Posted on 10/19/2004 12:35:47 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
Arlington police arrested 21 protesters yesterday after they chained themselves to the front door and one another at Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters during a demonstration against administration policies.About 120 protesters took part in the demonstration outside the building on Wilson Boulevard that houses the campaign headquarters, police said. The protest began about 2 p.m. and lasted 90 minutes, they said.
The protest was organized by ACT UP and Housing Works, a nonprofit agency that provides social services, housing and health care to people with AIDS in New York, said Robert Cordero, director of federal advocacy for Housing Works.
"We are here to protest the failures of the Bush administration's AIDS policies," Cordero said. "There are 40,000 new infections per year in the United States, more people uninsured, more people who need housing."
The protesters were charged with trespassing, and police used bolt cutters to remove seven people who had chained themselves to the front door, said Matt Martin, a police spokesman. Fourteen other people, chained to one another, were removed from the office, he said.
Sharonann Lynch, a member of ACT UP, criticized what she said was under-funding of programs to combat AIDS globally.
Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said the president is "fully engaged in the fight against AIDS."
"The president has proposed a five-year, $15 billon initiative that triples funding to fight AIDS in the hardest-hit areas of the world," Griffin said. "Domestically he has increased funding by 27 percent in AIDS research, care and prevention since taking office."
He said the protest is part of the democratic process.
"We understand that," he said. "At the same time, it's important that it doesn't disrupt the work environment."
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People so ignorant they protest for things they already have.
ACT UP is the organization that disrupted religious services at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York a few years back with blasphemies against the Blessed Sacrament.
"We are here to protest the failures of the Bush administration's AIDS policies," Cordero said. "There are 40,000 new infections per year in the United States, more people uninsured, more people who need housing."
Right. And how many of those 40,000 new infections are a result of administration policy? It seems to me, in my naive view, that most (not all, but most) HIV infections are the result of *personal* behavior....unprotected, risky sex, shared needles, etc. Oh, but I forgot...I'm just a practitioner of hate......./groan/
"We are here to protest the failures of the Bush administration's AIDS policies," Cordero said. "There are 40,000 new infections per year in the United States, more people uninsured, more people who need housing."
Right. And how many of those 40,000 new infections are a result of administration policy? It seems to me, in my naive view, that most (not all, but most) HIV infections are the result of *personal* behavior....unprotected, risky sex, shared needles, etc. Oh, but I forgot...I'm just a practitioner of hate......./groan/
Why is it that grown adults don't understand the concept that the anus is EXIT ONLY?
So this makes him a target for gays ??
Get a job, pay some rent, buy a little health plan, don't stick needles in your arm (btw, don't stick anything where it don't belong) & you ACTSTUPID people will go away. Keep doing what your doing & you'll go away too!
How does not having a house make it more likely that you would get AIDS???
Anyway, on a side note, don't ever confuse HIV with AIDS, these people get really upset over this. (I have no idea why, I guess having HIV is cooler than Having AIDS)
After what ACTUP did at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the proper response to an ACTUP protester is to hit them in the head with a baseball bat until they stop moving.
Well, I hope the Arlington police had gloves and masks.
No, I don't think that is the answer. They must be publicly challenged and shamed for their religious intolerance.
The administrations policies cause AIDS, not promiscuous unprotected butt-sex.
I learn something new every day.
How??? when every town and city allows them their pride days, and parades, in which they act out their pervision on floats?
I agree it's difficult. I was just saying that baseball bats are not the answer.
ACTUP doesn't deserve any better treatment.
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