We Should Live - Ben Bateman

Michelle Malkin relays a story on a lawsuit accusing Target of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  But there’s nothing wrong with the stores themselves.  They have plenty of ramps, wide doors, and whatnot.  Target stands accusing of insufficiently accommodating the disabled on their web site:

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco rejected Target’s request to dismiss the case. She also certified the case as a class action, ruling that all legally blind people in the U.S. who have been denied access to services at Target stores because of deficiencies in the company’s website can join the suit.

Target has failed to use “technologically simple and not economically prohibitive” code embedded in websites allowing the blind to use software that vocalizes the content, according to court filings by the National Federation of the Blind.

The group filed the suit on behalf of Bruce Sexton, a UC Berkeley student who claimed that he couldn’t access some features of Target.com. “It was just gibberish for blind users trying to use the website,” said Larry Paradis, a lawyer for the group.

“Target has argued that no law — neither the Americans with Disabilities Act nor state law — could require it to make its website accessible to the blind,” Paradis said. “Today’s decision completely rejects Target’s argument.”

The problem with laws like the ADA is that they have no inherent limits.  As with any liberal sob-story group, the militant disabled can never be satisfied.  However much you give them, they’ll always want more.

If you doubt it, consider this story out of Baltimore:

Members of the National Federation of the Blind are picketing  today outside the South Baltimore offices of the Maryland Department of Environment.

They want environmental officials to order the makers of hybrid cars to make changes to the environmentally friendly car.

Chris Danielson says the cars are too quiet when running on their electric battery, and that can be dangerous for blind people trying to cross the street.

Danielson tells WBAL News that  he has no statistics on pedestrian accidents involving hybrid cars, but he does say there have been several near misses.

So the facts are irrelevant.  The picketers have no idea what benefits they’re claiming or what burdens they’re pushing on their fellow citizens, so I assume that they don’t care.  They know only the will to power, the desire to control what other people do.