LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS: May 2007 Vol. 9 No. 5

e-gold® Founder Denies Criminal Charges
April 30, 2007
Melbourne, FL

On April 24, 2007, a Federal Grand Jury handed down an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the Directors of both companies with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business, and conspiracies to commit both offenses.

Dr. Douglas Jackson, Chairman and Founder of e-gold, speaking on behalf of his fellow Directors and both companies vigorously denies the charges, taking particular exception to the allegations that either company ever turned a blind eye to payments for child pornography or for the sale of stolen identity and credit card information.

Click HERE to read Doug’s complete statement of denial

Please join me at the prestigious American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on Thursday, June 21, 2007, at 3:00 for a major presentation on: “Private Money - The solution to our monetary quagmire." Five major fields will be discussed before a very astute audience including Federal Reserve employees, hard money devotees, economists, and students attending the AIER Summer Fellowship Program. Please check out the AIER, one of our country’s oldest and strongest supporters of real money and ideals that made our country great at: www.AIER.org. Additional info is available via info@aier.org.

Free State Project annual 2007 Porcupine Freedom Festival, June 18 - June 24, 2007, at the Gunstock Mountain Resort, in Gilford, NH, follows AIER presentation. The title this year is: "Discover New Freedoms, New Communities, and New Beginnings!" For more info please visit: http://freestateproject.org/festival/  Hope to see you there!

ANNOUNCING: Liberty Dollar University 14 (LDU-14). Please join the incredible group of RCOs in Michigan – July 25th to the 28 at Birch Run, Michigan, 20 miles north of Flint off of I-75. Meet & Greet starts at 6:00 PM on July 25th. Co-Hosted by Dave Gillie and Jeff Kotchounian, it promises to be a great event to discuss the evolving RCO model, lawsuit, and the latest HOT developments. The very first Copper Libertys should be at this event. Liberty Associates and RCOs are encouraged to attend. Please call the office at 888.421.6181 to reserve your spot! The annual RCO Congress (for RCOs only) will follow this LDU.

Summer Slows/Summer Lows: It is already the end of May and we just had Labor Day. With silver at $13 per ounce, and the central banks in Europe selling off gold like there is no tomorrow to keep precious metals depressed, is there any doubt that we are headed for the annual “summer slows/summer lows”? It certainly looks that way to most hard metal commentators. Bottom line is that the down side is a lot less the upside. I would encourage you to pick up some silver.

Suspicious Visitor Report (SVR): Filed by Dr. Jay Constant of Good Food Conspiracy North in Meredith, NH. As you may recall, he is an official Merchant and initially alerted us to the fact that Meredith PD was hand carrying a negative letter around to all the businesses. Here is his SVR:

Pretty sure, but not positive, I had "someone" in my store "working under cover" in reference to Liberty Dollars. Not a suit and tie, rather "biker" appearance. He hung out about 10 minutes while I was helping someone out. Then began conversation about photos on my wall. Then he said he just came from "Ed Brown’s" compound (back in early April). I asked if he knew Ed, and he said yes. I then asked if he knew Mike LaMesa, and he said "no." We talked for a few more minutes, and he switched the conversation to the Liberty Dollar. Then he made an "odd" statement. He said "didn't the Meredith Police Department inform me a few years ago that the Liberty Dollars were not legal tender"? This raised a red flag, as he had told me he was from the west coast, and very few people knew that Meredith PD had hand carried a negative letter around to all the businesses. He then wanted to buy one, and I told him I only had a few left, and based on $13 silver, I was waiting for silver to go up. He then got very "insistent" that I sell one to him, even for "face value." Well I kind of lucked out, as the one I took out was the special "New Hampshire" Liberty that I got from you, and told him I would have to get more than face value as it was a "collectors" strike. Even though he still wanted it, I held out, and he finally left. Something just didn't seem right, and he shouldn't have had any knowledge of the visit from Meredith PD.

Have you heard any "similar" stories? If you have a suspicious visitor, please report it to the Evansville office.

Shaun Kranish, a 21-year-old Liberty Dollar supporter, who describes himself as “damn loyal” with his “heart is in the right place,” was arrested while attempting to use a $20 Silver Liberty at an outdoor ice cream place. Although I have not received a written report from Shaun, he did send this account to a fellow Liberty Dollar supporter:

My fiancé and I were arrested for attempting to make a trade at an outdoor ice cream place! I offered the lady a $20 Silver Liberty, and she took it. She came back a few minutes later and says that “this doesn’t exist” and I replied that it’s real silver. So she took it and went away again. At first I thought she was accepting it! Then she was away awhile, so I figured she wasn’t going to take it, so I got green paper out and laid it on the counter. Instead of her coming back to say she doesn’t want it, the cops show up! They ask if I was the one, and then asked me about the silver. I explained it all to the officer, but he arrested me anyway.

My fiancé wasn’t even with me when I attempted to make the trade. But the cops arrested her anyway because she was pleading with them not to arrest me. They took my car keys from me and began searching my car. They said, “I know you have a gun” and kept searching. After 25 minutes and still not finding my gun, they threatened to tear my car apart. So I told them where it was (in a zipper case laying on the floor). They stole the gun, our groceries, three packs of cigars, my fiancé’s wallet out of the car, my wallet off my body, and perhaps other things. They impounded my car. They took us to the police station separately. The officer that arrested me then tried to say I was drunk (I had one beer that night, two hours prior to arrest – this was my only alcoholic intake). He said I had to do a field sobriety test or they would charge me with drunk driving. I refused, because I knew that the cop knew I wasn’t drunk, and I didn’t trust him to say otherwise on paper.

They interrogated my fiancé. They took me to the hospital and forcefully drew blood without my consent supposedly to test for alcohol. I’m probably in a DNA database now – I’ve read about Wisconsin doing this very often. They threw us in jail for 24 hours – my fiancé was placed in solitary confinement with no windows, or anything to do. Neither of us was afforded a phone call, until my fiancé demanded it (then they gave her a phone call, and not me). My lawyer tracked me down and they pulled me out of the cell to talk to him, but that was already the next day!

When they brought us to the jail, they read charges of “Theft by fraud” for me – 3 charges to be precise – all misdemeanors, and one charge of “carrying a concealed weapon” – because apparently an unloaded pistol zipped in a case in your car is considered a “concealed weapon” in Wisconsin (one of only 2 states with no concealed carry provision in law). This was also a misdemeanor.

We were placed on closed-circuit video TV the next day to appear before a judge for a bond hearing with no lawyer. The judge read off three felony charges for me and set a $10,000 signature bond, $2500 cash bond, and with the condition that my fiancé and I may have no contact whatsoever with each other. They did the same for her. My parents paid to get us out. We drove home in separate cars and everything.

[Editor note: The bottom line is that “intent” must be proven to be found guilty of fraud. So it is obvious that Shaun is innocent. But as he has been arrested four times in the past two years and only once for the Liberty Dollar, this should be saying a lot to anyone, especially if you are 21 years old. I hope to hear from Shaun soon.]

QUESTION: When will the new $1 Copper Libertys be shipped?

ANSWER: We anticipate receiving the Copper Libertys about August 1st. We will start shipping orders immediately upon receipt. Orders will be filled in the order received. We know everyone is anxious to receive their new Copper Libertys. We will ship them ASAP. If you placed your order in April, your order will be shipped in August. If you placed your order in May, you may not receive it until September. Earlier if possible.

Many of the Liberty Associates and Merchants are just invisible. That’s what made the G-boys’ visit to Mark in Lexington so amazing. Likewise, many of the people who make up the Liberty Dollar organization are ordinary people doing extraordinary things to support the Liberty Dollar. Such was the case when I went to Liberty Dollar University 12 in San Jose , California . When this month’s Liberty Associate of the Month showed me the well-done lapel pin he had done, I was amazed. When I found out all that he was doing with the Liberty Dollar and how many he had used, I was very impressed. For many many reasons, I am proud to acknowledge Mike Parkin, a RCO in California , as the Liberty Associate of the Month. Congratulations, Mike, and thank you for all that you have brought to the Liberty Dollar.

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt." Cicero, circa 63 B.C. [Editor note: It took Rome 473 more years to fall on August 24, 410 AD. But with the Internet and our instant global communications I doubt that it will take nearly that long for us to experience the shorting comings of our current fraudulent monetary system.]

There you have it. Another exciting month. Certainly we will hear from our favorite government regarding our lawsuit before the next newsletter. If you have read this whole newsletter and are one of the first ten readers to call the Evansville office, you will win a special ten dollar silver liberty with the scales of justice hallmark.

Thanks again for reading this whole Newsletter, 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.

Thanks again for all your efforts to return America to value – one dollar at a time!