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This is the best brief article I have found dealing with the subject of AIDS.
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There is no copyright, so please distribute it widely.
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The author, Gary North, ph.D., is president of the Institute for Christian
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Economics. He has written a number of books including UNCONDITONAL SURRENDER:
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GOD'S PROGRAM FOR VICTORY... BACKWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS... DOMINION AND
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COMMON GRACE... and UNHOLY SPIRITS - OCCULTISM AND NEW AGE HUMANISM. His
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organization publishes several newsletters including BIBLICAL ECONOMICS TODAY,
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CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTION, DOMINION STRATEGIES, and COVENANT RENEWAL.
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For more information, write ICE, Box 8000, Tyler, TX 75711.
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The Plague Has Come at Last
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by Gary North
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"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet
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somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a
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blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always
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plagues and wars take people equally by surprise." -Albert Camus, THE PLAGUE
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(1948)
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The time has come to fish or cut bait. Because of my concern for reprisals, I
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have kept my mouth shut, or at least I have whispered, for too long. I even
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turned down a national radio show interview last month on the topic. But
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something happened to me a week ago that has changed my attitude. I am not
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remaining quiet any longer.
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On the final weekend of February, I attended a conference. Because of
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restrictions imposed by the organization, I am not allowed to mention its name.
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This was a rule established in 1981, at the first meeting. It's not a secret
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society; it's more of a publicity- shy group. The major "New Right" leaders in
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the U.S. belong, and a lot of them were in attendance this time.
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There is no question what became the focus of attention: a special briefing on
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AIDS. I don't think most of the attendees really knew what AIDS is all about
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when they walked in. They were stunned when they walked out. So was I, and I
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had heard most of it before. But not all of it.
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I can mention who one of the speakers was, since he has agreed: Gene Antonio.
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Gene wrote THE AIDS COVERUP? (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986), by far
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the best researched and most frightening book on the topic. Subscribers to
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FIRESTORM CHATS have already heard some of the information Antonio has.
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Another speaker was a U.S. Congressman.
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Because of what I learned at that session, and because of two other public
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developments that happened that weekend, I am going to put my reputation on the
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line and "come out of the closet" myself--the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak
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no evil" closet that the homosexual community has put us in. I am going to
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lose some subscribers over this. I am also pulling the copyright. I want this
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issue reprinted.
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A generation ago, French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus (caMOO) wrote
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a grim novel, THE PLAGUE. The plot centered around a town in which a plague
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had broken out. Would public health officials and politicians admit it in time
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for people to flee, but in doing so admit defeat for the public health program,
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or would they simply sit quietly and let the plague take its course? They did
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the latter for far too long. Safety first. For the bureaucrats.
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That same decision now faces us again. Only we are not talking about a town
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this time. We are talking about the whole world. There will be few places for
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people to flee to.
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WILL THE PLAGUE BECOME OFFICIAL IN TIME?
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. . . . . small official notices had been put up about the town, though in
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places where they would not attract much attention. It was hard to find in
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these notices any indication that the authorities were facing the situation
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squarely. The measures enjoined were far from Draconian and one had the
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feeling that many concessions had been made to a desire not to alarm the
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public.
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So wrote Camus in 1948. So writes North in 1987. But the plague I'm writing
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about isn't fiction. It's real. It's here.
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On Sunday morning, March 1, a local radio station in the Miami area broadcast a
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most remarkable program. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) broadcast
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a show dealing with AIDS. They opened their phone lines to the whole world.
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Then they started giving the facts. The facts, if they do not change, are
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going to restructure Western Civilization as nothing has in over 400 years.
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But no one quite gets around to saying this.
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But what they do admit is bad enough. Before the disease has run its course,
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world public health officials estimate, ABOUT ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE WILL
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DIE FROM AIDS, WORLDWIDE. That figure was confirmed later that evening by
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Surgeon General Koop on the Larry King television show.
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A hundred million people is as many people as those who died in all the wars
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and concentration camps of the twentieth century (excluding China -- no one
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knows how many died in China). I am using the estimate of Gil Elliot,
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TWENTIETH CENTURY BOOK OF THE DEAD, Scribners, 1971, p. 1. But it will happen
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in a little over a decade.
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At present, the number of those coming down with the third stage of the
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disease, called full-blown AIDS, is doubling each year. The mathematical
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precision is uncanny. The head of the public health department predicted to
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Rev. Ed Rowe in 1985 the number of people who would die from AIDS in 1986.
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His estimate was accurate TO THE MAN.
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VANITY FAIR is no doubt the most cleverly and accurately named magazine in the
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U.S. (Vanity Fair was the city of hedonism in John Bunyan's 17th century
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allegory, PARADISE LOST.) The March issue contains an article, "One By One." It
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surveys AIDS's impact on New York City's artistic community. In every field --
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opera, dancing, music, painting, drama -- they have died. The deaths are
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accelerating.
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But it goes far beyond the arts. It goes to the heart of the modern welfare
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State: the health-care delivery system. The VANITY FAIR article cites Dr.
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William Grace, chief of oncology (cancer) at St. Vincent's Hospital in New
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York City. What he says is happening all over the country, but quietly -- for
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the public has not yet begun to panic, and no official wants to be blamed:
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"Every ten to twelve months the number of AIDS patients doubles. Right now at
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St. Vincent's, 45 medical beds -- of our 315 beds available -- are occupied by
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AIDS patients, and most of these are middle-class patients, not the drug users
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or others without medical coverage, who get sent to Bellevue. What happens
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next year, when we have ninety patients? And 180 the year after that? In four
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years we will have exhausted all the medical beds in New York."
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Read it again: "IN FOUR YEARS WE WILL HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL THE MEDICAL BEDS IN
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NEW YORK." And what he admits for New York City is what faces every hospital in
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the U.S. Dr. Grace is blunt: "I think AIDS is going to devastate the
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American medical system."
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The National Academy of Sciences has released a study -- a CONSERVATIVE study
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-- that estimates 270,000 cases of full-blown AIDS in 1991. There will also be
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179,000 deaths from AIDS. Now, let's look at the number of beds in the U.S.
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Gene Antonio's carefully researched book points out that there are 1,360,000
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hospital beds available. Of these, about three-quarters are occupied at any
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given time. This leaves about 325,000 beds unoccupied. But as he points out,
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not all of these beds are suitable for full-blown residents. The first 10,000
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patients who died from AIDS stayed an average of 167 days in the hospital
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before they died.
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The actual outlay on each patient was $147,000. This means that it cost about
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a billion and a half dollars to care for them before they died. This does not
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count the loss of income associated with each person's death. It does not
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count the taxes that will never be collected from them to fund the public
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health, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security systems.
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If prices remain the same, which they won't, as hospitals approach 100%
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occupancy -- and it cost about $150,000 per dying victim -- in 1991 it will
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cost in the neighborhood of $40 billion just to house them before they die.
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In 1992, we will run out of available hospital beds. This means that when you
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take a family member to stay in the hospital, you will either be sent away, or
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be sent to a very expensive private hospital, or they will start stacking AIDS
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victims up in minimal-care, crowded facilities.
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By then, many victims will be heterosexuals.
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But after 1991, it starts getting really serious. Unless a cure is found, or
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for some reason the disease ceases to be lethal, the doubling process gets us.
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Those infected today now number between three million and four million. The
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incubation period, says Dr. Koop, is ten years. They don't know how many
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people presently infected will actually get full-blown AIDS, but it may be as
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high as half. It may be 100%, if we wait long enough. But the disease is
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spreading fast. If it continues to double, 64 million Americans will be
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infected by the end of 1990. If it slows to half the present rate, and does so
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immediately, then "only" 15 million will be carriers in 1990.
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This is why the BBC reported that medical health officials expect that 10
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MILLION U.S. residents will die of AIDS by the year 2000. If we can keep the
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cost per patient to $150,000, it will cost $1.5 TRILLION just to care for them
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until they die. This does not count the permanent loss of jobs, skills,
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productivity, and the widows who will be thrown into the system with a few
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thousand dollars of life insurance -- assuming that in the year 2000, there
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will be any private life insurance companies still in existence.
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The disease is not hitting elderly couples now on Medicare. It is hitting the
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young. It is hitting those who are expected to finance the U.S. welfare
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system. It is hitting those who expect to be supported by the State in their
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"golden years."
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But this isn't front-page news. Iran is. Or the latest gossip from the White
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House.
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The day it becomes front-page news, the West is going to have a revolution. It
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will mark the end of the present statist, humanist, fist-in-God's-face road.
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In THE PLAGUE, the public authorities admitted a crises at the end of Part I of
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the book. When will Part I of OUR "book" occur?
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KOOP'S CONDOM ARGUMENT HAS A HOLE IN IT
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Dr. Koop is preaching condoms for teenagers. He wants a huge sex education
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program in the public schools. Here is the ultimate irony: the Christian
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conservative is now promoting the one program above all others that
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conservatives have fought for three decades: Federal sex education in the
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schools. The Koop report could have been written by the Gay Liberation Task
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Force on AIDS. Its solution is educational and technical, not moral and
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religious.
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The only long-term solution is MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. We are not saved by
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knowledge. For three decades we have seen that sexual promiscuity increases
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with every sex education program introduced into the public schools.
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Conservatives have been yelling about this the whole time. Now, I fear, they
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will remain silent, and a full-scale sex education program with no holds barred
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will be given to our children.
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Not MY children. They are in a private school, and that's where they are going
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to stay. There is going to be a panic soon. When stories begin to get out
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about the AIDS plague in the local high schools and junior high schools, THERE
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IS GOING TO BE A WILD EXODUS FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. You KNOW I'm right. All
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talk about "white flight" will end; regardless of race, color, or national
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origin, THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO BE ABANDONED. It will begin to happen
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in waves, all over the country. The bureaucrats should know it's coming. They
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will be desperate. The humanist left's major institution of middle-class
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indoctrination is going to perish. I think it will happen before the
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mid-1990's.
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I suggest that if you have your children in a private school that the
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headmaster demand a blood test from all students 12 or over, at the beginning
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of each school year. Eventually, this will be expected. When the exodus
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begins, private schools will have to defend their students from outside
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contamination. We are talking about a plague, not the measles.
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Dr. Koop wants us to teach eighth graders about the proper use of condoms.
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Baloney! We need to get our children educated about moral behavior,
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faithfulness, sexual restraint, and the horrendous risks to life if they
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violate these standards. Koop has become a kind of bureaucratic condom
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himself: preaching a prophylactic solution to a world facing a religious
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crisis. He has betrayed his trust. As a Christian, he has so far missed the
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key assignment of his career. No other Surgeon General in U.S. history has
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ever had the limelight focused on him, and he has become the agent of the
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conservatives' mortal enemies. If you thought Siecus was a threat, consider
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Dr. Koop's recommended program.
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Look, PEOPLE DON'T USE CONDOMS WHEN KISSING. The Centers for Disease Control
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announced on January 11, 1985, that "There is a risk of infecting others by ...
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exposure of others through oral-genital contact or intimate kissing" (cited by
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Antonio, p. 108). Is Koop crazy? No, Koop is simply a faithful
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representative of a morally corrupt and scared medical and governmental
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bureaucracy. He fears taking the needed message to the people. He fears
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public controversy more than he fears God. WE NEED A PROPHET, NOT A PUBLIC
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RELATIONS AGENT FOR CONDOMS.
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But his gospel is having economic effects. Stocks in condom manufacturing
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companies have doubled or tripled. But Koop is being unfaithful to the God he
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worships and the community he serves. He has retreated into medical techniques
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as the nation's haven of safety. It will not work.
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First, people refuse to use them. By the time they are scared enough to begin,
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it will be too late. AIDS is an incredible killer. A single virus -- or lenti
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(slow) virus -- invades the victim's cell, passes the genetic material to it,
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and then the victim's own body does the rest. The cells multiply, replicating
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through the victim's body. The immunity system is rendered ineffective. And
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in those rare cases where the victims survive the loss of immunity, THE AIDS
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VIRUS ATTACKS THE BRAIN. DEMENTIA IS THE RESULT.
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Ed Rowe cites the only scientific study of condoms as a defense device. Of
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those couples using condoms, where one was infected, the other was infected in
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one out of six of the couples in the test. As Rowe says, this is the
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equivalent of playing Russian roulette with one bullet in the chamber. Of
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those who did not use condoms, five out of six transmitted it. This is Russian
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Roulette with five bullets out of six -- far worse odds, but is it worth your
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life to rely on condoms? (FIRESTORM CHATS subscribers will receive my
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interview with Rowe in a few weeks.)
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I agree entirely with Phyllis Schlafly's open letter to Dr. Koop. He must
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publicly come out in favor of sexual abstinence until marriage. Nothing else
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will work. Nothing else has a chance. Our children will die unless they
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abandon sexual promiscuity. The sexual revolution, unless reversed, will kill
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them. Koop is betraying his trust -- as a physician, as a Christian, and as
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the top medical spokesman of the Federal government. He was the only public
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official picked by President Reagan as a gesture to placate the Christian vote,
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and now Dr. Koop has turned to medical solutions that cannot do more than
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DELAY THE DEATH SENTENCE for millions of teenagers. He is betraying his
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calling. No public health official in U.S. history has ever had such a
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responsibility. None has been the key figure at the beginning of a plague.
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Yet he can only recommend condoms.
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THERE IS NO SAFE SEX ANY MORE. There is SOMEWHAT SAFER SEX inside the marriage
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relationship, and nowhere else.
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Here we find Dr. Koop, a vocal Christian, recommending condoms. HE IS
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SENTENCING YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEATH. They may believe him, and if they do, they
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will die. There is only one answer, at best: monogamy. He should be telling
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them that they are risking death if they try sex at all before marriage, and
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only in marriage after blood tests. I say tests, because a new AIDS virus,
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called LAV-2, has now appeared that does not show up in the present AIDS blood
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test.
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The problem with AIDS is that the virus mutates rapidly. Any defense against
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it is thwarted by the rapidly evolving virus.
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An EVOLVING virus: what a perfect means of bringing the age of Darwinian
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self-confidence to an end! God has a sense of humor.
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GUERILLA TACTICS
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At the briefing, one of the speakers related an unforgettable story. It's a
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true story. It was reported a few weeks ago in Ft. Worth, Texas. A young
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married man was propositioned by a good looking woman. He hadn't been a
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swinger, but he decided to take advantage of a special situation. When he
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awoke the next morning, the girl was gone. On the mirror, she had written a
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message in lipstick: "Welcome to the world of AIDS."
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He went for testing. He tested positive. Almost certainly, he will die from
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AIDS. Only somewhat less certainly, so will his wife.
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There are thousands of AIDS victims who know they are going to die within 24
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months. Some of them are resentful. ENVY IS DOMINANT. They have decided to
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bring down the "straights", not because they can gain anything by the pain of
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others, but simply because they want to destroy them.
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In New York City, 10% of the AIDS victims are women. Surveys indicate that 80%
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of women with bisexual husbands are unaware of this fact (TIME, Feb. 16, p.
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52). Wives who trust their husbands had better have husbands worth trusting,
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and vice versa. Their lives depend on it.
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Then come blood bank donations. According to Congressman Dannemeyer, there is
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a rule against allowing intravenous drug users from donating blood to public
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blood banks. These people supply about 17% of all AIDS-contaminated blood.
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There is no restriction against donations from homosexuals, who supply 83% of
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the AIDS-contaminated blood. Gays are asked voluntarily to refrain from giving
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blood if they SUSPECT that they might be carriers. As he said, "If gray-eyed
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people were found to carry AIDS, they would not be allow to donate blood. They
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have no powerful lobby in Washington."
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An outraged homosexual need only give blood to exact envious revenge against
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the straight community. Nothing is being done to protect the straights. The
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straights have no lobby to protect them. Yet.
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If it takes a political revolution to get such a lobby, then this nation will
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experience a political revolution within three or four years. The backlash is
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coming, on a scale so massive that today's liberals cannot comprehend it (and
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probably will not survive it -- not if they remain liberals), and today's
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conservatives, hiding in their closets, afraid to speak out to defend
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themselves or this civilization, will not be in there much longer.
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I'm getting out of my closet with this issue. We are under siege. The
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homosexuals didn't create this plague; God did. But they are the primary
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distributors.
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Of course, it is really a waste of time to get angry with them. They won't be
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around much longer. A decade from now, they will all be dead. There will be
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no gay lobby because there will be no male gays. (The irony of all this is
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that the one group that is probably safest is the lesbian community.) But we
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must recognize what we face. The disease will be here in a decade because
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judgment has come.
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All over the country, physicians are personally donating their own blood before
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they submit themselves to an operation. This is being done quietly. I spoke
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to a surgeon about this recently, and he confirmed it. The Red Cross and other
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blood centers used to discourage this practice -- too much paperwork. But for
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an extra fee, they do permit this arrangement.
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If your are considering surgery, this is a must. If you belong to a
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conservative church, try to get other members with your blood type, or
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universal donors (type O) to donate for you. Blood donating for other members
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will become a major aspect of church charitable giving from now on. But
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understand, this is no sure-fire answer; it simply reduces risks. The AIDS
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plague will be in the churches soon enough.
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The hospitals refuse to segregate AIDS patients from others. Former nurse
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Candice Comstive testified to the Houston City Council on Sept. 25, 1985. She
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had been fired from her job at the Memorial City Medical Center. She had been
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employed in the cancer wing. They assigned her AIDS patients without telling
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her that's what they were suffering from. Those without infections but
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carriers of the AIDS lentivirus were not isolated. The patients were not
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confined to their rooms.
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"I had one AIDS patient in January, 1985, who was placed on "STRICT ISOLATION".
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He was in the kitchen at 7:30 a.m. pouring himself coffee, which was not
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unusual. I suggested he return to his room, and with that he turned and
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vomited on me and the kitchen as well. I changed into "scrubs" and returned to
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my assignment of patients for the day. An unsuspecting "house-cleaning"
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employee with mop in hand cleaned up the mess left on the cabinets and floor."
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They had no designated rooms for AIDS patients in the hospital. You will love
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this: "Rooms at the end of the hall used for AIDS patients are also used by
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pediatric patients."
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She was fired. She was also told that "they did not think I would be able to
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find work in any hospital, though, because AIDS is being treated in the same
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manner all over. Nurses elsewhere have verbally validated that statement."
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(Antonio, pp. 150-52).
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Nurses are becoming the heroines of this story. Hospital administrators and
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physicians are the gutless villains. And you and I are the potential victims.
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INSECTS
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They keep telling us that the disease can be transmitted only by sexual
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contact. How do they know? They say that mosquitos carry it, but they do not
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transmit it. How do they know? Ed Rowe made this observation. To test the
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validity of the theory regarding insect transmission they need an infected
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person, an insect to bite him, and a volunteer who does not have the disease
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who will allow the insect to bite him. IF THE TEST PROVES POSITIVE, THE
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VOLUNTEER IS ALMOST CERTAINLY GOING TO DIE. They have had no volunteers, so
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far.
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The prestigious British medical journal, LANCET, published this report two
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years ago (Feb. 16, 1985):
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There is little evidence for homosexual activity among African AIDS patients
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and seriopositive subjects. In Africa HTLV-III (the AIDS lentivirus - G.N.)
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appears to be transmitted through heterosexual contact or exposure to blood
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through insect bites or scarification. ... (Cited by Antonio, THE AIDS
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COVER-UP?, p. 72.)
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If it turns out that mosquitos can transmit it, then you and I are in the hands
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of God.
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An Associated Press report last August revealed the following:
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PARIS (AP) -- Insects contaminated with the AIDS virus have been found in two
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African nations, but there is no evidence that they pose a threat to humans, a
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leading French researcher said Tuesday, Aug. 26, 1986. Most of the 80
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mosquitoes, cockroaches, ant-lions, tsetse flies and other insects tested from
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Zaire and the Central African Republic were infected with the deadly virus,
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said Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann of the Pasteur Institute.
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Having announced this, Chermann then took the Camus road to a calm public:
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"There is no way of transmission to humans by mosquitoes or other insects."
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Scientists are usually very guarded with their language. They use qualifying
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phrases, such as "at the present time, we believe..." and "There is no
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clear-cut positive research indicating..." This enables them to cover their
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professional backsides if counter-evidence is discovered. It also allows them
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to ask for more research money. But in this case, Chermann was certain -
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CERTAIN THAT IF HE ALLOWED THE PUBLIC TO DRAW OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS FROM WHAT HE
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HAS DISCOVERED, HE MIGHT CAUSE A WORLDWIDE PANIC. So he said that the obvious
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is not possible.
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Antonio, in a paper released after his book, refers to studies of African
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children. Over 15% of small children in the high AIDS regions of central
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Africa have been infected, and researchers believe bedbugs are the
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transmitters. As I told Antonio when he told me this: "Sleep tight. Don't
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let the bedbugs bite!" ("Taint funny, McGee," as Molly used to say.)
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Dr. Mark Whiteside and Dr. Carolyn MacLeod, researchers at the Institute of
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Tropical Medicine in Miami, Florida, discovered evidence that AIDS was being
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transmitted by mosquitos in the town of Belle Glade, Florida (Antonio, p.
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106). They presented their findings as early as April of 1985, but little
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coverage was given to them.
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One public health official later broke a gag order from his superiors and went
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to the press about the Belle Glade crisis. Gus Sermos was (at the time) a
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public health official from the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control Assigned to
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Florida. He was abruptly moved from his post when he challenged CDC's position
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that environmental factors had nothing to do with AIDS there. The community
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has a high percentage of NIR: Not Identifiable Risk. He testified before the
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state legislature in early January, 1986.
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In 1986, an official with the county health organization of Houston said that
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he believes that mosquitos transmit AIDS. In 1987, he was fired. Camus was on
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target.
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Dr. James Slaff of the National Institutes of Health reports that the AIDS
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virus can stay alive outside the body for several days, unlike most other
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retroviruses. It can survive for up to a week in a dried-out tube or petri
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dish (LANCET, Sept. 28, 1985). Later studies indicate that the beasties
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survive for 10 days (Journal of the American Medical Association Medical News,
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22/29 Nov. 1985, p. 2866; cited in Antonio, P. 111.) Six months later, the
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Pasteur Institute said it survived for over 15 days at room temperature (p.
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112).
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But what does the Federal government say? In 1986, Dr. Robert Redfield, who
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is with the Department of Virus Diseases of the Walter Reed Army Institute of
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Research, wrote a report for Abbott Laboratories in which he assured us, "The
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virus is fragile outside the human host and appears to be easily killed by
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detergents, hand soaps, alcohols, hydrogen peroxide, phenolics, and sodium
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hypochloride. High and low pH and an exposure to high temperatures will
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inactivate or kill it."
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But it can survive at room temperature if someone coughs, and remain dormant
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for over two weeks. A real "fragile" disease.
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What is fragile is the government's sense of calm, and its public image of
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being fully in control.
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LIFETIME CONTAGION
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Other epidemics could be controlled by quarantine. They came fast, and they
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went fast. The exception was tuberculosis. Now, horrifyingly, this dread
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disease is returning as a side-effect of AIDS.
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How can you quarantine a hundred million people? You can't execute them, yet
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this is the only means of removing the first cousin of the AIDS lentivirus
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||
which attacks sheep.
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You simply wait. And pray. And take steps to reduce the likelihood of your
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family's contracting the disease. But the problem is, pandemics reach a stage
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called CRITICAL MASS. At some point, the disease leaps the normal transmission
|
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barriers and spreads far beyond. This may not happen with AIDS. Yet it may.
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In Texas, there have been 2,000 people with full-blown AIDS. So far, 1,300
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have died (62%). By 1991, state health officials estimate there will be
|
||
16,000. It will be 60,000 by 1996. The plague is here. The world will
|
||
eventually panic. When it does, who will be ready with answers? Which group
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will pick up the pieces?
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THE END
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This article was reprinted from Gary North's REMNANT REVIEW, Vol. 14, No. 5,
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March 6, 1987. It also appeared in The Counsel of Chalcedon, April-May, 1987.
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For more information on this subject, read the following books. They are
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probably available at a Christian bookstore near you, or you can order them
|
||
from The Counsel of Chalcedon for the indicated donation amount from the
|
||
address below:
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|
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THE AIDS COVER-UP? The Real and Alarming Facts About Aids by Gene Antonio
|
||
($25)
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||
|
||
HOMOSEXUALITY: A Biblical View by Greg Bahnsen ($20)
|
||
|
||
THE AIDS EPIDEMIC, A Citizen's Guide to Protecting your Family and Community
|
||
from the Gay Plague by Lawrence E. Lockman ($15)
|
||
|
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The address is:
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|
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The Counsel of Chalcedon 3032 Hacienda Court Marrieta, GA 30066
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By the way, a subscription to The Councel of Chalcedon newsletter, one of the
|
||
best Christian newsletters available, is $15 a year.
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--------------------
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Also, the following cassette tape series by Joseph C. Morecraft, III,
|
||
pastor of the Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, is available:
|
||
|
||
Homosexuality & AIDS I (I Corinthians 6:9-11)
|
||
Homosexuality & AIDS II (Deut. 28:15-22; Rev. 6:7-8)
|
||
How God Removes Dross From a Culture (Isaiah 1:18-26)
|
||
|
||
This set of crucial messages can be ordered for $12 from:
|
||
|
||
Multi-Media Ministries
|
||
P. O. Box 28358
|
||
Atlanta, GA 30358
|
||
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|
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An interview with Gene Antonio, author of THE AIDS COVER-UP?, source of much of
|
||
the information in this article, is available on cassette tape for a donation
|
||
of $10 (I think) from:
|
||
|
||
Focus on the Family
|
||
Box 500
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Arcadia, CA 91006
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AIDS1.TXT
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This article was reproduced in text file form by Bob Nance, SYSOP
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for the DOMINION Conference
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