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Topic: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S - page 3. (Read 8409 times)

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^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.

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^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?
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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!
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Yes but they got what they deserved. What they were doing was illegal and what did they expect.
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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.
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^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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Ross Ulbricht and Blake Benthall will probably get life in prison while Jamie Dimon and similar criminals will walk free.
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Seems like sometimes ...life's not really fair Sad


More like surreal and disgusting.

Put yourself in LEO shoes.  They shut down SR1, arrest DPR, and this d00d, allegedly DPR's underling... does he walk away run to a country with no US extradition treaty?
No.  He starts SR2, runs it from San Fran, uses his Gmail, TL;DR: does everything he can short of screaming "look ma I'm doing it!"  I mean, cops can turn a blind eye, but that's pretty much baiting Undecided
I agree continuing SR2 after the SR1 bust was dumb as fuck (especially the way he did it), but that's not what I was saying.

I was just pointing out to the fact that those dudes that simply hosted a site are gonna get life in prison while some bankers that are guilty of far worse drug related crimes such as helping drug cartels will walk free.
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Ross Ulbricht and Blake Benthall will probably get life in prison while Jamie Dimon and similar criminals will walk free.
...

Seems like sometimes ...life's not really fair Sad


More like surreal and disgusting.

Put yourself in LEO shoes.  They shut down SR1, arrest DPR, and this d00d, allegedly DPR's underling... does he walk away run to a country with no US extradition treaty?
No.  He starts SR2, runs it from San Fran, uses his Gmail, TL;DR: does everything he can short of screaming "look ma I'm doing it!"  I mean, cops can turn a blind eye, but that's pretty much baiting Undecided
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Ross Ulbricht and Blake Benthall will probably get life in prison while Jamie Dimon and similar criminals will walk free.
...

Seems like sometimes ...life's not really fair Sad


More like surreal and disgusting.

Explain to me how this is justice:

In a world where the war on drugs has failed, creating a place where you eliminate all violence from the drug trade equation and you help harm reduction by offering a reputation system that allows only clean and unadulterated products to be consumed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/06/how-the-fbi-just-made-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place-by-shutting-down-silkroad-2-0-and-a-bunch-of-online-drug-markets/)   = Caged for life


Helping drug cartels (where the real crimes and violence are) to launder billions of dollars   (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/avinash-tharoor/banks-cartel-money-laundering_b_4619464.html)  =  Free.
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Ross Ulbricht and Blake Benthall will probably get life in prison while Jamie Dimon and similar criminals will walk free.
...

Seems like sometimes ...life's not really fair Sad

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In a world where the war on drugs has failed, creating a service where people can trade any product directly between each other (Ross and Blake were not "kingpins" or "ringleaders", they just hosted a site) while you take all violence out of the drug trade equation and you help harm reduction by offering a reputation system that allows only clean and unadulterated products to be consumed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/06/how-the-fbi-just-made-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place-by-shutting-down-silkroad-2-0-and-a-bunch-of-online-drug-markets/)   = Caged for life


Helping drug cartels (where the real crimes and violence are) to launder billions of dollars   (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/avinash-tharoor/banks-cartel-money-laundering_b_4619464.html)  =  Free.







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Ross Ulbricht and Blake Benthall will probably get life in prison while Jamie Dimon and similar criminals will walk free.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106




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No effect on price yet, its continuing as it normally would. Does not look like anybody outside this forum even cared.

What makes you think they will stay open though?  The FED's have made it clear these operations are a priority for them to take down.  They dont like bitcoin and their attacks on bitcoin seem to come in waves...

Why can not they operate in a different country. Always have to stay right below the FEDs nose.

Yes thats what they should be doing, but they us govt can easily work with interpol to take them down wherever they are.  It's probably a safe bet that they are deep undercover when it comes to bitcoin as shown in the most recent bust.  Would be very hard to do this with any sort of team that could be compromised.
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No effect on price yet, its continuing as it normally would. Does not look like anybody outside this forum even cared.

What makes you think they will stay open though?  The FED's have made it clear these operations are a priority for them to take down.  They dont like bitcoin and their attacks on bitcoin seem to come in waves...

Why can not they operate in a different country. Always have to stay right below the FEDs nose.
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^Another thing:  SR2 was kept open long after the servers were imaged.

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More and more bitcoins will continue to be removed from circulation for years to come....... Value of these coins will start rising crazy soon!

Assuming demand and all else remains the same...

Demand is low at the moment, and wouldn't this only lessen demand?  I mean now these criminal users have nowhere to spend their bitcoins and no reason to get any more.  So naturally demand will be DECREASING

There are other darknet marketplaces: https://dnstats.net/

What makes you think they will stay open though?  The FED's have made it clear these operations are a priority for them to take down.  They dont like bitcoin and their attacks on bitcoin seem to come in waves...
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