Disability:The inaccessible civil right.

Written by: Thomas M on Aug 14, 2009 10:37 AM EDT

    I know from experience how important the ADA Act is. I was working and the higher ups realized I had epilepsy. I was put on call but the call never came. This was before you couldn't do that, under law.

Also businessmen complain about jobs disappearing but it never happens under law, since these 'businessmen' should know the disabled are also consumers.

     Only now we get the non-handicapped handicapped. My wife is in a wheelchair due to having a brain tumor,being in a coma, then having a stroke. She's OK now but she can't walk and needs my help.

     So it aggravates both me and her and it is an injustice to all to see the "able' use disabled parking and disabled bathrooms. Some say the parking spaces are there or the stall is there and being unused but do they really beleive a disabled person must sit on a commode 24 hours straight or be parked 24 hours straight!? Abide by any others timetable!? Who's handicapped then?

     Just knowing right from wrong and justice from injustice should guide all and any accomodation for the handicapped is should not be accessible only when the "able" feel like it applys.

     Rights are not 'given' to the handicapped but owed due to past injustice. Wrongs begat the ADA act ,Not charity. When you do something wrong you make it right not just because you feel charitable but because it is right to do right. Inaccessibility was a wrong we are in the process of righting not a gift or a grant due to some feeling of charity.

    Disabled people were sterilized, put in institutions, or attics. These are truths not hyperbole. You got these town hall disruptors who fear ,unreasonably, being put to death. The disabled were put to death or in a nuthouse , shunned from society and they see that it takes a law for people to do right? 

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