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Message:: [QUOTE="treylxapi47, post: 1732406, member: 41863"]I don't give much of a hoot on what the government thinks is illegal, especially in cases such as these. The US citizens booted the bill for the mint director, the materials involved and everything in between. So rightfully it belongs to anyone of us in my eyes. We paid for it. My other reasoning is EVERYTHING is illegal to the government, so I personally would keep my mouth shut, buy the piece if I thought it was the real deal, and sit on it. My last reason is the extent of the governments hypocrisy. They constantly tell us what not to do while they are always guilty of doing the same thing. Just look at the NSA right now. They were like 'hey china don't spy on us you bad little boys' while we are simultaneously doing the same thing and claiming we weren't. Or how senators and congressmen pass specific laws only to find out they themselves aren't following them, for example the 'illegal downloading' they supposedly implemented a bill to stop a few years back. Meanwhile their offices are being flooded with illegally downloaded material. These are just 2 examples that popped into my head. I mean we all know about all the IRS tax cheaters that keep coming up in the political world. Also, how can it be a crime with no victim? That's what kills me. They knowingly gave them out, no one forced them to do that, so they should just eat the 'loss' in cases such as these. All in my humble opinion mind you.[/QUOTE]