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Friendly Neighborhood Liberty Dollars – LD Network

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In 1991, a man named Paul Glover introduced what would become the most successful Community Currency to date: Ithaca Hours, which are based on one hour of human labor. A single Hour is valued at $1…

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Well the "Don Quixotes of Money" are back with a new run at the fiat currency call the "dollar" aka "Federal Reserve Banknote". Derogatorily called a "FRBie" in the hard money & survivalist communities.

 If you remember the original episode, then you'll remember that when their idea of an alternative currency began to get traction, the politicians and bureaucrats came down on them with a "heavy hammer". (To bad, I was not on that jury. How anyone could confuse a big silver coin or a strange sized colorful bill as a "greenback" was beyond me.)
Having dodged a long prison sentence for “counterfeiting”, I thought that this would fold like most “community currencies”.  But I was wrong.  
Now they have still repeated the original mistake of using the word "dollar".  Of course, the current FRBies bear as much resemblance to the original "dollar" aka Thaller as I do an Olympic Athlete in any sport. Well maybe sumo.


I’ll probably buy a few as a conversation starter.  Maybe even for a 1K oz of silver, (15.07 * 1,000 = 15,070), I’ll have some “Kendall Park”, “South Brunswick”, or maybe even “Tyne Court” dollars printed.  Laugh!




I really admire the tenacity of these “hard money champions”.  Like the “Charge of the Light Brigade”, “Custer’s Last Stand”, Stalingrad, Agincourt, history is littered with historical examples of the hopeless and hapless casualties of stupidity.




All that being said, I hope that they can impact the discussion of "hard money" versus "fiat money" that we have now. To see the human cost of the unConstitutional "money", we just have to look at the welfare / warfare state, the national debt that will never be repaid, the unfunded liabilities of Gooferment promises & "pensions", as well as the destruction of savers and investors.  Hard to itemize all the bad things that happened when Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and Nixon got involved in "money".  Argh!  

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POLITICAL: The Lincoln Movie

				

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http://lewrockwell.com/thornton/thornton53.1.html


The Lincoln Movie
by Mark Thornton


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Steven Spielberg’s epic movie Lincoln is truly a masterpiece. As an historical drama it portrays Lincoln in the final months of his life and the final months of the Civil War. More than anything, it shows Lincoln attempting – against all odds – to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.


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With Lincoln, of course Abraham Lincoln was president during the American Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln was the first lady, they had sons, etc. All the supporting cast did exist including all the politicians, cabinet members, generals, etc. The 13th amendment to the Constitution banning slavery did pass, Lincoln was assassinated, and the Union did defeat the Confederacy.


It is also true that Lincoln did work to promote the passage of the 13th amendment. However, as Thomas DiLorenzo has shown, Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1861 That 13th amendment would have banned the federal government from interfering with states that permitted slavery if it has been ratified. Furthermore, he shows that there is no hard evidence that Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865 which prohibited slavery in all states.


As you can see, the real version of events would not have made for a good movie. In fact, the real Lincoln would not make for any kind of pleasant movie. He was a loser politician married to a crazy woman, who unexpectedly found success because the nation splintered into four political parties, handing him the election.


Lincoln was famous for telling people what they wanted to hear. He would often claim to support one position on an issue to one group of people and claim to support the opposite position to another group of people. He was the classic flip-flopper often supporting numerous positions on an issue over his political career. No good material for a movie here.


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Wow, who would have thought a politician is a flip flopper telling people what they want to hear?


Lincoln is far and away on the top of my worst President list. No one in the second tier is even close.


He was the ultimate crony capitalist as a “railroad lawyer”.


I find it bemusing that the Black Community reveres him. 


Not that I’m a proponent of slavery, Jim Crow, or racism, but he was the opposite of their image.


Toss in on top that the rest of the world was able to eliminate slavery without a war. Slavery was uneconomic and, ten more so, when the mechanization of America. Human labor is too valuable to waste in slavery. (Ever try and get a human to do something that they don’t want to do? As children, we learn at an early age that no one can make us do ANYTHING ever. Even poop!)


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FUN: Poking fun at the President

				

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Here’s some spam from Evy’s High School chum that imho is worth forwarding with suitable editorial comment.


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———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Karen 
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Subject: Where to Put # 44


Where to put  president  #44


Where, oh where —  to put Obama’s picture.


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George Washington, our nation’s first president  and leader of the American  Revolution!


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Abe Lincoln,  honorable leader who pulled our nation through its darkest  time!


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Alexander Hamilton,  founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury and  leader of the constitutional  convention! >>>>>>>>


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Andrew Jack  son, “Old Hickory ” fought the British in New Orleans!


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Ulysses  Grant, Union army general, led the North through the Civil  War!


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Ben  Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist and leading  author of the Constitution.


Finally, we have  someone to put on the food  stamp!!!


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Obama’s policies  have put more people on welfare than any president before him, so this placement is most  appropriate.


Unlike the Nobel  Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an “honor”  he richly  deserves.


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I agree with Washington, by far, with some pimples, imhothe BEST president. At least in his first term; later on, not so much.


I’m OK with Grant; a good ordinary joe.


Ditto Jackson; anybody who shoots the guy who insults his wife is OK in my book.


Franklin should have been a prez since anyone who likes turkeys is OK with me.


Lincoln is my worst!


Hamilton, if he had been Prez, would be in my third tier(i.e., worse-est, worse-er, and just plain worse). No doubt the folks at the FED like this since AH wanted a Federal Reserve cabal back in his time. It took Wilson to sell us out to the Big Banks. And sneakily put us in WW1 and on the road to empire.


It’s funny to put BHO44 on the food stamp, but that honor should belong to FDR. He put the nation on the dole, perminently put us on the road to Socialism and hell, all while corruptly sneakaly and with malice aforethought putting us in WW2.


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POLITICAL: Lincoln may not have approved of O, but Lincoln wasn’t so great imho

				

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/338/story/59958.html


Pitts: Lincoln might not have welcomed Obama’s election


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Actually, Lincoln likely would have been appalled. How could he not? He was a 19th century white man who famously said in 1858 that “there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which . . . will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality.”


How do you reconcile that with all those cartoons of Lincoln congratulating Obama? You don’t. You simply recognize it for what it is: yet another illustration of how shallow our comprehension of history is, yet another instance where myth supersedes reality.


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Of course, Lincoln freed no slaves. That’s the myth. His Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure to demoralize and destabilize the rebellious South; it covered states he did not govern but did not apply in slaveholding states that remained under his jurisdiction.


None of which is to deny or diminish the greatness of the 16th president. His greatness stands unquestioned, unquestionable. We would be a very different nation, a lesser nation, without his political genius, his dogged faith in the unsundered Union, his refusal to accept less than Union, even when haunted by reversals and setbacks that would have broken anyone else.


No, the argument is not about Lincoln’s greatness.


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But, it should be!


Lincoln is up there on my list of “Worst American Presidents”.


As a corrupt Illinois politician who was in bed with more than the railroads, one has to take not of the following:


(1) The War of Northern Aggression. What you call the Civil War. What some call the Second American Revolution. The is no Constitutional, legal, or moral justification for this war. That alone would rocket him too the top of the list.


(2) Income tax to pay for that war. Government debt too.


(3) Freedom of Press savaged when editors dared to criticism him.


(4) Atrocities against civilian populations like Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.


(5) Single handedly destroying the concept of a Union of Equals amd morphing into the USA as the tyrant state.


And, don’t forget, he want to send all the “Negros” back to Africa. A racist among his other “endearing” qualities.


Those are just my uneducated points. There are much smarted folks than I who can give you “Chapter and Verse” about Lincoln.


But, don’t disturb the sheeple.


One of these days I should codify my “worst list”!


But that’s hard on the old BP.


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RANT: Lincoln wasnt the worst, but close!

				

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PROVISION #588 (10/26/08): PROBABLY NO GOD?


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Did that title get your attention? If so then the campaign to put secularist posters on the sides of British buses may achieve its intended result. But I think the posters miss the mark. The problem is not with God; the problem is with parochial ideas of God. That’s what Abraham Lincoln had to say in his Second Inaugural Address (reprinted below). It is also what I understand to be the true nature of here, now, and forever. God is no Judge; God is Understanding.


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People love to find someone or something to blame. It’s called scapegoating, and we do it to God just as much as we do it to other people and things. But I stand with Lincoln. There are no simple answers as to who or what is to blame. There are no good guys or bad guys; there are only people who are seeking to meet their needs as best they know how. We can respect each other for that and, if we choose to do so, we can learn to understand the Understanding that what would make life more wonderful for us all.


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I like the “Provisions” as thought-provoking.


Unfortunately, citing Lincoln, throws me into a tizzy.


I am from the school of thought that the Second American Revolution, aka what the winners call the “Civil War”, aka what the losers call the “Wr of Northern Aggression”, was about taxes. Not slavery.


The Industrial North wanted to prosper at the expense of the Agrarian South.


Lincoln was not the heroic figure portrayed by the media as “freeing the slaves”. He was a venial politician that was in the pockets of the railroads. He had no interest in slavery, except as it appealed to his base.


The world, for the most part, eliminated slavery peacefully.


He waged war on the civilian population, which up to that point was unheard of.


The vaunted Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the areas he didn’t control. What happened to the ones in areas he did control.


No, a poor example distracts me from the point of the Provision, i.e., our mistaken notion of God.


AND, Lincoln converted the “United States of America” into the empire of the USA. The States forever were lost in terms of a check on the power of the Federal Government.


In the pantheon of Presidents, Lincoln has to rank at the bottom, or close to it.


His competition for the bottom might be FDR for removing us from the Gold Standard, or Truman for Hiroshima / Nagasaki.


Upon reflection, Lincoln gets nudged out by Wilson. He campaigned on “Peace” and immediately got us into WW1. WW1’s “peace settlement” led to WW2. And, Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act which created the exact thing that Andrew Jackson killed. An engine of debt and inflation.


Sigh, please give us more ineffective and merely corrupt politicians. The “idealists” kill us and Liberty.


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