Indeed, a teachable moment. You can ask Aaron Swartz who gets to interpret the law. “Unfit to be reissued” means whatever Treasury says it means when they decide to pile on the charges after you’ve done something naughty. No, the money police won’t get you, just as, in Georgia, the police won’t pull you over for yakking on your phone while driving. What they WILL do is pile on additional charges after you run that red light. If a cop thinks nothing of shooting you in the face with pepper spray for standing on the wrong street corner, he’s not going to blink at piling on more charges after he arrests you for obstructing his justice. People think the modern prosecutorial system exists to punish only well defined crimes. All you have to do is step on the wrong side of a political line to find yourself facing a wide array of nebulous and overly broad charges.
