Write on your paper money

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Start writing "Ron Paul Revolution" on the front and "RonPaul2008.com" on the back. Write it in the white space at the top of the front and back and then highlight it. Try not to spend any paper money without writing on it first if you can.

 

[Patriot]

This idea has been talked about before in these forums. There is disagreement and controversy about it due to the fact that it may be illegal and may make Ron Paul look more like a fringe candidate. To use Ron Paul's words, there may be some 'blowback'. I oppose this idea and I think it would be better to spread the word about Ron Paul though the more traditional means of buttons, bumper stickers and signs.

 

[David Merrill]

agreed

On this website, look at the Self-Inking Ron Paul stamp advertizement - they encourage defacing FRNs!

http://dailypaul.com/forum/177

And a Texan once visited to explore using my BOE and in the coffee shop I snapped this:

http://friends-n-family-research.info/FFR/Merrill_UsedOnlyByNecessity.jpg

Marking your FRNs once you have already endorsed them is useless. If you endorsed your paycheck, you endorsed the Fed and are working against Ron Paul's bills to abolish the Fed:

http://friends-n-family-research.info/FFR/Merrill_PublicMoney.wmv
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1054706869308133588

What is encouraging about my video is that people who misunderstand it and think I am a tax protester pick up on the metaphysics immediately - there are still US notes, lawful money available - they just look like Federal Reserve Notes. If you non-endorse your FRNs, you walk away with US notes in the form of FRNs.



Regards,

David Merrill.

 

[McDermit]

I've recieved money with stamps from 2004, supporting Kerry and Kucinich.

It's absolutely NOT illegal. Defacement, rendering currency unfit for circulation, is illegal. Writing in the margins of a bill, so long as profanity is avoided, is not considered defacement. Similarly, a stamp or two is not considered defacement either.. so long as no security features (portrait, security strip, series, serial, watermarks) are obscured.

Wheresgeorge has only had one instance where the govt has come knocking, and that was in the site's early days when the owner was selling wheresgeorge.com stamps on the site. He was told by the secret service that he could not sell the stamps, since it would be like he was using currency to promote his for-profit business. As long as National doesn't sell stamps advertising ronpaul2008.com, there won't be any trouble from the govt.


However, I don't think it's the best way to get the word out. Many people who come across the bill will "think" it has been defaced, and they will associate Ron Paul with something that they believe to be a crime.

I have a link to ronpaul2008.com in my wheresgeorge bill notes though, so that anyone who enters one of my bills will see the RP message/link.

 

[Wendi]

http://www.bep.treas.gov/document.cfm/18/104

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Defacement of Currency

Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Defacement of currency in such a way that it is made unfit for circulation comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service. Their mailing address is:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]United States Secret Service
950 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20223. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The United States Secret Service web address is http://www.secretservice.gov. [/FONT]

 

[winston84]

I stamp my money, thank you!