‘Liberty Dollar’ Creator Awaits His Fate Behind Bars - NYTimes.com

Land of the Free: man faces 20 years in prison for making gold and silver coins. #gold #ronpaul #bitcoin #endthefed

His name is Bernard von NotHaus , and he is a professed “monetary architect” and a maker of custom coins found guilty last spring of counterfeiting charges for minting and distributing a form of private money called the Liberty Dollar . Described by some as “the Rosa Parks of the constitutional currency movement,” Mr. von NotHaus managed over the last decade to get more than 60 million real dollars’ worth of his precious metal-backed currency into circulation across the country — so much, and with such deep penetration, that the prosecutor overseeing his case accused him of “domestic terrorism” for using them to undermine the government. Of course, if you ask him what caused him to be living here in exile, waiting with the rabbits for his sentence to be rendered, he will give a different account of what occurred. “This is the United States government,” he said in an interv...

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creat...