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FDR’s Other ‘Day of Infamy’: When the US Government Seized All Citizens' Gold
Foundation for Economic Education ^ | April 4, 2023 | Lawrence W. Reed

Posted on 04/05/2023 11:31:02 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 04/05/2023 11:31:02 AM PDT by george76
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"All we have to fear is fear itself out of control government."
2 posted on 04/05/2023 11:34:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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and then there’s December 2, 1943 ...


3 posted on 04/05/2023 11:35:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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What I’m wondering is how long before it starts happening again!


4 posted on 04/05/2023 11:35:41 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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cant imagine that was constitutional or would of been upheld by a court.


5 posted on 04/05/2023 11:36:37 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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MuammarGaddafi 104MT of gold and you saw what Obama and Clinton did to him..Rumor was he was trying to organize an African currency.


6 posted on 04/05/2023 11:39:32 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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Blatant unconstitutional...............


7 posted on 04/05/2023 11:39:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Gas is still about $.25 a gallon or less. If paid with pre-67 silver coins. Silver coins are currently about 16x face value. Four dollar a gallon gas is 25 cents in junk silver.

Demonstrates what they have done to us by taking us off the gold & silver basis of American currency.

8 posted on 04/05/2023 11:40:18 AM PDT by sjmjax
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What they don’t mention is that few turned in their gold. Basically its primary effect was to stop retail from buying or selling it temporarily. I’m going with silver this time. It’s upside looks even more promising than gold. Let them try and call in silver lol. If it ever got to that point you’d probably be better off leaving the country altogether.


9 posted on 04/05/2023 11:40:23 AM PDT by jimwatx
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And Nixon gave it back when he took the Dollar off of the Gold standard.


10 posted on 04/05/2023 11:40:29 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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>What I’m wondering is how long before it starts happening again!

Not gonna happen. Will not comply. Brandon could FOAD.


11 posted on 04/05/2023 11:41:53 AM PDT by fretzer
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cant imagine that was constitutional or would of been upheld by a court.

It was upheld by the Supreme Court. An FDR-friendly Court, which is why it is so important who appoints and confirms Justices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Clause_Cases

The Gold Clause Cases were a series of actions brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the court narrowly upheld restrictions on the ownership of gold implemented by the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.

12 posted on 04/05/2023 11:44:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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That was a criminal act on the part of the government. Remember Cyprus 2013.

Do not believe that they are not capable of doing similar things to us today.


13 posted on 04/05/2023 11:45:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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If the federal government tried today to seize the gold holdings of private American citizens, how much do you think we would turn over?

Is that statement a joke?

Apart from transaction paid in cash at a local coin shop, most gold is purchased online. I guarantee that Fedzilla has, or could easily confiscate, all the gold transactions of the past x number of years. Unlike the 1930's Fedzilla like knows, or can certainly mandate records of gold purchases.

This isn't the 1930's. Broadly speaking, they will know who owns whatever precious metals. It will be difficult to hide purchase transactions. And once they get digital currency it will be game over. The Feds will know EVERYTHING.

14 posted on 04/05/2023 11:46:40 AM PDT by Obadiah
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they cracked open every bank safe deposit box in the country

Recently the government opened private safety deposit boxes, i think in California


15 posted on 04/05/2023 11:50:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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Don’t worry about gold, worry about your retirement and savings accounts. That’s what the leftists are coming for


16 posted on 04/05/2023 11:51:58 AM PDT by jpp113
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Suddenly on April 5, 1933, FDR told Americans—in the form of Executive Order 6102—that they had less than a month to hand over their gold coins, bullion and gold certificates or face up to ten years in prison or a fine of $10,000, or both.

How could something like that be done by executive order?

17 posted on 04/05/2023 11:54:07 AM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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"What I’m wondering is how long before it starts happening again!"

It already is my friend, we surrendered our freedom from government surveillance to the Bush Dynasty in the 911 show

then we all got on our knees in front of Obama and surrendered our health to a system of racketeering

then we voluntarilly surrendered something more precious than gold to the Globalist deep state when we all bowed and submitted to the COVID CULT establishing a precedent of forced submission enabled by mass hysteriaa

Now we are primed and prepped for entering the age of Digital Currency which is absolutely frightening

18 posted on 04/05/2023 11:54:34 AM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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Never hold precious metals in a bank’s safe deposit box.


19 posted on 04/05/2023 11:55:31 AM PDT by jimwatx
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FDR CLOSED THE F)*&ING BANKS!


20 posted on 04/05/2023 11:58:26 AM PDT by MMusson
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