Many of the Americans who supported the Iraq war, did so because they believed
the government lies that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The corporations who manufacture military weapons did so, because they are in
favor of eternal war. The Neo Cons in the government did so, because they
wanted to reorganize and control the Middle East. But a whole lot of Americans
were opposed to the war. This is a very big country with a very heterogeneous
population. It's difficult to make generalizations about what all Americans
want.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mostafa
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 8:39 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump Tower
Well, each and everyone knows for sure what it means to be an American citizen
settling abroad in the current circumstances. Americans chose for themselves.
No one coerced them to go to Iraq. I knew it was Bush's decision however, he
didn't go there on his own. You may look at polls prior to launching airstrikes
on Iraq versus what people said afterward. Double standard is practiced all the
time. Likewise are Egyptians, when Sisi committed the ungracious coup against
an elected government, people stood with him in his oppression. Now, people
hate him not because he murders and imprisons innocents, but because their
economic status has substantially exacerbated in his era. So, nations are
mostly disingenuous until things go against their private interest. All what we
think of as people is food, proper job and shelter. People do not chant anti
government sentiment because it is corrupted or because it imposes subjection.
We only despise them when things worsen on our side. Note though, I do not
fend for the brotherhood party, I just destined to utter the truth.
Mustafa
On 9/14/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's true. There are blind people who are Trump supporters. They are
misguided. All of the working people and middle income people who
voted for him and who still support him are deluded, and they don't
understand what is in their own interests. And it isn't only
Evangelical Christians. However, if the Democratic Party had been
concerned about the needs of the majority of people in the US, rather
than with pleasing its wealthy supporters, Bill Clinton would have
been a different kind of President. We wouldn't have had a George W.
Bush. We wouldn't have had a 9/11 attack or an Iraq war. Our history
might have been very different and Donald Trump would never have had a chance
to be elected.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Mostafa
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:59 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; dselset@xxxxxxx;
Jennifer Ford <dandjford88@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump
Tower
Miriam, Donald Trump is broadly idolised among white southern evangelists.
There are plenty of pro Trump protagonists within blind faith folks.
On 9/13/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would love to forward this to every blindness list I'm on for all
those blind Trump supporters to read. But I just don't feel like
dealing with the fallout. If you only knew what hysteria there was on
the BARD Talk list because of the announcement of Woodward's book,
Fear, first being on Bookshare and then yesterday, on BARD. I have my
own criticisms of all these books but these people just refuse to
believe what the books report. First it was Michael Wolff's book, now
this one.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:56 AM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: delores selset <dselset@xxxxxxx>; Jennifer Ford
<dandjford88@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump
Tower
It would be interesting to peek into Donald Trumps mind and see what
he thinks of America's Blind Citizens. The following note could give
us a hint.
Carl Jarvis
President Donald Trump allegedly ordered an architect not to include
braille in Trump Tower elevator panels because "no blind people"
would live in his building—even after being informed that excluding
the tactile writing system is against federal law.
The alleged interaction was recounted by Barbara Res, who led
construction at the Trump Organization, in an opinion piece in the
New York Daily News on Wednesday.
"What's this?" Trump, noticing the small raised dots, reportedly
asked the architect who went to his office to show what the
residential elevator interiors would look like.
"Braille," the architect responded.
Trump apparently demanded that the architect take the feature out.
"We can't," the architect replied. "It's the law."
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to
live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
The architect pushed back, making Trump yet more mad. The future
president also apparently called the architect weak, considered
architects and engineers to be weak unlike construction workers, and
enjoyed tormenting weak people.
Trump ordered "outrageous or just plain stupid ideas, both legal and
illegal. Sometimes those lines were blurred," Res wrote.