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There is a climate of hostility toward people for whom life is already difficult and was promoted by politicians and journalists

Peter Green

endured a barrage of hatred of their neighbors. Sometimes eggs were thrown at his house, the stones thrown at their windows or paint your fence thrown in most cases, the words were thrown in his face spastic, cripple, slag newspaper. These attacks lasted for months, leaving the old car Nissan spray in a sea of ??tears, thoughts of suicide and antidepressants. I was afraid to leave their homes in Hebburn in South Tyneside and blamed himself for the distress caused to his wife and two children. "It made our life hell," he said.

Like many people with diseases like multiple sclerosis, greener fluctuates regressive state. One day, affecting memory, the following speech. Sometimes he uses a wheelchair, and sometimes it can carry on crutches. But this does not lead to more abuse, cries of anger he pretended his disability and exaggerate their problems for profit.

A terrible story shook his head again and reflect on how a person could be so vile, so inhumane to someone who is already suffering a difficult time. But the real tragedy of history is that it is very common in this country. The only odd thing is that the poor author was captured and sentenced to one month last relatively strong.

Yesterday was the International Day of Disabled Persons, but in this country are locked in a virtual state of apartheid. They are forced to the margins of society, ostracized by the things that the rest of us take for granted, like getting a job or go by public transport. This is the distance that last week a survey found that two thirds of Britons actively avoid people with disabilities because they have no idea how to deal with them.

The idea of ??treating them like any other person is obviously too much for most Britons. However, the case highlights a greener new disturbing trend in this nation supposedly tolerant. Note the use of the word "free rider", the statement of resentment that he pretended to disability. This type of violence is further understood. With economic storm clouds darken, the disabled have become easy scapegoats in the era of austerity.

Surveys have found a substantial increase in the number of disabled people's experience of aggression and abuse, other evidence that attitudes towards them is getting worse. Many disabled people who are afraid to go out at night or travel on public transport is the fear justified to meet hostility.

No wonder that many disabled people are pessimistic. Alice Maynard, chairman of the scope of charity and in a wheelchair for life, he said he was terrified by the grouchy. "I am a very optimistic person by nature, but it's a terrible scene in which we live surrounded by hatred and a very limited social care?"

earlier this year, someone told the government's benefit fraud hotline. Officials dismissed the complaint as soon as he entered his door, but his condition, which is linked to stress, aggravated by several months. Now it feels so threatened that he leaves the house. "If I go, I know I could suffer more abuse," he said. A cruel act -. And someone else is virtual prisoner in his own home

As a parent of a helpless child with severe disabilities, such stories bother me. Must be disturbed at all. So what is the origin of this new mood lasts for the disabled?
Unfortunately, much of the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the media and parts of government. There was a new dialogue on disability, which is characterized by the steady drip of stories involving a large number of candidates with disabilities are false, that the benefits are distributed without proper control cars and taxpayers money for free thousands of children with behavioral disorders of lesser importance.