BreakPoint | Radical Solutions

And what "radical solution" is Chuck Colson recommending? Actually, he's quoting The New York Times, who themselves quote some of their sources as proposing that the government track down those who, for one reason or another, are knowingly spreading the AIDS virus, and stopping them. Want a sample? Here's Larry Kramer, who already has the virus himself, speaking to a gay audience:

You are still murdering each other. Please stop with all the generalizations and avoidance excuses gays have used since the beginning to ditch this responsibility for this fact.

Murdering, yet! And check this out, from Richard Cohen:

When they’re victims of discrimination, [homosexuals] need to be defended. When they’re victims of their own behavior, they need to be condemned.

And why are they doing this? Two reasons:

1. Repeated warnings about "unsafe sex" have availed nothing, in that more gay men infect themselves every day.
2. A new strain of AIDS might now be circulating that does not respond to the anti-retroviral agents now approvied for AIDS therapy.

Sportsfans, haven't we been down this road before? Sure, we have. To begin with, as Chuck Colson reminds us, the only "safe sex" is no sex at all, except between a man and a woman who are married and faithful to one another. But what was the name of the so-called "Patient Zero" who is blamed for bringing AIDS to this continent? No, don't tell me--Gay-Tan, no, Guy-Tan--oh, yes! Gaetan Dugas! He was a flight attendant working for Air Canada--a senior flight attendant. And you airline people know what I'm talking about: a senior flight attendant can basically take his or her pick of flights. Often, flight attendants and pilots plan flights together so that they can screw around on layover--or they did before deregulation. But sometimes they place a passenger in a compromising situation and then demand money to keep quiet--a "jet job." More broadly, a jet job is any use of sex as a weapon against someone else, or several someones. And so Gaetan Dugas pulled the ultimate jet job of all time on an entire continent--and when the CDC traced him down, he smugly challenged them to arrest him if they wanted to stop him.

After that episode, no one, whether at Air Canada, or connected in any way with commercial aviation, or within that which laughably calls itself "the homosexual community" wanted to admit that any one patient had created this situation. You still have conspiracy theories suggesting that the American "bug marshals"--meaning some mad virologists working for the CIA or some such thing--invented AIDS in order to attack gays, blacks, or whomever. But Gaetan Dugas did exist, and even "Fifty-nine-and-a-half Minutes Too Late" ran the definitive segment admitting to his existence and role.

And now here we are again, talking about quarantine. Isn't that nice? Too bad we weren't hearing this twenty years ago. But actually we were--but too many people refused to listen.