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From: Glen.Nielson@f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Glen Nielson)
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Subject: Emergency Exits
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Date: 19 Jul 90 04:45:10 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

     I agree that the practice of barring blind people from airline emergency
exit rows is wrong. My disagreement with NFB is over what to do about it.
     It seems to me that NFB hasn't realised that the war we fight is a
guerilla war. I think the general approach has been far too confrontational. 
I don't support the effort that was made to "shut down" U.S. Air's Washington, 
DC operation. I can't support those who have been taken off airplanes by the
police because they wouldn't move.
     Secondly, Keneth Jernigan's dream of finding an incident where someone
gets drunk on an airplane and kills somebody else in a car wreck so that 
NFB can sue the airline is really off base. This whole business of safety
considerations is what got us into this mess in the first place.
     I would like to force the airlines to revise their reservation programs 
to ensure that blind people never get assigned seats on exit rows. If all
discrimination was that expensive, there'd be a lot less of it going on.
--Glen

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