Huh? There are all sorts of outfits offering gold and silver coins in America.
Here's one for drinks? 
Here is a nice Indian one:
Here is another pure silver one:
Posted on 11/18/2007 10:30:18 AM PST by Tucson_AZ
In the affidavit, an FBI special agent states that he is investigating NORFED for federal violations including "uttering coins of gold, silver, or other metal," "making or possessing likeness of coins," mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. "The goal of NORFED is to undermine the United States government's financial systems by the issuance of a non-governmental competing currency for the purpose of repealing the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code," he states..
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
Additional information:
The following video does an excellent job of providing an understanding of the historic roots of the dollar, how the Federal Reserve operates and what our current economic situation is today, in a simple, clear presentation:
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
The Ludwig von Mises Institute - www.mises.org
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553&hl=en
or
mises.org:88/Fed
Bump for later.
I have no idea if Ron Paul is connected with this, but I posted a similar article on another board, and every RP cultist came out in support of liberty dollars, alternate currencies, and non-payment of taxes.
This alternate currency is apparently like honey to conspiracy nuts and Nazis. It draws them out.
All the charges of fraud not withstanding, they say this is a plot by an evil government helpless against the sheer moral integrity of their lord, Ron Paul.
I swear, Paul has become a cult leader.
Be careful. His fawning and brainless butt boys will be along to chastise you for daring to mock the “great” guru. Get ready to laugh at them when they fly off the handle over your sacrilege.
thats me....a small govt "cultist" who thinks the Monroe doctrine is nonsense
btw - cyclops is apt - your view is myopic
I havn’t read the whole article and know absolutely nothing about this. But I gather the FBI, secret service, etc, is saying it is illegal to mint your own coins?
If this true, then how do casinos get away with it?
In an abstract economic theory, anybody with a sufficiently large store of bullion, be it gold, silver, or any other metal of very high commodity value, could stamp their own coins. In actual practice, this is outlawed in the US, and in most other countries.
The government monopoly on the right to strike coinage is jealously guarded, and rightly so. An independent authority, that is REALLY free of any government, would hold the reins in any country’s economic traffic, growth and development. Look what happens to smaller countries when a George Soros type gets hands on the commodities that support the value of the local currency. There is the question of accountability, and the love-hate relationship most people have to accumulations of vast fortunes - OK for me, not so much for you. I should be allowed to keep all mine, while you, on the other hand, have to give it up for the good of all others.
All tangled up with immortality or something, I do not hope to understand the psychology of it.
They are only for use within a given casino and are not legal tender for commerce outside the casino.
Then why are we allowed to leave the casino with their “coins”? Do you really think no one ever barters for anything using casino chips?
Are Liberty Dollars legal tender? If not, how are they different?
Casinos are heavy political contributors and have been afforded special accommodations.
Based on what I’ve read abut this case, including the affidavit used to secure the Warrant for seizure, Ron Paul had nothing at all to do with it. According to the affidavit, the alleged wrongdoing involved violations of Title 18, U.S.C., fraud regarding the value of the medallions and certificates, and also a multi-level marketing scheme.
That being said, Ron Paul is a religion of peace.
People that want to follow the Constitution are cultists?
They minted a small silver coin, that was supposed to compete with the dollar.
You would buy about ten cents worth of silver for one dollar and you were supposed to be able to buy one dollar’s worth of goods at selected stores for each coin you used.
It and the stores dropped out of this scam very quickly.
It is still here!
ROFL. It's YOU guys who are hyperactive and foaming at the mouth, over someone who's at "2%" in the polls.
Is he that high?
Huh? There are all sorts of outfits offering gold and silver coins in America.
Here's one for drinks?
Here is a nice Indian one:
Here is another pure silver one:
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