Today the FBI and the secret Service raided The Liberty Dollar and NORFED as part of a Federal task force investigating Bernard von NotHaus who calls himself the Monetary Architect.

The Task force is headed by the US Justus Dept. and includes the, IRS, US Mint, Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.

According to Bernard von NotHaus he notified his followers today saying “I sincerely regret to inform you that about 8:00 this morning a dozen FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville. “
He went on to say, “For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.”
Bernard von NotHaus said, “we have no money. We have no products. We have no records to even know what was ordered or what you are owed. We have nothing but the will to push forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right to have real money as defined by the US Constitution. We should not to be defrauded by the fake government money. “
The government has warned consumers and businesses that it is illegal to use alternative money known as "Liberty Dollar" coins, which organizers promote as a competitor to the almighty dollar.
"We don't want consumers to be fooled," U.S. Mint spokeswoman Becky Bailey says, noting U.S. Attorneys offices across the USA have noticed a marked increase in inquiries about the coins.”
The Evansville, Ind.-based National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code, otherwise known as NORFED, has been making the Liberty Dollar coins for eight years and claims more then $20 million is in circulation. The group says the money, unlike official U.S. cash, has a hedge against inflation because it is made almost entirely of silver and is backed by stocks of silver and gold in a vault in Idaho.
The coins are then spent by the group's more then 2,500 Liberty Associates in stores run by fellow supporters or are accepted unknowingly by clerks who are unaware they are not receiving real money.
The Justice Department has determined that use of Liberty Dollars, which come in varying denominations, "is a crime," according to the Mint, which issued a rare public warning.
"The United States Mint is the only entity that can produce coins," Bailey says.
The Mint notes the coins share some resemblances to real money, such as the term "Trust in God" instead of "In God We Trust" and use of a torch in the design. Such similarities may confuse people into thinking the money is real, the Mint says.


Bernard von NotHaus continued by pointing out “to make matters worse, all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has also been confiscated. Even the dies for mint the Gold and Silver Liberty’s have been taken.”
This in spite of the fact that Edmond C. Moy, the Director of the Mint, acknowledged in a letter to a US Senator that the paper certificates did not violate Section 486 and were not illegal. But the FBI and Secret Services took all the paper currency too.
The possibility of such action was the reason the Liberty Dollar was designed so that the vast majority of the money was in specie form and in the people’s hands. Of the $20 million Liberty Dollars, only about a million is in paper or digital form.
Bernard von NotHaus said, “I regret that if you are due an order. It may be some time until it will be filled... if ever... it now all depends on our actions.
Everyone who has an unfulfilled order or has digital or paper currency should band together for a class action suit and demand redemption. We cannot allow the government to steal our money! Please don’t let this happen!!! Many of you read the articles quoting the government and Federal Reserve officials that the Liberty Dollar was legal. You did nothing wrong. You are legally entitled to your property. Let us use this terrible act to band together and further our goal – to return America to a value based currency.”


The coins' producers vowed to fight the government's decision.
But NORFED says it will challenge the government, arguing it has never claimed Liberty Dollars were official money and that it has a right to offer an alternative.
"The designs and verbiage ... are original and are not copies of any U.S. Mint currency," NORFED Executive Director Michael Johnson said in a statement.
Its unclear how many people or businesses are unknowingly holding Liberty Dollars, which cannot be exchanged for real money at banks.
Bernard von NotHaus claims “let’s be serious the US Mint only exists to mint coins. Its warning is only about the Silver Liberty and has nothing to do with the Silver Certificates or the digital currency. In fact, it has no jurisdiction over the Liberty Dollar, over you, or over me. The US Mint Chief Counsel cannot cite any legal authority to support the recent accusations.”
According to high ranking investigators an indictment is expected.
Bernard von NotHaus has said many times in the past “make no doubt about it. This is a Decisive Moment for your money and America. By the US government’s own statistics, their money – the US dollar – has lost 96% of its purchasing power since it created the Federal Reserve in 1913.

On the other hand, the Liberty Dollar – a private, non-government currency that is neither a ‘coin’ nor ‘legal tender’ – offers Americans a legal, inflation proof way to conduct commerce and protect your purchasing power. In fact, since 1998 when the new gold and silver based Liberty Dollar was first introduced and quickly emerged as the currency of choice, it has doubled in value simply because gold and silver has doubled in value.

But the government does not want you to choose the Liberty Dollar. In fact they are doing everything to scare you into thinking it is illegal. They want you to continue to be impoverished slaves to their debt ridden, inflation prone and government promissory notes. Do not continue to be deceived. America is still great and will remain so only with sound money – like the gold and silver based Liberty Dollar.

So which would you prefer a currency that depreciates or a currency that appreciates in value? The US Dollar has a long history (92 years) of depreciation while gold and silver monies have a much longer history (5,000 years) of appreciation and providing price stability.