Posted by Six String Stu on 10/03/07 17:32

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> DrFeelgoodWA wrote:
>> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:5mhoamFdjesuU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>>>> Their Web site for applying for employment is inaccessible to
>>>> low-income disabled people who are most in need of jobs.
>>>> Is there any lawyer in the audience who will help me sue them?
>>> Re the Target lawsuit on this subject:
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/ts_nm/target_blind_dc_3
>>
>>
>> Target wins. The Lawsuit happy ACLU lawyers don't stand a chance. Your
>> lawsuit is about a retail chain making their shopping website accessible
>> for blind potential customers. Seeing as no law requires them to even run
>> a website they can not be required to make their website available to
>> everyone.
>
> You evidently know little about the law in general and disability law in
> particular. It doesn't work this way.
>
>> If they cave in to the blind lobby they lose to the low income. Next
>> lawsuit would be to make Target hand out internet ready computers with
>> paid internet service to any disabled person that says they can't afford
>> a computer.
>
> Poverty isn't covered by disability law, so this is a non sequitur. Are
> you actually thinking these things out, or do you just like to rant?

Mike Gibson just likes to rant. KF him and stop arguing with the ignorant.

>
>> In the meantime prices rise at all target stores to cover stupid nuisance
>> lawsuit cost.
>
> Does it occur to you that it's a company's own fault if they lose
> expensive lawsuits because they balk at spending a *little* bit of money
> to achieve compliance in the first place? This outcome is completely
> avoidable.
>
>> Do you realize how much higher inflation is because of the ACLU and their
>> lawsuit happy ways?
>
> I think you have a distorted sense of the numbers involved.
>
>> I do every time I need to buy something retail or wholesale. Do you know
>> who gets the lions share of the money paid out in these ACLU lawsuits?
>> It's the damn ACLU lawyers driving around in their BMW's paid for by
>> everyone that buys anything anywhere anytime in this country.
>
> So all of this is really about your bitterness about the ACLU, is it?
It's not just the ACLU, it's everything about life that he is pissed with.
It shows in his interactions within this NG. Simple first year Psych stuff.
:)

>
>>
>> Does anyone in here personally know anyone who actually benefited from an
>> ACLU lawsuit besides ACLU lawyers?

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