Former Vice Chair of the national Libertarian Party in the United States, Arvin Vohra, announced his candidacy for President. Among keys to his platform is his stated position: “On the first day of my presidency. I will pardon those in prison who have neither harmed anyone nor stolen anything. I will start with @Snowden and @RossUlbricht,” he recently tweeted.
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US Presidential Candidate Urges Pardons of Edward Snowden and Ross Ulbricht
Education entrepreneur and principled libertarian firecracker, Arvin Vohra, 39, is adept at stirring things up. Though well-known, infamously, within more radical and mainstream libertarian circles, Mr. Vohra’s desire to seek the official Libertarian Party presidential nomination was less so. He took to Twitter recently to change that perception, announcing he would, upon entering Office, pardon the likes of Edward Snowden and Ross Ulbricht.
Mr. Snowden, 35, came to worldwide prominence during the Obama administration while employed as an analyst by National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Summer of 2013 he revealed massive spying on domestic and foreign citizens by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and NSA in conjunction with EU partners and giant private telecommunications companies.
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His saga was chronicled by journalist Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. Their collaboration to bring Mr. Snowden’s smuggled classified information to light became the 2015 Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Feature, Citizenfour. He remains in formal exile at an undisclosed location inside Russia.
Ross Ulbricht, 34, was arrested, charged, and convicted of operating Silk Road, an online site dedicated to bringing buyers and sellers together in a kind of underground Ebay model. The major difference being Silk
