<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>As a follow up, I am well-aware of Lew Rockwell's racist comments - he's no angel. But neither is the dear departed radio-man Paul Harvey, who thought biological warfare and slavery were 'a good thing'. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2569<br><br>
All people have flaws - we need to focus on the merits of the ideas and not the person.<br><br>Also, Rockwell was not the author of the article I forwarded. It was originally published in Australia at the following link: <br>http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/is-gold-money/2009/03/12<br><br>Which I don't think is funded by Volcker or Rockefeller. :-)<br><br>Regards,<br>-Mike<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/13/09, Mike Kirk <i><mjkirk12@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Mike Kirk <mjkirk12@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Is Gold money???<br>To: "Geri Perry" <geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com><br>Cc: citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net<br>Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 5:22 PM<br><br><div id="yiv29095844"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">OK OK, so even in crisis gold/silver is not money. Perhaps it would be better if I called them "gold/silver barter coins' instead of money? :-) Whatever I call them, I am confident that someone
would be willing to accept them for things I need - food, weapons, shelter, etc.<br><br>Why did Roosevelt confiscate the people's gold? Because it had intrinsic value! It allowed him to inflate the money supply with fiat money. Roosevelt should have been impeached for this treasonous act.<br><br>Did Lew Rockwell and similar think-tanks originate the legends of pirates on the high seas? What things of value did the legendary pirates put in their
treasure chests: diamonds, silver, gold - or paper fiat money?<br><br>If the government that spends the fiat paper money into circulation
becomes defunct, I would rather have gold, silver or similar commodity
in my possession - it has intrinsic value. Would you take Zimbabwe currency these days - not
me. <b>http://tinyurl.com/6223tw</b><br><br>Democracy (or any form of government) collapses when the majority discovers it can vote for itself (create out of thin air) treasure from the public coffers. Let the people decide what they want to use for money - it keeps the politicians and bankers from corrupting the system with their lies and deceit - like fractional reserve banking.<br><br>I fail to understand how a government can be allowed to create 'debt free money'. If "We the People" are the government, then can "We the People" create our own 'debt free money' as well? Probably not, it would be counterfeiting, correct?<br><br>A government (or banking system) in complete control of the money supply will eventually enslave it's people with debt (or burden them with excessive taxation).<br><br>-Mike<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/13/09, Geri Perry <i><geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Geri Perry <geri@thetwofacesofmoney.com><br>Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Is Gold money???<br>To: "Mike Kirk" <mjkirk12@yahoo.com><br>Cc: citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net<br>Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 4:17 PM<br><br><pre>I cannot for the life of me understand why Rockwell perpetuates such half<br>truths!!<br><br>UNLESS . . .<br><br>Rockwell's function is to forward the message of the money elite via tax<br>exempt foundations aka "think tanks". According to an article in<br>Reason Magazine Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr is the founder of the Ludwig von Mises<br>Institute - which was funded by the Volcker Foundation. (Also see this article<br>for the surprising connection to Marxism: http://populistindependent.org/ ) Von<br>Mises in turn earned his money in a Rockefeller Foundation funded business<br>research institute.<br>
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/thinktanks/Plehwe.pdf<br><br>Rockwell was also, according to Reason, the person responsible for those<br>controversial and highly racist articles that caused the Paul campaign such<br>angst in the last presidential selection. See:<br>http://www.reason.com/news/show/124426.html<br><br>BOTTOM LINE is Neither Gold nor silver is money - not even in times of crisis!<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>