LOOK WHAT POT IS CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!
Look What Pot Has Called The Kettle Black This Time In The Mighty Bush Republican Cabal! ( pot to kettle is to say something about someone else which is actually true of you yourself ... ) Madam Debby Jeane Palfrey is bringing the names forward. The biggest fish caught in her net thus far is USAID chief Randall Tobias, he makes the word hypocrisy seem like too mild an utterance for his Pecksniffery. What the ultimate question should be to all those "DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO-ERS"... How can you go to sleep at night and wake without an ignominious taste in your mouth? It sure as hell Beats Me!
Please read the article below and get MAD, GET VERY, VERY ENRAGED at what this George W. Bush Republican Administration has done to create more, not less suffering in this world. Their dirty little fingers have touched almost everything we use to hold dear... LIKE COMMON SENSE! thinkingblue
Morality Gets a Massage
[from the May 28, 2007 issue]
So far, the most significant player to show up on Washington madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's
much-discussed client list is USAID chief Randall Tobias, the former
pharmaceutical company CEO who ran Bush's global AIDS initiative for its first
three years. His ignominious tenure as AIDS ambassador was marked by a
preference for pricey brand-name HIV drugs over cheap generics, which sharply
reduced the number of people who could be treated. Ironically, given his regular
"massages" from call girls, when we can surmise he ignored the abstinence-only
instruction to "keep all of your clothes all the way on all of the time," Tobias
was also an avid defender of the President's puritanical approach to HIV prevention.
Tobias was the hatchet man who forced every US grant recipient to publicly
condemn prostitution--even struggling outfits doing the sensitive work of
persuading destitute sex workers to use condoms. A forthcoming study from the
Center for Health and Gender Equity of five Asian countries where commercial sex
is driving the AIDS epidemic found that the policy has resulted in the closure
of drop-in centers for street prostitutes and a scaling back of other successful
prevention efforts.
It was Tom DeLay's ethically challenged Congress that slapped the global AIDS
initiative with a one-third abstinence earmark on prevention. Tobias promoted
this approach so zealously that in some countries, like Nigeria, nearly 70
percent of all US dollars granted to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV were
channeled toward abstinence.
Tobias is not the first abstinence czar to leave his job after running afoul of
the moral agenda he promoted. Claude Allen, once the leading White House
abstinence advocate, stepped down as domestic policy adviser last year after he
was caught stealing. Ted Haggard, once head of the National Association of
Evangelicals--powerful boosters of abstinence-only spending--resigned last fall
after a gay hustler named him as a client. But Tobias's fall comes as momentum
is finally building against the $2.5 billion-and-counting abstinence boondoggle.
Though the Institute of Medicine called for the elimination of abstinence-only
programs in 2000, Bush set about doubling their budget instead. Last month the
Administration's own study--mandated by Congress a decade ago but delayed while
ideological spinmeisters handicapped the criteria to help produce favorable
results--was finally released. Posted quietly on the web without even a press
release, it affirmed what every academic study had found before: Preaching
abstinence doesn't produce it. Numerous studies show that contraceptive access
cuts teen pregnancy rates and condom education dramatically reduces HIV
transmission.
As with opposition to the war, the American people are ahead of Congress on this
issue. A recent study found that 82 percent of Americans want comprehensive sex
education for their kids. Nine states have now turned down the tempting pot of
abstinence money, including "red state" Montana. Abstinence funding should go
the way of Randall Tobias. Legislation like the Pathway Act, which would revoke
the abstinence earmark on global AIDS spending, and the Real Act, which would
allocate funds for comprehensive sex ed, both introduced by Barbara Lee, need
muscle from Democratic leaders. When the President's AIDS initiative comes up
for reauthorization in two years, Congress should strike the prostitution pledge
and the ban on needle exchange.
The moral contradictions of the abstinence-mongers speak eloquently to the folly of basing public health decisions on religious injunctions and fantasies of social control. It's time for Congress to stop this dangerous crusade, both here and abroad.
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