Explain disability rights on Indymedia

Kassia

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Feb 19, 2003, 12:13:23 AM2/19/03

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Those frustrating times when people just don't get it...

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/30296.php

In replies to a post telling local Los Angeles activists to protest
Sen. Feinstein's vote for Sutton, we come across the following
remarks...:

"It is not the Federal Governments place or job to enforce a false
equality for the unfortunate."

"If you feel that strongly about it then set up a private organization
to help them. Don't point a gun at someone else's head and enforce
your views upon them. The ADA is an abomination and should be
repealed."

These people piss me off too much for a rational response right now,
so I thought I'd encourage others to go do some enlightening...

K.

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Mark Probert

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Feb 19, 2003, 8:25:08 AM2/19/03

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Kassia wrote:
> Those frustrating times when people just don't get it...
>
> http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/30296.php
>
> In replies to a post telling local Los Angeles activists to protest
> Sen. Feinstein's vote for Sutton, we come across the following
> remarks...:
>
> "It is not the Federal Governments place or job to enforce a false
> equality for the unfortunate."
>
> "If you feel that strongly about it then set up a private organization
> to help them. Don't point a gun at someone else's head and enforce
> your views upon them. The ADA is an abomination and should be
> repealed."
>
> These people piss me off too much for a rational response right now,
> so I thought I'd encourage others to go do some enlightening...

I would be like shooting fish in a barrel, except for one thing...fish
are tasty and I like them for dinner.

Telling thse 'people' off is utterly pointless, as they are so clueless
that it is beyond the scope of mortal man to do so.

However, if by some chance, they should join the ranks of the disabled,
you know Who got involved.

Remember, the difference betwen disabled and not disabled can be as
short as a nano-second.

Daniél Palm

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Feb 19, 2003, 12:13:54 PM2/19/03

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:25:08 GMT, Mark Probert
<mark_p...@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>
>Telling thse 'people' off is utterly pointless, as they are so clueless
>that it is beyond the scope of mortal man to do so.
>

It's usually people like them who actually benefit from disabled
facilities.

Those diabled parking bays are oh so convenient for these important
folks.

Daniél Palm - South Africa
Disability is not inability
http://www.lando.co.za/pdp

Richard Foster

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Feb 20, 2003, 1:46:41 AM2/20/03

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Diane Feinstein has had a disability for years, and she is completely
oblivious to her own shortcomings. Her tongue flaps before her brain
engages. I lived in CA. for a long time, and am glad to be in FL. now.

Mark Probert

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:16:03 AM2/20/03

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So you say.

Mike Yared

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Feb 20, 2003, 10:43:57 PM2/20/03

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So what is her disability? 1-2 husbands or confusion about the ADA as an
unfunded manadate v. civil rights?
Mike

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Mark Probert

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Feb 21, 2003, 11:31:18 PM2/21/03

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Some people consider being a non-male not-a-right-wing conservative to
be a disability.

Mike Yared

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Feb 22, 2003, 2:31:29 PM2/22/03

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And some people consider being a left-wing liberal not to be a disability
since feminists supported Peter Singer's practice of aborting all disabled
fetus, a traitor to the cause.

Mark Probert wrote in message ...