Major Owens

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.