Feds convict Bernard Von NotHaus for minting and selling 'Liberty Dollar' silver coins; Called "domestic terrorist", faces up to 25 years in prison

Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar

Apparantly the Feds stacked the jury with nothing but idiots and groveling, slavish, government-worshipping sycophants.

For Immediate Release
March 18, 2011

United States Attorney's Office
Western District of North Carolina
Contact: (704) 344-6222

Defendant Convicted of Minting His Own Currency

STATESVILLE, NC—Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted today by a federal jury of making, possessing, and selling his own coins, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Following an eight-day trial and less than two hours of deliberation, von NotHaus, the founder and monetary architect of a currency known as the Liberty Dollar, was found guilty by a jury in Statesville, North Carolina, of making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling, and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty Dollar coins intended for use as current money; and of conspiracy against the United States. The guilty verdict concluded an investigation which began in 2005 and involved the minting of Liberty Dollar coins with a current value of approximately $7 million. Joining the U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins in making today’s announcement are Edward J. Montooth, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, Charlotte Division; Russell F. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, Charlotte Division; and Sheriff Van Duncan of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the evidence introduced during the trial, von NotHaus was the founder of an organization called the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code, commonly known as NORFED and also known as Liberty Services. Von NotHaus was the president of NORFED and the executive director of Liberty Dollar Services, Inc. until on or about September 30, 2008.

Von NotHaus designed the Liberty Dollar currency in 1998 and the Liberty coins were marked with the dollar sign ($); the words dollar, USA, Liberty, Trust in God (instead of In God We Trust); and other features associated with legitimate U.S. coinage. Since 1998, NORFED has been issuing, disseminating, and placing into circulation the Liberty Dollar in all its forms throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. NORFED’s purpose was to mix Liberty Dollars into the current money of the United States. NORFED intended for the Liberty Dollar to be used as current money in order to limit reliance on, and to compete with, United States currency.

In coordination with the Department of Justice, on September 14, 2006, the United States Mint issued a press release and warning to American citizens that the Liberty Dollar was “not legal tender.” The U.S. Mint press release and public service announcement stated that the Department of Justice had determined that the use of Liberty Dollars as circulating money was a federal crime.

Article I, section 8, clause 5 of the United States Constitution delegates to Congress the power to coin money and to regulate the value thereof. This power was delegated to Congress in order to establish and preserve a uniform standard of value and to insure a singular monetary system for all purchases and debts in the United States, public and private. Along with the power to coin money, Congress has the concurrent power to restrain the circulation of money which is not issued under its own authority in order to protect and preserve the constitutional currency for the benefit of all citizens of the nation. It is a violation of federal law for individuals, such as von NotHaus, or organizations, such as NORFED, to create private coin or currency systems to compete with the official coinage and currency of the United States.

Von NotHaus, who remains free on bond, faces a sentence of up to 15 years’ imprisonment on count two of the indictment and a fine of not more than $250,000. Von NotHaus faces a prison sentence of five years and fines of $250,000 on both counts one and three. In addition, the United States is seeking the forfeiture of approximately 16,000 pounds of Liberty Dollar coins and precious metals, currently valued at nearly $7 million. The forfeiture trial, which began today before United States District Court Judge Richard Voorhees, will resume on April 4, 2011 in the federal courthouse in Statesville. Judge Voorhees has not yet set a date for the sentencing of von NotHaus.

“Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Tompkins said in announcing the verdict. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country,” she added. “We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.”

The case was investigated by the FBI, Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department, and the U.S. Secret Service, in cooperation with and invaluable assistance of the United States Mint. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jill Westmoreland Rose and Craig D. Randall, and the forfeiture trial is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Tom Ascik and Ben Bain Creed.

http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm

Edgar J. Steele framed and 'disappeared' by ZOG

Edgar J. Steele of ConspiracyPenPal


- North Idaho attorney charged in murder-for-hire plot
- Judge orders Steele held without bail in alleged in murder-for-hire plot targeting wife‎

ADL Profile on Edgar J. Steele

Feds 'Disappear' Edgar Steele - Mystery Deepens

New book about Israeli slavery ring seen triggering government's abduction

By John Kaminski
7-11-10

Controversial Patriot writer and lawyer Edgar J. Steele, already jailed on suspicious charges that he tried to kill his wife with a pipe bomb, has been mysteriously removed from from a Spokane, Washington detention facility and taken to an undisclosed location, according to close friends of the Steele family.

In a letter to his friend Ingri Cassell, Steele wrote that the charges of attempted murder are preposterous and blamed his hired handyman - Larry Fairfax, a known FBI informant - for trying to cover up his own theft of silver bullion from Steele's property by trying to kill both Steele and his wife.

As the enclosed letter reproduced below indicates, Steele has been held virtually incommunicado after an initial court hearing June 11 determined he was trying to intimidate witnesses - in this case his wife and son - by instructing them on how to respond to FBI interrogation. Steele also claimed that tape recordings introduced as evidence were not authentic and had been doctored by the FBI in its attempt to authenticate the trumped-up charges.

Steele, 64, has a worldwide audience of tens of thousands of Patriot aficionados accumulated both from his noble record of public actions as well as his Conspiracy Pen Pal website. All these folks are nervously awaiting word of his condition and legal status.

Steele has suffered a recent heart attack and had other medical problems after which his close knit family nursed him back to health. Some observers feel that the heart attack was induced by forces unknown. His friend Dr. Allen Banks described it like this: "Basically the top of his heart blew off. Ed told me it felt like something had 'gone off' on his chest." Steele also had three other surgeries in recent months, as well as chronic nosebleeds that remain unexplained.

Steele most recently published a book titled "Defensive Racism," and is perhaps best known for his defense of the Church of the Aryan Nations in a sensational 2000 court trial which he ultimately lost. Friends speculated on why Steele would have been the focus of such intense federal interest at this time, and both Banks and Cassell indicated that it might have been because Steele was working on a new book about Israeli international slavery practices and its ties to several European governments.

As to whether the government's charges are legitimate, Steele's many friends and readers all suspect a government witchhunt on the order of what happened to Randy Weaver, George Hansen and Gordon Kahl. Weaver was set up by a government informant in 1992 in which his son and wife were killed, better known as the Ruby Ridge incident. Hansen was the Idaho congressman who tried to start an investigation of the IRS, but then was arrested on a pretense and shuttled around the country so his friends couldn't find him. And Kahl, another tax protester, was murdered by federal agents in a particularly grisly incident in 1983 after his decades of principled patriotic tax protests.

Steele's friend Dr. Banks put it this way. "This whole thing isn't logical. Ed is a very intelligent man. Intelligent men don't hire their plumber to kill their wife and mother in law. Plus, he has been quite ill over the past year."

The likelihood of the government's charges being true are "close to zero," said Banks, who is chairman of the Bonner Country Republican Party. "The likelihood of the government's charges against being false are close to 100 percent," Banks added.

Although Steele has been denied phone privileges while in custody in Spokane, and he has been prevented from seeing most of the letters of support that have been sent to him, at least one did slip through, and Steele managed to get a response to the sender, Ingri Cassell, widow of the late Don Harkins, founder of the now-defunct newspaper, The Idaho Observer. Cassell is also the founder of the Vaccine Liberation website.

Steele's message to Cassell, the only known communication to the outside world since his arrest, is here reprinted in its entirety.

Dear Ingri,

Thank you for your letter.

All calls out are almost nonexistent. I was looking forward to seeing you and Al yesterday. I suppose they just turned you away? I haven't had a single visitor here so far and only barely been allowed to see my public defender. I'm not allowed to call my lawyer even until next week.

I am in Max Security, full lockdown, solitary confinement. Worse even than the treatment accorded Matt Hale. Most of mail is returned to senders - usually because of their using letters instead of full first and last names in the review in the return address.

OK. I am innocent, for what that is worth in Amerika today. Here is what happened:

My hillbilly handyman stumbled across a stash of silver bullion in one of my outbuildings - then searched and found two others (@ $15,000 & $45,000 total). Knowing I would discover the theft & know it was him. He tried to kill me with two pipe bombs he placed on the cars he knew I drove. They both failed to go off. Cyndi left town with one before he removed it, which led to the discovery of the car bomb on our Mitsubishi SUV.

This guy had offered to be a hit man before, more than once, but I dismissed him as a harmless buffoon. I had told him of the ADL & its hatred for me. This murder-for-hire plot is beyond my hillbilly hitman, so I assume he went to the ADL, which either fabricated tapes that he played for the FBI recorder or produced a mimic of me to make the tapes for the FBI on the spot. Regardless, I have been framed and set-up! BTW, the ADL was quoted extensively in the government's opening papers in court.

I haven't heard from my wife or son and fear they have been convinced by the U.S. Attorney Prosecutor of my guilt. I feel totally abandoned. What can you and others do? Ingri, I honestly don't know. Obviously, this is going to trial. I may well be convicted, which will be the same as a death sentence at this stage of my life. I am So depressed. I never expected them to come after me like this.

You may share this with others, even posting it on UNN and SF (With my address so they can write me - please write me - but tell them to put their full names and addresses [as a clear return address] on the envelopes). [Note: at this time, we do not know his whereabouts. His address is/was - from the return on my envelope from him -

Edgar Steele #361857 Spokane County Jail W. 1100 Mallon Spokane, Wash. 99260-0320

Love, Edgar

When asked why Steele would have anything to do with Fairfax, a known drug informant in the northern Idaho area, Dr. Banks added a little more detail about the man known only as "Larry the Plumber" to Steele's closest friends.

"Ed had him build a new garage with secret compartments, so obviously Larry would have known where they were."

Ingri Cassell, well known in Idaho Republican and health circles, told of her conversations with Edgar's wife Cyndi.

"For the record, I have been following the Edgar Steele fiasco since he was arrested on June 11, 2010 and kidnapped from his home in Sagle, Idaho. For a mainstream canned report, here is a link -
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/06/12/1227921/n-idaho-attorney-charged-in-murder.html

"Although I had a flurry of other activities I was committed to at the time, I managed to visit with his wife, Cyndi Steele, for two hours on June 21. I wrote Edgar Steele a letter on July 1, 2010 requesting that he call me collect. That never happened, nor the anticipated visit since I was told that he was allowed only one visitor a week and it is a big trip to make only to be turned down.

"Since I had another appointment in Spokane on July 7, I went to the Spokane County Jail and was told that he was in the custody of the U.S. Marshals, was not allowed visitors and could not even make a collect call. At this point I was concerned that he never received my letter.

"On the following day I heard from a friend who lives in Spokane and has tried diligently to visit Edgar Steele. When she went to the jail on July 8, she was told that he had been moved 30 minutes ago to an undisclosed location. And then I received the following letter today, July 9. Following this letter is a letter I am sending to our Idaho state representatives that represent the people in the District where Edgar and Cyndi Steele once lived. Cyndi is so traumatized by this ordeal that she is no longer living in her home, and is in a safe house with friends -- the Steele's former home is in shambles from the raid with floor boards and walls ripped apart... and many of their valuables stolen."

But the current story does not end there. On the day of Steele's most recent "disappearance," Cassell reports that federal agents went to Steele's house and tore it apart, removing books and papers, computers, and lots of valuable silver.

Cassell reported the event in a letter to three Idaho state lawmakers, Sen. Sen. Keough, and Reps. Eskridge Eric Anderson. The text of the letter follows:

"On June 11, 2010, a resident of Sagle, Idaho for 20 years was arrested by Idaho State Police and an agent of the FBI with the assistance of a Bonner County deputy. Edgar is well-known as a defender of politically unpopular opinion, acting as a pro-bono attorney for the politically incorrect and a man who admittedly pushes the limits of free speech.

"He was preparing to go to Spokane on June 11 with a trailer to pick up some lumber for a building project and had asked his friend Allen Banks to join him on the drive into Spokane as he has recently been in very poor health. When Dr. Banks arrived at Edgar's home, he was barred access to the house by Idaho State Police officers, but could hear talking from inside prior to Edgar emerging from the house in handcuffs and being placed in the back of one of the ISP vehicles and driven away. He later witnessed eleven cars carrying agents of the FBI at the house, conducting a search, removing precious metals and other personal items.

"Allen had no idea what was going on other than an FBI agent coming out of the house momentarily, at the time of Edgar's arrest, to declare that he had all he needed on tape and that he was convinced of Edgar's guilt.

"On that same day, The Idaho Statesman and Coeur d'Alene Press printed stories vilifying Edgar's character and claiming that he had hired his handyman to kill his wife and mother-in-law. These stories continued for the following days claiming that the handyman decided to reveal the plot to the FBI on the previous Wednesday before any harm could be done.

"There are a number of holes in this story which any child could describe. For example, the "handyman", Larry Fairfax, has been a federal drug informant in this area for many years. His prior membership in Aryan Nations suggests that he was a federal informant during those years.

"Based upon his history it is not unreasonable to assume that he is still a paid federal informant placed at the Steele household to defame this politically unpopular Sagle resident. The claim that Edgar wanted the life insurance money from the death of his wife also doesn't hold up - enough personal wealth was removed from the Steele residence by the FBI that the life insurance policy angle does not seem believable.

"Strangely, when the informant handyman 'came clean' he failed to mention the pipe bombs he had placed on the Steele vehicles. These were later discovered during a routine oil change. The story and the details of the "plot" so far revealed are bizarre enough that many believe the case to be a complete fabrication, not unlike those fabricated by the Soviet era thugs of the KGB. If such a story can be fabricated to destroy a politically incorrect resident of Sagle, what can these same federal police officials concoct to destroy one of us? There are so many problems with this story that many of us have grave concerns for our safety as Idaho and Bonner County residents.

"While first confined at the Kootenai County Jail, Edgar, an Idaho resident, is now held in another state - Washington. I went to the Spokane County Jail on Wednesday to visit Edgar Steele. The woman at the desk told me that he is not allowed ANY visitors other than his attorney, he cannot make collect phone calls, and he is in custody of the U.S. Marshal Service.

"However, when I called the U.S. Marshal office in Spokane, I was told that Edgar is not in their system. I was referred to the FBI which only was available as a recording. I left a message on a recorder. Another friend went to the Spokane County Jail on Thursday (7-8-10) and was told that he ( Steele) had been moved a half hour earlier to an undisclosed location.

"This is beginning to resemble the George Hansen case where Idaho Congressman George Hansen was kept for nearly two years without trial, moved from one federal detention facility to another just ahead of his friends who were frantically trying to locate him so they could obtain his release. His crime? Allegedly he was being held without trial for errantly filing some congressional disclosure forms. His real crime? Asking for a congressional investigation of the IRS.

"Edgar's wife, Cyndi Steele, and his children, Nicole, Rex and Kelsey, are not allowed any communication with him. Cyndi is not living in their home anymore - too traumatic to live in a home that has been left ripped up (floor boards/walls) after the removal of valuables and other personal belongings.

"She is in shock trying to avoid the media circus and has been unavailable except to close friends. I happened to arrange a meeting with her for two hours on June 21 after she had watched two of three video/audio tapes. Apparently Edgar had been videotaped over a nearly six month period, with agents invading her property while she lived and slept there, without her knowledge. What she shared with me in detail makes me more convinced than ever of this man's innocence. You see, my late husband and I had been at social gatherings with Edgar and Cindy and had been in their home on several occasions, both of us considering Edgar and Cyndi to be our friends. Not only that, but at least an investigator working on this case, Tim Schwering of the Federal Public Defenders Office has also noted that there is something terribly wrong about this case. Please feel free to call me.

"I am deeply concerned and need to know what you can do to intervene to make sure that Edgar is safe, protected and that his right to due process is restored."

So here once again we have the ruthless power of federal law enforcement coming down on Patriots who are fighting for everyone's liberty by breaking the laws they are supposed to uphold and enforce. Steele's abduction by law enforcement is not only in the sinister tradition of government coverups on display during the Waco massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11, all of which were followed by massive stonewalling and spin.

The longer Edgar Steele's whereabouts remain unknown, the less likely this Patriot freedom fighter's chances for survival seem to be. Perhaps the only thing that can save Steele at the point is a massive public outcry at the injustice being done to someone is merely trying to tell the truth about the nasty and immoral things our government is doing in our names.

To this end, concerned supporters of Steele and liberty-loving members of the public at large are urged to deluge the following agencies with telephone calls of protest.

U.S. Marshal's office, Coeur d'Alene: 208-667-6840; Spokane 509-353-2999. FBI Spokane 509-747-5195; Coeur d'Alene: 208-664-5128. Idaho State Police, region 1: 208-769-1433. Idaho Attorney General: Lawrence Wasdin, 208-334-2400. Bonner (Idaho) County Sheriff: 208-263-8417.



John Kaminski is a writer who used to live on the Gulf Coast of Florida, but is now elsewhere, at an undisclosed location, and worried that if one person can be made to disappear by federal agents who disagree with a person's political perspective, then no one in this country is safe from a law enforcement tyranny that makes a mockery of the phrase "liberty and justice for all." http://johnkaminski.info/

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Michael James on another politician assassinated in a "car accident"; German Patriot Martina Pflock

How Satanic Jews and the German Secret Service Use Psychological Terror and Assassination to Silence German Patriots and Prevent the Restoration of the German Reich.By Michael James in Germany4-12-8 Martina Pflock was an attractive, middle-aged woman who had high hopes for her inquisitive and energetic eight-year-old daughter. She had a remarkable vision of the future and, having stumbled upon knowledge legally accessible to ordinary people but deliberately obscured by the ruling caste, she shared what she knew with others and gave hope to a town ravaged by government corruption. The year was 2004.Martina, who was surprised to find she had a gift for public speaking, had found herself pushed to the forefront of a local campaign in Friedrichroda against municipal price gouging on the treatment of wastewater and sewage. She discovered something else that is readily admitted by constitutional lawyers and reluctantly acknowledged by nervous government officials. The Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), devised by the post-war occupying authorities in the western sector as a corporate settlement agency not designed to replace the pre-Hitler German Reich of 1918, had, following re-unification, legally expired on 18 July 1990 by dint of an international treaty, just three months before the official reunification of West and East Germany.[...]The more she learned, the more she discovered that natural-born Germans had been the victims of a cruel hoax: an 86-year experiment in pre-scripted political developments, manipulative historiography, and Satanic mind-control under the auspices of a wealthy and powerful Judeo-Masonic elite. The more she realised the scale of the deception, the more determined she was to secure "a future worth living" for her daughter. And the more she spoke out about the Jewish power matrix, the more anxious the government became.[...]The political elites in Berlin began to panic. Surreptitious phone calls were placed on encrypted satellite channels at the dead of night. Something had to give.On 2 November 2004, a dispassionate Hessen Radio report casually mentioned that a woman and her child had died instantly in a head-on collision with a tree on a remote country lane. Her name was Martina Pflock. Friedrichroda went into shock and strangers comforted each other on the streets as they broke down and cried.The local newspaper published a brief report. Then a news blackout ensued.Nobody knew who had been the first at the scene of the accident because officials said they didn't know. Nobody knew exactly how Martina and her daughter had died because no inquest was held. Nobody knew where the bodies were kept because nobody was informed; and nobody got the chance to pay their last respects because the corpses were hurriedly cremated in Gotha, a town almost 30 miles away from Friedrichroda.[...]It later transpired that the much-feared secret police, the Verfassungsschutz, usually referred to as the VS or V-men, had been watching Martina and had even been sending her hints that she was playing with fire. On 24 October 2004, an anonymous letter warned her that her life was in danger:"Dear Frau Pflock [….] You're causing a great deal of trouble [….] Telephones keep ringing and ringing … one crisis meeting leads to another … the state government has even asked us to terminate you [….] We note that you are not easily silenced, even by democratic means [….] And, oh yes, we are listening to all your private conversations with your lawyer Herr Kupfrian [….] Be warned that Dr Weisheit from Hessen is in a panic and will now ask the press to invent unpleasant stories about you [….] Expect the Verfassungsschutz (secret police) to be watching you at all times [....] You are threatening the financial welfare of certain politicians such as Mr Trautvetter and he is angry [....] Your demand for the repayment of 274 million euros to the people is not possible, because stolen money is stolen money and cannot be repaid [….] and we have an election coming. People will get used to it. They can always be bribed. Government officers know that the BRD is illegal and that the return of the German Reich is inevitable, but you're pushing the boat too soon. You're making the issue too hot and that's affecting our budget. The destruction of your family is a real risk. We cannot allow you to win. You may think you have certain rights, but we can simply terminate you any time we want. We shall start with the media. The TLZ newspaper reporters Oliver Bauer and Kaczmarek are ready to destroy you, to terminate you!"[...]Just three days before she was murdered, Martina Pflock made her last entry in her diary:"For years, courageous Germans have suffered intolerable injustices at the hands of BRD judges and lawyers. Even I have been warned that the time has come when I will be criminalised and murdered. Ever since I began to campaign against the wastewater fraud, all manner of intrigues have been set in play, and I know full well who the dark players are.""If the truth emerges, there will be a civil war in our beautiful Germany. Every politician must leave our country at once, simply because they have betrayed and knowingly lied to the people over many years. And my people are not, as some politicians believe, by any means stupid, but simply too inclined to believe that we live in a democracy. They are simply good upstanding people, as they have always been!""However, for over 60 years we have been bombarded by a collectively evil lie that we must forever pay for a propagandistic deception, and for all eternity until the German people have been fully destroyed: a certainty in just a few generations. In the meantime, it is no secret that the western capitalist system has already collapsed. However, the truth, the only truth that shall always remain victorious, will never be vanquished. That's why they intend to kill me in the same way they murdered Möllemann: an 'accidental' death.""This is inevitable, for the truth about the non-existence of the German state (the BRD) is not the least reason for the beginning of a [civil] war. I fight for my daughter, whom I love with all my heart. I give my life to her, and for that they will surely kill me."Let us never forget the murder of Martina Pflock and her young daughter, or the deaths and character assassinations of hundreds of German patriots who have demanded the abolition of the unlawful BRD state and the restitution of the honourable German Reich. ------------------Read the entirety of this excellent article here.