http://www.infowars.com/federal-gov...orms-of-bartering-illegal-after-court-ruling/ The west - led by the fascist USA - is going to squash what little freedoms we all still think we may have. I've said it before and i'll say it again - the sheeple need to wake up and cut government down to the size it should be ... MINUTE! I do believe that this whole case is the forerunner of PM confiscation down the line... At the very least the barstads will make it a "criminal offence" to trade/swap using PMs. It will be akin to possessing drugs....
Barter between people is a basic human right. Outlawing barter is a violation of human rights and as such could be referred to the UNHRC.
Maybe. Maybe not. Do remember that to some extent it is different here. Our cultures are more different than we commonly realise. Our government, our reserve bank, stuff different things up. Our government isn't $15T in debt. It has created a perception of sovereign risk for the resource sector. Our reserve bank hasn't doubled monetary supply. It does hold only 6% of is reserves as hard assets ( ie gold ). It is different. It's not necessarily better.
Nice find 'Yippe Ki ya' I have to say, I think the article is an awfully senationalist extrapolation of that story about that geezer (Von Nothaus) that's facing 25 years hard labour for flogging off Liberty Dollars as legal tender. The sentence (25 years) is extremely harsh given the penalties for common counterfiet artists, yet on par with what happened to Bunker Hunt whom demanded oil payments in silver rather than $US...i.e. he lost the family fortune. Extending the argument 'reductio ad absurdum' that the Govt is trying to make bartering 'currency' illegal is drawing a very low bow on the author's part. Who says what constitutes a 'currency' in informal bartering is a very deep hole to fall into. Beer is a currency (Toohey's Ads) & at any country car wreckers, rum was a currency (The Aust. Rum Rebellion), Mikhail Gorbechev's banning vodka of sales (of which the Soviet economy collected 25-30% of it's revenue) sent vodka production onto the black market and was the nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. Trying to control the black market is a dream. Even the Soviets (a staunch Stalinist totalitarian regime with no rule of law) couldn't crack it. Our police FORCE, needs 30 coppers to evict 2 retirees from their suburban home. Lets see 'em control the black market. The real crime of Bernard Von Nothaus was that of arrogance and stupidity.. if he'd just kept his head down the authorities wouldn't have been able to find the source of the liberty dollars, let alone make an example out of him.
They're not banning bartering, they're upholding an existing ban on creating your own currency. Don't call it "Bob's Dollar" and you're fine.
YEP - thats what the court case decided. however the government is now trying to say it also extends to barter as well. The article clearly states that the DA was trying to state that this case created a precedant against barter, which is of course bullshit. but the inbreds are indeed desperate to shut down barter - particularly using PMs - as they know this will bring down the whole rotten corrupt monster which they conceived on Jekyll Island nearly 100 years ago...
