Prison May Be the Next Stop on a Gold Currency Journey

[Kevin_Kennedy]

High above the cliff tops and the beach bars, up a winding mountain road, in a borrowed house on someone else’s ranch, an unusual criminal is waiting for his fate.

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/u...is-fate-behind-bars.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Domestic terrorism. Seriously? More evidence that the term "terrorist" means absolutely nothing. The man makes coins out of precious metals that you couldn't possibly mistake for the government's tin foil coins, and he's a domestic terrorist and a counterfeiter. Get real.