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<p>[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 232322, member: 3379"]thinking things over, i think both sides are correct...they're just not speaking the same language.</p><p><br /></p><p>if you walk into a walmart and try to spend liberty dollars, you will be arrested. no arguing that. more than one person has been arrested trying to spend million dollar novelty bills with the statue of liberty on it. if you try to pass liberty dollars off as genuine currency, you've broken the law and will go to jail whether or not you knew liberty dollars weren't made by the mint. the mint's position is that the motto and other design features closely resemble u.s. coin features, and people would be inclined to pass them off. </p><p><br /></p><p>however, the other side of the story is that if someone walked into a store that has this sign in the window: </p><p><img src="http://www.libertydollar.org/graphics/sitewide/acceptALD.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>that person can spend them as he pleases in that place of business without breaking any laws. this is similar to spending disney dollars in nationwide disney stores, disney theme parks, and disney cruise ships. </p><p><br /></p><p>as long as both sides accept the terms of the other, it seems like an open and shut case. i don't see why this is even an issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SanMiguel, post: 232322, member: 3379"]thinking things over, i think both sides are correct...they're just not speaking the same language. if you walk into a walmart and try to spend liberty dollars, you will be arrested. no arguing that. more than one person has been arrested trying to spend million dollar novelty bills with the statue of liberty on it. if you try to pass liberty dollars off as genuine currency, you've broken the law and will go to jail whether or not you knew liberty dollars weren't made by the mint. the mint's position is that the motto and other design features closely resemble u.s. coin features, and people would be inclined to pass them off. however, the other side of the story is that if someone walked into a store that has this sign in the window: [IMG]http://www.libertydollar.org/graphics/sitewide/acceptALD.gif[/IMG] that person can spend them as he pleases in that place of business without breaking any laws. this is similar to spending disney dollars in nationwide disney stores, disney theme parks, and disney cruise ships. as long as both sides accept the terms of the other, it seems like an open and shut case. i don't see why this is even an issue.[/QUOTE]
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