From Remember Me... to... Freeing Ross!
Or, a tribute and fight for privacy, freedom, and personal liberty!
On Monday morning, with my 15-year-old son here visiting for a month, we started out the day honoring Memorial Day by listening to one of the most powerful tributes… called:
Remember Me — a script written by Jocko Williniick, a former Navy SEAL. He also reads it, with intense passion, here.
It brought tears to all of us, as it rips right to the heart of the matter; what sacrifice, to protect the fabric of the founding of this country, actually IS!
On Monday night, after getting back home from a beautiful early evening celebrating with fellow freedom-loving patriots at Boatnik, we watched the movie U-571 (2000), starring Matthew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel.
It is a dramatic, general tribute to the bravery and sacrifices of submariners and naval personnel during World War II, particularly those involved in the Battle of the Atlantic and the efforts to break the German Enigma code.
On Tuesday afternoon, yesterday, we discussed just what it means to be a patsy for the entrenched Establishment — That subversive bankster and bureaucratic club that is becoming harder and harder to defy if you’re a sovereign-minded, entrepreneurial-driven person who understands the immense value of self-interest (i.e., self-care / self-responsibility) FIRST.
The good news?
All it takes to make it less hard… is for discerning, critical-thinking Americans to get past the digital programming…. And jump into a bit of self-reliant ownership of research — A level of understanding, beyond sensationalized, inaccurate or false information, is all that is required to support the right causes and the best people.
Speaking of…
Ross Ulbricht is one of those people. Eagle Scout, Honors Student and Research Scientist, this young gentlemen, back in 2013, got caught-up in a “system” vehemently opposed to an unsanctioned ‘freedom of choice!’
Here’s a 3 1/2 minute clip from yesterday’s video, from Matthew R. Kratter:
(give this a view before continuing with my bulletin)
As Matthew pointed out, his draconian double-life sentence was a travesty of the due process protection enshrined in our Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, representing a gross miscarriage of justice and a failure to uphold principles of proportionality and fairness in sentencing.
There’s simply no way in a society of rationality, common sense, and morals that his sentencing made any sense… whatsoever.
As The Milk Road said, yesterday:
They [Crypto OGs] compare Ulbricht's sentence to SBF's as if one [SBF] received a parking ticket for orchestrating a massive crypto scam, while the other [Ulbricht] faced the gallows in the public square for founding an open marketplace.
That’s correct, Dear Milk Road — let’s get this Saint (on the right side), not Felon, freed! The disparity is off the charts!
Ross, writing on April 30th 2024
A couple of years after Bitcoin got started, I made the biggest mistake of my life: I made Silk Road (an anonymous online market).
Of course, at the time, I didn’t know it was a mistake. I thought it was a great idea. I thought I was putting Bitcoin to good use and giving people privacy and freedom. When illegal drugs were listed, I thought that was OK too, because I believed drugs should be legalized. Nevermind that they were outlawed and I was risking everything I held dear.
A couple of years later, I was thrown in prison for drug trafficking and given two life sentences without parole, plus 40 years. I was falsely portrayed in the media as a violent drug kingpin. The story of Silk Road was reduced to a cops and robbers cliché. I more than faltered, I hit rock bottom. I have been here ever since.
Bitcoin never faltered. Through the rise and fall of Silk Road, through the relentless years of my incarceration, through competition and catastrophe, Bitcoin keeps going, one block at a time, like clockwork.