2002-03-11 This guy wants to sue the treasury because he wants them to make US money look like other nations, but wants the US to maintain the use of customary measurements, because our way is right and everyone else is wrong.
Sounds like a big hypocrite.to me. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian J White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-03-11 17:04 Subject: [USMA:18679] RE: Yardstick March 2002 > I was trying to find out more about Mr Seymour. That article was > completely lame-brained. > > Peter Seymour > Hoboken, 07030-2743 > > There is part of his address. > He seems to be a big government needs to stay out of people's lives. He's > part of an organization called "Separation of State and Schools" or > something to that effect. > > I also found this message post from 1995. > Being a blind "reader" of REASON, I feel especially qualified to respond to > "Unreasonable Accommodations." > > A Buddhist parable tells of an emperor whose servants had been complaining > about how walking on the stones of the street hurt their feet. The emperor was > about to order all of his cattle slaughtered and their hides used to carpet > the roads when a wise man suggested slaughtering only a few cattle and > making shoes > for the servants instead. The emperor took the advice. If our government > were as wise, it would not try to carpet the ground by, for instance, > harassing store > and restaurant proprietors to build ramps, nor by forcing publishers to > produce their print materi als in alternative formats. > > Where adaptive technology is the solution, it will ultimately be far > easier, cheaper, and more satisfactory to supply shoes for the disabled, > such as wheelchairs > that can climb stairs and electronic reading machines for the blind (both > of which exist). > > Ironically, despite repeated attempts for the last few decades, the federal > government itself has been completely unwilling to budge and make a "reasonable > accommodation" for the one item that it has exclusive power to produce: the > legal tender of this nation. An essential character istic of money is that one > denomination can be distinguished from another. The U.S. Treasury insists > that such a distinction can only be based on a rather subtle visual > difference in the > bills, which are all the same size, color, and basic design. Almost every > other country has provided their paper currency with tactile indicators of the > denomination for those who can't see. For our government to make similar > alterations to its bills would be a small expense, yet the benefits for the > employability > and general convenience for the blind and visually impaired would be enor > mous. > > Any lawyer who would be interested in representing me in suing the U.S. > Treasury Depart ment for violating the "reasonable accommodations" > provision of the > ADA should contact me about this matter. > Peter Seymour > Hoboken, NJ > > At 13:41 2002-03-11 -0800, Bill Potts wrote: > >Peter Seymour >
