The NSA also is enabling the control of the entire population of the USA - and that includes the ability of the government to put down a revolution by identifying in advance the people who can organize it.
Wow, the elite know what's coming. Even being in the elite isn't a defense.
Cash, gold coins, diamonds are rather conspicous. Most art work is too large. The trick is to find something of value that is small and relatively inconspicuous.
Rare documents, postage stamps, books. The other thought is that the individual value of each of these items must be mid range and not something that is one of a kind that would attract attention when resold.
The other thought is those with expertise in wilderness survival crossing mountainous areas. Crossing the Alps into Switzerland, crossing into Canada through western Montana.
I suppose one could make platinum into common metallic items or even into car parts. Platinum looks a lot like stainless steel.
A key element of liberty is financial privacy.
Where rule of law is corrupted, the ability to keep your investments truly private can be a matter of personal security, life and death even.
Many or most countries are criminalizing the very notion of privacy.
BCG noted that “there were only painful ways out of this mess.” The most painful truth, they suggested, was that “the only way to resolve the massive debt load is through a global coordinated debt restructuring... which will have to be funded by the world’s financial asset holders: the middle-and upper-class’ who will have a ~30% one-time tax on all their assets to look forward to as the great mean reversion finally arrives and the world is set back on a viable path.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-04/ken-rogoff-warns-wealth-taxes-arent-enough
Wow. You’re not kidding.