Milk crates full of arts and crafts materials. Lot’s of pink. Grimey downtown L.A. can only mean one thing…

Buff Monster! He was painting the mural at pɹɐpuɐʇs ǝɥʇ Hotel. This is day two in progress.

This is a the sketch of what it’s going to look like.  See he does put thought into it! Clearly it is the the journey a young ice cream cone must walk in the land of boob ice cream and candy cane dicks.

However, We have all seen an artist paint a mural before. It just so happens Buff Monster has to paint while a judicial travesty has happened. Today Buff is joined by his father, Bernard von NotHaus. Get comfortable, you won’t be this excited about reading since you found a copy of Legshow under your Uncle Gary’s Marshall stack in Sudbury.

Buff Monster was raised in Hawaii.  He recalls making gold coins on Saturdays for his fathers business. Bernard von NotHaus created a thing called “Private Currency“, you know like paper certificates that represented piles of silver and gold he had in a warehouse in Indiana. Just like our own money represented before massive inflation devalued our current monetary system.

Bernard von NotHaus created the Liberty Dollar. Certificates that represented real silver, gold and copper. At the height of the Liberty Dollar there was over 20 million dollars worth in circulation. Mostly in the coin collector community, like the sneaker community but with real worth. My favorite is the $20 Silver coin with the gun on it.

After the Patriot Act was passed on Sept 12, 2001 the war on terror and hysteria about terrorist on our own soil was rampant.  We got to invade Iraq and Afghanistan as well as illegally search and arrest anyone that is suspicious. Not coincidentally this is the year Ben Hundreds never left the house.

Mr. von NotHaus was just doing his thing, making his own currency, speaking at colleges and events, and having dinner with his friend and supporter Ron Paul.  Until one day in 2006, the secret service and FBI raided his office.  They confiscated 5 tons of gold, 4 tons of silver and 200 tons of copper. As well as every computer, file cabinet and arrested any one there. Did you know it was illegal to own gold?

Bernard von NotHaus was convicted of counterfeiting and domestic terrorism. In spring of 2011 he was found guilty.  He is currently awaiting sentencing for a harmless hobby that the government didn’t care about for 20 years, then decided they need to impound everything this man has every created and earned.

We are sitting here on Wilshire painting and at any moment they could take a 68 year old man away for 22 years.  Could be more… could get thrown out. Do you like the mountains Buff is painting?

This is Buff Monster pink. Custom made.

This is Tim.

I’m really trying to get a documentary made about Bernard von NotHaus, If I succeed it might raise enough awareness and keep him out of prison. Please click on all the links and draw your own conclusions. But some of the reports are bullshit fear inducing lies. The best part about all of this… IT’S BUFF MONSTER’S DAD!