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Paralympic Games

well apprently there are demonstrations planned outside the London Hq of Atos the IT company thats partnered to run the Paralympics IT and involved with the cutting of benefits to disability claiments.

I kind raised an eye brow cos it made me laugh, surely the whole point of the Parlympics is to show how good the athletes are despite any disability and frankly all of them are better than 99% of the public in their acheivements.

So i'm not really sure how these protestors quite comes across, surely demonstarting during the paralympics about disability benefits is the wrong time?

saw a great tweet from Simon Pegg this morning along the lines of "watching the paralympics, you realise what an utterly stupid term 'disabled' is"

 

[NotDeadYet]

It's a bit like the old good AIDS/bad AIDs sketch.

Look at Sarah Storey, one hand and can manage to break a cycling record when all these lazy workshy cripples are cluttering up the benefit system. That they are better than 99% of the public means they are also better than 99% of the disabled public.

On the other hand, someone in a permanently vegetative state could perform better than Atos.

 

[gobfish1]

It's a bit like the old good AIDS/bad AIDs sketch.

Look at Sarah Storey, one hand and can manage to break a cycling record when all these lazy workshy cripples are cluttering up the benefit system. That they are better than 99% of the public means they are also better than 99% of the disabled public.

On the other hand, someone in a permanently vegetative state could perform better than Atos.

On the other hand lol
what fookin hand you said she only has one ,,

 

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On the other hand, someone in a permanently vegetative state could perform better than Atos.

and most of this and the last government.

I guess what got me about the protesting about disability benfit cuts at the same time as celebrating everything thats possible while disabled. I think it was the guy off C4 news asking for anyone from the paralympics team who had their benefits cut to get in touch. I dunno i just found it odd that someone who could be competing at the top of their chosen sport would be claiming disability benefits.

I take my hat off to cycling with one hand, i 'kin hate it with both hands in a death grip on the handle bars.

 

[gobfish1]

and most of this and the last government.

I guess what got me about the protesting about disability benfit cuts at the same time as celebrating everything thats possible while disabled. I think it was the guy off C4 news asking for anyone from the paralympics team who had their benefits cut to get in touch. I dunno i just found it odd that someone who could be competing at the top of their chosen sport would be claiming disability benefits.

I take my hat off to cycling with one hand, i 'kin hate it with both hands in a death grip on the handle bars.

so you think the guys and girls that are Horse riding, climb up on tham said horses all by them self,s

 

[braun]

Just seen this thread which may show what a disabled person can do!

http://www.yorkshire-divers.com/forums/non-diving-posts/210044-wow-just-gobsmacked.html

 

[gobfish1]

yes good post ,,

but can a guy with no legs jump off his tv chair and run up stairs for a piss ,,

nip down the shops on the bus

 

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so you think the guys and girls that are Horse riding, climb up on tham said horses all by them self,s

probably not but then neither could i.

 

[IanB]

The MET on form at the protest - Wheelchair user's shoulder broken

So what happened to a legitimate right to protest, the MET have always had a deserved reputation for being heavy handed but this is wrong.

Police break wheelchair user?s shoulder in peaceful protest | Atos Victims Group News

 

[Digger]

So what happened to a legitimate right to protest, the MET have always had a deserved reputation for being heavy handed but this is wrong.

Police break wheelchair user?s shoulder in peaceful protest | Atos Victims Group News

In fairness the source is the protesters, whose interest is in making news out of this. A peaceful protest with the police standing by and watching isn't news.

Digs.

 

[IanB]

They're not the only ones carrying the story, many hits just in google Disabled protesters injured by police at DWP protest | Demotix.com
with pictures even. Given the back story of Atos which any eye reader will be overly familiar with and the Met's (justified) reputation for violence against the public, looks heavy handed to me but we well know the chance of a Met officer ever being convicted is so slim they act with virtual impunity.

 

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or perchance finding out the disabled gentlemen has brittle bone or some such disability.

I thought the protest proper was at Atos on Marylebone Road and this was a break away demonstration at DWP. Was this demo discussed with the police or where they reacting to a group of people entering a government building.

 

[Paul_c]

Qhy should a protest be discussed with the police? Have we not got a right to peaceful assembly and the right to protest at the actions of the government any more? That is across the board, not just on this issue.

I ask this because frankly i havnt seen a single protest which the government has actually not hampered or smashed.



As to the ATOS protests, do you see the way that people who have been found fit for work under the most spurious reasons have subsequently died from the illnesses they were told went an issue as part of the tories systematic attack on the sick, the disabled and the poor. and then ATOS sponsor the para Olympics which is (rightly) showing what some disabled people can do with support. these 2 things just don't tie together neatly.

are ATOS sat there with the files open for the British team going well done for gold but we have to find you fit for work and strip the DLA from you because you can mobilise in a wheelchair more than 200 meters?

 

[sheesh]

Qhy should a protest be discussed with the police? Have we not got a right to peaceful assembly and the right to protest at the actions of the government any more?

No - and not for some time.

repeal SOCPA - repeal laws that restrict protest and free assembly

 

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Qhy should a protest be discussed with the police? Have we not got a right to peaceful assembly and the right to protest at the actions of the government any more? That is across the board, not just on this issue.

as i said in my post they entered a government building. slightly different from a quiet protest, don't you think?

are ATOS sat there with the files open for the British team going well done for gold but we have to find you fit for work and strip the DLA from you because you can mobilise in a wheelchair more than 200 meters?

well i would wonder why they couldn't work.

 

[taz]

So what happened to a legitimate right to protest, the MET have always had a deserved reputation for being heavy handed but this is wrong.

Police break wheelchair user?s shoulder in peaceful protest | Atos Victims Group News

They want equal rights, they get equal rights.

They too get beat up by the Police, why should only able
bodied people get beaten up?

They wanted equal rights.............

Regards taz...............