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Introducing the Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund

7 points by tjaerv 13y ago

pedalpete 13y ago
Unfortunately, the creator of this site doesn't explain truly why he feels Ross Ulbricht needs a defence fund. Has he publicly stated that he is unable to mount his own defence? If he truly is DPR, then he has funds available for his defence, and if not, the US government has an obligation to provide an attorney for him. At the same time, I'm sure some legal gun who wants the publicity would take on the case. This whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think there are probably other people more in need of a defence fund.
- mikegogulski 13y ago
  Added to my to-do list for the FAQ (I operate the website). No, no such statement has issued, but then neither did Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning make such a declaration when she was arrested, and I registered bradleymanning.org and eventually help bootstrap what is now the Private Manning Support Network for her defense.
- mapt 13y ago
  The US Government does not go up against personal defendants with private attorneys in drug cases: First it confiscates all of the money they would need to pay for a lawyer.
unreal37 13y ago
Didn't he make $80 million from selling drugs online? Weirdest defense fund ever.
- uncoder0 13y ago
  Also completely perplexed by this. The author seems to rush to put up a defense fund websites for high profile tech cases. The same author started a Manning Defense fund quickly after the story broke.
  - mikegogulski 13y ago
    After being informed of the news and reading about it, i realized that this was something that needed doing (your mileage, of course, may vary), and that supporters might be vulnerable to scams. I quickly found that there was already a "freedpr" website out there asking for Bitcoin donations with no information whatsoever identifying the operator, so I said to myself: "Gotta do it." Incidentally, the Bradley Manning work I did was hundreds of hours without me taking a dime. I resigned my membership of the Support Network steering committee about a year after getting the thing booted up, confident that the rest of the members had things well in hand.

7 points by tjaerv 13y ago

Unfortunately, the creator of this site doesn't explain truly why he feels Ross Ulbricht needs a defence fund. Has he publicly stated that he is unable to mount his own defence? If he truly is DPR, then he has funds available for his defence, and if not, the US government has an obligation to provide an attorney for him. At the same time, I'm sure some legal gun who wants the publicity would take on the case. This whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think there are probably other people more in need of a defence fund.

mikegogulski 13y ago
Added to my to-do list for the FAQ (I operate the website). No, no such statement has issued, but then neither did Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning make such a declaration when she was arrested, and I registered bradleymanning.org and eventually help bootstrap what is now the Private Manning Support Network for her defense.
mapt 13y ago
The US Government does not go up against personal defendants with private attorneys in drug cases: First it confiscates all of the money they would need to pay for a lawyer.

unreal37 13y ago

Didn't he make $80 million from selling drugs online? Weirdest defense fund ever.

uncoder0 13y ago
Also completely perplexed by this. The author seems to rush to put up a defense fund websites for high profile tech cases. The same author started a Manning Defense fund quickly after the story broke.
- mikegogulski 13y ago
  After being informed of the news and reading about it, i realized that this was something that needed doing (your mileage, of course, may vary), and that supporters might be vulnerable to scams. I quickly found that there was already a "freedpr" website out there asking for Bitcoin donations with no information whatsoever identifying the operator, so I said to myself: "Gotta do it." Incidentally, the Bradley Manning work I did was hundreds of hours without me taking a dime. I resigned my membership of the Support Network steering committee about a year after getting the thing booted up, confident that the rest of the members had things well in hand.