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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dreamer94, post: 295923, member: 6449&quot;]According to one Secret Service agent the Liberty Dollar &quot;appears to be in violation of <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=section%20514&amp;url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000514----000-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=section%20514&amp;url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000514----000-.html" rel="nofollow">Title 18, Section 514 of the United States Code</a>.&quot;&nbsp; That section states that </p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;Whoever, with the intent to defraud— </i> <i>(1) draws, prints, processes, produces, publishes, or otherwise makes,&nbsp; or attempts or causes the same, within the United States; </i></p><p>&nbsp;<i>(2) passes, utters, presents, offers, brokers, issues, sells, or&nbsp; attempts or causes the same, or with like intent possesses, within the United&nbsp; States; or </i></p><p>&nbsp;<i>(3) utilizes interstate or foreign commerce, including the use of the&nbsp; mails or wire, radio, or other electronic communication, to transmit, transport,&nbsp; ship, move, transfer, or attempts or causes the same, to, from, or through the&nbsp; United States, </i> </p><p>&nbsp;<i>any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item&nbsp; appearing, representing, purporting, or contriving through scheme or artifice,&nbsp; to be an actual security or other financial instrument issued under the&nbsp; authority of the United States, a foreign government, a State or other political&nbsp; subdivision of the United States, or an organization, shall be guilty of a class&nbsp; B felony.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I acknowledge that there is room for interpretation in whether Norfed had &quot;intent to defraud&quot;.&nbsp; However, in my view they are a dangerous group:</p><p><br /></p><p>A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900993.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900993.html" rel="nofollow">Washington Post article</a> states that Norfed (now known simply as &quot;Liberty Dollars&quot;) has connections with right-wing hate groups and some users of Liberty dollars, apparently not getting the message that they are not legal tender, have demanded that merchants accept them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a lawyer, but I do know that the constitution says only that &quot;Congress shall have the authority ..........To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign&nbsp; Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;</p><p>&nbsp;To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the&nbsp; Securities and current Coin of the United States.&quot;</p><p>Therefore, a law passed by Congress restricting the ability of private citizens to make their own money should not be unconstitutional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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