Stop the Insanity!

# 034 September 7, 2010

Hello everyone,

The BLS printed their “Jobs Jamboree on Friday, following are some details of the report:

Manufacturing payrolls declined by 27,000.

Employment at service-providers fell by 54,000.

Retailers cut 4,900 workers.

State and local governments gave walking papers to 10,000 people.

The federal government cut 111,000 jobs (mostly temporary census workers).

The number of "underemployed" - people who want full-time work, but have given up and are now working part-time, increased again, from 16.5% to 16.7%.

In other news, 41.3 Million people received Food Stamps in June. The population of the U.S. is a little over 310,000 people (legals only, not counting illegals)… so this means about 7.5% of Americans are on Food Stamps, not to mention all the other government welfare programs.

In the good news department, the official party line was “the jobs numbers were better than expected…” WHAT? They were better because they were not as bad as expected! If you factor in underemployed and those that have given up finding a permanent job, the real unemployment rate is over 17%.

And better news, the current administration has proposed a new $50 billion infrastructure spending bill…I guess the original $787 billion “stimulus” wasn’t quite enough! Thank God help is coming (he said tongue in cheek).

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it! The elected representatives (on the Federal level) appear to have gone insane. I certainly hold the Obama administration responsible for their part of this fiasco, but I also blame Bush II and anyone that has served more than one term in Congress (except Ron Paul, the voice crying in the wilderness!).

What would I like to see? Every single Representative and Senator that has served more than one term should be voted out of office. Yes, anyone. If our President, most Governors and Mayors can only serve two terms, why should the Congress be allowed to make a career out of their position? Congress produces nothing of value.

If these guys (and gals) are so d**** smart, give them the opportunity to make their way in the real world – without a Federal paycheck, expense money and benefits. Let’s track their progress and see how “wealthy” they become without the government paycheck. I wonder how many would be able to operate a business considering the onerous taxation and destructive laws that they have helped put in place.

It seems the only careers available in our society that allow you to make millions of dollars is a career of being elected to Congress or being in the upper echelons of the “too big to fail banks”…

I don’t know, it just does not seem right to me… how about you?

With warmth and regards (as always),

Allen

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An Open Letter to Governer Palin

Folks, This is great! I'm printing this letter in it's entirety - I hope you enjoy it and the concepts as much as I do...

Gary North's REALITY CHECK

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Issue 931 January 29, 2010

DEAR GOVERNOR PALIN

I am writing this to you on the outside possibility that in this, the world of six degrees of separation -- also known as the Kevin Bacon game -- someone will hand you a print-out of this letter and say, "This guy is kind of weird, but maybe this could work."

Let's clear the deck from the beginning. I am asking you to make some specific preparations. Then, when you have your ducks in a row -- and your trusty 12-gauge shotgun is loaded -- you will hold a press conference. You will deliver a speech.

Here is my suggested draft of your speech.

* * * * * * * *

Thank you all for coming.

Today, I make two pledges. First, I promise to work very hard to avoid providing any more skit material for Tina Fey.

Second, I am not going to run for President. Ever. No matter what.

Let me tell you why.

I am going to host some tea parties -- a whole lot of tea parties.

I never played tea party in my youth. I preferred to go hunting. Now I am going to play tea party and go hunting, too.

I will not be hunting moose. I am after bigger game: incumbent politicians.

A few years back, I got into politics. I got elected mayor of a small town. Then I got elected governor in a very large state. Not people big -- geography big.

I am going to spend the next 25 years training overtaxed, over-regulated, politician-scoffed-at voters to do what I did.

I have just signed a contract with Fox News. I have agreed not to run for any political office, ever. I will therefore not come under any Federal Communications Commission rules governing equal time. I am here for the long haul on this basis: no equal time. I will get all of it unless I get fired. Then I will do it on some cable channel or on YouTube.

My show will have one overriding theme: grassroots political mobilization.

Until there is a grassroots rebellion, county by county, nothing is going to change inside the Washington Beltway.

Congress never changes. It just makes more promises it can't fulfill. It then spends more borrowed money, trying to fulfill old promises. The Federal government is one giant Ponzi scheme of promises. Over the next decade, the biggest of these promises will be broken.

Social Security will go bankrupt this year. It now spends more money than Social Security taxes bring in. It is quietly siphoning off billions of dollars a year out of the general fund.

Medicare went bust three years ago.

The FDIC, which insures the nation's banks, went bust last September. Same solution: siphon off money from the general fund.

But the general fund went $1.4 trillion in the hole in 2009. It is expected to go another $1.3 trillion in the hole this year. And on and on and on it goes; where it stops, nobody knows.

There is no light at the end of this tunnel.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System just keeps printing more money. The biggest broken promise in America is the promise that the Federal Reserve gave back in 1913 - stable money. The dollar's purchasing power is down by 95% ever since the Federal Reserve opened its doors in 1914.

There will not be reform at the top of the pyramid until there is a political earthquake at the bottom.

It's time for some tea parties.

Locally, taxes are up. Crime is up. Insecurity is up.

Government regulation of our families is up.

The main thing that is down is public high school test scores. The public schools are a disaster and getting worse.

I am going to train people to take America back from the incumbent politicians.

The tea parties will be local. They will be everywhere.

They will be a permanent fixture of the American scene. I will do my bit to provide some training.

I have set up a new organization: County Rights, Incorporated. The doctrine of states rights is way too centralized for me. We need determined voters to take back their counties as a first step to taking back their states.

I'm not saying I won't be talking about national politics and the disasters that Congress and the bureaucrats are overseeing. But my focus will be clear: you can't have a clean sweep of Washington until you control the broom. The broom handle is in the counties.

There are 3141 counties in the United States. Most of them are rural. Most of them can be taken over by a dedicated hard core of voters who have an agenda. I am going to help train voters who have this agenda: resist Washington.

This is a free country. We are allowed as voters to shape politics. I am going to help train those voters who are ready to re-shape politics, beginning in their counties.

That's not to say I'm not in favor of training people to take over small towns. I love small towns. Most of all, politically speaking, I love small towns with low taxes. I intend to help create a whole lot more of them.

You have heard the old saying, "Support your local sheriff."

The sheriff is the armed law enforcement agent of the county government. You had better get control the government that hires the local sheriff. Then support him.

I am going to be on the road. I will do my Fox News show, but I will be appearing all over the country on a regular basis.

I will not be running for anything. I will be training people to run for everything: school boards, county commissions, everything.

When the officers of the Federal government come to town to tell folks what to do, they will be greeted by citizens who know their rights and who are willing to sue the Federal government for any violation of any of the ten amendments. My favorite is the second amendment, but they are all great . . . and they are all being violated by Washington.

I am going to recruit local lawyers who will sue the Federal government. I am going to recruit lawyers to train local citizens to sue the Federal government. I am going to set up a YouTube channel for lawyers to train people to sue the Federal government.

I will have them create downloadable forms for suing the Federal government. Why have just one local lawyer or local agency suing the Federal government? Why not hundreds of lawsuits, from everyone locally who has had his rights violated?

Paper is cheap. Toner is cheap. Let's get those laser printers rolling!

We are going to raise Washington's cost of invading local counties. We are going to meet the bureaucrats with legal resistance. Before some Federal agency sends out a Federal Marshal to start telling a county what to do, it had better set aside a few million dollars of its annual budget to pay the legal fees. This will be good news for lawyers on the staffs of those agencies. It will be bad news for every other staffer.

I believe in the legal system. I believe in using it.

While I'm on the topic of the legal system, I plan to set up a program to train citizens in the rights of juries. The jury system is the backbone of liberty in the United States. When a jury declares "not guilty," that's the end of the case. The law against double jeopardy goes into effect.

Jurors need to know that they are sovereign inside the jury room. No judge can tell them what to do or say. No other government official has a right to be inside that room. In that room, twelve citizens decide.

I am going to recruit lawyers to teach people their rights as jurors. That will make a great YouTube channel.

I love YouTube. The other video hosting sites are great, too. I will use more than one. So will the specialists I recruit.

This is democracy in action inside a Constitutional republic. We still have a Constitution. We still have a republic. Democracy has long been in a coma at the county level. I think I can help awaken it.

But what about political liberals? Don't they have a say? You bet! They get to compete, too. The more, the merrier, I say. But they had better compete first at the county level.

They had better decide that their liberties must be defended locally if these liberties are to be preserved from the grasping hand of Congress and the Washington bureaucracies, who are pushing this nation into bankruptcy.

Let the political competition begin . . . in the counties.

Maybe you want to know what my view of government is.

Government comes in four forms: self-government, family government, church government, and civil government.

By far, self-government is the most important. Where it is absent, there is lawlessness. In response, people have to spend more money and time on the other three. When self-government declines, anarchy and tyranny increase.

I have a theory of civil government. Civil government is about inflicting pain. That is its whole purpose: to inflict pain on people who are convicted by a jury of their peers of having inflicted pain on others.

The day that civil government got into the happiness- producing business, it began inflicting pain on people who had not inflicted pain on others. It began taxing people, not to protect them, but to pay off special-interest groups whose candidates won the last election.

Civil government started borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and it has never stopped. One of these days it will default on this debt. Peter will get nothing, and Paul, now addicted to government money, will face a catastrophe.

I am dead set against any view of civil government that tries to make people good. It can't make anyone good. Civil government is hard-pressed these days just to keep people from using violence and fraud against their neighbors.

A civil government that tries to do more than punishing violence and fraud will eventually wind up committing violence and fraud on a huge scale -- way beyond what any local criminal syndicate can impose.

So, that's my message. It can be summarized in five points, like the digits on your hand. The crucial point is like your thumb. It makes all the difference.

Self-government under God

The other four follow:

County rights

Cut taxes

Resist Washington

Use the courts

If you get invited to one of my tea parties, I sure hope you will attend.

And thanks, Tina, for all the great publicity.

* * * * * * * * *

Well, that's it. If you do this, you will inflict more pain on the Washington political establishment than any other ex- governor, including Ronald Reagan.

This is what Washington fears most: grassroots political mobilization. That would threaten the concentration of power, the growth of the debt, and the permanent immunity of the Federal Reserve System more than anything else.

Conservatives for 40 years have talked about the need for grassroots political mobilization, but they always set up money- raising operations inside the Beltway or across the county line.

Why? Because that's where the power is and therefore where the fundraising opportunities are.

What we need is the decentralization of power. We need someone who has a national political reputation to mobilize voters and jurors at the county level. Is this you?

You may not want to appear too extreme. If so, you won't want to use my slogan: "State's rights are for commies." But it gets across my outlook.

On the 2010 bankruptcy of Social Security, click here: http://LewRockwell.com/north/north790.html

On the 2009 bankruptcy of the FDIC, click here: http://GaryNorth.com/public/6025.cfm

On the depreciation of the dollar since 1914, click here: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

On the size of the Federal debt, click here: http://mwhodges.home.att.net/debt-summary-table.htm

Three more items. First, I wrote about my strategy for local politics 25 years ago. I got it published 10 years ago.

It's called "the dogcatcher strategy." Just search Google. Or click here:

http://LewRockwell.com/north/north21.html

Second, I own http://www.CountyRights.com. I'll give it to you if you want to do something creative with it.

Third, I suggest a logo for you. Every mass movement needs a logo. Yours should be an empty lipstick tube. On one side are these words:

Too many pigs

On the other side are these words:

Too much pork

Hand out one to everyone who comes to your press conferences. Sell them at your tea parties. Sell them on-line at http://www.TooManyPigs.com. I own http://www.TooManyPigs.com. You can have it, too.

Sincerely yours,

Gary North

Interesting...

Well, I know you haven't heard from me in a while... guess I got busy... or maybe just lazy. Actually, more busy than lazy. Anyway - I just had to send this out to everyone - things just seem to be getting crazier and crazier!

This is from Doug Casey's Daily Dispatch:

Cash for Carts

Dear Reader,

You’re going to love this. I came across a recent story from The Wall Street Journal about how Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy, of all things, golf carts. Yes, you too can own that great necessity of modern life thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama’s stimulus plan.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don't have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. "The purchase of some models could be absolutely free," Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. "Is that about the coolest thing you've ever heard?"

The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.

In South Carolina, sales of these carts have been soaring as dealerships alert customers to Uncle Sam's giveaway. "The Golf Cart Man" in the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida is running a banner online ad that declares: "GET A FREE GOLF CART. Or make $2,000 doing absolutely nothing!"

Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. "This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!" You can't blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.

The IRS has also ruled that there's no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, so some enterprising profiteers are stocking up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later. We should note that some states, such as Oklahoma, have caught on to the giveaway and are debating whether to cancel or limit their state credits. But in Congress they're still on the driving range.

Remember, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. When politicians dole out tax credits and other subsidies for their pet projects (green or otherwise), you end up paying for them in the form of higher taxes on other things -- like work and investment -- and a loss of purchasing power of your currency

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When will this end? A chicken in every pot and a rebate for every business!

With regards,

Allen

There's Bizarre, and Now... Bizarro World

# 033 June 19, 2009

By: Allen Wells

Each day it seems the news and the responses are becoming more bizarre… as a matter fact, I feel like I am living in “Bizarro World”. For example:

Bizarre: Fedzilla is bailing out and taking and ownership interest in General Motors. The President states, “ we have no interest in running an automotive manufacturing company.”

Bizarro World – two GM plants slated for closure have been taken off the list since the Congressional Representatives of those districts made calls to the car Czar to discuss keeping them open.

Bizarre: Headlines state that unemployment slowed in May.

Bizarro World: Actually, unemployment claims dropped in May because more people exhausted their benefits and fell from the unemployment rolls. In addition, some 3 million are slated to exhaust their benefits at the end of the third quarter (September). The President has two options: 1 – extend benefits (again) or 2 – use the statistical drop in unemployment claims to tout “the recession is over and his stimulus plan worked!” Either one is bad for the country.

What really interests me is the only segment of the population gaining jobs is the 55 + age category. The 55 + category gained 224,000 net new jobs in May. The rest of the population lost 661,000! In the past year, the 55 + category has gained 630,000 new jobs and other age categories have lost over 6 million jobs!

Bizarre: China, Brazil and Russia express (publicly) concerns over the stability of the dollar – then reverse their statements with very public response they have confidence in the dollar and have no intention of abandoning their investments in dollar backed currencies as the world reserve currency.

Bizarro World: China, Brazil and Russia in a closed meeting agree to start investing in IMF bonds and to start exchanging currency with each other. Not big news with the mainstream media, but a serious issue for US debt.

Bizarre: The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy over the last fifteen years created a large enough financial bubble to cripple the entire worlds economy.

Bizarro World: The President is pushing legislation to give the FED more power and oversight over all financial institutions.

Bizarre: Last year the Federal Government dug deep into the pockets of the American taxpayer and spent billions to bail out ALL the major banking institutions.

Bizarro World: In 2001 the banking industry spent $5 million lobbying in Washington. In 2008 they spent $20 million… guess it was a good investment (for them).

Bizarre: The President, the Fed and the mainstream media continually tout “green shoots” and a myriad of other ridiculous statistics showing we are at the bottom of this “recession” and that the economy is back on an “upward” swing.

Bizarro World: In Europe the decline in the industrial output of Italy and France are much worse than they were at this point in the 1930’s, and the United Kingdom and Germany are about the same. U.S and Canada declines are very close to the same. Even Japan, coming off somewhat of a recovery is still in a far worse position than they were in the 1930’s.

In addition, the collapse of world trade in the past year is equal to the first two years of the “GREAT” Depression! And… the stock market declines are greater than the first two years of the great depression! That’s right, Green Shoots!

Bizarre: President Obama is the darling of the media and the subject of adulation throughout the United States. If you believe what you see in the mainstream media, it’s as though he is a demi-god that can do no wrong.

Bizarro World: According to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, American’s views on the general state of the country have hit an all time low with 81% saying the nation is on the wrong track. This is the worst ever number for this barometer. I guess I missed that on the Nightly World News!

I could go on, but I won’t. The point is, it is time to use a skill most of us didn’t learn in government schools – logic. Let’s start using our logic skills. If we know 1 + 1 = 2, but a very powerful and influential person keeps telling us 3… it may sound good, and (if we are counting our money) we really would like for 1 + 1 to equal 3, none of what we wish or hope matters, 1 + 1 = 2. That’s it, that’s all. If people are losing jobs every day, virtually every corporation is losing money or profits have dropped drastically, if there are as many foreclosed homes on the market as new homes… things are not looking up.

I’m not complaining, or being pessimistic… I’m just saying…

With warmth and regards (as always),

Allen

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Senator Kennedy – Let Your Life be a Legacy!

# 032                                                                                  June 9, 2009

By: Allen Wells

Monday’s Wall Street Journal posts an article on page A3 entitled, “Ailing Kennedy Key to Health Bill.” The article states that Mr. Kennedy has, “championed health-care issues his whole career.” It further states [that], “If the liberal Mr. Kennedy takes a lesser role [in crafting the health care bill],  that could make it easier for the more conservative Mr. Baucus [D. Montana] to push the health care legislation in a centrist direction.”

Mr. Kennedy (as most are aware) is the recipient of a vast family fortune amassed by his father, Joseph Kennedy. The elder Mr. Kennedy created the majority of his wealth during prohibition days, running untaxed liquor off the coast of Massachusetts while keeping many federal agents and employees on his payroll… I’m not making this up. That was the elder Mr. Kennedy’s first legacy. His second legacy was to have a son in the White House.

As a result of his family’s vast wealth and political connections, Mr. Kennedy has lived a life of ease and leisure that far outdistances that of the average American taxpayer; a taxpayer with whom Mr. Kennedy has no problem forcing to pay the costs of his liberal ideas and policies.

Senator Kennedy has quite a reputation at this point in his life… unconvicted murderer (his family bought him out of that problem), unabashed liberal representing one of the more liberal states, key contributor to the loss of Jimmy Carter in his re-election bid for President.  Senator Kennedy is well known for business bashing and  the attacking  of free market supporters and business owners for increasing productivity (“at the expense of the worker”), and a supporter of ever increasing taxes on the producers to pay for non producers. I could go on, but that is not the point of this essay.

As I was saying, I have a great idea that will enable Senator Kennedy to leave a positive legacy and perhaps benefit an entire generation of working Americans. Senator Kennedy (as you know) is fighting brain cancer (a losing battle) and is already partially incapacitated.

As with the very wealthy, the good Senator has the finest staff of doctors and specialists, nursing staff, hospital suites and care. As a matter of conjecture, I would bet that at this point, Senator Kennedy’s care might only be rivaled by that given the President of the United States.

Here is my idea:

Mr. Kennedy who has, “championed health-care issues his whole career”, should forgo his super wealthy medical care, his superb Congressional health care benefits and come forward to issue a statement stating he believes that public health care is far better than private health care – and completely adequate to treat his disease; to that extent he will immediately cease all paid health care for his terminal illness and check himself into a public hospital in Boston. In order to prove to the American public and Congress his belief that government managed and public funded health care is equal to and possibly superior to private health care, he will donate his personal wealth to charity and submit himself for indigent care. In fact, his belief in his principles of government funded and managed health care is so intense that he is willing to put his own life on the line in defense of this principle.

What a legacy! Finally a liberal politician will be able to state emphatically, not just in words but in deed – I believe so completely in the cause I have championed my entire career that I am willing to put my life on the line to show the American public how strong my commitment is to government controlled and funded health care.

If the good Senator from Massachusetts will show his true belief, I would suggest a Kennedy monument, grander than the Washington monument… a legacy for a “public servant” who was willing to “take his own medicine” (so to speak).

With warmth and regards (as always),

Allen

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Fedzilla Works to Steal our Freedom (again)!

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INFORMATION UPDATE

 

Fedzilla Works to Steal our Freedom (again)!

# 013                                                                                    June 5, 2009

 

[Following is the entire copy of an email I received this morning. Liberty Dollar is an independent organization that mints true gold, silver and copper coins for barter for personal collecting.  Since the inception of this organization the Federal Government and Treasury Department has harassed and arrested the founders. Read below for an update on Fedzilla’s most recent attack.]

 

LIBERTY DOLLAR ALERT:
June 2009 Vol. 11 No. 06-A

Urgent News for All Liberty Dollar Supporters!

FBI Arrests Bernard, Kevin, Sarah & Rachelle
The battle for a value based currency has began!

The last two days have been amazing! Just shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the phone started ringing and I let the answering machine take the call. But very soon there was another call… with an even more urgent message! Very quickly, a friend of Kevin Innes, explained to me that Kevin had been "detained" by the local sheriff and was being held for the FBI to arrest him! Holy Cow!! The #2 supporter for the Liberty Dollar and co-instructor at the Liberty Dollar University training sessions was in deep trouble with the Feds! I was sure to be next. But would they arrive in a few minutes or would it be a pre-dawn Nazi style assault?

Finally, I got up at 4:00 AM. I was very concerned for Kevin and wondered when the FBI would hit me. Fortunately the morning was quickly filled with a flurry of calls from Kevin's friend, other interested parties, the usual business calls and making preparations for the inevitable knock on the door. But nobody came. Then just after noon, Niles, who's wife, Rachelle, manages the Liberty Dollar Fulfillment Office, called to tell me that Rachelle had been picked up by the FBI at the LD Office and was due to be arraigned in just a few hours! The FBI strikes again!

Luckily, I was able to talk to Rachelle via her cell phone while the FBI was holding her. I was pleased that the FBI agents were the friendly professional types and afforded Rachelle and I quite a few minutes of private conversation. Under the circumstances, Rachelle's demeanor and resolve was right on target. And very quickly, I learned that a warrant had been issued for my arrest. And just a quickly, Rachelle was off to court to be arraigned.

Much later in the afternoon, I learned to my surprise that three big FBI agents had arrested Sarah at work. She and Rachelle were arraigned together and quickly released to on their own recognizance (OR) before the sun set on a very eventful day for the Liberty Dollar. The quick, professional effort with Sarah and Rachelle were gratifying and encouraging. Unfortunately, I was to learn that Sarah lost her job because of this event.

By last afternoon it was clear that the Liberty Dollar would be best served by my turning myself in to the to the US Marshals, otherwise known as 'self reporting.' After a few calls, I found myself talking to Agent Andy (aka Agent F) who was his usual friendly, chatty self. He even recognized my voice although we had only spoken twice and that was over 18 months ago. Sure enough he confirmed that a federal arrest warrant for my arrest had been issued. And after a bit of gamesmanship with Agent Andy, I agreed to report to the US Marshal's office in Fort Myers, Florida at 9:00 AM on Thursday morning as it was too late to be arraigned, plus an overnight in jail would have wrinkled by clothes :)

The following morning, Thursday, June 3, 2009, I actually arrived at the Marshal's office at 8:30 due to light traffic. As the saying goes, "If you gotta do time, do federal time." Quite simply, the federal boys are better educated, better trained and have better manners. I was immediately escorted to a holding cell. After an hour or less, I met with the Pre-Trila Service rep and made it to court at 11:00 in chains and handcuffs. The female judge was businesslike and granted my request to attend my son's graduation in Physics from UCLA next week. After fingerprinting, signing a $50,000 Appearance Bond, one final meeting with the Pre-Indictment Service rep, I was free.

In general, the arraignment was a pleasant affair. The US Marshals did their job with very little attitude, as they should. After all, I am self reporting, and it is for anything violent, I just want to prove that I have a right to issue my own currency and if anybody chooses to use it then it is a "private contract." It is certainly not a crime.

And so it came to pass, 2009 years after the birth of Christ, that four regular Americans have taken a stand to defend the People's right to protect themselves from a government currency that has a long and unforgiving history of stealing the people's purchasing power. This is a test of individual rights, as protected by the Tenth Amendment. It is the deciding moment that a private voluntary barter currency (PVBC) is legal in the great United States of America. This is a test that the Liberty Dollar must and will pass, for that I have no doubt. But it will not be easy or cheap. Please, if you support our efforts, support us with any kind of money you have, including pro bono services. Now that the Liberty Dollar faces a federal criminal trial, it is the US Government v Liberty Dollar ala Bernard, Kevin, Sarah & Rachelle. Please help us win. Please help yourself win. Please help American win.

Very simply this is a Win or Lose battle. In addition to money for this legal fight we need articles that reference non-government currency, such as Air Miles as currency, legal research assistance, expert witnesses, legal assistance, etc. If you support the ideals of the Liberty Dollar, this is the time to get behind the Liberty Dollar. We critically need your help! Please send your digital info to Legal@LibertyDollar.org and your donations of value including other kinds of "currencies" to:
LIBERTY DOLLAR
225 N. Stockwell Road
Evansville. Indiana. 47715

The best news is that the Liberty Dollar finally has the opportunity to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is legal. Over two years ago I sued the US government for a Declaratory Judgment to resolve the legality issue. And how did they respond, they raided the Liberty Dollar and confiscated over $4 million dollars in gold, silver and cash. The US government has done everything possible to kill the Liberty Dollar! And guess what? It has not worked. The mere fact that the Liberty Dollar is still in business is a testament to your demand for Real Money and the ideals that the Liberty Dollar represents.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support! Trust me, the Liberty Dollar is not made up of any fat cats. We are all just regular Americans. And we all just want good money, a lot less government and no damn war!

Click HERE for a stilted Press Release by the DOJ. Its three pages with a whopper by Owen Harris, Special FBI Agent in Charlotte who said, "When groups try to replace the US dollar with coins and bills that don't hold the same value..." WOW what a telling statement of pure spin.

Click HERE for the 13 page Indictment.
Click HERE for Sarah's Arrest Warrant.

Guess what?! Liberty Dollar still in business and we need more business! As there has been no Cease and Desist Order, Liberty Dollar remains OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Please visit our shopping cart for all the 2009 Liberty, Peace, Freedom, T-Dollars and more. Don't be bashful or stupid. Silver is going to the moon, just as sure as the US dollar is going to hell with your purchasing power. Now is the time to protect your purchasing with the "inflation proof" currency and help usher in a new monetary model that provides the only proven, peaceful, and profitable solution to the monetary cancer that has infected America.

OUTSTANDING ORDERS: Please rest assured that we will fill all outstanding orders. Yes, after producing a sizable amount of pre-minted Silver Libertys and finally getting current with most orders, we changed mints and are now behind again. We apologize emphatically! Poor and/or slow delivery is not acceptable business. It hurts everyone. And just when we were about to get current again we were arrested. Please continue to support us with your patience too. We promise to get every order out ASAP. But as I hope you can understand, it is a struggle to run a business, any business, in such an environment and fight a major legal battle for our right to protect our purchasing power

The last few 2009 Arrest Dollars. Are you familiar with the Arrest Dollars? Starting in 2007 and continuing through this year the Arrest Dollar is one ounce Silver Liberty that is specially hand hallmarked with a micro "handcuffs" stamp and my federally registered mintmark. Issued only from the day of the raid to today. The last few 2009 Arrest Dollars are currently on the Shopping Cart. After these are gone, they are gone to eBay for much more money.

The 2009 Tea Party Dollar (T-Dollar) is still available and we are still waiting confirmation on the shipment. We are still expecting to have the first batch order in the first 24 HOURS here for the July 4 events. The T-Dollar is still only a buck for an ounce of copper AND you can still get them for 10% discount to the $1 face value for a 100 or more. Hey, they are only a buck… you can't go wrong. Plus every copper issue has sold out. Get these while you can and help support our legal efforts too

The 2009 Silver Libertys! The backbone of the Liberty Dollar model is the one ounce .999 fine silver Lib! Just in the last few days, silver has bounced back over $16, soon the 30 day moving average will be $16 and the Liberty Dollar will Move Up again to the $50 Silver Base. PLEASE don't be dumb and buy silver when it is high. Get it NOW!!! Sure it is not $5 per ounce any more, nor will it ever be again. $5 silver is just not possible with the government spending phony baloney fiat money like a drunken sailor. Please order silver now and protect your purchasing power and profit tomorrow!

Stay tuned to the Liberty Dollar News as we vindicate and validate the legality of the Liberty Dollar. Please take an active role in this exciting and profitable time. Don't lose out. Get involved with the Liberty Dollar to make money, do good and have fun. I am having as much fun in my 60's and I did in The 60's and hope you are too.

Thanks again for your support.

Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect
Editor@LibertyDollar.org
www.LibertyDollar.org
888.LIB.DOLLAR
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Folks, the loss of our freedoms is increasing by leaps and bounds daily. This attack on the Liberty Dollar started during the Bush Administration and is now continuing through the Obama administration.  Guess the concept of “freedom to choose is no longer true in the United States of America!

 

I thought you might just want to know!

 

With regards,

Allen

 

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Objective Reality vs. Subjective Reality

# 031                                                                                                        May 26, 2009

By: Allen Wells

U.S consumer confidence has increased to the highest level since September.  According to Bloomberg.com, “Confidence among U.S. consumers jumped this month to the highest level since September, reflecting growing perceptions that the job market will improve… The Conference Board’s sentiment index surged to 54.9, higher than forecast and the biggest gain since April 2003.

U.S. Home prices fell a record 19.1% in the first quarter, compared with a year earlier, according to the national Case-Schiller home price index released today. David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee for Standard and Poor’s (compiler of the Case-Schiller index) stated, “we see no evidence that the recovery in home prices has begun.”

It appears to me the American people are confused (at least the ones being polled), unable to differentiate between subjective information and objective information. 

Subjective information is information based upon our opinions or “biased” information. Subjective information does not have to be grounded in fact, only in what we think or feel. Objective information is fact based information with factual and tangible references. We may not agree with the results of an objective statement, but the information is verifiable and grounded in fact.

For the record:

Objective information (fact based, tangible, able to be verified)

Home prices continue to fall, housing starts are now at an annualized 460,000 (+ -), down from an annualized 2.26 million in 2006.

Unemployment is at 8.5% (a government approved percentage), while “unapproved” estimates put the number of unemployed or underemployed at 15% (+). This is an average of at least 1 in 10 wage earning Americans’ out of work.

Payrolls fell by 539,000 in April, the fewest in six months.

The economy has lost 5.7 million jobs since December 2007.

Subjective information (opinions, biased, slanted, one-sided)

“We expect to have positive economic growth in the third quarter. The job declines will fade.” As stated by James O’Sullivan, as senior economist at UBS Securities, LLC.

“The share of consumers who said more jobs will be available in the next six months climbed to 20 percent, the most in more than five years.”

“The proportion of people who said jobs are currently hard to get fell to 44.7 percent from 46.6 percent.”

Do you see the difference between objective and subjective?

Where am I going with this? Those of you that know me personally know I am not a negative person. In fact, I have often been accused of being overly positive (ok, maybe not that often, but at least once or twice). I believe in a positive mental attitude, and I believe that you must be optimistic and focus on the good, rather than the bad. However, I am also somewhat of a pragmatist.

In the real world, you can be as positive as you want, but you must also be ready to face the facts and anticipate the results of the negative things happening around you and how they will affect you, your family and your livelihood. Trillions of dollars have been lost in the real estate crash and the stock market crash. Yes, the stock market is rising very rapidly. We all know many, many people that lost their life savings or retirement savings in the real estate and stock market crash.

The stock market is gaining back its losses; with this in mind – how many of those that lost in the market are now gaining back their equity just as fast? Who’s winning in this new Bull market?  Who do you know that has made back half their losses since the first of the year?

Those that lost the value in their real estate and personal residences will not likely see a return to the original equity for many years, if ever.  Where has the money gone? It is lost.

Consumer confidence is up… pundits, MSNBC and the others are telling us things are bottoming out and the economy is about to be on an upswing. I hope so, for my sake and yours.

It’s just that I keep seeing these nagging issues, like, no more equity in real estate… a national deficit at 13 percent of our GDP… government bailouts and nationalizations (de facto) of banks and industries… more than 10% of the nation out of work… huge increases in federal spending… health care costs through the roof…

Yes I am positive we can (and will) get through this time of turmoil. Are we going to get through it with larger government, more re-distribution of wealth and a heavier hand of taxation and regulation? Or, will we come to our senses, drop our subjective concepts and look at the real facts facing our nation?

Objective facts like these:

The recent sub-prime mortgage meltdown:  a direct result of federal government pressure to lend to lower income, less credit worthy borrowers in less than optimal neighborhoods? The markets were required to conform to the pressure from Barney Frank and the congressional gang to make more risky loans to less credit worthy borrowers. The market did what the market does – it spread the risks with new products and derivatives.

1% of earners in this country pay over 39% of the federal taxes and this same 1% have had their tax bill increase by 3% in the last two years.

32% of Americans pay no federal tax at all!

A President that ran on a platform of change – stating emphatically that if elected, “earmarks and partisanship will be a thing of the past” [paraphrased by me] – only to pass a “landmark” stimulus bill with over 9,000 earmarks!

Folks, these are objective statements, easily verified. I’m not arguing if these facts are good facts, bad facts or in the middle. I’m just stating these are facts. Consumer confidence may be a concept in someone’s mind with no bearing on any fact, just feelings. We cannot run a country, a business or our life based just on “feelings”. At some point facts must play a hard and fast part of any intelligent decision.

Please, Mr. & Mrs. Congress, please Mr. President – let’s look at the facts. Let’s stop the ridiculous arguments about the CIA and who lied and who didn’t lie. Let’s get rid of the red herrings.  Let us work together to take an honest look at where we are and how we got here. Let’s consider the results of our actions.

Let’s look objectively at the facts, let’s set our opinions aside for the moment and OBJECTIVELY review the situations at hand.

Our country and our lives may very well depend upon it.

With warmth and regards (as always),

Allen

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