Libertarian Party’s Promise Fulfilled: President Trump Issues Full Pardon for Ross Ulbricht | Libertarian Party (news release):
President Trump Honors Commitment Made to Libertarian Party at National Convention
January 21, 2024 - "President Donald Trump made a promise to the Libertarian Party, to its members, and to Chair Angela McArdle, to free Ross Ulbricht at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention. We are proud to announce today that because of the influence, the impact and the power that the party can wield, Ross Ulbricht once more walks in the light of liberty, outside of a cell, pardoned by President Trump.
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"'Ross Ulbricht has been a libertarian political prisoner for more than a decade. I’m proud to say that saving his life has been one of our top priorities and that has finally paid off,' said Libertarian National Committee Chair, Angela McArdle. 'Ross, congratulations to you and your family. God bless you and keep you safe in your new found freedom. On behalf of the Libertarian Party, we are gifting you with an honorary lifetime membership. Thank you to Pres. Trump for following through on your promise. This is an incredible moment in Libertarian history.'
"The Libertarian Party has embarked on a new path that exercises the potent influence of its membership and base to become a party of influence in national politics. This initiative was moved forward in advance of the National Convention by Party Chair Angela McArdle, who worked to bring in new voices, and potential allies on issues Libertarians hold most sacred. President Donald Trump was one such invitee, and that coordinated effort to unite philosophies has proven to be immediately fruitful in the freeing of Mr. Ulbricht.
"Freeing Ross is only the first step in an overarching plan in place by the Libertarian National Committee for 2025 that will look to bring justice to more politically persecuted individuals, Defend the Guard, Decentralize the Revolution, create Local DOGE, and vastly increase local race victories through new tactical and logistical strategies. Roger Ver, aka Bitcoin Jesus, is currently fighting prosecution, and as previously announced, the Party’s Anti-Lawfare Initiative already has eager volunteers waiting to lend their talents to the fight."
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"A man condemned to a double life sentence without parole, for daring to build a platform, has been granted a second chance. And not just for him; this is a seismic shift, a rupture in the suffocating wall of state oppression. It’s not just a pardon—it’s a declaration that the system doesn’t get the final word.
"Ross wasn’t some cartoon villain masterminding chaos. He was a pioneer, a dreamer, a man who dared to create a marketplace unbound by the suffocating grip of centralized control. The Silk Road was a vision of voluntary exchange, a microcosm of what a world without coercion might look like. For that, they didn’t just punish him—they sought to obliterate him. His sentences weren’t justice—they were vengeance, a message to anyone who dared challenge the state’s monopoly on power.
"And now? That message just got a massive redaction. This pardon shatters a precedent that has loomed like a specter over innovators, technologists, and dreamers. It spits in the face of the narrative that daring to question the system’s grip makes you a criminal beyond redemption. Ulbricht’s case was a symbol of everything wrong with the justice system — a grotesque blend of overreach, hypocrisy, and moral posturing. They made him a scapegoat for the war on drugs, the war on privacy, the war on autonomy itself.
"The pardon does more than liberate Ross — it liberates the imagination. It says, maybe, just maybe, there’s room for second chances in this dystopian hellscape. Maybe the state doesn’t have to be an unyielding leviathan crushing anyone who steps out of line. Maybe there’s a crack in the armor where humanity can seep through. This is more than about one man. It’s a signal flare for everyone who’s been buried under the system’s weight: the whistleblowers, the hackers, the cryptographers, the builders of new worlds. It’s a whisper in the ear of every dissident that the fight isn’t futile. That justice, however warped and delayed, can sometimes make its way through the cracks.
"But let’s not romanticize this too much. It’s a reminder, too, of the obscene injustice it took to get here. Ross’s release doesn’t erase the years and money stolen from him, the countless lives destroyed by a bloated, malicious drug war, or the rot at the heart of a system that thought such a sentence was justified in the first place. The pardon removes a bad precedent — the idea that you can bury people alive for threatening the status quo. But it doesn’t remove the system that created that precedent in the first place.
"And yet, for today, we celebrate. Not because the fight is over, but because it isn’t. Ross Ulbricht is free. The precedent set by his imprisonment is no longer the immovable object it once was. If that isn’t cause for hope, if that isn’t a reminder that resistance matters, then what is? History is made in moments like these, one crack in the wall at a time."
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