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rational person who continues to dispute the existence of the [gold] rig
after exposure to the evidence is either in denial or is complicit. –
Attorney Robert Landis
Economic censorship is increasingly being
wielded against our freedom of speech and right to bear arms. Nothing pisses
me off more than screwing with those two fundamental human rights. But we do not have
to just meekly take it; there is something we can do about it!
Being a strong supporter of the Second Amendent and long-standing ally of GATA I am
personally interested in their ability to continue speaking; despite
whatever petulant little (morally) Establishment goons have done
physically assaulting Bill Murphy. True, they did not come in guns drawn like
with Kim Dotcom. And at least a federal court, perhaps as a backhanded
insult, made the Federal Reserve write GATA a check!
On 18 Sep 2012 I wrote Why Bitcoin Acceptance
Should Be A Litmus Test Of Liberty Proponents. Then WordPress started accepting
bitcoin on 15 Nov 2012. They get it. Less than two weeks later Anti-War that started
accepting bitcoins. They get it. A month later LewRockwell.com started accepting bitcoin.
They get it.
But Bitcoin can be an intimidating subject for those not so technically
inclined. This is a reason I created the Free Bitcoin Guide and assisted GATA in accepting bitcoins. Like WordPress,
Anti-War and LewRockwell; GATA gets it. I want to protect our freedom
of speech and am willing to actually do something about it.
Consequently, the Establishment is using politicized currency to
engage in economic censorship of the freedom of speech and the right to bear
arms.
ECONOMIC CENSORSHIP AND THE CURRENT MONETARY SYSTEM
The current monetary and payment systems are increasingly being used to
engage in economic censorship of voices opposed to current immoral
Establishment policies. This is because without free markets in currencies we
will eventually lose free markets in everything else.
FIRST, was the retaliation in the form of a banking blockade against Wikileaks for
leaking the Collateral Murder video showing the
intentional targeting, killing and coverup of two Reuters journalists.
Plus, now the US government is
targeting and assassinating children for political speech.
Decentralized digital currency, private decentralized social
networking, crowdsourced news and customized weapons. Coincidence, right? Of
course.
So I find it is reasonable for some to view the recent suspicious
deaths of six particular citizens as politically
motivated covert assassinations.
First, was Len Sassaman on 3 July 2011 who was as Jon Matonis eulogized,
“a brilliant cryptographer and a true champion for privacy rights and privacy
enhancing technologies”. Bitcoin block 138725 on 30 July
2011 contains this transaction
which decodes to this tribute to Len Sassaman:
Second and third, were popular political blogger 43
year old Andrew Breitbart on 1 March 2012 from a heart attack while jogging and then
on 20 April 2012 ‘Michael Cormier,
a respected forensic technician for the Los Angeles County Coroner died under
suspicious circumstances at his North Hollywood home April 20, the same day
Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public.’
Fourth, Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy on 12 Nov 2012, strong
privacy advocate and a Co-Founder of Diaspora
which is a peer-to-peer encrypted social network with privacy built in by
default. Think, Facebook but without being so useful to the CIA and FBI.
Fifth, was Reddit Co-Founder, Internet giant and freedom of
speech advocate Aaron Swartz on 11 Jan 2013.
Aaron was instrumental in protecting Internet freedom by getting SOPA
and PIPA stopped through a massive viral campaign.
Sixth, the gun advocate and gun dealer owner Keith Ratliff on 8 Jan 2013 who
was a YouTube star with about 3.5 million subscribers and over half a
billion views and owner of FPS Industries which provides customized weaponry.
Decentralized censorship-resistant digital currency, private decentralized
social networking, crowdsourced news and customized weapons. Coincidence,
right? Of course; just like WTC 7.
If Obama wields what the New York Times calls the ‘kill list’
to target children then it is only
reasonable to assume that the kill list will be wielded to silence change
agents. That is what Bush and countless others have done throughout history.
Who is next, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress?
But perhaps ‘our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to
others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our
future.’ At least Matt, Chris and Bill know when they go to sleep that they
are waking up in the right side of history and future.
NEXT, Paypal, without any court orders or other legal
process but instead of their own volition, has begun (1)
targeting particular types of businesses from file sharing services to Internet Service Providers,
(2) refusing to process their payments, (3) seizing their funds and
(4) freezing their accounts. Of course, they blame it on the copyright and try to
pass laws like SOPA and PIPA.
LASTLY, on 7 Jan
2012 Bank of America froze the accounts of American Spirit Arms, a federally licensed
and legally compliant gun dealer because the bank believes they “should
not be selling guns and gun parts on the Internet.”
Consequently, the Establishment is wielding politicized currency
to engage in economic censorship of the freedom of speech and the right to
bear arms. Because of GATA’s work the world has changed for the better and
that speech needs to be protected and not economically censored.
Thus, the fight over gold and silver as media of exchange is about
more than mere money, let alone making money. For it is a fight with only two
possible outcomes: either control of their own lives by the people
themselves, or control of the people and their lives by political and
economic elitists. – Dr. Edwin Vieira
POLITICIZED CURRENCY
Dr. Edwin Vieira, the renowned expert on American monetary jurisprudence
and author of the penultimate book Pieces of Eight, gave a speech at GATA’s 2005 conference
about politicized currency.
Eight years ago he prognosticated how political currency would be
used to further eviscerate checks and balances in the
political machinery along with the threat politicized currency poses to
our right to bear arms.
But there was one thing Dr. Vieira did not prognosticate: Bitcoin
– the world’s first decentralized censorship-resistant digital
crypto-currency. But freedom, particularly monetary freedom, is only going to
be reclaimed if it bubbles up from the individual. So, if you want monetary
freedom then follow GATA’s example to come and claim it.
This means that by accepting bitcoin donations GATA is staking out
sovereign territory that will allow them to stand free and independent of
any politicized currency or payment processors and are immunizing
themselves against potential economic censorship.
CENSORSHIP-RESISTANT CURRENCY
Gold is still a censorship-resistant currency of tremendous
stature; think of all the stories of escaping Vietnam with a few taels, gold
coins hidden from Nazi’s or countless others over the millennia. Even in
my own heritage are ancestors who sewed silver coins into the hems of their
clothes to escape violent political and religious persecution with some
savings.
And a great thing about gold is it can never become worthless because it
is a tangible and corporeal asset. But that very benefit becomes a
liability; does it get seized at customs in Mexico and how do you pay
for web hosting services in Iceland where there is an extremely
protective freedom of speech law written by a Wikileaks proponent?
Or more importantly, as GATA has tirelessly trumpeted, this weakness
of corporeality has allowed central banks to target and economically censor
gold through legal tender laws, tax policy, the central bank gold price
suppression scheme, invasion and occupation.
The currency wars are raging with increasing ferocity, the Germans getting only as much
gold as the Federal Reserve says they can have, and as Hiroshima and
Nagasaki demonstrated that innocent civilians, men, women and children, have
been and will be targeted and vaporized by the State if they demand anything
more.
There are many things that make Bitcoin amazing although it does have some
weaknesses. Sure, even though bitcoins are tangible they
are non-corporeal and, at worst, could become worthless. But if such
a catastrophic bug or attack vector is discovered then it will be patched and
if abused enough to destroy Bitcoin 1.0 then the weakness will be fixed and
Bitcoin 2.0 will be released.
Keep in mind that in most cases the operating system versions are Windows
8 and Mac OS 10. Such software code is not built at once but is an evolutionary
process and if you wait to adopt it when finished; well, you would never
be reading this because it is never finished.
Just use Bitcoin, which is the currency on the Internet. – Rush Limbaugh
But perhaps one of Bitcoin’s greatest monetary traits is
its censorship-resistance. Bitcoin empowers users
to send any amount of money to any other person instantly without a fee
to anywhere in the world without any restrictions whatsoever.
Thus, gold and Bitcoin are not really competitors but tremendously
complimentary monetary tools. And against all odds, like the ring-bearer Frodo,
the nascent Bitcoin juggernaut is becoming more acceptable as a medium of
exchange and settlement currency and is increasing in
economic mass, store of wealth gravity and social momentum to
return an economically censorship-resistant currency to individuals.
GOLDMONEY AND BITCOIN
The European Central Bank wrote a 55
page report on Bitcoin for a reason. Are you in favor of being able to
easily integrate with a censorship-resistant currency so you can support the
charities and businesses that are or may be politically
or economically persecuted? Well, James Turk is a GATA advisor and
Chairman of the Board at GoldMoney and since GoldMoney is
considering integrating with Bitcoin and are asking for customer
feedback in their 2013 Annual Survey now is
a chance to let your voice be heard in favor of monetary freedom.
And in the meantime, with gold collapsing
against bitcoin a wealth transfer is going on to holders of bitcoin and
away from holders of gold and other assets. While this fight for freedom and
liberty is not about merely making money I would still prefer to see the
primary beneficiaries in this shift to
censorship-resistant crypto-currency be people of good moral
character.
Not only is it the right thing to do but there is a ton of money to be
made running an underground railroad from fiat currencies
and over-leveraged politicized banks to non-politicized
decentralized digital censorship-resistant currency. Just think if those
customers, who currently hold $2.2B of assets with GoldMoney, were able to
instantly buy bitcoins. A $2.2B market cap for bitcoin implies a price per
bitcoin of about $200 or a gain of about 1,400% from current prices.
Because of GATA’s work the world has changed for the better and
that speech needs to be protected and not economically censored.
CONCLUSION
This means that by accepting bitcoin donations GATA is staking out
sovereign territory that will allow them to stand free and independent of
any politicized currency or payment processors and are immunizing
themselves against potential economic censorship. Likewise, should the need
arise they can pay with bitcoins for services like webhosting with Iceservers which is based in Iceland or the
VPN Private Internet Access.
So, consider taking some time to explore the Free Bitcoin Guide,
buy some bitcoins and send some bitcoin donations to GATA.
To fund and continue with current lawsuits and to keep fighting for free
currency markets we need to raise at least $15,000 (click here to check the
current Bitcoin balance and click the little green box to see the USD
amount). And consider letting GoldMoney know how you feel in their Annual Survey.
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Plus, do you see the irony of the Federal Reserve writing GATA a check or
in you sending GATA a donation in Federal Reserve Notes with a credit card?
It is almost an insult.
It was not firehoses and vicious dogs in the streets but the bus boycotts
that exerted the economic pressure to change the atrocious Civil Rights
situation. What better way is there to screw the central banks than to
boycott, to the extent possible, their fiat paper franchises and politically
compromised payment systems? Previously there has not been an economically
viable substitute. With Bitcoin there is. For the central banks gold is
their Achilles heel and Bitcoin a kryptonite dagger.
COMMENTS PLEASE
These topics are extremely important to each and every one of us. Even if
you are a low paid Internet shill, because
we know you hate your job and want something more worthwhile to do
than troll Bitcoin articles all day long.
So please leave some comments about how you feel and share this with your
friends, family and favorite organizations like gun dealers, human or civil
rights organizations, file sharing companies, open-source software
proponents, freedom of speech advocates, doctors, etc. who may be targets of
economic censorship. They need to know why they should accept bitcoins.
BON JOVI
SOME HELPFUL GATA VIDEOS
This interview took place at the 4-5 AUG 2011 GATA conference in London.
Since I make price predictions around 2:16 it is fun for historical context
to recall the price of gold was $1,665 and the price of silver was $41.04.
Once again, I was right.
This interview took place on 9 October 2009 on Business News Network.
For fun historical context the price of gold was around $1,050 and once again
I was right.
WARFARE, WELFARE AND THE STATE – ROBERT HIGGS
(good part starts around 9:20)
HOW EASY IT IS TO USE BITCOIN
REAL IS GOING TO CHANGE
BANK 2.0 – MODALITY SHIFT
Bitcoin can easily be used with mobile devices with the Blockchain.info mobile apps and SMS wallet managers like Coinapult.
RIP – AARON SWARTZ
BITCOIN’S MASCOT - THE FINANCIAL HONEY BADGER
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