Joseph Kennedy and AB 2072

The story of Joseph Kennedy, JFK's father and Hollywood major actress Gloria Swanson back to the early Hollywood years (1900s-1920s) surely remind us much of such a similar parallel between Kennedy/Swanson and parents of deaf babies/youngsters with the AB 2072. How come??

Actress Gloria Swanson desperately asked Joseph Kennedy for his help with the financial troubles. Kennedy had a well-known reputation for being very successful businessman and financier for Hollywood. Kennedy agreed to re-organize Swanson's finances, then had endless sexual liaisons with the major Hollywood actress.

In the end, Joseph Kennedy made himself very R I C H and left Swanson extremely POOR at her own expense.

What is the point of story about Joseph Kennedy and Gloria Swanson with the AB 2072?

The California Coalition consisted of the cochlear implant makers and schools specialized in AVT are doing the same thing to parents of deaf babies and youngsters whose really desperately seek for the true miracles of turning their own kids into fully functional beings.

In the end, deaf kids get shortchanged from the deficiency of educational foundations if the kids are really deprived from using the natural language of the deaf to lead very productive life.

Although, Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnie) married to Joseph Kennedy's family. Arnie and the rest of California State Legislature ought to remind themselves about the shameful past of the Kennedys especially what Joseph Kennedy done to Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of the Kennedy Dynasty.

Joseph Kennedy was a well-educated person with a lot of money and power, but he ended screwing up his own eldest daughter with the option of lobotomy (the enclosed source below from the PBS website on the documentary of lobotomies in America) -

From the 1930s through the 1950s, lobotomies were all the rage. It took an American, Dr. Walter Freeman, to revolutionize the procedure by making it quick and easy.

You may have heard reference to someone performing a lobotomy with an ice pick and assumed it was a joke. Unfortunately, it was not. Freeman's technique was to stick an icepick into the brain through the eye socket, then hacking the frontal lobe free by swirling it around in there.

World War II caused a huge surge in psychiatric patients, and the easy fix had never looked better. Additionally, a growing body of psychiatrists believed lobotomy might be an effective way to treat such "psychiatric disorders" as Communism, homosexuality, nymphomania and general godlessness.

In 1949, about 5,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. Some estimates place the total number of lobotomies performed in the U.S. from the 1930s through the 1950s as high as 50,000.

Kennedy's sister Rosemary received one of Freeman's ice-pick lobotomies, resulting in a severe mental impairment that left her paralysed, incoherent, and incontinent. According to some accounts, Rosemary had suffered from a mild mental retardation, which the lobotomy was supposed to fix.

Another of Freeman's patients was up-and-coming young actress Frances Farmer, considered by many to be "the next Garbo". After being arrested for disorderly conduct and subsequently stigmatized as a Communist sympathizer, Farmer was involuntarily institutionalized and progressively treated with every failed snake-oil psychiatric technique known to science in the 1940s.

During a decade spent in and out of institutions, Farmer was subjected to barbarous treatment, some medical and some simply abusive. Finally, Freeman came calling with his ice pick in hand. (There is some controversy about whether or not Freeman actually used the ice pick on Farmer, but she was definitely one of his patients, and he was a bit of a one-trick pony.) Farmer fared better than Rosemary Kennedy... arguably. She didn't end up a vegetable.

Instead, she had the "good fortune" to remember her torturous asylum ordeals, even as she spent the rest of her short life battling psychiatric traumas far, far worse than the run-of-the-mill neuroses that landed her in the asylum to begin with.

Most U.S. states have today totally banned involuntary lobotomies, but there is no federal statute on the topic, so check your jurisdiction if you want to be certain there isn't an ice pick out there with your name on it.

So the California State Legislature and Arnie should be solidly reminded of what Joseph Kennedy done to actress Gloria Swanson and Rosemary Kennedy with the so-called miracle of human intervention and correction.

PLEASE DRAFT THE REVISED AB 2072 BILL TO MAKE REAL FAIR FOR PARENTS OF DEAF KID/INFANT AND DEAF CHILDREN THEMSELVES. NO TRICKS UP INTO SLEEVES. THANKS.

ASLize yours,

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

RLMDEAF blog

"Mother of Sociology" Discovered to Be Deaf Herself

The sociology field never acknowledged the true contribution of DEAF individual to the sociology field which many sociologists and well-known individuals like Karl Marx, Engles and other respectable sociologists used her methodology of sociological research.

No questions about how the audism and sexism played in suppressing many deaf individuals' true contributions to our own human existence.

Jason Tozier explained more in this enclosed video -

VP Users Will Pay Higher Monthly Internet Access

The S3304 federal legislative bill removed the provision on the lower broadband access fee for low-income/working class/elderly deaf people along with the recent FCC decision's abandonment on the Net Neutrality goals. Both government efforts for ensuring the equal accessibility via Internet access will result in the higher monthly Internet access due to the excessive bandwidth uses along with VP calls.

The Obama Administration's goals were the enactment of the Net Neutrality to make such an affordable monthly broadband access fee for the low-income/elderly and struggling "working class" deaf people SEEMS totally flattened for GOOD.

That will left to the mercy of very few monopolistic telecommunication industry to feel its own oats and whims to justify the excessive bandwidth feed charge for the deaf VP users.

The VRS industry would be greatly affected by the latest occurrences - the U.S. Senate removed the provision within affordable monthly Internet access fees and the recent FCC decision to abandon the effort for the Net Neutrality - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/fcc-net-neutrality-effort_n_672472.html So the VRS calls will be dramatically drop to its lowest call numbers ever they seen within the entire industry lifespan.

Deaf America and the VRS industry will face real uncertainty coming on the way!

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

"Signs of the Time" New Documentary

This newly-released documentary film left me moved with tears about the real time for the society at large to realize the true contributions of deaf baseball player with the creation of hand signals entirely changed the baseball games all over the world -

http://www.signsofthetimemovie.com/dvd/2/

Here is the past campaign to get the Baseball Hall of Fame to pay the formal honor to "Dummy" Hoys -
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65084

http://www.dummyhoy.com/introduction/

http://hubpages.com/hub/YOURE-OUT-The-orgin-of-Umpire-Signals

Here is an impressive biography of Dummy Hoys -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_Hoy which Hoys' children ended up became judge, the House of Representative, etc....

For many decades, deaf people knew about the origins of football huddle begun at the National Deaf-Mute College (Gallaudet University now), Washington, DC, but more and more historians finally discovered about deaf people created the "football huddle" -

http://fookembug.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/invented-the-american-football-huddle-by-deaf-football-player/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddle

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason

Harvey Goodstein Rose to the Vice Chair of Gally Board & Halliburton as New BOT Member

"Save Our Deaf Schools" e-contributor posted the latest news from Gallaudet University regarding the Gallaudet Board of Trustees (quoted with permission):

Quote:

Harvey Goodstein promoted to Vice Chair of Board of Trustees, Duane Halliburton to join BoT in October

Deaf President Now (DPN) protest hero Dr. Harvey Goodstein has been promoted to Vice Chair of the Gallaudet Board of Trustees, replacing Frank Wu. Additionally, Board Chair Ben Soukup has announced in a memo that a new member will join the Board of Trustees in October, Duane Halliburton.

(Unquote.)

CLICK HERE to read the Soukup memo titled: "Gallaudet names a new trustee," (July 2, 2010).

CLICK HERE to read Duane Halliburton's bio.

In Response to NTID President on the ICED Statement

"Save Our Deaf Schools" E-Contributor, Brian Riley, sent out his own reply to the current National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) president when Dr. DeCaro made the comment regarding the International Congress (Conference) of Educators of the Deaf known as the ICED's statement:


Commentary on the DeCaro memo:

A memo issued by James DeCaro of the National Technical Institute of the Deaf implies that the mission of a college or university should be: "expanding options" in order to "meet the needs of students." The full context of the quote is this sentence:

"In the educational enterprise, this translates into our need to conduct the business of expanding options: to meet the needs of students; not limit them; and support them in expanding/determining their own options."

This sentence, however, contains many problematic notions. First of all, it seems to presume a "consumer" model of education where the job of a university or college president is seen as being similar to grocery store manager. Under this type of model, the job of university or college president is simply to make sure that the metaphorical "shelves" in the "store" are stocked with enough items to satisfy any potential "shopper" (i.e., student).

This notion, however, represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the academic enterprise. The fundamental purpose of academia should be to pursue truth. This type of "consumer model," however, implies that there is no truth to be pursued.

There is nothing "open" about a dialogue in which the participants all agree from the beginning that no conclusions can be made at the end of the dialogue. Such type of dialogue is not an actual dialogue at all, but is a mere occasion for verbal jousting and bantering back and forth without there being any ultimate purpose to the dialogue. This is an untenable view.

Is the world flat or a sphere? It cannot be both. The purpose of academic freedom is to set the stage so that professors and students can make conclusions on the issue. There's no such thing as "expanding options" on the question of whether the earth is flat or spherical, and any philosophy of education that incorporates such a premise of "expanding options" is a pseudo-philosophy.

Let's hope that James DeCaro does not actually subscribe to the philosophy that seems to be indicated by the meaning of the words he used in his July 25 memo.

Perhaps he was writing too quickly and sent out a quick e-mail and wasn't expressing himself clearly. Let's hope that is the case.


[End commentary]



CLICK HERE to read the full DeCaro memo.


RLMDEAF's response to the Dr. DeCaro which he purposefully omitted the origin of creating the NTID was to embrace the concept of oralism under Dr. William Castle:

The United States Congress back in the mid-1960s, refused to allow the NTID to exclude the signing students in any way with the use of federal dollars. The concept of NTID's path to oralism turned real failure within the philsophy of the Alexander Graham Bell Association (AGBad).

HOW DARE OF ABGBad (AGBELL) USE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO IMPOSE THEIR UNWORKABLE AND UNAMERICAN WAY OF SEGRETATING THE DEAF POPULATION INTO TWO CAMPS, INSTEAD OF REALLY UNIFYING "DEAF AMERICA" AS THE INDEFENSIBLE ONE!

How typical of the AGBad's mindless schemes of oralizing the deaf students to be the human parrot or unintellectual zombie! GET OUT OF OUR DEAF COMMUNITY FOR ALL OUR GOOD! You, AGBad are a piece of s*%#!

WE NEVER FORGET WHAT AGBad DONE TO US, DEAF AMERICA and OTHER DEAF INDIVIDUALS AROUND THE ENTIRE GLOBE! LET US GO BACK TO THE ROOT OF REAL INTELLECTUALISM AND EQUALITY AMONG US, DEAF PEOPLE TO REBUILD OUR DEAF COMMUNITY INTO HEALTHY ONE.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog

No More Apologies -- It's Time to Stand Up for Our Convictions

Howard Dean's thunderous quote - No More Apologies -- It's Time to Stand Up for Our Convictions means for more and more deaf activists and community leaders with progressive agenda ought to DO IT and return the Deaf America to its mighty golden day.

It's TIME for us to drive the steam rollers all over the deaf naysayers and illusionists and get over with it!

How come didn't Mike McConnell, Candy, Russell the Deaf Bunny and Barry Sewell blast the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf (AGBad)'s press release statement from last Friday??????????????? Nope! Why?????????????? The AGBad surely twisted the ICED 2010 statement on the Milan Conference.

The AGBad managed to whitewash its own role in the infamous Milan 1880 conference to spearhead the oralism all over the world. This very same organization was directly responsible for the firing and demoting of the deaf signing teachers and administrators across the United States on ideological grounds.

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog