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Silk Road - Ross Ulbricht (USA)
Charges: conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering, and computer hacking.
Sentence: 2x life + 40 years with no chance of parole
Silk Road 2.0 - Thomas White (UK)
Charges: drug trafficking, money laundering, and child pornography charges including making indecent images of children.
Sentence: 5 years and 4 months
Thomas was a fucking paedophile who made 500+ images of CP of Category A (the most severe) and had planned to setup another market to sell it.
Sentencing in UK is no deterrent at all.. And sentences are never consecutive. Concurrent sentencing is the default (sentences for multiple offenses are served at the same time, rather than one after the other). You only really need to worry about the sentence for your most serious charge if you commit multiple crimes because every other charge below that will run concurrently so you get 0 extra time on them.
For example - Someone is a drug trafficker and has committed a kidnapping and murder and used an illegal weapon.
The sentence for each charge will be read out by the judge as follows:
- Murder: life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years
- Rape: 15 years
- Drug Trafficking: 10 years
- Kidnapping: 8 years
- Weapons charge: 5 years
So you'd think this person would/should be getting 59 years but because of the silly concurrent sentencing in UK. The sentence they get is 21 years. Its almost like every other charge beneath it wasn't even committed its just stupid.
Thanks for listening to my DreadXTalk
Okay I actually read half of that now and I think I should show respect for actually typing all of that out including formatting.
And yes - Concurrent sentencing is an insane aspect of it. The whole aspect of anglo law is "save society" rather than rehabilitation. (read: control society by a hard fist, a few centuries earlier they burned witches to show a statement)
I was looking into the case as I was typing it and it must have taken me a good 25 min!
Yeah concurrent sentencing is baffling to me lol. I watch quite a lot of crime documentaries and see all the work detectives do in some of the cases and I feel like these cops who do all that work for some cunt to get 5 years instead of 30 years because of concurrent sentencing must feel like its a waste of time sometimes!
And I thought of what I would rather have if I was going to choose between 70 years in prison or lethal injection... Execution gives the easy way out for some of them imo! I thought about if a relative of mine was murdered if I would prefer to see them executed or locked up for the rest of their life and I am still torn on it now! lol
The war against drugs changes nothing in a society where tobacco and alcohol is legal. However - it provides plausible ground for a 25-33% bigger state budget regarding police force.
Edit: It will never not be funny that when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in 1996 (read: worlds biggest opium producer) the CIA worked with local warlords in Helmland 2002+ to keep the production running
Fentanyl kind of fucked their game though lmao
Fuck your trained GPT but for the record:I am retardedTLDR: Anglo law is retarded and the fact, that 3 out of 5 5-Eyes countries operate on that does not make things better.
> So you'd think this person would/should be getting 59 years but because of the silly concurrent sentencing in UK.
American Anglo gets you 59 in theory, if UK has the (logical) aspect of subsumtion than that is a good thing
As someone spending 2 decades regarding "this" thing - I do not know.
What I do know is, that - contrary to other crimes - the whole "drugs" aspect is something society has to get rid off. And with that I do not mean stricter sentencing but a solution besides that.
The healthier a society the lesser someone needs Opiates to heal. The healthier a society the lesser someone needs Cocaine to feel accepted. The healthier a society the lesser the chance is people getting paranoid on weed.
At the end illegal drugs (read: contrary to "legal" Ritalin for """ADHD"""" or Xanax for """Anxiety"""" etc) are the answer to a question society provided.
Cold hard truth. Not a widely told one, too. I'm so sick of the rhetoric about addicts struggling because of the drugs. Fuck no. 9 times out of 10, it's the opposite. Addicts fell for drugs because they had issues they weren't able to solve in the first place. The product surely doesn't help but we need to ask the right questions if we truly want people to get better. Prohibition is nothing more than turning the blame on them.
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