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From: Greg.See-Kee@f631.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee)
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Subject: Re: GOVERNMENT
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Date: 4 Jun 90 19:10:41 GMT
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 J> I was reading your message to Laura commenting that you cannot 
 J> think of anybody disabled in your government.

This is not true.

Most people who are disabled (one in eight of the general
population) HIDE their disabilities.

Probably the most common ones are:

vision-impairment (spectacle-wearing is a mild form of this)
hearing-loss (especially blue-collar & elderly people)
diabetes
extreme over-weight
drug addiction (espec. non-criminal drugs)

 J> No wonder we are
 J> having such a hard time getting the government to make changes to 
 J> make the lives of the disabled easier. 

There is an overall taboo in practically every society on this
planet, to DENY HANDICAPS.

HANDICAPS cover more than just medical disability.  It includes
having non-wealthy parents, being the wrong-religion in the
wrong-neighbourhood, etc.

Until we are preparted to be HONEST, rather than TACTFUL,
everyone will continue to enforce the biggest problem yet
confronting humankind: their extremely oppressive belief systems.

Remember when the "stupid" humans used to believe that the sun
wenyt around the Earth, or that the Earth was "flat"?

As we work with the disability issue, we are confrointing a
similiar stupidity.  Everyoe is being so "POLITE" that the full
truth is not beong allowed to be said nor recognized.

The disability industry is the planet's biggest industry.  We are
all born disabled, and most of us we will die as disabled people.

The sickening fairy floss being thrown about this whole
conference is just a measure of how desparately the vocal few are
trying to enforce the status quo:

ENFORCE THE TABOO ABOUT HONESTY!

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