Cornillon - France

the 25th of March 2006

Open letter to ACTUP New York I

To: ACTUP New York

CC: Everybody else

Subject: ACTUP's definition of Aids Denialism

Friends,

You must help me. I don't know what to do anymore. Some days ago I was hanging around on
the Web again, surfing from one site to another. That's been my main occupation ever since
I decided to stay at home and lock everybody out in order to be sure that this fu**ing HIV
will never get me by the throat. Internet provides a lot of good information about
diseases, especially about HIV and AIDS. And recently also, of course, about that
go*da**ed H5N1 virus. Well, no birds around my place so it doesn't really bother me.

I've been reading much about Celia Farber's ridiculous article in Harper's and reading all
your debunking articles has been a lot of fun for me. Really keeps me going, you know. The
denialists are really too silly for words, it's almost another race of human beings, don't
you think so ? Well, you might as well leave the human out of it. Bloody retards, that's
what they are.

What bothers me though, is something I read on:

http://www.actupny.org/reports/denialist_harpers.html

There's a beautiful picture of three persons, denier dummies of course, burying their head
in the sand. But the phrase next to it, well, it's difficult to say but really, it drives
me crazy.

AIDS DENIALISM = SEEING WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE

It must be said that I have read every single article written by you and your friends so I
hate the guts of the aids dissidents, but how can I get away with this? Since I have read
your definition of AIDS denialism, I am trying very hard to only see what I don't want to
see but it doesn't work. For instance, the movie I didn't want to see yesterday, well, I
saw it just because I didn't want to see it. And now I'm feeling all messed up because I
saw the movie that I wanted to see because I didn't want to see it. So in the end I saw
what I wanted to see. Does that mean that I'm an AIDS denier now?

I can't decide anymore. I finally read Celia Farber's article because I thought that
reading the crap myself would get me out of my awkward situation, but the opposite
happened: I think Celia's writing does make a lot of sense. Is that because I see in the
article what I want to see? It's strange. All of a sudden, I have the impression that we
are suffering a total lack of elementary logic where the deniers do seem brilliant. Well,
maybe that's also because Celia really looks very cute on that picture. Maybe I'll have
some more of the crap. And now I come to think of it: if the deniers were right, I could
go unlock my front door and get some fresh air.

Well, I started my letter asking you for help, but now I've written it all down, I don't
think I need it anymore. I feel kind of silly all of a sudden. Being locked away from the
world and all that. I'm going to have a closer look at www.virusmyth.com

Regards,

Jan Spreen

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