[nfbmi-talk] who am i fighting for

[joe harcz Comcast]

Who am I fighting for?

Some people don’t understand my passion for people with disabilities and particularly for people who are blind. Some people don’t understand why access to information upon demand is so important. Some people don’t like this or that expose or this or that method.

 

But, colleagues I fight for all of us and I do not expect some sort of job or pay off either.

 

I fight for progress of those who are blind.

 

I see in spite of technological advances that basics in travel, Braille, and even basic education of our beloved youngsters are not adhered to or even known or mentioned.

 

Man, I had a young man we all know call me this weakened and he layed out his pitiable education at Durant Toure Mont (sic) and the fact there were four legally blind students in that program and that they didn’t even have required raised character and Braille signs on any room let alone the bloody bathroom. Oh, yes they call it least restrictive environment but then no one is in a conventional class. Segregation upon segregation here whilst they closed the Michigan School for the Blind which at least knew a bit about blindness because it was residential and segregated? And I’m not a big advocate for segregated schools for the blind being an old argument lost, but the answer isn’t in islands of further segregation without the free and “appropriate” public education. Can people see the problems here with these issues? Can people see or hear my angst?

 

Then he goes to a publicly funded High School with a big sinking fund for ADA and basic compliance and he finds a restroom sign in Braille mounted at six feet, six bloody feet, not sixty inches as required by the ADA/504.

 

And this young man is forced into being a lawyer, teacher, advocate, etc. He is fourteen for crying out loud and he is forced to take on the beast single handed…To assert himself in arenas where adults get puked upon and retaliated against!!

 

And the bloody Jaws doesn’t work nd the bloody supercilious “Information Technology Teacher” doesn’t know how to make the thing work so we pass him along whilst he just wants to learn a little bit about something, about anything and he is told, “Be grateful for what you get…” And he knows by instinct and raw instinct at that that this system keeps him in the dark, not because of his blindness, but rather, because of the blindness of the system that chokes the likes of him and by our brothers and sisters at sometimes who say, “Well back in the day we had to chip flint without any Braille and round and round that stuff goes…”

 

 

 

He is fourteen and just wishes to do all those silly fourteen year old things that everyone at fourteen does. Not to be some sort of super man, or any sort of less than, but simply being a human.

 

And I’m expected to say, “hey brother, lift yourself up from your bootstraps at fourteen years of age and take on the entire corrupt system that you know is unfair and that you know is stupid and that you know is corrupt at its very core and that you see folks like myself, 59 years of age slammed and denied and then cannibalized over and over again for fighting for basic civil rights by a paternalistic and robber system. I mean come on folks we expect our blind kids to exceed all human conventions when we don’t even hold the peddle to the metal for making a bloody restroom accessible?

 

And we expect adult advocates like myself to repeat the same abuses over and over again and then to get the opinion of the same scofflaws who violate our civil rights over and over again?

 

This is nothing short of madness.

 

 

 

 

 

Are sighted folks required to manufacture their environment let alone classroom materials?

 

Man, this is what I fight for. I fight for our future for our present is pretty screwed up and we, the blind in particular are ignorant and the system likes us that way.

 

They don’t want us to have access to information because they, the system can spin monies over and over again in to places it isn’t meant to be in the first place and we cannot account for it because they cannot account for it and it all goes around and around the merry-go-round whilst a handful of vultures including the likes of Pat Cannon can pick around the edges while our society and our role in it devolves. And Pat Cannon is only a symptom and and only the ultimate “Uncle Tom” put into his place to perpetuate a corrupted system and to pay his sorry ass off for his constant sins against our brothers and sisters just like the “Judenrats” or literally “jewish Rats” in the Jewish Ghettoes of Warsaw and the Kapos who were Jewish traitors to the Jewish victims of persecution in concentration camps who were employed to betray their brothers and sisters in times of ultimate desperation and abuse.

 

Oh, yes it is a crime to cite these infamous dogs, but their infamy is understandable as it is. The real perversions are not the Pat Cannon’s as sick and sad and pathetic as they are but, rather the others who over and over again suck at our bones and employ the likes of Cannon to do just that. And enforced ignorance is the means to the method of abuse and infamy and all evil too.

 

And folks don’t like folks like myself who isn’t Jewish touching the “tar baby” of that experience. But, it is apt for during that same period right here in the United States of America eugenics was alive and well and the same ultimate solution model was used against those of us who were blind and otherwise disabled and we were institutionalized, and we were euthanized and we were sterilized and that is a part of the public record and it is our “ultimate solution” under the new Third Reich of hideous abuse so long as there isn’t anything left to suck off from within corrupted institutional systems. History is prelude to our present if this stuff is allowed to be perpetuated.

 

Ignorance is the means to our ultimate end. And ignorance is perpetuated daily in the venal lack of information in accessible formats. Why is it that it was illegal in the Ante-Bellum South to teach slaves to read? The answer is: “Educated folks revolt and know how to revolt and will throw of the shackles of slavery!”

 

Why did the French system of complacency and so-called charity, but really a bureaucratic convention fight Louis Braille? Because he through his method brought information to the blind and through that we could have been liberated for knowledge is King and not the so-called sovereign. But, keep us ignorant and what have we? Dependent, and truly “crippled in the mind individuals” …All along though the slave masters and the system benefits from the Vocational Rehab, and other federal funds meant for our individual and collective advancement.

 

And there is all this cloke and dagger and “Woodward and Bernstein” bull hockey debate over public information versus so-called confidential  sources and indeed, confidential information, man oh man what a sorry sop all this confidentiality is. The only information held confidential is our own information from ourselves and the trully public information that would hang some in some countries for most perverse and most obvious frauds committed upon a massive scale.

 

Oh people don’t get IPEs, and the public doesn’t get PDQs, yet some burecrat can log some stupid file into some stupid computer program inaccessible computer including MAIN and “Voila! Bingo! Eureka! You hit the lottery Jaye! You hit the lotery Pat!....Shhh it’s our little secret ok?”

 

Meanwhile back at the ranch and in the arena of smoke and mirrors s emporors befit themselves in fine silk clothes or so they think whilst some of us without sight but insight say, “Say that bloke is buck naked and I don’t care if he is there emporrer…He’s buck assed nekked!”

 

Regardless, as to some claims on and off list I fight out in the open and for all blind folks. I have asked for not one thing for myself. Screw it I don’t even expect much for my generation with this corrupted system.

 

But, as stated in the public record II have RP in my family. My young nephew has been diagnosed with RP.

 

I’ll be damned if II, as a progressive with a small “p” will let this next generation of blind folks be worse off than my own….No not without the fight of my life!

 

The selfish inside dealing and the accusations of selfish or counter-productive inside dealings must end! And they must end yesterday ladies and gentlemen!

And for anyone to besmirch on or off list me for what I’ve done is simply appalling, a personal attack upon myself, and most importantly, counterproductive to the common good and the commonweal.

 

Now, we all must submit and put forward all documents we have to every investigative body to root out the corruption that is defiling each and every one of us.

 

And some had better stop for the greater good in pissing on the heads of some whilst telling them it is rain.

 

I’m danged tired of that one thing.

 

I’m very tired of it all.