Criminalizing Constitutional Currency November 23, 2007

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

November 23, 2007

The United States Constitution specifies that Congress has the authority to coin money; it also explicitly forbids the use of ?any Thing but gold and silver Coin [as] a Tender in Payment of Debts....?

At present, the currency defined as legal tender by the government is devoid of innate value. The dollar is considered valuable only because the government compels us to accept it.

About a decade ago, a citizen's group created the Liberty Dollar, a privately circulated alternative currency made of gold and silver coins, as well as negotiable notes backed by precious metal. This currency was used in mutually beneficial transactions between willing and fully informed buyers and sellers.

On November 15, federal agents seized all of the gold, silver, and platinum owned by the company that created the Liberty Dollar. The Feds justified this act of vulgar armed robbery by claiming that using gold and silver to conduct economic transactions is a species of fraud. From this perspective, using constitutional currency is a crime.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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