The Great White Elephant in the Room

Hello and happy 2017 to you all.

I thought I would drop you a note to give my 0.00001 BTC's worth on BBMC's current whereabouts. I'm 99% certain that he has NOT been busted and that he's finally, and very wisely, exited stage left from his activities here. Not before time. Many spent a lot of time and effort trying to persuade him to, uhm, pipe down and stop painting a target on his back.

Whether we all debated his status as a vendor or not, know always that for LE catching someone who has widely and repeatedly boasted about and connected themselves to DNM activity is a feather in their cap vis a vis the media. And, I would presume that high profile arrests of people like that helps them secure gov funding for their department for the following year. So it keeps those twats all in jobs, even if their colleagues were all caught with their fingers in the til in years gone by.

LE spent money going after Variety Jones in Thailand long after SR had been shuttered despite him being a sickly old man, and in 2016 they've also spent significant time and money at finally getting SR's Libertas extradited from Ireland to the US. And, also look at Pluto Pete - who was in the UK but they went after ferociously, even flying in Feds from the US to rifle through his computers and poke through his sock drawer before finally securing him a prison sentence.

Arrests are feathers in their caps, so never assume you're safe to yap about your illegal activities here because you only buy personal amounts, never assume they don't read your posts here on reddit and never assume they're not interested in what you might be able to tell them or do for them. I suspect that what we get to read about with regard to DNM arrests is just the tip of an extremely murky and huge iceberg.

We will all miss BBMC's posts and nuggets of wisdom. It wasn't all meth-fuelled ramblings, he's actually an intelligent guy who finally, FINALLY realised that being such a prolific presence/ character/ persona on the clearnet - especially Reddit which has received subpoenas to hand over certain users' IPs in the past - is not clever.

gwern is one of the most intelligent people ever to grace the DNM scene and the fact that he packed up shop and left this sub a long time ago despite him being more of an academic than a dealer or user should tell you all you need to know.

Using drugs at home on your own is a lonely existence and we all crave other souls who understand us, or perhaps, just other people to talk to and have a laugh with. I get that, BUT, you don't need to be an online character with lots of karma to make soul connections, you CAN do it anonymously. There's plenty of online support groups for your drug of choice. I guarantee you that. And you can muddy the waters somewhat and say you buy IRL, no stranger on the internet no matter how seemingly friendly and sympathetic to your situation needs to know where you buy and how.

Back when darknet markets first rose to prominence, the DNMs were a brave new world where we felt like we had a gang of friends whom we could trust. Heck many of us even sent our home addresses to people we had never met over cleartext or using privnote in the hopes of getting drugs delivered to our homes a few days later. We all thought the police weren't watching and we all got wasted and posted stupid shit and anecdotes about it all when we were high.

NOW though, many years later my New Year wish for you ALL is to know better.

Time has shown that law enforcement were watching, that they were taking notes and not only were they posing as buyers and sellers, they very much want to catch people. They very much want small fish. Why? Because small fish help catch bigger fish.

All you have to do is read a few of the PDFs of the court cases of the Silk Road and other DNM busts to see they arrested a respectable woman who was buying heroin in the US to scare her into helping them catch Nod, they used various college kids to agree to testify against Ross Ulbricht in return for getting lesser charges wiped, it is all out there for you to see for yourself - just google.

Please, if you are a DNM character here on Reddit, delete your account after wiping your posts and fade into the crowd. Otherwise you are making yourself a person of interest.

This is the one place where you don't need friends, you don't need to be a recognisable name, you don't need to be anything but extremely smart, a little bit paranoid and, you need to be fucking careful not sloppy.

Love to you all and stay safe please xxxx

TLDR ; This year my wish for you is to make your resolution to be to make like BBMC and disappear - no explanations, just go. Just because there hasn't been any big profile market busts recently doesn't mean that they're not still after us.

PS: To all you dicks posting identifying details about him, or saying that you are (because you aren't) STOP. Let the guy go on his way in peace.


Comments


[19 Points] DOOT_DOOT_:

This sub's obsession with "celebrity" always confuses me


[11 Points] pinochetHA:

This post is well-structured. It has a certain respectability similar to that enjoyed by derelict academic who has accepted his decline. It presents its ideas in a verbose and developed manner. What it argues may or may not be true, but that's never really what it was all about. More than anything else it gives me some reassurance that BBMC may be free and safe as op's post indicates he has been indulging in BBMCs' fine product.

Seriously I would like to believe that BBMC finally made a graceful exit. It would be nicer to think that he is sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a Corona. Right now I don't this is what has happened.

Whatever his situation may be we should allow him to exit quietly. Digging through his supposed internet history ignores the basic anonymity and more specifically the pseudonymity that he deserves just like anyone else who exits the scene. When I retire this nick I would like to be allowed to leave and not be called back whenever someone cannot accept my desire to remain pseudonymous. I think everyone here wants that.


[10 Points] None:

Hello mdmangel


[3 Points] None:

You're giving BBMC a lot of credit. His ego was waaaay too big for him to simply pack his shit and go.

Its been said countless times that if the cops got him, the news would've been released just days after the bust. The police loves to brag about catching drug dealers, drug manufacturers are just a fews steps below terrorists in terms of importance and perceived evil. Everyone hates the guys who profit off suffering and misery, and hard drug manufacturers fall into this narrative.

I cant fucking believe you guys think they'd just sweep such an event under the rug, instead of boasting about how big of an event this is and how secure the streets are again.

If he did stepped down, he would've made an announcement here on reddit. As I see it, there are 2 possible scenarios:

a) the mafia kidnapped him

b) he overdosed and is most likely dead


[3 Points] CynicalElephant:

Here's the issue with your post. There are many people claiming to know him personally. You don't claim to know anything whatsoever about him. I'm gonna believe the people that know him irl.


[3 Points] stilldogman:

We will all miss BBMC's posts and nuggets of wisdom.

Eh......

gwern is one of the most intelligent people ever to grace the DNM scene and the fact that he packed up shop and left this sub a long time ago despite him being more of an academic than a dealer or user should tell you all you need to know.

Gwern is still around, just not at the same capacity.

They very much want small fish. Why? Because small fish help catch bigger fish.

Small anonymous fish do not catch big anonymous fish. They can get the same info that you have as a buyer by simply buying from a vendor. I don't think that this is an accurate statement.

I do fully agree that it is not wise to be a loud and colorful character here. There is no good that can come from that in the long run. Meet some good vendors and go dark (if you're comfy with them, get their sigaint and DD to the moon).


[2 Points] Skywaalk3r:

It was weird, when I was raided April, 2015 for buying 5 grams of H from TheLemonadeStand. The officers didn't care about TLS or any of my online activity. They just cared about trying to get me to narq on my local H connections. Last year sucked for me, after dealing with the court system for over a year I finally had to do 2 months in jail for that order from TLS. Granted I got to do work release so it wasn't too bad. Now I have to deal with 5 years of probation until the felony is off my record. Be careful out there people!


[1 Points] drimilr:

Hi /u/aunty_unicorn !! Ive been wondering how youve been!