The New York Times discovers Bernard von NotHaus and the Liberty Dollar

Here below is a recent article that appeared in the New York Times. It provides background and an update on one of the most bizarre trials to be held in the United States since the Scopes “monkey trial.”–t.h.g.

Prison May Be the Next Stop on a Gold Currency Journey
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Published: October 24, 2012

MALIBU, Calif. — High above the cliff tops and the beach bars, up a winding mountain road, in a borrowed house on someone else’s ranch, an unusual criminal is waiting for his fate.

His name is Bernard von NotHaus, and he is a professed “monetary architect” and a maker of custom coins found guilty last spring of counterfeiting charges for minting and distributing a form of private money called the Liberty Dollar.

Described by some as “the Rosa Parks of the constitutional currency movement,” Mr. von NotHaus managed over the last decade to get more than 60 million real dollars’ worth of his precious metal-backed currency into circulation across the country — so much, and with such deep penetration, that the prosecutor overseeing his case accused him of “domestic terrorism” for using them to undermine the government.

Of course, if you ask him what caused him to be living here in exile, waiting with the rabbits for his sentence to be rendered, he will give a different account of what occurred. …more…

One response to “The New York Times discovers Bernard von NotHaus and the Liberty Dollar

  1. Thank you for the update on Bernard, we have followed his activities since 2004.

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