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Let me add to the complexity. What if Silk Road is also gov't? We have had proof of CIA drug-running. And the so-called Drug War is a failure. You don't get
by mikecane 14y ago
Let me add to the complexity. What if Silk Road is also gov't? We have had proof of CIA drug-running. And the so-called Drug War is a failure. You don't get failure on that magnitude without gov't complicity, even if it's simple bribery. See: Alcohol Prohibition.
- eurleif 14y agoI think the Armory (Silk Road's sister site for weapons) is evidence against that. It was shut down because it wasn't profitable for the owner(s). Funding obviously wouldn't be an issue if it were the government, so if the Armory were good for their strategic objectives, why would they have shut it down? And if it were bad for their objectives, why would they have created it to begin with?
- gwern 14y ago> We have had proof of CIA drug-running. Absolutely, but that was usually part of proxy wars against China and Russia and drugs being the best source of funding in regions like Afghanistan or SE Asia. What proxy wars, where the US is on the side of the insurgents, are going on now?