"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message

Then goes on to:

When you decide to get up off of your knees and make a stand
let me know.

That doublespeak sh.t is just too faggot for me to follow

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message

I'm glad you had to ask. That tells me truck loads about you.
Now you. Post any violent act my opinion has caused.
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More violence from ACT UP/SF: Woman injured at HIV treatment forum

The Bay Area Reporter - April 21, 2000
Terry Beswick

About halfway through an educational forum on treatment options for people with HIV and AIDS on
Monday evening, April 17, Todd Swindell, David Pasquarelli, Michael Bellefountaine, Ronnie
Burke, and several other members of ACT UP/San Francisco suddenly burst into the room,
shouting, spitting, and throwing handfuls of hard pills into people's faces.
One woman was injured when she was pushed down after she tried to break up a scuffle between
audience members and the protesters.

"What happened was when the crowd started shouting and telling [the protesters] to get out,
they really became violent," said Judy Leahy, who helped organize the meeting as a staff member
for Project Inform, one of the meeting's co-sponsors. "They were hitting people with signs, and
I tried to stop them."

Leahy was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was X-rayed and treated for a knee
injury, and released at about 1 a.m. Tuesday.

Over 100 people attended the meeting at the Baha'i Center at 170 Valencia Street in San
Francisco co-sponsored by Survive AIDS, the group formerly known as ACT UP/Golden Gate.
Twenty-four people reportedly gave their phone numbers so they could be called as witnesses to
the violent attack.

"They were screaming, 'You faggots deserve to die!'" said Hank Wilson, a member of Survive
AIDS. Wilson said that, prior to the disruption, the meeting was one of the best he had
attended "since the beginning of the epidemic."

The protesters fled before police arrived. In a statement issued the next day from their Market
Street headquarters, Bellefountaine and Pasquarelli claimed their "mission was to confront
Founding Director Martin Delaney over his public about-face on interrupting lifelong dosing of
HIV-positive people with potent protease inhibitors."

In addition to Delaney, the meeting featured Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California,
San Francisco AIDS Program, and other experts discussing current thinking on HIV treatment
strategies, including the option of taking "treatment holidays," or structured treatment
interruption.

"I think they need to be in front of a judge," said Wilson, adding that he personally signed
onto the police report as a complainant over the disruption. "That behavior is not acceptable
and their actions should have consequences."

"We're going for restraining orders," Delaney told the Bay Area Reporter.

Wilson and others said that, while the membership of ACT UP/San Francisco does not appear to be
increasing in size, the small group is able to leverage their wealth from sales of medical
marijuana to spread their dissident message that "AIDS is over."

Members of the group have been involved in violent protests several times in recent years,
including throwing cat feces and litter at San Francisco AIDS Foundation Executive Director Pat
Christen, spitting in the face of former San Francisco Department of Public Health staff member
and nurse Marcy Fraser, among numerous other incidents.

"We can predict from their infusion of cash from their pot club that their visibility will
increase," said Wilson.

"I don't think there will be a next time now," said Delaney. "They've pissed off so many people
this time that forces are rising up to bring them down."

"They're not demonstrators. I don't know what they are," said Leahy. "It was physical violence.