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campaign inciting murder and violence of Lesbians and Gay men. Has introduced legislation that denies Federal funding for any program that mentions homosexuality. Has succeeded in getting such legislation passed by using a campaign of intimidation that most politicians bow to. Cut out any and all AIDS education funding that relates to Gays and Lesbians. Designed the New Chill that has swept through the arts community causing institutions, artists, and curators to censor themselves rather than contest [[underlined]] him. [[/underlined]] Fascists wearing Conservative drag have mounted Helms and ridden him through the foundations of the Constitution. Even a true conservative would recognize the recent Frohnmayer attack as a trampling of the First Amendment - Helms just about had a media-induced orgasm.

"What do the anti-arts forces want? What they have always wanted in this century: political control over our culture; using moral outrage as the excuse." - Douglas Davis, Artist, critic and teacher. (NEWSDAY)

Under Helms, words and pictures have gained a power they haven't had in decades compared to television.

[[underlined]] ALFONSE D'AMATO: [[/underlined]] More interested in lining his rich real estate friends pockets than saving people's lives. With his eyes peeled for the camera's he made an asshole of himself ripping the Mapplethorpe catalogue into tiny pieces; clear echo's of the Nazi era. Has been so busy voting for the Helms ammendments concerning AIDS education that he has never had a personal meeting with a Gay or Lesbian organization. It seems that you must be a [[underlined]] big [[/underlined]] contributor to his campaign funds before you can get a foot in the door. Despite never meeting with a representative of the Lesbian and Gay community, he has voted consistently against us. Dismissive of Gay issues. In the 1980 election while running against Holtzman/Javitts he was quoted as saying, "Elizabeth Holtzman is part of the Ultra-Left Gay Rights Conspiracy that is out to destroy the middle class." D'Amato clearly missed his calling; he could have increased his millions writing trash novels like Dannemeyer. If the Feds ignore his wealth and move against him in the HUD scandals, seats in the courtroom will be filled to the max.

[[underlined]] FRANK YOUNG: [[/underlined]] Has operated as a know-nothing bureaucrat who saw his job as obstruction. Young has headed a Food & Drug Administration totally unequipped to deal with the magnitude of a crisis like AIDS.
- Has refused to work actively to get treatments to people with the disease who might live and thrive.
- To him, red tape and procedure is more important than people.
- Doesn't understand issues of access for the poor, or uneducated, or communities of color.
- In classic bureaucratese, people who were dying from AIDS were told until recently that they couldn't try manageably safe, potentially effective drugs: Big Brother was protecting them from themselves. When the Commissioner finally woke up and smelled the bodies, the orders he issued might have inched the agency in the right direction. Trouble was, the bureaucracy never followed. Now that he's been dumped upstairs, will the next FDA chief in fact effect the changes that AIDS demands, or simply let the bureaucracy go back to bed?