Re: Is this legal?

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Hmmmm. Is is legal to give away free money? I say we put
that question to the test. I just happen to know the perfect
test: You give me money. Then try to persuade a police ageny
to view your voluntary and knowing act as a crime.

Call it a donation. Call a gift. Doesn't matter, so long as
you give me money with the understanding that I keep will it,
never to return it under any circumstances. Our noble
experiment will not work any other way. It just has to be
that way.

Be advised that the more you give, the more serious this
matter becomes. So, go ahead and make it sizeable gift, at
least $1,000. $2,500 would be better, but $1,000 is probably
enough to ratchet up the stakes.

Better yet, get your friends to cough up a donation of their
own. Form a committee. Go on a fund-raising drive. Hire a
few ex-preachers to help. They are good at raising money.
And don't worry about their felony convictions. They don't.
Hit up the economics eggheads at your local university. Tell
about your experiment. Tell them what's at stake. Tell them
how you're going to expose a giant loop-hole in our legal
system. By golly, they will think you are on to something.

With all those $1,000 to $2,500 donations coming in, it will
be more than a one-time gift. You will be able to call it
a "scheme," a scheme to accept free money. If that doesn't
get the police's attention, I don't know what will.

Don't worry about me. I'll put that money to good use.
First, I will pay myself a salary for presiding over this
little operation. I am sure I will have to answer questions
from time to time. Perfect records will need to be kept.
That takes a bookkeeper. Just so happens, my brother in law
is good at that. He knows what he's doing. Probably need an
unlisted phone line and a P.O. Box in Brazil. Plus, I will
have to go to Europe and open a few anonymous bank accounts.
Then I will have to spend good money buying a second
citizenship in the Dominica, where extradition is virtually
non-existent. When I'm done with all that, I probably won't
have anything left.

But if we're going to do this, we should do it right. And
that takes money. Lots of it.

On 8/09/04, Jack wrote:
> Nope. Completely legal
>
> On 8/09/04, Thomas wrote:
>> The interest rate is way high and $20 for free is great,
>> but is it legal to give free money?
>>
>> http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~m7wang
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas