It's not real lettuce, you know...

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to making the New Future better than the old one, which is why we are trying to remove the remaining barriers to the Board of Dictators running the world.  At the same time, however, we caution our supporters to not defy the current institutions too much until the time is ripe for change.  When we posted recently about zero-sum games, we made it clear that the acquisition of currency is a zero-sum game unless individuals are allowed to print their own money, and we guess that Larry Jones did not really understand it when we said that most governments object to individuals creating wealth.  Or perhaps he understood perfectly and was simply taking a risk that he wouldn't be found out, since when he was stopped he tried to eat the counterfeit money.  We're not sure yet since he has been taken into custody and our request to interview him was denied.

No matter what his reasons for creating or otherwise obtaining the counterfeit bills, however, Larry should not have eaten them when confronted by police.  No sane person would eat money he or she believed to be real, so by eating the money Larry was admitting that he knew it wasn't real, and by extension that he knew he was passing counterfeit bills.  If he wanted to avoid a long jail sentence his best bet would probably have been to plead ignorance and say he either found the bills or was given them by a stranger or something else that would be hard to disprove.  Just to reiterate, at the GPD we do not advocate counterfeiting or other schemes that governments frown upon, but we do hope things will keep getting better! (and how could they not, once we're in power?)