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Following
my request for articles etc on capitalism and disability (many thanks to
everyone who responded) I came across an excellent book by Marta Russell called
‘Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract’. I’m
sure some of you are familiar with it. If you’re not, I highly recommend
it, although you’ll need to tolerate the American terminology.
I’m
only a couple of chapters in, but I’ve already had my mind changed on the
issue of assisted suicide. Bendygirl’s article is a pointer to why. And
some of the statistics provided in Russell’s book are horrifying.
Paraphrasing.
“In an entrepreneurial society, unscrupulous people will see a business
opportunity in assisted suicide”.
My
revised view is that until disabled people are fully valued and included, and
until Independent Living has been fully implemented in practice, no society is
qualified to decide on the issue of legalising assisted suicide.
Even
when we do have IL and social inclusion, no non-disabled person should have any
involvement in assisting disabled people to die.
In
the current socio-economic-political climate we need to keep a close eye on
extreme right wing groups finding justification from the past for disability
hate crime.
Paul
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HI Colin – this is some Green Party stuff…
Thanks, Shan
Bendygirl points out that long
before the Nazis went for the Jews, they went for the most vulnerable members of society:, the sick
and disabled. She should know. Those of her mother's Jewish relatives who
remained in Nazi Germany were wiped out.
She also points out that David
Cameron knows better, and before Danny Alexander got into coalition government,
he presented himself as championing the cause of disabled people in the
face of what are now coalition policies. She also cites the example of Rosa
Parks.
Your colleague
Alan
From: Shan
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today
Thanks Alan. Yes –
I’ve just finished a very long phone call with a local guy with aspergers
who has been harrassed by the local authority and police for
years….and is now housebound, isolated and powerless. He feels they
have made him like this and they want him like this.
Our big challenge is how we get
the general public to understand these issues if its not directly
affecting them. I always think of Martin Niemoller’s
famous statement about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the
Nazi rise to power :
‘ First they came for the
communists and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist
…etc….until
‘then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me’.
Best
Shan
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