[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Whoa! I browsed to the link you posted and, embedded within it, is the following from the National Association of the Deaf annual meeting this year:

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http://www.nad.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=1777507&ct=2739571

...Paddy Ladd sent a page to David Eberwein during the presentation to tell us the following message: "We are faced with new colonialist forces which aim to wipe Deaf people from the face of the Earth. Even though this cannot be achieved of course, the damage they will wreak in the process needs to be confronted by us. But let us also present the positive reasons why Sign Language Peoples are here on Earth - for what we can teach hearing people about the full beauty of life...."

David continued that we need to understand what has been done to us and that will help us move towards Deafhood. The damage that happened in the past will be faced by us. We are continually busy arranging our events to stay afloat in this world and not focused on changing the system. He said that we can strike back by causing economic damages such as bringing on lawsuits against the government and other organizations. It's only when money is being lost on their part, they will feel more compelled to change how things are run...

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See? See? These people are nuts, and vindicative as hell, and total Bolsheviks on top of it.

[Louis Foxwell]

It has become impossible for hearing persons to be deeply involved in leadership/administrative capacities with deaf people. My family served this population for 85 years. We were finally rejected because we were deemed not deaf enough. My father's parents were deaf from early childhood. Like my father, I grew up in the deaf community.
My supervisor, a District Superintendent of the United Methodist Church, took the side of these Bolsheviks. My work with deeply isolated deaf was repudiated by her and others. She said, "Those people are like sheep. They will follow you anywhere." This, from one Christian minister to another.
I was stunned and dismayed to hear open opposition to Christ's admonition that we feed His sheep, from a leader in a major Christian denomination.
There is a profound mental and emotional imbalance in the thought processes of these people who demand their way or charred remains. They brook no dialogue, no compromise, no reason, and no care for the well being of others.
These are the fascists we have been warned about. To save them and us from their terrorism, we must learn how to teach the unteachable,lead the unleadable, and love the unlovable.

[Sisku Hanne]

That is stunning.

I'm not trying to be snarky at all, but is there some kind of psychological....psychosis?...attachment disorder?...that can result from isolation/lack of communication with those around you? Such as one sees in orphans who are housed in facilities where there is almost no contact with caregivers? I can think of no other way to explain such behavior.

I've no real experience working with the deaf, but I do with the blind. They, as a whole, do not talk and act like these radicals.