http://kdka.com/national/blind.paper.money.2.728307.html
May 20, 2008 10:48 am US/Eastern
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for them to distinguish the bills' value, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
What this opening salvo does not clarify is how, historically, the U.S. has been using the power of it's paper money system to discriminate against different types of blind people distinguishing the bills' lack of value. The article goes on to say -
The ruling upholds a decision by a lower court in 2006. It could force the Treasury Department to redesign its money. Suggested changes have ranged from making bills different sizes to printing them with raised markings.
On the front end of this courtly decision, one must wonder why the collective U.S. system needed close to a century in order to find its salt, its judicial ass, the judicial wherewithal to first recognize so as to notice, then consider, and finally act upon the discriminatory nature of the paper money system being used at its own insistence during this interval; 95 years.
The traditional billing affixed to this sort of collective deliberative body system has long been premised on and steeped in an assortment of assertions, to include accolades; such as, that this system has raised itself to the level of a hallowed institution in no small part based upon the supposed saintly merits of its track record and reputation with things of legitimate law & justice. The collective system continually speaks of its never-ending pursuit to appoint onto and into itself the operatives ..... employees..... administrators .... officers and the like to fill out and number among its rank, people of highest human character possessing exceptional capacity for knowing how to recognize & identify injustice when it sees such, quickly, faithfully, without prejudice, and without fail, and is subsequently keen to timely administer genuine justice & law accordingly.
Meanwhile, people at large generally capable of applying a nominal amount of legitimate critical thinking to a subject at hand - like a track record raised to the level of an institution, are likely to end up thinking in terms of record short time, amazingly quick time for humans ... that kind of track record stuff. One must wonder if any of the ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian or Babylonian gods - upon which the present collective U.S. system has been built, ever required a century to complete one single lap around a given track in coming to attain their particular godly lore & status? This conjures up the image of such a track race starting out with a Howard Cosell -the first, announcing the event via radio "and there off, folks, this great race has begun" .... and then 95 years later Howard Cosell - the third, announces to a weary audience via satellite TV hard wired into the heads of interested viewers "and here they come folks .... look at that little monkey run! .... my grand daddy would have been proud .... look! .... yes....I think he's going to make it.....(anticipation).... Steven Wannamaker, human chariot of fire that his is, is the first to break the tape and cross the line....quick check of the time clock (more anticipation) .... YES! .... he DiD IT FOLKS!!!! , and THAT is how it goes, Steve Wannamaker has just completed the race in world record time of 95 YEARS!". A body that just today announced via headlines that it required nearly a century to act upon a matter of quintessential injustice indicates that A) yawn, any legitimate records worth speaking of are still safe, B) such a deliberative body, by clear example, is not capable or qualified to find its own law & justice ass with both hands, C), whatever it found in this instance, over the course of 95 years no less, using its very own two genuine-law-and-justice hands as it were, was likely to have been yet another exemplary rendition of a botched act at that.....just another display of the U.S.' collective skill in corrupted incompetence. We need look no further than the back end of this courtly decision.
Talk about the phenom of a person - real or fictional as the case may be, talking to itself. The US' court by way of the U.S.' very own news-headline-making subsystem, now talking (apparently to itself) of the grave need to craft a new design of paper money "with raised marks". Who or what said so?; The U.S. Court. Court: Paper Money Discriminates Against The Blind
Who or what is the U.S. Court? It is an implement of the collective U.S., an implement comprised of fictional entities as well as the occasional real, flesh & blood persons. Who or what did the court tell its decision to? The U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for them to distinguish the bills' value, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Here we have it, prima facie evidence that the U,.S. is talking to itself, and, by way of CBS, is apparently attempting to indicate it has been listening to itself ....it is answering back, to itself. The U.S. acknowledges that the design hinders blind people but it argued they had adapted -some relied on store clerks for help, some used credit cards and others folded certain corners to help distinguish the bills. When one considers that CBS is itself no rinky dink implement, one that has no few people numbering among it's audience, this then is a situation of the U.S. attempting to talk to itself, and answer back AND many other real flesh & blood people by way of CBS are attempting to listen in on this conversation; crazy is as crazy does. Those of you following at home are advised not to try this yourself. The average person caught attempting to talk to themselves, and subsequently answer themselves, quite often is locked up in institutions .... other institutions, like institutions for the insane, not to be confused with institutions of the collective U.S. such as the institution of law, justice, courts and media .... that kind of institution stuff. It goes without saying but will be said nonetheless that the average person that gets caught talking to themselves AND is subsequently locked up in an insane institution is more often than not a real, flesh & blood type of person. Everybody knows that when it is the corporate fictional U.S. entity attempting to do the very same that the average sane flesh & blood person gets locked up as insane, the U.S. does not lock itself up in an institution for the insane. Instead, it locks itself up in the collective institution named U.S., wherein it then gets to fabricate, control and administer most of the institutions, like, the institution for passing paper money for a century as though real money, like, the institution for passing judgment as though real law & justice. Then it gets to come out the back end of its own courtly decision pretending to smell like the veritable rose for having pulled such the obvious 180. To the back end of this courtly decision, Batman!
One must wonder why the U.S. Court of Appeal's decision favors only those physically blind but does nothing of genuine worth - except exacerbate, the situation for those who are mentally blind to the nature of the current paper money system. By it's own headlines, the U.S. is announcing a decision of it's court deciding against a form of discrimination all the while this very decision is itself another clear act of discrimination. That is quite the richly ironic decision!
I have nothing against the physically blind in this context, and nothing against your post especially since your post further demonstrates the profound contradictions in play here. I even have my own relevant anecdote; at the age of 12 I was awarded an orthodox diagnosis of being "legally blind" (20/2000) in one eye, a birth defect that many people know as "lazy eye". Fortunate for me that the other eye was diagnosed 20/20. From that moment of birth, it then required approximately 18 years to be awarded a degree as graduate of the first level of mental blindedness; public education. By convention this was then accepted as approval of society at large for me to progress into the system of advanced mental blindedeness; higher education. Yes, it is easy to imagine that something as simple as raised letters on paper money can greatly help the person physically unable to see to be a bit more independent in their life. This dramatically highlights how and why physically blind people do not / cannot take for granted the many simple things that their sighted friends do. Blind or no, most if not all of us in this world take for granted and are ultimately dependent on the face value of our paper money. The thing is, so long as we each maintain access to a steady stream of this paper, blind or no, it is pretty easy for us to avoid noticing our life OR death dependency on this paper. The premise of me starting this thread was born in the quote provided by MSM as the rationale behind the U.S. Court for this decision (paraphrased) "... to help people distinguish the value of paper money..."
I will be happy to be wrong about this, but part of my premise was - how many people will notice the lack of distinction in the reporting of the U.S. Court's ruling? My guess is that relatively few will notice at first blush, and if somebody makes an attempt to help a person breach this lack, relatively many will insist that they do not want to know the truth in the matter because, among other reasons, "this truth is a theory". Raised markings on paper money might help some blind people distinguish the face value of what they hold in their hand, but what about the actual value? Right this moment I hold a silver dollar (1 ounce .999 fine) in my hand, vintage 1983. This coin is large enough and heavy enough and containing enough finely raised surfaces (letters) that I am fairly sure a person with some experience in not being unable to physically see will be able to distinguish, by touch, the face value printed on this coin if/when placed in their hand. For over two hundred years, the face value of this silver dollar coin has been, is and will by law continue to be for the foreseeable future - 1 dollar. I bought this coin a little over 12 months ago, at a purchase price of a bit over $15 dollars for one coin. If I were to sell it today, either to a collector of such or at a commercial money shop, I will get close to $18 in face-value worth of paper dollars in return. Got that? I paid $15 paper dollars for a silver coin bearing a face value of 1 dollar. Had I bought this silver coin when the relevant law was enacted, I would have paid 1 paper dollar for it, and that dollar would have contained some specific instructions written upon it to the effect of: "upon demand by the bearer, this note is to be redeemed for equal value in gold or silver"
The point I meant all along with my remarks is that I get the distinct impression that there was nothing intended by the U.S'. Court, neither explicitly nor accidentally, to help people, all people, no matter what kinds of blindness they suffer, to distinguish the actual value of the paper money they may be holding in their hands. Yes, of course, it makes for great theater to observe the U.S.' court arguing this way and within the content of the same MSM story to then see the U.S. proper arguing the opposite way. Hollywood scr*ipt writers would be hard pressed to make up that kind of stuff especially since the U.S. proper has such talented scr*ipt writers already under their thumb and under lock & key working for them directly somewhere within the bowels of D.C.. Whether they know it or not, whether they are willing to know or not all people no matter what kind of blindness they suffer are presently wholly dependent upon the paper variant of money like corporate government is to propaganda.