Handicapped Greenwich Residents Are Invited To YMCA As They Host Tree Lighting. Later Wheelchair Bound Greenwich Residents Will Be Left Out In The Cold As Everyone Else Is Able To Go Inside
The Discriminatory Greenwich Family Your 40 Million Can't provide Access will host its first annual "What Would Jesus Do" tree lighting ceremony on its front lawn, beginning at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
Children from the Non- ADA Compliant YMCA Childcare Center and The Chinese Language School of Connecticut will sing holiday songs.
Officiants from Temple Sholom in Greenwich will also offer a symbolic Menorah lighting and prayer at the building that excludes some the crippled members of Greenwich society.
Maybe the Rabbi from Temple Shalom can mention The Holocaust is normally associated with the slaughter of six million Jews, but several other sections of society were also victims of Nazi persecution including gays, Gypsies black people and the handicapped.
Rebecca "Forget About A Temporary Ramp" Fretty, YMCA president and chief executive officer, will give a welcome speech at 5:35 p.m., followed by the tree lighting at 5:40 p.m. Refreshments will be served on the YMCA terrace following the ceremony.
$40,000,000
And They Can't Spend
$18,000
On A Ramp
Shame, Shame, Shame On
Rebecca "Forget About A Temporary Ramp" Fretty
Before The Good Rabbi Of Temple Shalom Lets The Menorah Be Symbolically Lit At The Greenwich YMCA, Maybe He Can Can Pay Tribute To The The 200,000 Disabled Slaughtered By The Nazis
As we approach Holocaust memorial day on January 27th, Let us pay tribute to the estimated 200,000 disabled people who were killed by the Nazis.
Nazi ideology towards disability can be traced back to a distorted understanding of Darwin’s ground-breaking scientific work Origin of Species, published in 1859. The Nazis seized on Darwin’s theory of natural selection and misinterpreted it by applying it to human society.
They wanted to create a “master race” and saw disabled people as “unfit” to reproduce. Hitler was obsessed with the concept of racial purity and anyone deemed “inferior” or “weak” was believed to contaminate the “purity” of the gene pool.
The Nazis claimed that the existence of disabled people weakened society’s ability to operate efficiently and that the social and economic problems Germany suffered in the 1920s and 30s were partly caused by the burden of supporting disabled people.
The Nazi belived that doing things like requiring youth and family organizations to erect a temporary ramp for the crippled would weaken a non-profit organization's ability to operate efficently and that it was a burden for these groups to have to support the disabled.
Soon after coming to power the Nazis began issuing anti-disability propaganda. One poster shows images of disabled people with the caption “deformed”. Another has the words: “God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce”. Disabled people were often referred to as “useless eaters” and “lives unworthy of life”.
In July 1933, the Nazis passed “The law for the prevention of progeny with hereditary disease” which ordered the sterilisation of all people with conditions that the Nazis regarded as hereditary including visual and hearing impairments, physical and learning disabilities, mental illness and epilepsy. More than 17,000 deaf people alone are believed to have been sterilised during the Nazi regime. Often disabled children were handed over to the authorities by their teachers. Two years later, doctors were given the legal right to carry out forced abortions if they suspected that a foetus was disabled.
However, the compulsory sterilisation of disabled people and forced abortions were just the start. In 1939, the Nazis went one step further and set out to eradicate disabled people altogether. Newborn babies with physical or mental disabilities were removed from their parents, taken to special wards and killed by lethal injection or starvation. In most cases, the parents were told that their children had died of natural causes.
Under a policy known as the T4 Program, disabled people living in care homes were transported to six killing centres, the most notorious of which were Hartheim Castle in Austria and Hadamar near Wiesbaden in Germany. The victims were undressed, given a superficial medical examination and taken to a “shower” room, 60 at a time. Poison gas was then pumped into the room. Once the bodies had been collected, they were dissected and organs removed for medical research. The discarded corpses were incinerated.
From the outside Hadamar looked like a factory and at its height it employed more than 100 staff. It is estimated that 70,000 disabled people had been killed under the T4 Program by the end of 1941. Many ordinary doctors, administrators, lawyers, carers, teachers, religious organisations and relatives were either directly involved or complicit in the removal of disabled people.
A Nazi propaganda film from this time depicts a husband carrying out a “mercy killing” of his disabled wife and using Nazi arguments to justify his action.
In many ways, the T4 Program was a precursor and rehearsal for the even more widespread killing of Jewish people in the second half of World War Two. The poison gas installations resembling shower stalls used at Hadamar and the other killing centres were early versions of the technology later found in the major concentration camps. Evidence also suggests that staff from the T4 Program were transferred to the murder of Jews following the 1942 Wansee Conference which gave the go ahead to the “Final Solution”.
Not all Germans supported the Nazis’ views of disability. One man who opposed the extermination of disabled people was businessman Otto Weidt. He decided to protect as many disabled people as he could by employing them in his small factory in Berlin. His company manufactured brushes and brooms and his employees avoided the T4 Program because these products were declared “vital for military purposes”.
A leading member of the Catholic Church in Germany, Cardinal Clemens von Galen, was the most prominent person to speak out against the killings. He publicly denounced the persecution of disabled people in a sermon in Munster in 1941 – “Woe unto the German people when not only can innocents be killed but their killers remain unpunished”. As pressure from the church, the public and the judiciary increased, Hitler suspended the T4 Program and the poison gas installations were dismantled. However, the killings resumed a year later.
From 1942 onwards, the T4 Program was conducted in a more secretive fashion, with disabled people dying from lethal injections or starvation rather than by poison gas. These killings continued up until the end of the war. Hadamar only stopped operating shortly before American troops reached it in March 1945.
More than 60 years after VE Day, it is vital that we continue to remember and mourn the hundreds of thousands of disabled people who were killed by the Nazis.
It Is Evil To Discriminate Against The Crippled
But The Greenwich YMCA Wants Us All To Sing.....
We Wish You A Merry Christmas.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
And Maybe You Can Come In Next Year
Personally, I strongly support the good works of Greenwich's Non-Profit organizations. But there is no way that this one eyed reporter of Jewish decent would be seen at or support such and undignified event.
Rebecca "Forget About A Temporary Ramp" Fretty knows that the Greenwich YMCA has millions in the bank and that she could get her board to approve a check tommorow for a temporary ramp that would allow the crippled to have equal access to her facility.
Why would any law abiding citizen of Greenwich go to an event sponcered by an organization that is openly and willfully violating the ADA Compliance laws of the United States of America.
Maybe We Should All Sing.....
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All The Way.
Oh, What Fun It Is Go To Federal Court
As The YMCA Throws Your Donations Away, Hey....
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2 comments:
I hope no one shows up. The members of the YMCA should get rid of Rebecca Fretty. Hiring a lawyer to keep out a ramp is absurd. Fretty is a petty bitch.
This is beyond human decentcy. These people want a ramp. What right does Rebecca Fretty have to deny what is THE LAW?????
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