A Flattened Peacock on AB 2072

Can't say I didn't warn you about the peacock effect on AB 2072. Simply put. The peacock was flattened during the process.

The Senators at the hearing passed the bill, 5 to 1. Senate Romero was the sole Senator to have opposed the bill. I watched the entire AB 2072 hearing on the Senate floor. The video was not captioned but the staff in charge of the live stream video tried their best to keep the camera on the interpreters and those who signed. It was not perfectly done but I appreciated the effort. I knew we'd miss out some of the things that were said so I had an interpreter beside me as I watched the live stream so I was able to listen to EVERYTHING that was said. Better yet, I have it recorded on my hard drive for future references. So, what's new with this Mr. Evidence, eh? (I had to snicker at this one...)

It became interesting when they entered into a debate on the role of audiologists and whether it should be under DHS (Dept. of Health Services) or DOE (Department of Education) jurisdiction. Valid points were made on both sides but they decided to leave it with DHS mainly because DOE (Education Department) do not get involved with medical aspect of deafness until the child enters into school age while the role of DHS begins from day one of any born child. This made perfect sense.

Then the debate became even more interesting when they discussed the role of audiologists. Valid points were made on both sides so Senate Chair Person Elaine Alquist stepped in and stated her opinion on the matter and basically said that she thought we all ought to place some faith in the system knowing that the ultimate goal here was to provide ALL information, in fairness to the family of deaf children. She then asked for a motion to vote on the bill and a motion was made. I counted the scores with my fingers until my right hand had full five fingers and my left hand with only one finger, the middle finger. (Laughing at my sense of humor here because I don't swear... had to poke some fun at these deafhoodized peacocks.)

You can safely chalk up one more defeat for these deafhoodized folks and the closed society they represent. DBC screwed up in Milwaukee. AFA screwed up in Washington D.C. CAD screwed up during the Assembly hearing some time ago and called EHDI's Karl White an audist.

This time around, the society of yellow $2 (yes, two dollars) t-shirts screwed up on behalf of CAD (California Association of the Deaf), NORCAL, GLAD, DCARA, and numerous other opponents. I stand amazed today wondering when these closed society people are ever gonna learn.

And finally, may shame be bestowed upon on the very people that coordinated this $2 yellow t-shirts project. That was totally embarrassing! Will throw in a couple of reasons why it was a disgrace to the deaf community. Those in charge should have known better than to dress their people in a uniformed way, as if they were some kind of animal who could not think or dress independently. Worse yet, they appeared in front of elected Senators hoping to win an argument and the best they could do was show up in $2 t-shirts? Is this how we want to paint our deaf community? It painted one ugly picture of the deaf community, technically painting them as people of great poverty. That's very povertizing! Look it up if you don't know what it means....

And finally, finally I could not help noticing Dr. Don G giving instructions to some of the people who lined up to state their names and opposition against the bill. Initially Chair Woman Elaine Alquist asked them to only state their full names and whether they support or oppose the bill. And she made herself abundantly clear that she wanted nothing else. But yet the long line of this $2 yellow shirt society came in and threw in extra choice of words, as if they were uniformed not only in how they dressed, but also in how they stated their oppositions, throwing several extra words at the end. The reason they did it was simple. They were given the instruction to say exactly the same things, by Dr. Don G and his coordinated staff. Totally embarrassing because it basically told the Senators that majority of these people could not think or speak for themselves. Heck, they didn't follow Elaine Alquist's instruction from the very beginning. That is some society!

Don't know if anybody realizes it yet but a coordinated $2 Yellow Shirt Society was a perfect example of peacock effect! They came in great numbers but yet the color 'yellow' demonstrated peacock effect! In essence, the big peacock effect still amounted to a single peacock. All these $2 yellow t-shirts amounted to one vote in Senators' eyes. In short, they all were there because of a coordinated effort, coming from the same group of people. Does not count for very much and this much became clear today. I did not call it a peacock effect for fun.

Worse yet, David Eberwein, a Principal of California Fremont School for the Deaf embarrassed the entire deaf nation when he appeared in his turn to state his name. As soon as he said his name he suggested that the bill be thrown into the shredder (machine). That was a former core member of DBC as well. And these people call themselves leaders?

Edwin Black who? All of suddenly he was no where to be seen or mentioned. His argument on eugenics disappeared into the thin air.

Regardless, the outcome is clear. A flattened peacock. Thank you.