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Given that tens of millions of Americans cheered in blissful agreement when a Democratic National
Convention promotional video
claimed that the only thing we
all belong to is the government, it would make perfect
sense that everything else belongs to the government as well.
Case
in point:
In
July of 2011 a jeweler’s heirs found ten double eagle $20 gold coins
in a family safe that dated back to the
Roosevelt administration. They then
sent the coins to be authenticated
and appraised by the Philadelphia Mint.
The
coins come from a batch that
were struck but melted down after President Franklin D. Roosevelt took
the country off the gold standard in 1933.
Two were preserved for the Smithsonian
Institute. But a handful
more mysteriously got
out.
Because the coins had
never been released into circulation and were struck after Roosevelt’s gold confiscation executive order #6102 in
April of 1933, the Treasury Department
assumed they had originally been stolen from the mint.
Without any evidence or consideration given to statute of
limitations, the government seized
the coins – valued at
$80 million.
The
family sued in federal court and a judge has finally handed down a ruling.
A
judge ruled that 10 rare gold coins worth
$80 million belonged to the U.S. government, not a family that had sued
the U.S. Treasury, saying
it had illegally seized them.
…
Last
week, Judge Legrome Davis
of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, affirmed that decision, saying “the coins in question were
not lawfully removed from the United States Mint.”
Barry
Berke, an attorney for the Langbords,
told ABCNews.com, “This is a case that raises many novel
legal questions, including
the limits on the government’s
power to confiscate property.
The Langbord family will be filing
an appeal and looks forward
to addressing these
important issues before the 3rd Circuit.”
Source:
Yahoo News
So,
the gold, which was originally stolen by the Federal government because hoarding had been forbidden by Presidential decree mysteriously disappeared from US Treasury vaults in 1933, to be found 78 years
later, only to be re-stolen by the same government again.
What’s more is
that the judge claims the
family who found the coins in their father’s safe were actually the ones who committed
the crime by seizing said
coins nearly decades before any of them were ever
born.
The
lesson here is that the government,
its representatives and
the myrmidons who blindly
support it believe they own you,
everything you’ve worked for, everything your parents and grandparents worked for, and everything your children can expect to work for in the future.
If
they want it, they will
take it.
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