Judge Orders Treasury Department To Make Paper Money Recognizable to Blind People

American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson said keeping all U.S. currency the same size and texture violates the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in government programs.

“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations,” Robertson wrote in his ruling. “More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired.”

What other countries do should not be at all relevant to a United States Judge. But hey, atleast he won’t tell the legislature how they have to comply!

Robertson wouldn’t say how Treasury must do it, but he gave the government agency 10 days to start working on new bills that the blind can tell apart.

That’s nice of him, right? Yes, how nice that this judicial dictator, a legislature all unto himself, deigned to let us peasants choose for ourselves the manner of compliance to his unilateral decrees. I’m thrilled. Of course, it turns out this entire case is made moot by the fact that a market solution already exists.

But Al-Mohamed said that blind people often resort to using note-tellers, portable readers that can cost $300 per machine. Often, they don’t work when bills have been folded or crumpled and frequently it’s inconvenient to use in a busy store, she said.

Of course, the article made it sound like a bad thing. “How horrible, they have to RESORT to evil capitalism to solve their problems.” And heaven forbid, they can be inconvenient! But remodeling our entire monetary system for a minuscule fraction of the population, that’s not inconvenient. To a leftist, only government is capable of solving problems (isn’t it funny how they get it exactly backwards? And by funny, I mean sad), so anything else doesn’t count.

Another judge has made a mockery of our Constitution. Judge Audrey Collins, whose last hissy-fit ended parts of the Patriot Act, has jumped up and down and stomped her feet and demanded that mean ol’ Bush stop labelling the nice terrorists.

A federal judge struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague.

Some parts of the Sept. 24, 2001 order tagging 27 groups and individuals as “specially designated global terrorists” were too vague and could impinge on First Amendment rights of free association, U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins said.

The order gave the president “unfettered discretion” to label groups without giving them a way to challenge the designations, she said in a Nov. 21 ruling that was made public Tuesday.

Well gee wizz, we wouldn’t want to infringe on a terrorists right to associate! With idiots like this running around hampering our every effort, we might as well just stick a giant pistol to our nations head and pull the trigger. Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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