When Are The History Books Going To Acknowledge Ronald Reagan's Great Crime?

[ruggerson]

The fact that he, at the pitched, angry and strident urging of Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Buchanan, Richard Viguerie and others, DELIBERATELY ignored the greatest epidemic of our generation, because his cohorts in the White House hated gay people and wished them dead.

This is all explicitly (if understatedly) documented in Surgeon General C Everett Koop's autobiography, Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor.

The mainstream media has done a thoroughly miserable job at exploring and recounting those early years. If they actually reported on what happened, Reagan's culpability would be more publicized, his legacy justifiably revised, and perhaps, as a minor, deserved casualty, MSNBC would be shamed into giving Pat Buchanan the heave-ho.

[Union Thug]

1. They've sainted that laughable buffoon. Sad thing, The bastard was

a killer, a union buster, a corporate whore, and a dimwitted dunce all in one quivering, gelatin like package.

[eleny]

2. Now that would make a GREAT sig line

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. Now, now; I thought we were never to speak ill of the dead on DU

because death erases all sin. :sarcasm: :puke:

[TomInTib]

3. Amen, ruggerson

I had a lot of friends in the Gay community in Houston when that shit started cutting them down, scythe-like.

And fucking St Ronnie went and stuck the Nation's collective head in the sand.

Fuck him.
And fuck his evil widow. They used to stand in line to do that, you know?

[Warpy]

7. I lived through the holocaust in the mid to late 80s

in Boston, and I can tell you there was more than one nurse back then who secretly hoped St. Ronnie contracted it from one of the transfusions he got after he was shot.

It would have been the only thing to get through to that sack of shit that it was a disease, not a judgment from his vengeful god.

[illinoisprogressive]

4. That was in one of the great books about aids

The title escapes me but, I read it. it's a classic and there was an hbo movie about it in the 90s. The author was Richard S----- but, you could find it on Amazon. It was heartbreaking and youcould not put it down. It was a fantastic book. It also exposed the government's ignoring the problem and the CDC's fight to get it taken seriously.

[ruggerson]

6. Randy Shilts

The Band Played On. A great book, but it tackled the entire governmental response without specifically nailing Ronald Reagan and Co. A more terrifying read is Koop's autobiography, wherein he admits that there was an enforced silence about AIDS in the White House, due to pressure from the religious rightwing whackjobs who surrounded Reagan. At one point, Koop went on the Today show and the White House INSTRUCTED NBC that he would not be allowed to appear if the subject of AIDS was brought up. NBC complied.

[Democrats_win]

10. Kudos to gay authors for telling the truth. I've read many gay novels where they talk about Reagan

[idgiehkt]

8. Oh but they love him for that.

Thank be to God for Randy Shilts' "And the Band Played On".

[closeupready]

9. The Reagans lived in CA of course and

it was mainly after Rock Hudson got sick and died that the tone changed.