You mean awaken people to the need for rights for the disabled?  Naw... I
don't think so.  People's minds are consumed by two things right now - war
and the economy.  Disability rights are lower down on folks' priorities, I'm
afraid.  Let's be realistic.  When the economy goes back up -- and it will,
given the cyclical nature of things -- and there's money to spend, it'll be
easier for the disabled to press for their rights.   Not now.  9/11 changed
a lot of things, and it's rippling downwards.  When Al Queda attacked
America, our outlook on things shifted drastically.

I know there's an anti-war movement going on but it's not reflected in the
majority view in polls and Bush will have his way (as well as Tony Blair)
and we shall have a war.  I don't know what's the lesser of two evils -
Saddam browbeating his people into his armies and terrorising the Kurds and
other ethnic groups in Iraq (and I am now willing to admit) showing signs of
hoarding missiles, or us killing innocent Iraqis.  No matter which way we
go - war or not - innocent people will die.

What's even scarier to me is the sabre-rattling by the North Koreans.
Aren't you folks out there on the West Coast nervous?

Kat

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From: "Magenta Raine" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Your Save-the-ADA Advocacy Kit, Installment Three


> Maybe the war will awaken people. I don't know.