http://johnlusher.com/social-media-free-speech-an-apology/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://johnlusher.com/social-media-free-speech-an-apology/comment-page-1/#comment-955 Kathy Howell Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:38:25 +0000 http://johnlusher.com/?p=1007#comment-955 Dear Mr. Lusher, Thank you for your blog. Yes, free speech is vital to this country, but it only goes so far until social norms are violated, and those who are already hurting are hurt more by ignorance and thoughtless words. Mr. Ryan violated those social norms, by intimating that fibromyalgia survivors are not worth a measly 7 minutes of his time. I have the Facebook group, Facebook Fibromyalgia Patients Unite!, and asked my group to join the cause. I only learned about it on Thursday, but I went to bat for Jen Reynolds, and emailed the Director of Communications & Marketing at Clear Channel. It's not so much that he said it on air, but he had to Tweet it too? We are grateful that Mr. Ryan has apologized to the Fibromyalgia community at large. His 7 minutes of being inconvenienced, while waiting for a fibromyalgia patient to disembark from an airplane is NOTHING compared to the amount inconvenience we Fibromyalgia patients endure everyday. As your friend, Bev, can attest, we all had active lives before fibromyalgia, but not as much as now. There are times that I would love to be able to get out and go for a walk, but I know that I will be too tired to get back home. Thank you again for continuing the fight for fibromyalgia survivors, and being an advocate for your friend, and thereby for us all. One more person who understands our disease is one less brick to knock down in the walls that fibromyalgia builds around us. Dear Mr. Lusher, Thank you for your blog. Yes, free speech is vital to this country, but it only goes so far until social norms are violated, and those who are already hurting are hurt more by ignorance and thoughtless words. Mr. Ryan violated those social norms, by intimating that fibromyalgia survivors are not worth a measly 7 minutes of his time. I have the Facebook group, Facebook Fibromyalgia Patients Unite!, and asked my group to join the cause. I only learned about it on Thursday, but I went to bat for Jen Reynolds, and emailed the Director of Communications & Marketing at Clear Channel.
It’s not so much that he said it on air, but he had to Tweet it too? We are grateful that Mr. Ryan has apologized to the Fibromyalgia community at large. His 7 minutes of being inconvenienced, while waiting for a fibromyalgia patient to disembark from an airplane is NOTHING compared to the amount inconvenience we Fibromyalgia patients endure everyday. As your friend, Bev, can attest, we all had active lives before fibromyalgia, but not as much as now. There are times that I would love to be able to get out and go for a walk, but I know that I will be too tired to get back home.
Thank you again for continuing the fight for fibromyalgia survivors, and being an advocate for your friend, and thereby for us all. One more person who understands our disease is one less brick to knock down in the walls that fibromyalgia builds around us.

]]> http://johnlusher.com/social-media-free-speech-an-apology/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Ang Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:11:03 +0000 http://johnlusher.com/?p=1007#comment-952 It is easy to see that Mr. Ryan is an uneducated, insensitive, judgemental ass! I as others with Fibromyalgia now pray. You are cursed with a chronic pain illness. So people like yourself can judge you. Non of us choose to live in a body filled with pain. Which no one can find a reason for. Do you seriously feel the need to play God??? Since you seem to have so much free time. Why don't you cure world hunger. Instead of slamming people who honestly don't need your bullshit! It is easy to see that Mr. Ryan is an uneducated, insensitive, judgemental ass!
I as others with Fibromyalgia now pray. You are cursed with a chronic pain illness. So people like yourself can judge you. Non of us choose to live in a body filled with pain. Which no one can find a reason for. Do you seriously feel the need to play God??? Since you seem to have so much free time. Why don’t you cure world hunger. Instead of slamming people who honestly don’t need your bullshit!

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