This week the FBI raided the Liberty Dollar office, which is a company producing "private voluntary barter currency". The future of the Evansville-based company was put under question after the FBI agents searched the company's facility. This information was provided by the company's founder in his

On Wednesday, both documents and precious metals were seized from the company's headquarters located a strip mall at 225 N. Stockwell Road.

Wendy Osborne, federal agent and a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Indianapolis, was the one to direct all questions to the Western District of North Carolina U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding the FBI raid. She mentioned that currently she does not possess any information on the investigation.

The monetary architect of the group, Bernard von NotHaus, who is also the author of the e-mail, did not give any answer to a message seeking comment.

Von NotHaus was the one to create the Liberty Dollar in 1998. According to the architect it was an alternative currency to the U.S. Dollar, and it supposed to be "inflation-proof". He claimed that the Dollar has devalued after the Federal Reserve was set in 1913.

A private mint, located in Idaho, issued silver medallions. It worked on behalf of Liberty Services, with their headquarters located in Evansville. The Liberty Services, in their turn, issued paper notes, which, according to group's officials, are backed by silver reserves.

The message found on the official website of the Liberty Dollar goes as follows:

Dear Liberty Dollar Supporters:

I sincerely regret to inform you that about 8:00 this morning a dozen FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville.

For approximately six hours they took all the gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.

We have no money. We have no products. We have no records to even know what was ordered or what you are owed. We have nothing but the will to push forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right to have real money as defined by the US Constitution. We should not to be defrauded by the fake government money.

But to make matters worse, all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has also been confiscated. Even the dies for mint the Gold and Silver Libertys have been taken.

This in spite of the fact that Edmond C. Moy, the Director of the Mint, acknowledged in a letter to a US Senator that the paper certificates did not violate Section 486 and were not illegal. But the FBI and Services took all the paper currency too.

The possibility of such action was the reason the Liberty Dollar was designed so that the vast majority of the money was in specie form and in the people’s hands. Of the $20 million Liberty Dollars, only about a million is in paper or digital form.

I regret that if you are due an order. It may be some time until it will be filled… if ever… it now all depends on our actions.

Everyone who has an unfulfilled order or has digital or paper currency should band together for a class action suit and demand redemption. We cannot allow the government to steal our money! Please don’t let this happen!!! Many of you read the articles quoting the government and Federal Reserve officials that the Liberty Dollar was legal. You did nothing wrong. You are legally entitled to your property. Let us use this terrible act to band together and further our goal – to return America to a value based currency.

Please forward this important Alert… so everyone who possess or use the Liberty Dollar is aware of the situation.

Please click HERE to sign up for the class action lawsuit and get your property back!

If the above link does not work you can access the page by copying the following into your web browser. http://www.libertydollar.org/classaction/index.php

Thanks again for your support at this darkest time as the damn government and their dollar sinks to a new low.

Bernard von NotHaus

Monetary Architect