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jct74
09-26-2012, 12:49 PM
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's, launches dollar-stamping campaign

By Matea Gold
September 24, 2012, 1:29 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s and a liberal activist, has hit on a concrete way to drive home the message about the role that money plays in politics.

“We are going to adorn currency,” he declared in a phone interview. “We are going to beautify our dollars. It’s a little monetary jujitsu – we’re using money to get money out of politics.”

Cohen is heading up a campaign by the Movement Resource Group, a nonprofit that funds the Occupy movement, which is urging people to stamp dollar bills with campaign finance reform messages like “Money is not free speech” and “Corporations are not people.”

The idea: to harness the natural churn of dollars to promote a constitutional amendment that would overturn Supreme Court rulings that protect political expenditures under the 1st Amendment and allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts on independent political activity.

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read more:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ben-cohen-stamp-stampede-20120924,0,5432695.story

check out the website here:
http://stampstampede.org/




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjeNdHiy_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjeNdHiy_g

VBRonPaulFan
09-26-2012, 12:52 PM
how about stamping it with "not backed by gold" or "private debt not issued by the US Government"?

oh yeah, that's right. because that stuff doesn't matter, getting the corporations out of donating openly while continuing to bribe behind closed doors is way more important!

jct74
09-26-2012, 12:53 PM
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AlexAmore
09-26-2012, 12:54 PM
Funny how they say "money is not free speech", then the next minute they're signing a petition to boycott some corporation.

headhawg7
09-26-2012, 03:15 PM
As Thomas Woods say's "You have to take the power out of Washington because you will never take the money out of politics."

juleswin
09-26-2012, 03:17 PM
As Thomas Woods say's "You have to take the power out of Washington because you will never take the money out of politics."

Yup, only drives the money underground which is far worse than what we have now. Take money out of Washington.

jbauer
09-26-2012, 03:24 PM
Isn't it a crime to destroy currency? (pun not intended for the Fed) I though writing on them was something they could charge you with a crime for. Same for coins, otherwise I'd be collecting and melting pennys as fast as teh banks would give them to me.

Keith and stuff
09-26-2012, 03:39 PM
Isn't it a crime to destroy currency? (pun not intended for the Fed) I though writing on them was something they could charge you with a crime for. Same for coins, otherwise I'd be collecting and melting pennys as fast as teh banks would give them to me.

If you do it correctly, it doesn't harm the currency. The Where's George people have done the forever. Liberty folks have been doing it for many years, also.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfhzT2mAYA
Liberty Activist Pays Property Tax in $1 Bills stamped with FreeKeene
Uploaded by obscuredtruth on Jul 2, 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DInHDSs6U
NH man who filmed Ian Freeman pay property taxes in stamped $1 bills pays his property taxes in $5 bills - Keene, New Hampshire
Uploaded by RidleyReport on Nov 28, 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6So5_KSSLM
2nd Free Stater pays prop tax in ones - property, collector
Uploaded by RidleyReport on Mar 13, 2010

TastyWheat
09-26-2012, 07:28 PM
Despite whether I agree or disagree with them, Ben and Jerry need to shut the fuck up and make ice cream.