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NORFED Liberty Dollar Newsletter - March 2001

NORFED NEWSLETTER: VOL. 3 NO. 3 MARCH 2001 EDITOR’S NOTE: The biggest news this month is the Federal raid on a NORFED Redemption Center or so the rumor went…big World New Daily article about the Federal Reserve and a Calendar of the National Tour as it rolls on to your area… TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. RC raided by the Fed? E-gold busted? Update!
  2. Calendar of Bernard's National Tour
  3. April 6, 7 & 8: Ever shot a Machine Gun?
  4. April 7 & 8: Freedom Rally in California
  5. April 9: We The People Rally at the IRS
  6. World Net Daily on the Federal Reserve
  7. Redemption Center of the Month
  8. Question of the Month
  9. Quote of the Month 10.3PGold.com and Digital Money 11.Digital Money - A Perspective from e-gold 12.Spam and NORFED List 13.What do you want to do? Bumper Stickers, etc… 14.Personal, National Tour and PGP RC raided by the Fed? E-gold busted? Update!
  10. No! The Feds did not raid a Redemption Center as some of you may have heard as the story circulated and grew through the rumor mill. Read the original Alert in Appendix "A". Parker Bradley, a friend who is both a Market Maker for e-gold and a Redemption Center was raided regarding credit card fraud used in the purchase of e-gold. Now, just as this Newsletter was about to post, Parker called. He and his wife are fine. His disappearance after the raid, was nothing more than a visit to their family to consult with an attorney. Parker and his wife are now back home in Syracuse, New York. What this episode points out is the importance of accurate information and the need for Redemption Centers to at least open up the NORFED ALERT and find out what is so important that we would send you an "Alert". In the future we will put the topic of the Alert in the Subject Field to aid in bringing very timely info to your immediate attention. Please read an editorial in response to the Raid in Appendix "B" by Michael Heffernan who comments about justice in pre-nazi Amerikana ala the raid on Parker Bradley. Calendar of Bernard's National Tour
  11. Finally, I am happy to direct you to the Upcoming Events button on the NORFED site. It now contains a loose calendar of Bernard's current three-month Tour. If you want to know more about NORFED, want to grow your RC or hold a rally…inviting Bernard is the single best deal
  • he's "free". And the best place to find him is clicking the Upcoming Events for the latest info. You may also check out Appendix "C" in this Newsletter for a reprint of the current calendar. Remember his schedule does change, often daily. So if you would like to be involved in the NORFED Tour simply send me an email to: [email protected]. PLEASE keep your message short as I am usually maxed and don't have much time to read or reply to all. Looking forward to seeing all interested RCs…

3.April 6, 7 & 8: Ever shot a Machine Gun? Well you can have the opportunity and a lot more fun if you venture to the big Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. It is the place to go if you ever wanted to shoot a machine gun. Bernard, the NORFED staff and the patriotic band, Poker Face, http://www.pokerface.com will be in Knob Creek, Kentucky April 6, 7 and 8th. Come join the party if this sounds interesting. http://www.machinegunshoot.com April 7 & 8: Freedom Rally in California 4. SUPER WEEKEND continues with Freedom Law School's annual Freedom Rally 2001. Although I will not be a guest speaker as I was last year, I encourage everyone to go. This year will feature Joseph Farah, publisher of World Net Daily as the keynote speaker at the Saturday night banquet. This event hosted by freedom fighter, Peymon Mottahedeh, has grown into a major event over the years. And of course, Peymon is a RC and accepts the American Liberty Dollar. As luck would have it, I was fortunate to cross paths with Peymon at his recent seminar in Dallas. In addition to the outstanding list of speakers, one of the best features is the price: only $80 for the whole day and $50 for the banquet. Please join Peymon in Orange County, California and tell him you heard about it from the NORFED Newsletter. April 9: We The People Rally at the IRS 5. Mr. Bob Schultz and his We The People Foundation are at it again. On Friday, March 23, 2001, the fourth full-page ad ran in the USA Today newspaper. Again it presents the facts and draws a conclusion that is unavoidable by any thinking person, which leaves out the drones in government. If you are not attending the Know Creek Machine Gun Shoot, we encourage everyone to support Bob's show of support and attend the "Walk" around the IRS Building on April 9th in Washington, DC. Let us keep the pressure on the government until it becomes the servant as defined by the Constitution. 6.World Net Daily on the Federal Reserve In a new promotion, WND issued their first investigative report. Quite fittingly it was on the Federal Reserve - an entity that deserves everyone's attention. And although it was well researched, well written and well received by the choir…it was yet another article without a solution. Hey… I thought WND was suppose to be about the "news" instead of rehashing the same old stuff that most of their readers already know or worse, just to sell newspapers. No closure…no solution…no NORFED. Sorry no WND. As some RCs will remember, when WND called for suggestions for this series of articles, many RC's asked WND to cover FR and NORFED. We can only hope that "news" of NORFED will catch WND's attention as any currency that has issued over 100,000 Silver Certificates, has approx. 10,000 people using the currency and about 1000 RCs should be news worthy by any "free" uncontrolled press, such as WND. If you agree, I would suggest that you bring NORFED to WND's attention. As much as I like and respect WND, I hate to think that it has become jaded with its success. "Tell me it ain't so, Joe." Redemption Center of the month 7. Breaking with the custom of mentioning National Figures who become RCs, NORFED would like to acknowledge Forrest Spindle who just became a RC a few months ago. I had the good

fortune to meet Forrest recently when I was in Houston and welcome him to the ranks as a dedicated activist who makes NORFED so great and so capable of achieving its goals. Question of the Month 8. By Thomas L. Underwood "It is my understanding that Roger Sherman, said the Constitution, as worded finally would "shut and bar the door against paper money..." Aren't your warehouse receipts the same kind of fiat currency that Sherman despaired about? Answer: Whereas our Founding Fathers sought and strove to eliminate fiat currency from the young nation forever, the crooked ways of man knows no limits. So I am most happy to inform you that the answer is NO! The American Liberty Currency is not a fiat currency. In fact, as the ALDs are actual warehouse receipts, they are the antitheses of fiat currency, because they are only issued after the gold and silver is deposited in the warehouse as defined by the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Furthermore, as in the case of the NORFED currency, the gold and silver is stored by an independent third party which is then physically audited every month by a CPA which issues a certified audit report which is then posted on the NORFED site at www.libertydollar.org. Quote of the Month 9. "It is an axiom, in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves." Thomas Jefferson. 3PGold.com and Digital Money 10. What is 3PGold? Why would I want 3PGold? What is its relationship to NORFED's American Liberty Currency? Simply put, NORFED's currency is a proactive educational instrument to bring about greater education about money to the American public. Whereas NORFED is a non- profit, philanthropic effort by Bernard and a group of concerned Americans, 3PGold is the first product by 3PSecure.com, Ltd, a for-profit, global gold company that specializes in using the internet to sell gold the 3P way for your Privacy, Protection and Profit. In so doing, 3P brings all the features and services that most people want in a monetary system. And whereas NORFED is based on Bernard's national contacts, 3P retained Bernard to develop a superior, updated, totally private digital system based on his international contacts. And while 3PGold may be likened to e-gold, it has several major differences. For those who do want a detailed comparison of 3PGold, e-gold and James Turk's new GoldMoney - another digital gold monetary system, you can visit www.3pgold.com and investigate it for yourself. Regardless of which digital system you choose, digital money is about to dramatically change our money, our lives and our future. Please note the following article. 11.Digital Money - A Perspective from e-gold A recent posting to the e-gold list brings the future of digital money into sharp perspective. Regardless of the exact time table of the future, digital money will revolutionize our monetary system, provide individual privacy, eliminate central banks and the bastards who use them for their own agenda to enslave us all. For a quick read, please go to www.gold.org and check out Richard Rahn's, "Digital Money & Its Impact on Gold". Then I highly recommend you follow up that 41-page report with his legendary work, "The End of Money & Struggle for Financial Privacy". The end of our current oppressive government's monetary system may not be at hand but the future is drawing near. Now is the best time to join NORFED in bringing about this change to our great Country and safeguarding your money with 3PGold.

How quickly can a revolution in our monetary system happen. Contemplate this posting: Sunday March 4, 2001: 08:16:28-0500 Statistics by "Viking Coder" [email protected] We'll start with known quantities. e-gold: Circulation - 44,475.17 oz. gold ($11.7 million) total - 46,400.00 oz. gold ($12.2 million) daily transaction volume - 5700 oz. gold ($1.5 million) US Dollar: Circulation - $562.949 billion total - $817.577 billion GDP - $8.511 Trillion ($23.32 billion/day) The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the ten smallest countries that have their own currency: STD Dobra (São Tomé) - $164 million TOP Pa'anga (Tonga) - $232 million VUV Vatu (Vanuatu) - $240 million WST Tala (Samoa) - $470 million MVR Maldivian Rufiyaa (Maldives) - $500 million DJF Djibouti Franc (Djibouti) - $530 million SCR Seychelles Rupee (Seychelles) - $550 million CVE Cape Verdean Escudo (Cape Verde) - $581 million BZD Belize Dollar (Belize) - $700 million SBD Solomon Islands Dollar - $1.15 billion (Solomon Islands) As of June 9 : e-gold's Daily Transaction Volume (DTV) - 6700 This works out to 225x in 20 months or 31%/month. Now the mathematical analysis: The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) isn't the same as the transaction volume. The GDP is the amount of official/logged transactions, i.e. retail, etc. However, we can figure out the necessary transaction volumes given two assumptions: 1.) The correlation between circulation volume and transaction volume is the same for all currencies. 2.) The correlation between GDP and transaction volume is the same for all currencies. (Not all countries are the same so this is not true, but it is something to work with.) This gives us the Daily Transaction Volumes (DTV) for the above ten currencies: STD (Dobra) - $1.35 million TOP (Pa'anga) - $1.9 million VUV (Vatu) - $1.97 million

WST (Tala) - $3.86 million MVR (Maldivian Rufiyaa) - $4.11 million DJF (Djibouti Franc) - $4.36 million SCR (Seychelles Rupee) - $4.52 million CVE (Cape Verdean Escudo) - $4.78 million BZD (Belize Dollar) - $5.75 million SBD (Solomon Islands Dollar) - $9.45 million Using the given e-gold growth rate, we can determine when e-gold's Daily Transaction Volume (DTV) will exceed the listed currencies transaction volume. STD (Dobra) - Already exceeded TOP (Pa'anga) - April VUV (Vatu) - April WST (Tala) - August MVR (Maldivian Rufiyaa) - August DJF (Djibouti Franc) - August SCR (Seychelles Rupee) - September CVE (Cape Verdean Escudo) - September BVD (Belize Dollar) - October SBD (Solomon Islands Dollar) - November Then again on Monday, March 5: 01:30:05-0500: In answer to an earlier post on the e-gold users list and to dramatize the potential of Digital Money, Viking Coder continued their comparison as to how long it will take for e-gold to become as large as some Larger National Currencies. Assuming a continued growth rate of 31% per month and using the same calculations and techniques as before, e-gold will grow over 650x in 2 years and will be as large as the Swiss Franc by May 2003, etc. Please note table below: Country / Currency / GDP / DTV / Year e-gold will be the same size Australian Dollar (AUD) | $393.9 billion | $3.24 billion | July 2003 Bahamian Dollar (BSD) | $5.63 billion | $46.27 million | April 2002 Canadian Dollar (CAD) | $688.3 billion | $5.66 billion | September 2003 Danish Krone (DKK) | $124.4 billion | $1.02 billion | April 2003 Egyptian Pound (EGP) | $188 billion | $1.55 billion | May 2003 Irish Punt (IEP) | $67.1 billion | $551.5 million | January 2003 Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD) | $43.7 billion | $359.18 million | December 2002 New Zealand Dollar (NZD) | $61.1 billion | $502.19 million | January 2003 Russian Ruble (RUB) | $593.4 billion | $4.88 billion | August 2003 Swiss Franc (CHF) | $191.8 billion | $1.58 billion | May 2003 Regardless of how simplistic or optimistic it may be to think that digital money will be the same size as the Swiss Franc by May of 2003, it does point out how quickly a revolution in our monetary system could take place. So how long will it take to change the monetary system of the USA? Go figure. Further information on e-gold velocity historical data point is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02528.html My thanks to "Viking Coder" for their analysis which I re-formatted for this newsletter. Spam and NORFED List… 12.

"Spamming", the curse of the internet is not supported or condoned by NORFED. But we do live in a "free" country…well maybe it is not as free as many people think. Just as Parker Bradley found out. In any case people, even other Redemption Centers, can capture the list of RCs and spam them. Such was the case recently when I as a RC received the spam about Daily Gold, a private credit card. It costs $100 and they kick back $80 to the sponsor. Frankly I don't have a problem with this marketing model as it is not unlike NORFED's referral program. But I do take a strong dislike about anyone spamming the RC list. Please be aware that NORFED will be more defensive in the future. And by the way if you are really interested in privacy, please visit NORFED's sister site: www.3pgold.com. It provides real privacy, something that is not possible with any referral program. How can you have a referral program and privacy at the same time? You can't. Please don't buy into fake privacy. What do you want to do? Bumper Stickers, etc… 13. Unlike every national organization I know, NORFED enjoys what its members do with the NORFED model and even encourages it. Often the National Office gets phone calls asking, "Can I …?". And in practically every case, you can do anything that is legal. For that reason, we have Yellow Pages and great new T-shirts by Tom Curtis and many other items, such as bumper stickers, now available, all created by Redemption Centers. So if you have an idea or an expression for the American Liberty Dollar, please call the National Office (888.421.6181) to eliminate any conflict with another project, to get some original artwork or simply to kick the idea around and then go for it. The RC's involvement is the number one reason for NORFED's growth. Many thanks to all the RC’s for your support. Personal, National Tour and PGP 14. Want'a do something? Trader Joe's, a national specialty food store with 161 locations nationwide has accepted the Liberty dollar on many occasions. And although, there have been rumors that they have agreed to accept the NORFED currency as a company policy, this is not the case. But sooner or later, a national chain will distinguish themselves by accepting the currency. It is simply a matter of time. If you want to help Trader Joe's realize that the Liberty Dollar is compatible with their business philosophy and would be good for their business, please shop at a store in your area and ask the clerk to accept the currency. I did in Wayne, Pennsylvania without even a question. A list of their locations and more info is available on their site at: www.traderjoes.com. Personally I have shied away from PGP, just simply too busy. But now with more invasions and more need for privacy plus a request from a close business associate, I have taken the time to find out about PGP. Wow! It is sooo easy and sooo private. Many thanks to Ken Webb and Gail for their assistance. I encourage every RC to get on board with PGP. Join the world for an easy to use and secure way to keep your life private. If you take a moment to review the calendar in Appendix "C", you will see I am on a three-month tour from Miami to Los Angeles. I am writing from Texas and having terrific times with the RC’s and hope you will invite me to visit you. In fact if you don't invite me, you will probably not see me as my schedule is MAXED. Please remember the single best thing you can do is to sponsor another Redemption Center and you do that by simply showing the American Liberty Dollar to someone every day. Many thanks for your support and efforts to return our great Country to value - one Liberty Dollar at a time. APPENDIX "A": NORFED ALERT: FEDS RAIDS A FRIEND

(Original copy) I regret to alert you that Parker Bradley, an Exchange Provider for e-gold, a Redemption Center and a friend was raided by approximately 25 Federal Gestapos on Monday, March 12, 2001. Under the deception of investigating credit card fraud, Parker and his wife were kidnapped and treated to the usual gross intimidating tactics of our increasingly tyrannical government. The raid seems to have been aimed at Parker's past acceptance of credit cards for e-gold - a practice that had cost him dearly as the credit card industry is so easy to rip off which then blames the merchant. Please forward this alert to your list and report any raid or unusual police activity with anyone associated with NORFED. We all must stay well informed and ready to investigate any pattern of the government's tyranny. APPENDIX "B" Editorial: Feds Raid on Parker Bradley: By Michael Heffernan: [email protected] Date: Friday 16, 2001: 18:55:48 EST An earlier post stated: "Last time I researched it, terror tactics, torture chambers and thumb screws are still considered excess force here in the (United) States." Mr. Michael Heffernan reply to the above post: Au contrare, mon ami...or, as they say here in Southern California..."Not so fast, dude!" By any measure, the United States legal/law enforcement system is as draconian as they come, employing "terror tactics," "torture chambers" and "thumb screws" with regularity. "Terror Tactics" in the form of threats....simply put, "Comply or we'll crush you." What makes this attitude a 'terror tactic' is it's employed against ANYONE...guilty or innocent ...with the emphasis on the "CRUSH" part. (First they deprive you of the ability to defend yourself by seizing everything the can get their hands on, then they offer you "Plea Bargaining" in which there isn't much choice given the target...) "Terror Tactics" in the form of random stops at mobile roadblocks, ostensibly to check for "drunk drivers," but which invariably result in arrests for everything BUT drunk driving. ("Papers" not in order? Watch out!) "Terror Tactics" in the form of a massive body of laws (many of which are conflicting) which make compliance almost impossible and result in the United States jailing THE HIGHEST PER-CAPITA RATE OF IT'S CITIZENS THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! "Torture Chambers"? Ever been in prison? Or worse yet, a county or municipal jail where the inmates rape, assault and murder at will? "Torture Chambers"? Ever sit in a room for twelve hours straight, no food, no drink no phone calls, while a steady stream of detectives grill you incessantly? Hardly a walk in the park....and that's what they do to witnesses who aren't exactly "recalling" the details of the alleged crime in exactly the way

the authorities want them to...never mind what they do to the actual suspect... "Thumb Screws"? Much more sophisticated now...they're called handcuffs. Ever have some REALLY "clamped on" by a cop? Within a few minutes you're praying for some thumbscrews.....they know it, and they do it on purpose. Recently, in Los Angeles, 11,000 (yelp, that's right, Eleven with three zeroes) criminal cases were dismissed because it was proven that the arresting officers planted evidence, gave false testimony, lied to prosecutors (and judges alike) or engaged in other activities designed to clearly entrap innocent victims. The problem is all this was "discovered" (and I use the term euphemistically...community residents and defense attorneys had been complaining about such tactics for years) well after the fact, and many of these 11,000+ people were already in jail, many for six years or more! The cases of government/law enforcement abuse are well recorded. The well known Ruby Ridge, Rodney King, Waco, "Hurricane" Carter or Abati cases (the one where the six New York detectives shot at an unarmed man more than 46 times, hitting him 19 times and killing him), there are literally thousands of similar incidents which occur with alarming regularity but that don't receive the same publicity. It's reaching epidemic proportions and becoming the "norm" rather than the "exception." It's easy to adopt the attitude, "Well, they must have done SOMETHING to deserve it!" It's a "logical" and "comforting" conclusion that lulls one into the false sense that the authorities "know what they're doing" and "I'm O.K. because I'm not doing anything wrong." Think again...you could be next. APPENDIX "C" CALENDAR: NATIONAL TOUR CALENDAR March 2001 1 - Florida Regional Office 2 - Florida Regional Office 3 - Florida Regional Office 4 - Florida Regional Office 5 - Florida Regional Office 6 - Florida Regional Office 7 - Florida Regional Office 8 - Florida Regional Office 9 - Florida Regional Office 10 - Florida Regional Office

11 - Florida Regional Office 12 - Florida Regional Office 13 - Florida Regional Office 14 - Estero, FL 15 - Clearwater, FL 16 - Clearwater, FL 17 - Jacksonville, FL 18 - Thomasville, GA 19 - New Orleans, LA 20 - Houston, TX 21 - Houston, TX 22 - Austin, TX 23 - Austin, TX 24 - Austin, TX 25 - Hico, TX 26 - Dallas/FW, TX 27 - Dallas/FW, TX 28 - Dallas/FW, TX 29 - Oklahoma City, OK 30 - Marland, OK 31 – Arkansas APRIL 2001 1 - Illinois 2 - NORFED National Office 3 - NORFED National Office 4 - NORFED National Office 5 - NORFED National Office 6 - Knob Creek, Kentucky 7 - Knob Creek, Kentucky 8 - Knob Creek, Kentucky 9 - NORFED National Office 10 - NORFED National Office 11 - Ohio

12 - Ohio 13 - Ohio 14 - Michigan 15 - Chicago 16 - Wisconsin 17 - Minnesota 18 - South Dakota 19 - Iowa 20 - Iowa 21 - Missouri 22 - Nebraska 23 - Nebraska 24 - Colorado 25 - Colorado 26 - Colorado 27 - Utah 28 - Utah 29 - Utah 30 - Nevada MAY 2001 1 - Nevada 2 - Northern California 3 - Northern California 4 - Northern California 5 - Northern California 6 - Central California 7 - Southern California 8 - Southern California 9 - Southern California 10 - Southern California 11 - Southern California 12 - Southern California 13 - Southern California

14 - Arizona 15 - Arizona 16 - Arizona 17 - New Mexico 18 - New Mexico 19 - Texas 20 - Texas 21 - Texas 22 - Kansas 23 - Missouri 24 - NORFED National Office 25 - NORFED National Office 26 - NORFED National Office 27 - NORFED National Office 28 - Georgia 29 - Georgia 30 - Florida 31 – Florida JUNE 2001 1 - Florida Regional Office 2 - Florida Regional Office 3 - Florida Regional Office 4 - Florida Regional Office 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 -

15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - Bernard von NotHaus Monetary Architect [email protected]