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Gay Terror and Disease in San Francisco |
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Rabbi
David Eidensohn
The December 24 New York Times tells how two San Francisco gay rights
activists "have been charged with more than 30 counts of harassing,
stalking and threatening nearly a dozen city health officials, researchers,
newspaper reporters and their families over the phone." The activists
were incensed that reporters and government officials publicized the fact
that gays engage in unsafe sex and get disease. The reporters and government
officials also talked about the possibility of quarantine, if the gays
refused to continue unsafe sex. This caused the gay activists to call people
in the middle of the night and threaten their children. The health officials
made it clear that they will not quarantine a gay merely because he is
infecting and killing people. Nonetheless, when the papers published the
possibility of quarantine the activists took umbrage.
What is wrong with quarantine? Public health figures have a duty to
protect the people from infectious diseases, especially those spread by
sexual contact. Sexually Transmitted Diseases are effectively regulated
throughout the country, and whoever applies for a marriage license must be
tested in many states. Some diseases have been dropped from marital testing
because health officials have basically eradicated them. This is progress.
Decline is when gays spread disease and are not controlled by public health
officials. The fear of the gay lobby has created a situation whereby
non-gays can be quarantined and jailed for spreading disease, but not gays.
A gay who knowingly spreads AIDS is a killer or damager of another human,
but since gays must do their thing, public health figures look away. They
are afraid to fight the gays.
There is a legal support for this "affirmative action" for
gays. Throughout gay-lobby states, HIV Confidentiality Laws limit health
officials in stopping HIV and AIDS. The gay lobby lobbied for a law that
allows gay bathhouses to operate whereby thousands of people are infected,
and then the public has to pay for it. Passed in the eighties, when the AIDS
epidemic threatened the freedom of gays to engage in unhealthy behavior,
these laws for years prevented raped women from forcing their attackers to
test for HIV, unless she dropped charges. They prevented a hospital from
telling a woman who just had a baby that she or the baby had HIV. The mother
went home, nursed the baby, and often she or the baby died. Even when it was
known that the baby had HIV and needed treatment no treatment was given, and
the mother was not told of the condition so she could begin treatment. This
was to "prevent discimination," lest someone who has HIV be
considered gay and then face discrimination. This savagery was the law of
New York State. Lest anyone blame Democrats and Governor Cuomo, the Senate
of the New York State was strongly Republican. The only one who serious
protested was a "flaming liberal" Democrat, Assemblywoman Nataly
Myers from Queens. The New York
Times also protested the refusal to treat babies. The attitude of the
politicians was: Give the gays what they want, and let us go on with our
lives. The mothers, babies, hemophiliacs, trusting partners who will become
HIV-infected and perhaps die, perhaps live a hideous life, well, it's just
too bad.
What is the ruckus all about in San Francisco? It is about "an
almost tenfold rise in the number of cases from 1998 to this year" of
syphilis in gay men. What happened after 1998? Why did the gays suddenly
lose all fear of illness? The answer is that when the HIV epidemic struck,
public health officials wanted to treat it like any Sexually Transmitted
Disease, by reporting partners and quarantining those who refused to stop
infecting others. The gays demanded that this approach not be used. They
assured everyone that if only this approach was not used, and instead, huge
amounts of money be given to gay organizations for "education,"
that this would stop the epidemic. Gay "education" did not stop
the gays from misbehaving in their bathhouses, where an active man sometimes
infected twelve people in one day. Gays did not waste time giving flowers.
They carried a large helping of lubricant and a small amount of condoms, and
did not worry about the next day. Their love was a physical one, and the
infections soared. Still, the government did not deny the gays what they
wanted: HIV Confidentiality Laws, no quarantine, no reporting of partners,
and plenty of money for education. On the other hand, the rising number of
HIV sufferers became an epidemic, and something had to be done. Once again,
the gay lobby had an answer. If only the government would divert money from
cancer research, if only it would prioritize gay medical needs over that of
schizophrenics, diabetics, heart patients and other common illnesses, HIV
would cease. The government, especially under Clinton, obliged. Millions
suffer today from blood pressure that leads to strokes and living like
vegetables, because the medical priority of America is for the tiny gay
community, around 2% of the population.
Around 1998, the first medications against HIV began to work. The
triple cocktails were enormously expensive-12k just for the medication, not
to mention the constant hospital care, tests, doctor bills, etc. Almost one
million people in America had HIV, and the gay disease had now spread to the
inner cities, slaughtering minorities, especially the hapless women who
trusted the government to protect them from disease. Druggies went first,
then the prostitutes, and finally the women, until the disease raged out of
control. As long as there was no medication, the government just let people
die. When the medication appeared, and the cost was 12k times a million sick
people, which is $12,000,000,000, the government became frightened. Now the
HIV Confidentiality laws were challenged, and slowly rolled slightly back,
but not removed entirely. Each state has its own version of
"rollback." The obvious tactic, to treat HIV like all epidemics,
is simply not going to happen. Yes, the blacks are dying, yes, health
insurance, when forced to pay for gay diseases, collapsed, and millions
cannot afford it. Yes, the cost of medication could bankrupt gay states like
New York, which is already forced to subsidize at least one health insurer.
On the other hand, the media, the colleges, the government are thoroughly
intimidated by the gays. What the gay wants, the gay gets. Let people die,
but the HIV Confidentiality Laws will remain. Just give them more money, for
more education, for more research into a vaccine for HIV, for more...
Once the new medications for HIV came to the gay community, it
celebrated by "riding bareback" and discarding the condoms.
Because the gay experience is physical rather than emotional, and physical
intercourse is multi-partner, gay infectious behavior is quite serious. When
in 1998 syphilis in San Francisco shot up almost tenfold it reflected the
successful strategy of gays to do what they want and let others pay for it.
They were invincible. Gay intimidation was never checked. The only problem
for gays was getting sick, and when the new medicines came about, that fear
vanished. When the health commissioner of San Francisco mentioned the legal
capacity of quarantine, he did not intend to use it, not even if the gays
made the worst epidemic. Nevertheless, the mere fact that it was mentioned
by the health commissioner and reported in the papers inflamed the
sensitivities of the gay activists who for decades had used violence and
intimidation and were never stopped.
Why are the two activists who threatened the children of doctors and
reporters sitting in jail? Because instead of killing women, blacks, closet
gays, druggies, hemophiliacs, and even mainstream American people, the
activists had threatened the liberal press. When the gays threatened the
liberal press, they were finished. Therefore, two gay activists, Mr.
Pasquarelli and Mr. Petrelis, who merely threatened the press, are sitting
in jail, while the political structure in San Francisco that encouraged gay
intimidation for decades shrieks imprecations at them. While the two suffer
so, the politicians who voted in the HIV Confidentiality Laws, the gays who
infected thousands of people, including many minors, are not in any trouble.
Where are they? They are out there infecting more people or ensuring that
the political and legal structure of the country ensures death and
destruction on a major scale, and the collapse of health insurance.
Yes, Pasquarelli and Petrilis are evil and dangerous people. If,
however, we have suffered for over two decades from ACT-UP, it is because of
the politicians, and the legal structure they established that reward ACT-UP
and punishes everyone else. Putting those two in jail was right, but those
who hoot at them in San Francisco who made the laws and medical procedures
to spread death, have a much greater guilt. Those of us who are silent at
the political achievements of the gays do not understand that spreading
disease and death is biological terrorism. The gay terror is far more
dangerous than the sporadic alien attack. The gay terror infects with its
sick ideas and physical sicknesses the internal fabric of society.
Why punish those who only threaten, and reward those who kill?
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D. Eidensohn's poem
"The Wall" won an International Poetry Contest. His poems appear in
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