9/11 grave robbers are selling their loot on the Internet

[eyesroll]

Watching Alton, saw a commercial for this....didn't the silver belong to someone?

  WASHINGTON, D.C. Corp. ID Center, Thursday, 8:55 AM — Today history is being made!  For the first time ever, a legally authorized government issue silver dollar has been struck to commemorate the World Trade Center and the new Freedom Tower being erected in its place.  It's the U.S. territorial minting of the 2004 "Freedom Tower" Silver Dollar from CNMI.  Most importantly, each coin has been created using .999 Pure Silver recovered from Ground Zero!
     No, this is not a misprint. The silver used in each gleaming dollar coin is from Ground Zero! You see, when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, a bank vault full of .999 Pure Silver bars was buried under hundreds of tons of debris. After months of salvage work, many of the bars were found. Now, the same silver that was reclaimed from the destruction has been used to create the magnificent 2004 “Freedom
Tower” Silver Dollar.
http://www.ncmint.com/uploaded/CNMI_Freedom_Tower.htm

For fuck's sake...:grr:

[ClintonTyree]

1. Yes................

I agree, very goulish. I'm sure many "patriotic Americans" will snap them up though.

[AlCzervik]

2. thats disgusting, this is another reason why i hate people.

except for you people of course.

[necso]

3. Ah, so now I see.

Grave robbing is what Cheney is talking about! --- Rob graves and sell the stuff on the internet.

I knew Uncle Nick had something in mind.

[madinmaryland]

4. That is just downright sick

sick mofo's

:grr: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[shraby]

5. Didn't the Nazis take the gold

teeth from the dead Jews?

[Vanje]

6. I saw these being sold last weekend at a truckstop in Eastern Idaho...

...The "Freedom Tower Dollars" were on display between the decorative disposable lighters and the "Energy packet Super-Caps: Now without Ephedrine".

[noiretextatique]

7. i saw the commercial for these coins the other night

i won't be pruchasing one.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. It is doubtful that frauds like this would get their hands

on that kind of property.

[geek tragedy]

9. It's not graverobbing.

They probably got the silver from the rightful owners.

[greekspeak]

10. I have seen these

How would the people peddling them like it if people randomly dug up cemetaries where THEIR relatives were buried to get precious metals to make into tawdry coins? This scheme is clearly directed at fair weather patriots-those Ueber patriots who think America is about shoving a flag in your face and telling you to go live in Afghanistan if you do not stand in line to give Shrub a BJ.

[uncle ray]

11. where do you get the impression that happened?

i really doubt the silver belonged to anybody who died on sept 11th. they were probably owned by some corporation, who sold them after the fact to whoever is making the coins. if three thousand people were killed in a bank building, what shoud be done with the moeny and metals?leave it in the crater?

[greekspeak]

13. Um...I think you are missing the point of what I said and others

People have no business making money on that disaster. It is vulgar. The metals could have been used for disaster relief or something, if it was going to be dug up. It could have been reused in the site in some way, in decor or whatnot. It is not an uncommon notion that the WTC site is a GRAVE site. Civilized people do not use money pulled from a grave for profit, espcially in a situation that manipulates so many different emotions in so many people. Graverobbing is a vile practice.

[Elginoid]

14. this is not "graverobbing"...

:eyes:

it's tacky as hell, but it isn't grave-robbing...it's salvage.

[greekspeak]

16. Yeah and all those dead Iraqis are just collateral damage

At least come up with a euphemism a little more heartwarming than "salvage."

[pinniped]

12. Thought that ghoul rummy the Dummy was selling...

that piece of airliner in his office.

[NoPasaran]

15. What a revolting thing!

This is as ghoulish as the lampshades the Nazis made from the skin of people they murdered.