These bills are clearly intended to remain in circulation. If you're redacting the serial numbers or pulling out the security strips, that would be different. Scrawling a short message? Never been a problem.
…and put the following part of the quote in bold…
with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued
This is obviously intended to be a political statement and the person doing it obviously intends the bills to stay in circulation in order to spread that statement.
These bills are clearly intended to remain in circulation. If you're redacting the serial numbers or pulling out the security strips, that would be different. Scrawling a short message? Never been a problem.
Hence why I said…
…and put the following part of the quote in bold…
This is obviously intended to be a political statement and the person doing it obviously intends the bills to stay in circulation in order to spread that statement.
with "intent" it really depends who's the judge... or perhaps who appointed them.
Jury.