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Some Notes to the Letters, Leaflets, Newsletters & Booklet by 
DAVE WILBER, transcribed from some old handwritten notes.

To me these writings are a curious mixture of social credit and
constitutionalist notions, christianity and conspiracy theories,
patriotism, natural health ideas and monetary and other freedom
ideas. Trying to sort all of them out and to respond to all of
them would have taken more time than I was willing to take.
We share an opposition to legal tender and to most government
paper money issues but not many of our definitions are alike. But
some of them, in his "encyclopaedia", would make a good addition
to my "SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY" collection.
So much confused and rubbish material has been printed on the
subject of money and almost flawless writings on it are so rare
that most do never come across most of the better writings on
money and are to that extent blameless for the views they hold or
have adopted or developed from the "rubbish heap".
I think among his main errors are the view that private banks are
issuing legal tender currency and that the central banks are
nothing but private banks. Who studies monetary legislation?
Another error : That when money tokens are simply printed and
then given the legal tender "quality" that thereby money is
"created" rather than systematically and exploitatively
destroyed.
Mostly he implies that such "created" money is "spent", while
only a fraudulent or coercive transfer and destruction of money
is involved, under the pretence that something one owns is
transferred in an exchange.  But he contradicts the spending
pretence in his statements saying that the first issuer of such
money offers nothing in exchange and in the end of his 1984
circular "To all my good friends", he says : "Government spends
nothing".
He loves paradoxical to absurd sounding statements - which may
get people to think or send them on an altogether wrong track.
He assumes that "pumping in money" is a conspiracy and
intentional rather than the result of government ignorance of
proper financing and exchange media and value standard practices.
He favours some gold redemptionism, not free and private gold
value clearing, and wants legal tender laws repealed.
He imagines that taxation is unnecessary, does not consider
voluntary taxation or contribution schemes but imagines that
"social credit" could finance government spending. See e.g.
"Awake America", June 1984, 2nd. column : "Government is
independent of taxation." Supposedly, government just taxes you
to annoy you and that the inflation tax is not a tax!
According to him - and many others government notes are
counterfeit, although one can hardly counterfeit the OWN notes. 
At most one can issue many duplicates and call each of them an
original.
The theory and practice of tax foundation money without legal
tender and gold redemptionism, but reckoning in gold weight
values, seem to have passed him by.
Monetarily he is a Protestant rather than a Catholic but then
most Protestants are rather muddled on their main subject, too.
He seems to have a long way to go before he becomes a moralist,
rationalist, humanist and atheist in this sphere. May he find and
pay attention to enough of the sound sign posts on his way. 
                  PIOT, J.Z., 5 December 1997.