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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 608883, member: 4703&quot;]The reporter is using the language &quot;counterfeit&quot;, although I am sure that word doesn&#039;t appear in the indictment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Federal indictments accuse the indictee of violating a specific numbered section of a specific numbered code.&nbsp; The indictment in this case probably reads something like this:<blockquote><p>[On specific date or dates Defendants] did&nbsp; violate §486, Title 18 of the United States Code in that they did wilfully and knowingly, without authorization of law, make or utter or pass, coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money.</p></blockquote><p>No mention of &quot;counterfeit&quot; would be included, or appropriate.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the defendants argued that their coins don&#039;t resemble US money, the prosecution would point out that the statute applies whether the subject coins are &quot;in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, <b>or of original design</b>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line - those who disagree with any law must work to have the legislature change it, or the courts declare it violative of the Constitution, but are not free to simply ignore it.&nbsp; Otherwise we have reverted to the law of the jungle, and only lions can sleep soundly at night.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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