Re: Court: Paper Money Discriminates Against The Blind

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.