AIDS Lie Scapegoats
Question:
"The signs all saying it’s a social infection. A little bit of fun’s never been an insurrection. Don’t need a cure. Need a final solution." — Peter Murphy from "Should the World Fail to Fall Apart"
Daniel Ash is way kewler than Peter Murphy. Before you buy.
Response:
"The signs all saying it’s a social infection. A little bit of fun’s never been an insurrection. Don’t need a cure. Need a final solution." — Peter Murphy from "Should the World Fail to Fall Apart" What follows is a positively frightening vision of gay men’s place in the future of the AID$ lie brought to you, in part, by all the sellouts at the San Francisco Department of Perpetual Homophobia. [DP] ===== A&U December 2000 In The Crosshairs —– The government wants to keep Americans believing that gay and bi men are still causing most of the HIV problems By Patricia Nell Warren As our new President takes office, I will still be feeling that chill up my spine I felt when I saw the website for the "HIV Stops With Me" ad series (www.hivstopswithme.org). Aired in San Francisco, the TV ads derive from what the CDC calls "alarming" statistics showing a rise in unprotected sex among gay and bisexual men. The ads were funded by the CDC and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. These ads don’t just "target" local men in the PR sense — they put these men square in the sniper crosshairs. The message couldn’t be clearer, with a funereal black page and the logline jumping out in flaming red — "HIV+ gay and bisexual men have the power to stop the epidemic." Really? HIV-positive gay and bi men have that power as AIDS is declared a global security threat by the UN, and a national security threat by Washington? As the media declare that "millions are dying all over the world," and these estimated millions are said to be mainly heterosexual women and children? So what’s behind these ads? Earlier this year, U.S. AIDS policy underwent a paradigm shift. The CIA and NSA (National Security Agency) were given oversight over AIDS. The nation’s public-health system is now virtually on a wartime footing — meaning that uniforms, not white labcoats, are in charge. CDC’s website has a bioterrorist-alert page, equating AIDS with anthrax attacks by Iraq. Noting this shift, South African President Thabo Mbeki voiced concerns over CIA interference in his country’s AIDS controversy. AIDS apologists snidely dismissed Mbeki as paranoid. Doubtless Mbeki reviewed the CIA’s long history of covertly involving U.S. troops in other countries’ affairs — notably Vietnam, Guatemala, Colombia — and felt a chill of his own. In short, epidemic disease is now the excuse for U.S. and U.N. interference in certain countries’ political affairs. Behind its family-friendly fa
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