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My
Program
Against
AIDS
- Jby Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
February 7, 1987s many New Hampshire citizens know, last year,
some friends of mine in California put a proposed
law, called Proposition 64, on the state's November
election ballot. I supported that Proposition actively. Cal-
ifornia Proposition 64 would have merely commanded state
government officials to classify AIDS as a dangerous con-
tagious disease; existing laws for such classes of infectious
diseases would have been enforced.
For this, I was attacked violently, as an "extremist," by
most of the major national news media and the leadership
of both major political parties, as well as by a multimillion-
dollar campaign launched by combined forces of homosex-
ual groups and Hollywood celebrities. Attacks against my
analysis of AIDS were issued by such agencies of the U.S.
government as the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control (CDC),
and the Surgeon General of the United States, C. Everett
Koop. The United Nations' World Health Organization
(WHO) supported CDC's claims. The Reagan administra-
tion insisted that the measures I proposed against AIDS
would be "cost-prohibitive." Despite this campaign against
me and the proposition, the proposition received approxi-
mately one-third of the vote.
Since that November election, nearly everything which I
said about AIDS during 1985 and 1986, has been endorsed
by leading international authorities. In November 1986, the
World Health Organization's head, Dr. Halfdan Mahler,
declared publicly, in New York City, that WHO had been
wrong, that WHO had greatly underestimated the danger of
the AIDS epidemic. More recently, Surgeon-General Koop
has declared that AIDS is a greater danger than the Black
Death. CDC has demanded that general testing of the pop-
ulation must be seriously considered. Now, most of the
world's experts are admitting that my 1986 estimates for
the spread of the infection, were accurate. Now, most experts
agree, that the AIDS infection is probably 100% fatal, after
an incubation period ranging from a few years to as long
as more than 10 years in some cases.
Today, if they were honest, our national news-media, our
major political parties, and many others, would come out
to state publicly that they had been wrong in every one of
the attacks they made against me over the AIDS issue during
last year. Today, throughout the world, a growing number
of government officials and major news media, as well as
medical and biological experts, are reporting the same things
I said in 1986, in today's screaming headlines.
By the time of the 1988 New Hampshire primary elec-
tions, the AIDS pandemic will be the hottest popular issue
in the United States, and most other parts of the world.
Already, because of the failure of governments to act, there
is a growing pattern of AIDS-related killings and suicides
around the world. That pattern will skyrocket over the com-
ing months of 1987, and will explode during 1988, unless
governments act very soon to reassure people, by introducing-; ~
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