All Libertarians are evil anarchist drug dealers (get ready for this label) !

[J_White]

Did you hear about the "Dread Pirate Roberts" ?
he is some guy who sells drugs online through some site using Tor.

Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road

All my communications with Roberts are routed exclusively through the messaging system and forums of the website he owns and manages, the Silk Road. Accessing the site requires running the anonymity software Tor, which encrypts Web traffic and triple-bounces it among thousands of computers around the world.
If Roberts is paranoid, it’s because very powerful people really are out to get him. In the last two and a half years Silk Road has grown into the Web’s busiest bazaar for heroin, methamphetamines, crack, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and enough strains of marijuana to put an Amsterdam coffee shop to shame.

By the measure of Carnegie Mellon researcher Nicolas Christin, Roberts’ eBay-like service was grossing $1.2 million a month in the first half of 2012. Since then the site has doubled its product listings, and revenue now hits an annual run-rate of $30 million to $45 million by FORBES’ estimate.

Roberts also has a political agenda: He sees himself not just as an enabler of street-corner pushers but also as a radical libertarian revolutionary carving out an anarchic digital space beyond the reach of the taxation and regulatory powers of the state–Julian Assange with a hypodermic needle. “We can’t stay silent forever. We have an important message, and the time is ripe for the world to hear it,” says Roberts. “What we’re doing isn’t about scoring drugs or ‘sticking it to the man.’ It’s about standing up for our rights as human beings and refusing to submit when we’ve done no wrong.”

Do you smell a rat ? I do...and its a big one !

[fr33]

Sounds like a free market capitalism to me.

There is someone that used that name on twitter that I follow but it isn't his @ username.

[FrankRep]

The Source:

Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes.

Forbes.com
Aug. 14, 2013

[IDefendThePlatform]

Only about half a percent of bitcoin transactions are for drugs:
http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-m...s-2592076.html


Bitcoinstore.com on the other hand passes on the transactional and inflation savings of bitcoin to customers, selling most electronics for less than Amazon and most major retailers.

[Occam's Banana]

Did you hear about the "Dread Pirate Roberts" ?
he is some guy who sells drugs online through some site using Tor.

Yes, I've heard about Roberts, Silk Road and Tor.
They've all been around for a while now.

Do you smell a rat?

No, I don't.

I'm also not seeing the words "all" and "evil" being appied to libertarians (or even "anarchist drug dealers"), either ...

[DamianTV]

The Source:

Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes.

Forbes.com
Aug. 14, 2013

Sponsored in part by the DEA and protected by (redacted for National Security).

[J_White]

i just remembered I had posted this thread and they caught him few weeks back.
good thing is they are not calling all Libertarians "online black market drug dealers".....yet

[Elias Graves]

Wait til libertarians become a real threat like the tea party. Then we'll all be racists.

[MRK]

i just remembered I had posted this thread and they caught him few weeks back.
good thing is they are not calling all Libertarians "online black market drug dealers".....yet

Well, I sell things online from time to time. When people ask me about it I respond pretty generally and vaguely without going into too much detail about my products in order to shield myself from competition. I've actually had many people ask me straight up if I'm selling drugs. I tell them no, a magician never reveals his tricks, and my products don't depend on a local market so I don't need to speak openly about my business to people I meet because the risk outweighs the rewards. It's really not worth my time to make money from them on an individual basis because my margins are so low, and I don't want loose lips to sink ships. The IRS, NSA, and my banks already know all they need to know and that's already too many people as it is.

If I'm out at a bar and start talking about my business while imbibing brews then you better believe I'll start saying things that could spring up competition in the future when that person talks to his internet-savvy friends about my business.

Whenever I tell people directly about the steps I take A to Z they generally don't understand anyway, so what's the point?

Now I just say I'm a computer programmer and website developer who works for himself. This is easier to understand for most people and then often they ask me if I can do a contracting project for them which can lead to good things for me and the person I'm talking to. I think I'll have to print out a business card with something to this effect to drive the point home and maybe do some collaborative consulting projects.

If people can't put you in a box that they immediately recognize, they get confused and wont trust you. This is one of the interesting things I've learned about people over the past year.

[Occam's Banana]

i just remembered I had posted this thread and they caught him few weeks back.
good thing is they are not calling all Libertarians "online black market drug dealers".....yet

They're already going out of their way to point out that Dread Pirate Roberts is a fan of Austrian economics & the Mises Institute: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ts-a-shout-out

[BuddyRey]

Dread Pirate Roberts is a hero. Anyone who would associate me with him might think they were insulting me, but I'd actually be flattered.

[bunklocoempire]

Widgits are evil donchaknow -but those widgits over there aren't. And the widget users...?

It's morality determined by things. How goofy is that? lol