Quote from: 34tuforlunch on July 31, 2012, 11:13 amthis is another reason why silkroad should be invite only, and the user whos printing those shirts shoud be banned this isnt fucking etsy.Hi 34tuforlunch,If Silk Road were to become 'invite only', that would be completely against everything that this community stands for.As DPR himself has stated, this isn't merely a site where we can procure drugs and other illegal items, it represents a freedom where we each have power over what we put into our own bodies. It represents our individual sovereignty, and makes a stand against those who would wish to control us. It is a community built around Agorist ideals, and to exclude people simply because we deem them 'inadequate' or 'foolish' - indeed to make we who are already here 'the elite' of this underground society - would be to restrict the freedom that we all have had the pleasure of experiencing. This must never be allowed to happen.We must attempt to take down the current system using the theory of counter-economics, and in order to accomplish that we need as many people as possible to partake in what Silk Road has to offer, and support what this community is trying to achieve.To come at it from another angle; what if you were yet to stumble upon Silk Road, but when you eventually do, you find that it's invite-only? Why should those of us who are already here get to experience these freedoms and choices when you don't?When one demands a restriction on freedom in order to increase one's security, where will the restrictions end?The American president Benjamin Franklin put it perfectly in 1775 when he stated: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."Kind regards,- grahamgreene