
By Anna Von Reitz
The
question has come at me from multiple sides for many weeks now--- sometimes
softly, and sometimes loudly, but the same question voiced in many different
ways and even languages: “Our world is in trouble, because of crooks infesting
and controlling the monetary system--- what do we do about it?”
Before I
can deliver my answer, I have to cover some basics.
First
---- Money versus Legal Tender
The world has used many forms of money, but central to the
definition of “money”, it has to have actual value as well as any symbolic value
we attach to it. For example, the United States Silver Dollar
(that is, our “United States”, not THEIR look-alike sound-alike version) is
defined as a weight of fine silver. That is the actual “value” of it—the weight
and the purity of silver.
In
addition, because people around the world trust Americans (not citizens of the
United States) to deliver the actual weight of silver in the specified purity,
the United States Silver Dollar has also acquired a certain amount of
“non-tangible value”. Given a choice between our United States
Silver Dollars and coin from other places, many people would still rather choose
our coinage because it is known to be a quality product.
That is what lawful money is---- an actual specifically defined
unitary measure of an asset (an ounce of fine silver for example) with a brand
name (United States Silver Dollar, for example).
Money is a commodity like any other.