[nagdu] Re Guide Dog Forced to Ride in Trunk

[d m gina]

There is no excuse on either side, to have a dog in a trunk of a car.
No excuse at all.
Prtaise the Lord the dog didn't die.
Then what would have been said.
When we sign paper work from any school we get a dog from, we are 
saying we are responsible.
If this is true, then there is no excuse on either side.
Only we the persons can take care of our dogs.
they are depending on us to do all of the needs they need.
To keep them as comfortable and happy as possible.
No matter what kind of meeting we need to go to, at no time do we put 
our dogs in any situation of this matter.
Never ever.
Not acceptable.
I do hope all of Denver dog handlers get together and share with all of 
the cab companies this will never happen again.
The company and the driver need to be sued for this.
No different if you or I were stuffed into a trunk.
This is not acceptable.

Original message:
> I am more than a little concerned about a seeming tendency to judge the
> woman whose taxi driver forced her to put her guide dog in the trunk of his
> car.

> This tendency toward censure has arisen before with regard to other guide
> dog users encountering problems in the past, and I, for one, want to
> discourage it.

> Thankfully, I have never been faced with this woman's "Sophie's choice."
> But I have been abandoned by taxi drivers more than once over the years,
> and, like many others of my blind brothers and sisters, have probably faced
> my share of humiliating infringements of my civil rights.

> The view that I want to express is that it is wrong to judge the victim of
> crime, no matter how much more responsible or effective or independent we
> think we might have been in similar circumstances.

> No one lives at the height of vigilance at every moment of  life.

> The victims of sexual assault, for example, have had to struggle for years
> not to be blamed for crimes against themselves.  Rape victims are blamed for
> irresponsibly walking late at night, for dating the wrong partner, for
> drinking at the party, for selling their bodies, for dressing provocatively,
> for being where they don't belong, for failing to set their own limits, to
> guard their own boundaries, to fight back more fiercely, etc., etc.  But
> rape is still a vicious crime, the offender is guilty, and the victim
> deserves our support and our compassion no matter how much better we may
> have behaved, or think we may have behaved with similar choices before us.

> When I practiced criminal law, I was counseled to remove women from juries
> in sex cases because they were more likely to acquit.  If they could
> separate themselves from the victim--if no way could they ever be caught the
> way she was by virtue of their own good choices--then they could leave the
> courtroom in confidence and go home feeling safe.  If only bad girls got
> attacked, then nothing could happen to them.  Women were expected to judge
> other women harshly in order to quell their own fears.

> I think it is fear that makes us judge other blind people for falling short
> of our own self-expectations when they become victimized.  The idea might be
> that if we are perfect, no one will hurt us; if we are perfect as a group,
> no one will even dare to try to hold us back.  WE might say to ourselves,
> "I'd never let the movement down by acting like that."

> I'm all for independence, safety, effective self-advocacy, and responsible
> living.  But perfection and control are illusory goals.  They're impossible
> standards to maintain.

> If we judge and find wanting those who have been victimized rather than
> holding  wrongdoers truly accountable for their illicit acts, then we become
> victimizers too.

> I think we can be stronger than that.

> No one deserves to be victimized, ever.

> Period.

> Elizabeth, a former prosecuting attorney, and Ingram and Fiesta, who took a
> bite out of crime.




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