A message to Reddit/DNM from SSBD

To everyone who has donated to SSBD's book drive, he is overwhelmed by your support. He passed on the following message to you all:

To everyone who has expressed kind words of support or thrown in some spare BTC I want to say a massive thank you. Eiley (Oz Freelancer) has been keeping me updated on what you guys have been doing for me and I am incredibly touched and humbled by your support and generosity.

I especially want to thank Bruce and Lobali for your efforts here. It was totally unexpected and I am incredibly grateful to you both for making it happen. As we say down under you are bloody legends!

Your donations will go a long way to making my time incarcerated more bearable. It costs a surprising amount of money to stay locked up; phone calls ($1 a minute international!); commissary and the Feds email system trulinks all add up and it would be an even more miserable existence in the US prison system unable to communicate with the outside world or eat semi decent food.

Any books will be greatly appreciated! I spend more time reading these days than doing anything else. I shall look forward to getting some new reading material.

It has been a long 15 months so far and there is still a way to go but I am hoping that this Friday 13th March (unlucky for some) will bring me one step closer to having an end date to this ordeal. It is my intention to plead guilty and move forward to sentencing, the date for which will be set for around three months time. Wish me luck!

Also whilst I have your attention there is one thing I want to clear up because there is some misinformation floating around out there and it keeps getting repeated (I noticed a few comments in the copy and paste of the threads I was sent too) so I wanted to set the record straight. I never worked in a prison or had anything to do with the criminal justice system before my incarceration. I used to work for my regional governments Disability Services Dept working as a Behavioural Specialist with adults with intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviours. The piece of sensationalist journalistic fiction that spurned that lie also had me down as a 'Drug Lord' so I think you get the picture. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good storey.

So once again thank you. The money is a great help but the support means more to me than any monetary amount. You have really helped lift my spirits ahead of my court hearing this week :-)

Thank you.

Peter

A reminder to all the details for the bitcoin donation address is here

It doesn't matter how small your donation is, as Pete said, it is really the knowledge that he hasn't been forgotten to rot.

(Please feel free to upvote/crosspost)


Comments


[18 Points] pinkprincess1:

'I never worked in a prison or had anything to do with the criminal justice system before my incarceration. I used to work for my regional governments Disability Services Dept working as a Behavioural Specialist with adults with intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviours.'

Another dangerous criminal off the streets thanks to the war on drugs......


[6 Points] Deafcunt:

This is really fucking cool guys. Great work to everyone who put this together and everyone who donated. It's times like these that make me happy to be apart of this community.


[4 Points] None:

Sorry but I missed this. Who is SSBD and why is he is jail?


[2 Points] DNMd:

This is great to hear but also makes me very sad. Going to be almost a yea and a half time served, holy shit.


[2 Points] None:

Bruce misses SSBD. Bruce is sad.

:(


[2 Points] -STIMUTAX-:

Do you know if he is able to receive visitors? It is within my means to go and talk with him. Seems weird, but sometimes a decent conversation can go a long way when your on lock down. I imagine it is rough for family to come to visit.


[1 Points] ciphersexual:

Thanks OzFreelancer. Are you planning to publish more about Peter?

Between his shitty legal deal, the overwhelming community respect for him, and the crazy sensationalism surrounding his existing public image I think there's quite an interesting story to tell.


[1 Points] ssbdwtftheeetg:

What law did he break by being a moderator for a drug forum? How is that any different from what the /r/dnm mods are doing or what the shroomery mods or cannabis forum mods do?


[1 Points] None:

Okay, I'm going to get behind this now. I hope if this ever happened to me that people would support me in the same way.

Poor Pete and his family.


[1 Points] delta_eight:

I guess I'll throw a few BTC his way on my next purchase.


[1 Points] IGetDankShit:

Any updates on his sentencing?


[1 Points] OzFreelancer:

Article in the Courier Mail today

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/former-brisbane-resident-peter-nash-who-pleaded-guilty-to-involvement-with-silk-road-receiving-growing-support-from-an-online-fan-base/story-fnihsrf2-1227262846536

A FORMER Brisbane resident who has pleaded guilty to involvement with the black market website Silk Road is receiving growing support from an online fan base.

Peter Nash, 42, pleaded guilty in the Manhattan District Court to drug and money-laundering charges following his dramatic arrest in Australia in February last year.

Nash was extradited to the US in June, where he confessed to involvement as a moderator in the drug-distribution website that sold heroin, cocaine, LSD and methamphetamine.

The former New Farm resident said he became involved in the online bazaar partly for his own consumption of drugs.

“My motivation was to buy controlled substances for my own use and to socialise,” Nash said.

The former disability support worker told the court that while he was aware of the website’s role in moving $US200 million of drugs, he was not involved in their distribution. He said he was employed to moderate the chat room “for scams … and to delete spam”.

He has denied charges of computer hacking.

Nash said that he was paid between $US25,000 and $US30,000 for his 10-month involvement in Silk Road.

“I deeply regret my conduct and any offence it might have caused,” he told Judge Thomas Griesa.

A user of social media website Reddit this month organised a fundraising campaign for Nash, describing him as “pillar of the (dark net markets) community”.

The user, Bruce Campbell, set up a link for others to make bitcoin donations to go towards buying books and magazines and prison costs during Nash’s incarceration in Manhattan Correctional Centre.

According to a link left in the fundraising posts, users had raised more than four bitcoins — converting to about $A1500 — by late yesterday.

Among supporters was investigative journalist Eileen Ormsby, whose book Silk Road exposed the online trading site.

Ormsby posted a thankyou message on Reddit that she credited to Nash a day before he was due to face court.

The message praises Bruce Campbell and another moderator called Lobali for instigating the support, which Nash described as totally unexpected.

“As we say down under you are bloody legends! Any books will be greatly appreciated! I spend more time reading these days.”

Nash’s guilty plea comes a month after the mastermind of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, was found guilty of distributing drugs, computer hacking and money laundering.

Nash could face life in jail when sentenced on May 26.


[1 Points] burnyourfuckingflag:

Glad to see he has some support from this once tight, but now fragmented community. After all that's happened since SR1, I'm struggling with the overwhelming feeling that we've all had our arses well and truly kicked by misguided establishment that rules our lives. :(


[0 Points] None:

hell yeah!