K.W. Watkins, ed., In Defence of Freedom, From: To: Subject: ToJohnZub from Dave Wilber Date: Sunday, 25 June 2000 4:53 John Zube: St. Louis MO June 24, 2000 7 Oxley St. Berrima, NSW Australia 2577 Dear Mr. Zube, It was good to hear from you and better to see you are on the www. You said that full monetary freedom is neglected on the web, Yes it is!. I have read many things written by people condemning our moneyless monetary system and argued with them to no avail. The great majority do not want to end our slavery, they just want to change our masters OR what we call them! These people work without definitions and contradict themselves. Such words as pay, spend, debt, dollar, tax, money and inflation are either undefined or misdefined, so their writings are gibberish nonsense. It seems all fail to distinguish between money and wealth. I call these people "fictional reserve fanatics". "Money expropriates wealth" said the late Merrill Jenkins Monetary Realist whom I knew well. The Fed corroborated him with: "Inflation reduces the wealth of money holders in proportion to their holdings of money". They admit money is not wealth. Do you have any of Jenkins books? There is a web site for his works but it was not working the last time I checked. It is www.cft.net.com/members/chrishum/moneystuff.html Verify through: chrishum@cft.net You are a rare one, concerned about legal tender. It is the source of all the world's ills. Legal tender laws make it possible for the first users of legal tender to get everything while they pay for nothing. "Payment" is not mentioned in our legal tender statutes" In communist countries, the few control the many with legal tender, credit, fear, lies, illusions, disease and amusements that in inhibit serious thought. We all live in communist countries. Communism never died, it just changed its name to 'democracy'. The pope travels the world promoting democracy. Democratic process got Jesus crucified! My definition of "pay" is to deliver the service or substance that is owed. If you owe one dollar in the U.S., you owe 371 1/4 grains of silver in coin form. To pay one dollar, you must deliver that amount of silver or its gold equivalent. Our Coinage Act of 1792 fixed the dollar as this weight of silver and it provided a penalty of DEATH for officers of the mint who participate in debasing our gold and silver coins. Those wise congressmen knew that unrestrained counterfeiters could overthrow their republic. How would YOU define "pay" ? With the passage of the Federal Reserve act of 1913, Karl Marx's fifth plank was implemented and congress provided presses, paper, ink and labor for counterfeiters! In the same year, Marx's second plank was implemented with the fraudulent imposition of an income tax, not to finance government but to regulate our consumption by regulating our use of legal tender and credit. Cancer serves the same function as any tax. when governments get everything for absolutely nothing with credit. Bank credit is the cancer of civilization. Credit is inflation. Negotiable notes are inflation. There is no measurable labor in a one hundred dollar bill--OR of any denomination. If government takes 5 dollars from you and gives you a note that promises to pay and you spend the note while they spend the specie, 10 units of production are being bid in the marketplace where only 5 exists. The other 5 (the note) are inflation, nothing offered for something. My definition of inflation is non production accepted for production or nothing accepted for something. You could go to an auction without a dime in your pocket and bid prices to the sky. When you stop bidding and another party pays or "pays" a sky high price, it is because you were offering nothing for something. The nothing you were offering was the inflation that raised the price. Credit is nothing and everyone today offers it for something. What the victims fail to see is that government has unlimited credit, gets everything for nothing, spends nothing and all wars are financed with bank credit that kills our sons. I have ran newspaper and internet ads offering 100 pounds of money to EACH person who just describes the money that government spends and I get no takers! What really bothers me is that almost no one will repeat my offer. Governments spend nothing! Those who first get the nothing for nothing will offer any amount of nothing to get something for nothing. Those who offer something for nothing, believing the nothing is something, will try to get all of the nothing they can and prices go up. Those who get everything for nothing become government no matter who is elected. "One of mankind's most characteristic traits is the desire to get something for nothing". --Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) "Those who issue and control money and credit determine the policies of government and hold the destinies of the people in the hollow of their hands". --Sir Reginald McKenna, former president, Midland Bank of England. "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all commerce and industry". U.S. President James A. Garfield. (1831-1881) A bullet silenced him. Can there be absolute masters without any slaves? ---only when the people control the volume by spending or not spending lawful coins. Legal tender is legal slavery. "Payment" is not mentioned in our legal tender statutes. You seem to use "currency" loosely. The only thing our Congress made "current as money" was silver coins. We do not use currency today. All it took to enslave the world was to convince the people that paper is money or paper is currency. All it takes to keep us enslaved is to keep the majority convinced that we are free. As for "hoarding", it is no business of government if people hide their property to protect it from thieves. When we used gold coins, many were called "dirty hoarders". When we are all plundered with promiseless paper, those who accumulate it are called "shrewed investors". Government will stop at nothing to keep us from offering nothing for something, even if it means killing us off with abortion, sugar, aspartame,fluoride, tobacco, milk and phony wars. They said their spurious specie would keep its value "if there were fewer people bidding (nothing for something) against each other". Our former Secretary of Defense, Robert, Strange McNamara said there are many ways to make the death rate increase. I will attach a list of quotes, titled How Long shall We Live. I will send you a few things via snail mail too. There are only two possible economic systems; barter and slavery. God commanded a barter system with : "Thou shalt not steal" . Our Constitution mandates a barter system with: "No state shall make any Thing but gold and silver coins a tender in payment of debt", Article 1, Section 10. God promised long life if we refrained from using unjust weights. De. 25:13-15 Our dollar was fixed by law as a weight of silver. All divinity schools and the whole world operate with weightless dollars, pounds, pesos,pesetas, francs, lira, marks, etc. "We have world government now (1979), our monetary system would not work if all the world's bankers were not in collusion" Merrill Jenkins, and I say, AMEN! Dave Wilber See attachment---if you can not open, I will cut and paste. ================================================================================