Crucifying Americans on a Cross of Paper

The Feds officially announce: using the Liberty Dollar--a privately minted silver coin--is against the law. Liberty Dollar minters Norfed vow a fight,

arguing it has never claimed Liberty Dollars were official money and that it has a right to offer an alternative.

"The designs and verbiage … are original and are not copies of any U.S. Mint currency," NORFED Executive Director Michael Johnson said in a statement.

Previous Liberty Dollar blogging here. I've seen people use Liberty Dollars in stores (while attending a libertarian conference, natch), very explicitly explaining what they were--half the fun of these, to most people who use them, is the chance to explain free-banking theory and the lie of the Federal Reserve to store clerks.