There’s a lot of bitter angry gay people who are bitter and angry about… well, life… but also bitter and hateful toward Ronald Reagan because he was president at the height of the AIDS epidemic and, according to bitter angry gay people, “didn’t talk about AIDS.” Because Ronald Reagan’s magic words would have cured AIDS, or something.
OK, so if Ronald Reagan was a bad, bad man for not saying the word AIDS until 1985. How bad was Bill Clinton for distributing AIDS-tainted blood for profit.
‘Steve was one of over two thousand Canadians infected with HIV, the AIDS virus,’ Dolly claims. The source was traced to bad blood collected from inmates in Arkansas’ prisons.
Inmates were paid $7 a pint for their blood and ‘Billy’s cronies then sold the prisoners’ blood to some blood brokers for $50 per pint’.
When it was discovered that the blood was tainted, prisons instituted a ‘screening process’ which was merely a ‘screening clerk’ who was selling ‘the right to bleed’ to prisoners.
Infected prisoners continued to sell their blood as long as they bribed the screening clerk. Instead of the $7 fee, some received drugs.
Arkansas prisons were banned from selling blood when government officials learned that the bad blood was coming from the state.
Getting around that ban, dummy corporations were set up in other states to purchase the bad blood and then resell it.
All of that infected blood went to Canada, where between 8,000 and 10,000 people died.
Little Rock journalist Suzi Parker took on Clinton and his role in the tainted blood scandal in an exposé. She quit her investigation when she started receiving threatening phone calls in the middle of the night, writes Dolly.
Call me crazy, but it seems like knowingly distributing AIDS-tainted blood for profit might be somewhat worse than not saying the word “AIDS” in public at some earlier date.
In fairness, the source for this information is a tell-all book from one of Bill Clinton’s former mistresses. However, the Arkansas Blood Scandal was a real thing, and Clinton business and political associates were involved. It would be great if there were some group of people whose job it was to investigate these kind of things and report them impartially to the public.
Even if true, it would never matter to the LGBT Democrat Left. Bill Clinton is a Democrat, and Democrats are “gay allies,” so no criticism, ever.
What’s the statute of limitations on this sort of thing? RICO?
The “Reagan didn’t care about AIDS” trope has been debunked many, many times – it’s just one of those lies that will not die. I’m old enough to remember back in the mid 80s when RR’s Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, mailed an AIDS pamphlet to every address in the United States so I’d say that counts as a mention.
As awful as dying from AIDS is (was?), the awful fact remains that rampant promiscuity and risk-taking among a segment of the gay population contributed mightily to the spread. Ponder the fact that some men who knew they carried the virus knowingly inoculated their partners with the virus (some of whom did develop the infection).
Like most left-leaning groups, blame *always* belongs to someone else.
“…Arkansas’s contract allowed PBBP to use the ADC’s plasmapheresis center at the Cummins unit without charge, while the ADC provided all utilities and janitorial services, as well as “access” to inmates at approved units “desiring to participate in the program.” That included busing some inmates to the center. …
“I think the inmates were looked on sort of as little cows,” Roberts said.”
Not much a different view than how the companies involved in butchering aborted children into parts see the former moms. And I cannot believe how many people I’ve encountered that buy the “they gave consent” line. Bullshit. Anyone that thinks PP-ish clinics don’t take every kid they can and look for saleable parts is an idiot. They don’t give a rats ass about the women–they know there’s no way in hell she could ever prove her kid was sent to the chop shop despite non-consent.
Actually I have known gays that said they purposely tried to infect STR8 people via the blood supply to get STR8 people to care more about AIDS.
“…if there were some group of people whose job it was to investigate these kinds of things and report them impartially to the public.” there use to be, they were called reporters, but then they all went to journalism school…
If Reagans words would have made a difference then why won’t Obama say “radical islamic jihadist”? Hypocritical? or am I comparing apples to oranges?
Salg: Thank you.
@ 5, Journalism and Communication degrees are the most worthless degrees ever! If you have a knack for writing and the news, just write or start a blog. Remember though, to tell the truth and use integrity and dont give into political indoctrinations.
But Bill is a Democrat, so he gets a pass.