Intro to the Liberty Dollar

Gold and silver money is back in use by a growing group of concerned Americans

Most Americans don’t realize the depth of America’s current monetary crisis, and those who do don’t stop using money in protest. Most people just shrug their shoulders instead. As the old saying goes, "you can’t fight city hall."

So for years, Americans have stood by and watched as the Internal Revenue Service has dipped deeper and deeper into our paychecks, and the Federal Reserve has entrenched itself into the economy. Maybe because we didn’t really want to know the truth, we’ve never even bothered to ask the tough questions.

In the same vein, no one questioned the Social Security program until just a few years ago. Everyone assumed it was healthy and would be solvent forever. But now we know that it's in deep financial trouble, and it's not clear whether or not it can even be saved.

The Federal Reserve Isn't Federal

It’s incredible how few people know the facts about the Federal Reserve. The organization chaired by Alan Greenspan is not "Federal" – it is instead a cabal of private and international banks that does not answer to the United States government. And while there is some precious metal stored in Fort Knox, it doesn't back the fiat currency that they issue, because nothing backs it except your trust in the system! Even a casual look at the Fed’s history leads one to wonder how an institution that profits mightily from its own policies by victimizing Americans has maintained control over the money of the wealthiest nation on Earth. For those who have made a serious inquiry, the Federal Reserve is shadowed in deceptive origins and fraudulent policies.

Are people who attack the Federal Reserve just conspiracy theorists? Definitely not. Many don’t believe a conspiracy has taken place – they simply feel that the current system is out of control.

Maybe they're right, and the Federal Reserve is an outgrowth of a few bad decisions made ninety years ago and carried forth to their logical extensions by well-meaning, but misguided, public servants. On the other hand, hundreds of authors and commentators have gathered an impressive body of facts and documentation that show how the U.S. Constitution was deliberately circumvented to allow the central bankers control over our money, and how the IRS uses scare tactics and even violence to browbeat American citizens. These students of the nation’s monetary system aren’t kooks - they’re professors, political scientists, judges, Congressmen and Presidents.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

- Frederick Bastiat; economist, statesman, author of The Law

Greenspan knows the danger but can't stop it

Whatever the true nature of the Federal Reserve, it is dangerous to the long-term financial health of our country. Its money and its policies will eventually lead to total financial ruin, just as they nearly did during the Great Depression. The facts are inescapable – even the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, understands the danger and seems unable or unwilling to save us.

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold.... The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights."

- Alan Greenspan; "Gold and Economic Freedom"

It's not quite monopoly money, but it's a money monopoly

For the newly initiated, these revelations are followed by anger, frustration and a good old American shrug followed by, "What can I do?" Enter the Liberty Dollar - the solution the Federal Reserve's 'money monopoly'. On October 1, 1998, the first Liberty Dollar, which is 100% backed and 100% redeemable in gold and silver, rolled off the presses. The Liberty Dollar provides a simple solution: "Stop using Federal Reserve money and start using the Liberty Dollar to return America to value - one dollar at a time."

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

– Edmund Burke

It's legal and everyone is doing it

It might surprise you to learn that it’s totally legal to issue your own currency like the Liberty Dollar. In fact, there are over sixty communities in the U.S. that issue their own money (many have been reported in media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Parade, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.) Many national newspapers, magazines, and TV stations -- and even radio star Paul Harvey -- have covered the Liberty Dollar itself. Legally, The Liberty Dollar is a warehouse receipt for a specific weight of pure .9999 fine gold or .999 fine silver that is stored in a warehouse in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The warehouse receipt is your proof of ownership, which means if you hold the receipt, you own that gold and silver.

So for the first time since 1913, you can own your own money. When the people own the money, the people control the government. When the government owns the money, the government controls the people.

Remeber the Post Office before FEDEX?

Bernard von NotHaus, the Liberty Dollar's Monetary Architect, explains that for years America was saddled with a slow, unresponsive Postal Service. Then one day, against all the odds, FedEx brought competition to the heavily subsidized government agency that no one thought could ever change. To the surprise of many, the Postal Service responded and improved service noticeably. The Liberty Dollar emulates this model. It is a useful currency that competes in the marketplace with Federal Reserve Notes. Liberty Dollar silver certificates fit in the cash register and function on a 1-to-1 basis with the Federal Reserve Notes so they are easy for businesses to use. The new currency is available in the same convenient denominations: $1, $5 and $10 in silver plus a $500 gold certificate.

The Liberty Dollar is superior money

The first step in repealing the Federal Reserve is to identify "the choir". To finance such an ambitious goal, we use this novel product, money, to bring together the millions of Americans who have long questioned the Federal Reserve's constitutional legality; much less its benevolence. Through the use of beautiful artwork, an image of the Statue of Liberty, brilliant colors, serial numbers, silver foil, a hologram and superior counterfeit features on special paper, The Liberty Dollar is designed to solicit a response! And, voila! The choir has been growing ever since 1998. Over a million dollars has already been converted into Liberty Dollars, and as hard times ahead become painfully more evident, the tide continues to move against the Federal Reserve.

Our idea is to return the ownership of the money to the people, as a means of returning control of the country to the people. By converting your old, tired, dreaded Federal Reserve Notes into gold and silver certificates that are backed, insured, and guaranteed by a monthly independent audit, you also join the silent movement towards the repeal of the Federal Reserve, which has been identified as the institution at the root of many current U.S. and global financial problems.

"It’s only a matter of time before the truth is revealed that the Federal Reserve is nothing more than a national scam that has ripped off the American people and enslaved them with perpetual debt," according to von NotHaus. "I ask all concerned Americans to use The Liberty Dollar as an educational catalyst to bring about the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act, and return the currency to a value-based system owned by the American people."

ACT NOW!

Using The Liberty Dollar is your way to say you’re concerned and want better money that is of, by and for people. Becoming a Liberty Associate is an easy way to make money, do good, and have fun. It is time for you to make a stand and exercise your Constitutional rights. Exchange your Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) for real gold and silver certificates and help return America to value - one Liberty Dollar at a time.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

– Thomas Jefferson