“The federal government continues to enforce its money monopoly under the new Obama presidency. In June 2009 the FBI arrested the chiefs of the private Liberty Dollar company. Among those arrested was an instructor at the Liberty Dollar University training sessions and the woman who manages the Liberty Dollar Fulfillment Office. The Liberty Dollar web site alert exclaimed, ‘The FBI strikes again!’ In November 2007, during the primary presidential elections, when Liberty Dollars was about to issue copper dollar medallions depicting candidate Ron Paul, the FBI had raided the headquarters of Liberty Dollar and confiscated their materials and records. But the Liberty Dollar company continued in operation. Now the federal government has made it clear that it will enforce its money monopoly. The coming trial will test whether the use of a private barter currency is legal in the USA.” (06/10/09)