LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS: April 2007 Vol. 9 No. 4
Welcome new Readers, Associates, Merchants and RCOs!
CALL TO ACTION:
Please read this Newsletter. I know that is asking a lot in these hurried
times, but we have less than 30 days to hear from the US government. Then we
should know a bit more about why we are a bunch of “Federal Criminals.”
Check out the new $1 Copper Liberty for a buck and gold for only five
percent! Send in your Success Story and get more Liberty Dollars. Please
share this Newsletter with a friend and your email list. Plenty to do if you
really want to change the money / change the country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. About Thirty Days to Go...
2. $1 Copper Liberty is HOT
3. You're being lied to!
4. Gold is Ready to Break...
5. Gold Libertys at 5%!
6. Liberty Associate to Cost $500
7. New Brochure at Half Price!
8. Letter / Article to the Editor
9. Success Story / Incident of the Month
10. Question of the Month
11. Liberty Associate of the Month
12. Quote of the Month
1. About Thirty Days to Go...
The US Mint posted their warning on September 13th. We filed our
lawsuit on March 20th, which was acknowledged on March 25th. The government
has 60 days to reply to our complaint, which would be about May 25. Of
course the government will reply, in this special case – they must – or we
win by default. That is certainly not going to happen even though the
government has defaulted on obeying the US Constitution, by providing a
value based monetary system, a lawful tax system, etc., just to name a few.
Some time between now and the next issue of Liberty Dollar News, we
should learn a bit more about the government’s “reason” as to why we are a
bunch of Federal Criminals. Doesn’t that sound sweet... “a bunch of Federal
Criminals”... who just want a money that holds it value. For if we had “just
weights and measures” we would not even need the Liberty Dollar. I would be
laying on the beach in Hawaii. But in face of what is happening to our
money, any reasonable man or woman would be crazy not to protect yourself
and your purchasing power. The government “needs” the Liberty Dollar!
Thank you... thank you... thank you... for your donations. We have now
received over $10,000 in donations. And we gratefully appreciate every
dollar, regardless if it is one of those depreciating US dollars or one of
those beautiful appreciating Liberty Dollars. We just need a lot more...
like $90,000 more to be honest. Please consider sending in another donation.
And if you have not... shame on youJ. Get off of a dollar... send it in...
you will feel good, knowing that you are actually doing something instead of
just talking about the problem. Seriously, please make a donation. And
remember, for every $20 you donate you will receive a very special Victory
Dollar that can only be had by making a donation of at least $20. And you
get one Victory Dollar for very $20 you donate. Trust me, these Victory
Dollars are going to be HOT on eBay after we win!
Thanks again for your support. It means a great deal to Liberty Dollar
organization to know that our effort has your support. Click
HERE to donate
online with a bankcard.
2. $1 Copper Liberty is HOT
WOW! The pre-issue Alert lit up the phones! You still have until midnight
(PDT) Monday, April 30 to place your order or add to your order for this
very Special Offer. Please send an email over the weekend or call before
midnight Monday. Remember the office closes at 5:00 CDT on Monday. You can
also fax your order to: 775.218.1847.
No doubt! The... new... big... heavy... One ounce for One Dollar Copper
Liberty is HOT!
In our fight to defend your right to use gold, silver or anything of choice
in commerce, we will issue a new $1 Copper Liberty within the next 100 days.
Each One Dollar Copper Liberty will feature the same designs, contain one
ounce of pure copper and be the same size as the $20 Silver Liberty (39 mm)!
For commodity monetary purists this is another big step. This draws a
direct comparison between the US Mint’s new, smaller BS dollar and the
larger, genuine weighted bullion, free enterprise, free market, Copper
Liberty Dollar. For the numismatists, the new Copper Lib is similar to the
old "Large Cent" authorized by the Mint Act of 1792 and minted from 1793 to
1857. The Large Cent contained one "cent" worth of copper. My, how times and
our money has changed. The new $1 Copper Liberty says a lot! Now we are
barely able to mint and distribute a Copper Dollar for one government-issued
US buck! And the future looks worse for the embattled US dollar.
Our first order is for only 10,000 Copper Libertys. We are not sure if a
re-order will be possible due to wild copper prices, which were almost
double the current level just a few months ago. But we have this opportunity
to produce a unique $1 Copper Liberty and I invite you to place your
pre-orders NOW, please. All Liberty Associates can get the new $1 Copper
Liberty for only $0.90 each on a minimum of 10 Dollars. Maximum order is 100
Copper Libs at this pre-issue discounted price.
This Special Offer is limited to one week only!
Expires at midnight (PDT) Monday, April 30.
Please call the office: 888.LIB.DOLLAR or 888.421.6181 to make a donation or
to order Copper Libertys, as it is so new, it is not yet available on the
Shopping Cart.
Thank you for your order and donation. If you wish to order more $1
Copper Libs, please call before this Special Offer expires. It is HOT!
3. You're being lied to!
By Larry Edelson for Money and Markets
Recently I told you how the Dow has lost over 50% of its
value since 2001, despite its recent gains. Put another way, if you bought
all the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials back in 2001, the purchasing
power of your investment today would be less than half what it was back
then.
In fact, for the Dow to regain the purchasing power it had six years ago,
it would have to double to more than 24,000! [Editor’s note: Read this line
again!]
I don't know about you, but I think losing 50% of your money's purchasing
power is an outright disaster. Even worse, most investors fail to recognize
this has happened. That's because the government is lying about inflation.
Today, I want to talk about the root of the problem — the terribly weak
U.S. dollar. And I'll tell you what its consequence, rising inflation, means
for your portfolio. Because if you don't grasp what's happening, your
investments will get killed.
The Dollar Continues
To Get Creamed …
Since early March, in barely a month's time, the U.S. dollar has lost
another 1.9% of its value against other major currencies. It's lost the same
— in some cases even more — when compared to minor currencies, such as the
Thai baht, Malaysian ringgit, and more.
You can see the decline in the chart to the right. It's not a pretty
picture. What's behind the dollar's fall? All the forces I've been warning
you about:
Please click
HERE to read this
short, powerful article.
4. Gold is Ready to Break...
Gold is Ready to Break Important Records
By James Turk of GoldMoney
Gold's record high was reached when it popped above $850 in January 1980.
That fact is well known. What is less well known is that gold traded at that
price for only a few seconds and that a sharp price drop occurred after this
peak, which clearly marks the January 1980 high to be a classic “blow-off”
top.
The day it reached that record price, gold actually closed far below at
$825.50, which is its all-time closing high. The next day gold literally
collapsed, closing at $682.
In fact, gold has closed above $800 on only 3 days - the day of the
blow-off peak and the 2 days before. In its entire history, gold has closed
in the $700s on only 12 days, of which 3 were in May 2006.
It is even more startling to look at gold's weekly closes. In its entire
history, only once has gold closed the end of a week above $800. What's even
more surprising is that only once has gold had a weekly close in the $700s,
and that one occurred in May 2006.
I consider the weekly closing price of any asset to be most important.
Within any week prices can be easily buffeted up and down by day traders and
scalpers, unwilling to make a long-term commitment with their money. While
these traders make a useful contribution to a market by providing liquidity,
the distortion in prices caused by their buying and selling when they put
their money into action may mask the true underlying value of an asset as
well as add volatility that may shake-out weak hands. It is important to
note that these short-term traders will rarely carry a position over a
weekend when the markets are closed and they are unable to change their
position until Monday's open. So because this “hot” money is out of the
market by the end of the week, the weekly closing price becomes an important
measure of overall supply and demand.
Gold closed this past week at $692, its fourth highest ever weekly close.
Can an all-time weekly closing high be far behind? I don't think so. I think
one is right around the corner.
Gold is in a major bull market. The fundamental factors that are driving
it higher remain very bullish. Gold's technical factors also continue to be
very bullish. But why do I think the $715 area at which gold topped last May
will not stop gold this time around?
No one of course knows the future, so I might be proven wrong. But I am
sticking my neck out by saying that I expect gold to blow through $715 this
time. I include the words "this time" on purpose.
I first identified the $715 level to be an important resistance point
even before gold reached that price in May 2006. In my April 16, 2006 alert
I said: "Gold hurdled over barriers 1-3, and barrier #4 waits above at
$715." A month later gold was then subsequently turned back from that $715
level. I reproduce below the same chart from that April 2006 alert, updated
to the present.
What's clear from the above chart is that gold is again rapidly
approaching the $715 level and its May 2006 weekly high close. Importantly,
gold is in a very strong technical position.
These points are of course also well known to the gold cartel, which for
several years has been preventing gold from trading in a free and unfettered
market, as has been so capably and repeatedly demonstrated by the Gold-Anti
Trust Action Committee. Given the importance of the $715 level, it is
therefore no wonder that the gold cartel's efforts to cap the gold price in
recent weeks have become more frantic and therefore so obvious, for example,
the surges in Comex open interest on only a relatively small price rise, the
late-in-the-day sell-offs after the physical gold market in London closes,
and the blatant attempts to “paint-the-tape” in the thin trading conditions
after New York closes and before London opens. But don't worry here too much
about the gold cartel.
The gold cartel is no doubt a nemesis, but it is not all powerful. It
cannot forever hold back the flood of people rushing out of the dollar and
other fiat currency into the safety and security of real, physical gold.
Consequently, I expect the gold cartel to retreat here, only to continue
its capping efforts at a higher gold price. What price will that be? I
expect that the gold cartel will probably retreat to around $750 per ounce,
i.e., above $24 per goldgram. But it could end up being a lot higher.
In any case, get ready. It looks to me that over the coming weeks, gold
is about to set some important new records.
James Turk founded GoldMoney – a digital gold based payment system in
2001. He has written the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an
investment newsletter, since 1987. James is a personal friend and is well
known in the precious metal industry. More information is available at
www.GoldMoney.com.
5. Gold Libertys at 5%!
Some time ago, I received a disturbing email from an Associate who was
very upset that we did not market the Gold Liberty. Oh, sure we have a
picture of the beautiful Gold Liberty as part of the cluster image of the
currency, but the Associate’s point was that there was no info about its
price. More importantly, he wanted 100 ounces but not at Face Value of $1000
each!
Of course with a face value of $1000 each his point was understandable
and that is why the Gold Liberty is volume priced. The larger the order, the
lower the price. And while there is little to be done about the spot price,
the premium on the Gold Liberty is very competitive. In fact, in most
instances, Gold Libertys are cheaper than US Mint Gold Eagles or their new
Gold Buffalos. And while the Gold Liberty does not have the aura of the US
government, that is a positive statement for some people.
So I searched for “gold” in my computer and turned up 296 gold articles
from Alan Greenspan, to Harry Schultz, to James Turk, to J. Orlin Grabbe, to
Lew Rockwell, to Murray Rothbard, to Richard Heinberg, to Friedrich von
Hayek, to more than a dozen writers. Everything was covered from market
actions, valuations, court actions, confiscation, history, the Islamic gold
dinar, and even found my old article on an Organic Gold Standard. But not a
word about Liberty Associates getting Gold Libertys at a discount!
Then I searched the Liberty Dollar site online. Still no pricing! So now
let it be known that the private, non-government Gold Liberty is well priced
in comparison to all the major government issued gold bullion coins from the
United States, Canada, China, Austria, England and Australia. Plus it has
the highest Face Value and functions in the marketplace whereas none of the
other government bullion coins come close.
$1000 Gold Liberty Pricing for Liberty Associates
Each Gold Liberty contains one Troy ounce of .9999 fine
gold
Cash price – no bankcards are accepted please
Shipping and handling no included
1 – 4 Gold Libertys: Spot plus 10% premium
5 – 9 Gold Libertys: Spot plus 9% premium
10 – 24 Gold Libertys: Spot plus 8% premium
25 – 49 Gold Libertys: Spot plus 7% premium
50 – 99 Gold Libertys: Spot plus 6% premium
100 + Gold Libertys: Spot plus 5% premium
There you have it! Gold at 5%! And while I remain a raging silver
bull, I understand that storage and other personal considerations are
important factors. Plus it is a lot easier to run with 20 ounces of gold
versus 1000 ounces of silver! So if you want to get gold, here it is... at a
great price. Beautifully minted. Totally private. No reporting. Very liquid
anywhere in the world. The Fulfillment Office can usually ship within a
week. Please call 888.LIB.DOLLAR or 888.421.6181 to confirm order at current
market rates. Payment is required within 24 hours, please.
6. Liberty Associate to Cost $500
No, it does not cost $500 to become a Liberty Associate... YET. But it
will... when the Liberty Dollar Moves Up to the $50 Silver Base. Just as the
price of gold and silver “goes up” to reflect the loss of purchasing power
of the US dollar, the price to become a Liberty Associate will go up to $500
from the current $250 level.
Of course the good news is that the Referral goes up to $200 and the new
Liberty Associate will get $200 Liberty Dollars upon joining. The best news
is that this has not happened yet. So if you are flirting with becoming a
Liberty Associate... NOW is the time to join the party for only $250.
Please call the Office at 888.LIB.DOLLAR or 888.421.6181 to get all your
questions answered. Hope to hear from you before we Move Up to $500.
7. New Brochure at Half Price!
Due to opposition voiced by Liberty Merchants to the strong language in
the previous brochures, great efforts have been made with the new brochure.
The strong comparison between the purchasing power of 1913 to 2001 is still
present, as is the differences between a value based currency and the
government’s debt based fiat currency. It is just presented in a way that
will not alienate anyone from reading it. Our “message” remains the same and
is still there. Plus the new phone number and other changes have been
upgraded.
So to launch the new brochure, they are available at Half Price! Get 10
or 1000 for only a nickel each! And like all our collateral materials, we
are most happy to accept the Liberty Dollar in payment. In fact we prefer
the new gold and silver currency! So please get some brochures, share the
word and let’s return America to a value based system.
8. Letter / Article to the Editor
Due to the articles by James and Larry, no additional articles are
included.
Wish to comment about the Liberty Dollar? Please submit your “Letter to
the Editor” to me:
Bernard@LibertyDollar.org.
Thanks for reading the Liberty Dollar News.
9. Success Story / Incident of the Month
Win a $20 Silver Liberty for the best Success Story up to 200 words, a
$10 Silver Liberty for the best Success Story up to 100 words or $5 Silver
Liberty for the best Success Story up to 50 words. Please email your Success
Story to
Sarah@LibertyDollar.org.
The only Incident to report this month is the good end to a bad story.
To the best of my knowledge there have only been three people actually
arrested for the Liberty Dollar. Only one was actually thrown in jail. So
when Robert Miller with the Rabun First Liberty Exchange in Mountain City,
Georgia, was arrested and actually thrown in jail, I was shocked. Robert,
who was probably not as shocked as I was, took his charge of felony forgery
in the 2nd degree for tendering a $10 Silver Liberty in November of 2006 as
a misunderstanding and put his faith in the hands of God, while he faced
four years in state prison.
The good news is that the charges were recently dismissed. The arrest
never even went to the Grand Jury for indictment. Robert is free of all
charges. It remains to be determined what restitution the government will
make for the arrest and holding Robert in jail for three days.
To date: Only three arrests and only one ended in jail. This is an
amazingly low number given the thousands and thousands of transactions,
using millions and millions of Liberty Dollars. It seems using the new
currency is as safe as flying. Give it a go. Join the fun. Be sure to send
in your Success Story and report all Incidents to the Office, please.
10. Question of the Month
QUESTION: What did the Mint Act of 1792 say about killing people who
debased the country’s money?
ANSWER: The Mint Act of 1792 stated: "That if any of the gold or silver
coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint shall be debased or
made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein
contained ...every such officer or person who shall commit any or either of
the said offences, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer
death.” Obviously, our Founding Fathers were serious about having good money
and I think we should be also.
11. Liberty Associate of the Month
What I like about the Liberty Dollar are the bright people and the bright
ideas that they bring to the currency. Such is the case with the Liberty
Couple of the Month. Unfortunately, many wives do not share their husband’s
understanding or passion about our country’s money. In fact, I am usually
shocked by the comments I hear as I travel. So it is always greatly
appreciated to have a lady’s support. And that certainly applies to this
Liberty Couple of the Month. Recently, when a group of California RCOs
gathered at a Gun Show in Reno , the Liberty Couple of the Month developed
this phrase: “Your Federal Reserve Notes Redeemable in Silver here.” What a
great line. For this line and their other innovative work, I am pleased to
name Alex and Jan Salsbery the Liberty Couple of the Month. Congratulations,
guys, and thank you for your fine efforts and good ideas!
12. Quote of the Month
"One of the three greatest lies ever told is, 'Hi, we're from the
government, and we want to help you.'" Ronald Reagan
Closing Remarks:
Many thanks to all the Liberty Associates, Merchants, and RCOs for your
continued support. 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/Editor
Editor@LibertyDollar.org
www.LibertyDollar.org
888.LIB.DOLLAR
888.421.6181