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[Guest guest]

Whew! What a project! I've been working on this rethinker's

brochure for just over nine months! This puppy has been through more

incarnations than Shirley MacLaine could ever dream of!

http://groups.msn.com/HEAL-Northwest/documents.msnw The brochure

was created in Microsoft Word, so you'll need that to read it! If

anyone wants to convert it to a PDF, feel free to do so. I won't

have access to Adobe Acrobat for a while, so get in there and convert

that heathen!

Anyway, my goal was to create a small publication that anyone could

leave in public places to introduce the everyday person, in a non-

threatening way, to the dissident movement!

On the cover, I took an approach of creating doubt in the reader's

mind by talking about Dr. Gallo announcing his findings without due

scientific process and how all funding for finding the cause of AIDS

was subsequently cutoff. Clearly, there is a lot more to what

created this paradigm, but I tried to just stick to a very basic fact

and let the reader find out more on their own. Also, I attempted to

open the reader's mind to this " controversial topic " by reminding

them that all science is up for questioning!

The main body of the brochure is quotes from various highly

credientialed doctors and scientists that, hopefully, lend weight to

the doubt created by brochure's introduction! I tried as much as

possible to pear-down the various (and sometimes complex!) issues

about whether HIV is harmless, or " It just ain't there, Junior! " I

also tried to use quotes that " touch on " the other various issues

(how the drugs kill, not " HIV " , what's happening in Africa, why

doctors don't say anything about this flawed theory, etc.) that seem

to " block " people from being open to the information.

Obviously, there just wasn't room to go into any of these issues in

depth! So, the second to last panel talks about how there's a lot

more information available to the reader, if they choose to study

it! I tried to briefly discuss the question " If HIV doesn't cause

AIDS, then what does? " The answer may be over-simplified, but I

think it logically answers the question, so the reader can " wrap

their heads around " this new idea.

The back panel contains all the references. There is much more

material available than would fit in such a small space, so I tried

to stick to the " basics. " It ain't perfect--I realize--but I think

it's pretty darned good considering how much information I got into

such a small space! And that, boys and girls, is why it took me

about nine months to write it!

So, anyone is welcome to print this thing off and pass it out

wherever you see fit! I did a " test run " at a local coffee shop here

in Portland with ten or so copies! They seem to go slowly, so I

think people were picking them up a few at a time. Anyway, I hope

this is a " non-threatening " way for anyone in Dissident Land to take

action without feeling like they have to confront someone, or explain

the entire rethinker's movement in five minutes or less!

The original copy will be at the HEAL-Northwest site and will be

updated from there. Please understand this brochure is a work in

progress! So, if you have any suggestions, feel free to make them.

Obvoiusly, I cannot accomodate everyone's request--mostly due to

spacing and formatting--but I will seriously consider any suggestions

and reply to them! Also, feel free to " customize " the brochure on

your own computer! If you find there is a book reference you don't

like, you can change it! Be careful, though! This is taken from the

pre-formatted brochure in Word, so it's kinda tempermental...

Okay, kids! Please, please, please use this thing! Step right up!

Don't be shy! You can leave it at coffee shops, natural foods

stores, or any place that has one of those " community announcement "

areas! Let's hit the ground with our very own marketing campaign!

- Whiting

Moderator of HEAL Northwest

P.S. thanks to everyone who provided me with invaluable feedback

while I was writing this! You know who you are!