Injustice Department Cracks Down on Library Because Blind People Can’t Read eBooks
The Obama Regime represents coercive liberalism taken to the last extreme of absurdity:
The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with the Sacramento (California) Public Library over a trial program the library was conducting that let patrons borrow Barnes and Noble NOOK e-book readers.
DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons.
Once again the insane and tyrannical Americans With Disabilities Act comes into play.
The library describes the program as a “pilot project,” and it requires patrons to fill out a feedback survey as the program works through its initial stages.
But the Justice Department says a state or local government program that excludes people with disabilities violates the ADA, regardless of whether it is a “pilot” program.
As part of the settlement agreement, the Justice Department directed the library system to purchase at least 18 [outrageously expensive] e-readers that are accessible to the blind, something that comes in the midst of budget cuts that have forced Sacramento libraries to implement one employee furlough day each month for two years. …
The settlement agreement also directs the library not to buy any additional e-readers that exclude blind or disabled people; and it requires the library system to train its staff on the requirements of the ADA, the DOJ said.
Coming soon: a ban on music because deaf people can’t hear it.
On tips from Bob Roberts and Dave H.
And like they do in the Kingdom Moonbattery of the Netherlands, soon disabled people will also receive free prostitutes because they can’t have sex.
They’ve had e-readers for the blind for decades. They’re called books-on-tape. WTH?!
There’s noting new here. It’s simply part of the Left’s ongoing policy of creating an entire nation of “victims”. Why would they do that?
Q: Who do “victims” attach (as in political support) themselves to?
A: To those who see them as victims and therefor protect them.
I am so tired of tiny minorities imposing themselves on the great majority. As well as this type of insanity there are so many ripoffs going on related to “infirmity” and “disability”.
Around here you see all these very fat black women riding around in these $3,000 electric scooters/wheelchairs that you know have been paid for by SS disablity. The only thing ‘disabled’ about these people is their sense of ethics and morals, and their ability to push their fat asses away from the table.
I thought that maybe this story was a joke and people were getting sucked in. I was wrong.
Confirmation from the DoJ site:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/August/12-crt-1059.html
Just simply unbelievable. The stupidity of it all!
Was the Injustice Departments rulings written in braille and made available in an accessible area for the blind? If not then they should be sued as well.
What about regular old books. The blind have no use for them, so are the libs going to sue over that too. F*ck them. Time for odumbo and the whole federal gubmint to go.
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If the current Justice department had been around at the turn of the last century, they would have gone after Thomas Edison both for inventing motion pictures which cannot be seen by the blind, and the phonograph, which discriminates against those who cannot hear.
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