Buczek, 55, and Shane Buczek, 34, both of Derby, are believed to be the first people to be charged in this region for trying to make purchases with the Liberty dollar, a privately minted $20 coin.
Liberties, as the coins are called, are viewed by some people as an alternative to the U.S. government’s monetary system. The organization that makes Liberties claims that more than $15 million worth are in circulation throughout the nation.
“We weren’t trying to break any law,” Daniel Buczek said. “We weren’t passing counterfeit currency. We use Liberty silver dollars because they are backed by silver, and I believe the American monetary system is going to collapse.”
According to the Secret Service and a Washington spokesman for the U.S. Mint, Liberties are not cash. They are not made by the government and are not considered legal tender. The coins are made by an Evansville, Ind., organization called the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code.
I’ll remember to get some before I report to my militia camp. Give me a break, nothing by anarcists who hord supplies and wait for the government to collapse, aliens to invade, meteors to fall, whatever. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, sorry.
What if it does gquaglia? Not that I care… I don’t live in USA.
For me the name of the organization says it all:
National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code.
Sound like these fokes are counting on it failing, or maybe ploting to make it so.
Just another group of anarcists who can’t cope with society, so they attempt to make up their own rules.
so … mint a ‘coin’ that is not silver itself but is supposedly backed by a mysterious horde of silver soemwhere, and pass it off to merchants who give them change in real money. this seems like a painfully straightforward scam to me.
of course, the guys in the article got themselves arrested for nothing – there’s be no change from a $20 for a hockey game beer!
gquaglia
Good comments. I’m right with ya on this one.
Steve,
Hey, I’m a people too !!! And I got rid of all my Liberty coins over a week ago, before the Liberty Dollar crash.
This coin will Liberate you from your legal tender, and place your cash and trust in an organization devoted to destroying (“replacing”) the economic processes. Makes perfect sense, to a moron.
God, please grant me the continued blessing of life on the left or right coast.
This moron tells an interesting story: http://proliberty.com/observer/20030804.htm
If the two parties agree on the terms of the transaction, then what’s wrong with that? I don’t see how it using your own currency will cause any harm. It’s just like barter. And it’s done in a free coutry.
Estacado, see my post. Sven Holmgaard bought a phone card at Wal*Mart with these slugs, and the only person to pay the cost is the cashier who will have to make up the difference between the till and the receipts. The website http://www.libertydollar.org/ says their dollars are worth less than the face value, sounds like a great deal if you already have em! (sarcasm)
An interesting theory on “The Wizard of Oz”:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is one of America’s favorite pieces of juvenile literature. Children like it because it is a good story, full of fun characters and exciting adventures. Adults–especially those of us in history and related fields–like it because we can read between L. Frank Baum’s lines and see various images of the United States at the turn of the century. That has been true since 1964, when American Quarterly published Henry M. Littlefield’s “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism.” Littlefield described all sorts of hidden meanings and allusions to Gilded Age society in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the wicked Witch of the East represented eastern industrialists and bankers who controlled the people (the Munchkins); the Scarecrow was the wise but naive western farmer; the Tin Woodman stood for the dehumanized industrial worker; the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Bryan, Populist presidential candidate in 1896; the Yellow Brick Road, with all its dangers, was the gold standard; Dorothy’s silver slippers (Judy Garland’s were ruby red, but Baum originally made them silver) represented the Populists’ solution to the nation’s economic woes (“the free and unlimited coinage of silver”); Emerald City was Washington, D.C.; the Wizard, “a little bumbling old man, hiding behind a facade of paper mache and noise, . . . able to be everything to everybody,” was any of the Gilded Age presidents.(1)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was no longer an innocent fairy tale. According to Littlefield, Baum, a reform-minded Democrat who supported William Jennings Bryan’s pro-silver candidacy, wrote the book as a parable of the Populists, an allegory of their failed efforts to reform the nation in 1896…
…Jensen then proceeded to add two new points to the standard Littlefield interpretation, finding analogies for Toto and Oz itself: Dorothy’s faithful dog represented the teetotaling Prohibitionists, an important part of the silverite coalition, and anyone familiar with the silverites’ slogan “16 to 1”–that is, the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold–would have instantly recognized “Oz” as the abbreviation for “ounce.”
link: http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm
I wonder if this has anything to do with banks sprouting everywhere recently in Manhattan. There are literally banks on almost every block it seems here. And they have only opened within the last couple of years.
Do banks know something that we don’t? There is something fishy about all these new banks.
Frank
The Wizard of Qz is a Fantasy. Period. End of story. There is nothing between the lines. Frank Baum wrote the story over several years as stories told to his and other’s children. Please don’t destroy a great piece of literature by suggesting there is something to it that the author never intended.
BTW. Frank Baum lived for awhile in Bass Lake Indiana where he started his stories. A few miles away, and on the rail line, is the small town of Toto. The street in front of his store was paved with bricks. North of Bass Lake in the county seat, Knox, several streets are still paved with bricks. For awhile he had a dwarf work for him in his store. Though not as bad as Kansas, Bass Lake is on a very flat prairie and is also prone to extreme storms and tornadoes. Chicago, is about 60 miles away. 110 years ago, Chicago was the center of the universe in the mid-west.
I used my liberty coins to buy a big gun and go shoot it with all the other rebels and blow things up and then shout ‘Yeah’ and get myself a ‘Nuke em till they glow’ bumper sticker and put on a big Hummer that makes me feel really tough and pay for my gas with liberty coins that will free me from those Airabs and then when I see an armadillo crossing the road I can run him over with my big truck a yell ‘Yeah’ and when the price of the gas goes up and it takes me 175 dollars to fill my tank I can blame them damn liberals for 9-11 and the price of gas and I can wish for the good-old-days where I could wear my hooded white robe and hang out with my friends and maybe show people how tough and serious we are about law and order so we can find ourselves a random black person and hang him and yell ‘Yeah’ and then when I look over my big fat belly and I can’t see my penis anymore I can feel bad about myself so I can start loading up bullets so I can blow things up again next year and I can feel like I actually have some balls left and I can watch Fox news and see how the world is really us against them and when the preechur on the 700 club says that we should ask god to kill everyone that we don’t like I can yell ‘Yeah!’ and I can wear my real military cammouflage pants to the supermarket and the KFC and people will look at me and say to themselves “he’s tough” and then I can treat the wetback behind the counter badly because I’m an American and he isn’t so he aint shit and he should go back to his country and leave this country to us Americans and when some prissy america-hating liberal asks me what I have actually done for America I can go ‘Huh’ and have no answer and feel bad and walk back home because I no real money just these stupid liberty coins are fake and I traded my real money for them and I have no money for gas and I have no job because the Walmart took it and gave it to someone else for minimum wage and I might as well just take this gun that I bought with my liberty dollars and put it in my mouth and pull the trigger and not quite do the job right and lay there and see my wife walk in and look at me and the last thing I hear is her saying ‘Yeah!’.
Ted,
Good story. Though I’m surprised you didn’t wear cowboy boots like a real American would.