Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

I have no idea how Wikipedia works, but if the site has a forum for people to post grievances for incorrect or deliberately misleading information, I suggest that we make it known that we are not happy with the following piece on the Continental Currency.

I went to the site looking for a quick fact check before using the currency as an example of what can happen to a fiat currency in times of hyperinflation... to my amazement, the second paragraph closes with an assertion that the Constitution does NOT require the Federal gov't to issue only gold and silver.

Any Constitutional scholars on GIM care to take this cause up and respond to Wikipedia demanding a correction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_dollar

Continental currency was a paper currency issued by the Continental Congress, after the Revolutionary War began in 1775. Eric P. Newman, a leading authority on the early paper money of America, distinguishes between Continental Currency, issued by the authority of the Continental Congress, Colonial currency, issued by the colonies before the revolution, and state currency, issued after the Declaration [though many collectors lump together colonial and state issues and refer to both as Colonial Currency]. [Continental currency was denominated in dollars [from 1/6 of a dollar to eighty dollars, including many odd denominations in between], while Colonial currency was denominated in both pounds, shillings and pence, and dollars.] With no solid backing and being easily counterfeited, the continentals quickly lost their value, giving voice to the phrase "not worth a continental".
The painful experience of the runaway inflation and collapse of the Continental dollar prompted the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to include the gold and silver clause into the United States Constitution so that the states could not issue bills of credit, or anything that is not gold or silver. The Federal Government, by contrast, was empowered to coin money without restriction on the nature of such coin.

Re: Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

You can directly edit the Wikipedia article. Better to do that than post a complaint here.

Re: Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

I just took out that last sentence.

Ha.

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Problem solved.

Re: Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

No man, don't you know? See what happens when you don't take your red pills? You can't do a thing about the insidious effect of the total control of the media, the program is written by powerful groups and designed to brainwash you into submission, it is completely beyond your influence and...




Wait a minute... you're right!

:D

Re: Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

Do you really want to get pissed off? Look up Wikipedia's reasons for the American Civil War.

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Anyone can edit Wikipedia. More GIMers should take an active role there.

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Parasites not on the work treadmill are advantaged when it comes to editing Wikipedia especially with sophisticated alerting software flagging up any politically incovenient revisions. In fact probably bots do much of the work

Google was started by Jews. Wikipedia by Jews. Bill Gates is undoubtedly Askenazi in appearance. Hollywood, print media, the list is comprehensive. Israel seems to be a world centre for spying and is deeply connected with the ex Soviet Union. etc.etc.etc.

Re: Wikipedia article blatantly subverts Article 1!!
 

Forget Wiccapedia. You're getting sucked in. Fight the temptation.

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Wikipedia is proof that a million monkeys with a million typewriters have infinite time but will NEVER reproduce the works of Shakespeare...

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So the fact that you think Bill Gates "looks Jewish" is proof of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy to take over the world?

Puh-leez!


I agree with Olmstein. Look up your favorite topic and edit away. It should take a fraction of the time many people dedicate to denouncing the absolute control "the Jews" have of the media.

:smokin:

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I often do...:D

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One time I was reading an article there, and in the middle of a paragraph, somebody had written "pandas are pretty".

Kinda threw me off untill I realized that ANYBODY can edit Wikipedia.

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I gotta try that wikicy thingy ...... sounds pretty wild.


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