[blindlaw] nfb currency resolution from 1994

[Kathleen Hagen]

Angie, you weren't incoherent at all.
Kathy Hagen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <angie at mpmail.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] nfb currency resolution from 1994


> Tim said:
>
>>> I appreciate the concern expressed in the NFB's current position, but
>>> just think that it is simply not a connection that the sighted public
>>> will make.
>
> I couldn't have said it better! You are absolutely right, Tim: The 
> theoretical distinctions between doing this as part of a currency redesign 
> and doing this *just* for blind people are too fine to be contemplated by 
> most people--not because
> they're incapable of appreciating the differences, but because this is 
> just too subtle for them to care about. If we, as the NFB, really think 
> this is how the public thinks about blindness, maybe we need to be talking 
> to other people outside our
> immediate circles. This is simply not the logic that the sighted public 
> will use.
>
> You also said:
>
>> Perhaps the best practical solution is for all of us to ask Congress to
>> simply tell the Treasury to do this, as a matter of just being a fair
>> thing that the rest of the world has already done.  The ACB lawsuit
>> would become moot, and we can avoid the concerns about how the legal
>> issues might have unintended adverse consequences.
>
> Exactly! If we are worried that an appeal would have negative consequences 
> for 504 (and I think this could occur), then the thing to do would be not 
> to support an appeal. Unless these negative consequences are viewed as 
> less important
> than the public opinion if the judgment should be enforced. Since I 
> believe that our gauge of public opinion is way, way off on this one, I 
> have to conclude that the best action would have been not to actively 
> support an appeal, 2002
> resolution notwithstanding.
>
> OK, just took a civil procedure final, so I apologize if this is totally 
> incoherent.
>
> Angie
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