General Cashier,
The Confederate Mint
Lebanon, Ohio; 45036
Greater Cincinnatistan
Jean Schmidt, MC
District of Columbia
Mrs Schmidt,
To begin, I copy the e-mail that I sent to Mr Thomas Ascik, Assistant US Attorney in Statesville, North Carolina:
Attn Thomas Ascik:
I hereby certify that I am the bearer of Liberty Dollar warehouse receipts and an interested party in any forfeiture action regarding my property. I demand the return of my property or its fair market value in a timely manner and to be informed with sufficient time to reply to any and all actions until my property is returned. In addition to the ability to redeem my warehouse receipts as originally agreed, I am also out the six hundred Federal Reserve Dollars that I sent to Liberty Dollar in November of 2007, just as your accomplices were seizing our property in violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments, as well as of decency, courtesy, and human conscience.
At this point I would very much prefer the twenty five ounces of silver for which I paid, plus the hundred ounces of copper, though I suppose at this point, since you people have me both out-gunned and out-numbered, I may well have to settle for far less than justice.
I can be contacted by return e-mail, or by surface mail or by telephone. I am eager for your response, and I remain, in spite of the evidence, relentlessly optimistic.
While I indeed tend toward optimism in my life, I am not unaware of the great indifference to injustice that often permeates our culture and our governmental institutions. One such example is the egregious assault on Liberty Dollar and the ridiculous charge of “counterfeiting” against Bernard von NotHaus.
For the years that I was pleased to be associated with the Liberty Dollar organization I have never been given cause to complain until the FBI seized my property in November of 2007, nor have I received any complaints from vendors whose one ounce Ten and Twenty Liberty Dollar pieces have since appreciated to a current metallic wholesale content of thirty-seven (Incredible Shrinking) Federal Reserve “Dollars.”
I have appealed to President Obama, as a human being and as a student of the Constitution and as an advocate of social justice, to immediately pardon Bernard von NotHaus and to direct the Justice and Treasury Departments to return all impounded properties.
Of course, while the Congress may have no authority to pardon, they can nevertheless bring much to bear in the way of inquiry and subpoena power.
I look forward to a timely and just resolution to this assault on privacy, property, and freedom of expression.
I thank you for your attention to this matter, and I invite you to contact me at your convenience.
General Cashier
Cc: Senator Sherrod Brown
Senator Robert Portman
President Barack Obama
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update 180416: 97% discount in graphic was based on the price of silver in 2012. While Greigh Area Associates does traffic in silver coin, discounts are negotiable.