14-09-2009, 08:35 AM
One avenue worth exploring is to write to the US authorities, namely the Department of the US Treasury - probably the Bureau of Printing and Engraving (contact at http://www.moneyfactory.gov/section.cfm/16 ) and ask them directly why the confusion?
I once did this with the UN over a somewhat strange case of what was undoubtedly (imo) a scam. I was eventually partnered with a Press Officer who was, after being sent from pillar to post, directed to the UN legal department who promised an answer. Weeks passed and the PO became increasingly more embarrassed at the lack of response. Eventually he "went on holiday". I never heard from him again and am still awaiting an answer from the UN.
Some things in the world are so convoluted that a direct question is the last thing that can be answered. Sometimes a scam has an official sanction. Sometimes, important and/or well placed bureaucrats are engaged in fleecing their own beds. And sometimes matters are so secret that a bodyguard of lies surround them.
But I don't suppose it would hurt to ask the DEP the question and see what happens?
Btw, one fairly senior official of the DEP I knew who specialized in these areas, was eventually sacked for taking a bribe.
I once did this with the UN over a somewhat strange case of what was undoubtedly (imo) a scam. I was eventually partnered with a Press Officer who was, after being sent from pillar to post, directed to the UN legal department who promised an answer. Weeks passed and the PO became increasingly more embarrassed at the lack of response. Eventually he "went on holiday". I never heard from him again and am still awaiting an answer from the UN.
Some things in the world are so convoluted that a direct question is the last thing that can be answered. Sometimes a scam has an official sanction. Sometimes, important and/or well placed bureaucrats are engaged in fleecing their own beds. And sometimes matters are so secret that a bodyguard of lies surround them.
But I don't suppose it would hurt to ask the DEP the question and see what happens?
Btw, one fairly senior official of the DEP I knew who specialized in these areas, was eventually sacked for taking a bribe.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14