Read about this outrage, and I have written two letters. Please do the same.
Thanks!
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> [Original Message]
> From: Lamp, Sharon A. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 6/17/2005 1:40:05 PM
> Subject: [DS-HUM] Fwd: TN Governor Bredesen Issues Life Sentences to
VentUsers]
>
> I am forwarding the press release below from another listserv. Best,
> Sharon Lamp
>
>
> 6/16/05
>
> For Immediate Release:
>
> Governor Bredesen Issues Life Sentences to Vent Users.
>
> Before and after a media event Governor Bredesen, of Tennessee, was
> confronted about several issues surrounding the states TennCare cuts.
> Under a special category of TennCare there are around one hundred
> individuals who use ventilators that receive support services in there
> own homes. Governor Bredesen’s plan to cut TennCare includes cutting
> the TennCare coverage that allows individuals that are vent dependent to
> live independent lives. Some live in their own homes, some with family
> or friends but they are all free Americans. When asked directly by Randy
> Alexander what his plans were in relation to these specific cuts Governor
> Bredesen replied, “I’m not going to cut their services I’m just
> going to
> put then in the nursing home.”
>
> “So you are saying, you, will institutionalize people because they have
a
> disability” asked Randy Alexander? “Yes,” replied Bredesen, “I
> care about
> them, I’m not cutting their services I’m going to provide their
> services in
> a nursing home,” the Governor continued.
>
> “Are you going to sentence them to prison for the crime of having a
> disability? A nursing home is an institution, an institution is
> imprisonment and you are saying today, right now, you are willing to
> sentence them to prison for the crime of having a disability,” asked
> Alexander. Governor Bredesen began to step away as he said, “…the
> state cannot afford to pay for the services of these one hundred
> people.”
>
> “We are talking about basic human rights here, you have admitted today
you,
> this state, is willing to imprison people simply because they have a
> disability,” said Alexander before the Governor had a chance to walk
> away.
>
> The Governor’s plan is to do just that, issue life sentences to those
who
> use vents. He is willing to take away the freedoms of over one hundred
> people in this state simply because they have a disability.
>
> Today Governor Bredesen was confronted by members of the Memphis Center
for
> Independent Living, ADAPT of Tennessee and the Southern Christian
> Leadership Conference. More info will be made available tomorrow.
>
> Free Our People!
>
> Randy Alexander
> Memphis Center For Independent Living
> 1633 Madison Avenue
> Memphis, TN 38104
> (901)726-6404
> (901)726-6521[fax]
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