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Ohio's Typhoid Mary's

AIDS activist Michael Petrelis

My skepticism meter is running after reading these wire stories about an alleged outbreak of typhoid fever among gay men last year in Ohio.

Too many times I have witnessed federal and San Francisco health authorities concocting scary stories about alleged new ways gay men are transmitting STDs, without much verifiable evidence to back up their claims. Just this year, the undocumented statements about surging HIV rates here widely spread, at a time when federal funding levels for HIV programs were under consideration. The attitude among SF and CDC officials is, "Need money from the feds? Prick more diseased blood from the gays. They won't object, as long as we give them jobs."

If the typhoid fever outbreak did indeed occur last summer, why did CDC authorities wait until the EIS conference in April to inform the public? I'm pleased to learn health departments around the nation were notified, but I wonder why gay and mainstream news outlets were kept ignorant about the outbreak.

In science, and politics, timing is crucial. President Bush, according to an April 2 A.P. wire story, wants to eliminate $126 million from the EIS budget. Perhaps the CDC officials waited until their 50th EIS annual meeting to release information about the supposed typhoid fever outbreak to give more serious attention to the evidence, and to help generate articles with no skepticism by reporters.

The allegations that some of the gay men with typhoid fever did not cooperate with health officials seems part of pattern to portray gay men as the modern version of Typhoid Mary.

The A.P. says, "The CDC labeled typhoid a sexually transmitted disease for the first time at a conference in Atlanta this week, urging infected patients to stop all sexual contact until they are clear of the disease." Frankly, I think the CDC's ultimate agenda is to stop all sexual contact between gay men. Period. All the messages about gays from the CDC is that we are diseased homosexuals creating innovative ways of spreading STDs leads me to suspect CDC, and particularly Dr. Judy Wasserheit, the director of CDC STD programs, are campaigning to end gay sex.

As you read the wire accounts, I ask you to be deeply skeptical about these CDC allegations.

Michael Petrelis
San Francisco

'Republicans are Thieves!'
(Jeb Bush Protest, April 28)

Imagine you're going to wine and dine for $1000 a plate, with Jeb Bushit at the Harbour Beach Marriott in Ft. Lauderdale.

And you're in your finest-- both in clothing and car, only to drive into a road where Oral Majority's Mighty 13 stand with signs that say "Bush Stole The Election" and chanting: "Republicans are Thieves", "No More Bushit".

From our side of the story it was a fabulous protest, our 104th, since November 7, 2000.

We already knew that "No More Bushit" got their goat, but accusing them of being thieves was icing on the cake and those smiles'on their pusses left quickly, as the label stuck in their craw.

Of course, the angrier they got, the happier we got.

I was attempting to dramatize pouring arsenic water on one car, and they got hysterical, while I commented: "Well if it's good enough for your stomach, why not your car?"

"Raw Sewage and tonic madam?” I offered. They were not amused.

One older bitty called me a 'fag'. We also got about seven 'fingers'.

Such hostility. Tsk, Tsk.

Ironically, there was another function also going on at the same time and we had quite a few supporters also in this line of cars and yes, Jeb was in a white limo and he slowly rode past our whole majestic protest.

Hey, if we were the conversation piece at the beginning of this event by these hard rollers, then our mission was accomplished.

Of course, the Bushit Media ignored us completely, but not all those driving in or walking to the event, who got the 'full monte'. And we get to do it again tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in West Palm Beach on Okeechobee Road., and then at Weston Hills County Club at 4:30 p.m. in Broward County.

So many sour faces, so little time. How come these winners are such losers? How come they've got all this money and no class?

How come after 5 months they're still facing protests?

Yours Faithfully,
Bob Kunst

Thomas H. Maugh II
–AIDS Disinformation Source

I notice a repeated attempt by major media "AIDS reporters" to distort the history of origin of AIDS --- and to keep the public "confused."

One example is by continuous AIDS writer Thomas H Maugh II in the Los Angeles Times ["Studies refute theory linking polio vaccine, AIDS", April 26, 2001.] Maugh, in his report debunking the 1950s polio vaccine theory of Ed Hooper, writes:

"Koprowski led a team of researchers that tested a newly developed live-virus polio vaccine called CHAT during the late 1950s in the region of Africa that is now Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo. That is the same area where the first large outbreaks of AIDS occurred, about the same time that the vaccine was tested. Hooper thought that was too big a coincidence."

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I have written Maugh concerning the man-made origin of AIDS, with no reply (I certainly didn't expect one.)

However, Maugh -- in the above --- gives the impression to Times readers that AIDS actually existed in these African countries in the 1950s and 1960s. In truth --- there is no good evidence that AIDS cases (a large or a small number) existed in Africa in the 1950s. The earliest confirmed AIDS cases in Africa date back only to the late 1970s at the earliest.

Despite this, Maugh and Lawrence K Altman (longtime AIDS writer for the NY Times) continue to misinform and disinform the public on this history of origin of HIV/AIDS.

This situation only convinces me all the more that there is a continuing deliberate attempt by the worldwide major media to hide the theory (similar but NOT identical Hooper's vaccine theory) -- that AIDS in gay and African blacks can be traced back to vaccine experiments (not in the 1950s) but in the 1970s!!!!!!

For those of you involved in the origin of HIV/AIDS, please be aware of this disinformation by AIDS writers in the major media -- and their distortion of the history of AIDS, which allows them to produce and widely disseminate "facts" that do not exist -- like the idea that there were large outbreaks of AIDS in Africa in the 1950s.

Please also be aware that there is extensive propaganda in the media surrounding the origin of HIV/AIDS. I am sure no one would doubt that historically propaganda has served as an effective tool to conceal genocide throughout the last century. It is certainly no different as far as AIDS "history" is concerned.

Alan Cantwell Jr MD