Handwaving....Governor Arnold (sorry, I am not in the mood to try to spell his last name) vetoed on AB2072 - not necessarily in our favor nonetheless - for financial reasons.
Candy (Gina Sutton) and Mike McConnell verbally supported this bill saying parents should have full access to information but yet were perfectly okay with the original bill minimizing the information on ASL which was expected of them as they are supporters of oralism . When AB2072 was amended during the voting stage, both Candy and Mike backpedaled and said it was expected when the amended included ASL and made changes to the audiologist's role as "the gatekeeper." Candy claimed we should trust the system - that they would make those changes. Mike said the audiologist still had a role and chose not to comment on the role of ASL as a language.
Well, they are doing it again. They are claiming that Governor Arnold did the right thing, and that ASL STILL isn't recognized as a language in state of California without AB2072.
Governor Arnold did not veto the bill for the reason Candy and Mike were hoping for - to declare that ASL is not a language therefore the bill is not necessary. He vetoed it because there is already an existing agency that provides information for Deaf/HH programs provided by CDNIAS. He did not see the need to make changes because AB2072 means changes in the system and additional financial burden in which state of California is not the position in this recession.
What is good about vetoing this bill is the cochlear industry has no monetary control or interest in the current system without AB2072. AB2072 was financed by the cochlear industry including organizations of speech and audiology. Lobbyists from those organizations sponsored several senators, in particular, Senator Mendoza, for AB2072's passage into law for anticipated financial gain and control.
It was too bad Governor Arnold did not recognize the hidden motive for drafting this bill in the first place. He vetoed it solely to protect his state from unnecessary expenditure.
The anti-AB2072 taskforce would like to see the Deaf/HH information dissemination moved from CDNIAS to CDE which I feel would have been proper as the biggest concern in the deaf children is their LANGUAGE development, not health. THAT is where Candy and Mike dissented. They continue to support that deafness is a health concern therefore it is in the right branch of the state's government cabinet. The reason why the state put the Deaf/HH information dissemination under CDNIAS is because the initial diagnosis of deafness usually occur in hospitals, audiologist offices, and doctor offices and these are health arenas. While that is true, indeed, however deafness is not really a health concern, isn't it? Deafness is truly a LANGUAGE concern. Speech is about learning SPOKEN ENGLISH. Aural therapy is about HEARING SPOKEN ENGLISH. ASL is about learning VISUAL LANGUAGE. See the pattern? Nothing about health but language development. Thus anti-AB2072's wanting to move to CDE which was reasonable and proper. Now, does that cost money? I wonder about that...hmmmm.
Additionally, Governor Arnold did another surprising thing...recognizing that the information dissemination under AB2072 was NOT unbiased. Again, Candy and Mike dissented on that, too. Apparently, Governor Arnold, a foreigner, is smarter than them. He could see the blatant biases on that panel. Score one for him!
For the time being, however, it is best that it stays in CDNIAS and that AB2072 is DEAD. No financial flow to the cochlear, audiology, and speech industries.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Growth from Karma?
Several v/bloggers gleefully posted about the most hated vlogger's misfortune of getting arrested recently. I checked and found him in the Lundbergh Correctional Facility in Virginia. They do not reveal information on what charge he was arrested for - only where he is in their facility. His release date is May 2011. The time frame does appear to be a probation violation as some suggested. It does appear that he was arrested previously on an actual charge and violated his probation on that charge which put him back in jail.
Now, most of us know about his irrational fear of the cops. He has vlogged frequently about how we should never, ever, trust cops. He even told us if you have a serious emergency, we still are never to call the cops or 911. He was always telling us that cops are out there to "screw us over."
Interpreting from his messages, I had suspected he had a really bad experience with the cops that scarred or traumatized him, leading to his intense mistrust of cops. Now that I know he was arrested before - who knows how many times? I know of just this one, but recalling from previous blog posts, I believe he was arrested before this one, several years ago - which explains his irrational fear of the cops.
Alejandro Rea, the LA shoplifter who almost lost his life being choked by a security guard; the black deaf man in midwest who was shot to death by the cops when he did not put down his lawn rake in which the cops took as a "weapon"; Carl Dupree, Gallaudet student who was choked to death by Gallaudet's own security guard. The ASL teacher, Doug Bahl, of Minnesota who was pulled over by a cop and sequentially beaten up and jailed without due process. Those are just a few that came to my mind. A deaf person can't help to read all this and start fearing the cops.
He vlogged about each of these bad arrests/interactions with the cops. These case are enough to scare us into mistrusting the cops. For most of us, I think we know to be cautious with cops when we get ourselves in a situation where we have to deal with them. For him, it is an irrational fear.
Now some of the v/bloggers and their commenters stated that they hoped he will come out humbled and changed. That he would learn from the experience.
Sorry, folks. I think not. He will come out and blame the whole thing on the cops and the whole system. That is his way. He won't accept any responsibility or be accountable for his actions. He even might go as far to say he was framed. But will he sue? No. Because deep inside, he knows the truth.
He is the Howard Stern of the deaf blogsphere. He says inflammatory things to get attention including topics about cops. But he knows that half of things he says is not true or at most embellishments.
He will come out with a stubborn upturn of his chin and say, "I am innocent" and then vlog on how the whole thing was the cops' fault. Never mind why he was arrested in the first place or what circumstances led to his arrest. These are not important. It is always the cops' fault.
Now, most of us know about his irrational fear of the cops. He has vlogged frequently about how we should never, ever, trust cops. He even told us if you have a serious emergency, we still are never to call the cops or 911. He was always telling us that cops are out there to "screw us over."
Interpreting from his messages, I had suspected he had a really bad experience with the cops that scarred or traumatized him, leading to his intense mistrust of cops. Now that I know he was arrested before - who knows how many times? I know of just this one, but recalling from previous blog posts, I believe he was arrested before this one, several years ago - which explains his irrational fear of the cops.
Alejandro Rea, the LA shoplifter who almost lost his life being choked by a security guard; the black deaf man in midwest who was shot to death by the cops when he did not put down his lawn rake in which the cops took as a "weapon"; Carl Dupree, Gallaudet student who was choked to death by Gallaudet's own security guard. The ASL teacher, Doug Bahl, of Minnesota who was pulled over by a cop and sequentially beaten up and jailed without due process. Those are just a few that came to my mind. A deaf person can't help to read all this and start fearing the cops.
He vlogged about each of these bad arrests/interactions with the cops. These case are enough to scare us into mistrusting the cops. For most of us, I think we know to be cautious with cops when we get ourselves in a situation where we have to deal with them. For him, it is an irrational fear.
Now some of the v/bloggers and their commenters stated that they hoped he will come out humbled and changed. That he would learn from the experience.
Sorry, folks. I think not. He will come out and blame the whole thing on the cops and the whole system. That is his way. He won't accept any responsibility or be accountable for his actions. He even might go as far to say he was framed. But will he sue? No. Because deep inside, he knows the truth.
He is the Howard Stern of the deaf blogsphere. He says inflammatory things to get attention including topics about cops. But he knows that half of things he says is not true or at most embellishments.
He will come out with a stubborn upturn of his chin and say, "I am innocent" and then vlog on how the whole thing was the cops' fault. Never mind why he was arrested in the first place or what circumstances led to his arrest. These are not important. It is always the cops' fault.
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