The Bush administration never honored the separation of church and state. One of the first things he did when he was inaugurated was to attack women's health clinics overseas. This was later a part of the same corrupt values that administration demonstrated.
By Robert Barnes
Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday (click here) that the federal government may not force groups that receive funding for overseas anti-HIV/AIDS programs to adopt its views against prostitution and sex trafficking.
The justices ruled 6 to 2 that a requirement in a multibillion-dollar anti-AIDS program that withholds funds from organizations that do not have a policy “explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking” violates an organization's free-speech rights....
...The disputed provision is part of a 2003 law under which the United States is spending $60 billion to combat infectious diseases around the world. It forbade any of the money being used to “promote or advocate the legalization or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking,” which it said are ways the diseases are sometimes spread....
This decision is in reaction to legislation by the extremists in the legislature and White House during the Bush administration. The Congress can waste it's time and taxpayer monies by attempting to 'play' with the electorate to state they can do anything they want in the USA, including leap tall buildings in a single bound, but, they would be lying. There is absolutely nothing anyone in the legislature or the White House can do about the ruling.
NGOs that perform work on behalf of a USA policy are not allowed to discriminate between who dies and who lives due to religious, ethnic or gender basis.
If a prostitute or sex trafficker presents with HIV and/or AIDS they are as much a public health concern as the most devout Christian Fundamentalist. They receive treatment. To insure they receive treatment, there is privacy to their identity and their profession otherwise they won't seek treatment. They will die at some point in time, but, they will also be spreading HIV all along the way.
By Robert Barnes
Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday (click here) that the federal government may not force groups that receive funding for overseas anti-HIV/AIDS programs to adopt its views against prostitution and sex trafficking.
The justices ruled 6 to 2 that a requirement in a multibillion-dollar anti-AIDS program that withholds funds from organizations that do not have a policy “explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking” violates an organization's free-speech rights....
...The disputed provision is part of a 2003 law under which the United States is spending $60 billion to combat infectious diseases around the world. It forbade any of the money being used to “promote or advocate the legalization or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking,” which it said are ways the diseases are sometimes spread....
This decision is in reaction to legislation by the extremists in the legislature and White House during the Bush administration. The Congress can waste it's time and taxpayer monies by attempting to 'play' with the electorate to state they can do anything they want in the USA, including leap tall buildings in a single bound, but, they would be lying. There is absolutely nothing anyone in the legislature or the White House can do about the ruling.
NGOs that perform work on behalf of a USA policy are not allowed to discriminate between who dies and who lives due to religious, ethnic or gender basis.
If a prostitute or sex trafficker presents with HIV and/or AIDS they are as much a public health concern as the most devout Christian Fundamentalist. They receive treatment. To insure they receive treatment, there is privacy to their identity and their profession otherwise they won't seek treatment. They will die at some point in time, but, they will also be spreading HIV all along the way.
....Roberts said government can restrict the ways funds are spent, but cannot require them to “pledge allegiance to the government’s policy of eradicating prostitution.”
He was joined by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case, presumably because she had worked on it while President Obama’s solicitor general.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented....
There are the immorals that actually carried out this level of discrimination. They caused deaths and a greater danger to the populations their organization, "Alliance for Open Society International," a subsidiary of "Open Society International." The title of the organization is obviously a lie. But, that isn't the worst part of this travesty.
Robert Kushen, Chair and President of the Board of Directors, is a former Human Rights Watch reporter, a former Executive Directorof Médecins du Monde, a member of the New York Bar Association and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kushen also worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State where he focused on international criminal justice, counterterrorism, intelligence, and international scientific cooperation.
Ricardo Castro, President and General Council for the AOSI, has experience in the area of Latin American corporate finance. Treasurer Steve Gutmann audits AOSI financial operations in New York City and Budapest. Maria Santos Valentin, Secretary and Deputy General Counsel for the AOSI, has financial experience in several areas, especially Latin America and Eastern Europe.
This hideous policy was a PLEDGE by Bush. It was an anti-prostitution pledge. The kind of pledge that effects the outcome of primaries. Every organization had to commit to the pledge. Sort of like Skull and Crossbones.
This hideous policy was a PLEDGE by Bush. It was an anti-prostitution pledge. The kind of pledge that effects the outcome of primaries. Every organization had to commit to the pledge. Sort of like Skull and Crossbones.
"I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean" President George W. Bush
In May 2003, (click here) the US Congress approved a five-year, $15 billion programme that launched the 'US Global AIDS initiative'.3 However, the initiative soon became known by the name of its five-year strategy presented to Congress in 2004, 'the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief' or PEPFAR. Although the act incorporates funding for other diseases, its main focus is HIV/AIDS and it has often been referred to as the "largest commitment by any nation to a single disease in history".
$15 billion is a lot of money and this PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt, the GOP leadership wants to change the face of the USA and USA programs to effect other nations. $15 billion is PROOF that corrupt power corrupts absolutely. The organization involved in this travesty didn't care if they had to sign their pledge is a blood pact they were going to do it, ethnics and morality be damned.
This $15 billion program proved beyond a shadow of a doubt covert agendas exist and covert agendas are corruption.
This was the lousiest of public health policies, but, $15 billion US buys a lot of allies.
It is the very bad habit of the USA legislature to play politics with USA Treasury monies. This is among the most egregious because it caused the death of human beings in other nations.
Legislation is suppose to support the BEST PRACTICES of any of the USA Brain Trust and not alter those practices by corrupt values for the purpose of paying off cronies and buying votes. Morality, the integrity of USA policy and ethics aren't suppose to be a bargaining chip. EVER!
This was the lousiest of public health policies, but, $15 billion US buys a lot of allies.
It is the very bad habit of the USA legislature to play politics with USA Treasury monies. This is among the most egregious because it caused the death of human beings in other nations.
Legislation is suppose to support the BEST PRACTICES of any of the USA Brain Trust and not alter those practices by corrupt values for the purpose of paying off cronies and buying votes. Morality, the integrity of USA policy and ethics aren't suppose to be a bargaining chip. EVER!
