[il-talk] blind person in the loop

[Robert Hansen]

I carboned it to the tribune email shown in the article.  It went to both IL
talk and the Tribune.

Robert H




On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, David Meyer <datemeyer at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Your opinions are obviously strong and your invitation is quite persuasive.
> Perhaps you might consider writing the same letter to the author of the
> article.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Hansen
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:53 PM
> To: tribmag at tribune.com; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
> Subject: [il-talk] blind person in the loop
>
> In regards to this burning question;
>
> I am a vlind/visually impared individual who has dealt with being grabbed
> by
> the arm quite frequently.  I do not know what the person grabbing me wants
> to do.  I do not know if they are a pick pocket artist.  I do not know if
> they want to "send me to my sudden death" as you put it.  I do not know if
> this person is a psychotic or on drugs.  I do not know what this person
> wants to do.  Technically that is in violation of my rights.  Nobody has
> the
> right to put their hands on anybody.  That is called assault and the last
> time I checked assault is a crime.  The individual who submitted this
> question should have gone home or back to their place of work, Googled
> blindness information and would have found many resources readily available
> to read.  This person did the wrong thing by writing an uninformed person
> at
> a newspaper that knows nothing about blindness.
>
> There are two major organizations that deal with blindness issues and many
> smaller ones as well.  The two major organizations are, the National
> Federation of the Blind  http://www.nfb.org  and the American Council of
> the
> Blind   http://www.acb.org .  Either of these organizations would have
> offered answers to this "livid in the Loop's" questions.
>
> I really think Livid and the person who wrote these pieces should really
> attend a local chaper meeting of these two organization.  The National
> Federation of the Blind Illinois, Chicago chapter meets every second
> Saturday of the month at the ExChequer Pub located at 226 South Wabash Ave.
> The meeting starts around 1pm.  Matter of fact, there is a meeting of the
> NFBI Chicago chapter this Saturday.  Both of you should come.
>
> One thing, we are NOT "jerks."  Please do not ever call us that.  Educate
> yourselves.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Not a Blind Jerek in Chicago, attending a local university.
>
>
> have a nice day
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