Topic: Senator Joe Manchin Asks Fed to Ban Bitcoin--Petition Live at Change.org (Read 2067 times)

I suspect this senator was disappointed when that peculiar thing called bitcoin didn't go away when Mt.Gox had its managed crash, and now he desperately want's to get another stake into bitcoins heart, hoping to "finish the job"

It seems far fetched that this has anything to do with crime and money laundering. If that was the case, they would have banned crime and money laundering instead.
The argument about volatility is also far fetched. Staring on the exchange price and judging the technology based on that just doesn't make sense.

Some of the countries listed in OP as banning Bitcoin did not actually ban Bitcoin. 

This is why you should be careful when you're voting. This person does not deserve to be a senator.

Anyone living in West Virginia pls memorize this and never ever vote for him.

Chase bank donated over 30k to Manchin's election. Democracy in action...

I just sold all my btc bcause of this....all....BTC is going down....like a Titanic....with rockets and laser beems....

Ban bitcoin? Is America still a free country?

he is a corrupt motherfucker - tweetstream from marc andreessen ( start from bottom)

Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs
7/SUMMARY: Manchin FOR high fees for regular consumers & poor immigrants, 2008's brittle US financial system, kneecapping US tech industry.
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 Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs

6/Manchin FOR crippling high-job-growth US tech industry in important new field; forcing Bitcoin innovation and jobs to foreign countries.
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 Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs

5/Manchin FOR sustaining ~10% remittance fees for hardworking immigrants toiling 60-hour hard labor in US to send money back to families.
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Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs
4/Manchin FOR maintaining high credit-card fees for much of American economy, reducing standard of living for many Americans including poor.
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Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs
3/Manchin FOR continuation of 2008-era US financial services industry for the long term; entrenchment of status quo and Too Big To Fail.
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 Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs
2/Manchin FOR suppressing pro-consumer & pro-small business innovation in financial services to increase choices, lower fees, sell globally.
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Marc Andreessen ‏@pmarca  3 hrs
1/Let's explore the newly announced positions of American Senator Joe Manchin (D-WVa)

But he just wants to "protect" consumers against losses! It's the modern-day nanny state, at its worst.

(The huge irony is that if he did get his way and bitcoin was somehow banned, it would trigger just the kind of financial losses for consumers that he is trying to prevent!)

He's trying to FORCE someone to not own something, even though that ownership is 100% in their own free will, and doesn't harm anyone else. He's quite literally saying that I don't have the right to KNOW something (my private key). He's trying to control MY MIND & FREE WILL. THAT makes him a sub-human mongol.

i signed both 

I guess you haven't been keeping up with the news on Ted Nuget calling that to Obama that's gotten so much attention in the media. I was just trying to be funny

someone disagreeing with you makes them a "sub-human mongrol"?

what the hell is wrong with you? I don't like the guy's position either, but we used to be able to disagree with each other in this country. Now it's the news folks pitting everyone against each other.

I don't like the guy either, but as a U.S. senator he has enormous power to do good or harm. I would prefer to at least make the attempt to engage in political discourse, before we just say "F*** him."

That senator can go fuck himself. If he doesn't like crypto, he stay out. But don't try to take away my freedom to do so as well. Anyone who is against BTC will NEVER get my vote.

And I'm sure the money I'm spending on hardware and electricity is so disruptive to the economy.  

Of course not, but he seems to think he does

http://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2011/4/manchin-debuts-legislation-to-increase-national-focus-on-job-creation



oh da hippo pocracy

If it results in him having more power and control over the rest of us, then yes.  You think this dipshit gives two craps about unemployment and business start ups? 

Can we have a petition to have this sub-human mongol removed form office?

Does he want to increase the already high unemployment rate and kill all the start-ups based off bitcoin?

I signed.