[nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Sun Aug 5 02:24:58 UTC 2012 

Ok Mr. Wertzel. What have you done on this and these resolutions besides in 
documented fashion impede each and everyone of them from being implemented.

My record on personally following them and doing everything in my power is a 
matter of public record.

So, sir is yours and others on this list.

The complete and utter backtracking on each and everyone of these 
resolutions unanimously passed by convention assembled is irrefutable as is 
you obfuscations.

That goes most forthrightly to your role in actually turning about on the 
crisis facing the blind in this state as well relative to your official 
position on the CIC and relative to the reversal of policies, etc. on the 
State Plan and the stark reversal of positions vis a vis EO2012-02 and 
2012-10. And these go to long standing commitments and obligations to defend 
PA 260 from any onslaught. Any! Your caving on the issue is a total reversal 
from our stated commitment over decades and including once again our active 
commitment against EO 2012-2 for there isn't a dimes worth of difference 
between that EO and the present one. In fact I contend and have documented 
why EO 2012-10 is even worse.



Your passive aggressive interventions against the common good and the will 
of the people are documented in fact and again on these very archives.

These are not fuzzy, feely conjectures or bashing either. These are not 
opinions.

They are facts and documented facts.

We are a government of laws or we are governed by the whims and caprices of 
men.

As Former Senator Daniel Patrick Monihan once said, "We are all entitled to 
our opinions. But no one is entitled to his own facts."

I am tired to death in you constantly kicking the legs out from under my 
advocacy efforts and that isn't even personal. It hurts each and every blind 
person whether in or out of NFB.

It most especially hurts NFB of MI in that each thing we do is undone or 
undermined by willy nilly back tracking, dodges and obfuscations, which in 
your words are "boorish" indeed, and in fact!

Then the likes of you have the unmitigated gall to rally your forces for 
censorship of truth telling?

Well the Michigan State constitution says it directly, "The best defense and 
the absolute defense against libel is the truth."

To this date, August 4, 2012 none and I repeat none of last years 
resolutions with poignant "resolve clauses" have been effectuated.

It does not "change what it means to be blind" in any sense of that term to 
back track, renege and to otherwise doge responsibilities while throwing 
bricks in the road of those individuals trying to implement the will of 
convention assembled.



Joe Harcz




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?


> Well, Joe, have you called larry to volunteer to help?  you wrote the
> resolution, can you take some responsibility to get it done?We depend on
> lots of people to do things.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 8:15 PM
> To: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?
>
> another six weeks has passed. This is the will of convention assembled to
> impliment these resolutions.
>
> That ladies and gentlemen is NFB business!
>
> And it is not a personal attack to point this out.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:20 AM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] what has been done on this?
>
>
> RESOLUTION 2011-01
> RESOLUTION RELATED TO PROGRAM ACCESS AND MCB
>
>
> WHEREAS, all Vocational Rehabilitation entities, including the Michigan
> Commission for the Blind, (MCB) have long ago been required to provide
> "program access" to all the facilities it uses on a daily basis and to 
> hold
> hearings, meetings and events in fully accessible facilities, even to the
> point of signing assurances with the Rehabilitation Services 
> Administration
> annually that it does fully comply with these long-standing obligations; 
> and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, one of those long-standing requirements was, and is to
> have raised character Braille signage mounted on every permanent room,
> nearest the latch side of each door in accordance with American with
> Disabilities Act Guidelines (3.40.1, 4, 5, and 6); and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, all such barriers were to have been removed under the
> required ADA transition plan by no later than July 26, 1995, yet exist to
> this very day in most, if not all, facilities used by the MCB; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, Patrick D. Cannon was the former Chair of the United
> States Access Board which establishes the standards of the ADAAG, the 
> State
> of Michigan ADA Coordinator responsible for implementation and the 
> Director
> of MCB responsible for full compliance and knowingly so; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are
> civil rights laws requiring affirmative action; and therefore these
> inactions by Cannon constitute not only gross dereliction of known duties
> and deliberate indifference to these civil rights laws, but also must be
> considered malicious and intentional acts of mass discrimination; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, members of, and indeed the entire state affiliate of
> the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan, have promoted the full
> application of these requirements repeatedly over the years along with
> documenting violations; and
>
>
>
>            WHEREAS, the NFB-MI has long promoted Braille, including its 
> use
>
> in the built environment, for reasons obvious to all:
>
>
>
>            NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the National Federation of the
> Blind of Michigan in convention assembled this 6th day of November, 2011 
> in
> the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan that forthwith the NFB-MI lodges a formal
> Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States
> Department of Education, along with supporting documentation, on behalf of
> all its members, and indeed all people who are blind in the State of
> Michigan, against Patrick D. Cannon, individually, and against the 
> Michigan
> Commission for the Blind as an entity; and
>
>
>
>            BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as a part of this Complaint, the
> NFB-MI urges OCR to promptly enforce our individual and collective civil
> rights and to make the class whole as its charge.
>
>
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