Hello from sunny and almost uncomfortably hot, Acapulco Bay,

I say "almost" because after sleeping on the cold floor for two nights with barely any sheets and pillows in Santiago last week I am more than happy to sweat a bit this week during the two hottest months in Acapulco - April and May!  I've just arrived back from nearly two weeks in Santiago and unfortunately I'm only here for less than 48 hours and then I am flying up this weekend to rainy and cold, Vancouver, Canada for the World Resource Investment Conference to present my keynote speech, "Bitcoin, Bullion and Bullets - Your Toolkit to Survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It".

Happy Friday all! Yes that day where the 9 to 5 sheeple thank their masters and government for the next two whole days they’ll have off. Ah, the American Dream. Twenty-nine percent of your life just for you!

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On to the feedback…

FOREIGN BUSINESS CHALLENGES

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

The outright harassment, intimidation and black bagging of political opponents in the US has reached new levels in recent weeks.

The extortion arm of the US government, the IRS, has admitted to targeting people with certain political beliefs for aggressive shakedowns.  And good friend of TDV, Adam Kokesh, who was planning a peaceful armed march in support of the Second Amendment of the Constitution on Washington DC on July 4th was kidnapped in broad daylight on May 18th in Philadelphia.

Here is one of numerous angles showing Adam Kokesh doing nothing but submitting to the people assaulting him and being taken away. 

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

There has been an angry uproar recently because Apple has hardly paid any extortion fees in the last four years on its billions in profits. Why this warrants an angry uproar and not a giant cheer for them for not supporting criminal governments is beyond us. But the slave-on-slave action has been thick on this one.

One particular comment on a mainstream site caught my attention, "If our budget geniuses in Congress would hire enough IRS agents, this stuff would stop. But our beanies are cutting IRS budgets. Mitt's servants along with Bill Gates's are doing their job."

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor, Gary Gibson]

To see how the private sector outperforms public policing in the real world, just take a look at Detroit.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Jayant Bhandari]

I usually use this space to examine some reason you readers should get on the New Underground Railroad to get out of the US police state plantation. But occasionally I just need to talk about some blatant idiocy that I came across during the last few days. Sometimes I just see some collectivist, nanny statist nonsense that irks me so much that I can't get a proper night's sleep until I comment on it as publicly as possible.

Hello from Santiago, Chile,

You usually read my weekend rants with their incredibly positive tone.  And you must get sick of it.

So if you want to hear about me in an unhappy mood, this is the one to read!  It's nothing too terrible, but here is the story...

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Feedback Fridays, when you bring the discussion to us. Have we mentioned that we want to hear from you?  Send your comments, queries, conundrums, and complaints to tdv@dollarvigilante.com, comment on a post, or get on the forums.

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Dear TDV,

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

The total state needs total information. How else can it track every dollar to snatch, every child to draft, every opinion to slap down? The monitoring of movement will always be done covertly or – if revealed – in the name of safety and fairness.