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

[Aziza C]

Peter,
Reread your posting... "Harboring mistakes," the ACB is mastaken you
say, and yet we hold it against them? Wow, glad I didn't fall into the
ACB before I knew of the NFB, or I'd be mistaken and judged for
that...

Also, when you respond so "heavy handedly," are you really doing
anyting to right those mistakes?
Aziza

On 5/20/09, Peter Donahue <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] ACB not trying to destroy us?
>
>
> 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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