Shadowy drug fans threaten FBI agents, vow to 'avenge' Silk Road shutdown

Dead drug purveyors walking

They have no idea how much pain they are in for.

Having just came to the party that is this story late, is there any irony in usimg the character name from The Princess Bride? Is it possibke this Ulbrict fellow is just the latest owner of the site?

That could certainly prove entertaining, if the whole business pops up again somewhere with a new leader by the same name.

I can't see this being good for their community

I'd have thought they should accept that they will always have the authorities after them but by exposing and harassing these agents will surely make them much more of a target. The authorities need to keep their agents low key and I'm sure they will do all they can to help keep it that way and start using more devious methods.

It reminds me of the kidnappings of European oil workers in Central African countries. For a long time it was seen as an occupational hazard, generally they were well looked after and the rewards asked were fairly small and were paid after a few days. As I understand it, this balance continued for many years until some of the kidnappers became greedy and started asking for more money and became more violent until it grew into a problem.

Sometimes it's best to keep your heads down.

These guys need to take a chill pill

If they can find somewhere new to buy them.

The FBI must be terrified

Because a bunch of disgruntled druggie loser keyboard warriors are uniting

I so wish I could post the full personal details of these idiots. I so hope the FBI can come down on these guys like a ton of bricks.

Chalk one up for the War on Drugs

My boss used Silk Road to buy his weekly fix. He said that because of the review system on the site you could be reasonably sure that the product that turned up in your mail box was the product as advertised.

Thanks to the FBI shut down a load of low key users are now going to have to find alternate suppliers and will be wondering if it's chalk, baking soda or worse that they are being supplied with.

To be honest I feel this has less to do with Silk Road and rather more to do with Bitcoin. The FBI has just removed on of the largest marketplaces converting bitcoin into real products and services. This will have the knock on effect of reducing the appeal of bitcoin and devaluing a currency outside the control of the international banking/political community.

I wonder if the people making such thinly veiled threats understand the seriousness of what they are doing? I think the authorities will try every means they can think of to give serious jail time to those making threats against FBI officers.

And I thought PETA had the market cornered on own goals. I mean seriously what a bunch of idiots.

I'm a firm believe that the so-called "War on Drugs" is nothing but a massive waste of money and the problem would be better tackled by legalising the less harmful drugs (pot for example) and taxing the ever loving hell out of it, while putting money into treatment programs and focusing on the more destructive drugs and those that sell them(heroin, meth, etc).

From a practical perspective it makes sense, you free up resources to handle the really dangerous stuff at the same time as you introduce a new revenue stream (something more than a few countries desperately need) to pay for treatment programs.

But threatening police isn't a way to do it, it anti-productive and makes the job of the sane people working slowly, within the system, to legalise some drugs all the harder.

Disclaimer: I haven't smoked pot or taken any illegal substances in the last fifteen years.

Who cares, there's already at least 3 alternatives up and running.

Sheep Market being one.

Another job well done by Futile Battles Incorporated.

Sounds like they are just venting steam.

It's a shame about the silk road, but now that the FBI have made it clear just how amazingly profitable it was there will be many more popping up soon.

Everyone should have the right to get high now and again - what harm does it cause (other than the harm caused by it being illegal)?

Bye bye Miss American Pie.

Given that TOR is a US government project I can't help but think the FBI cracked the Silk Road ages ago and have left it running as a honey trap and only busted it because the NSA needed something to (in the eyes of US media) justify their blanket surveillance of the US population.

"Exposing personal information... has been an effective tactic for groups like Anonymous..."

Yeah that worked really well for Anon. None have them have ever been arrested or tried because the rozzers are all scared.

Oh wait.

As Private Eye's 'Exclusive to all newspapers' would have it:

IDIOTS BOASTING ON INTERNET.

To many people have been influenced by all the "mob" films of late.

Instead of earning a living, they all want to lower themselves and become a gang member in the myth that they would gain respect. Gangstas/crims are just that, criminals and can be given no respect, unless they hold a weapon/use violence.

Shame they couldn't look after their families by normal means. Qudos to the normal working man. They deserve and earn their respect.

I love the fact that our politicians, mums net, and their ilk always know better, when not one have nay knowledge or expereince to draw on.

They will continue to FAIL, like the last 40 years (that I know of), a continuous FAILURE.

Young uns are dead because of THEIR FAILURE.

Yet they continue to FAIL. They will ALWAYS FAIL. They refuse to accept ANY other form of action than the FAILURE of the past 40 years.

FAIL!

Hold on a secnd there buster !

Slow down , imagine a world without drugs for a minute.How many people had crazy ideas tripping on drugs that became projects that became successes .. Just the munber of coders on drugs and coding super inventively justify keeping a silk road. Drugs , like mushroom , are known to open up imagination and medically proven to have good effects on the brain. it's not all bad .The method of distribution might be questionable but we need a secure source of good quality drugs and minimise crime related to the traffic. I say simply : legalise all drugs and use the money to fund the best social services , roads , parks and infrastructures with the profits and at the same time cut crime by at least half.