people realize that the justice system is unfair, but don't draw attention to it because etiquette.  When you smell a fart in a movie theater, do you yell "somebody farted"?   No.  It's pointless, and makes those around you feel awkward.

Quite the apologist for the status quo aren't you?

No.  That would be as weird as me trying to justify gravity or laws of physics.  The status quo is the way things are.  Don't like it?  Change it.
Yeah, things are shit, but whining about it is pretty weak.

[Carra23]

DPR was hiring hitmen to kill, so if he remains stuck in jail thats quite deserved.

This dude goes on to operate right near the FEDs after that, and so deserves to be in simply for stupidity.

[abercrombie]

OTC chart today for local bitcoins shows no drop in demand for BTC suggesting the SR 2.0 bust was a non-factor, aside from making a few headlines.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/localbitcoins/USD

The escrow function never worked so it was not a safe place to do business.

[Raystonn]

The escrow function never worked so it was not a safe place to do business.

Yes.  Apparently they had a man inside from the start.  He likely sabotaged anything that would have made it secure, including the multisig security.  The weak link is always humans.

[darkmule]

^Bankers have better lawyers and are less convenient/advantageous to prosecute.

They're also shielded from prosecution by the very regulations that are supposedly intended to rein in their conduct.  Bank and similar corporations are also expert in compartmentalizing criminal activities so that no individual is personally responsible for committing all of the necessary elements of a crime, and the left hand knows not what the right is doing, so that the government would be obliged, if it wanted to, to prosecute the corporation itself.  Corporations can't be thrown in prison.

The hilarious thing is that in such actions, which are often crimes against the shareholders and customers of the corporation itself, even a conviction would simply result in a fine, which the malefactors would in turn pay out of funds from the very people they ripped off in the first place, i.e., the shareholders and customers.

So the victims get fucked twice.  Meanwhile, the people actually responsible go on their merry way and vote themselves a fat bonus out of the "bailout" money they get if the company goes belly-up because of their mismanagement.

Great gig if you can get it.

[batmanbad]

Silk Road 3.0 is almost guaranteed to come out within the next 3 months.

[Wary]

DPR was hiring hitmen to kill, so if he remains stuck in jail thats quite deserved.

This dude goes on to operate right near the FEDs after that, and so deserves to be in simply for stupidity.

Governments are hiring hitmens (aka military) to kill (aka wage wars) so if governmets remains stuck in jail thats would be quite deserved. If hiring hitmen to kill is enough for life in prison, then all US presidents should be there. And all who voted for them - as well, as accomplices.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?

[inca]

Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?

He is a flight risk and not released on bail.

[Wandererfromthenorth]

I wouldn't say it's just about better lawyers and being less convenient to prosecute, it's also about fucked up drug laws (and those CAN be changed).


Knowing the ridiculous reasons for it doesn't make it less of a gigantic disgusting contradiction though.
It's people's entire lives we are talking about here, not a fart in a movie theater.

What can I tell you?  Complaining on speculation forums won't change things.



We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man.
...and we wanna get loaded!

Not complaining nor whining.
Just posted facts and opinions related to the topic of this thread.
That's what this forum is for, posting facts and opinions.

[indiemax]

Silk Road 3.0 is almost guaranteed to come out within the next 3 months.

out already 

http://gizmodo.com/silk-road-3-is-already-up-but-its-not-the-future-of-da-1655512490

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?

He is a flight risk and not released on bail.

Another load of BTC lost then.

[Wandererfromthenorth]

Yes but they got what they deserved. What they were doing was illegal and what did they expect.

No, they are not getting "what they deserve." Just because something is illegal doesn't mean those found guilty of it "deserve" what happens to them.

It's illegal for women in Saudi Arabia to commit adultery. Does this mean that women found guilty of it deserve to be executed?

There was a time in the United States where my current girlfriend and I could have been sent to jail/prison merely for being in an intimate relationship. It wasn't only socially unacceptable, it was criminal. Would we have deserved to be sent to prison?

In 50-100 years, we will look back as a society at the drug war and shake our heads with disbelief.

People like you allow government and other non-thinkers to dictate your right and wrong. It is the ignorance of you, and people like you, that historically has allowed horrible things to happen to people for relatively benign offenses.

THINK, goddamn you people...THINK.

Yep.

Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.
But what about medical cannabis? What about MDMA for PTSD? What about LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)?

There is serious research being conducted (http://www.maps.org/) on the enormous benefits of these substances if used responsibly and in the right setting.
They are all illegal.