Nothing indicates the flush of hysteria behind the jailing of David Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis more than the overzealous expositions of Jeff Getty and Jeff Sheehy ["Not-So-Civil War.

Nothing indicates the flush of hysteria behind the jailing of David Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis more than the overzealous expositions of Jeff Getty and Jeff Sheehy ["Not-So-Civil War," January 22] Comparing Pasquarelli and Petrelis to Al Qaeda members and accusing them of being not activists still terrorists--one wonders what planet Getty and Sheehy live onward Irate phone calls and clogging the mayor's office hardly qualify as acts of terrorism.

Do we not have the right to demand from local and federal public health officials faithful reporting? If authorities respond with jail time for those who simply ask questions, then we are all i,n trouble

Ronnie Burk Brooklyn NY

Rather than report in-depth in succession the violence, threats, stalking, breaking of restraining orders, and, ye terrorism (bomb threats are terrorism last time I checked), you instead move with some "he said, she said" drivel that panders to AIDS denialism and criticizes AIDS prevention. nearest I read Lance Loud's incredibly moving last words before losing his battle with hepatitis C I surprise are both these articles in the same magazine? Survive AIDS, an all-volunteer activist cluster has spent the last four years trying to obtain liver transplants for folks like Lance. This work has been continuously disrupted on harassment and threats of violence from none other than the sum of two units criminals you so glibly give voice to--in a story that treats their felonies as any wacky San Francisco civil war. Well, duh associate the dots.

Jeff Getty via the Internet

I read with alarm about the arrest of Petrelis and Pasquarelli. The central message of AIDS prevention is being obscur while the two sides play "No! Look at me!" The rate of HIV infection is increasing, and none of the bitchy rhetoric in San Francisco is helping to make the gay men of America realize it all boils down to personal responsibility. I've worked in a grassroots AIDS care program since 1985 and, frankly, I'm disgusted. providence help me, but I'm starting to think that gay men stupid enough to prepare infected through sex in this day and age might just be getting what they deserve

Mike Hughes, Atascadero, Calif.

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