Protesters Target U.S. Denver Mint

Bland Allison wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com exclaimed in
news:g7bmrk01a38 @enews5.newsguy.com:

"Yuppies including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin and the poet Allen Ginsberg"

Yuppies? Heh. Interesting typo. Or was it?

James

The proper term was "yippies," but you probably know that.

Uh, yes, that is what I have been sayingue.

Chief Inspector Clouseau

What are they thinking?

The Patriot Act expressly forbids the use
mental vibrations to levitate government buildings
by 60 year old hippies who in addition to trying to
levitate gubment building may also be burning
doobies, eating Twinkies, listening to Bob Dylan
music and/or attempting to raise Timothy Leary
and/or Abby Hoffman from the dead. See page
25,897 paragraph 92. section 60 of 79 revision
4 to change 7.

"Arizona Coin Collector" wrote in message
news
Hello

On the story below, I am not a big fan of Fox News, but this
story is does show that some people never change.

I am sure they will be chanting "The Whole World Is Watching"
as they stand outside with the hand made signs.

Wonder what the "drug of choice" is for the 60-year-olds at
this protest?



FROM:

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/p...Y&pageId=3.2.1

DNC Protesters Target Denver Mint

Last Edited: Tuesday, 05 Aug 2008, 7:59 PM MDT
Created: Tuesday, 05 Aug 2008, 7:59 PM MDT

By CHARLIE BRENNAN, Reporter

DENVER (MyFOXColorado.com) - Democratic National Convention
protesters plan to raise the roof - and the rest of the United States Mint
in Denver - later this month when the party convenes in Denver to
nominate Sen. Barack Obama as its candidate for president.

Organizers of Recreate 68, which is affiliated with at least a dozen
protest groups mobilizing for the DNC later this month, are planning
to attempt a levitation of the U.S. Mint as a statement against the
money being spent on the convention which activists feel would better
be spent on the poor.

"It's time to redistribute the wealth," reads a statement at the
Recreate68.org Web site.

"Between security and corporate payoffs, the DNC will cost over 100
million dollars for a party. We think the people deserve that money."

The statement goes on to say, "Join us as we encircle the Denver
Mint...and use our collective power to raise the Mint building in
the air and shake the money out of it for the people."

The attempted levitation is set for 5 p.m. Aug. 25, the first full
day of the four-day convention.

"We're going to have a couple thousand people surround this entire
building, and they're going to be bringing all their magic, all
their energy and everything that they have with them, and the idea
is we're going to raise this building up in the air with a little
bit of singing, a little bit of dancing," said Glenn Spagnuolo, a
co-founder and spokesman of Recreate 68.

"The way we look at it, there is so much disparity between the rich
and the poor right now that we want to take some of that money out
of the hands of the greedy. And what better place than the
Denver Mint?"

The mint, that week, will be "in maintenance mode," according to a
Mint spokesman, meaning that while staff will be there, coins will
not be in production and public tours will not be conducted. The
fact that the "maintenance mode" week is scheduled for the same
week as the DNC - and the scheduled protest - is a coincidence,
the spokesman said.

"That was planned in advance," said U.S. Mint spokesman Greg
Hernandez. He didn't appear worried about the scheme to levitate
the building, which takes up the better part of an entire
city block.

"The United States Mint Police do work with the Secret Service
and, during that week, obviously, there will be a lot more
security details located in the city. But the facility of the
United States Mint will be protected by the United States Mint
Police, and it will be, like I said, business as usual."

The planned raising of the Mint is not without precedent.
Thousands of anti-war protesters during the Vietnam conflict,
on Oct. 21, 1967, massed at the Pentagon and, under the
anarchic leadership of Yuppies including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin and the poet Allen Ginsberg, attempted to levitate the
nerve center of the American military in an effort "exorcise"
the evil spirits they believed controlled it.

No reported levitation was observed by sober onlookers. But
there was sporadic violence when some of the protesters
managed briefly to get inside the facility, and there were a
reported 680 arrests and some blood spilled before it was over.

Spagnuolo, who has disavowed any plans for violence,
acknowledged that the levitation scheme is not entirely
original.

"We call ourselves Recreate 68, and we want to do a little
something to remember Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and the
folks that came before us," he said. "And this is kind of our
ode to them, and also our respect to the poor communities
here, 'cause poverty is a killer. And we think this is a
good way to bring some attention to that issue."

People waiting in line outside the Mint on Tuesday to go
on the public tours were mystified when told of
Recreate 68's plans.

"I don't understand," said Bob Bobo, of Colorado Springs.
"The protesters ought to spend their time doing something
else, if you ask me."


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"sgt23" wrote in message
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On Aug 6, 1:08 pm, "John Mazor" wrote:

The writer probably wasn't even born until a decade or two after the fact. "Yippies,
yuppies, whatever. You're all like OLD, dude."

Only 27 here... Maybe that is old to some, but I'm not sure about this group.

Sorry, I meant the author of that news item, not you.

On Aug 7, 10:02�am, "Longnine009"
wrote:
What are they thinking?

�The Patriot Act expressly forbids the use
mental vibrations to levitate government buildings
by 60 year old hippies who in addition to trying to
levitate gubment building may also be burning
doobies, eating Twinkies, listening to Bob Dylan
music and/or attempting to raise Timothy Leary
and/or Abby Hoffman from the dead. See page
25,897 paragraph 92. section 60 of 79 revision
4 to change 7.

Under the curent disccusion, this seems appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLC-y...eature=related

Jerry

You know I've never met anyone my own age who collects coins, not even
on the internet.

"sgt23" wrote in message
...

You know I've never met anyone my own age who collects coins, not even
on the internet.

As I recall, you're 27?

I suspect that collecting is one of those things that for most people hits you when you're
young, fades into the background during the years when work and family consume all your
time and energy, and returns as you get older when your life has calmed down and you have
a little disposable income to play with. Not everyone fits that profile, but that may
explain the paucity of same-age acquaintances in collecting circles.

Now that you mention it, and at the risk of attracting the ire of female collectors, I
have gotten the impression that numismatics is primarily (not exclusively) a male
activity. Anyone have a different take on this?

(Before any females in the audience start pulling the pins on their grenades, let me note
for the record that I got the bug at a very young age from my mother. She worked at the
Treasury and accumulated a few of the coin types she had access to, along with odds and
ends from friends who knew of her interest.)

"John Mazor" wrote in message
news:7QFnk.668$xv.206@trnddc02...

"sgt23" wrote in message
...

You know I've never met anyone my own age who collects coins, not even
on the internet.

As I recall, you're 27?

I suspect that collecting is one of those things that for most people hits
you when you're young, fades into the background during the years when
work and family consume all your time and energy, and returns as you get
older when your life has calmed down and you have a little disposable
income to play with. Not everyone fits that profile, but that may explain
the paucity of same-age acquaintances in collecting circles.

Now that you mention it, and at the risk of attracting the ire of female
collectors, I have gotten the impression that numismatics is primarily
(not exclusively) a male activity. Anyone have a different take on this?

At the local coin club, I think it is roughly 2:1 male to female ratio. Two
are officers of the club, and the women are active bidders during the
auction but win less as they don't bid as high. Fifteen years ago the club
was 100% male.

Bill

We took a survey here awhile back to see what the tipico collecting
ages were. It started at I believe 17 for the people who post in this
RCC anyways, then it dropped off at my age, and then started back up
in peoples late 30s early 40s. Now about what genders collect coins, I
have no ideal the ratio or figures on that issues. I know that I only
know of 2 females who collect coins. One from this room and a friend
from Michigan. What I saw when went to my 2 local coin dealers are all
men. Most in they're 50s and older. I've seen maybe 5 kids total over
the last 4 years. I would guess that weather your a Numismatic or not
has to do with where you grew up, probably weather you were in the Boy
Scouts or a group simular to at, and income since you can't just find
old coins anyone in change much anymore, and error coins are more for
advance collectors as I've seen. Well I shut for awhile now, thanks
for lisening lol!

On Aug 10, 9:55*pm, sgt23 wrote:
We took a survey here awhile back to see what the tipico collecting
ages were. It started at I believe 17 for the people who post in this
RCC anyways, then it dropped off at my age, and then started back up
in peoples late 30s early 40s. Now about what genders collect coins, I
have no ideal the ratio or figures on that issues. I know that I only
know of 2 females who collect coins. One from this room and a friend
from Michigan. What I saw when went to my 2 local coin dealers are all
men. Most in they're 50s and older. I've seen maybe 5 kids total over
the last 4 years. I would guess that weather your a Numismatic or not
has to do with where you grew up, probably weather you were in the Boy
Scouts or a group simular to at, and income since you can't just find
old coins anyone in change much anymore, and error coins are more for
advance collectors as I've seen. Well I shut for awhile now, thanks
for lisening lol!

Oh for the people that hate my grammar I apologize, I'm working on it!