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Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli, two of the nation's most vocal critics of the HIV/AIDS disease industry, stated today from their cell in pod B of the San Francisco county jail that the full page open letter to the community is the first in a series to appear in The San Francisco Examiner and the weekly gay and lesbian newspaper, the Bay Area Reporter. "We issue this statement to thank our many supporters who have leant their energy and strength to us during this ordeal," the activists state. "Your help means more to us than words can express." The two adamantly deny the dozens of misdemeanor and felony accusations and condemn as "steeped in homophobia the malevolent media representation" of them as terrorists that threaten families. Petrelis and Pasquarelli assert that claims they phoned a bomb threat to The San Francisco Chronicle requiring their headquarters to be evacuated are "absurd." They also stated they never stalked public health officials' families and denied any communication with their children. "We have never visited the homes of our accusers. Furthermore, we have never telephoned or talked to any of our accusers' children," stated the imprisoned protesters. "Claims that we engaged in such appalling acts are patently false and derived from the unacceptable societal stereotype of the big, bad homosexual that preys on little kids." The statement then goes on to blast the industry of AIDS researchers and non-profit groups as driven by greed and rotten with corruption.
They state that their goal is to bring national attention to the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, CDC-backed legislation pending in all 50 states that will give health officials sweeping powers to cage citizens suspected of harboring disease, to confiscate and destroy their properties, monitoring and publicizing their health histories, and legally forcing medical testing on citizens and treatment without court orders. A version of the act is expected to be introduced into the California State Legislature in January of 2002 by Assembly member Keith Richman (D - Granada Hills). |
Michael Petrelis: Jailed AIDS dissident 