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>>Ozarki+(OP)
I'm indifferent to him being pardoned. But people saying he didn't deserve any punishment seems weird to me.

>>sidcoo+hj
To me too. But life without parole seemed weird as well.

>>blast+ik
To me what is weird is the "complete" pardon from a president that is supposedly going after immigrant drug dealers and murderers.

Basically, if you've done something wrong, but can drum up enough support for the winning political candidate, you get a chance to cut a deal and wipe the slate clean.

To those that say he's rehabilitated etc, I'm sure there were other worthy prisoners too, but why does this particular guy happen to get the pardon on day one?!

Same with the pardoned capitol rioters.

It just feels like a very slippery downwards slope, where political back scratching trumps everything else.

>>osrec+HK
Ross founded a nonviolent way to sell drugs that competes with the narco traffickers responsible for millions (?) of deaths.

>>gosub1+s41
He did also try to get someone killed. It didn't happen, but can you see how the non violent guy was slowly turning to violence too?

I'm sure the initial narco kingpins were nice, non-violent people too, but rarely do the people involved with supplying drugs stay that way - regardless of whether you're Pablo Escobar or just some kid peddling weed in a sleepy village in the south of France.

>>osrec+c61
That was never proven. A key reason why that was never proven was because a proven, as in proven beyond a reasonable doubt and convicted, corrupt federal agent had access to everything needed to fabricate the extremely limited evidence they used to insinuate it.

Do you know how rarely LEOs getting convicted of anything? If there wasn't a mountain of evidence that Ulbricht ran the silk road, the entire case might have been rereparable tainted.