Quote from: Christy Nugs on July 25, 2012, 08:01 pmQuote from: kmfkewm on July 25, 2012, 12:24 pmAnything under $2,000 gets a love letter? Wow awesome so I can break up my $1,000,000 shipments into $2,000 packages and swarm them to my fifty workers who can then break them down into $100 shipments and nobody will ever go to jail! So glad I have this awesome intel because now I can traffic millions of dollars worth of drugs every month and none of us have to worry! So fucking awesome man thanks for the sweet tip. I will make sure to send with signature on all of my packs too because it doesn't really matter sweet. What about Tor and GPG they are such a pain in the ass it is probably fine to go without them anyway because nobody really gives a fuck right? I mean people use drugs everyday who cares??Sarcasm? :)I think of kmf as the Dr Gregory House of the Silk Road. Genius, but like a bear with a thorn in his paw whenever he reads a "does not compute" comment on here, I still remember the 'personal use' post :DOn signing packages, don't. Completely irrespective of what the law says, because even if it were neutral on the matter, you should imagine how it looks/sounds to a judge or jury. They are going to find it very easy to adopt a discrete state or black and white attitude: signing package = guilty, not signing package = maybe not. It's just cognitively easier than running through all the possible permutations of how you might not be guilty.Yes, according to the Western Ideal of Justice, you are innocent until proven guilty. But I and others can tell you that in practice juries and even judges behave as if the opposite were true. The technical term for citizens who go into a court room expecting the justice-truth-freedom combo, is, ah, naive.Even the police would agree with this, listen to the police officer in the famous 'Don't talk to the police' video on youtube to understand why. If you're black and in the dock, well then that's strike one. If you start to use street slang at any point or look like you walked in off the street wearing your casuals, then that's strike two. If you have so much as a smidgeon of evidence against you or a uniformed officer pointing the finger at you as a state's witness after those two strikes, then that is strike three in the minds of most juries and judges. You can now say goodbye to the rest of your natural life on the flimsiest of charges.The Western legal system, used to be quite good at one point in history. But it has become gradually more and more corrupt over time. I don't mean in the sense of passing around bribes, I mean in the sense of adhering to the ideal it's supposed to be backing i.e. the spirit of the law as opposed to the letter, what I call 'official corruption'. There is an overall decline in the quality of judicial rulings. Many of them are just a sick joke. I once saw a completely inebriated judge slurring his words as he self righteously passed down a decade on some kids selling some homemade weed. Lives wrecked forever. The majority of the population have infrequent contact with the system, so they are only aware of it in a vague abstract way. Frankly, they have a Hollywood version of the legal system. You can go to prison, up to a year, for merely possessing a bong with the *intent* to smoke weed in some states. Even I had to blink twice reading it, I never saw a thought crime written down so clearly in legal prose before.Yes, technically we are outlaws I suppose, but I swear to God we almost had more justice in the days they just used to swing a rope and let you hang. Today the justice system is little more than a mechanical routine for the Cartels to crop the competition. If you think I'm joking, you should be aware that many of the 'Just Say No' campaigns and their ilk in schools are sponsored indirectly by the Cartels. The religious nuts and social conservatives cannot quite comprehend the scale of the thing, they just think it's wild that so many donations to 'save the children' are coming in for them to make colorful bracelets and powerpoint presentations. Must be Jesus H Christ sending them supplies from God or something lol. As for the DEA, they are the cat's paw available to the highest bidder, at the highest level. Their, let's call them business practices, because that is what they are, in South America amount to state terrorism on an epic scale that the majority of Americans are completely ignorant of, or worse, simply apathetic. The DEA contracts large numbers of soldiers, they don't usually do the dirty work themselves, they just sponsor 'results'. Huge amounts of cancer causing defoliants sprayed over farmlands and villages, the land sowed with landmines, village leaders assassinated or beaten to a pulp to stay in line, journalists tortured or otherwise silenced. And the American media? Not a peep. There's a human interest piece after the endlessly recycled daily news (24/7 news, yet it is 7 minutes of news, 24 hours per day) featuring a funny squirrel using a jet ski after the news on CNN, or perhaps cats wearing pieces of bread. But, you know, for the Greater Good. To protect American teenagers from their own choices you understand. Because Americans are more human than dirty little farmer savages grubbing about to make some coca leaf to send their kids to school to learn to read and write, apparently.If you cannot believe it is so decadent, then you should remind yourself of what the word Cartel actually means. Cartels are mechanisms for producing artificial scarcities in markets. Influencing the community watch organizations is the logical and most pragmatic step of doing that whilst maintaining the main routes like a castles inside moats while the rest of the countryside burns. There is more evidence for this than you can shake a stick at, look at the prices for all major drug categories. In nearly every case since Nixon, the price of drugs has steadily, linearly, fallen, indicating extremely stable output and increasing yields. Simultaneously, drug quality has also fallen, drastically in some cases like cocaine. More drugs, less pure. The quantity of money is simply colossal, there's simply no other word for it.That is why the Silk Road. There is no other way forward to take control and bring balance to the world, no matter what side of the drug war you are on. The market must prevail. If it does not, the penalty on both sides for possessing a lack of imagination will be that the real Drug War will ultimately come home to America. I know the DEA in general believes it is hardened, battle tested as it were. They are in a delirium with respect to cause and consequence , like aircraft pilots bombing at 20,000 feet. They are like the British and the colonies, boys playing at war in the peacetime, all is forgotten once you clock off at 5PM or come back from a mission in the tropics.