Uh, when I was a kid, we used to trade arcade tokens as money. "I'll give you twelve Funny Bone Dollars for your Lunchable." So since we used them to barter as with money (including in the arcade) does that make the Funny Bone Dollars counterfeit and illegal?
I don't pass my Funny Bone Dollars off as real money, but I can use them in place of USD in the arcade and amongst my friends. Same with Liberty Dollars. No one is saying that they are US currency. But they can be accepted in place of USD amongst friends (or say.. "friendly merchants.") As far as I can see, they're the same situation.
Similarly, there is a community in the Berkshire, MA area that uses their on currency, BerkShares, in place of US Dollars. Banks there even exchange BerkShares for US Notes and vice versa. If Liberty Dollars are illegal, how are Berkshares not?
http://www.berkshares.org/localcurrency.htm#whatare
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