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Look up the phrase "a unique form of domestic terrorism" on a search engine and you will turn up a story about a man whom the US government is trying to cage from now until the time of his death. And his crime? His unique form of terrorism? He minted silver and copper coins and sold them. In other words, he did what innumerable entrepreneurs from the beginning of time have done. He attempted to provide consumers with a store of value. No one was forced to buy. He met a market demand, and that’s it. Whom did he hurt? FULL ARTICLE
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So Lew (or anyone reading this at the Mises Institute), what do you think of Utah passing its currency amendments?
I am little excited, but I’m wondering if anyone will use it or even notice it. I am also wondering what the feds are going to do about it.
My guess is that Utah’s government wants to confiscate as much gold as it can before the feds do likewise.
The hypocrisy of the state knows no bounds. Those who have themselves undermined the currency project their crime onto an innocent victim and jail him for it.
Allow me to go on the record as supporting this guy’s right to do what he’s doing. Arguably he shouldn’t have put the $ sign on his coins, but clearly the wrong being done here is govt intervention in a perfectly legal activity.
If endangering the economic stability of the US is an act of terrorism, why isn’t the US Congress, the President, and anyone who works in the Federal Reserve, FTC, FDA, FCC, EPA, DEA, etc, behind bars?
It is telling that while Mr. Nothaus is being persecuted for creating his own silver coinage, neither the feds nor the SPLC seem to care about the Chinese-made Morgan dollar counterfeits that often show up on E-Bay. Perhaps that is because the evil bankers really are ripping us off through their control of the money supply, and the use of silver coinage offers the only potentially viable alternative to Bernanke’s bailout bucks for many small over-the-counter transactions. It is the silver itself, not the anti-Fed political activism, that terrifies them.
Of course, what our rulers really ought to be afraid of is the fate of the gigantic hoard of excess bank reserves that have been rapidly piling up at the Federal Reserve Banks. One tiny misstep by the Fed now could mean hyperinflation, global economic collapse, and worse. No amount of scapegoating of people like Mr. NotHaus can preserve the legitimacy of a regime if it allowed such a nightmare to unfold.
“He very much exists in the world of the anti-government patriot movement, whatever he may say. That’s who his customers are.”
Evidently a hate crime!
Couldn’t this be a good enough precedent to jail bernanke & gaithner and others?
From your mouth (fingers?) to God’s ears. I am beginning to hate my country.
There is a really interesting dissenting view about this on lewrockwell.com today.
Check it out here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds34.1.html
The trouble with Mr. Round’s article, though, is that by strict application of his legal reasoning, the U.S. dollar itself is merely a fraudulent knock-off of the currency of various Habsburg governments and their successor regimes. The Austrian Thaler is the only genuine dollar that is still being minted, and even the lowly Mexican Peso has a much stronger legal claim to use of the dollar trademark ($) than the U.S. unit.
I commented on Robert Murphy’s companion article on this case, and I want to repeat what I said here:
Wonderful article, Robert Murphy, but you failed to state some unavoidable conclusions that are obvious from the facts in this case, to wit:
“1. The government of the United States is a criminal organization whose agents are vicious thugs. 2. A principal object of the prosecution was to steal NotHaus’ $7 million in silver (which is probably worth closer to $8 or $9 million at today’s higher price of silver due to the falling value of the dollar. The object of every criminal gang is to plunder the property of others by force or fraud. Because of the recession, the money that can be stolen from taxpayers is insufficient to sustain the thugs in the manner to which they have become accustomed, so they are resorting to methods that can loot all of a citizen’s wealth rather than just some of his or her income. 3. Americans’ servile acquiescence to theft by taxation has encouraged the thugs to drop any pretense of legitimacy. 4. Such desperate and palpably vicious measures to protect the government’s fiat currency from even rather frivolous competition implies that dollar devaluation may be imminent.”
And to these comments I want to add: My congratulation to Lew Rockwell, who has been on this glaring example of the government’s many crimes like a 165lb Rottweiler guard dog on an intruder. And say that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a slimy gang of government-licensed liarwyers so creepy it makes the Klu Klux Klan look respectable.
I find this to be really sad and so strange. What I really don’t get is why people are so adamant that he’s a crook, thief, blah blah.. According the lens with which they view the world, this was ‘an easy one’, and yet it is so completely and plainly obvious that he was doing nothing wrong. It seems as if he’s a martyr or something..
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