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AIDS and PC, a fatal combination (DOJ fiasco)
American Thinker ^ | August 9, 2010 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 08/09/2010 1:50:00 PM PDT by jazusamo

South Carolina adopted a perfectly reasonable method to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in its prison  population: isolating those with the disease from the rest of the prison  population. Unsurprisingly, the demented P.C. crowd at the Department of Justice want to put a halt to that. J. Christian Adams writes in the Washington Examiner:

Two unpleasant topics of conversation most of us avoid are the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among prison inmates and a variety of sometimes violent events resulting in transmission of the disease. Some states long ago implemented policies to protect the uninfected part of the prison population while providing exceptional medical treatment and counseling to the infected population.

In South Carolina, it has worked so well since 1998 that there has only been a single transmission of HIV/AIDS to a noninfected prisoner. All that may change, however, thanks to a threat from Eric Holder's Justice Department.

South Carolina received a letter from the now-infamous Civil Rights Division that the policy of keeping infected inmates at a designated facility, instead of scattered across the state in the general prison population, may unfairly stigmatize infected prisoners. To the Obama political appointees in the Civil Rights Division, this constitutes discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

h/t: Instapundit

This follows the gay activists' fight to undo the ban on blood donations from those  most likely to be stricken with the disease.

Gay men have been prohibited from giving blood since 1985. But momentum to change the ban has grown recently, with advocacy groups, blood-collection organizations and members of Congress calling for the Food and Drug Administration to revise the donation rules.

The Health and Human Services Committee, in its recommendations, noted that current policy permits some potentially high-risk blood donations and prevents some possible low-risk donations. But the panel said existing research isn't adequate to justify lifting the ban. The FDA has final say over the blood rules.

Gay rights groups said the blood donation policy discriminates against gay and bisexual men. They point out a heterosexual man or a woman having sex with an HIV-positive partner is restricted from giving blood for one year from that contact, while gay men face a lifetime ban.

Let's hope South Carolina fights this ridiculous effort to endanger the life of those in its custody.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: aids; aidsprotection; blooddonationban; civilrightsdivision; cultureofcorruption; democrats; doj; ericholder; holder; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; impeachobama; injusticedepartment; jchristianadams; justicedepartment; obama; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; prisoninmates; prisonrape; prisonviolence
Holder's DOJ is clearly out of control. The linked Washington Examiner article is an excellent read.
1 posted on 08/09/2010 1:50:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Can their be any doubt that Evil is on the march?


2 posted on 08/09/2010 1:52:44 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: jazusamo

“Holder’s DOJ is clearly out of control.”

That clown needs to go back to what he knows best - facilitating pardons for high-roller felons.


3 posted on 08/09/2010 1:57:05 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: jazusamo

Hell, because I travel outside of the country I am barred from giving blood. Now they want to drill for blood among the diseased? Typical libtard thinking.


4 posted on 08/09/2010 2:14:05 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: upchuck; SC Swamp Fox

G-d bless SC!


5 posted on 08/09/2010 2:22:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: jazusamo

Not enough AIDS in cracker babies for Holder and DO”J”?


6 posted on 08/09/2010 2:31:04 PM PDT by Diogenesis ('Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God' - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jazusamo

A simple tenet of disease control is followed to protect the health of others. If such had been done in the 1980s with the homosex population, we would not now have 2 million cases of HIV/AIDs in the country.


7 posted on 08/09/2010 2:50:51 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: Neoliberalnot
"If such had been done in the 1980s with the homosex population, we would not now have 2 million cases of HIV/AIDs in the country."

Got it in one! I remember when AIDS was first getting started. Anyone who suggested quarantine and contact searching was shouted down as "prejudiced against gays". Which is precisely why so many queers have died of it. Too stupid to follow common-sense health requirements.

8 posted on 08/09/2010 3:06:18 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

silly question, but if this was the case should not there be fewer homosexuals rather than more?


9 posted on 08/09/2010 4:06:02 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
"silly question, but if this was the case should not there be fewer homosexuals rather than more?"

Stupid people outnumber bright ones by a good bit. And the queers are doing everything in their power to obfuscate the consequences of the lifestyle.....WITH the connivance of the news media. It's hard to make an intelligent, informed decision when you are inundated with propaganda 24/7/365.

10 posted on 08/09/2010 4:44:43 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: All
Previously...


WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Editorial: "HOLDER PUTS FELONS OVER SOLDIERS The Justice Department Obstructs Military Voting Rights" (July 28, 2010, 5:22 pm) (Read More...)

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11 posted on 08/10/2010 1:11:56 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Wonder Warthog

Got it in one! I remember when AIDS was first getting started. Anyone who suggested quarantine and contact searching was shouted down as “prejudiced against gays”. Which is precisely why so many queers have died of it. Too stupid to follow common-sense health requirements.””

This was when the science of disease control was trumped by rights of deviants. Look at the war on people who use tobacco today and think if the same pressure had been applied to the deviants. It is a sad day when public health is sacrificed for the benefit of a perverted behavior.


12 posted on 08/10/2010 7:41:52 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: jazusamo

More evidence the insane are in charge of the assylum...

Just like back ‘round 1933:

http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm


13 posted on 08/10/2010 6:18:29 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

Yep, I’ve read some on the gays in the Nazi party, there was a fair amount of them.


14 posted on 08/10/2010 7:25:18 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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