What is Money?

Much has been written about the history of money. Basically all real money is based upon something of value, usually natural materials extracted from the earth coupled with the creativity and resulting products of we the people. Once any exchange system is devoid of the link to value - it can be easily manipulated and misused against the well-being of we the people, our communities and the country in which we live. Hitler, for instance, studied how much the money supply of a country would have to be counterfeited or inflated in order to destabilize that country and he found that it took only 2%! Look what the federal reserve bankers and their crony corporate friends are doing now!!!

Current money is defined in law: "Money is current which is received as money in the common business transactions, and is the common medium in barter and trade." So the actual contract between we the people starts with a service or product that we wish to exchange - hence, the process of barter and trade is the foundation of any money system.

For centuries, money created out of precious metals has been a more convenient and honest exchange for we the people's products and services.
Some cultures exchange natural produce, services and hand-made products. In our early history, Native Americans used wampum belts for money. Wampum belts held both a ceremonial quality - honoring nature - and rewarded the creativeness of the artist. Interestingly, because of the absence of many metals, wampum belts were used as money by the colonists for many years.

I've often thought it would be good to return to the use of wampum belts - encouraging the creative abilities of our youngsters, oldsters and in fact - all people.

Learn More at: http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm

"The use of wampum as money, even among the English, continued until the American Revolution. Important matters such as treaty agreements were likely to be marked by an exchange of Wampum belts, with designs in two colors, which thereafter served as visual reminders of the event itself, and to call to memory the arrangements agreed on" (Russel 1980: 185). European traders and politicians, using beads and trinkets, often exploited gift exchange to gain Native American favor or territory. With the scarcity of metal coins in New England, Wampum quickly evolved into a formal currency after European/Native contact, it's production greatly facilitated by slender European metal drill bits. Wampum was mass produced in coastal southern New England. The Narragansetts and Pequots monopolized the manufacture and exchange of wampum in this area.

Because more people can acquire silver - it is a more beneficial method of exchange as community currency or current money.

In 1965, once again, both political parties violated we the people's rights and the law by removing the right of we the people to exchange federal reserve 'notes' for silver. This allowed private bankers to gain real property, products and services without exchanging anything of value.

The last time the federal reserve banks caused major financial havoc was in the early 1980's when these private bankers, without warning, raised the interest rates overnight on American small business and small farm loans, thereby, basically stealing and selling millions of viable family-owned enterprises which provided multi-millions of creative livelihoods for Americans.

Janet Lee asks: Who is left now to teach our youth how to create and run small businesses?
These small businesses and farms were the backbone of our country and had always created the most jobs!!! Those who recognized this shocking raise of interest rates by the bankers as grand theft and who had any "currency"in reserves turned to silver and gold as a way to store their wealth.

"People remember that the 'price' of gold went up 4 times during that time, but what they forget is the price of silver went up 10 times.

Constitution: Article I, Section 10:
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility. Emphasis ours.

According to the National Constitution and the 1792 Coinage Act, the American people were to be accommodated in coining their own bullion:

1792 Coinage Act:

Check your own state's constitution.

Ever since 1913, when both political parties allowed private and mostly foreign bankers, who deceitfully named their central bank "The Federal Reserve Banks", to unlawfully take over our money supply - these bankers have caused destructive depressions coupled with excessive government growth and destructive government spending. In truth, "The Federal Reserve Banks" were not 'federal', had no 'reserves' and, by perverting our gold and silver-backed money and using their fiat paper, usurped the power of the people and government.

Do you understand that the bankers and their corporate cronies can now 'own' everything without risking a thin, silver dime?

Banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild said "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

9th Amendment: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
James Madison; "We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility..."
"A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes, when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions."

In 1913, both political parties dba U.S. government passed the Federal Reserve Act in violation of the 1792 Coinage Act and Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.

From Janet Lee's talk at Colorado University: We graduate over 600 lawyers from CU every year. Out of millions of lawyers and judges in the U.S. - not one has challenged the unlawful Federal Reserve Act!!! By law - The Federal Reserve Act, being unconstitutional, is null and void ab initio.

Read 16 American Jurisprudence Section 256, 177, 2nd ed.: "The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute. . though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose, since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. In legal contemplation, it is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be, had the statute not been enacted. "Such an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no offices, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection and justifies no acts performed under it. . A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law, indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." The creation of the Federal Reserve, which is not ‘federal’ and had no ‘reserves’ has been the major cause of several financial meltdowns within the sovereign states resulting in theft from we the people. With the removal of the gold standard on April 5, 1933 followed by the removal of silver backing of the federal reserve ‘note’ in 1971, the value of the federal reserve note has tanked.

Have you ever asked yourself: "Why should Americans pay usury interest on the issuance of their own money?" Did you know that the bankers’ usury interest is now 1/3 of the national debt? And what did these private bankers loan us? Paper printed out of thin air!!! Do you believe it is a fair exchange for the real substance of our time, labor, goods and services? What happened to our national gold and other precious metals? Are the bankers using them to enrich themselves? Why are the bankers not paying we the people for the use of our precious metals, time, labor, goods and services?

Therefore, we the people claim our natural rights secured by the Declaration of Independence, the 7th and 9th Amendments to create and restore our own method of exchange based upon precious metals and just weights and measures in accordance with the 1792 Coinage Act.