Samizdat on a $5 Bill
Posted on March 6, 2019 by Baron Bodissey
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It seems that forbidden information is circulating on paper currency in Canada:
(Click to enlarge) Samizdat on loonies! Who’da thunk it?
Our long-time reader and commenter leCanadien, who sent us the photo of the bill, explains how he came by it:
I just received this interesting $5 Canadian bill from a bank machine.
You could call it: ‘News Dissemination Iron Curtain Style’
It says: Senate Committee on the Trudeau Regime Letting ISIS Terrorist into Canada
On the left side it says: Google You Tube
Just think of the ramifications of this remarkable new medium for expressing dissent. In the Soviet Union, the government inhibited the production of samizdat by (among other methods) making paper difficult to obtain. But there’s no shortage of loonies in circulation — in fact, as the value of the Canadian dollar drops, more of them will be printed. As long as the government continues pretending to pay people, there will be plenty of paper for dissidents.
I suppose the government could always restrict the supply of felt-tip pens, however. In that case the dedicated producer of samizdat will have to draw his own blood and scratch his message on a (CAD) $1,000,000 bill using a toothpick or torn-off piece of fingernail…