29-03-2009, 11:41 AM
In answer to your question Peter, deniability, deniability, deniability. Also there are a lot of fake certificates out there too, which adds that required dimension to the story.
I've taken a screenshot of one page out of the 360 odd pages of documents on the file I'm still trying to upload here. Hopefully the screenshot will load okay as it's not so heavy. This is the "Governments Exhibit A" in the case of Edison Damanik and is a letter from the US Secret Service Forensic Services Division report covering 14 certificates with a combined value of $166 trillion. Yes, that trillion not billion.
The letter states:
Whoops!
Or maybe "Doh!" is more suitable?
The USSS report goes on to say that"
Which means they're fake. But this begs the question why the US didn't just go ahead and legally seize and destroy fake US obligations which they are empowered to do as and when they wish.
Instead they negotiated with Damanik to turn over control and ownership of these certificates to the US government in exchange for dropping the charges against him and letting him go free.
It's all very smelly.
I've taken a screenshot of one page out of the 360 odd pages of documents on the file I'm still trying to upload here. Hopefully the screenshot will load okay as it's not so heavy. This is the "Governments Exhibit A" in the case of Edison Damanik and is a letter from the US Secret Service Forensic Services Division report covering 14 certificates with a combined value of $166 trillion. Yes, that trillion not billion.
The letter states:
Quote:A physical and microscopic examination was performed on the certificates. The results were compared against the United States Secret Service genuine specimen files as well as those of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The Certificates are not genuine monetary certificates issued by the United States government.
Whoops!
Or maybe "Doh!" is more suitable?
The USSS report goes on to say that"
Quote:The certificates were produced by a combination of poor quality offset printing, stamp pads and "press" or "rub-on" letters and numbers.
Which means they're fake. But this begs the question why the US didn't just go ahead and legally seize and destroy fake US obligations which they are empowered to do as and when they wish.
Instead they negotiated with Damanik to turn over control and ownership of these certificates to the US government in exchange for dropping the charges against him and letting him go free.
It's all very smelly.
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