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11-04-2003, 01:12 PM
Silver dollars circulating in Arkansas!
LibertyDollarVille: Where The Revolution Has Begun!
http://sierratimes.com/03/11/03/ar_alfii.htm (http://sierratimes.com/03/11/03/ar_alfii.htm)
By Wayne Hicks
It seems that not a day goes by anymore without me receiving at least a half dozen emails from people who want to know when the revolution will begin. When will we, the People, finally wake up to the abuse of power we suffer at the hands of our "elected representatives" in government? When will we grow tired of having our rights violated, raped and plundered by those to whom we have entrusted power and authority? When will we stop 'putting up with it all', just to avoid the dangers that might confront us?
My reply has lately been that, at least here in Northwest Arkansas, we've already gotten to that point.
No, we haven't lynched any politicians (although I'm certain that there are many around here who wonder if we might). We haven't fired a single shot at anyone, we haven't barricaded any 'compounds', we haven't staged any standoffs; and yet, here in this little area I often refer to as New America, thousands of people are participating in a revolution against the evils of a corrupt government and its corrupt and fraudulent financial system.
The reason is value-- the people here are rediscovering what real value, and real money, are all about;and the weapon of choice is a 'silver bullet' called the Liberty Dollar, which is in regular circulation here.
The revolution began over a year ago, when I was faced with a need for prescription medicines for my wife, Lori. We had no money at the time, and our meager living was made on the Internet, where I had just launched www.ALFII.com (http://www.alfii.com/) . Since I have been a supporter of the Liberty Dollar concept for some time, I had agreed to accept Liberty Dollars for membership in the organization, and at this particular time, I had just received three Silver Libertys as partial payment for a new member.
Nervously, I approached the local Wal-Mart pharmacy, and asked if they would take them, since the prescriptions I needed to fill cost almost exactly thirty dollars… and after some moments of checking with this person and that, they said "Yes!"
Over the next few months, I spent Libertys there on every occasion, and since ALFII was growing, and I was receiving more and more of them, I often bought all of my groceries using the beautiful silver pieces.
Then, as Christmas approached, I received a large supply of Libertys, and happily went to Wal-Mart to buy gifts for my family. I spent slightly over fifteen hundred dollars that night, and as I walked out to my car to carry the gifts home, I noticed squad cars rushing into the parking lot, and went back inside to find out what was going on.
Now, as I made my purchase, a new young man asked me where I'd gotten the Libertys, and I told him honestly, and then handed him my business card which he was passing on to the officers as I entered the store again, saying, "He got away before we could catch him!"
I identified myself to the officers, and then learned that same day, a bank in a nearby town had been robbed, and the clerk naturally thought it suspicious that someone would, that day, spend so many shiny new coins! Of course, the officers knew that this was not the product of any bank robbery, and the incident ended in excellent humor, but the very next morning, after Wal-Mart's headquarters were told about the incident, they ordered the store to accept no more Liberty Dollars.
I was heartbroken. I had begun to feel very good about using money that had real value. I tried to negotiate Wal-Mart into taking them again, and even got to talk to their vice president of finance, but all to no avail.
In the meantime, though, I had devised a plan, and began approaching local merchants about accepting Liberty Dollars, offering to 'buy back' any excess they might get. My first Liberty Merchant was a small company that owned a couple of convenience stores, and I was on my way.
Over the next few months, I added more and more merchants to the list, and by June we were over thirty of them! Almost anything I needed, I could buy with Liberty Dollars, and the merchants were passing them back into circulation by giving them out in change.
About that time, Bernard von NotHaus, the man who created the Liberty Dollar, came to Berryville to see what I had accomplished, and the result was that, a couple of months later, the Liberty Dollar Organization revised its entire business model to recreate what we had done. The Liberty Dollar now has a Digital Counterpart, as well, so that you can spend it at more and more places online, and even convert it back to US Dollars, via the ICIS Money Order system (http://icis.alfii.com (http://icis.alfii.com/)) when you need to pay your light bill or mortgage!
Now, today, with over one hundred merchants accepting the Liberty Dollar here locally, our area has reached a point where it remains in steady circulation. The local Chamber of Commerce freely admits that the Liberty Dollar has improved the economy of the county, and has agreed to use the fact that we are Number One in circulating Liberty Dollars in promotion of the City of Berryville and the rest of Carroll County.
Two small manufacturers are looking us over with an eye towards relocating in a community where they can pay their employees, at least in part, with Liberty Dollars. I now have no less than three businesses here locally, and the employees of each are paid partly in Liberty Dollars, with one girl asking for all of her pay in Silver. Liberty Dollar supporters are popping up fairly often now, simply as tourists who enjoy spending their 'real money' without having to explain it to each person they show it to, and they often drop in to say hello while they're here.
LibertyDollarVille is the new, promotional name of this historic town (it was burnt not just once during the civil war, but twice; once by each side!), and Berryville wears that name with pride! For, you see, here in LibertyDollarVille, we know one thing for sure: if you want to put the government back under the control of the People, then the first step has to be getting the money out of the control of the government, and since we are now able to use real, Silver-backed Liberty Dollars-- instead of Federal Reserve Debt Notes-- we're already on the road to re-securing our freedoms!
LibertyDollarVille: where value is returning to life - one Liberty Dollar at a time!
LibertyDollarVille: Where The Revolution Has Begun!
http://sierratimes.com/03/11/03/ar_alfii.htm (http://sierratimes.com/03/11/03/ar_alfii.htm)
By Wayne Hicks
It seems that not a day goes by anymore without me receiving at least a half dozen emails from people who want to know when the revolution will begin. When will we, the People, finally wake up to the abuse of power we suffer at the hands of our "elected representatives" in government? When will we grow tired of having our rights violated, raped and plundered by those to whom we have entrusted power and authority? When will we stop 'putting up with it all', just to avoid the dangers that might confront us?
My reply has lately been that, at least here in Northwest Arkansas, we've already gotten to that point.
No, we haven't lynched any politicians (although I'm certain that there are many around here who wonder if we might). We haven't fired a single shot at anyone, we haven't barricaded any 'compounds', we haven't staged any standoffs; and yet, here in this little area I often refer to as New America, thousands of people are participating in a revolution against the evils of a corrupt government and its corrupt and fraudulent financial system.
The reason is value-- the people here are rediscovering what real value, and real money, are all about;and the weapon of choice is a 'silver bullet' called the Liberty Dollar, which is in regular circulation here.
The revolution began over a year ago, when I was faced with a need for prescription medicines for my wife, Lori. We had no money at the time, and our meager living was made on the Internet, where I had just launched www.ALFII.com (http://www.alfii.com/) . Since I have been a supporter of the Liberty Dollar concept for some time, I had agreed to accept Liberty Dollars for membership in the organization, and at this particular time, I had just received three Silver Libertys as partial payment for a new member.
Nervously, I approached the local Wal-Mart pharmacy, and asked if they would take them, since the prescriptions I needed to fill cost almost exactly thirty dollars… and after some moments of checking with this person and that, they said "Yes!"
Over the next few months, I spent Libertys there on every occasion, and since ALFII was growing, and I was receiving more and more of them, I often bought all of my groceries using the beautiful silver pieces.
Then, as Christmas approached, I received a large supply of Libertys, and happily went to Wal-Mart to buy gifts for my family. I spent slightly over fifteen hundred dollars that night, and as I walked out to my car to carry the gifts home, I noticed squad cars rushing into the parking lot, and went back inside to find out what was going on.
Now, as I made my purchase, a new young man asked me where I'd gotten the Libertys, and I told him honestly, and then handed him my business card which he was passing on to the officers as I entered the store again, saying, "He got away before we could catch him!"
I identified myself to the officers, and then learned that same day, a bank in a nearby town had been robbed, and the clerk naturally thought it suspicious that someone would, that day, spend so many shiny new coins! Of course, the officers knew that this was not the product of any bank robbery, and the incident ended in excellent humor, but the very next morning, after Wal-Mart's headquarters were told about the incident, they ordered the store to accept no more Liberty Dollars.
I was heartbroken. I had begun to feel very good about using money that had real value. I tried to negotiate Wal-Mart into taking them again, and even got to talk to their vice president of finance, but all to no avail.
In the meantime, though, I had devised a plan, and began approaching local merchants about accepting Liberty Dollars, offering to 'buy back' any excess they might get. My first Liberty Merchant was a small company that owned a couple of convenience stores, and I was on my way.
Over the next few months, I added more and more merchants to the list, and by June we were over thirty of them! Almost anything I needed, I could buy with Liberty Dollars, and the merchants were passing them back into circulation by giving them out in change.
About that time, Bernard von NotHaus, the man who created the Liberty Dollar, came to Berryville to see what I had accomplished, and the result was that, a couple of months later, the Liberty Dollar Organization revised its entire business model to recreate what we had done. The Liberty Dollar now has a Digital Counterpart, as well, so that you can spend it at more and more places online, and even convert it back to US Dollars, via the ICIS Money Order system (http://icis.alfii.com (http://icis.alfii.com/)) when you need to pay your light bill or mortgage!
Now, today, with over one hundred merchants accepting the Liberty Dollar here locally, our area has reached a point where it remains in steady circulation. The local Chamber of Commerce freely admits that the Liberty Dollar has improved the economy of the county, and has agreed to use the fact that we are Number One in circulating Liberty Dollars in promotion of the City of Berryville and the rest of Carroll County.
Two small manufacturers are looking us over with an eye towards relocating in a community where they can pay their employees, at least in part, with Liberty Dollars. I now have no less than three businesses here locally, and the employees of each are paid partly in Liberty Dollars, with one girl asking for all of her pay in Silver. Liberty Dollar supporters are popping up fairly often now, simply as tourists who enjoy spending their 'real money' without having to explain it to each person they show it to, and they often drop in to say hello while they're here.
LibertyDollarVille is the new, promotional name of this historic town (it was burnt not just once during the civil war, but twice; once by each side!), and Berryville wears that name with pride! For, you see, here in LibertyDollarVille, we know one thing for sure: if you want to put the government back under the control of the People, then the first step has to be getting the money out of the control of the government, and since we are now able to use real, Silver-backed Liberty Dollars-- instead of Federal Reserve Debt Notes-- we're already on the road to re-securing our freedoms!
LibertyDollarVille: where value is returning to life - one Liberty Dollar at a time!