Brian’s Column: Step Up for the Liberty Dollar 4

Kevin Innes, in particular, wrongly jailed in North Carolina
via gross petit treason, needs our help
by Brian Wright [posted originally June 14, 2010]

Whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it…. – Thomas Jefferson

We must all hang together

I’ve written before about the Liberty Dollar and its founder, the feisty Bernard von Nothaus. In one of my earliest Coffee Coaster columns (12/2006: Liberty Dollar: Federales Fear Honest Money) I commented there on its potential as a store of value and ideal replacement for the Federal Reserve note… which, of course, the LD sorely troubled the Fed and the Mint, to the extent some Mint official sent ominous threats to Bernard (but never specifically stated what law was being violated). Continue reading

Guest Column: Reflections on Petit Treason

Tying a knot on rude behavior by public servants
by Dean Hazel

The following communications were stirred by the recent incident at the US-Canadian border where border police abused two Canadian citizens just for the hell of it. Dean has done a lot of thinking and reading about the law pertaining to police and other public officers doing their duty respectful of the rights and dignity of the people they serve. Continue reading