Unconstitutional Conduct Confiscating GoldTime To Return To Gold Standard

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Unconstitutional Conduct Confiscating Gold Time To Return To Gold Standard Written by Robert "Bob" McDowell, Jr. - ARRA News Service Thursday, June 09, 2011 The below letter to the editor is by Robert "Bob" McDowell, Jr. He is a Professional Engineer and Geologist with over 50 years experience in creating drilling prospects, supervising drilling, well completion, production operation, and pipeline design for oil and gas including repair of problem wells. McDowell is a conservative and active in the Oklahoma Republican Assembly.By Bob McDowell: Thanks to a column by Gene Curtis in the Tulsa, Oklahoma daily paper, others learned and I recalled that on on June 5, 1933, the U.S.A. was taken "off the gold standard" which had been established in 1879. It became illegal for any American citizen to own more than $100 worth of gold. The short story identified that on April 5, 1933, then newly inaugurated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had announced that owners gold must surrender any gold that exceeded $100 in value to the government in exchange for paper or silver money. The story went on to say that the names of more than 1,000 persons believed to be hoarding gold were turned over to Justice Department agents who were under orders to locate the supposed hoarders and find, and confiscate, their gold. Even at my young age in 1933, I remember how those who supported free enterprise mentality were aghast at this turn of events. In retrospect it seems that FDR (as he was then referred to by the media) had pulled the wool over a large percentage of the population in order to gain election to office. Unfortunately, as I recall, a majority of Americans did not realized at the time the future ramifications of this act, as well as other acts of the FDR administration. It is well documented that at least one of his cabinet members was an avowed Communist and others, in my recollection, were dedicated to their own personal agendas to radically change the Nation. (Kind of sounds familiar to today.) Even then, the propaganda machine of the management of the Democrat Party had become adept at the 'personal attack' methods to discredit any and all who dared to oppose their move of the Nation towards socialism. Their methodology and conduct has increased and become more perfected in the decades since that time. Back to the claim of "unconstitutional conduct." Under the U.S. Constitution as written and envisioned by the founders,


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