FORMER Queensland prison employee Peter Nash is locked up in a New York jail accused of conspiring to sell large quantities of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine through the black-market internet bazaar, Silk Road.
Mr Nash, 41, was extradited from Australia to the US last week and faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in the American jail system if convicted.
He is being held in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center ahead of an expected appearance in a Manhattan federal court this week.
"Silk Road was used by several thousand drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to well over a 100,000 buyers," the indictment against Mr Nash and two co-accused.
New York's top federal prosecutor, Preet Bharara, announced a year ago the unsealing of the indictment against Brisbane-based Mr Nash and the two other alleged site administrators, Virginia's Andrew Jones, 25, and Ireland's Gary Davis, 26.
They are referring to this indictment ?
This is outrageous, the guy moderated a forum and his primary job was to remove troll posts, he didn't have anything else to do with the marketplace!
Disgusting American government, they make me feel sick to my stomach, they are probably gloating over robbing him of his future and patting each other on the back while he sits in a cell all alone. I feel like crying every time I think about what he is going through.
They arrested him the same day he was going to get married, I bet they planned that in advance specifically to cause him the maximum amount of torment they could, cold-hearted dogs.
The American 'Justice' system is a joke, he wont get a fair trial or any chance at mercy, he might as well have been extradited to China or Iran for the chance he'll get at freedom.
I feel like exploding in anger when I think about how evil they are, because he supported a forum where people helped each other get high they are going to essentially torture him mentally and physically for 10 years to the rest of his life, confining him in terrible conditions away from all of his family and friends. This isn't fair, this isn't reasonable, this isn't freedom and this isn't justice.
Fuck the American police and fuck the American government, you despotic, evil hypocrites, I hope you burn in hell for what you have done to this man.
History will remember you as tyrants.