Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“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, what a person ingests is simply none of the government’s business. Thus, government officials have no more business jailing people for what they ingest than jailing people for what they read or where they choose to go to church. Given such, why should anyone thank Trump or anyone else for releasing someone who should never have been incarcerated in the first place?” (01/23/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/01/23/trump-deserves-no-thanks-for-pardoning-ross-ulbricht/