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>>uptown+(OP)
Murderers get less than that. We are truly an interesting society, aren't we - somehow kids doing LSD, a mostly harmless substance, is causing us more harm, as a society, than, say, violence?

>>Popsic+51
If he really did attempt to order a hit on someone, that changes the game a little. Now we're no longer talking about just drugs.

But I agree that it's absolutely insane if the charges are just drug-related -- rapists get far less time than many drug dealers.

>>api+h1
He wasn't just a drug dealer. The crimes he was charged with are in the massive criminal conspiracy category.

>>fixerm+V6
Drug dealers tend to handle the drugs they are convicted of selling.

Whilst I agree he deliberately set up a website designed for use for criminal transactions, I find it ridiculous that everyone (including the courts) would rather focus on people buying drugs online (if that was their big thing, then many of the major early newsgroup operators would be in prison for life, for having not even concealed names for newsgroups deliberately designed for buying and selling drugs), than on the selling of stolen credit cards and other identity theft sales.

Sure, drugs are bad m'kay, and we have to stomp on people who use, buy and sell them or something, but, how many lives are destroyed by identity theft? Or do the courts think that is too complicated for people to understand, whilst the "He let drugs be sold on his website" is something even Fox News can communicate.