Wasn’t about gold. It was about possessing millions in stolen property.
“”Can the US Government Seize Your Silver or Gold? You Bet!””
Why bother with all that work? Much simpler to seize imaginary zeros and ones from your IRA and 401K’s with the push of a button than trying to search all the back yards with metal detectors.
Besides, when they come for the gold they know that they’ll have to take some lead first with much of it, and the funny thing about soldiers, especially Marines, that pesky little oath they took to the Constitution. Forcing some poor grunt to shoot grandpa because he refuses to hand over his life savings and retirement in his own home he’s defending will cause some serious morale issues for the troops and their commanders.
Can you imagine a Governor Perry, Daniels, or even Palin if she were still in office to allow the federal government to walk into their states and seize assets like that?
Not without a fight, I guarantee it.
The government needs to read the Constitution.
Relax. The government is not going to seize the gold, never again. There just is not enough gold out there to finance the government more than a month or so. It is not worth while to seize gold in today’s world. Secondly, unlike 1933, today, it is not necessary for the government to seize gold in order to inflate and devalue our currency. There is no need nor any reason to seize gold.
On the other hand, 401K’s and IRA’s are worth trillions of dollars. It is the 401K’s and IRA’s that the federal government will seize this time.
Government will never seize personal gold. If such an order came from Washington, it would mean 100% failure of the dollar which means 100% collapse of the world economy. It also means that things are so far gone that people will have bigger problems than worrying about their gold being confiscated.
Can our gold fillings be far behind?
Why not start confiscating teeth from Rappers, first? That’s where most of the serious ‘grill bling’ is, LOL!