Feds Charge Man with Attempt to "Undermine" Currency System with Liberty Dollars

Federal authorities arrested an Asheville man in what they said was a scheme to undermine the U.S. currency system and defraud consumers with so-called Liberty Dollars.

William Kevin Innes marketed the “barter” currency in Western North Carolina and recruited merchants willing to accept it and give it as change for products bought with real money, according to an indictment unsealed this week.

Innes, 53, faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. He was indicted along with Bernard von NotHaus, president of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Codes, and two other defendants from Indiana associated with the corporation.

The Liberty Dollar is a better currency that competes in the marketplace with US dollar. Liberty Dollar silver certificates fit in the cash register and function on a 1-to-1 basis with the US dollars so they are easy for businesses to use. The new currency is available in the same convenient denominations: $1, $5, $10 and $20 in silver plus a $1000 gold certificate.

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Most Americans don’t realize the depth of America’s current monetary crisis, and those who do don’t stop using money in protest. Most people just shrug their shoulders instead. As the old saying goes, "you can’t fight city hall."

So for years, Americans have stood by and watched as the Internal Revenue Service has dipped deeper and deeper into our paychecks, and the Federal Reserve has entrenched itself into the economy. Maybe because we didn’t really want to know the truth, we’ve never even bothered to ask the tough questions.

In the same vein, no one questioned the Social Security program until just a few years ago. Everyone assumed it was healthy and would be solvent forever. But now we know that it's in deep financial trouble, and it's not clear whether or not it can even be saved.

It’s incredible how few people know the facts about the Federal Reserve. The organization chaired by Ben Bernake is not "Federal" – it is instead a cabal of private and international banks that does not answer to the United States government. And while there is some precious metal stored in Fort Knox, it doesn't back the debt based 'fiat' US dollar that they issue, because nothing backs it except your trust in the system! Even a casual look at the Fed’s history leads one to wonder how an institution that profits mightily from its own policies of victimizing Americans has maintained control over the money of the wealthiest nation on Earth. For those who have made a serious inquiry, the Federal Reserve is shadowed in deceptive origins and fraudulent policies.

Are people who attack the Federal Reserve just conspiracy theorists? Definitely not. Many don’t believe a conspiracy has taken place – they simply feel that the current monetary system is out of control.

Maybe they're right, and the Federal Reserve is an outgrowth of a few bad decisions made ninety years ago and carried forth to their logical extensions by well-meaning, but misguided, public servants. On the other hand, hundreds of authors and commentators have gathered an impressive body of facts and documentation that show how the U.S. Constitution was deliberately circumvented to allow the central bankers control over our money, and how the IRS uses scare tactics and even violence to browbeat American citizens. These students of the nation’s monetary system aren’t kooks - they’re professors, political scientists, judges, Congressmen and Presidents.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

- Frederick Bastiat; economist, statesman, author of The Law

How is offering Gold and Silver a crime?
The power of the Federal Reserve was challenged and they took violent action.