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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025
... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
 
– George Mason

HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 23, 2025
Trump Deserves No Thanks for Pardoning Ross Ulbricht
While there are libertarians praising and thanking President Trump for fulfilling his political promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht (or Ross Ulbright, as Trump referred to him), Trump actually deserves no praise or thanks whatsoever. That’s because federal officials never had any legitimate moral authority to arrest, prosecute, or incarcerate Ulbricht or, for that matter, anyone else for any drug-related crime whatsoever. As libertarians have long maintained, ...
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