Civil Rights Violations – Tony short for Anthony.

Reasonable Accommodation that led to Disability Discrimination and improper use of authority which seems to happen a lot by people who think that they do not live in the USA but rather in whatever locale they do live in:

I am required by law to say that term before even saying Hello and it is a royal pain to me to state it as it seems that many people that are not necessarily ignorant not stupid but unaware that the only way they can legally respond while living in the USA is “What is your Reasonable Accommodation” which in essence when those people that respond to me do not state it are violating my Civil Rights as they are not accepting what Title 111 of the ADA is. 

So as you are reading this maybe you can grasp why I say Reasonable Accommodation prior to even saying hello but just in case that thought is not there, a semi-retired Secret Service Agent for the Department of Homeland Security at the Tampa FL field office of the Secret Service can explain to you that since I do not have a visible disability I must state the term of Reasonable Accommodation prior to even saying Hello, and that lies the heart of the problem, other than a few ADA compliant companies and many government employees and Senators and CongressMen/Women and their staff, nobody knows what the term of Reasonable Accommodation means and how they are legally complicit in responding.  It is so easy to call your local LEO’s and say I am harassing you, problem is you do have to accept the term of Reasonable Accommodation as long as you live in the USA and have public access to your company or place of business.

It is bad enough that I have to deal with people in the USA that do not accept that the US Government classified my protected Disability as a combination of Tourettes and Aspergers Syndrome, plus verbal Intermittent Explosive Disorder and that the only way I react to people when they violate my US Civil Rights is with disbelief and anger eloquated in the form of extreme vulgarity.  Obscene, grotesque language which if they did not violate my Civil Rights in the 1st place I would not have reacted to them to start as my whole intent with any company I do business with is to “do business with them” regardless whether they like it or not.  That in itself should not matter but the fact remains that many do not want to accept what my disability represents to them and they want to think that they have a choice to not do business with me and as long as I state that term “Reasonable Accommodation” prior to saying even Hello, that choice that they do not want to do business with me is taken away from them as they cannot base their decision to not do business with me on my disability.

Spoke with Supervisor Keri and when I said the term of Reasonable Accommodation who said that she was told by upper level management that she and their people do not have to accept RA and do not have to do accept my disability on the phone when I call in on the phone as if I am going to get a airplane ticket and fly 1500 miles to shop at their factory store which BTW I would just handed them my laminated copies of the RA statement.  She also said “It’s not my fault that you have Asperger’s”.  I am going to call back as there is a problem with my account.  I called back and spoke with Sally who was like wow where did this come from. Well where this come is I am getting tired of living in the jungle.  The jungle so much so that people like to believe that living in the USA is a right.  No it actually is a privilege and as long you live in the USA you will obey the federal law concerning RA.  Then I started at 12:45PM (We spoke for 1 hour and 17 minutes) to talk about my account as at one point she laughed at something I said but not at me but at a situation with me which means she was smart enough to know that laughter is the best medicine.  This whole situation could have been avoided if Sally not keri (I would have capitalized her name if I had respect for her) was the supervisor.

I have a right to spend my green American dollars any place I see fit and no person or company is going to deny me from doing so as I am entitled to buy anything anywhere from those companies when they base their trespass warnings or even arrest warrants – that is right I was arrested for my disability – on my disability they are violating my Federally protected Civil Rights.  That is why I always say the term of REASONABLE  ACCOMMODATION (RA) prior to even saying hello.  It is easier in person when I carry two laminated copies of TITLE 111 / Reasonable Accommodation with me when I speak to management to let them be aware I am going to be shopping in their store and that I do not want to be bothered by individuals thinking they are helping me when they are only antagonizing me.  I say RA because I want to prevent my disability from wreaking havoc on all of the DISABLED people I come in contact with.  Disabled as they have a choice to not react to what I say but they chose to allow their emotions to respond to what is a US Social Security disability whereas I do not have that same choice that they have to not react to what they say to me.  Yet they are more disabled than I as they can disregard what I say and they can accept TITLE 111 of the ADA but they chose not to accept the Federal law and violate my Civil Rights in the process.

I have called Mason shoe companies corporate office (800) 229-2314 and their customer service lines on numerous occasions (at least 80X) as I have done with all companies and said Reasonable Accommodation (RA) as I do with every call that I make for myself when I am looking to either buy something, fix a PW, get questions answered, or whatever with the whole intent of getting the acceptance of my disability first which is why I state the term of RA, mainly to prevent what I endure from companies and people that are supposed to have a moral fiscal fiduciary responsibility to obey the Federal Laws of the USA, however that is not the case on how untrained their employees are at most companies.  In addition with calling the Mason Shoe Company, I sent them the Reasonable Accommodation Statement to prevent any future mishaps from occurring which they blatantly disregarded as it is a Federal Law.

Take Barbara at the Sarasota Call Center for all inter-county communications (941)  861-5000 as she is one of the few people that I have come in contact with that not only understands what the term of RA is, she lives and breathes the only legal response “What is your Reasonable Accommodation?”  She is indeed a pleasure for me to talk with as I feel that I am not an outcast living on the fringes of the USA when I speak to her.  I do not care if people do not believe that what my disability is but I demand respect for the Federal Law called the ADA and RA.

In all due respect for the Mason Shoe Company executive management team as I said in one of my other posts on this blog about:

Louis E Orslene, the Co Director of J A N would obviously know what I have said in all of my entries about Disability Discrimination of what the Federal laws are concerning the ADA, however the people that staff his office seem to have forgotten that as long as they are US citizens they too are required to accept the ADA in its entirety.  But that is not the case as it seems when the cats away the mice will play.  What is their excuse for not relaying to their people about RA.  Cost? Not enough time? to make sure that all of their employees that are in customer service know to violate an individuals civil rights is not acceptable while living in the USA and working for Mason Shoe Company or any company for that matter.

oI originally called their customer service line to talk about a payment I just made. However with all of my calls that I made to JIM, ELLEN, BEN, TONY (SHORT FOR ANTHONY), LESLIE, & Alyssa all but Alyssa did Disability Discrimination on behalf of the Mason Shoe company.

I have a novel idea why don’t you contact the North Port, FL Police Department @ (941) 426-3111 and say to them that you want me arrested.  Don’t worry they will do exactly that and arrest me and take me to jail for my disability and violate my federally protected US Disability which is a combination of SS Impairment Code 2940 and a sub-classification of verbal Intermittent Explosive Disorder code # 132.34 as they have done so in the past.  It would be somewhat fiscally acceptable if the NP PD did not know about my Federally protected US Social Security disability however they have had first hand knowledge of it for almost ten years and yet they have decided that they are not part of the United States of America but rather if you decide to come to North Port, FL, remember that you are now in the United States of North Port and they definitely do not accept the Federal Law called the ADA specifically the rights concerning Tittle 111 otherwise known as Reasonable Accommodation.

I do not have the legal ability to form the intent to get angry which means if I perceive that you are screwing with me as the people at JAN did with me, then my vulgarity comes out and it comes out whenever you do not respond to the term of RA with these five exact distinct words “What is your reasonable accommodation” you violate my Civil Rights.

In order for any incident to be considered a criminal act instead of just a civil act one must prove that there is life threatening or metabolic changes occurring in an individual or death for that criminal act to be filed under the Hate Crime statute.  I am the only documented case in US history that will have a Heart Attack or Stroke when people screw with me verbally and mentally.  Mental Torture is against the Geneva Convention.

CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment

For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

Sergeant Allenbaugh of the Port Charlotte, FL Sheriffs Office is also guilty of the Bull Shit that I had to put up with from Capital One and their overseas customer service representatives like Sergeant Allenbaugh think that they are exempt from Federal Laws concerning the ADA as do the people who work at Mason Shoe Company, JAN or Verizon or the North Port, FL Police Department.

Reasonable Accommodation

Per the ADA (Americans with Disabilities >FEDERAL< ACT) regulations.  The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is responsible for the enforcement of Title III of the ADA.

When any company or retailer fails to comply with any of the ADA public accommodation requirements, regardless of how minor or how severe the violation that retailer can be sued for disability discrimination via the DOJ first or an individual second.

I have a United States Social Security Disability Impairment Code 2940 which is a combination of Tourrettes (use of Vulgar  Obscene, Grotesque language) and Aspergers Syndrome.

I also have a documented sub – classification of IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder) 132.34 – Verbal antagonistic outbursts which as the term intermittent means at any possible time wherein undue pressure is given due to real or perceived provocation.

I may say something inappropriate, but that is documented as part of my US Social Security Disability, and it is not to be inferred as a danger to an employee.  My doctors, and I find that the lack of interaction with people wherein people initiate the interaction with myself as an individual as one of the triggers that causes outbursts.

I specifically require as REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION that I be left (not disturbed when shopping)

alone to shop and unless I need specific help and ask for it, to not instigate a situation with me.  Otherwise, you are in violation of the ADA and violate my Civil Rights which can be considered part of the hate crime statute in the USA.

I, depending on the company give a brief bio on what they represent however when you are talking about Mason Shoe Company the bio below is far from brief:

 

Our Company

History

Mason Companies has been owned by the Mason Family for more than 100 years.  Mason Shoe was founded by August Mason and his son Bert in 1904.   Bert Mason (BA) led the company until 1945 when his son, Ned Mason took over the operations.  Following Ned were brothers Owen, who took over in 1960 and Victor who followed in 1976.  Fourth generation family members, Bill Scobie and John Lubs led the Company from 1989 through August 2004.  On September 1, 2004, a new milestone in Company history was set with the appointment of Dan Hunt as the first non-family CEO/President.

During the late 1800s, lumbering dominated life in the city of Chippewa Falls and the Chippewa Valley creating thousands of jobs.  These jobs spawned numerous area businesses that provided support to the lumbermen and the lumber industry.  One such industry was the boot and shoemakers.

August Mason came to Chippewa Falls from Germany in 1854 to work in the lumber camps and by 1880 he was one of the key subcontractors to the larger lumber companies.  By 1903, however, the great forests of Wisconsin were cut down, and in 1904, August and his son B. A. (Bert) Mason formed the Mason Shoe Manufacturing Company.   Mason got its start handcrafting logging boots for the lumberjacks and river men working in the Chippewa area and quickly became known as one of the finest boot makers in the Northwoods.

In the beginning, the Company shipped their shoes to mercantile and clothing stores that sold the shoes on consignment.  When the economy soured in the 1920’s, many of the stores returned their consigned shoes to the Company.  Since there was an urgent need to get rid of these returned shoes along with the ones that were being manufactured, dealers were recruited to sell the overflow of inventory.  The Masons devised a marketing plan that they would end up following for more than fifty years – direct sales of their shoes to consumers.

In order to assist the dealers, in 1922 the Company produced its first salesman catalog, the Mason Catalog.

The company began to grow through the direct sales of shoes by the dealers and as a result, in 1942 the Company went from a strictly home office sales operation to a home office/branch office structure.  At one time there were 14 Mason Shoe branch offices throughout the United States.  The branch offices were closed in 1970.

The installation of the Company’s first computer, an IBM System 360 Model 30 in April 1968, paved the way for rapid growth.  The computer provided an efficient way to recruit new dealers by quickly and economically identifying markets of dealers and buyers.  However, in 1970 the role of the dealer changed.  They were no longer full-time salesmen who sold shoes for a living.  The new dealers were part-time salesmen who could earn extra money selling shoes to friends, relatives, and co-workers.

Seeing that direct selling was slowing in the 1980s, Mason started to develop a mail order business.  The Company’s first mail order catalog, Wissota Trader, was printed in 1985 and was followed by B.A. Mason, in 1990.  Acquisitions of catalogs helped grow the mail order business.  The acquisitions included Maryland Square in December of 1994, Masseys in October of 1997 and the Executive Shoes/E.T. Wright catalog in November of 1998.

In the fall of 1996, Mason Companies embarked on its initial venture of offering revolving credit as a method of payment in the Mason Easy-Pay Catalog.  Mason Easy-Pay offered a credit payment plan for customers to purchase shoes over time.  This tapped a new source of direct mail buyers who were accustomed to purchasing on a revolving credit plan.

With the success of Mason Easy-Pay, the Company further developed its credit offerings with the Massey’s Credit catalog in 2002, the K. Jordan women’s apparel catalog in late 2006, and Stoneberry, a general merchandise catalog in 2010.

In October 2013, Mason purchased Figi’s, a direct to consumer food and gift business.  With the purchase of Figi’s, two new catalogs were added to the Mason offerings; Figi’s Gifts in Good Taste and Figi’s Gallery.

For the local shoppers, the Company has a retail presence in downtown Chippewa Falls.  The Mason Shoe Store sells footwear and women’s apparel items and offers every Mason catalog product as well as a “store only” selection of footwear.

In October 2003, ninety-nine years of footwear manufacturing in Chippewa Falls came to an end when the plant closed.  This was a result of increased competition of foreign sourcing and continued reduction of market share because of pricing competition from lower cost offshore manufacturers of footwear.

As a result of Mason’s growth over the past 100+ years, we are referred to as the largest mail order footwear company in the World and are the 150th largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S.  Today Mason’s catalog business includes:  Auditions, Maryland Square, BA Mason, Masseys Credit, Mason Easy-Pay, K.Jordan, Stoneberry, Figi’s Gifts in Good Taste, Figi’s Gallery and an internet only site – ShoeMall.com.

Mason Companies has made a long-term commitment to its customers, employees and the Chippewa Falls community and today employs over 450 people.  We have enjoyed over 100 successful years and look forward to a prosperous future.