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To: shades who wrote (42811)	12/15/2005 8:14:47 AM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Gold is not a panacea, nor did I ever say it was, however as I repeat, it is can be an store of value, untraceable hidden, that may be accessed to be used to leave a problematic country. Bank accounts, stock accounts, land etc. are not hidden and can be easily seized. I know of people personally who used gold to buy passage out of former South Vietnam, and my own relatives used gold to leave Russia when it fell to the Bolsheviks. You are free to have your opinion but no, I do not believe the US or Europe is in a status like the book 1984. The state has always had what it considered it's enemies and they were not always treated fairly. Political harassment as you describe in the US existed at the turn of 20th century, the 1920s, the 1950s, and 1960s. The targets shift. We are having an open discussion about the book 1984. In the society portrayed in the book 1984 we would not have been able to do so.