Your misinformed homophobia is showing again.
On 2/6/11, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmkahle@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tommy,
>
> Now that there is enough attention drawn to this problem in the US and
> there are treatments available one would think that the male Gay
> community would have learned something.... but NO, they are as
> (actually MORE) irresponsible today as they were then (81-86) with a
> small minority of the US population (approx. 6%) being male gays they
> equal (at last count...2008) over 75% of the HIV/AIDS cases.
>
> Maybe Reagan was right for the wrong reasons. How long must the
> general population pay for STUPIDITY ???
>
> Basically this is reflective of ALL Gay positions...politically. They
> want want want and obviously don't care about themselves or the
> society in which they live. HIV/AIDS is obviously more rampant now
> than ever amongst these IDIOTS.
>
> http://www.avert.org/usa-transmission-gender.htm
>
> On Feb 6, 9:50 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Reagan's AIDS Legacy / Silence equals deathJune 08, 2004|By Allen White
>>
>> As America remembers the life of Ronald Reagan, it must never forget
>> his shameful abdication of leadership in the fight against AIDS.
>> History may ultimately judge his presidency by the thousands who have
>> and will die of AIDS.
>>
>> Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a
>> national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan's response
>> was "halting and ineffective," according to his biographer Lou Cannon.
>> Those infected initially with this mysterious disease -- all gay men
>> -- found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of
>> mean-spirited hostility.
>>
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>> A significant source of Reagan's support came from the newly
>> identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action
>> group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay
>> men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination.
>> Falwell said "AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals." Reagan's
>> communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is "nature's
>> revenge on gay men."
>>
>> With each passing month, death and suffering increased at a
>> frightening rate. Scientists, researchers and health care
>> professionals at every level expressed the need for funding. The
>> response of the Reagan administration was indifference.
>>
>> By Feb. 1, 1983, 1,025 AIDS cases were reported, and at least 394 had
>> died in the United States. Reagan said nothing. On April 23, 1984, the
>> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced 4,177 reported
>> cases in America and 1,807 deaths. In San Francisco, the health
>> department reported more than 500 cases. Again, Reagan said nothing.
>> That same year, 1984, the Democratic National Convention convened in
>> San Francisco. Hoping to focus attention on the need for AIDS
>> research, education and treatment, more than 100,000 sympathizers
>> marched from the Castro to Moscone Center.
>>
>> With each diagnosis, the pain and suffering spread across America.
>> Everyone seemed to now know someone infected with AIDS. At a White
>> House state dinner, first lady Nancy Reagan expressed concern for a
>> guest showing signs of significant weight loss. On July 25, 1985, the
>> American Hospital in Paris announced that Rock Hudson had AIDS.
>>
>> With AIDS finally out of the closet, activists such as Paul Boneberg,
>> who in 1984 started Mobilization Against AIDS in San Francisco, begged
>> President Reagan to say something now that he, like thousands of
>> Americans, knew a person with AIDS. Writing in the Washington Post in
>> late 1985, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, stated: "It is surprising
>> that the president could remain silent as 6,000 Americans died, that
>> he could fail to acknowledge the epidemic's existence. Perhaps his
>> staff felt he had to, since many of his New Right supporters have
>> raised money by campaigning against homosexuals."
>>
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>> Reagan would ultimately address the issue of AIDS while president.
>> His remarks came May 31, 1987 (near the end of his second term), at
>> the Third International Conference on AIDS in Washington. When he
>> spoke, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had
>> died. The disease had spread to 113 countries, with more than 50,000
>> cases.
>>
>> As millions eulogize Reagan this week, the tragedy lies in what he
>> might have done. Today, the World Health Organization estimates that
>> more than 40 million people are living with HIV worldwide. An
>> estimated 5 million people were newly infected and 3 million people
>> died of AIDS in 2003 alone.
>>
>> Reagan could have chosen to end the homophobic rhetoric that flowed
>> from so many in his administration. Dr. C. Everett Koop, Reagan's
>> surgeon general, has said that because of "intradepartmental politics"
>> he was cut out of all AIDS discussions for the first five years of the
>> Reagan administration. The reason, he explained, was "because
>> transmission of AIDS was understood to be primarily in the homosexual
>> population and in those who abused intravenous drugs." The president's
>> advisers, Koop said, "took the stand, 'They are only getting what they
>> justly deserve.' "
>>
>> How profoundly different might have been the outcome if his leadership
>> had generated compassion rather than hostility. "In the history of the
>> AIDS epidemic, President Reagan's legacy is one of silence," Michael
>> Cover, former associate executive director for public affairs at
>> Whitman-Walker Clinic, the groundbreaking AIDS health-care
>> organization in Washington. in 2003. "It is the silence of tens of
>> thousands who died alone and unacknowledged, stigmatized by our
>> government under his administration."
>>
>> Revisionist history about Reagan must be rejected. Researchers,
>> historians and AIDS experts who know the truth must not remain silent.
>> Too many have died for that.
>>
>> More:http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-06-08/opinion/17428849_1_aids-in-san-...
>> --
>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
>
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Have a great day,
Tommy
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