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  • Sun, Jan 25 2009 3:43 AM In reply to

    • Jake_Witmer
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    Re: Free Lakota Bank

    Mr Bojangles:

    The bank appears to exist as a part of the Repulic of Dakota nation. www.republicoflakota.com

    It's a separatist movement in the upper mid-west lead by Russell Means and the Lakota nation. They base their claim to an independent nation from within the power of the Fort Laramie treaty of the 19th century they say the current government violated. As far as they are concerned they are an independent nation, but the U.S. still dosen't recognize them and undoubtably is just waiting for the "Republic" to infringe on some law so they can send the "gun in the room" in to put a stop to them.

    I would actually be willing to bet the coin is being used in the area of the Lakota Republic. It's most likely their steps towards an independant economy from the U.S.'s and might I say if it is a truly competetivie currency it would perform interestingly in the wake of a fiat based bebacle--much like the current one. The enemy of hyper-inflation is a stable competitive alternative currency or means of trade. I would doubt you even pay taxes on these deposits.....alas I doubt the movement is going to be long lasting. 

    They have quotes from Ayn Rand on their website, and appear to not be making obvious philosophical blunders.  More power to them.  It seems sad to me that G. Edward Griffin's Freedom Force is not showing them some support, although I think his technical position is "Wait and see if 'they'(Russell Means) stop(s) asking the UN for help in resisting tyranny".  Interesting times.

    "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" by Peter Matthiessen was one of the first books I read in Highschool that turned me against the USSA.  I recommend it, but the details are fuzzy.

     

  • Sun, Jan 25 2009 8:34 AM In reply to

    Re: Free Lakota Bank

    I am loving this quote from the website:

    "We hope that some day the rest of the world will awaken from the American Dream: the dream that a person can sustain life by consuming more than producing. We call it the American Dream because you must be asleep to believe it. Well, that dream now has a silver lining; as people discover the dream is really a nightmare, the only solution is a return to value: value that comes from production and honest trade."

    I am so glad that I have woken up!


  • Wed, Feb 11 2009 2:09 AM In reply to

    • Jake_Witmer
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    Re: Free Lakota Bank - Video Interview with Libertarian Russell Means - Free Lakota Nation...

     http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5814524581556322761

    I think the word Russell was looking for was "Apparatchiks"  LOL...

    Russell is great!

     

  • Thu, Feb 12 2009 5:56 PM In reply to

    Re: Free Lakota Bank - Video Interview with Libertarian Russell Means - Free Lakota Nation...

     The problem of what to use, in place of state-issued currency has largely been solved.  Here's one example:

    http://www.appropriate-economics.org/ebooks/neo/neo.htm

    and how the theory was deployed in the real world:

    http://alt-money.tribe.net/thread/70e5eb29-853d-44ca-9faa-b789d1757037

    The prerequisite for liberty is economic self-reliance. The foundation of economic self reliance, is a free market. The essential ingredient of a free market, is a free money system.

  • Fri, Feb 13 2009 5:41 AM In reply to

    • Tommyj
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    Re: Free Lakota Bank - Video Interview with Libertarian Russell Means - Free Lakota Nation...

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