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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

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On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in creating and running Silk Road's billion-dollar, anonymous black market for drugs. Judge Katherine Forrest gave Ulbricht the most severe sentence possible. The minimum he could have served was 20 years.

"The stated purpose [of the Silk Road] was to be beyond the law. In the world you created over time, democracy didn't exist. You were captain of the ship, the Dread Pirate Roberts," she told Ulbricht as she read the sentence. "Silk Road's birth and presence asserted that its…creator was better than the laws of this country. This is deeply troubling, terribly misguided, and very dangerous."

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http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/29/ross-ulbricht-gets-life-in-silk-roa Ross Ulbricht just got a life sentence in federal prison for offenses nowhere authorized to federal jurisdiction in any of the enumerated powers given to Congress, the federal courts, or the President in the Constitution, and specifically forbidden to all branches of the federal government in the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution. From a legal standpoint these unconstitutional laws are void ab initio and every federal official -- investigators, prosecutors, and judges -- are guilty of violating Ross Ulbricht's protected constitutional rights under TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242 Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. When I say "Free Ross Ulbricht!" I mean that I wish some fellow admirer of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights organizes a prison break to liberate this free-trader from the clutches of the new King George III and his redcoat minions.



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