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LIBERTY DOLLARS - Alert #23: Answer to US Complaint Filed - Bernard von NotHaus
Written by Ernest Hancock Subject: Federal ReserveAlert #23: Answer to US Complaint Filed
August 18. 2008
Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters:
Thank you for your recent orders… We are on a roll… So sample this Alert:
The
$1 Peace Dollars are flying out the door. All Hallmarked and Numbered
editions are SOLD OUT. So if you want some $1 Peace Dollars ORDER NOW…
I am pleased to inform you
that the Liberty Dollar defenders et al filed their Answer to the AUSA
Thomas Ascik Complaint on Wednesday, August 13. Please click HERE
for their 32 page Answer and its six Exhibits, a total of a few hundred
pages as we get rolling with our BIG "federal case." And of course I
have not even been arrested… yet. But! I am sure that if they can
indict a ham sandwich… they can and will indict me. Of course who would
want a competitor whose product appreciates 500% while their crap
depreciates 50% in the same time period!? More than just trying to run
the Liberty Dollar out of business this is about economic and political
power.
The
government is clearly trying to destroy the Liberty Dollar business.
And as the Defendant's Answer points out in Paragraph 233, the FBI raid
on the Liberty Dollar was a classic example of the type of political
oppression code-named COINTELPRO that date back to the 1960s and found
to be a violation of the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552.
Political Oppression that Wreaks!
Unfortunately,
the brazen audacity of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to
attack political organizations is nothing new. But to raid a large
national political organization such as Liberty Dollar p! articipating
in a hotly debated presidential election is un! heard of
, and wreaks of political oppression. The title of a commentary by the
Great Depression economist, Richard H. Timberlake, Jr., PhD, puts it
right: "Gestapo raid on coin-producing enterprise."
As
authorized by the Search and Seizure Warrants, the FBI raided NORFED -
National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the
Internal Revenue Code. Can there be any doubt that NORFED was a
political organization? It was openly opposed to laws passed by US
Congress, the non-Federal non-Reserve IOUs that pass as "legal tender"
fraud and an oppressive tax scheme that is universally despised by
every "taxpayer" and a growing body of non-taxpayers! Its name, sheer
size and the booming success of its fund raising product, Liberty
Dollar, obviously caught the attention of the federal authorities and
they took the only action they t! rust - Attack!
It's a given that every federal investigation
begins with a wiretap. That is clear, simple and SOP. So there is every
reason to accept as fact that the attack on the national Fulfillment
Office of NORFED was specifically timed to confiscate the Ron Paul
Dollars and the new Peace Dollars for maximum impact. There is no doubt
that the FBI knew when the two-ton shipment of Ron Paul Dollars would
arrive and they planned their attack for just two days after delivery
to damage the Ron Paul campaign. This is wrong and grossly
unconstitutional! This was clearly "political oppression" of campaign
material. Just imagine what 60,000 campaign buttons, T-shirts or
anything means to a political campaign. But WOW, just think what
$60,000 Ron Paul Dollars would have accomplished at that critical time
in Congressman Paul's campaign.
And this is no little campaign
for dogcatcher. This was, and still is, a presidential ca! mpaign by a
well-established, 30-year US Congressman for the P! resident of the
United States! This is the most important political election in the
country! And the Federal Bureau of Investigation goons confiscated over
$100,000 worth of presidential campaign materials!!! This was nothing
short of a Nazi style attack to eliminate the competition. This is an
assault on our right to political expression as guaranteed by the First
Amendment. This sucks big time! F!@#$#@ the FBI!
The
attack on NORFED and Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign
cannot be allowed to stand. In our Answer we demand the immediate
return of all Ron Paul Dollars, Peace Dollars and all my political
materials that were seized on November 14, 2007. We have less than 30
days until the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 and need
that material now.
The FBI attack on NORFED was the same
oppressive tactics they employed against the Peace Movement in the
1960s. Its code name then was COINTELPRO: "Counter Intelli! gence
Program." It was used against John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Martin Luther
King and thousands of other innocent people dedicated to a peaceful
society.
COINTELPRO
(Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and clandestine
projects/attacks conducted by the FBI aimed at investigating and
disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
The FBI used covert operations from its inception; however, the formal
COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. The FBI
motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing
violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."
Sound familiar?! Targets included Groups suspected of being subversive,
such as student political organizations; those in the non-violent civil
rights movement, almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War; and even
individual student demonstrators. The directives governing COINTEL! PRO
were issued by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who ordered! FBI age
nts to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize"
the activities of these movements and their leaders. If you went to
college in the 60s you were spied on.
Guess
what? The same FBI is still spying on you today! Recent news accounts
have disclosed a burgeoning government (Pentagon, NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.)
campaign for "detecting, identifying and engaging" internal enemies
that include a database of personal information. The FBI is using
"national security letters" to obtain secret access to your personal
records and tens of thousands of Americans. And the National Security
Agency's interception of telephone calls and e-mails from the United
States - without notice to the federal court that has jurisdiction over
domestic spying - had been going on since 1978. OK… so maybe you had
some privacy from 1971 to 1978. But not NOW!
In the same month that NORFED was attacked, The W!
ashington Post
disclosed an exponentially growing practice of domestic surveillance
under the USA Patriot Act, using the FBI's "national security letters."
Originally created in the 1970s for espionage and terrorism
investigations, the letters enable the FBI to secretly review the
private telephone and financial records of suspected foreign agents.
But the hated Bush regime, referring to the Patriot Act, transformed
the purpose of those letters to permit clandestine scrutiny of U.S.
residents and visitors who are not alleged to be terrorists or spies!
This
series of revelations about domestic spying that have emerged in the
past few months are always defended in the name of fighting
"terrorism." This argument is a complete and utter lie. There is no
doubt that these programs against NORFED, the Liberty Dollar, you and
me have been enacted, enabled and deployed to stifle constitutionally
protected domestic polit! ical dissents. The proverbial handwriting is
on the wall. T! he US go
vernment is against the very People who created it. And to make matters
worse for you, me, the economy, your children's education, etc., the
government stands for war… war… and more war! Enough! This is NOT
bullshit… it is a crime!
Excuse
me, but what the hell is the FBI doing spying on you and me? And why
did they raid the Liberty Dollar? Why did the FBI confiscate the Peace
Dollars and Ron Paul Dollars?! To kill political dissents. Clear and
simple!
When I did six years in the 60s at Kansas State
University, the person who published the radical "student" newspaper
turned out to be an FBI agent! I now know he was part of the government
COINTELPRO. The only difference between Kent State and Kansas State was
that the government did not murder four students at K-State. The only
difference between the FBI raid on NORFED and a raid on your home is
that I have already been raided. If you want to protect ! your gold and
silver, if you support a peaceful society, then please support the
Liberty Dollar with a donation or at least an order.
Love the country? Love your home? Have a vested interest in the economic system? Please take action: Click on this link: http://www3.capwiz.com/y/dbq/
media. Click five media locations in your area (limit 5 at a time) and send this Press Release to them.
SAMPLE PRESS RELEASE:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 18, 2008
Political Oppression of Ron Paul Dollars
Liberty Dollar Cites FBI Seizure as Covert Action against Ron Paul Campaign
Demands the Immediate Return of Two Tons of Ron Paul Dollars
Liberty Dollar Cites FBI Seizure as Covert Action against Ron Paul Campaign
Demands the Immediate Return of Two Tons of Ron Paul Dollars
EVANSVILLE,
INDIANA - Liberty Dollar Group announced today that it has filed an
Answ! er in Federal Court for the immediate return of thousands of g!
old, sil
ver, platinum, and copper Liberty Dollars - including two tons of Ron
Paul Dollars - seized in a FBI raid on November 14, 2007.
The
group denounced the confiscation as political oppression of the Ron
Paul presidential campaign and asserted that the seizure of the Ron
Paul Dollars constitutes an attack on its First Amendment right of
political expression. They point that in addition to the Ron Paul
Dollar with a presidential candidate engraved on the front, the Peace
Dollar features the Statue of Liberty torch with STOP THE WAR - clearly
an 'expressive act' with political intent protected by the Bill of
Rights.
The defendant's Answer to the government's Complaint
says the federal government has no right to hold the currency, since it
does not "constitute contraband or other property subject to seizure."
And that the seizures violate the plaintiff's First, Fourth and
Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Von NotHaus says h! e's "beyond
outraged" over the government's brutal oppressive behavior. "It was bad
enough that the U.S. Mint branded us as criminals for exercising our
right to freely exchange the private gold and silver currency," he
said. "But interfering with Ron Paul's presidential campaign is clearly
a Gestapo tactic."
The
agents based their search and seizure warrants on an affidavit that the
currency was being marketed illegally as legal tender. This claim is
denied strenuously by Bernard von NotHaus, the fiery monetary architect
of the currency. He points out that the primary point of the marketing
was that it was NOT legal tender and that the Liberty Dollar is a
private voluntary barter currency.
Robert J. Stientjes, the plaintiff's attorney, asserts in the Answer that the affidavit does not constitute a prima facia allegation of probable cause. His motion also points out that "without the misle!
ading depictions of the size, weight and color… ther!
e is no
probable cause for issuance of the warrants."
The
plaintiffs explain that the Ron Paul Dollar was created to give
citizens the opportunity to own valuable metals, while providing
important support for the Ron Paul campaign. They say they intended to
make a significant donation for every Ron Paul Dollar issued.
Von
NotHaus points out, "The US dollar has lost over 50% of its value in
the last ten years, while the Liberty Dollar has appreciated by 500%!
Would you rather make five times your money or lose half of it? I think
the government is trying to crush our inflation-proof currency plus Ron
Paul's free market and peace campaign in a single stroke."
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Thank God for Founding Father George Mason's demand for the Bill of Rights! Otherwise we wouldn't have shit! Well, we would still have the Bush regime, which is just the same!
Meanwhile the $1 Peace!
Dollars are flying out the door. All Hallmarked and Numbered editions are SOLD OUT. So if you want some $1 Peace Dollars ORDER NOW…
And if you have a few minutes check out this interview by Don Harrold:
#1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VMtRekpiP4A
#2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4u4U9bUYMdE
More news on my retirement will be disclosed as we get closer to October 1… but I can tell you that my retirement will probably "blow your mind!"
#1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VMtRekpiP4A
#2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4u4U9bUYMdE
More news on my retirement will be disclosed as we get closer to October 1… but I can tell you that my retirement will probably "blow your mind!"
Many thanks to all the Liberty Associates,
Merchants, and RCOs for your continued support. For it is only by
banding together and adopting a free and independent currency that
provides us with "just weights and measures" will we ! be able to throw
off the yoke of a manipulated monetary/tax sy! stem and generate a
peaceful and prosperous society.
Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect
Monetary Architect