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Don't bother locking up your daughters, just lock up black men with HIV

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Murray

Mark, I will agree with you about the women being charged with reckless endangerment as long as gays who were bashed are also charged with reckless endangerment for being gay. I hope you will agree with me that in addition they also must reimburse the health system for their injuries. I think your real issue is the Supreme Court that gave us gay marriage has upheld the propriety of this law, its application and the sentences handed down. When people are killed or injured by the actions of another there must be an accounting.

August 6, 2011

Mark K

As a long-term 22 year old heterosexual survivor. I have NO empathy whatsoever for Aziga and I don't buy this race argument either. Utter nonsense; Aziga is being imprisoned for his absolute disregard for the women he has destroyed. Indeed his partners should have demanded condoms, but as carriers we are obligated by and held to a higher moral standard to protect our partners from this horrid disease. This IS still a fatal disease, but even taking away that element, and you can't, it is still a terrible life on expensive medications, the stigma, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy - and yet some of you go out of your way to minimize it - whose side are you on anyway???

August 6, 2011

Terry

While there may have been some focus on his race, it does not excuse the fact that he did engage in high risk sex and the fact that 7 of them became HIV POZ is definite testament to that and two of them died. This is criminal. Being POZ for well over 20 years... none of my partners have tested poz... I have never barebacked anyone since I knew... I have generally always disclosed my status before sex with anyone... and what few times it got carried away before I had disclosed I kept the sex very safe.... And being non detectable adds to that additional safety... It is a shame that people will infect others... He needed to be in counseling and also these women are at fault for not protecting themselves... It is an ongoing problem that still must faced. Why were these women putting themselves at such risk? And were they educated to some level and knew that they were at risk.. Did they even ask him if he was POZ and did he lie?

August 5, 2011

Henry

The odds of not one but two people dying of AIDS-related cancers two years after getting HIV are so low as to be almost impossible. For me, reading something that hard to believe calls into question the rest of the piece.

August 4, 2011

James

Mark, you must have a different disease than I do. I have had an undetectable viral load and never had a CD4 cell count less than 700, even before treatment. I have developed osteoporosis, lipodystrophy, HIV nephropathy, HIV neuropathy, and HIV thrombocytopenia. All despite treatment.... or maybe because of it. HIV is still a very big deal, it is you who is living in another world. A world where being HIV+ doesn't mean anything because all you have to do is pop a pill and get a blood test every 6 months. People with HIV, despite treatment, have higher incidences of certain cancers, heart disease, memory loss, and other age related diseases.... EVEN WITH TREATMENT.

August 4, 2011

Mark

To all the criminalizers out there, why arent you insisting that the "victims" of these "monsters" be charged with reckless endangerment of their own bodies? We used to criminalize attempted suicide as a form of attempted murder. Why not charge the woman too? I don't buy your "black" issue here, Edwin. There are white guys out there charged and treated the same way. The whole thing needs to stop, or at least the volume on the hysteria needs to be toned down. Despite what your more out of touch screamers say here, HIV is a manageable, chronic illness which with proper treatment need not shorten a life span or unduly affect quality of life. Those who say otherwise are living in the past. But their own rage at being infected, being stigmatized and being shunned sexually by their gay brothers makes them jump on the moralistic bandwagon with the outraged Crown counsel in this case, who so clearly suffers from "put-upon female syndrome". ("I hate you, Daddy!"). Oh yes, and don't we all just want to punish those to whom we feel morally superior? Mr. Aziga is suffering from terminal douchebag-itis as well as HIV. But he never formed an intention to kill these women. He should have been charged with assault causing bodily harm. And the women should have been charged with reckless endangerment of the Canadian public health system. If the women were made more legally accountable for their own bad choices, then we wouldn't be having this discussion. No men would be getting into those hoo-hoos without a hat on if those girls faced jail time. He didn't force them to have sex. If women expect to be treated like adults, then they need to take responsibility for their actions, like adults.

August 4, 2011

Joe J

Your assertion that Mr. Aziga is being locked up because he is black is both absurd and inflammatory. He is being locked up because he failed to disclose his HIV status and he failed to use a condom. I've been poz for 20 years and I would NEVER have sex with anyone without first disclosing my status. While I believe the victims in this case share some of the responsibility, I believe the primary blame goes to Mr. Aziga and he should be locked up until he can understand how wrong he is to be behaving in that manner.

August 4, 2011

Henry

How could two of the women he had sex with have died of AIDS-related cancers two years after having sex with him? This makes no sense.

August 4, 2011

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