{"id":7172,"date":"2004-10-14T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/14\/why-we-need-public-flogging.html"},"modified":"2004-10-14T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T16:58:38","slug":"why_we_need_pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/14\/why_we_need_pub.html","title":{"rendered":"Why we need public flogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because simple fines, or even jail terms, aren’t nearly painful or humiliating enough for the sorts of folks who’d scam the populace with this kind of crap<\/a> by poking their finger into a still-raw national wound.<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer obtained a court order Wednesday to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins advertised as being minted from silver recovered at ground zero. Spitzer said the sale of the silver dollars — emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers on one side and the planned Freedom Tower on the other — is a fraud. He’s investigating whether the silver actually came from the ruins of the twin towers. <\/p>\n

Spitzer said the National Collector’s Mint, based in Port Chester, N.Y., falsely claims that the coins engraved with “In God We Trust” are legally authorized silver dollars. Spitzer said the coins, produced by a Wyoming company called SoftSky Inc., are advertised as nearly pure silver when they’re only silver-plated.<\/p>\n

TV and print ads for the coins include one fashioned after a news story that reads: “Today, history is being made. For the first time ever, a legally authorized government issue silver dollar has been struck to commemorate the World Trade Center and the new Freedom Tower being erected in its place … Most importantly, each coin has been created using .999 pure silver recovered from ground zero!”<\/p>\n

The dollar pieces are being sold for $19.95 each.<\/p>\n

Really. Public flogging. I’ll bet it’s a cause that, in this case, the whole nation could rally around.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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