Eat Your Money

I received a shipment of 15000 Liberty Dollar Chocolate Coins! I have been accepting orders on Paypal (contact me for info). I dropped off 1000 at campaign HQ in Concord, NH. So delicious.

Salon.com quoted me in an article Ron Paul is a baby elephant

Amir Hirsch, a resident of Boston, came up to New Hampshire to tell Paul about his plan to produce 15,000 pieces of gilded “liberty dollar chocolates,” with Paul’s face embossed on the front, a symbol of the need to return gold as legal tender. “I would love to get raided by the feds,” Hirsch said. “Because I would eat all the evidence.”

Yup. No context about the Feds raiding the Liberty Dollar manufacturer and how my chocolates are meant to play off that–no link to ronpaulchocolate.com either. I really don’t think Sherer groks my economics and intentions, which is why the article is kinda funny from my perspective. I have no desire to return to gold as legal tender and would never say so since men often make idols of gold — Jews smash those sorts of things.

I want to return to chocolate as legal tender because it is delicious. I want competing currency to be vanilla. I want people to have the basic understanding that faith in graven images (fiat currency) is idolatry and that trade is a two-way process: coercive idolatry is the sin of all empires. Fiat currency creates abstractions that allow avarice to infest societal structure and impose on others.
Anyway, the whole article seems to portray Ron Paul supporters as a paranoid fringe group waiting to get raided by the feds and it totally sucks the sweet, delicious humor out of my intent.

One of the nation’s top nerds spoke at MIT today: Governor of the Federal Reserve Frederic Mishkin. The full text of his speech is available here. Before his talk he gave some anecdotes from his time at MIT: he seems just like all of my other nerdy friends and I’d love to talk to him about Monte Carlo method for CDO pricing using FPGA accelerated computing. It was quite exciting to meet someone with his accomplishments, but I had a different agenda as I sat there eating chocolate coins during his talk.

“My name is Amir Hirsch, class of 2006, and owner of RonPaulChocolate.com.”

“That’s not Kosher” he interjected. Another great moment in Jewish Humor is about to ensue.

“I have brought you Channukah Gelt to celebrate the Maccabee Rebellion against idolatry in Jerusalem and to promote commodity-backed currency. Eariler today I traded a Federal Reserve Note for a bag full of coins worth its weight in chocolate! In light of this sound, delicious currency, why should we continue to use Federal Reserve Notes, worth their weight in paper and our faith in the images printed upon it?”

Obviously, he ducked my question recognizing a blatant publicity stunt.

The other questions were more on topic, of course, and all got proper answers. I love my fellow nerds; he seems like a really bright and friendly guy. I will argue with anyone who would try to demonize the individual for the institution. They are trying really hard to make sure the economy does not get too messed-up during our Cultural Geometric Revolution from regions on a sphere surface to discrete individuals in a network space. It’s not easy to manage an economy constrained by congressional mandate, deficit spending, credit breakdown, and negative speculation. Economic management under these conditions is kind of like trying to direct a sailboat through a hurricane with a giant hole in the hull. These men have taken on a noble effort of tacking and jibing until the storm is over.

The CNN/YouTube debate in 3 M’s: Mexicans & Militaristic Machinations

Rudy and Romney reminded me of 4th graders at the beginning of the debate. I thought I was watching Kyle and Cartman on South Park fighting over Mexicans and some stupid rhetoric like “Sanctuary City.” Are you kidding me? You want to run my country? You can’t even respect each other, how can I respect you, sir?

It looks like they all learned the abortion shtick from Ron and ran with it, that was classic. Frankly, I think their campaigns have stopped using focus groups and are just sticking to “Ron Paul is what the people want.” So they’re just giving it to us.

There are two clear leaders in the debate: Huckabee and Ron Paul. Huckabee demonstrated potential for leadership by recognizing leadership and being its apprentice: “End the IRS” is only crazy when Ron Paul says it. Ron Paul could probably teach Huckabee a thing or two, since he seems willing to learn. And he knows and believes his Bible, a big plus in my book; though perhaps he should watch the movie Brazil before he makes death penalty decisions based on reading stacks of paper and signing at the bottom.

He got one thing right: Jesus was too smart to run for President, perhaps Dr. Paul is too.

McCain scares people because he seems like the Manchurian candidate. I really don’t mean disrespect to him; I really think he’s a great guy and I’d love to play cards with him — maybe listen to some war stories. Seriously, I think McCain is the man, just not for President. He needs to be an international advocate in opposition to torture and haunt Mitt Romney and his pussyfooting morality as long as he can.

Unfortunately McCain has weak logic. All of McCain’s “victory” rhetoric and “Hitler” reference is a huge 0 in debate; don’t you know that reductio ad Hitlerium is a logical fallacy? And you can’t speak for the troops against the guy who gets the most of their money. We enabled Hitler by appeasement and isolation? You can say that but it’s faux pax to say we enable violent opposition by our occupation? Like I said, weak logic.

We made Hitler huge the same way we made every other political leader huge: we name them TIME magazine person of the year. TIME also honored Mayor Militant Islam, but to be PC, they’re not all evil. I suppose we’re just setting the tone for the Militant Islamic types to take over America so we can kill them all when they do.

Chocolate is Money. Love is Free.

Ron Paul Chocolate is my revolutionary act. If ever the government has the audacity to pass a Chocolate Act to tax the exchange of chocolate, I will throw my chocolate into the milk, for they have surely lost their way.

Iconoclasm.

The word keeps coming up in media descriptions of Ron Paul as though we are to think that destroying the idols of our fathers is a bad thing. Our paper idols are the currency of a violent intervention. In their vicious use, these idols desecrate the God in whom we trust.

Inflation is hard to understand. Those who worship graven images printed upon paper and metal, can they understand the value of chocolate and the currency of love?

Ron Paul Chocolate is Chanukah gelt in the form of the Ron Paul Liberty Dollar to promote his candidacy and celebrate the 2173 anniversary of the Macabee Rebellion against Hellenistic Idol worship in the land of Zion. In 167 BCE, Antiochus IV desecrated the Jewish temple by erecting an idol to Zeus and sacrificing an unkosher Pig upon its altar. Antiochus also minted coins with his image and depictions of Greek Gods. He imposed taxes and violently punished the practice of Judaism. The Macabees violently resisted the Imperial Hellenization, destroyed the idols of the Greeks and once again brought light to the temple of Zion.

Channukah is a celebration of the victory of the righteous few against the unenlightened many. We light candles to reflect and to find spiritual enlightenment. This year I will reflect on the historical irony of our modern Revolution. Two-hundred-forty years ago Free Americans found each other to say with a unified voice: “sorry George, we’re not buying your wars anymore.” Today we do the same thing. Your frat-party is over.