#LetMePayCash

My recent experience & my pledge going forward. Maybe it’ll become yours, as well?

Monday, July 11th, 2022

Dear Freedom Friends,

Two nights ago, I stood in a community pub just north of Seattle. I offered a clean, crisp $20 bill to a business owner who said, "I'm sorry, we don't take cash."

There were no masks in sight or other signs of pandemic concerns. This wasn't about Covid. I asked, "I'm curious, why not?" The owner responded, "We were robbed awhile back." My eyebrows lifted. As if that hasn't happened in the past, since the beginning of time and long before the advent of electricity, much less electronic/digital money systems?

I decided to share my concerns. Encouraging the owner to understand the inherent loss of privacy this entailed, with every customer being required to use a card, creating a date/time record of their whereabouts and purchasing decisions. I said, "I'm trying to use only cash (and leave my cell phone at home) because I lived most of my life with the same privacy most humans have enjoyed and appreciated for all of history...and I'd like to continue to do so." I asked, "Can't you just remove your cash from the store at the end of the day?"

His eyebrows lifted. "I hadn't thought of that.” Really? But, then it hit me. As a business owner, he’s also being marketed to by endless companies promising to make his life easier and solve problems. It wouldn’t be that hard to convince him that “cash is risky,” and “our new system will keep you safe.” That’s a siren’s song we’re hearing a lot of nowadays.

I hope he'll rescind his policy. Because, I will not be a future customer if he doesn't.

As of today, I will only give my money and business to those who accept cast or check, should I choose to use them. If you are a "no cash" business, then I will not participate in a "service requires tracking" interaction.

This may not be the intent of the business owner, but it IS the intent of those creating and pushing for a perfectly controllable system.

This doesn't apply to monthly bills paid from home, because that doesn't invade my privacy. There is no way to know where I was when I paid my electricity bill...and everyone knows I pay for electricity.

But, other purchases that I make, out and about, are absolutely private. They are unique to who I am and how I spend my day. They are none of the government's (or a bank's or the internet's or a hacker's business.

These new systems of financial control are, by the way, rife with opportunities for sophisticated theft and criminal behavior that we, "the little people," will be thoroughly unable to protect ourselves against. We CAN guard our purse, our wallet and even our homes, but we can NOT protect, guard or defend ourselves from attacks that occur on the internet. Not really.

Our government itself (which professes to be in possession of the greatest and most skilled internet experts in the world) was duped, scammed and robbed to the tune of BILLIONS of tax dollars...yes, WE were robbed blind, during the first year of the Covid Experience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/05/15/unemployment-pandemic-fraud-identity-theft/

And all of that money was digitally delivered and received, only to then likely be converted into "safe and protected" cash assets or anonymized digital accounts, by these sophisticated thieves, making it that much harder to track or retrieve that stolen money (our taxes).

Our society, our business owners, our taxes and our wealth (as common people) is not protected more by digital systems. It simply creates deep shade under which digital robbery can happen. Theft that we think isn't happening — because it's either being hushed up OR it's so complex and confusing that we don't really understand what's going on.

When this man, a random citizen of no greater value, intellect, morality or wisdom than myself, can offer a personal opinion and have Legacy Media react as if we should automatically trust & listen to him...I am tremendously troubled. And, I 100% disagree.

#IWillPayCash

Hashtag it.

Think about it.

Do it. Commit to it.

Understand it.

Cash money comes with a cost, to create it and distribute it and some people can falsify it, but all of that also exists with digital currency.

The primary difference between the two is ONE thing: when you spend digital money, complete strangers know what you spent, what you bought, when and where...with cash, your privacy is assured.

If you want my business: #letmepaycash