Following on from my blog yestersday, I want to challenge an assumption the ATOC protestors make about people’s reasons for wanting to committ suicide. When people are deemed fit for work, they do not lose all their benefits but they are taken ESA and returned to Jobseekers Allowance, where I believe the different is £45.

Now we are asked to believe people who have no other mental distress are decided to end their lives because of £45 a week. While I can totally understand the additional stress this can bring until someone is able to find work, are we really saying people lives can be boiled down to this small amount? If this really the difference between happiness and despair?

Rather than supporting people to come to terms with the change in their lives, I believe the ATOS protests are encouraging and celebrating suicide to score points against the government in a way I find sickening. How can these ‘disabled people’ claim an united front when they are prepared to use the suffering of others for their political and financial gain?

I would like to argue that there is a war against real disabled people, not by ATOS or the government but by the the middle class liberal press and the not so real disabled people. I know this is not the right language because they is not a language for what I am saying but those you know what I mean know what I mean.

The war centres about who has the right to be labelled unfit and so enjoy the benefits of being disabled without much of the disadvantaged. When people say the Work Capability Assessment is flawed, they mean the line between the fit and the unfit is in the wrong place and more people should be deemed unfit. I however believe everyone should be deemed fit for work and the question should be what support do people require to make a meaningful contribution to society.

For me unfit means unworthy incapable burden of society and if people with minor impairments are considered unworthy of the responsibility of citizenship, the real question is what do people think of those with significant and  severe impairments? Well deep down, they probably think we are better off dead. If more money is needed to tickle the fancies of the not-so-real disabled people, someone has to suffer and if real disabled people are considered unworthy of life then clearly they will be targeted to pay for other people’s right not to work.

Those who pity ‘the disabled’ because they were asked a few questions by ATOS are the people who are protecting those who legally scam the benefits system and in the end, it will be people like me who will have to pay in our quality of lives.

One thing which frustrates me is when people, especially disabled people, moan about inaccessible but do nothing about it. Often people find the smallest thing they can find and turn it into the biggest thing because they enjoy the drama on being negative as they enjoy spending their unhappiness to others.

I believe it is firstly important to celebrate the successes and achievements in how much accessibility has improved in the next 20 years before looking to how things can be improved. We must first accept life is not perfect and if things are not fully accessible it is not a part of some conspiracy against disabled people but simply life.

Rather than go to the newspapers with every little rant, the best solution is to approach the people behind the issue and work with them to make things better in the realisms of the world. Most people share the desire to improve things if you give them a chance rather than portraying them as criminals in this new and sad victim culture that exists.

The world will always need improving but it can only be done by being possible, not negative.

In looking at the new dubbed ‘ATOS Protests’, we have seen how a minority of people claiming to be disabled have destroyed the pathway of inclusion for real disabled people by destroying a social model understand in preference for medical model pity simply for a bit of cold hard cash and the right to be economic burdens of society, refusing to make any meaningful contribution to society.

While they talk about peaceful protest, they have made a public commitment to “hound and harass” ATOS. They continue to make incredible claims based of ignorant and act in ways with I feel borders on terrorism. If an asian group had declared war on a government function, the government, the police and liberal middle class media would be outraged and mass arrests would be demanded and made under the terrorism act.

But because society pities ‘the disabled’ as worthless second class unemployable objects of pity, their immoral and illegal actions are tolerated and even celebrated by the liberal media. The charities sit back and watch with glee because it promotes their exclusion agenda as they profit from the dependency demanded and creates by these protesters. It is also interesting how the leaders of the protest groups act like mini-gods, enjoying the emotional dependency their followers have for them who worship them just like any religious cult.

The real victims are real disabled people who have lost their voice to ‘disabled people’ who are often freshly impaired and full of the non-disabled prejudice for disabled people they had as they seek pity, not inclusion. 

I hope this government gets a backbone and treat these protestors and their scandalous lies in the way all criminals should be treated and made them accountable for the harassment they spread as they accuse the government of murder.