So today people have put up a FreeRoss billboard on Times Square.
There is a website with very prominent pepole demanding his release - like former governor's, CEOs, etc.
Are they crazy?
They act like he's some tech genius who was railoaded by saying he was "non-violent" etc. Yes, his trial for murder for hire that was scheduled here in Baltimore was never held as he'd already gotten life without parole. But isn't it a fact he thought he already had at least one guy killed (in reality, the killing didn't happen) and he ordered the hits of many more - even if they didn't end up being real people?
The court cited “overwhelming evidence” that Ulbricht was “prepared, like other drug kingpins, to protect his profits by paying large sums of money to have individuals who threatened his enterprise murdered,” but that “it would be plainly wrong to conclude that he was sentenced for accidental deaths that the district court discussed only in passing in imposing sentence.”
The dude obviously was very smart. So what. He created an ebay for illegal shit and was willing to kill to protect it or for being exposed for it.
Yet people want him pardoned? So if yo arer rich, white and smart, it's a waste for you to spend your life in prison? He needs to spend at least 20 years in there before we even consider anything.
Please explain how he has all of these defenders.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/sunk-how-ross-ulbricht-ended-up-in-prison-for-life/