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I owe everything to Ross Ulbricht. Crypto changed my life. Crypto became big because of him. He made the ultimate sacrifice. We all benefitted from his work.

Yet he sits alone in prison forgotten. I think about him all the time. His time in prison must be hard. Getting through each day.

He created a market for voluntary goods which made Bitcoin spread across the news for the first time.

The police and government spread lies about him. They said he committed murder then dropped it from the trial. He was never convicted or even tried for it. So why even bring that up? To confuse people. To spread propaganda.

The Silk Road was amazing. It was more than a market. It was an agorist community. The owner was a pirate called the Dread Pirate Roberts. Every Thursday there was a reading group discussion on libertarian texts. Dread Pirate Roberts would publish badass manifestos on how the Silk Road was part of a bigger mission to overthrow the US state through free ancap markets.

The government did not like it and made an example of him. They put him in jail for life with no early release. That means he will die in prison.

I one day sent a message to DPR, and he responded saying one day we will struggle for freedom together side by side. It was enthusiastic and positive. About a year later, I again messaged DPR but the message's tone was terse and the grammar completely different. In Ross's trial, he said he only started Silk Road but handed off its operations to a team. My limited experience fits this defence and it might be true.

Now Ross has a chance at freedom. I'm honestly shocked that the "humanitarians" are weighing up the life of Ross, saying it's not worth it in the grand scheme of things.

Ross is a sacred hero or martyr of the cause. It is all for one, and one for all. We are obligated by our revolutionary duty to secure his freedom.

He sits in prison for life. Are you honestly going to condemn him? Absolutely heartless. He did everything for us. We owe him big time. I thought when people said "all options are on the table" for political prisoners, they were serious, but it turns out this actually means "only when it matches our liberal sensibilities".

Meanwhile rich crypto liberals enjoy rave parties in Thailand, and weigh the life of Ross over other issues important to them over a cocktail. Can you imagine? They aren't in jail for life, so they can judge whether he's worth it or not.

Voting doesn't change reality. Voting to keep emperor Trump from power is stupid. If the destiny of the US is that an authoritarian seizes power, then it will happen at some point unless the underlying social reality is addressed. None of the politicians are the solution. They are the problem. You're meant to be building to make politics irrelevant. Focus on that.

But we can secure the freedom of Ross. This is the only thing with is tangible and real. We owe him. Don't forget our warriors.

Free Ross!