NEWS: The Ron Paul Buck Stops Here

POLITICS: The Ron Paul Buck Stops Here

Devoted Ron Paul fans, how many times has this happened to you?

You’re sitting around your high-tech survival bunker that you built in order to ride out the coming race war (also known as “the tin-foil covered basement of your mom’s house”). When you’re not too busy going online to view badly edited YouTube videos about how the Federal Reserve is sapping America’s precious bodily fluids, or spamming online polls and forums to show the sheeple how much support Dr. Paul really has despite the mainstream media only reporting biased polls that show him closer to Duncan Hunter than Rudy Giuliani, or playing World Of Warcraft and musing about how much better our economy would be if it was unfettered by the federal government and instead was run by hot Night Elf chicks, or showing off your “Revolution” shirt down at the local mall, you’re wondering how else you can show the world that you love Ron Paul so, so very much.

Well, up until this week, you could have expressed your Ron Paul love and your dislike of the Federal Reserve at the exact same time by buying “Ron Paul Dollars”.

Those of you who hate freedom and want to fuck our Constitution in the nostrils may be scratching your heads and saying “Ron Paul dollars?! I’m still freaking out about the fact that Richard Nixon’s going to eventually show up on a dollar coin, and now you’re telling me that the U.S. Mint is putting Ron Paul’s face on a dollar? Am I having a stroke?”

Not exactly.

The Ron Paul Dollar was actually created by the folks behind the “alternative currency” known as the Liberty Dollar.

The Liberty Dollar is the brainchild of self-proclaimed “money architect" Bernard von NotHaus, who back in 1998 came up with the idea of creating his own money. Unlike Federal Reserve Notes, von NotHaus’ money would be backed by actual silver and gold, just like the good old days. He then started a website and started selling Liberty Dollars in both coin and paper forms at a rate of $100 in Liberty Dollars for $107 in actual United States money, and offered a discount rate for people willing to pay (in Federal Reserve Notes) to become “Liberty Associates”. He also urged people to start using his new “voluntary private currency” at local merchants, and gave helpful tips on how to convince those merchants to accept Liberty Dollars:

But isn’t that, like, really rather spectacularly illegal?

Well, yes and no. While the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole power to “coin Money and regulate the Value thereof”, von NotHaus hedged his bets by never referring to the Liberty Dollars as “coins”. He also attempted to circumnavigate federal counterfeiting law by refusing to say that the Liberty Dollar was “legal tender”.

Of course, he did refer to the Liberty Dollar as “real money” and “currency” on his website, which inspired the U.S. Mint to issue a warning last year that Liberty Dollars were not in fact neither of the above, and that using them as circulating money was a federal crime.

Von NotHaus then sued the U.S. Mint, and started offering to send $20 Liberty Dollars to anyone who donated $20 to cover his legal costs…but only if von NotHaus eventually won the lawsuit.

Then in July of this year, as Ron Paul fever was sweeping the Internet, von NotHaus announced he was issuing special gold, silver and copper Ron Paul Liberty Dollars:

Apparently von NotHaus used the word “honest” once too often, since this week FBI and Secret Service agents followed the scent of irony back to the Liberty Dollar headquarters, located in what I’m sure is quite a lovely strip mall in Evansville, Illinois, and raided it on federal counterfeiting and money laundering charges. The feds also raided the Liberty Dollar production and storage facilities in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho and in addition to seizing the dies used to make the Liberty Dollar coins as well as the gold, silver and platinum that theoretically backed up the value of the paper Liberty Dollars, they seized over two tons of newly-arrived Ron Paul Dollars.

It’s worth pointing out that the Ron Paul campaign isn’t behind the creation of the Ron Paul Dollar. Or as von NotHaus said in his initial press release:

But fear not, faithful Ron Paul supporters! Even though the Ron Paul Dollar may have been stolen from your freedom-loving hands by the evil federales, maybe if you get enough of your fellow Constitution-restoring buddies to sign a petition, Dr. Paul can pay for his campaign ads in Linden Dollars!

With a tip of the tin-foil hat to TinyHobo

Oh, WIN.

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The combination of Ron Paul and Liberty Dollars was our only chance for freedom.

Sigh.

REAL MUNEY OR GTFO

tin-foil hat tip back

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Dr. Paul is going to be sO pissed.

Tinyhobo said:
tin-foil hat tip back

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All praises to you.

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Tinyhobo said:
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I kind of want to have sex with that picture.

Crazy people are so much fun.

The Franklin Mint should buy these at auction and set up a "DoucheBags of American Politics" collector's series of coins: The Ron Paul Dollar; The Cheney Nickel; The Bush Double-Faced Eagle. Buy the complete set and, as a bonus, get the "Rats from a sinking ship" penny collection, full of your favorite Bush Whitehouse quiters.

I don't know if you quite understand. The FBI raided the office sure. And even if the stuff wasn't real money, fact is, no one was arrested. No one was charged, the FBI took alot of precious metals, with real value. Again, with no charges filed. One must think that a business operating for 9 years, in the open, with several million dollars woth of hard assests (gold, silver, platinum, and copper) would have been closed down a long time ago. Fact is, Federal Reserve notes aren't worth the paper they are printed on, they are backed by government promise. The only thing keeping them of any vaule, was the US government's integrity. The US integrity has taken it's biggest hit in the history of the nation, and as such our money has less street value then the Canadian currecy. The idea of a form of currency or coins with intrinsic value is a real threat to the governments monopoly money. While the Ron Paul dollar was probably a bad move, it doesn't remove the fact that the government stole several million dollars (Federal Reserve notes) worth of precious metals from the owners of said metals.

Once again this is another liberal stab at Ron Paul.
Last I checked Ron Paul was now at 5% across the nation, and on the rise. Plus, didn't he raise 4.5 million in one day, about a week ago????
Someone is paying attention to his grassroots campaign, and some of the people are right here....
What side are these writers on? The corporate side? The side that started the war? or the side that writes Zionism a blank check to murder Palestinians? The side to increase taxes, or the side to cut taxes for the rich?

I don't see things ever getting better. I just see candidates promise changes, and four years later, promise more changes, nothing really changed.
Ron Pauls campaign is different, and you guys attack that?
I have not slandered any other candidates, yet I am scared of a scenario where Clinton wins. Why does this site have a team of anti- Ron Paul drones?

who do you support?

hillary?

Because he's a racist, loony, reckless, disingenuous asshole?

I really want the "Rats from a Sinking Ship " penny collection !

As much as I hate Ron Paul I would like to say that I Hate the Presidential Dollar Coins are lot. I mean...the women of the US got a raw deal on dollar coins...they were in poor circulation and couldn't be used for vending machines...so what the fuck was the point. But NOW, they've got some good old white boys' faces on them and it's like everyone is all "Hey, you know there's a dollar COIN?" What the fuck? I mean, at least this one has Lady Liberty on it (strangely enough a French creation.) I'm not typically one to take on a feminist opinion but come on...give us back Susan B. Anthony and Sakajawea.

For me, it's Ron Paul, or nobody. The lesser of the two evils are most of the other candidates.
And it's funny how some people here all of a sudden think the fbi are the good guys?
The fbi are the guys that love the Patriot Act, so they can see which library books you read, tap your phones, and attempt to monitor your every step.
This coin issue in fact has nothing to do with Ron Paul, other than they used his name and face.

LINK

So you'd prefer the greatest of three?

Yeah, that's sane. "The lesser of two evils" is how democracy works. It's how it's always worked, and always will. Libertarian anarcho-capitalist fantasies don't appeal to humanity at large, and with good reason. Read up on the Industrial Revolution. Look at the Third World. Capitalism unleashed is incredibly destructive.

No more liberty dollars? shucks.

A little piece of me just broke off and died inside.

Isn't free speech just a bitch sometimes?

Mamet, don't make Dr.Paul angry

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Ron Paul is racist? says who? Where has he proven to be racist? Because he's white and from Texas? I want to see what he has done to be a racist?
Looney, reckless?
He's is a doctor, with a degree, that has delivered what, 5,000 plus babies? Those moms trusted someone looney, racist, and reckless?
You are stupid and un-imformed, so what?

Once again, LINK

HOLY SHIT! He has basically already won the fucking thing!

God I love this one. The Ron Paul supporter rally cry. If you don't support a fourth tier candidate, then you must support Hillary.

Grow up.

Um, what's the intrinsic value of gold, other than that people believe it's worth something? What can you do with it?