Betty,

        This is blown all out of proportion because ADAPT loves the media
coverage. I doubt if three were arrested. I went to an ADAPT convention
once and a "leader" of the group told me they judge their success on the
number of seconds air time the get in news coverage. They have no regard
one way or the other on what it is they are protesting. I am now getting on
my flame retardant
suit!!!

Bobby


>It doesn't ring true.  Five hundred people showing up at a government
>building to protest is generally considered newsworthy to the mainstream
>media.
>
>Arresting "just under" 100 people without disabilities is a logistical
>nightmare, not to mention arresting a large number of people with
>disabilities.
>
>If there were PWDs there being abusive to law enforcement officers, I hope
>they got arrested.
>
>Betty
>
>In a message dated 11/03/1999 2:48:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< I witnessed this first-hand.  All I can say is that there was no "feeding
> frenzy".  There was no freezing rain.  Yeah, it snowed, but no freezing
> rain.  I personally was blocked from egress through the doors so I could
> return to my office--this by PWDs.  Gov. Taft wasn't even in town.  It
> wasn't the Rhodes building, it was the Riffe Center.
>
> What I saw was several PWDs in chairs being pretty abusive to the Troopers.
> I get pretty disillusioned when I hear truth "bent" to serve a purpose, no
> matter how noble that purpose may be.  Don't believe "everything" you read
> or hear, no matter how reliable you think your your sources may be.
>
> I just got back from there about 15 minutes ago.  Saw no PWDs, but plenty of
> police guarding the doors.
>  >>