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This article was
originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal,
it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos,
cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for
the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
20 Dollar Bill
Mints Terrorist Plot Prior to Twin Towers
Ever seen the
boring guy, that's not so boring, that can take a banknote in a pub and twist it
this way, that way, and there's a gag involved? Yeah, you lose the bet, but he
shows you the picture on the back you've never seen before.
Here's one to get the public
of New York reeling, the people of Washington shocked at what's to be seen in
the 'new' twenty dollar bill.
Grab yourself twenty bucks
from your wallet. Go on, this will get you... I promise you, and you don't lose
a drink or the note you got in your hand. Just fold it three times bringing the
two sides of the White House's roof together, yeah, on the back of it. Guess
what you see?
An accurate image of the
World Trade Centre on September 11th, notice the presidential shrubbery
billowing away as smoke!
Now flip the note over and
you can see what looks like one-fifth of the Pentagon, see the smoke, it's the
aftermath of the terrorist strike, and worse still, with an accordion type fold
of the script on the bill's rear, you get the first name of the world's most
wanted man printed on it - good old: Osama.
It gets better, the bill
isn't newer than 2001, it went to mint around '97, a good four years before the
devastation, and started circulating in '98.
The government artists who
designed the note aren't freaking out but do have excuses.
“The bill was introduced
years before the tragedy,” says Claudia Dickens, spokeswoman for the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, the American nation's currency designer. “It's an
interesting coincidence, but that's all.”
This operators of a Florida
based website www.allbrevard.net, claim to have discovered the quirkiness of the
note at a NASCAR party earlier in May, 2002. They posted it online, stating that
within 10 days they had got 1 million hits.
“It's our duty as American
citizens to present this web page to you. God bless America!”
These words are written on
the site and comments to it show many are not recipient to the subject or its
claim to patriotism.
“What a shameful display of
propaganda,” states one, “Of all the moronic things,” declares another. However,
a third of the people that wrote to the site suspect a government conspiracy.
One figured a maths problem
or a very good equation to the $20 bill - take 9/11 and add them together. Yeah,
you get twenty, that's not just sinister, it's sick.
But remember -
this is three to four years before the terrorist attack. Why not a ten dollar
note then, folks?
September 11th jokes “began
almost immediately,” says Camille Bacon-Smith, editor of the online journal New
Directions in Folklore, who is also editing an article on humour inspired by the
disaster. “Quite simply, if you're not ready for those kind of jokes, you
recoil.”
“There are those people out
there,” Camille Bacon-Smith went on to say, “who will see it as a secret plot,
and we have a name for them - crazy.”
This isn't the first time
origami enthusiasts with U.S. Banknotes have captured the imagination, Dickens
said, the Engravers' spokeswoman. George Washington can be folded on the dollar
bill and changed into a mushroom.
“It's funny what some people
will come up with.” She said.
In an earlier article on
Echelon I discussed a bill of Parliament passed in England in 2000. I didn't
mention its name at the time of writing. Careless of me... Tut, tut...! Glad I
didn't, as it's befitting of this article right now.
The bill is Jack Straw's,
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) concerning limitless powers to snoop
through your emails without your consent or knowledge.
The anachronism is befitting
an epitaph for a grave stone. (RIP) - REST IN PEACE.
Is the message clear here
with banknotes depicting a terrorist attack years before 9/11? Is someone
sticking up the middle finger to our Western Society and our politics from
within and telling us, “We're coming...!” Rest In Peace...! RIP! What is that
telling the public of Great Britain?
PEACE be on the people is
what I say... LEAVE them alone...
Right, end of article, you
can calm down now, you can put the note away, you didn't lose a drink and you
didn't lose the note either this time. Better still... Have a drink on
me!
20 Dollar Bill
Mints Terrorist Plot Prior to Twin Towers written by Bill Barber
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