Dollars from heaven

Free cash always captures your attention and it doesn’t
take a lot.

When Abbie Hoffman brought the New York Stock Exchange to
a halt in 1967 by scattering dollar bills, he only had
$300.

There’s just something irresistible about flying currency,
whether it’s scattered accidentally from an overturned
Brinks truck, or deliberately by the U.S. Treasury.
Which is why Wednesday, members of a group called
MicCheckWallStreet went into an upper room of the
Seattle’s Roosevelt Hotel, and according to a
video they posted, unzipped a duffel bag, one of them says
“go”, and they start flinging handfuls of cash out the
window.

Five thousand genuine dollar bills printed with the
message “Money as speech silences us all” with a black X
over George Washington’s mouth.

The idea was to protest the Supreme Court’s Citizens
United decision that’s dropped untold millions into the
presidential campaign.

Now, you may agree or disagree with the Occupy Movement,
but as a member of the masses who these various groups are
trying to sway, I just want to say I heartily endorse the
concept of scattering cash to do it.

In fact, I think our Personified Corporations should do it
too!

Why buy all that TV time? We’re just gonna blip past your
ads anyway. Print your message on real money and toss it
from a building. WE WILL READ THAT! And we will spend
it with someone else who will read it. This is the kind
of advertising America has been waiting for, where we the
audience gets reimbursed for our attention. It’s also
the one way of infusing some cash into this economy that
might actually work.