Month: April 2013

ILF Special: For goodness sake, move on

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As some readers may know, there was a court case taken against the government by the disability elite, backed by the lies and socialist propaganda of the ‘Disabled People against Cuts’ terror group, to try to stop the closure of the Independent Living Fund by wasting public money whinging about the smallest details of his consultation in the foolish hope in delaying the decision until a Labour government would rescue the day and allow the disability elite to continue their luxury lifestyles as well as their corrupted user led charities which serve no purpose other than harming disabled people.

 

Their action was unsuccessful as the judge saw the nonsense for what it was. This has not stopped the disabilist middle class liberal media having a field day with their outcries of injustice saying it is a sad day for social equality, despite the fact the case demanded inequality, where the disability elite lived in luxury while everyone else could suffer. I am fed up of hearing how this is the end of the world and how I will end up in a care home where I will be abused and will be guaranteed to be better off dead, especially by journalists who in reality are enjoying watching people suffer with stress as they panic from the lies they tell. I am tired of the pity and loathing of the liberal middle class who know nothing about the fund but have been happy to jump on a bandwagon to portray me as a worthless unemployable object  of pity. Their aim is simply to push real disabled people over the edge into suicide from the stress of the lies the hate speech media offer on a daily basis so they can dance on our graves pointing fingers at the Government.

 

There is always change and it is time to move on and focus on the councils to ensure they are hold accountable for providing the support their need, rather than being portrayed inappropriately as penniless victims by the disability elite. The fears for the fund masks the great level of self-loathing the disability elite have for themselves as they refuse to see how society has changed and how ILF is a barrier for independent living for many people as the opportunities for disabled people are so much greater than when the fund began.

 

I refuse to allow the attitudes of others, especially their hated and pity for me, to define how I am. I refuse to let the benefits I have or the level of support I am provided, as well as who funds it, control my identity. I will not let the disability elite and the hate speech media using them to deny me by existence as I embrace change with a positive attitude unlike them.

 

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When did everyone become carers?

NewImageIt seems disabled people, and indeed anyone who is at all unwell, no longer have parents, spouses, children or even friends but just carers. If you watch programmes like Casualty they now ask every patient who they primary carer is. While family and friends can be wrong and have they own motives, carers are perceived to always be right because they are assumed to have your best interests at hearted. Carers are allowed to make decisions on behalf of their ‘loved ones’, a term I find so scary and offensive, without anyone battering an eyelid as the loved one is turned into their voiceless object of burden and pity.

 

The acceptance of dependency and carer culture must end since we must be families as units of interdependency that work together or should be enabled to work together, not divided by the middle class charities who force the notion of carers onto families for their own obsessive motives. We must all be valued what who are we, what we contributed and how we all support each other.

 

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The dangers of claiming "hate speech"

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It seems to have been fashionable for disability activists and charities to regard anything they do not agree with as hate speech, a term designed to provide unchallenged sympathy from the debate. They use a few isolated history articles to strifal free speech and debate on disability issues because of a free that if the public really understood the issues, they would see through the lies and propaganda being spouted. The activists claim the media regard de disabled people as benefit scroungers when in really them as objects of pity.

 

While disabled activists feel assuming disabled people can and should work is hate speech, I would argue assuming disabled people can not work and are vulnerable victims of society in the way they do is far more hateful and can be regarded as hate speech in the way they define it, and I tell them as such, to provoke some understanding of the offensive way they portray disabled people. I however do in reality strongly believe in free speech of any kind so long as its is not a personal attack based on lies, but all ideology must be debatable so the public can see the holes of those who are extremely. 

 

I believe no one can claim the moral high ground, certainly not by crying hate speech at anything they disagree with, and free speech is critical to the real liberation of all disabled people.

 

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Why does society accept what disabled people say?

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No one would regard the views of any old woman, gay person or black person as the views of everyone like one, nor take what they say at face value without thinking on what have said, contextualising it and coming up with a personal conclusion on their remarks. But when it cakes to disabled people, society does seem to take what disabled people say at face value without any desire to challenge or understand what they say as the term “I am disabled” leaves people to simply agree from some perverted notion of political correctness. 

 

It is clear to me that despite the environmental improvements within society, many of its citizens still fear disabled people including often disabled people themselves. Out of a mixture of fear and embarrassment, people along with the media simply go along with what disabled people say to avoid looking foolish. They will prepare and indeed celebrate those claiming to be disabled people who share their pity for us as unemployable objects of pity who should be compensated by government before swept under the carpet.

 

This politically correct nightmare must end and society went learn to have the confidence to challenge disabled people to explain themselves and the many lies and myths they peddle which society now just accepts as truthful.

 

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Cars, disability and income

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Whole the Motability scheme has supported a generation of disabled people, the big question for me is whether the scheme remains fit for purpose within the 21st century or indeed is still a fair deal or whether it has become a perk for some disabled people that is a great attractive for people to unnecessarily claim DLA/PIP?

 

Public transport has dramatically improved in recent years despite the attempts of activists to rubbish this fact, and the car is certainly not the same necessity it may have been on online shopping and so on. DLA and therefore Motability does not discriminate based on income but is this really fair? I would like to see the scheme develop into one that helps a wider range of people, not just disabled people, based on income and outcomes to provide people with a helping hand when they need to, not to remain an absolute right which can be taken for granted or abused. It must be noted ironically that the scheme does not provide disabled people with money to pay for any adaptations they need, additional costs, as a right but as an act of charity at their discretion.

 

Nothing should be untouchable or unthinkable and we need to be effective in how we support the mobility needs of all disabled people.

 

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The need for a harness

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A few weeks ago a fall of my wheelchair because I did not have any belt on and inertia caught me unawares as I let flying. It is one of those times I have reminded exactly what having cerebral palsy really means and that I do really need a seat belt and ideally a harness, as well as a helmet, for my own safety as well as my own comfort.

 

In the same way I have always needed a wheelchair throughout my life, to support my moving, I have also need some kind of harness for the wheelchair. For me, any harness is useless if not dangerous without the fifth strap, the crotch strap. The strap stops me submerging down the seat of my wheelchair and avoids any possibility of strangulation from the other straps. I also much prefer a full five point harness than the more fashionable butterfly style harnesses which I have never got on with.

 

Harnesses are just part of my everyday life, along with many other disabled people, which makes our life easier and safer.

 

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Adding unnecessary stress

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Having an impairment can indeed add stress onto any person which can often not be helped, society is the way it is but it is improving and becoming more inclusive day by day. The welfare reforms, like any change, will be worrying and cause stress, but what I can not stand if how the disability elite, sick activists and the disability charities are deliberately lying to the public and disabled people, with the absolute intention in causing unnecessary stress and panic simply to create hopefully hostility towards the government.

 

These cruel people are not only hoping this additional unnecessary stress will push people towards suicide, but they are celebrating suicides as a weapon they think they can use against the government. This for me demonstrates the real selfishness and cruelty of socialism based activisms, which can also be seen by the celebrations over the death of Margaret Thatcher, who are prepared to abuse the individual for the good of the elite that controls their collective.

 

Disabled people need facts not fiction as information as well as attitude has the power to overcome anything. 

 

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The outcomes of DLA?

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Despite how it may sometimes appear, I do totality believe that everyone with any kind of impairment should receive the support they need to fulfil their outcomes as contributing members of society although I fundamentally do not believe either DLA or PIP is the way forward in achieving this.

 

As you may understand from reading many of my blogs, I do not believe the same random amount of money given to a collection of disabled people with differing needs are going to deliver the inclusion people are claiming. I further believe often money is not the answer and it is often a change in attitude of the disabled person, their family and others which can make the biggest improvement in their quality of life. This is may I continued to push for long term reform of welfare towards individual plans and support based on the social model, assuming employability as opposed to writing people off.

 

PIP is not remain fit for purpose for long as I believe my ideas on outcomes will gain mainstream support in the near future.


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The darker side of the paralympics

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While last year’s paralympics games were hailed us a symbol of disability utopia by the disability elite, when they were not complaining about the smallest of problems, I believe they hijacked the publicity of the games for political gain when they had no interest in sport before the games and since them. The reality of the games is very different as there is a darker side to what could be argued as a celebration of the medical model.

 

The games were born out of the rehabilitation movement and they are very much controlled by medical professions as coaches and organisers. Every athletic is classified using an extremely medical model system which is far more barbaric than anything ATOS could ever. The games is also full of impairment elitism and politics. An example is people with cerebral palsy are pushed into boccia or swimming, and maybe football is they are able. I was a competitive swimming using a lifejacket, only competing with others using lifejackets, a technical aid like a wheelchair for wheelchair racing. But because of politics and what the non-disabled organisers deemed acceptable, I was unable to compete internationally.

 

So when thinking about the paralympics, it is worth understanding the full picture and not just the media hype.

 

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Let’s not cause panic

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It would be hoped that disabled people and others who front national campaigns for any reason, especially those campaigning about the welfare reforms, would be fully aware of the facts, even if the facts are not as they wish them to be. I feel campaigners would know more than the average people and would not suffer the fears of disabled people who do not know the full facts.
On the basis, I feel these campaigners, whatever their agenda, should support people to understand the facts to avoid unnecessary panic in order to remain truthful to their goals of bettering the good of all. Within the new sick and disability elite however this is sadly not happen as panic and despair creating by lies and misinformation are the only weapons these people have in their survival and their protection of fake disabled people as well as their profiteering from giving disabled people dependent as they refuse the conclusions of the social model, which is the reason why less people with impairments are disabled in 2013 Britian.
Causing panic for political and ideological reasons is immoral and unacceptable and those to do it will reap the toxic seeds their sow.
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