Digital drugs bazaar and hitmen: Dark history of Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : This will be the first time I have had to call on my muscle,' he told fellow employee Inigo. '
54% : Ulbricht's political views were that taxation and government were a form of coercion, and that the only way to be truly free was through economic independence.
51% : In 2009, Ulbricht wrote on his LinkedIn page that he wanted to 'use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression amongst mankind.'His breakthrough came in 2010 with the advent of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, which Ulbricht saw as a way to decouple commerce from government intervention and taxation.
44% : And why did Donald Trump offer him a full pardon just hours after becoming president?
39% : But in an unlikely twist of fate, Ulbricht was granted a 'full and unconditional' pardon by Donald Trump just days after the former president returned to office, which he said a favour to Ulbricht's mother 'and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly'.
26% : 'The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me', said Trump. '

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