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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1675309, member: 11854&quot;]I haven&#039;t been responding to your posts to necessarily discuss the affect of the Executive Orders.&nbsp; Rather, I have been addressing inaccurate statements or board based assertions in your posts.&nbsp; We have had two recent threads where these have been written so it may appear as though I am following you or nitpicking, but I am attempting to inject some information from the sources that are being discussed.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Cyprus thread you wrote that during the 1930s the US passed a law that made gold ownership illegal; this is wrong and I provided the correct Executive Order so it could be verified. You additionally stated that the public was forced to sell their gold to the government at a fixed price.&nbsp; Again, this is incorrect since there were very large exemptions that allowed all manner of folks to legally hold gold.&nbsp; Of course, those who brought gold to banks were paid a fixed price for gold, but gold was kept at a fixed price worldwide during this time and for generations prior.&nbsp; Lastly, you stated that anyone attempting to barter with gold was arrested, yet I can find no historical accounts that support this claim.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this thread you have stated that gold was essentially illegal to use or sell and again this is not true.&nbsp; It could be used openly in commerce, but would be siphoned off by the banks upon deposit.&nbsp; You also state that 99% of all gold coinage dated 1880-1933 was melted and placed into For Knox.&nbsp; For that statement I would <i>love </i> to see supporting references because I have never read it anywhere prior to here and find it an amazing thing to assert.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not attempting to be a Richard Cranium, but I have encountered myriad folks on various coin boards who state broad claims that follow lines such as Roosevelt emptied all the SDBs in the country; locked up thousands for using a quarter-eagle at the store; and raided the life savings of folks without compensation.&nbsp; I simply attempt to use the publicly available resources to show what the Executive Orders stated and to write what few known actions were taken against individuals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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