According to the Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman commenting on poor Bernard von NotHaus (Convicted of the victimless crime of trying to start a private currency that made its owners financially better off holding his 100% silver backed currency than those stuck holding US Federal Reserve Notes.)
“He’s playing on a core idea of the radical right, that evil bankers in the Federal Reserve are ripping you off by controlling the money supply,” said Mark Potok, spokesman for the group. “He very much exists in the world of the anti-government patriot movement, whatever he may say. That’s who his customers are.”