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Essays

American Dissident Voices: Do You Still Think You Have a Country?

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American Dissident Voices broadcast of February 8, 2014

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by Kevin Alfred Strom

DO YOU STILL THINK you have a country? When I said last week that our enemies had stolen our state from us, some listeners responded with derision. The letter-writers weren’t hostile Jews or Blacks or Mestizos. They were White Americans. In fact they were racially conscious White Americans. (ILLUSTRATION: The SS America, abandoned and beached off the Canary Islands, symbolizes what has happened to our country.)

One was a student who was hoping for a career with the ATF or the Border Patrol. He firmly believed that that with just a few more good conservative White men in the right “law enforcement” positions, we could straighten things out pretty quickly in this country. Another was a young man in the military, and he was sure that “whipping the asses” of those “Arab terrorists” would send a message that America wasn’t down and out but stronger than ever, and our “freedoms” would be secure.

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Editorials

Alternative Currency: Now a Crime?

A montage of Liberty Dollars of different denominations. The Liberty Dollar may have been the most successful of all U.S. alternative currencies to date. Despite repeated Treasury assurances that their efforts were perfectly legal, the creators of this truly honest metal-backed money found themselves under arrest.
A montage of Liberty Dollars, which may have been the most successful of all U.S. alternative currencies to date. Despite repeated Treasury assurances that their efforts were perfectly legal, the creators of this truly honest metal-backed money found themselves under arrest.

by Kevin Alfred Strom

I’VE MENTIONED ALTERNATIVE currencies — usually private efforts to help the local or national economy without resorting to debt, usurious interest, the banks, or the Fed — in a supportive way on this site before.

Recently I learned that the creators of some of the most interesting and successful alternative currencies — the Hawaiian Dala, the California Bear, the Chambersburg Dollar, the Evansville Dollar, the Liberty Dollar, the Peace Dollar, and the Ron Paul Dollar, among others — have been arrested by the FBI (for totally bogus charges under statutes intended to stop counterfeiting). They are Kevin Innes, Bernard von NotHaus, Sarah Bledsoe, and Rachelle Moseley.

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Marginalia

Fed reduces rate to 1%


FEDERAL RESERVE KEY RATE NOW 1%: As the BBC says, this means the Fed is now “running out of rates” to boost the economy; of course, they could always go to negative interest rates and toss pre-approved loan applications out of airplanes. Maybe they should take my suggestion: make Monopoly money legal tender — it amounts to the same thing. Time to take a closer look at the crime of fractional reserve banking and the rationality of Social Credit.