[nabs-l] ACB not trying to destroy us?

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Azizza, Sarah, and listers,

    When writing about things like this details tend to be left out when 
they should have been included in the initial message. They began pounding 
the table, and proceeded to attempt to turn it over. Luckily several of us 
were sitting behind the table and were able to stop them from turning it 
over and preventing the literature from spilling on the floor and possibly 
causing damage to expensive adaptive equipment. One of these persons is a 
long-time member of the ACB. If ACB doesn't condone this behavior why didn't 
someone else manning their exhibit wave them off and send them home? Had 
they done so and made sure everything was all right and apologized we would 
have felt better about it. Yes the same thing happens during NFb events, but 
I've seen and have made efforts to assist exhibiters in repairing their 
exhibits ensuring that any expensive equipment that may have been upset was 
all right, apologized and went on my way.

We've been through all of this too many times before where ACB is concerned. 
We've had Braille Forums shoved down our throats, something that was stopped 
when we reported them to the Texas Attorney General's Office. On another 
occasion we invited several persons we knew to be ACB members to accompany 
us to a business function. They came from Massachusetts and were guests in 
our home. During the entire weekend all we heard was this and that about how 
bad the NFB was, and that the ACB was right. Those individuals found 
themselves on an airplane headed home a little  sooner than they expected. 
The airline charged them a hefty change fee for rebooking their tickets. All 
we could say was good! We were glad that we taught them that continuing to 
harbor mistaken beliefs about the NFB and perpetuating them can be a very 
expensive business. We made sure they got home and were all right, but they 
spent a few less nights on the town for the next few months thanks to their 
closed-mindedness concerning the NFB. Call us heavy-handed, but this, and 
things that occurred during the early part of this decade caused us to adopt 
such an aggressive stance against this mayhem. Anyway I need to check on a 
Web site and prepare to record this week's edition of Musica Antiqua.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aziza C" <daydreamingncolor at gmail.com>
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I couldn't have said it better Sarah.

On 5/20/09, Sarah J. Blake <sarah at growingstrong.org> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> What you are describing is not behavior that ACB as an organization would
> sanction. Furthermore, your story is inconsistent. One day it was that 
> they
> were pounding on the table, and today it is that they were turning it 
> over.
> This kind of inconsistent story tells me nothing except that you yourself
> got fairly emotional about things. I would venture a guess that individual
> NFB members have at one time or another thrown tantrums and messed up
> someone else's exhibit, knocked around someone else's technology, etc. It
> does not equate to trying to destroy an organization or a person.
>
> Sarah J. Blake
> Personal email: sjblake at growingstrong.org
> http://www.growingstrong.org
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