From: David Andrews 
Subject: Re: Why the NFB
Harvey:
I think you are out of line drawing parallels between the NFB and Nazism.
I understand and accept that you do not agree with the current leadership
over some matters.  You have also always been free to express your views
here, which you do often and in detail.  Nonetheless, please be reasonable.
 Your emotional rhetoric does nothing toward the honest and open discussion
of issues.
David Andrews
At 03:25 AM 4/14/98 +0500, you wrote:
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>I agree that people should think more and maybe some changes
>could be made.  However, I agree that this is highly unlikely.
>But you are right about people wishing to pattern themselves
>after Dr. Jernigan.  Marc even tries his best to imitate him in
>his voice and mannerisms.
>
>As far as Barbara Pierce is concerned I think her combined
>knowledge of broadcasting, public relations and journalism could
>fit on the head of a pin with room left over.  She's a mike hog
>who loves to hear herself talk.  I remember sitting in a Public
>Relations meeting when she advised people that if a radio or tv
>station said that they did not accept pre-recorded public service
>announcements but only accepted live copy or some other method of
>programming them to blanket it with letters and contacts until
>they relented.  It doesn't work that way and she knows it.  I've
>spent a good part of my adult life in broadcasting and first of
>all, the F.C.C. has dropped most if not all programming
>requirements where P.S.A.'s are concerned.  Secondly, if a
>station is giving you something, you don't kick a gift horse in
>the mouth; you do it the way they tell you to do it.  If they
>only do 10 second announcements you write them up and give them
>to the stations Public Service Director.  Very few music stations
>run more than 2 commercial breaks an hour.  they don't have time
>to play pre-recorded P.S.A.'s from anybody, and if they do it for
>u s they have to do it for every non-profit organization seeking
>air time.  So you go along with it and say, " thank you very
>much," unless we want to get into buying time.
>
>As far as being reorganized out of the N.F.B., I have very little
>to do with the La. affiliate as it is because of the blatant
>conflicts of interest regarding our and other training centers.
>I do maintain my membership in several divisions mainly the
>vendor's division, but if I am eventually reorganized out I will
>at least have the knowledge of standing up for what I believe to
>be right.  I do support the national leadership most of the time,
>but the reason why people don't think so is because I make my
>disagreements known so it looks like I never do which is not
>true.  I think the pendulum has swung too far the other way and
>it is time that the rank and file membership took some of its
>power back.
>
>The A.C.B. may be more democratic, but unfortunately it is far
>less effective in making changes that benefit blind people.  But
>on the other hand, naziism was a very efficiently run state
>perhaps the most efficiently run of all time, but would any of us
>like to live under it?  I think not; for while the slaughter of
>innocent jews got all the attention, they weren't too nice to the
>handicapped either calling us consumers of food and supplies
>while giving nothing back.  So we also would not survive in such
>a state.
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>Harvey
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