Liberty Dollar (Norfed) Free - Government Re-Imbursing

I have kept up with this case since it started since I saw it for what it was: Silencing of someone the government saw as a serious enough threat to their power that they took illegal action for which they knew no one could or would hold them accountable. Welcome to modern DC.

Summary: Liberty Dollars were created as an awareness of the inherent problems with the Federal Reserve and the worthless money (backed only by thin air) we use daily. Like other private issue currencies, they were legal. And the other currencies contonued to exist while the largest, Liberty Dollar, was targeted by Federal thugs. Liberty Dollar's popularity was growing so people were waking up to the sham of the system we endure and the overwhealming power it gives to the Feds.

Liberty Dollar was illegally shut down and assets seized by an FBI raid. Public scare tactics were used by the Fed to get people to stop using them - even to the point of telling people it could be illegal to own them coupled with rumors of confiscation. ebay was told to stop allowing sales of them on their site Although LDs were never completely stopped on ebay, the number of pages of them for sale per day dropped drastically. Before the illegal seizure, huge number of LDs were added to ebay daily. I cannot estimate the drop in auction numbers, but I remember perusing page after page after page daily. Today there may be 1/4 or 1/5 of what used to be.

The owner of LD was taken to court (find and read the court documents online). The trial was a farce where they enlarged a Mercury dime OBV and put it side by side with an LD picture ( ASE sized) trying to show the LD was an attempt at counterfeiting. They sentenced him to up to 22 years in jail (see below). However, (granted this is an assumption), it seems the Feds knew what they were doing was illegal b/c the LD owner spent a record time (for the state of North Carolina) in waiting for his actual sentence to be carried out. It looks more like the government just wanted to scare people enough, and let time pass until the public forgot about Liberty Dollar in general. The whole scenario stinks of organized crime.

However, as of today, the LD creator/producer is free:



So yes - the government is returning peoples' LDs to them. The government is actually letting go of money they took illegally. What they once scared people into thinking might be illegal to own b/c they were counterfeit, they will be giving back. But, like other things so common these days, the government used criminal tactics and will not have to pay for it. At least this time no one lost their lives over it.

Link to the court order:
http://www.libertydollarnews.org/20.../BVNH_pt.pdf

I miss being in the America I grew up in - I am ashamed at the thug tactics used nowadays. The government has always has problems. But current levels of deceit and treachery are reaching record levels with no end in sight.

Ben Kenobi would find Mos Eisley was full of cream puffs compared to modern DC.