Skip to main content

NORFED Liberty Dollar Newsletter - September 2005

LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS: September 2005 Vol. 7 No. 9 7th Anniversary Issue: Welcome new readers, Associates, Merchants and RCOs! Welcome aboard the Liberty Dollar rocket ship, where you can make money, do good, and have fun, fun, fun! Thank you for discovering the Liberty Dollar - America's inflation proof currency. Please read this whole Newsletter and share it with a friend. And although it may seem too early, please consider your Christmas gift giving now. Every year we order more stock and every year we run out! We can only order so much... we are not like the government, who makes a countless amount of money out of thin air. Please don't be disappointed this year - order early! Production and delivery times always run longer than usual during the pre-Christmas period, and of course we have our own family affairs to attend to. Hope you enjoy this issue. Please submit a letter to the Editor or a Success Story and get a free 2005 $10 Silver Liberty! TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. Happy 7th Anniversary!
  2. New Die Error! Anniversary Opportunity
  3. Star Trek Discovers the Liberty Dollar
  4. Ed Griffin and Bernard to Speak in Indy!
  5. Greenspan Sounds a Strong Note of Caution
  6. Annual Audit and Tour of the Warehouse
  7. Liberty Merchant Login & Shipping Costs Updated
  8. Letter to the Editor / Article
  9. Success Story / Incident of the Month
  10. Question of the Month
  11. Liberty Associate of the Month
  12. Quote of the Month
  13. Happy 7th Anniversary! Much to the chagrin of many, Saturday, October 1 will be our 7th Anniversary and the beginning of the Liberty Dollar's eighth year. Simply amazing! For those of you who are just now getting started with the Liberty Dollar, you too will be amazed as you witness the currency that is actually returning America to value - one dollar at a time. My heartfelt thanks go out to all the people who have actually decided to do something to Change the money / Change the country. For without all your support, it would matter not, without good people using good money. I would expressly like to thank Sarah, Rachelle and Paula on the Staff at the Fulfillment Office in Evansville. They make it possible for me to devote my time to all the items that it takes to bring about a "real" value based currency. Big thanks to the RCOs and all the Jason Pratts who have given so selflessly to the cause of Liberty and the Liberty Dollar. Happy Anniversary to everyone!
  14. New Die Error! Anniversary Opportunity As I hope most of you know - the Liberty Dollar is NOT a collectible - it's a currency! Of course that doesn't stop people, good people, from collecting it. In fact, I put together the first "type set" myself, just to see what it would look like. Last month I mentioned in LDNews that we had an extraordinary number of problems recreating the reverse die for the One Dollar Silver Liberty so we could finish the authorized mintage of 50,000 $1 Libertys. Well as part of my annual visit to the warehouse, I discovered that they still had the error die

with TWO at the base of the Torch, instead of ONE. So in celebration of our 7th anniversary, we are going to use the die to help recoup the costs and give us one more Silver Liberty for the collector in all of us. And since the die has TWO on it, we will mint a Limited Edition of only 2,000 TWO Dollar Silver Libertys at $5 each or grab 22 for $100 plus shipping and handling. The obverse is in great shape and of course the reverse die has never been used. Limit of 22 $2 Silver Libertys per person, so more people can get some of these little goodies and help celebrate our anniversary. Happy collecting! 3. Star Trek Discovers the Liberty Dollar Originally this announcement was posted as an ALERT. I urge you to check out the flash presentation mentioned in this article and contact Liberty Films. This is an important development and another step toward us finding a Celebrity Spokesperson to draw more attention to the Liberty Dollar. Swwooosh! During the 60s, Star Trek's Captain Kirk and his crew took many of us to the "final frontier" to "explore new worlds" as they sought out new civilizations and developed deep thought-provoking plots. You didn't have to be a "trekkie" to enjoy "the voyages of the Starship Enterprise." Now, Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and members of the various Star Trek crews will star in Liberty Films, a new venture launched by the Liberty Institute and will feature Liberty Dollars! Can you imagine liberty themed movies using Liberty Dollars? Can you see yourself in such a movie? Can you contemplate the enormous impact when liberty based concepts are presented in a hip entertaining media like movies? While the message can be subtle, the impact is very strong. That is exactly what is happening. Now, you are invited to become a part of it. Yes, you can literally be "in the movies." In a dynamic move, the Liberty Dollar has joined into a strategic relationship with the Liberty Institute to distribute Liberty Films toward our common goal to return America to value. Please take a moment, right now, and watch this quick flash presentation from Liberty Films. I guarantee that, within a few moments, you will be impressed with the power and force of what Hollywood can do for liberty and in particular, the Liberty Dollar, as the symbol of the liberty movement. Then, click the link below to find out how you can participate. Please click HERE to be swwoooshed away to Liberty Films. 4. Ed Griffin, Bernard & Pat to Speak in Indy! You are invited to attend a major event "Your Health, Your Wealth, and Your Self" as the new RCO in Indianapolis gets busy building his region. Not everybody has such grand plans as Alan McConnell, but we can all profit by attending this event. For those who have heard G. Edward Griffin speak, you know he is one of the greatest speakers today. And I am very pleased that his wife, Pat Griffin, will also be speaking. Appearing with such an awesome twosome, I hope to hold my own. The two-day event will also feature Stan Solomon, an ex-radio talk show host and major event producer in Indy with a large following. This should be a really great event! Ed Griffin will present a new edition of "World Without Cancer" - the most complete and authoritative treatise yet produced. It explains the theory by which Laetrile is believed to work. Ed marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease - like scurvy or pellagra - aggravated by the lack of an

essential food compound, vitamin B17, in modern man's diet. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile. Pat Griffin will talk about her new book, co-authored with Dr. Richardson, "Laetrile Case Histories; The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience." It is the most complete and authoritative treatise yet produced. Here are 62 case histories proving beyond any doubt that Laetrile (Vitamin B17) works in the control of cancer. These are not anecdotal stories or cases of people who never had cancer in the first place. Each history is authenticated by a firm diagnosis and meticulous medical documentation. I will present an update about the Liberty Dollar on Saturday afternoon. Ed will present the Keynote address after dinner on Saturday night. Ed, Pat and Stan will be featured at the Sunday event, tentatively planned at the War Memorial. I will not be available on Sunday as I will be appearing with Charles Key in Kansas City. For additional information on that event, please contact the Evansville Office. So if you want to tune into a BIG event this autumn then please come to Indy on Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30. The Friday event is from 12 to 5:00 pm. Dinner will be from 6-7:00 pm. Ed will speak after dinner and may include a short presentation on Freedom Force. Friday, October 29th is booked at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2930 Waterfront Parkway West Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana 46214. Phone: 317.299.8400. For more information, please contact the office: 888.421.6181 or [email protected]. Hope to see you there! 5. Greenspan Sounds a Strong Note of Caution Thursday, September 15, 2005, Robert Schroeder with CBSMarketWatch.com reported: WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sounded a strong note of caution about the amount of mortgage portfolios held by housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a recent letter to a U.S. senator. Greenspan has repeatedly called for limiting the portfolios of the two giant companies, which have received heightened scrutiny by the Bush administration and Congress after accounting scandals, and again urged action to cap their holdings. "In the case of the [companies]," Greenspan wrote to Utah Republican Robert Bennett, "excessive caution in reducing their portfolios could prove to be destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds." Also in the Sept. 2 letter, Greenspan said the concentrations of mortgage-backed securities at Fannie and Freddie are "well beyond what market forces would normally allow" because there are no limits to the portfolios' expansion. House and Senate legislation tightening regulation over both companies has been stalled over the issue of portfolio limits, with critics claiming proposals don't go far enough in halting portfolio growth.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, said he is aiming to get his bill to the House floor for a vote next week. Wednesday, he and Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., inserted a new provision in the bill directing some of the companies' after-tax income to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Editor note: With $200 billion out of thin air for New Orleans, peaking oil prices just before winter, plunging stock prices for the leading home builders, and gold at a 17-year high, is there any doubt that our country is headed toward an uncertain future if not a classic monetary collapse? Please don't just sit there! Take action. Get some Liberty Dollars. Join the largest peacetime effort to effect change before it is too late for you and our great country. 6. Annual Audit and Tour of the Warehouse Karl Reile, RCO for Liberty Dollar of Buffalo, NY, attended the Annual Audit and filed this report: Bernard, thank you for the Annual Audit and Mint Tour in Idaho!! It was my first time to the Sunshine Mint as well as the historic Silver District of Idaho. I had no idea of the sophistication of the entire monetary system you have developed for the Liberty Dollar, which I have been involved with for almost five years. Now I know how the certificate system works and how the actual silver is minted into Libertys. I simply had no idea what it took to actually mint a Silver Liberty. From the die design, preproduction, engraving and polishing, to the smelting of the silver ore and scrap recover, to the extruding, blanking, certified weighing, polishing and finishing, and all this prior to the actual die minting of the Silver Liberty! The ultra modern machinery and production capacity of Sunshine Mint is simply outstanding. It reminded me of a high tech aerospace facility that you would see in the NASA environment. Of particular interest was the visit to the storage vault. Floor to ceiling skids of 1000 bars plus skids of securely packaged Gold and Silver Libertys was way beyond what I was expecting! Plus by coming out to Idaho, I was able to attend the annual Silver Summit, which I enjoyed immensely. Your speech was fantastic as evidenced by the packed facility. I was also able to visit the working Bunker Hill Silver mine and traveled two miles underground during that tour. WOW, the whole trip was incredible! Thanks, Karl I encourage anyone who has not had the privilege of attending the next Annual Audit for the Liberty Dollar to sign up ASAP or you will be missing out on something to behold. 7. Liberty Merchant Login & Shipping Costs Updated Liberty Merchant Login: Confused about logging in to your Liberty Merchant account? Please be aware that all listed Liberty Merchants have an LM account number and password to log in to your account. To access your LM account, simply click on "How to spend it" in the top navigational bar on the top of the Masthead of any page. Click on "Liberty Merchant Login" that is located in the menu on the left side. Enter your Merchant ID and password to access your Control Panel. From the Control Panel, you can access your contact info, Affiliate Program banners and text links, and order Liberty Dollars online. As of now, the shopping cart is not showing LM discounts yet. In the meantime, you can still place orders through this shopping cart, and mention in the comment field to apply your Merchant discount. Also, please be aware that although you have access to the Affiliate Program, Liberty Merchants cannot sponsor Liberty Associates and get the $100 referral until you are an Associate. You must be an Associate to sponsor an Associate.

Shipping Costs Updated: For some time the pricing for redeeming digital Liberty Dollars (eLD) has been inadequate to the actual costs involved. And, unfortunately, some people have abused the system. Please note that the shipping and handling for redeemed eLDs has been revised: 1 to 9oz = $5 10 to 50 ozs = $7 51 to 99 ozs = $10 100 ozs = $15 200 ozs = $30 300 ozs = $45 400 ozs = $60 500 ozs = $75 1,000 ozs = $150 As always, please contact the Office if you have any questions regarding this or anything else regarding the Liberty Dollar. 8. Letter to the Editor / Article New feature debuts with this issue. Due to popular demand, the LDN will now feature a Letter to the Editor or an Article, which you send in. We all have favorite topics, like last month's article about Wal- Mart Saturday. And although very few people took the time to use Liberty Dollars at Wal-Mart, it was an active exercise that exemplifies how each of us are participating in the largest peacetime effort to effect change in America. So, do you have something to say? Found a great article, which focuses on money, US dollar or the economy? Send in your Letter to the Editor or Article and if it makes it into the LDN, we will send a $10 Silver Liberty to you. All material should arrive via email by the 15th of the month. I look forward to hearing from you soon. 9. Success Story / Incident of the Month Well, we had an Incident. On September 6, The Citizen in Laconia, New Hampshire, ran an article titled: "Liberty Dollar causes concern in the region." Article is available at http://www.libertydollar.org/html/articles/%27Liberty%20Dollar%27%20causes%20concern%20in%20 the%20region%20-%20Fosters.htm . And although it presented great visuals of the Liberty Dollar and mentioned several positive points, it was not the most flattering article. In fact, it started out with the Belknap County Sheriff Dan Collis saying that people had been "fooled" by the Liberty Dollar. The article went on to say that: "…when the complaint about a particular Liberty $10 coin first reached Collis, he called the Secret Service - the federal agency responsible for investigating counterfeit money. The Secret Service is aware of the Liberty Dollar, Collis explained, but because the dollar does not replicate a Federal Reserve note, it is not illegal." So if it is not illegal, what's the problem? Our heroic Regional Currency Office manned by Charles Hampe did his best in the article to counter the Sheriff's misinterpretations of the Law. But the article ended with the Sheriff getting the last word: "Anyone who feels he has been tricked into accepting non- legal tender as payment for goods or services, Collis said, is encouraged to contact a local law enforcement agency." Then in an undated letter about a week later, Keith D. True (actual name) the Lieutenant/Prosecutor for the Police Department in Meredith, New Hampshire, issued a letter to all the merchants that said among other things: 1) "The coin has no value…" 2) "… if a person tries to pass off … coin… is committing

the crime of Theft of Services." 3) "If you encounter someone passing this coin, please contact the Meredith Police Department." Well, with such false information from Officer True, the Liberty Dollar's Chief Counsel responded to True's false letter and this Incident died a happy death. New Hampshire has now returned to "Live free [of police lies] or die." My compliments and thanks to our Chief Counsel and Charles Hampe's well-maintained response to such action within his region where a lot more people now know about the Liberty Dollar thanks to The Citizen article. And our thanks go out to Mike La Mesa who brought the police letter to our attention. Of course, "denial" is the first step toward the truth. It is only by taking action that we will ever live free from the tyranny of fiat government money. If you encounter an Incident or a Success Story, please send it to the Office. Very rarely does an Incident require a letter from our Chief Counsel. This Incident was an exception. 10. Question of the Month QUESTION (S): Will there be a conversion fee on certificates when we cross over to the $20.00 Silver Base? And will there be shipping for those who send in the Silver Libertys and/or certificates for conversion, and if so how much? ANSWER: There is no fee when you exchange Certificates for Certificates with your local RCO in person for the $20 Silver Base. If you ship them in, you will incur a shipping and handling fee. There will be a re-minting fee, currently estimated to be $1.50 when you exchange one ounce $10 Silver Libertys for $20 Silver Libertys. There will be shipping and handling fees when that service is provided by the National Fulfillment Office. NO FEE on any digital Liberty Dollar accounts. All eLD accounts will automatically double in value, which can then be redeemed for new $20 Silver Libertys or Silver Certificates. 11. Liberty Associate of the Month No one works harder for the Liberty Dollar than the Staff at the Fulfillment Office in Evansville, Indiana. So it is my pleasure to acknowledge Ms. Rachelle Moseley for all that she does to support the Liberty Dollar. Although she has only been on Staff for about a year, Rachelle is well versed on money and other related patriot issues, as she was the Editor for Media Bypass until it closed and she joined the Liberty Dollar. For all the countless things that get done every day, I am happy to name Rachelle Moseley as the Liberty Associate of the Month! Thank you Rachelle. 12. Quote of the Month "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it ever come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence." Daniel Webster Closing Remarks: Congratulations on the 7th Anniversary! We are changing the money and we are doing it ourselves… up from the bootstraps! The Liberty Dollar is now the second largest currency in America. With God willing and the US dollar falling, we can save our country from the collapse that threatens our monetary system. Plus we can have a lot of fun doing it and make a buck too! What a novel idea! Many thanks to all the Liberty Associates, Merchants and RCOs for your continued support. For it is only by banding together and adopting a free and independent currency, which provides us with "just

weights and measures" that we will be able to throw off the yoke of a manipulated monetary system and generate a peaceful and prosperous society. Thank you again for all your efforts to return America to value - one dollar at a time! Bernard von NotHaus Monetary Architect/Editor www.LibertyDollar.org 888.421.6181