Innate brotherhood between felons?

Dear Editor,

Trumps humanitarian efforts continue; after pardoning 1,200 insurrectionists he continues his good works. Trump making good on a campaign promise this week pardoned the Bitcoin pioneer who created the digital underground Silk Road drug marketplace. Ross Ulricht was serving a life sentence WITHOUT Parole in federal prison. The Silk Road operated on the dark web for almost three years, generating $200 million and over 1.5 million transactions. The Silk Road was one stop shopping for drug addicts. The Silk Road was the first sources customers could purchase drugs paying with Bitcoins. At his 2015 sentencing the judge called Ulbricht “the kingpin of worldwide digital drug trafficking enterprises”. Six deaths were attributed to the Silk Road and more suspected. Those six addicts were sentenced to no life and without parole thanks to Ulbricht’s drug enterprise.

Ulbricht, Trump wrote online was convicted by: “some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponization of our government against me.” Trump must have a much bigger and much more forgiving humanitarian heart than I, or is it the innate brotherhood that seems to exist between felons? Would you pardon Ulbricht?

— Tom Janicki
Almont