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I failed to see any disturbance or physical resistence

Today while viewing television, I saw how the protesters at the Rockville, Maryland FDA agency passively united in civil disobedience against the agency's "dragging their feet" during the prolonged AIDS crisis, and the news clip revealed protesters laying on the ground for officers wearing white gloves to roll individual protesters over on stomachs so they could be cuffed while being arrested. What I failed to see was any disturbance, or physical resistence to arrest by the protesters.

Once upon a time, The United States Constitution guaranteed all citizens the right of the people peaceably to assemble, plus the First Amendment Right of freedom of speech, however now it seems those rights have been eroded, and in my opinion, this equals those rights becoming merely "dust in the wind." Are the people supposed to believe in the old illusion of this country being "the land of the free and the home of the brave?" How could it be so when the numerous protesters got ushered off to jail for exercising what was once their constitutional rights? When the US Supreme Court threw the peoples' privacy rights out the window a few years back, it should have become obvious that peoples' constitutional rights were under attack by the powers that be.

If that didn't open some eyes, then think about the killer assault AIDS has taken on the human race. This mysterious disease doesn't play, it isn't some joke, and it discriminates against no people, yet the FDA plays around twiddling their thumbs at the expense of PWAS, who often can not afford full medical care and "approved" drugs. Subsequently, these unfortunate people are forced into drug trials which are controlled by the government and drug

companies. How long does the FDA think people are going to continue to watch AIDS kill and not ACT UP in response?

So about 176 protesters got arrested for their response to the FDA's practices of "inaction and negligence" towards the AIDS crisis, and I must ponder just how close we are from a complete "police state" of things in the USA. What happens when there are more frequent and larger protests? With the jails and prisons overflowing already, what I will they do to silence future dissenters? I'm already in the Texas prison, but what about those of you who believe as I do that "Silence Death."

Chester Vinton Haas III, -327322A P.O. Box 4500 Michael Control Unit Tennessee Colony, TX 75861

I was surprised to read last week's Seattle Weekly

(This is a copy of a letter sent to David Brewster "Letters to the Editor" Seattle Weekly.)

I assume that Don McGaffin will be voting absentee in the next election absent from the last decade! While he extols his own supremacy over other local columnists, by calling them "pansies," "sissies," and "dainty dandies" he intentionally links not only gender to his idea of political toughness, but also sexual preference.

Has Don ever heard of a female columnist or politician? Has it ever occurred to Don that a columnist might be tougher, more astute, and just plain better at writing than he, and that such a person could easily be homosexual or female?

The Seattle Weekly might serve itself and its readers better by taking a hard look at which of its own columnists and writers are getting fat on Chardonnay and soft-headed on progressive politics, before it takes the Continued on next page.

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