These thieves go by the name of FBI and Secret Service agents.

I learned early yesterday from www.gordonunleashed.com that the Liberty Dollar offices were raided by the feds. They took everything, including 2 tons of gold and silver.

If taking privately owned commodities from a privately owned office is not theft, then our dictionary just plain sucks.

Why did they do this? It seems that no one knows the answer to that question except the mob bosses who ordered the raid.

For those unfamiliar with Liberty Dollar, they run a competing currency backed 100% by gold and silver. This means if you have a Liberty Dollar note, at any time, you can trade that in for a certain amount gold or silver, or you can use it as a method of exchange like you would a Federal Reserve Note (US Dollar).

This means that not only did the feds rob the owners of Liberty Dollar, they also robbed all of the people who had purchased Liberty Dollar notes, as at this point, they cannot trade their notes in to redeem them for what they legally own.

Liberty Dollar was not running an illegal operation, nor were they counterfeiting. In fact, several US Mint and Treasury officials have been on record saying that as long as they did not have “legal tender” printed or stamped on the product, they were just fine.

This is nothing new. Governments have a long history of robbing their people blind, and are particularly inclined to steal anything shiny, such as gold. As recent as April 5th, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 6102. It made the possession of gold illegal, and everyone had to give what they had to the Federal government or else be hit with a $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison. Why?

For the “greater good”, of course, as any politician will tell you. All it did, however, was impoverish people even further, helping to extend the Great Depression.

Similarly, in 17th century England, there was a class of people called goldsmiths that would store people’s gold and issue them “goldsmith’s notes”. People could use these to trade a with each other or redeem them for their gold back.

Well, King Charles I, angered at being denied funding for a war he wanted to wage, decided to sack the goldsmiths’ hoards. Years later, his son, Charles II did a similar thing.

And so it happens over and over again.

Isn’t it strange that our government is now acting like the old English Monarchy? Isn’t that what our Founders revolted against?

Considering how weak the dollar is, pretty soon countries will refuse to accept it, and so our thugs in power will no longer be able to fund their own wars. They will need hard commodities to continue their rampages. They will need gold and silver.

Is this just the beginning of something much worse? Time will tell.

But we do know that we shouldn’t be that surprised that government likes to steal. That’s what it does by definition. It’s what it has done all throughout history, and what it will continue to do on into the future.

When will we finally learn to stop putting faith in one of the largest organized criminal and terrorist rackets in existence?

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