[nfb-talk] Notes about NFB News Line

[David Evans]

Dear Tom,

Now, if you are finished gracing us with your presents for now.  Maybe you 
could go somewhere else and take your grace with you.
Several places come to mind, but a garbage dump seems the best place for you 
to fit in.
You are just a trouble maker and your so called arguments just don't hold 
water.
Get a life and stop trying to bug us with your b S.

David Evans
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Mills" <tmills79 at bellsouth.net>
To: <4alabama at nfbnet.org>
Cc: <alabama at acb.org>; <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>; "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing 
List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>; <acb-chat at acb.org>; <rsva-l at acb.org>; 
<acb-l at acb.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:34 PM
ubject: [nfb-talk] Notes about NFB News Line


> Excuse me!  regardless of what has been traditional practices for the NFB
> News Line service such as bulletin boards for advocate groups like the
> National Federation of the Blind, News Line should never be considered
> anyone's own personal fiefdom or still worse yet just another domicile for
> every
> blind brown noser and NFB hack that comes along! The reason that I 
> continue
> to grace you with my presence is quite possibly because like you I believe
> that continued persistence will bring about much needed reform.  The
> intended purpose of News Line and its professed mandate to deliver
> accessible News papers to the blind community simply rings hollow when
> dominated by a biggest bully on the block attitude.  Sir: I beg your 
> pardon!
> Tens of millions dollars have been contributed by
> many other government and private partnerships to News Line.  But even if
> every single penny were donated by the many generous federation members I
> still would have the right to raise my concerns about the operation and
> administration of News Line.  I think the NFB News Line news paper service
> has quite possibly over-reached
> its intended purpose. I do not know of any other organization like NFB 
> News
> Line. It is apparent to me that information based on your Email that News
> Line has become to big and powerful that is in need of a major down 
> sizing.
> I feel that my criticism of News Line is justified and Appreciated by the
> National Office of the National Federation of the Blind.    ----- Original
> Message -----
> From: "David Andrews" <
> dandrews at visi.com
>>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <
> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
>>
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 10:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
> readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>> Tom:
>>
>> As usual you are trying to create a problem, th4en use it to beat on the
>> NFB.  As William said, if we are so evil, why do you stick around.  You
>> make yourself a nuisance on one list, get moderated, then move to 
>> another.
>> Is NFB-talk your latest target?
>>
>> And, as for Newsline, each state has a local channel where a variety of
>> publications can be put.  In MN for example we have newsletters from both
>> NFB and acb state affiliates, the Library for the blind newsletter,
>> transit news, and the schedule for our radio reading service.  We will 
>> add
>> Minnesota Monthly soon.
>>
>> This is the only potential place on Newsline where stuff other then
>> newspapers would be.  The only people politicizing Newsline are the ACB
>> who use it, but oppose it at every turn because it is from the NFB.  If
>> you take away opposition to the NFB from the ACB, little is left.
>>
>> Dave  For goodness sake since when did the members of the National
>> Federation of
> the Blind begin to use your rival blind group the American Council of the
> Blind as a standard of comparison and excellence?  The NFB has not proven
> itself worthy to be the sole organization in the world I know of
> that Distributes over two hundred main stream daily and weekly news 
> papers.
> With
> that responsibility comes an enormous need to remain above any suspicion 
> of
> fishing and grabbing subscribers from News Line for other purposes. The
> National Federation has had a long history accusing other organizations in
> the blind community of that!  Once upon a time, the American Foundation 
> for
> the Blind was with out
> question the richest blind organization in existence.  They held a virtual
> monopoly on the sale and distribution of aids and appliances for blind
> people in the world. estimates of the AFB's wealth ranged upwards of 250
> million 1970 dollars.  Many blind leaders of that time long ago believed
> that AFB gained most of their wealth by charging usury prices for aids and
> appliances for sale to blind people. Also the AFB and many other
> organizations working on behalf of blind people used their considerable
> prestige to obstruct fund raising efforts by the National Federation of 
> the
> Blind in particular. I happen to think that the Federation's  cocky 
> attitude
> toward those blind people who have learned from past experiences would
> always remember to remind all of us the lessons
> of history.
>  The only information offered by the NFB News Line Service should be
> limited to those news papers in the News Line Library. Remember that the
> whole concept of NFB News Line is a most rarest of privilege granted to 
> the
> blind community by many contributing news organizations in the news paper
> industry.  And the blind should respected as such.
>  I too wonder where the blind community is when they turn their backs on
> decency and respect for an unbiased library experience while reading the
> Alabama NFB News Line Service. The Federation is more interested in
> promoting its blind advocacy program; like filing frivolous law suits 
> mostly
> for the sake of publicity and all the while knowing that most government
> agencies and big business concerns will quietly settle crappy law suits in
> the legal settlement mill. Remember I am talking about the National
> Federation of the Blind! The NFB News Line should never be used to promote
> NFB's advocacy positions and federation policies. Also, the Alabama 
> chapter
> of the National Federation of the Blind should not be permitted to use the
> NFB News Line Service to advance the reputation of Mister J. Michael 
> Jones,
> the Alabama affiliates state NFB president.  NFB President Doctor Marc
> Maurer has said that the NFB News Line Service has "A Special relationship
> with the news paper industry publishers participating on News Line." Let 
> me
> tell you something all you girls and guys, that frightens me!  I believe
> that the NFB News Line Service should be held above any and all politics 
> for
> the sake of the blind community and most of all to provide         blind
> news paper
> Readers an honest library experience!  note unless otherwise specified all
> of these remarks were written by
> Tom Mills.  Thank you for allowing me to express my opinions about the NFB
> News
> Line Service
>
>
>
>
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