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From: Jake.Daniel@f998.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Jake Daniel)
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Subject: Re: blind politics
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Date: 18 Jun 91 16:18:51 GMT
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Hi Lois,

Well, I was looking around my board when I saw your message.  Some
how I couldn't resist throwing my oar in on this one.  It appears
to me, that if a mugger let's you go because your a Blink, you
should count yourself lucky and not spend to much time complaining
about the fact that you weren't treated like a sighted person.  Is
it just me, or do some people carry this Equal Opportunity stuff
just a little over the edge?  Well, maybe not just a little over
the edge, upon reflection I can think of a few bats who have
carried it over into the Twilight Zone.

Infact, this story brings to mind a over active thyroid case, not
to mention over active imagination, N.F.B'er I knew who believed
that there should be a blind terrorist organization.  I'm not
kidding!  She preposed to blow up airports and airliners because of
the bulkhead seating question.  Maybe some forms of blindness
effect the brain?  !GRIN!

Still, I get a kick imagining the way that poor mugger must have
felt  upon finding that his kind offer had been taken as a slight
and an afront.   Can you imagine the stories he's still telling
about the night he tried to mug a blind person?  Probably became a
mugger's folk tale.

                          Until later, Jake

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