expensive that's twenty nine thousand the kid every person would pay twenty nine thousand a kid to have their kid alive. yeah he went there but all this leaves out the most important question do any of these toys and schemes actually work or we once again allowing the fear profiteers to control the debate let's find out as we start watching the hallmarks. one pretty. good looks like real with this one. as it were the plot of. the day like you that i got. with that we. would. be. taking. well the watching the harks i am tyrone

but the torah and times out of the law lists so are those the chocking to you the da was sudden like the you know the surveillance security industry hawks are swooping in circling around all the schools and parents and p.t.a. boards across the country oh gosh now i'm am pretty much everybody is looking for a new revenue stream is going to look to younger people to figure out how to you know sell the team sell the kids i mean whether it's sugary cereal or fear it's pretty easy and in this case what they're selling is fear to those kids' parents and that's a little disturbing kenneth trump i do not believe any relation or regulation present in the national school safety and security services he told seventy four million oregon that the climate is rich for this kind of exploitation he said it's not that they're villains and they don't care and they don't want safe schools i'm not trying to send that message but they're certainly opportunistic at the end of the day they're looking for new revenue streams like i said it looking for

a new revenue stream but i don't know that. turning cats and bulletproof backpacks is really an answer. there and you know i it's it reminds me a lot. when you look at it it's almost like a microcosm example of what happened after like nine eleven when you know everyone would like you know that crazy you know all of a sudden you know after nine eleven it was like oh my gosh i'm so scared protect us protect us protect us and that's how we got you know i mean at one point they were trying to sell office executives like parachute packs to jump out of to jump out of a window and you know rats how you get the patriot act oh is this the kind of irrational fear save me thing and then it's what you sacrifice that so dangerous i mean i just i mean. look there's many different ways to solve this problem but one of the more interesting ones was jordan good dro a u.s. army combat veteran he's actually kind of peddling a business that would embed former special operations agents as undercover teachers

in order like gather intel on kids and then use their special operations training to react in case there's a shooter situation which ok i mean i get it like that might actually you know that i don't know but that's how do you have to have the support and he laid out how intel would be game for kids telling the washington post that as an undercover he could be known as just like you know the cool shop teacher and that he would go sit down with a kid who's alone playing dungeons and dragons and i just try to see whether there's any problems so that's an odd statement. for anyone that's ever played. it first of all. you can't play dungeons and dragons the one that's one. that's my already problem also i'm so tired of you thinking it's the d.m.d. is right i'm tired of it it's so lame. for bringing that up like a level of lame that's like ninety is only. oh are you joking tom

hanks movie where their bodies go crazy for more playing time which it is because of the lifetime of the it's really isn't on i mean but this is but this is why it's so silly it's the idea that you think that some souls special forces green berets going to be able to spot back with the problem is bonkers and that's what they're teachers so they're not there to teach they're there to pretend to be teachers yes the grade b. the even more of what we need well you know and what's really crazy is none of this is really proven to work at the u. of the now the national center for educational studies actually is sad that during the one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand school year only about a million teen percent of schools were equipped with security cameras but by the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen school year over eighty one percent of schools had video surveillance so rising as the per the in number the number a percentage of schools that control access to their buildings which are seventy

five percent to ninety four percent during that same period so it's they are doing things there are things that are being done since columbine that are there to help but ultimately what they say is that at the end of the day it's really just preparation practice and run in the drills and then having a good relationship with students teachers and students having a good relation to where they can communicate and talk to each other where they can more or you know possibly going to be in before anything like this happens we don't need all sorts of fancy bells and whistles and bullet proof doors to go with it. you could practically hear the keris of the constitutional commons grind to a halt here in washington d.c. thanks to the latest round in the long running soap opera of trauma. first to c.n.n. and response to cnn's lawsuit against the trumpet ministration for revoking chief white house correspondent jim acosta is white house hard past president trump slayer's and are arguing that no journalist has a first amendment right to enter the white house they went on stating the president

is generally free to open the white house doors to political allies in the hopes of furthering political agenda and he is equally a free to invite in only a political foes in the hopes of convincing them of his position the first amendment simply does not regulate these decisions so basically what team trump is arguing is that a u.s. citizen is constitutional rights when all the grounds of the white house mysteriously fall upon the discretion of whoever our current reigning king or queen it meanwhile c.n.n. finally found a first amendment clause worth fighting for themselves so to say but this past monday that quote if left unchallenged the actions of the white house would create a dangerous chilling effect for any journalist who covers our elected officials there you have it hard watchers whose side you fall on and the brain busting grandstanding first amendment war between trump and team c.n.n. which oh of course. board.

i've said this on social media as well and i just want to make this point is that. i use i supported the first amendment i supported the first amendment in taking this support of the first amendment in getting into this line of work i supported the first amendment even when our press passes it here at r t were taken away and while i do have my personal opinion about jim acosta's behavior and how he represents journalism especially mainstream journalism right now is sort of beside the point so here we are and we finally are seeing them see something that's the major problem you know it's interesting to me. when i look at the issues with this it does feel like a. two children fighting over something really important you know when i see c.n.n. i'm trying going out of it's like you know come on you're both acting like five year olds at the end of the day i mean because look it's interesting the justice department does point out that c.n.n.

is hardly burdened by the acosta decision to revoke is hard pressed they are something like fifty other c.n.n. journalists have the same hard pass they could just as easily send another journalist in there not jim acosta but then do you want a president of the do you want a president with a president. so that way that's fast do you want out precedents so that if they have a bunch of hard passes well i just don't like that reporter will keep kicking them out until we get the one we want and that's a great that is a really great argument for that because it is going to the president shouldn't be deciding who gets to talk to him and who gets to answer questions or gets to question him or her or any of the those are put in her or him to do that the president shouldn't be able to do that is that because the press ultimately is supposed to represent the american right now a lot of corporate mainstream news doesn't really represent the american people the more but that doesn't change the fact that at the very core the first amendment still says everybody right you know. that's the biggest thing that's about but

what's really interesting too is that this whole battle actually has united two sides i never thought i'd ever say you're not really it's funny yes so fox news actually came to c.n.n.'s defense as well which i think is a really they should that they should have because if you remember. barack obama when he was president wanted to take away or tossed out the idea of taking away foxes' masses and banning them from the white house and you know c.n.n. stood up for them to be all stood up for that and said that's not right. but in this instance you had fox news which actually supporting them saying fox news supports c.n.n. and its legal effort to regain its white house reporters press conventual secret service passes for working white house journalists should never be weaponized. while we don't condone the growing antagonistic town by about the president and the press at recent media avails we do support a free press access and open exchange at this point. in the boom but now what's also interesting though is that tucker carlson our good buddy decided to like he

weighed in on all of this is this i mean this is like one of those like great circuses that you only find in washington d.c. and new york city and main street mayor it's like oh my god everyone's got to give their two cents on this right tucker carlson chimed in and said you know it's telling the see and you know the see that is kind of they really only push the first amendment when it suits them and then they kind of ignore it in other cases for people that they may not like like alex jones or something like that but they're not out there fighting for first amendment rights matter people only c.n.n. and he brought up the point last year the cable network threaten an anonymous reddit user for creating an anti c.n.n. means you can threaten to expose his identity and ruin his life and i never criticized him again now c.n.n. is claiming to defend free speech only when it is their speech so again it's kind of wide i look at it like everyone can throw stones because we all stop acting like children at the end of the day and i actually respect the first amendment and what it has what it means and why it's so important to have freedom of the press in this

country for all of us not just the really rich or not just the corporate backed and i'm sorry pres but you're supposed to face tough questions. all right as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think at the top of the government on facebook and twitter. at r t dot com coming up we discuss the scourge of the list and also the overcoming of disability and the importance of respecting personal dignity with police brutality survivor offered activist leon ford so stay tuned.

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you know born to miss the one and only boom but. there are certain things in life there are almost always true that taxes and the fact that at some point in your life either due to age or illness we all almost all of us become disabled and yet we are still in the twenty four here we are in the twenty first century struggling to provide full access to both able bodied and disabled people in a twenty seven thousand survey of their customers by one eight hundred wheelchairs dot com it was found that twenty percent. respondents encountered a barrier to

a building is service or transportation at least once per day in new york city there are over half a million people with ambulatory disabilities however only ninety two of new york city subway systems four hundred twenty five stations are wheelchair friendly than their airports here ice athlete baron belling of australia was recently forced to urinate in a bottle on a flight due to the fact the airline didn't have an onboard wheelchair narrow enough to make it down the aisles according to value was giving a one liter water bottle and the cabin crew then attempted to charge him for a blanket so we could cover him self while he used that bottle in his seat and bellies incident comes just a year after international wheelchair athlete just in the viens self-propelling wheelchair was lost by an airline and he chose to make a point about the need for dignity by refusing to be strapped into the hard backed wheelchair the airline offered as his only choice he then dragged himself through the airport by his arm by his arms now in the case of the vien he is an athlete who

is physically capable of doing so many others would have had to take the option of being put into a device that resembles a straight jacket on able to even adjust herself and be wheeled by someone else to an airport so why are these the most basic examples of the need or per personal dignity being overlooked let's talk about that. it is one of those major issues that is just it does her do you see the over and over again when you see those videos of somebody who no one no one is their goal of this person go through the airport no one's going to do this i mean that's absolutely ridiculous of the you know we see this over and over again and there's a lot of things i mean there's just it's a lot of pieces there's things that people don't realize and one of those things like that comes up a lot of times is doctors offices a lot of doctors offices don't even have scales that are that are in a that are set up in a way that you could always someone. who's wheelchair bound so what that means is

now imagine this all of our medication are things that we the pills we take anything any kind of injections any kind of treatment is usually has to be based dosage y. is on the person's weight so you're talking about people who already have illnesses and they're going to a doctor who can't waive it was guessing at their weight which means they're gassing up a lot of other things and that's just the tip of the iceberg in the in the medical industry and this is one of those issues that look at the end of the day you know we've had a long time and i remember back when we first were able to get the fight the disabilities act was passed right on the night when it was finally go well we took this long to build the ramps. buildings and things like this so it's really incredible that only now. that we're still there i mean that now finally we're still dealing with this over and over again it's like c'mon we can move beyond this i think is a lot also to think about when it has to do with how people think because a lot of studies are showing that a very large portion of the population is uncomfortable in speaking to are

interacting with with people who are disabled in some way you know you have to understand this is centuries old this is a cultural thing back at the turn of the century in victorian times of land off we had a institue what were called ugly laws and what these laws dataset that anybody who had any kind of deformity that might upset other people or had something to our with them. that those people weren't allowed to be in public they could be fined for being in public and you know we've come a long way from victorian era you know ugly laws as they were called and now we're moving into a totally different different space where we have activists and people who are doing that so i want to actually i want to actually introduce all to join us to talk about this very yes to discuss a blizzard and the importance of dignity is police brutality survivor and author activist leon or thank you for joining us today. thanks for having me

so leon the recent incidents in the media with throughout the week is. it deliberate throughout the lead some airports strikes you know strikes a chord with a lot of people who have a visibly or invisible disabilities one of these incidents say about how society as a whole towards iraq swith disability of all kinds. well. i think that when we think about accessibility. we have to understand that accessible doesn't necessarily mean conveying it and watch it and just in the video of him. lifting themselves through the airport it made me think about the situations that i've been in you know where every person may say hey somebody pushed you know why why why why why should i let somebody have to let somebody push me when they should be something at the airport or wherever we go to accommodate us

. you know accommodation and you know how we want to live our lives. we can't be forced to be in a box where you know we we have to change the way we were regularly do regularly do things to fit into the box something that's not really convenient. i want to ask you a little bit about the entertainment industry because we talked a little bit about it and we've talked on this show a lot about representation and how that makes a huge difference rarely do you see actors who are actually disabled play disabled characters and in fact around sixty able bodied actors and actresses have been nominated for oscars for playing characters with mental and physical those disabilities how much do you think that representation in movies and music and sports you know athletes are going through this and show. i mean. what it's really

like what i do how much do you think that matters and how much that would help people understand the issue of dignity. it's a matter of the law you know when we when we think about awareness and how much awareness changes the way people think you know thing in a past we thing you know christopher reeve's he was a hero and he changed the way people view. individuals with disabilities and it's era we need representation even for people who may have been born with disabilities to see themselves to understand that i can have i can still live a life even though i may have a disability i think awareness is definitely necessary we need more reparative representation and the more representation that we have the more awareness that we can spread to avoid situations like this after you know i want to ask you obviously you're running for office in pittsburgh and one thing i want to ask you is

obviously your police reform given what happened to with the police and where that's brought you today but also is is you know right is that representation you're talking about is that one of the platforms of your run for office in pittsburgh. yes yes and b. . you know. police officers are one thing but oftentimes because i've been an inspiration that people forget the fact that i'm a wheelchair user and being and will show you that there's so many different things beyond actual sight of me being in a will better experience i mean just today most let's start now with the chair because there was. a dip in the sidewalk that i didn't see you know and so when we have awareness that we have representation and where there is politics sports or phantom we challenged people to think about things that people with disabilities

experience on every day. scientists estimate that over eighty five percent of people who are are are out there with disabilities that are not they're not visible by the outside world you know if someone's in a wheelchair it's obvious but a lot of people even in a wheelchair may have other disabilities may have other struggles mental illness physical illness. so we can't always it seems able bodied people can't always see what's going on so what can the able bodied people do or do not do in order to be better allies in this fight and be better about it we have about a minute left. oh it will find the people can. exit questions you know engage in conversations around disability rights and also don't assume you know i think you know even for our users myself

a lot of people assume that they know what i experience based on my you know you're in a wheelchair and that's it but there's so many different things that i experience beyond my inability to stand up and walk or run you know there's you know the medical thing. that one may not see that i have that and that's a part of my everyday process not assuming. you know becoming more knowledgeable on the experience of someone with a disability and also being an advocate speaking out using our different platforms to create more awareness. and i want to say thank you very much for coming on and allowing us to give you a voice on our on our show and we look forward to having you back on the future could do to continue to give you the voice thank you so much for coming on today and educating our audience. all right thank you for having me. you

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