Not sure I agree with you as evidenced by their recent advertising in support of the Occupy movement:
Posted on 06/04/2012 4:35:51 PM PDT by Brandonmark
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and one of the deep pockets behind the Occupy movement, says he is helping launch a campaign this summer to highlight the influence of corporate money in American politics.
Cohen and the Move to Amend advocacy group will distribute rubber stamps with anti-corporate election spending messages so that the politically minded can mark their dollar bills. The end goal: To secure a constitutional amendment saying corporations do not enjoy the same protected rights as individuals and that money is not a form of speech.
Cohen plans to put a giant stamping machine on a national tour in August to encourage "thousands of people to buy rubber stamps and stamp any currency that comes into their possession," he tells Yahoo News. According to his attorney, this is legal, as long as the bills are still legible after the stamping. The Occupy movement tried the stamp tactic last October, defacing dollar bills with infographics that showed the income distribution in American society.
This round of stamps will include "Corporations are not people," "Money is not speech" and "Not to be used for bribing politicians," among other slogans.
The amendment for which Cohen is advocating would reverse decades of Supreme Court decisions, which have extended free speech and other rights to corporations and have ruled that spending money is a form of protected speech. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2010 held that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts of money during elections as long as they are not directly funding individual candidates. (This led to the rise of independent super PACs, which have poured millions of dollars into this election cycle alone.) The decision overturned existing campaign finance laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I stopped going to BJ when I got a bunch of hair in my ice cream.
They have a real quality control problem.
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Co. was sold to Unilever over 10 years ago and as far as I know the founders retained zero residual interest. So while it may feel good, going after the ice cream containers wouldn’t leave a mark (pun intended.) Kind of like trying to punish the French by not eating fries.
What would keep a small business from stamping their ad and/or website address on every bill they get their hands on, as advertising? Wouldn’t that be the same thing?
Not sure I agree with you as evidenced by their recent advertising in support of the Occupy movement:
Not sure I agree with you as evidenced by their recent advertising in support of the Occupy movement:
Not sure I agree with you as evidenced by their recent advertising in support of the Occupy movement:
sorry for the duplicate post
Ben, Jerry, and Barry want to make it “The Long Gay Line”.
Maybe the bills should be stamped...
Tear this bill in half, now you have TWO Obama bills!
Work at Walmart on the weekends and got an Anti-Walker “Recall Walker” Dollar Bill once, I just took it put in the drawer. When I had gotten down to paying back Dollar Bills for change I just skipped over that one and put it in the bottom of the pile for corporate to turn over to the banks (and the would likely promptly destroy it b/c of the defaced nature). No way in H*ll was I going to give this to another customer (embarrassment’s sake alone) I won’t support the Union-libs!
I DEMAND FREE ICE CREAM! IT’S FOR THE PEOPLE!
Isn’t this outfit still a subsidiary of Unilever?
Geez, that happened more than 10 years ago. You'd have thought these idiot liberal/socialist/democrats would have learned by now.
One definition of insanity is . . . :-)
How about practicing some anti-corpratism for B&J by NOT buying their products. That is what I do.
America is different from Mexico.
In America you accept the money. Period.
I don't agree with these putzes' message but seriously.
If the money is legible then it is legal tender. Politics has nothing to do with it.
For some reason people have been writing or stamping the words "TAX CHEAT" over Timothy Geithner's signature on newer bills.
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/140003/
As far as I know, Ben and/or Jerry no longer own “Ben and Jerry’s”. They sold it for a gazillion dollars.
But irony is lost on ol’ Ben.
At least, by lobbying for an amendment, they seem to be admitting that the goals of the Occupiers are currently unconstitutional.
Proof that the left NEVER have an original idea!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.