{"id":198318,"date":"2007-11-17T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/17\/yeah-right-no-connection-to-the-ron-paul-campaign\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T02:14:00","slug":"yeah-right-no-connection-to-the-ron-paul-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/17\/yeah-right-no-connection-to-the-ron-paul-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Right, No Connection to the Ron Paul Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img91.imageshack.us\/img91\/1794\/imagecs7.png\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/16\/AR2007111602267.html?hpid=topnews\">Feds raid private mint, Norfed,  for mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy<\/a>, in addition to currency related violations.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the interesting part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Norfed officials said yesterday that the six-hour raid occurred just as its six employees were mailing out the first batch of 60,000 &#8220;Ron Paul Dollars,&#8221; copper coins sold for $1 to honor the candidate, who is a longtime advocate of abolishing the Federal Reserve. The group says it has shipped out about 10,000 silver Ron Paul Dollars that sold for $20 and about 3,500 of the copper $1 coins. But it said the agents seized more than 50,000 of the copper coins &#8212; more than two tons&#8217; worth &#8212; plus smaller amounts of the silver coins and gold and platinum Ron Paul Dollars, which sell for $1,000 and $2,000.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8230;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Paul campaign spokeswoman said yesterday that the campaign has &#8220;no affiliation&#8221; with the Ron Paul Dollars.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just like the people using zombie networks to crank out Ron Paul spam, &#8220;no affiliation&#8221; to the Paul campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that someone in the campaign has ties with groups of dishonest people who cheat others for their own profit, and that they are calling in favors.<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell is running this campaign, Vincent &#8220;the Chin&#8221; Gigante?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds raid private mint, Norfed, for mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, in addition to currency related violations. Here is the interesting part: Norfed officials said yesterday that the six-hour raid occurred just as its six employees were mailing out the first batch of 60,000 &#8220;Ron Paul Dollars,&#8221; copper coins sold for $1 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1080,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-currency","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}