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The ADA Nears Its Tipping Point.

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

There’s a small chance — but a chance nonetheless — that the Americans with Disabilities Act could postpone this year’s Super Bowl. Seems that San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium isn’t sufficiently ADA compliant for some disabled activists.

I think it would be wonderful if this happened. Postponing or forcing the Super Bowl to move would focus much-needed attention on just how fascist ADA advocates have become. I’m a firm believer in the theory that liberty is lost gradually, but it’s regained in big chunks –usually after the collected effects of its gradual erosions cause some outrageous event that finally enlightens the masses to just how much liberty they’ve let slip away.

Postponing the Super Bowl would be such an event. I also think the nannyish efforts to ban smoking and (increasingly) drinking in public and (increasingly) private spaces will soon spark a backlash.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, January 5th, 2003 at 11:36 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “The ADA Nears Its Tipping Point.”

  1. #1 |  Andy |  January 5th, 2003 at 12:58 pm

    While I agree with you 100% about this, there’s one side to this that I find laughable. The City of San Diego’s level of incompetency dealing with this stadium and associated issues has risen to the level of a capital crime. The San Diego Chargers buffaloed a council and mayor made up of a bunch of bumpkins for the ticket deal (and a few other things). The biggest moron of all has been the city manager (yes, we have a manager AND a mayor, go figure), and the stadium falls under his bailiwick. He’s had over a year to make the changes that were agreed to in the ADA suit and they haven’t even started work on many of them. (they did remove some seats to make some wheel-chair friendly spots, and of course the city kept paying for those non-existent seats as part of the guarantee).

    It’s too bad that it’s come down to this, but the City of San Diego put themselves into this jackpot. I have no sympathy for them.

    (I live in San Diego, btw)

  2. #2 |  jimmy |  January 6th, 2003 at 6:51 am

    if that happens San Diego will never get another super bowl game. EVER. in fact, i’d say that it would be written in as a rule.

    and expect the ADA to accomplish one thing, turning sympathy for the disabled into hostility.

  3. #3 |  Andy |  January 10th, 2003 at 1:56 pm

    The judge ruled for the City of San Diego.