UPDATED:Mass dollar burning event
I'm thinking something like the scene in the movie Gandhi, where they burn the cards issued by the British authorities.
It would be a symbolic act showing our determination to free ourselves of economic tyranny.
What do you think?
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UPDATE!
The End the Fed rallies on Nov. 22 would be a great time for this.
To those who can't afford to participate: I would be willing to give a dollar to anyone who wanted to participate. If not a full dollar, a 1 cent share would be sufficient.
Side note: Imagine the effect this would have on the confidence in the FRN if the event was seen world wide. "Americans are burning dollars? SELL, SELL, SELL THE DOLLAR!!!"
Also I want to suggest that Dr. Ron Paul be the first to light the fire...literally!
To those who think the dollars should be used for something else: You may still be a slave to fear...and the Federal Reserve. I hope that's not true though.
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Another update: I have cleared my schedule, and am planning to attend the End the Fed rally in Washington DC on Nov. 22. I will be burning FRNs. Exactly when and where will be posted later(I'm open to suggestions). If anyone would like to join me, let's hear it!
End the Fed...NOW!
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Thank you!
I see the debate over the benefits of a collapsing dollar is heating up.
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another update
And a comment from below:
I think people do not realize when they say End the Fed, they are asking for the dollars in their pocket(and in their retirement accounts) to be worthless. They just want it to happen gradually. I prefer to get straight to the point. My reasoning? End the Fed=End the war.
We raised over 20 million on a presidential campaign. If we raise 1/20 of that, convert it all into 1$ FRNs, and make a HUGE bonfire...... the Federal Reserve would be finished. Is anyone following my twisted logic?
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A smart
Patriot would take his dollars and convert them into silver. The best way to stick it to them isn't by symbolically burning the dollars. They'll just print up more and the public knows this. Let me guess. After the dollar burn your all going to go out and BUY food for a get together. Go and hang out at the burger king and eat some meals PAID for with dollars.
The gesture is fundamentally flawed. Your still going to be using the dollars you just burned. Keeping the system running until it pops. I find it rather moronic that now after all of this you finally want to burn some dollars. The sheep will mock you. While you sit there proud and fat that you have successfully preached to the choir.
The heart is in the right place. The logic....Not so much.
We're past burning dollars now. It wouldn't go over like you envisioned it.
"Your still going to be
"Your still going to be using the dollars you just burned."
I intend to free myself completely from FRNs, but that will be done in steps.
Burning a dollar reinforced that in my mind.
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it is a great idea...helps the message to get out there to the sheeple.
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Burn an ounce of silver instead.
Make a point, go home with your silver.
I think the idea is ludicrous.
Regardless of how we feel about FRNs, they still have purchasing power, and that money could make the difference in a freedom-candidate's race, or buy gold or silver for the freedom-loving individual, or buy storage foods, or water purifiers, or weapons and ammo.
Find something else to burn.
As the dollar drops...
you will come around. Peace, brother!
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Don't burn too many
You'll drop the price of my gold.
best way to burn your
best way to burn your dollars is to exchange worthless paper money for silver..
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.
here's your burning buck video !
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made right after last year's L.A. endthefed rally ...
Most EXPENSIVE YouTube Video EVER!
From: repfreedomforce | December 01, 2008 | 10,814 views
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"I want to suggest that Dr. Ron Paul be the first to light...
the fire...literally!"
Ron Paul is probably smart enough to know this...
"Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code... says that '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 $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.' The law is enforced by the Secret Service."
... and wouldn't the neo-cons just LOVE to have Ron arrested.
I'm sure as a symbolic
I'm sure as a symbolic gesture, for those that don't have money that they can just burn, you could make color copies of a ton of FRN's. Certainly a lot cheaper than burning the real thing.
http://www.lp.org/
http://mises.org/
That does not solve the
That does not solve the issue of appearances. If it looks like we are actually burning money, it sends a bad message about who we are, particularly now when many are out of work and cannot pay their bills.
Thanks for the input
I think people do not realize when they say End the Fed, they are asking for the dollars in their pocket(and in their retirement accounts) to be worthless. They just want it to happen gradually. I prefer to get straight to the point. My reasoning? End the Fed=End the war.
We raised over 20 million on a presidential campaign. If we raise 1/20 of that, convert it all into 1$ FRNs, and make a HUGE bonfire...... the Federal Reserve would be finished. Is anyone following my twisted logic?
Free yourself.
Ow! Think I just pulled a brain muscle...
What are you fightin' for?
Caught in the middle?
Freedom is only for those with the guts to defend it!
If you have money to burn
stick it in an envelope and send it to one of the many deserving candidates running for office.
Don't burn George! (Lincoln or Hamilton? Hmm.)
What are people who are financially strapped, maybe laid off their jobs, going to think about people who literally have money to burn? And burn it?
Wanna re-think this idea?
Haha, I thought about
burning a Lincoln in front of the Lincoln memorial in DC, but I'm sure the media would say it's about racism. Now I'm thinking I'll stick with the front of the Federal Reserve building.
Free yourself.
i remember seeing something like this on youtube
it really caught my attention because it seemed to be genuine grassroots dissent. suddenly there was an influx of videos from people all around who were burning dollar bills. mostly 1s, but there were 5's, 10's, and one i saw for a hundred.
i often wonder if they were spent in vain, but it still had an effect on me from watching all of those videos.
i think it was in response to the initial bailouts that bush/cheney/mccain/obama pushed. screws were starting to come loose.
Don't burn your dollars,
Don't burn your dollars, donate them to the DailyPaul or other good causes instead.
The equivalent would be to burn your drivers license
Got the guts for that?
lol...a hunger strike is starting to look better to you huh?
Meanwhile, illegals run around without US documents with little care.
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They gain your trust with the truth, then they screw you with it.
Nope.
Worked too hard for 'em. ;)
...and they still buy groceries, pay for the roof over my head, and put gas in my car.
so...
If I printed one side off my computer.. could it be as symbolic?
even better..
Imagine if you only asked people to burn ONE dollar...
No problems with the symbolic ones from your computer. ;)
I wouldn't try to tell others what to do with their real dollars, but when there are people struggling, even members of this forum, it would be hard for me to be supportive of burning real ones.
Those one dollar bills add up.
They could even help elect liberty-minded candidates.
Hmm. Maybe a moneybomb instead.
edit- I know, moneybomb doesn't really go with the theme. Also, as much as I don't want the federal reserve system, I don't want whatever evil is waiting on deck to replace it, either. So until sound money is trumpeted and the likely replacement, I'm hesitant to holler too loud just yet. Maybe that would be doing things backward. Not sure, but anyway, maybe I am a slave to fear as the update in the OP says, so I'll mosey out of this thread now...
Don't leave :(
Is this true? If you could end the fed now, you wouldn't?
Free yourself.
Mixed emotions.
I would like for the fed to be ended, but with sound money as the replacement.
There is no doubt in my mind that something just as wicked as the fed, if not worse, is lurking in the wings.
If the cart is put before the horse and the fed is ended before sound money is designated as its replacement, are we setting ourselves free, or cementing our enslavement?
Fair enough
I think we have a legitimate disagreement. I see commodity based digital currencies as ready to fill the gap, although I agree that there is some risk. We just need currency competition, and the central banks are hindering it.
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ha!
Our friends in Los Angeles are WAY ahead of me. http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Free yourself.
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Rally in DC?
Does anyone know if there will be an End the Fed rally in Washington DC on 11/22/09?
They will be nationwide
so yes...I think.
Free yourself.
I think it might generate some very
negative press. If you have dollars to burn, why not give them away to people who don't have enough to buy food, etc.? As a symbolic gesture I don't think it sends the message you hope.
Give away the "real" ones
Photoshop some fake ones with Bernankes photo front and center, and burn those.
I like that idea!
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Key Words
"Generate" and "press" are the key words in your comment.
Hmmm... Interesting Idea
Let's start with your FRN's first and then see how it goes.
I burned my first of many yesterday.
It was empowering.
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It's against the law...
Defacing or destroying currency is unlawful. If you are going to go to jail, make it for something worthwhile.
This is not true, please
This is not true, please show the statute that asserts your claim.
The fact is that it is only illegal to melt down US coins for their weight in metal value not to destroy or disfigure money in any way.
www.retakecongress.com
If destroying currency is unlawful
congress beat us to it............
They did indeed!
-I favor extending to Israel the same honest friendship that Jefferson and the Founding Fathers urged us to offer to all nations. ...This means I also favor discontinuing foreign aid to governments that are actual or potential enemies of Israel,--Ron Paul
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Free yourself.
I don´t see this happening until they are worthless.
Better to turn it into something else as suggested.
/Mike
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They are worthless right now.
Free yourself.
you can still take 18.00 of
you can still take 18.00 of them and buy a silver eagle... not worthless yet.
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Agreed!
-I favor extending to Israel the same honest friendship that Jefferson and the Founding Fathers urged us to offer to all nations. ...This means I also favor discontinuing foreign aid to governments that are actual or potential enemies of Israel,--Ron Paul