I just received a very disturbing comment from a user stating that Michael E. Robinson director of the The Office of Advocacy for Autistic Children just told an autistic person that his opinion is unwelcome in the proposal of an Autism Health Care bill he is proposing on the website change.orgAccording to the comment left by Samuel, “[Michael Robinson] doesn’t want our input” on the Autism Reform Act of 2009 and further accused Samuel of being a ‘pirate’ for posting a publicly editable copy of the bill he is proposing. So I decided to look through the conversation on the change.org website.
Samuel’s comments appear to be by far correct. When another person posted they cannot support a bill that supports chelation as an autism therapy the reply was:
You are entitled to your opinion, Thank you.
Michael E. Robinson, Sr.
Mr Robinson also seems to think that any opinion offered on the bill from the perspective of an autistic individual is a negative attack. He further goes to say:
I have received email regarding these and to assure all they have been reported and their ‘wants’ are being disregarded.
When Samuel created a google document version of the Autism Reform Act to encourage more public editing of the document he told:
Not only did you ‘Pirate’ the initial legislative request word for word, except for the words you didn’t like, you moved it from this forum’s comment board to a google site and then solicited the parents from here to go to your site – good luck with your proposal. In the future I recommend that if you want to ‘take without asking’ you don’t leave a trail of comments behind you as you did in this case.
And then he was also told…
please cease and desist in this activity – you have a home for it on Google.. go there and be there, your comments are not welcome here and neither is your input.
All of this can be found on the Autism Reform Act at Change.org. I encourage everyone who disagrees with this bill to state your opinions at change.org, I also encourage you to blog about this as it needs to be known immediately.
And I need to address Mr. Robinson,
You need to realise that when creating a bill that it is not your property. The United States is a Democratic society in which people can freely speak about and debate possible legislation. The Autism Reform Act of 2009 is not your property – it is the property of the people of the United States. Your accusations of accusing someone of being a pirate for encouraging open review of a possible bill is very un-American.
Furthermore the bill that was being reviewed deals with Autism Reform. The person who you told to ‘decist’ and told them they were ‘not welcome here’ really shows how much you care about Autism. I don’t know anything about your Office of Autism Advocacy – but I can tell you that you are no advocate, you are just a low down punk. You have just shut down and told a person with Autism that there comments are no longer welcome, accused him of pirating a bill, and basically proved that you are not an advocate.
I request you resign from your post as the Director of your office immediately. A punk like you is not someone I want advocating for me.
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Actually I doubt he is backing down , I just received the following threat from him – also note I’m not Sam.
Your request IS NOT granted. Internet Piracy is also a law that applies to all.. even you hiding behind a screen name. You haven’t voted for anything, all you have done is sign in and get reported for you attack. The ECPA is ALSO a LAW..which was on my email to you Samuel. If you do not stop then I will turn over what I have that proves you have committed this crime. STOP.
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Looks like my threat changed Mr. Robinson’s mind on censoring. I’m still taking screen shots anyway.
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Mr. Robinson erased my comment. I left another one and took a screen shot. Self advocates and allies should leave comments and take screen shots before they disappear. If you don’t have a screen shot program, email me when you leave the comment and I’ll take a shot of it. I’ll collect these and send this to the owner. A progressive would not tolerate what is going on with Mr. Robinson and will be sensitive, hopefully, to the position of self advocacy.
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I left a comment there and would encourage others to do so.
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This joker really needs to go back to law school, and then proceed to get a life.
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Yeah, we know that jackass Robinson. He’s a parent of an autistic child who has decided to capitalize on it and make it earn him a living. Just another predator on the autistic community, setting up an organization to collect donations “for a good cause”.
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Oh him again?
He tried to legally serve a whole yahoo group, which he joined, throwing a virtual fit because no one agreed with him (it was autistic space). He was all saying that we were ingrates and such.
He’s bad news.
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