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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Who am I fighting for?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But, colleagues I fight for all
of us and I do not expect some sort of job or pay off either.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I fight for progress of those who
are blind.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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!!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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…”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This is nothing short of
madness.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Are sighted folks required to
manufacture their environment let alone classroom materials?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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!”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And there is all this cloke and
dagger and “Woodward and Bernstein” bull hockey debate over public information
versus so-called confidential <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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?”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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!”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But, as stated in the public
record II have RP in my family. My young nephew has been diagnosed with RP.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The selfish inside dealing and
the accusations of selfish or counter-productive inside dealings must end! And
they must end yesterday ladies and gentlemen!</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And some had better stop for the
greater good in pissing on the heads of some whilst telling them it is rain.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I’m danged tired of that one
thing.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I’m very tired of it all.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
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