Reagan finally died!

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, died today at the age of 93 after suffering from Alzheimer's for many years.

If anyone deserved the Federal death penalty, it was Ronald Reagan and if anyone deserved to suffer, it was him.

Ronald Reagan, due to his outspoken homophobia and the trend to reverse ipso factor secular humanist ideals, not to mention their own outspoken homophobia, implicate him, his cabinet and his administration in the deaths of over 25,000,000 people in the world. The decision not to allow the CDC or the NIH to adaquately persue study and containment of what was them refered to as GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), or a wide array of other acronyms, because it affected only homosexual males and Haitian immigrants is utterly unacceptable.

Anti-homosexual bias and anti-immigrant bias in the United States has resulted in over 25,000,000 deaths since the mid-80's when the CDC's bulletin first discussed HIV related opportunistic infections in gay male populations in Los Angeles and New York.

Over 40,000,000 people in 2002 were living with HIV or AIDS and that number has rapidly increased. 14,000 people are infected each day with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS and the numbers show no sign of decreasing.

Ronald Reagan, if there is a hell, is burning in it.

Ronald Reagan and everyone who voted for him should be ashamed of their part in a plague that surpasses the Black Death in the number of human lives it has taken.

Ronald Reagan and the people who voted for him and worked for him should never be allowed to forget what their hate has brought upon the world.

Ronald Reagan deserves no pity. He lives on in the form of a plague that kills thousands of children in Sub-Saharan Africa. His legacy is hate. His legacy is ignorance and death and poverty.

Let his death be celebrated!!

Comments

[allen]

Your bitter invective is as hate-filled as you claim Reagan was.

And you are wrong. Reagan was not homophobic. Unlike the current administration, he refused to accede to the religious right's agenda to make sexuality a party issue. His position to others who wanted to attack gay people politically: "You leave them alone." In hindsight, yes, he should have done more, and more quickly, when confronted with the AIDS crisis. He wasn't a perfect man or a perfect President, and on this issue he didn't understand the gravity of the situation. Overall, he did many good things, and a few great ones, as President.

Commentators have suggested that the problem with public debate in the United States is that people have replaced debate with hate, and I find this is true. Certainly, it is hard for gay folk to avoid this, since our very lifestyle is viewed with hatred and reviled by a significant part of the populace. But we really ought to take the high road, don't you think?

I will probably not vote for Bush this year, even though I appreciate much of his policies, because we are at a critical moment in the gay civil rights movement, and I have to support the best candidate on that issue. I disagreed with almost all of Clinton's policies, and with most of Carter's, but I somehow found the graciousness and intellectual maturity to respect them for their deeply held beliefs, and to approve of the good they did accomplish. I hope that you can do the same. It is much healthier and more generous to their own spirit and to yours, then to await their death and gleefully dance on their graves.

The world is not black and white, and neither should anyone's views be of the complex personality and policies that make up any leader of the United States.

Allen Lanning

[Addy]

I would characterize my post, and the spirit in which I made it, as something other than hateful--perhaps loathing? I do feel very comfortable putting him in the bin with all of the shit Presidents however. What with installing some of the worst dictators in the world, increasing the national debt so incredibly much and overt indifference to the deaths of homosexuals and Haitians and all...

The point of the post was--not only to expound on my own personal views as a person born during his first term and as one who can't stand the television and most print medias--to provide something to my friends, my family and the people who chance upon my blog with something other than the media's standard blowjob for dead celebrity that we normally get.

*suck*

[Derek]

I guess I'm a little disappointed in your post. It's fine to cast another light on his funeral — death has never been a reason to sugarcoat, nor should it be — but I feel like you're making the same mistake the media is by conjuring too confined a perspective.

I wouldn't dream of arguing that he was a dream, by any stretch of the imagination, but this didn't sit well with me. At all.

[Addy]

Would you prefer it if I made the list of his atrocities against humanity a bit more complete? My perspective as a homosexual male definitely colors the way I see this, but Reagan was intrinsically evil on so many other levels besides his (perhaps latent, as some have suggested) homophobia.

I did concede, in a post on my website in 1999, that Reagan had two good qualities as President and my connection is being funny, otherwise I'd go back and give you the link to those.

The fact of the matter regarding this post is that I wrote the post specifically to contrast the media's Reagan blowjob. Both as a form of therapy where I undo what they did in my head and also as a form of Addy protest.

I agree that what I've presented in the post, but perhaps not in the comments, is a narrow visage of Reagan's two terms in office and the subsequent results of his administration, but I'm entirely comfortable with that considering that his beliefs and attitudes, whether plainly against funding for health and sciences research or against homosexuals and immigrants, caused so much terrible pain, anguish and loss.

I understand your unease and am sorry, friend, but, as you certainly observed, I feel very strongly about the acts he committed.

[early morning ... forgive my errors]

[Sonya]

Addy, Can I have your babies?

As California Governor Reagan closed the state run mental hospitals and left thousands of mentally ill to die on the streets. His proposed out patient care was a joke. He ignored the AIDS epidemic.I hold his actions responsible for incalculable death and misery.

I find Reagan a miserable leader, governor and President.

[hat]

Gah! I actually ended up around the mall after the time of the Reagan processional up Constitution Ave. It was the scariest gathering of people I've ever seen. It wouldn't have been complete without infants wearing Reagan Memorial type shirts as well as small children. I saw this small child, probably about 7, ask who Reagan was. We had walked by them too fast for me to catch how the parent answered the child's inquiry - oh well.

May he rot in hell... with all of his crappy films, poor leadership, and the so-called revival of the "thumbs-up" gesture.

[Tyler Stevens]

I don't understand how so many couldn't and still can't see through his horrid qualities. I agree...his open homophobia was terrible. I am so glad he is gone from this world. Hopefully he is in a group of other homophobic bastards with their overly open views on hating homosexuality in HELL...May he Rest In Peril.

Ms. Tyler Stevens

[Brad S.]

Left-wingers are great retrospection, aren't they? Seeing as how AIDS (GRID) broke in the mid-80s, and America's ideological opponents were making death-threats to the United States, what was Reagan supposed to do? At the time, little was known of AIDS and its effect on the human body. It wasn't until the late 80s that we understood, in full circle, what AIDS had in store for the populace. For all Reagan knew, AIDS was just another SARS-type event. Reagan did not defund CDC, but he didn't give them the money they wanted, either. Reagan left in place the funds the CDC was already being given by the government. Reagan had to make a decision between a disease and a nuclear crisis. Apparently, he thought an impending nuclear strike on the people of America was a little more important. As I said, left-wingers are great with retrospective judgement.

[ryan]

you son of a bitch. if i ever meet you, i'll beat the living piss out of you.

[ryan]

i'm not afraid of homo's, i just like to beat the shit of them.

[Amelia]

Ryan, if I ever meet you and your homophobic, apostrophe misplacing ass, I will kick it.

[ryan]

feel free to try. you wounded me so deeply with your apostrophe comment, i may not be able to fight back.

[Sonya]

I would also like to thank Reagan for his support of the Contras in Nicaragua, and the death squads and right wing governments in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. He made the mass genocide committed against political leftests and the indigenous populations in these areas possible on such a grand scale through his generous funding and training. The millions of dollars in military supplies to Guatemala alone helped the government carry out the "scorched earth" policies, with greater effeciency. And I am sure The School of the Americas- CIA sponsered training that the Contras recieved helped them so much in their Reagan sponsored death squad travels. Oh gosh, that raping, killing, torturing and dismembering all leaned and perfected at the CIA sponsered School of The America's, must have really made them tired. And that pesky Archbishop Oscar Romero would still be around preaching his crazy liberation theology if it weren't for you Reagan!

All this, and so much more, would not have been as thorough, or possible in some cases without Reagan's support.

Thanks again Reagan!

[ryan]

thank god people like you weren't in power when he was defeating communisim. good thing history has already proven you morons wrong.

[Addy]

Are you suggesting that history has proven that communism wrong or that it has demonstrated its failure as constituted, or that Reagan was in fact some sort of anti ispo facto secular humanism diety on earth? There are so many things you could be claiming that "we" (and lord only knows which of us you're refering to) were wrong about.

You should work on being more specific with your vitriol--you'll be more effective.

Also, how old are you?

[ron regan]

Ronald Reagan was as queer as a 6 dollar federal reserve note. He was filmed along with another gay actor and blackmailed for his indiscretion.He suggested that JFK be neutralized and he was. If Red Ronnie Reagan is not burning in hell,then none of us have any thing to worry about. Be the Eternal Flame Ron, and burn forever and ever.

[ron regan]

Ronald Reagan was as queer as a 6 dollar federal reserve note. He was filmed along with another gay actor and blackmailed for his indiscretion.He suggested that JFK be neutralized and he was. If Red Ronnie Reagan is not burning in hell,then none of us have any thing to worry about. Be the Eternal Flame Ron, and burn forever and ever.