Found an interesting artical. I can verify that I have heard of this before but thought it quite dead. But then again we are still under control of a virtual dictatorship:

Date: Monday, 18 September 2006, 2:23 p.m.

In Response To: MINT DECLARES REAL MONEY ILLEGAL.. (NWDisorder)

NWD...apologies if I posted anything you already have in place.

Orwell missed by about 25 years, methinks...

Note ... according to the US Mint:

"under the Constitution (Article I, section 8, clause 5), Congress has the exclusive power to coin money of the United States and to regulate its value"

According to the *real* constitution:

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

c.f. www.usconstitution.net/xconst...c8.html

Note the gratuitous addition of the word "exclusive", and then the fraudulent attempt to pass it off as part of "the constitution"....

Some MORE editorials on the issue:

www.freemarketnews.com/Analys...ime.asp
intlib.blogspot.com/2006/09/...case.html
intlib.blogspot.com/2006/09/...mint.html

Control of your money is the goal here.... if they fully control your money, they'll tax everything & then some, and ALSO, they'll track EVERYTHING anyone buys, sells, or trades, and who with. This crap the gov't is spewing is tantamount to trying to claim bartering is illegal.

-- Of *COURSE* they want it illegal.... can't be traced or taxed!