Just wondering....Is it illegal to write "Impeach Bush" on every piece

[AzDar]

of paper currency I come across? Because If it is, that is NOT my handwriting.

[stepnw1f]

1. lol (nt)

[peekaloo]

2. nor mine.

:o

[stop the bleeding]

3. It is a little late now - NSA will be at you door any minute, also I have

been writing the same thing on my $$$ as well. I have to do something.

[rpgamerd00d]

9. Not NSA, money is governed by the Secret Service.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. They're all sub-units of the KGB now, under Homeland Security.

[Submariner]

4. This is the FBI

you are being monitored AzDar. That name begins with an "A"...like Al Quaeda. Please report to your local FBI office for questioning.

[GregW]

5. See here ...

http://www.johnnyburrito.com/ugly_write.htm

[stop the bleeding]

7. this part is interesting..

Agent Jim Mackin, also in D.C, told me that I was supposed to deal with the Detroit office of the Secret Service, but he answered my question anyway.

Getting down to specifics, he said the Secret Service was well aware of the wheresgeorge.com phenomenon. The agency's official position is that writing the Web site's name on a bill was, indeed, a violation of the law.

He said the folks who run the Web site had been informed of that.

Following Mackin's suggestion to call Detroit, I reached a Secret Service agent who said the statute is never enforced. He insisted on anonymity.

When I asked to speak to somebody less secretive, I got agent Joe Viviano, who put his own spin on the issue:

"If Grandma and Grandpa write 'Happy Birthday, Tommy' in the margin of a $50 bill with an ink pen, nobody's going to go after them," Viviano said. "But if they use a black magic marker and write in big letters across the face of the bill, that's another story."

Viviano said he interprets the statute to mean that, technically, writing anything anywhere on a bill is a violation of federal law.



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Sounds like yes it is illegal but as long as you don't go over board they are not going to come after you.

This is very cool

Write in the margins everyone.

[LoZoccolo]

6. Actually, no...

...so long as it is not intended to not render a bill unfit to be reissued.

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

[stop the bleeding]

8. Write in the margins everyone.

see posts # 5 and 7

[CornField]

14. Damn.

My personal favorites that I've found have a talking bubble coming out of the founding father's mouth, "Impeach Bush" :D

There is also one more portion of the law that deals with currency. It has to do with reproductions or alterations of currency for the purpose of advertising. For instace, "Happy birthday, Tommy" is not an advertisement but writing the address to your blog or commercial site is considered one. I believe this is one of the issues of the Where's George idea... the writing on the currency constitutes an advertisement which is strictly forbidden by law.

[DistressedAmerican]

10. I Am Sparticus! No! I'm Sparticus!

:hide: :rofl:

[adolfo]

12. Why write?..

When you can stamp your message on in bold red letters!

http://www.iprint.com

Gotta love those custom stamps. ;)

[Atman]

13. Technically, I believe it is illegal to "deface" money

Although it is done all the time. I don't think it could hold up in court, but that was before we allowe W to become Judge, Jury and Executioner.

[SnowGoose]

15. And they still work in vending machines

even with Imeach Bush in big letters!

(uhhh.... at least that's what I'm told).

[jeanarrett]

16. Or you could just go here and get one of these, like I did.

http://www.impeachbushyardsigns.org/

[warrens]

17. Block letters are your friend

[Dunvegan]

18. We've been "aware" of writing on money for years...

I've been known in the past to have "seen" haiku on bills.

Lately it's just "Impeach"...or "Bush is lying to you."