----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Fascist Censorship Spreads: Vichy Style
> --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder how people in the end of the XXI century > > will > > think about _us_, who are passive in the face of the > > AIDS African Holocaust :-/ > > > > Alberto Monteiro > > Harshly, but not as harshly. For several reasons. > Two of which are: > 1. Sitting on your hands and doing nothing is bad. > Actively helping people involved in genocide is much > worse, and that's what Communist sympathizers and > Communist spies did during the Cold War. > > 2. Despite what people think, it's really not all that > clear what to do in Africa. The AIDS drugs that we're > finally giving out there do some good, but the methods > used to get them (basically, browbeating pharma > companies that bothered to do research to try to cure > AIDS) means that all private research in AIDS has, to > first order, stopped. I imagine that history will > judge the people who made that happen very harshly > indeed, actually. Just throwing money at the problem > will do little, because the structures and governments > necessary to administer the aid and make it useful > _don't exist_. There is one other thing that hurts, at least according to my daughter Neli. According to her, Bush's AIDs program was mostly propaganda. When the time came to fund it, the money wasn't allocated as promised. Second, while we cannot stop the spread of AIDs in Africa, there are measures to slow it down. Again, folks who have made at least a small dent in the spread are prohibited from getting funding because of the administration's supporters discomfort with the connection between condoms, birth control and agencies that favor abortions. When Neli gets home tonight, I'll double check on her sources. But, since Zambia now has a life expectancy in the lower 30s, she feels this rather strongly. And, I know that its not just Bush bashing on her part because she also said that she has to admit that Bush/Powell have done far more than the UN or anyone else about addressing Sudan. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
