[nfbmi-talk] Fw: simple stuff

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Savoie, Dan (DHS) 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: simple stuff


Sir,

I am but one blind man who is both a consumer and advocate, I ask for your patience as I've thought my civil rights in these regards were required of your agency and your person more than forty years ago under federal civil rights law (Section 504, Rehabilation Act) and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Frankly, all must I wait until I'm dead to get my full civil rights of simple access?

Must I or others in my class be told to "be patient" when it comes to civil rights now forty years old?

Sir, and others on this post, must I ask for you to hold your breath and turn blue for forty years, twenty four or even one minute?

I've seen a whole lot of absurd and spiteful things in my day, but the very thing and the very actions of the Michigan Department of Human Services in these regards goes beyond the pale.

I am no longer going to "play nice" as it seems that no one wishes to follow the rule of law in these regards.

Therefore this all will be made public like I will make public all of the abuse of the Bureau of Services for Persons who are Blind here in Michigan.

I will not desist in uncoverring the grooss discrimination within DHS against PWD in these regards or in the groos incompetance of people like yourself sir, or Director Corrigan.

I have nothing to lose. You and others do have your ersatz salaries and other things to lose for sure.

These correspondences as such should be made along with all of your agencies other correspondences in these regards to the Office for Civil Rights at HHS as well as the OIG's office at HHS.

I'm certain that you and Ms. Corrigan and all of those folks in-between wouldn't mind the fact that OCR and OIG look in to your affairs.

I'm not sanguine with any of it.

But this I know for certain: That is that neither you, nor your predacessors or anyone in DHS or it's predeccessors has followed let alone applied to itself the precepts of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or Section 504 of the Rehabiliattion act of 1973.

And yet you and this agency sucks our bllod and money for socalled benefits, activites and services.

Well you and your minions don't exist from us. Your jobs and income are because of us.

and sir, there is a saying about all of this and that is: Nothing about uswithout us!




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Savoie, Dan (DHS) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Elan Nichols ; Mose, Sandi Kay (DHS) ; Stacey, Jean (DHS) 
  Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 5:38 PM
  Subject: RE: simple stuff


  Mr. Harcz. I am in the process of preparing the email and preparing your forms in plain text.  I ask for your patience as I have other duties that I needed to attend to following our phone call.

   

  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
  Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 5:05 PM
  To: Savoie, Dan (DHS)
  Cc: Elan Nichols
  Subject: simple stuff

   

  simplely     Dear Sir,

   

  As a part of simple customer service let alone ADA compliance I asked that you submit to me and my attorney who,  what, when and where and how of any meetings in regards as to my case.

   

  I've asked for these things in writing and in accessible format as I am blind and have rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Acct and the ADA in those regards. You called me today and purportedly set up appointments via telephone and I expressly asked you to copy me in accessible form in these regards.

   

  You called but didn't deliver in writing. This is a pattern and practice of avoidance andcivil rights violations of DHS and your person in these regards.

   

  I should not have to remind you of your appointments and under law in these regards, but the other way around.

   

  Moreover, once again I request the name, address, phone and a-mail of the required responsible designee of DHS in regards to ADA and Section 504 compliance sir as I requested over the phone today and which was required under law, civil rights law as of 1990 and 40 years prior under Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, section 504respectively.

   

  I would also wish for you and the DHS to examine requirements long standing with regards to communications with people with disabilities, including those of us whom are blind in Title II, subpart e, communications as amended pursuant to obligations in the revised rules, civil rights rules as of March 2010.

   

  In short, you sir and your agency were obligated to figure this stuff out years ago and have not done so in demonstrable fashion and that includes a simple cc to me and my lawyer in regards to Monday's perported meeting.

   

  I'm not sanguine about the effacy and veracity and legality of these phone calls so am putting things in writing to all parties.

   

  In fact that is the purpose of the effective communications requirements and auxilliary aids and services provisions of the ADA and Section 504 to begin with.

   

  I am writing to make all of this a part of the public and written record sir.

   

  Simply if DHS and others wishes to have information and appointments and all that good stuff of bureaucrats and such made available to them then it must recriprocate to those of us with disabilities which you are paid for to serve at the public trough and in the public trust.

   

  And since your agency is charged predominately with serving the needs of people with all sorts of disabilities including those of us who are blind then you and DHS must abide by long standing civil rights rules guiding basic access.

   

  Now, sir, there are more than 150,000 to 2000,000 people with severe visual impairments if not even legally blind in this state of Michigan alone whom are denied basic access to the full benefits,activities, and services of DHS's programs and services let alone the implied lack of employment opportunities do to lack of individual and systemic access.

   

  Access sir, once again is a civil right and that includes access on equivelent terms and based upon "primary consideration" to all information let alone personal information in the same time frame afforded those without disabilities to we with disabilites.

   

  Thisisn't so difficult in this digital era if DHS wished to be accessable to me and to us.

   

  But apparently it does not wish to be so or do so.

   

  Such is the rub so-to-speak and such is the personal and systemic discrimination.

   

  I've effectively communicated my wants, needs and rights with your office via this simple e-mail.

   

  You and your office with millions, no billions of taxpayer's funds can do likewise if you wish.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  cc: NFB MI

  cc: Rep. Dan Kildee

  cc: several media

  cc: Rep. Pam Faris

  cc: several attorneys at law

  cc: DOJ, Civil rights Division Disabilities Rights Section

  cc: Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services, Inc.

  cc:

  MCRS

  cc: BSBP

  cc: OCR, HHS