Bernard von NotHaus faces up to 20 years in prison for his ‘conviction’ of the crime of minting $60 million worth of constitutionally legal private silver coins. Naturally, since von NotHaus made the mistake of minting the word dollar on the coins, the Feds threw the book at him, confiscated the phyzz, and labeled the patriot a ‘domestic terrorist’.
Ahead of von NotHaus’ sentencing, the NY Times examines the man, his mission to combat currency devaluation with precious metals, and the authoritarian state that cannot allow any alternative to it’s enslaving fiat debt currency.
von NotHaus successfully introduced over $60 million worth of gold and silver coins into circulation throughout the US, a freedom crime that did not go unnoticed by the stasi thugs:
His name is Bernard von NotHaus, and he is a professed “monetary architect” and a maker of custom coins found guilty last spring of counterfeiting charges for minting and distributing a form of private money called the Liberty Dollar.
Described by some as “the Rosa Parks of the constitutional currency movement,” Mr. von NotHaus managed over the last decade to get more than 60 million real dollars’ worth of his precious metal-backed currency into circulation across the country — so much, and with such deep penetration, that the prosecutor overseeing his case accused him of “domestic terrorism” for using them to undermine the government.
The fact that the Liberty Dollar was never intended to be legal tender is obvious to all but the IRS and the doped up jury that convicted von NotHaus:
The Constitution grants to Congress the power “to coin money” and to “regulate the Value thereof” — but it does not explicitly grant an exclusive right to do such things. There are legal-tender laws that regulate production of government currency and counterfeiting laws that prohibit things like “uttering” gold or silver coins “for use as current money.”
Mr. von NotHaus claims he never meant the Liberty Dollar to be used as legal tender. He says he created it as “a private voluntary currency” for those conducting business outside the government’s purview. His guiding metaphor is the relationship between the Postal Service and FedEx. “What happened in the FedEx model,” he testified, “is that they” — a private company offering services the government did not — “brought competition to the post office.”
Using and promoting sound money is most definitely an act of passive rebellion against the nazi fascist state:
At his federal trial, witnesses testified to the Liberty Dollar’s criminal similitude to standard American coins. They said his coins included images of Lady Liberty and cheekily reversed “In God We Trust” to “Trust in God.” Then again, his coins were made of real gold and silver, as American coins are not, and came in different sizes and unusual denominations of $10 and $20.
In his own defense, Mr. von NotHaus testified about a “philanthropic mission” to combat devaluation with a currency based on precious metals and asserted that he was not involved in “a radical armed offense against the government or their money.”
It was, of course, to no avail; and in 2011, a jury found him guilty after a 90-minute deliberation.
von NotHaus perhaps rightly, claims that fiat currency has made the people of the US literally go crazy:
“The thing that fires me up the most,” he will say, “is this is what happens: When money goes bad, people go crazy. Do you know why? Because they can’t exist without value. Value is intrinsic in man.”
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If anyone wonders why I get so nutzo at times, here is an example of what makes me furious with the government.
The injustice here is immense. It is equal in size to the outright theft of the 8 $20 Gaudens that a family found in a safe deposit box. They made the mistake of sending these coins to the Philly mint to have them validated. The mint kept them, using the logic that these coins were supposed to be turned in during the FDR gold confiscation. A judge ruled in favor of the government (and probably got a finders fee) The family’s loss was estimated to be $80 million dollars, the value of these coins. The outrageous level of theft by the USSA in both the case of von Nothaus and the family with the Gaudens clearly demonstrates that we live in a country without the rule of law. At least the the Gauden family was not branded as terrorists.
Right on AG. To say the injustice makes my blood boil is probably the under statement of the year. Von Nothaus had the balls to stand up against the tyranny in a non-violent and peaceful means by advocating honest money as penned down and advocated by the Founding Fathers, but now he is labelled as a terrorist and a criminal. When will the rape and murder of the one and truthful United States of America stop? When will good men stand up and be counted? It is after all no secret that a people cannot be free without monetary freedom.
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The Gaudens story made my blood boil, any statute of limitations had long expired and the family owns these. If the government wants them back as museum pieces they should have made a fair market offer but it is easier to steal from the honest people of this country to line the pockets of the crooks(wealthy).
I’m sure there will be more unfair laws that will come soon in the near future. For example, the government will pass a new bill that doesn’t allow to barter and the ownership of precious metals. There will also be a bill that doesn’t allow protests. There’s more!
I hear you AGXIIK.
Rather than ask von NotHaus to melt down all the coins and remint at his own expense. They go for the jugular.
Of course Corzine can fain ignorance.
The system is sick, and the people behind it need to be hauled over the coals. It won’t happen sadly.
As hard as it might be – and even though I’m aware, although nowhere near prepared – I want the system to crash. It is the only way to try to ‘bring balance to the force’.
Time is coming when the honest people of this country who work for a living and try to survive are going to rise up, that includes the retired and disabled who worked hard to only wind up trying to survive at or below poverty level because the government that said it was going to look out for them sold out to the 1% in order to line their own pockets.
maybe to avoid confusion we should identify the perp here as the USTASI, it makes it a bit more definate.
For a look at how the poisoning of formerly trusted sources continues, IMO, try this post over at IDB
http://investordiscussionboard.com/boards/dgta/do-you-thinkaccidents-co-incidences-screw-ups-can-cause-silver-stocks-disappear-watch-mi
Other Boatloads of Lawyers…
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/
Robespierre would knew what to do with corrupt bankster-elitist scum.
The North Korean dictator just used a mortar round to execute a minister of the army. The minister partied during the mourning for Kim jong-il. Silly guy, he failed to weep. The new boss also whacked a banker but they glossed over that one in the story.
“Those that have fallen from favour include Ri Yong-ho, the head of the army and Ri Kwang-gon, the governor of the North Korean central bank.”
The mortar thing is gruesome. yikes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9630509/North-Korean-army-minister-executed-with-mortar-round.html
So would Vlad the Impaler. >:-[
A mortar round used on someone would sure turn that person into thousands of meat pieces. Was is really worth executing someone with a mortar round since these types of rounds cost a lot?
If you carry on like this, it will end badly for some folks. All the best to Mr von NotHaus,and a lot of power for the future.
Be sure it will come as it must be.
Mr. von Nothaus (terrible name) has done absolutely nothing wrong. This is a travesty. He is being made an example.
I’m just wondering. What if I had a few of those rounds, would they be confiscated by the government as forgeries? What an easy way to get $60 million in the coffers. Feel sorry for the guy.
@Marchas45 You’re right Charlie, it is a shame. As far as I know you’re allowed to own Liberty Dollars and other fake coins as part of your coin collection, as long as you don’t try to pass it along as the real deal. lol
I’m afraid that I will have to side with the government on this issue. I mean, after all, how DARE Mr. von Nothaus actually put something of value in a coin that <gasp!> some people might think of as “money”. We ALL know that money has no value until Fedzilla says that it has value! Can’t have interlopers coming into our sand box and causing this kind of trouble, now, can we?
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lol You’re right, but he actually made a huge mistake to put dollar-denominated face values on it. If he didn’t do that, I am sure he would still be in business.
Yeah, that would have been a smarter thing to do but at the same time, the gov could simply have asked the court for an injunction preventing him from making any more “dollars” and melting down all that he had already made. But no… they simply HAD to flex their muscles and abuse their authority. Like Bernie Madoff, his primary crime is not stealing or counterfeiting, it is doing something that the Feds don’t approve and not sharing his spoils with TPTB. Once you do that, you are “untouchable”. Just ask Jon Corzine.
This problem would’ve never happen if the guy didn’t put the dollar denomination. He should’ve create his own denomination. The Federal Reserve is doing actions that are against the US Constitution and they’re still not shut down but the other guy got jailed.
I Love the Lakota Bank round with Crazy Horse on it. On it it says: “Fifty.” Fifty what I don’t know but the Lakota Nation is a Nation not a part of Ame-Rica.
Just another example of government protecting the 1% scum (Fed reserve comes to mind). When are the people in this country going to wake up and realize they are ending up inside a giant prison?
Who here owns Liberty Dollars? Come on, I am making a list. Don’t be shy now.
Notice that myriad communities are issuing local … paper … ‘currencies’ bearing the word ‘dollar’ and THEY get glowing news media attention. So why fawn over them and castigate vonNothause? Gee, let me guess. Could it be that ANY paper instrument can’t Lawfully convey complete ownership? Could that fact leave The State as constructive ‘holder in due course’ by ‘eminant domain’?
Right up there at the top, Numero Uno of the ‘Planks’, we find … “Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.”
Take special care to consider that ‘Property’ is NOT a thing, but some ASPECT attendant with the thing. The ‘Property’ referenced here is the … conditions surrounding possession itself! That ‘Property’ isn’t only intended to affect Lands, bet every imaginable tangible and intangible thing ON the Land.
The Federal Reserve is such an hypocrite! That private company labels a guy who did constitutional actions as a “domestic terrorist” when that company itself breaks even more the laws of the US Constitution. Does that mean the Federal Reserve is an even worst domestic terrorist?