Adam.Selene@f269.n107.z1.fidonet.org (Adam Selene) (11/10/89)
Nassau county was located somewhere in some distent rural setting,
FAR, far away from access to AIDS information/education.
+
+ Actually, Nassau's County Seat is 40 miles from the center of New
York City ... and has a People With AIDS Coalition chapter of its own.
+
+ A large and partially State-funded organization Long Island AIDS
care has been campaigning for AIDS care in nursing facilities for the
past 4 years.
+
+ There is ONE "local" newspaper ... the award winning "Long
Island Newsday" ... a serious competator for readership in the overall
NY Metro area ... Many activists consider NEWSDAY's coverage MORE
"pro-PWA" than either THE TIMES or THE NEWS -- though THE TIME'S
*medical* reportage is considered more complete and accurate.ers
+
+ So, how is it that county medical and government
administrators are still, themselves, uneasy about the safety of
admitting PWAs to nursing homes ... and are dead-certain that the
voters would object sufficiently to affect the coming elections ?
+
+ Hasn't there been enough "education" of the professions and
the populace at large? Can it be that an AIDS related story EVERY DAY
for THREE YEARS (that's NEWSDAY's average) PLUS the Network TV
coverage, PLUS the Federal Government's information outreach, PLUS the
combined efforts of LI AIDS CARE, ACT UP, and PWA Coaltion over
several years isn't "enough?"
+
+ When the Germans living within a few miles of the various
death camps were asked "How did you let this happen?" ... they replied
that they simply "didn't know."
+ Until recently, I couldn't accept that as an excuse ... "not
knowing" ! How could they not know? Surely they must have noticed
the late-night trains full of people coming IN but none going OUT ...
surely they noticed the SMELL of the crematoria ... Even though their
own goverment was involved in a day-to-day disinformation program
concerning the function of the camps ... even though the Media were
under strict Party/Goverment control ... HOW COULD THEY NOT KNOW???
+
+ Well, based on what is going on here in Nassau/Suffolk
+ I guess the human capacity to
+ " not know"
+ Is SO vast that it now seems reasonable that the civilian
+workers and suppliers for the death camps should NOT have been blamed
for their participation in the horrors ...
+
+ It's obvious that they REALLY didn't know ... they were never even
TOLD by a "valid source" that anything out of the way was going on --
+
+ If Guelotta and his party are returned to office in Nassau (a
nearly foregone conclusion) perhaps we need to consider PAYING
REPARATIONS to those good citizens of Ravensbrook and Buchenwald who
were "De-Nazified" or actually punished for "not knowing". Compared
to my neighbors ... they were (by comparison) just innocent little
lambs who needed "more education".
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