Book Review

How to Create Currencies for Local Communities

Hartford Van Dyke
(Law Research Group, 2442 Cerrillos Rd #109, Santa Fe, NM 87505,
2006, 198 pages, $29.95, +$4 shipping, www.lawresearchgroup.com)

Review by Joan d'Arc

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Imagine my surprise to learn that the Law Research Group has just published the writings of eminent philosopher and non-union commercial lawyer, Hartford Van Dyke. Synchronistically, at around the same time that Paranoia presented Hartford's "Skeleton in Uncle Sam's Closet" and "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" (paranoiamagazine.com), Jason Whitney at Law Research Group had taken Hartford's commercial law writings under his wing. The time is ripe for Hartford's ideas, and Jason has done a tremendous job organizing this manual on fiscal sovereignty, which just might come in handy when the economic floor falls out from under us.

Hartford is perhaps most infamous for his strategy of placing commercial liens against law-breaking public officials and providing public access to that money in the form of Public Wealth Rebate Notes (PWRNs), an activity he performed under commercial law in Seattle. How to Create Currencies for Local Communities provides an overview and procedure of how to create private local currencies, such as the Ithaca Hours of Ithaca, New York, as alternatives to Federal Reserve Notes. Such action, Hartford hopes, could liberate people from economic enslavement. Be forewarned, however, that it landed Hartford in Waseca federal prison, where he remains today as a result of these endeavors.

Hartford's ideas are easily comprehended by one not versed in fiscal principles. One example is blue sky banking, which is the criminal act of selling property that exists only in the "blue sky" of illusion. It's done all the time and it's the basis of what Hartford calls the "minus money banking scam." He refers to the blue sky scam as "double B.S." based on "public hypnosis." The public acceptance of "minus money" over real money is based on "faith, emotion and ignorance, instead of reason." He explains: "The public uses minus money as if it was real, and gets a benefit of immediate convenience, as from counterfeit money or a bad check." This is how the financial wheel goes round; unfortunately, the public is oft situated under the wheel. As Hartford so coherently explains, the public pays for the criminal issue of non-backed minus money and experiences its minus effect when the illusory blue sky falls on their property and the "predatory bankers" come and seize it.

When the medieval marauder in the Capital One commercial asks, "What's in your wallet?" reality isn't too far away. The banksters are modern day looters running amok. The Federal Reserve Note in your wallet, Hartford tells us, is symbolic money backed by stolen property. How so? The Federal Reserve Corporation (an extension of the Bank of England) sells non-backed minus money (paper with green ink) to the US government at interest. The interest is paid by the public out of its labor and property.

How many ways does your government steal from you? First, it does it sideways by having the FDIC banks collect real money (capital, goods, labor and time) and real property for its loans of minus money; then it accrues real interest on its minus money and seized collateral from non-payment of your debts. What ends up in your wallet is simply a credit card, another form of minus money. Secondly the government gives you ye olde kick in the pants by using the courts to declare its actions valid, dismissing your lawsuit against the bank and tossing you in prison.

The invisible symbiotic bond between the American Banker's Association and the American Bar Association is at the heart of the matter. Here's where Hartford plays expert witness for the public, having personally stood at the convergence of this sinister conspiracy. Both of these monopolistic entities were established after the Civil War, creating a "government-housed system of economic fraud" to serve public theft and to cover up the "sale and collection of minus money backed by stolen credit." The predatory legal process then became subordinate to "the money scam of governmentally-housed organized crime."

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	The Skeleton in Uncle Sam's Closet. Newspaper reprint edition, 1975 is available from Paranoia, PO Box 1041, Providence, RI 02901. $12, postage included. (limited supply, available by check, money order or via paypal at www.paranoiamagazine.com.) This money goes directly to Hartford Van Dyke, through his family, for his care in federal prison. For three copies or more, you may reduce the price to $10 each.
	Or buy his book How to Create Currencies for Local Communities This book provides a conceptual overview and procedure on how to create private currencies, alternatives to Federal Reserve Notes "FRN's"; the United States' present monopolistic currency controlled by the Federal Reserve System.