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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/31/2015 13:50, Brayden Hull
wrote:<br>
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wasn’t included in this list of charges however it will be
the subject of another case later this year in Maryland.
Even if Ross got the minimum, 20 years, they would be
stacking on a lot more years thanks to the Maryland trial,
if they choose to not have him serve them concurrently.</span></p>
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Right, so the original assertion that this is a hell of a sentence
for non-violent crimes stands.<br>
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basically Ross was screwed either way. Personally I reckon
he deserved it though, if you read the prosecution’s
sentencing submission to it helps put into perspective the
real human cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="http://i.brayden.id.au/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824.256.0.pdf">http://i.brayden.id.au/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824.256.0.pdf</a>
(archive.org has updated their site or something and the old
links are dead already, so I’ve rehosted it)</span><br>
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<br>
I don't think this is really the best forum for this sort of
discussion, however I don't believe you can tally the results of the
choices made by of users of the service as being directly
attributable to the operator of the service. But that likely stems
from my belief that people should be allowed to choose what they put
in their bodies; that the 'War on Drugs' is one of the largest
perversions of justice in recent history, causes significant harm by
making the trade impossible to regulate and promoting criminal
activity, and has had negative effects on cultures around the world,
without producing any significant increase in public safety (in
fact, a strong case can be made that the opposite is true).<br>
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I'm not suggesting that Ulbricht was a good guy, nor that something
like Silk Road is an optimal way of dealing with the problem (that
would be IMO legalization and regulation), but it does appear (not
having any experience with it myself) to have been a significant
improvement for users who would have made the choice to purchase
these substances anyway, but would otherwise have done so on the
street, with no way to gauge the reliability of the seller, or
whether what they were paying for was actually what they were likely
to receive, rather than some other collection of random chemicals.<br>
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