Don't you guys have better things to do than bore the rest of the list with
all of this? I think you got way off topic a long time ago. If you don't
like handi-hams or the rules they have to go by good ridense. There's been
enough handi-ham bashing to last a lifetime.

Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: New Handi-Ham Paperwork


Hi Andy,

I haven't been a Federationist since 1997!  Even if I were, I'm not the type
of person to just spout off someone or some organization's line...  I call
'em exactly how I see 'em...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Baracco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: New Handi-Ham Paperwork


> i thought you were a Federationist.  Has the Federation finally seen the
> light, so to speak?
>
> Andy
>
> At 08:48 PM 6/28/04 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi Tom,
> >
> >Just one important point.  The sighted don't need any special treatment.
> >They're sighted.  They don't need reasonable accomodations because
they're
> >the norm and everything is already accessible to them.  They don't need
> >accessibility because, again, it is already inaccessible for them.  I'm
> >blind; not sighted.  In order to be certainly able to participate, I need
> >the same material in an accessible format.  Period.  Readers are fine,
but I
> >think we're in a different age than in the not-too-distant past.  It is
> >harder to find readers now.  It is hard enough to find people who are
really
> >sufficiently educated to read, let alone find people who really want to
do
> >it even for a reasonable amount of money.
> >
> >I'm definitely going to be contraversial when I say this, but, you know
> >what?  I'm blind.  I'm not, in fact, equal to my sighted peers in all
> >respects.  I'm somewhat equal, but not completely so.  In the areas where
> >the inequalities are due to lack of accessibility or to some other
> >artificially imposed barrier to our participation, then it isn't too much
to
> >ask for enough reasonable special treatment to get around the barrier.
> >Times are changing; I think we need to insist on our accessibility now
> >before it becomes too late.  More and more sighted people are writing us
off
> >every single day, this stuff could ultimately come down to our very
> >survival!
> >
> >
> >