THE TRUTH BEHIND AIDS PT 21( THE TRUTH IS THERE IF YOU SEARCH)

[Guest guest]

Cont'd from part 20

When an honest history of the AIDS plague is written, it will be recorded that a small number of people and groups—with billions of dollars at their disposal—were able to persuade the public that mandatory

AIDS testing was of no value—and perhaps harmful. Among those listed will be Dr. Koop, the Gay Lobby, the ACLU, the media, the National Organization of Women and Dr. Axelrod. Dr. Axelrod is typical of the gay lobby's allies in hindering any progress toward stopping the AIDS

epidemic through mandatory testing. With no special qualifications, he was given the position of New York State Health Commissioner—which he owed to his supporters in the Council on Foreign Relations,

an Olympian group. One of his first actions in his new job was to forbid doctors from performing routine HIV tests in their

offices. Axelrod gave no reason for his dictatorial edict, which stated that "henceforth all HIV testing shall be done only in special laboratories, those with blood and tissue banks, state, county and or city

laboratories located in hospitals affiliated with medical schools, the American Red Cross or New York blood programs, or research laboratories doing public health work under contract."

There was no sound reason to prevent doctors from testing for the AIDS virus in their offices, but Axelrod forced them to send their patients elsewhere at the cost of time, trouble and expense. Why? Intelligence

reports say that the gay lobby, itself influenced by the Council on Foreign Relations, was determined to slow down or stop HIV-testing.

Dr. Axelrod's other contribution to the epidemic was his anonymous testing program. At least threehundred thousand samples were to be collected from hospitals all across New York State, but no names

were to be associated with the samples. If a sample was positive, the infected individual could go right on infecting others. How did Axelrod justify his policy? "We need more accurate information about the numbers and distributions of individuals already infected with the virus," he said, "to plan the necessary medical services and to do extensive anonymous testing, to gather the statistics, but not to stop the epidemic." That was a preposterous statement from a doctor sworn to save lives. Of what value was anonymous testing? None. But Axelrod was not alone. The medical profession was equally committed to preventing mandatory testing. The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association both ran a concerted drive against it. Both of these prestigious medical journals made the false claims that widespread testing would give too many false-positive results, causing public panic. The American Medical Association, without the slightest proof to its claims, argued that the false-positive results would "alarm" the public.Dr. Axelrod and the gay lobby—and the medical journals—simply swept under the carpet the impressive work of the U.S. Army in eliminating false-positive HIV tests. In June, 1986, the results of the Army's mandatory testing were released to the Second World Congress on AIDS. The false-positive results were so low as to be statistically irrelevant. Colonel F. Burke was the officer in charge of

administering the HIV-tests to recruits. His meticulous record keeping has never been questioned, nor the credibility of his report that there was only one false positive test per 130,000 recruits. Even more striking was Colonel Burke's report that by 1983, the Army had developed techniques which cut the rate of false-positive tests to one in a million. Why have the gay lobby and the Olympians gone to such lengths to prevent mandatory testing? Because they want the public kept in ignorance about how widespread AIDS has become. Mandatory testing would reveal to the public that AIDS is much more widespread than now believed. The Olympians do not want AIDS slowed down by informed public demands for proper epidemic controls.There is no merit to the argument that a law requiring mandatory AIDS testing would lead to the violation of gay civil rights—or that gays would become the target of an incensed population. The U.S. Army has shown that testing for HIV

can be made simple, non-intrusive and highly accurate. The idea that a fatal disease must not be identified in a carrier because it might lead to a deprivation of his civil rights is simply bizarre.Yet the gay lobby persists in its destructive course. The International Gay Alliance has grown bold enough to ask for "observer status" at the United Nations. A number of U. N. delegates, including the American delegation, are acting as "ex-officio" representatives for the International Gay Association, thus

making AIDS even more of a political issue—rather than a fundamental life-and-death matter of epidemic control and public health.The gay leadership wrongly—a fatal mistake—believes it has the sympathy and protection of government. Undoubtedly that is true of many

compassionate people who work in government and are as

unwitting of the real cause of AIDS as anyone else. But the truth about some of those powerful enough to manipulate government at the highest levels—The Olympians—is exactly the opposite. To the gays, I say this with my deepest conviction, after years of researching the AIDS epidemic government is your enemy, not your friend. Relatively useless laws passed to protect gay civil rights are nothing but a red herring to draw attention away from the real problem. The real solutions to the AIDS epidemic—for everyone—do not lie in the current policies. Much of the leadership of the gay community does not appear to have grasped this nasty truth. Gays are being duped by a government that has targeted

them for death.

Bostam

[Guest guest]

Cont'd from part 20

When an honest history of the AIDS plague is written, it will be recorded that a small number of people and groups—with billions of dollars at their disposal—were able to persuade the public that mandatory

AIDS testing was of no value—and perhaps harmful. Among those listed will be Dr. Koop, the Gay Lobby, the ACLU, the media, the National Organization of Women and Dr. Axelrod. Dr. Axelrod is typical of the gay lobby's allies in hindering any progress toward stopping the AIDS

epidemic through mandatory testing. With no special qualifications, he was given the position of New York State Health Commissioner—which he owed to his supporters in the Council on Foreign Relations,

an Olympian group. One of his first actions in his new job was to forbid doctors from performing routine HIV tests in their

offices. Axelrod gave no reason for his dictatorial edict, which stated that "henceforth all HIV testing shall be done only in special laboratories, those with blood and tissue banks, state, county and or city

laboratories located in hospitals affiliated with medical schools, the American Red Cross or New York blood programs, or research laboratories doing public health work under contract."

There was no sound reason to prevent doctors from testing for the AIDS virus in their offices, but Axelrod forced them to send their patients elsewhere at the cost of time, trouble and expense. Why? Intelligence

reports say that the gay lobby, itself influenced by the Council on Foreign Relations, was determined to slow down or stop HIV-testing.

Dr. Axelrod's other contribution to the epidemic was his anonymous testing program. At least threehundred thousand samples were to be collected from hospitals all across New York State, but no names

were to be associated with the samples. If a sample was positive, the infected individual could go right on infecting others. How did Axelrod justify his policy? "We need more accurate information about the numbers and distributions of individuals already infected with the virus," he said, "to plan the necessary medical services and to do extensive anonymous testing, to gather the statistics, but not to stop the epidemic." That was a preposterous statement from a doctor sworn to save lives. Of what value was anonymous testing? None. But Axelrod was not alone. The medical profession was equally committed to preventing mandatory testing. The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association both ran a concerted drive against it. Both of these prestigious medical journals made the false claims that widespread testing would give too many false-positive results, causing public panic. The American Medical Association, without the slightest proof to its claims, argued that the false-positive results would "alarm" the public.Dr. Axelrod and the gay lobby—and the medical journals—simply swept under the carpet the impressive work of the U.S. Army in eliminating false-positive HIV tests. In June, 1986, the results of the Army's mandatory testing were released to the Second World Congress on AIDS. The false-positive results were so low as to be statistically irrelevant. Colonel F. Burke was the officer in charge of

administering the HIV-tests to recruits. His meticulous record keeping has never been questioned, nor the credibility of his report that there was only one false positive test per 130,000 recruits. Even more striking was Colonel Burke's report that by 1983, the Army had developed techniques which cut the rate of false-positive tests to one in a million. Why have the gay lobby and the Olympians gone to such lengths to prevent mandatory testing? Because they want the public kept in ignorance about how widespread AIDS has become. Mandatory testing would reveal to the public that AIDS is much more widespread than now believed. The Olympians do not want AIDS slowed down by informed public demands for proper epidemic controls.There is no merit to the argument that a law requiring mandatory AIDS testing would lead to the violation of gay civil rights—or that gays would become the target of an incensed population. The U.S. Army has shown that testing for HIV

can be made simple, non-intrusive and highly accurate. The idea that a fatal disease must not be identified in a carrier because it might lead to a deprivation of his civil rights is simply bizarre.Yet the gay lobby persists in its destructive course. The International Gay Alliance has grown bold enough to ask for "observer status" at the United Nations. A number of U. N. delegates, including the American delegation, are acting as "ex-officio" representatives for the International Gay Association, thus

making AIDS even more of a political issue—rather than a fundamental life-and-death matter of epidemic control and public health.The gay leadership wrongly—a fatal mistake—believes it has the sympathy and protection of government. Undoubtedly that is true of many

compassionate people who work in government and are as

unwitting of the real cause of AIDS as anyone else. But the truth about some of those powerful enough to manipulate government at the highest levels—The Olympians—is exactly the opposite. To the gays, I say this with my deepest conviction, after years of researching the AIDS epidemic government is your enemy, not your friend. Relatively useless laws passed to protect gay civil rights are nothing but a red herring to draw attention away from the real problem. The real solutions to the AIDS epidemic—for everyone—do not lie in the current policies. Much of the leadership of the gay community does not appear to have grasped this nasty truth. Gays are being duped by a government that has targeted

them for death.

Bostam