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Liberty Dollar Sues US Government and Gets Raided

A company based in Evansville, Indiana, Liberty Dollar has been in operation since 1998 with its currency backed by precious metals like gold, silver, platinum and copper. In 2006, The Justice Department prosecutors has determined that using Liberty Dollar as circulating currency is a Federal crime.
Bernard von NotHaus, owner of Liberty Dollar counters by suing the US Government in March seeking a declaratory judgment that circulating Liberty Dollars as a voluntary barter currency is not a federal crime and an injunction barring the Defendants from publicly or privately declaring the …read more

Bernard tells us in a radio interview with RonPaulRadio.com that, “US Mint has deemed our activity to be illegal and they are responding to the DOJ.”