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AIDS Report Brings Alarm, Not Surprise
New York Times ^ | February 13, 2005 | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and MARC SANTORA

Posted on 02/12/2005 5:11:26 PM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com

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To: JeffersonRepublic.com
not to worry... the next strain will prolly have TEETH and just eat them alive!!!
21 posted on 02/12/2005 6:13:48 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

"The infected man, gay and in his 40's, tested negative for H.I.V. in May 2003, then tested positive last December, health officials said. Investigators believe he may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine. By last month, it was clear that three of the four classes of anti-retroviral drugs used against H.I.V. were not working in this case, and the man showed signs of AIDS, including rapid weight loss, a high level of the virus in his bloodstream, and a depleted supply of crucial immune system cells."

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"AIDS experts and public health officials have long maintained that since the development of anti-retroviral drugs in the 1990's, people have developed a false sense that AIDS no longer poses a significant threat, leading to a rise in unprotected sex. Clear evidence of the trend has been seen in the growing number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis, chlamydia, and lymphogranuloma."

Yeah they insist on being irresponsible! The drugs looked like they could continue that behavior.

"In 2003, a survey by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that more than half of city residents with multiple recent sexual partners had not been tested for H.I.V. in the previous 18 months, and 40 percent said that they had not used condoms the last time they had sex. At the time, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city health commissioner, attributed the results to "H.I.V. precaution burnout."

HIV precaution burnout?

Geesh!


22 posted on 02/12/2005 6:26:15 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

Now is the time they should try to quarrantine people with this dangerous STD and make sure this never spreads! Why the hell didn't they do it when this disease was in it's primative form!?


23 posted on 02/12/2005 6:30:34 PM PST by TypeZoNegative (Isn't it ironic that the spleen, most useless organ in our body is also on the left side of our body)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

People do not fear this disease like they should. I personally have never known anyone (that I know of) that has this disease. So many of my female friends have unprotected sex under the assumption that if the guy is nice, he must not have VD or Aids. Sad grown women act that way and are so incredibly stupid.


24 posted on 02/12/2005 6:53:18 PM PST by sandbar
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com; Enterprise; areafiftyone

"he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine."


Remember the Abner Louima case?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/705588/posts

I always wondered if Louima had been having anal sex before he was arrested that night.

And while engaging in anal sex, whether he was taking some kind of drug to "enhance" the experience.

And whether that drug made him oblivious to the damage being done to him by his partner(s).

Then after he's arrested, he sobers up in jail, and blames the damage on the cops.

And he makes millions from the lawsuit.


25 posted on 02/12/2005 7:02:55 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
I am unsure of his habits, but unfortunately, there WERE convictions in the Louima case.

"Charles Schwarz, the former police officer convicted twice before in the assault of Abner Louima five years ago, was convicted of perjury yesterday, but the jury deadlocked on three other charges.

AND

After what appeared to be sometimes agonizing deliberations, the jurors convicted Mr. Schwarz of lying when he denied leading Mr. Louima away from the front desk of the 70th Precinct station house in Flatbush and toward the station's bathroom, where Officer Justin A. Volpe committed the assault. Mr. Volpe pleaded guilty in 1999 and is serving a 30-year sentence."

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26 posted on 02/12/2005 7:40:41 PM PST by Enterprise ("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
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To: ErnBatavia

Yes He does. Offending Him is unspeakably idiotic.


27 posted on 02/12/2005 7:46:42 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Enterprise
where Officer Justin A. Volpe committed the assault. Mr. Volpe pleaded guilty in 1999 and is serving a 30-year sentence."

Volpe, probably following bad advice from his lawyer, lied the judge--and the judge caught him lying.

When the judge catches you lying to him, it often means you're done for.

About the only thing left is to just confess and hope the judge will be lenient when he sentences you.

28 posted on 02/12/2005 8:03:35 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Enterprise

Let me rephrase that to make my meaning clearer: about the only thing to do is plead guilty


29 posted on 02/12/2005 8:08:41 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

Tammy Bruce, on the radio today, more or less explicitly blamed gay men and IV drug users for *cultivating* exactly this kind of new strain.

Certainly this was a predictable (and predicted) outcome. The criminal law attributes intention to those who willfully disregard the probable consequences of their behavior. If we don't, why don't we?


30 posted on 02/12/2005 8:14:38 PM PST by A123
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To: Age of Reason
"Then after he's arrested, he sobers up in jail, and blames the damage on the cops.

And he makes millions from the lawsuit."

I flatly disbelieved the story when it first came out, so naturally, I was hoping that the allegations against the officers weren't true. Once one pled guilty, Louima was vindicated. A terrible, terrible case.

31 posted on 02/12/2005 8:20:04 PM PST by Enterprise ("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
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To: Enterprise

That implies the govt regulating not only the internet, but also usenet, ftp sites, p2p, etc 100% of the time. Perhaps if it gets bad enough, they will bring back Leviticus style death sentences for such actions.


32 posted on 02/12/2005 8:35:30 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: Chode

Oh man do NOT even suggest that! The last thing I wanna see going to work is rotting penises on the side of the road that have simply dropped off of homosexuals. There was an article a few months ago about a VERY severe virus in african monkeys where their penis just rotted away "fell off" one day, with many monkeys living on afterwards.


33 posted on 02/12/2005 8:46:04 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: TypeZoNegative
"Why the hell didn't they do it when this disease was in it's primative form!?"

Probably for the same reasons Clinton's gang didn't do anything about the disease called Islam after the U.S.S. Cole was hit as well as WTC 1993.

34 posted on 02/12/2005 8:47:59 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: Windsong

The Government already prosecutes crimes related to the internet. It's not so much about regulation, but investigations into criminal activities leading to the deaths of others, facilitated by the internet.


35 posted on 02/12/2005 9:02:03 PM PST by Enterprise ("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
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To: Enterprise
Louima was out partying that night.

Some people take drugs to enhance sex--especially homosexuals.

Just as the subject of this thread took drugs to enhance his homosexual sex.

If you ask me which is the simplest explanation:

Whether Louima damaged himself having anal sex under the influence of drugs . . .

Or whether two cops shoved a stick up his rectum in a precinct bathroom, causing Louima massive internal injuries . . .

I'd say the first was more likely: that Louima got his injuries while having anal sex under the influence of drugs.

He was admitted to the hospital that day--would not the hospital have tested him for drugs?

Or did they just take his word for it when he said the cops did it to him?
36 posted on 02/12/2005 10:02:59 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Enterprise

I suspect what may have happened was that Volpe assured his lawyer that no one saw him near the bathroom where Abner Louima claimed he was tortured.

And so Volpe's lawyer probably said that the best thing to do if no one saw you near the bathroom, is just to say you were nowhere near the bathroom at the time . . . .

Rather than say you had passed by the bathroom, which might make you look guilty.

The only problem was another cop broke the blue wall of silence to say that he saw Volpe near the bathroom (I do not think he said Vople entered the bathroom) when Volpe said he wasn't anywhere near the bathroom.

And that was that: caught lying to the judge, Vople's lawyer must have then advised him to plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court.

That's what I think happened.


37 posted on 02/12/2005 10:12:35 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: mabelkitty
They can all go to Boston, get married, and have free medicaid to pay for their disease. This is, afterall, the real reason behind gay marriage.

That's interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

38 posted on 02/12/2005 10:25:02 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Windsong
euwwww... just damn.
39 posted on 02/13/2005 7:38:34 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: JeffersonRepublic.com

Thag wants to be sure he understands the context here. This guy, whoever he is (and won't be for long) has unprotected anal sex with "many" (read hundreds)anonymous men, catches a new strain of this disease (oh yeah, almost forgot...while wacked out on crystal meth) and it's a public health crisis that we're all s'posed to pay for?

I think my Libertarian friends are on the money...you want to live your life, that's fine...just don't expect the rest of us to have to pay for it. Same goes for knuckleheads who don't want to wear motorcycle helmets...scramble your brain all you want, but don't expect me to pay for it.

Love,
Thag


40 posted on 02/13/2005 9:26:13 AM PST by thag (Up armor this......)
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