Liberty Dollar sues the US Mint

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Your urgent assistance is requested:

On Tuesday, March 20, 2007 the Liberty Dollar filed suit against the U.S. Mint in U.S. District Court in Evansville Indiana.  The organization asked the court to declare that the use of the Liberty Dollar is not a ?federal crime,? as claimed by the U.S. Mint. And the organization further asked the court to enter a permanent injunction against the U.S. Mint requiring it to remove any reference that the use of Liberty Dollars is a federal crime from its website.   

Of course the US Mint allegation is not the law, in fact, it is a lie.  The federal lawsuit Bernard von NotHaus  individually and d/b/a Liberty Dollar v. Henry M. Paulson, Jr,  Secretary of the Treasury, Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, and Edmond C. Moy, Director, United States Mint can be viewed by clicking the link.

Trust me, this lawsuit is no small matter.  Nor is the cost.  Initially estimated at $100,000 ? we simply have no idea what the actual total cost will be.  But it is not cheap to sue the US government that makes their money out of thin air and pays their attorneys with your income tax dollars. 

Please let me be blunt, honest and to the point:  We need your help, please.  For more info and to make a small donation to this important case, please click HERE.

I know not how you may decide but for me: Give me Liberty Dollars ? or give me death.  For it is only by banding together and adopting a free and independent currency which provides us with ?just weights and measures? will we be able to throw off the yoke of a manipulated monetary/tax system and generate a peaceful and prosperous society.

Thank you again for all your efforts to return America to value ? one dollar at a time!

Bernard von NotHaus
Monetary Architect
www.LibertyDollar.org
888.LIB.DOLLAR
888.421.6181

[Russell Kanning]

He has got to be kidding me. He wants us to donate money to his organization so they can spend it on lawyers. They are playing right into the hands of the stinkin government. Play by their rules and fund their system .... and you are already the loser.

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I'm just passing along the information.

I don't plan to send him any Federal Reserve Notes.

[Russell Kanning]

I got the email also .... I am signed up as a merchant and such.
Obviously they have totally different ends and means than I do.

[Dan]

I like the suggestion to buy LD's from them in place of donating them FRN's. 

[lordmetroid]

That I could very well do, what they spend their profit on is not my concern as long as I get my desired product. I hope the lawsuit will go the same way as the fed-ex lawsuit though. But the chance is always there that they will loose.

[Tyler Stearns]

You can click this link to see what the US Mint has on their site: http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/index.cfm?action=hotitems

Personally, I think what the mint has written is misleading and they should get the same treatment as NORFED/LD. 

US Mint claims LD is misleading because they say it is "currency" (which apparently can be confused with their gov-issued money).  The Mint does not say, however, that the LD site claims the LD is a private currency.    LD also says the it is NOT legal tender.

The US Mint also says that the claim of LD being legal/Constitutional is misleading.  But LD explains on their site why they say this.  They call it "legal" because it is not counterfeit and the bills are technically warehouse receipts, which are totally voluntary.  They say it is "constitutional" because the LD is a way of exercising your 1st amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[TheLibertyZombie]

<<I know not how you may decide but for me: Give me Liberty Dollars ? or give me death. >>

!!!!!

[David]

got to agree with Russel.  But to add to it, the LD guys are trying to run things like a legal business, and in the process they are steping on powerful toes that stand to lose if the LD ever was to be popular.  In theory they may win in court, but in the end they will lose.  It is kinda like the guy who spends 10 years battling zoning, or a fed conservation thing.  He may win, but he lost 10 years doing it. 
It is unfortunate, that smelting gold is very hard to do in secret, then distributed via gray market. 

[lordmetroid]

Maybe they are making a pre-emptive strike. Perhaps NORFED have been expecting the feds to charge them for some time and decided to strike first.

Or maybe they are just thinking in statist ways.

[PowerPenguin]

Norfed is dead, man. It's now simply "The Liberty Dollar", probably Inc.