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S.F.'s ACT UP Ordered to Back Off

San Francisco Chronicle - Saturday, November 11, 2000
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer

San Francisco -- Five members of the AIDS dissident group ACT UP/San Francisco will be
prohibited from coming within 100 yards of offices or employees of an AIDS service organization
under a preliminary injunction granted this week by a San Francisco judge.
Superior Court Judge Ina Levin Gyemant's ruling stems from an April incident in which members
of ACT UP were charged with assault and trespassing after getting in a scuffle at a Project
Inform meeting where members were discussing the benefits of taking breaks from AIDS drugs.

( you see, only their opinion counted huh Carter, the bigots)

According to people who witnessed the incident, ACT UP members pushed their way past security,
and pelted Project Inform's founding director, Martin Delaney, and others with hard, pelletlike
pills, while yelling epithets.

( What could an aids infected faggot call another aids infected faggot ?)

"We're delighted at the outcome and at the same time saddened that at this point in the AIDS
epidemic we're being forced to protect our employees and constituents from violence and threats
of violence," said Project Inform board president Joe Garrett.

ACT UP/San Francisco has for years been at odds with mainstream AIDS groups over its philosophy
that HIV does not cause AIDS. Its members have aligned themselves with other AIDS dissidents
including controversial University of California at Berkeley Professor Peter Duesberg. They
operate their marijuana dispensary, maintaining that marijuana is less harmful than the side
effects of the drugs.

( This is the bottom line for Act Up. They collected no monies from legal drug sales
so the drug pushers fought for monies they collected from illegal drug sales)

ACT UP member Andrea Lindsay said yesterday that the group is considering appealing the ruling.

"We're disappointed that after going to great lengths to tell the truth in the courtroom, this
is what the judge has decided," Lindsay said. "We still maintain that we engaged in no violence
at the (April) forum."

( No surprise there. Personal responsibility is unheard of with this group of violent
drugpushers )

In her ruling Gyemant said her decision was justified by past violent acts in which ACT UP
members targeted, harassed and stalked officials from mainstream AIDS organizations, including
a 1996 incident in which member Ronnie Burk dumped cat litter over the head of San Francisco
AIDS Foundation executive direct Pat Christen.

That incident led a San Francisco judge to grant three-year restraining orders barring several
members of ACT UP from coming near offices or employees of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Judge Gyemant has two weeks to finalize her ruling.

ACT UP -- an acronym for AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power -- gained notoriety in the late 1980s,
at the height of the AIDS epidemic by demanding lower drug prices and research for a cure. ACT
UP/San Francisco splintered in the early 90s because of differences over the group's mission.

( LOL, can't we all just get along? not when money is the goal )

Since 1994, ACT UP San Francisco has been led by a handful of HIV-positive activists who say
they have been living healthy lives without medication.

( Hey, here are some of those elite controllers you studied for years Carter, dead from aids)

In September, dozens of AIDS activists held a press conference denouncing ACT UP's tactics and
calling on people with AIDS to boycott the group's marijuana dispensary.

( There it is in a nut-shell)

The judge's ruling applies to ACT UP members Lindsay, David Pasquarelli, Michael
Bellefountaine, Ronnie Burk and Todd Swindell.

"This is not a really big city and we don't know where most of these people live," Lindsay
said. "We have no intent of being near them but their offices are four blocks from ours. This
ruling is really Draconian."

( Oh shucks )

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