-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 JPM wrote:
> Can anyone here give a quick, accurate run down on the history of > the gold confiscation episode and the dropping of the gold > standard in the USA from 1930 through 1990? I found this article from the Ideas on Liberty magazine published by FEE (The Foundation for Economic Education). It gives good descriptive overview of the gold confiscation, a good read (at least for a libertarian like me :-). The Great Gold Robbery by James Bovard http://www.fee.org/freeman/99/9906/bovard.html "Roosevelt used the same "hoarding" rhetoric against anyone who owned gold that Stalin used against Ukrainian peasants who sought to retain part of their wheat harvest to feed their families. But while Stalin sent execution squads to kill peasants who had a few bushels of grain hidden in their hovels, Roosevelt was kinder and gentler, seeking only ten-year prison sentences and $250,000 fines for any citizen who defied his edict and possessed more than five Double Eagle gold coins." Regards, Paul Vahur IceGold | http://www.icegold.com An Accredited Founding Member of the eCurrency Trade Association Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: From Paul Vahur's notebook iQA/AwUBPEwTmEkfcBeFLocdEQLuPgCdH5NjZ3DV4PXD8QjIkjUdWbRV6/EAoJX9 IviBZgw+rqGzCXHOyJSnYnf+ =u6/1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
