Hi Keith:
For starters, please visit:
<http://www.mobilitycup.org/>
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 17:43:26 +0100 keith armstrong wrote:
>
> So Han, you could have been press-ganged! The food was
> not so good, nor were the working conditions.
OK, so we did have some problems with the food :-),
I wasn't press-ganged -- I didn't win the regatta :-(
As far as working conditions, the volunteers never
complained, ...in fact had a wonderful experience -- my
wife included!
> I was referring to the origin of the term 'able-bodied',
> I accept that as time has progressed, the meaning of
> terms can change.
I suffer with this term everyday. I have a friend that has
MS, and because I'm "just" a paraplegic, I have "able-bodied"
options to fix bowel problems -- although it takes 3 hours -- that
she doesn't have. She has to stay in her sh*t until the attendants
come the next morning. Because I'm a para I don't get attendants.
> However, the opposite meaning of 'able-bodied' was not and is not 'disabled'.
> Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela stated when he was on trial for treason, in South
> Africa in 1961, that he was disabled by apartheid.
He did, however, become one of the patrons of The Round Square:
<http://www.roundsquare.org/aboutus/patrons_director.htm>
much later on, I have to admit -- so it's a matter of time?
Maybe if we can solve many scientific problems -- and you
guys in the UK have the upper hand -- such as the stem cell
research, I'll be able to walk some day.
> Someone who is made bankrupt is legally considered 'disabled'and cannot become a
> company director,stand for election, etc., until the bankruptcy has been discharged.
Again you are right, it took me 7 years to get rid of the "label".
Although I was not considered "disabled", theirs was the "unfit" for
duties -- by law -- established. Now I am a director of a non-profit
corporation.
> People who had leprosy were consider 'disabled' because they had no legal
> rights (they could not own property, nor could they take any legal action)
> in the UK in the middle ages.
...and there were the Hawaiian colonies with the same problems. I think
now it's just history?
Cheers!
--
Han Tacoma
~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~
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