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Another CBC radio interview from Gold Rush 21
8:06p PT Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's Gold
Rush 21 conference concluded today in Dawson
City, Yukon Territory, Canada, by adopting
the Dawson Declaration, appended here.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary, Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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THE DAWSON DECLARATION
Resolved by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's Gold Rush 21
conference at Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, on Tuesday,
August 9, 2005:
Having come to the heart of gold country to inquire into the
condition of the monetary metals and the industry that produces
them, we conclude and declare:
While governments affect to have no use for them anymore, the
monetary metals are of greater importance than ever because of their
ability to hold value independent of arbitrary government power. So
ownership of and free trade in the monetary metals are basic human
rights against expropriation.
While the monetary metals are unique as assets of intrinsic value
that cannot default because they are no one's liability, this
also
has become their crippling weakness. For in being no one's
liability, the monetary metals have had -- unlike their competitors,
government-issued currencies -- no sovereign defenders.
Indeed, for years now the monetary metals have had few defenders at
all, the gold mining industry's trade organization having been
dominated by short-selling corporations that have obtained metal at
the sufferance of the issuers of government currencies, the central
banks. This has left the monetary metals almost helpless against
competing currencies.
Since they issue competing currencies, governments have a powerful
interest in suppressing what is perceived as the value of the
monetary metals. Governments have achieved this suppression through
strategic and often surreptitious lending and dishoarding of their
metal reserves. While it is seldom officially acknowledged as such,
this is the manipulation of currency and commodity markets that
should be free and transparent.
This manipulation of the currency and commodity markets has become
the primary mechanism of imperialism, projecting and maintaining the
power of the international reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, and
its issuer, the U.S. government, and compelling other countries to
sell their exports for less than fair value.
To assist in the suppression of the monetary metals and at the
urging of the International Monetary Fund, IMF member governments
engage in deceptive accounting of their gold, deliberately confusing
gold in the vault with gold that has been leased or swapped or whose
ownership otherwise has been impaired.
In the absence of a government currency's direct and fixed
convertibility to the monetary metals, the only purposes for
government reserves of the monetary metals are currency intervention
and market manipulation. To preclude this manipulation, governments
should sell their reserves openly by a date certain, except metal
needed for coinage.
As defenders of the monetary metals, we do not necessarily maintain
that they should be the only means of exchange. We do not worship
the golden calf or the silver bull; we are not idolaters. To the
contrary, we believe that individuals and nations alike have the
right to decide what they will use as money, even as we acknowledge
that freely traded gold and silver are simply the most convenient
guarantors of economic liberty.
Accordingly, we will:
* Defend the crucial place and purpose of the monetary metals and
the industries that put them into circulation.
* Encourage the use of the monetary metals as parallel official
currencies and in commerce and savings.
* Investigate, expose, and oppose attempts to subvert the monetary
metals.
* And support giving the monetary metals a sovereignty of their own,
the sovereignty of humanity above the nations.
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