O.T. [at-l] Regulation

[trailtrash@hotmail.com (Jerry Goller)]

Actually, the only reason gold has value is because we've decided it does. 
It really doesn't matter what medium of exchange we use as long as the buyer 
and seller agree on its relative value. Goats, pigs, shoes, gold, paper 
money, it's all the same. The value of a $20 bill is only what we all agree 
it is. The day we stop agreeing on it is the day it changes. It doesn't 
matter what the government does. Money only has the value we place on it. 
The only reason we use paper money is because it’s so easily transported. 
Secure computers may well change that and thereby create a whole new set of 
problems. If the government uses that to cease or overly control the 
people’s money the people will just stop using the official system and start 
their own.  History is full of failed government attempts to control the 
peoples perception of the value of the official exchange medium. The value 
of gold fluctuates just like everything else. Economics is the most amazing 
Voo Doo I've ever seen. Things have value because we believe they do. They 
only have that value as long as we believe. Amazing...money is a 
self-filling prophecy. It's kind of like the myth of "oppressed people". 
People are oppressed by a government for just about as long as they decide 
to be. Once the people refuse to be governed...no matter what the 
consequences.. it's over. The central government may as well pack their 
tents and steal away. It's just a matter of time.
Jerry




>From: "Texas Twelve-Step" <texas12step@hotmail.com>
>To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: O.T. [at-l] Regulation
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:17:09 -0500
>
>"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying
>money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral
>existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a
>counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards
>and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter
>of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth
>produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist,
>backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
>Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which
>is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the
>day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.'"

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