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The Closing Argument

Name: The Closing Argument
Author: Charles Ortleb
ISBN: 9780966345445

by Charles Ortleb

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Review "Eye-popping reading if you dare to expand your scope of thinking about AIDS and justice." --Nicholas Regush, redflagsdaily.com, Dec. 10, 2001 Product Description This novella tells the story of an African-American man accused of spreading AIDS in New England. His lawyer takes the bold step of turning the tables on the government. He tries to convince the jury that everything the government has told the public about AIDS is a racist, homophobic lie. The reader is put in the jury box and has to decide if most of what we have been told about AIDS is false. About the Author Charles Ortleb the author of these books: The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up: How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time; The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up: The Origins of Totalitarianism in Science and Medicine; Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic; Fauci: The Bernie Madoff of Science and the HIV Ponzi Scheme that Concealed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic; Fauci versus Duesberg: The battle about AIDS that brought Chronic Fatigue Syndrome out of the closet; Patient Zero: Why the 1980 cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Atlanta should have been recognized as the other face of the AIDS epidemic; The Four Horsemen of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Apocalypse: How the Bigotry and Incompetence of Four AIDS Scientists at the CDC Helped Create the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Disaster; Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of the Abnormal Science of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS; The African Swine Fever Novel, The Stonewall Massacre; Sontag as Metaphor: A Docuplay; Iatrogenocide: Notes for a Political Philosophy of Epidemiology and Science; Butterfly Ghosts and the New Hippocratic Oath: Earlier and Later Poems, The Black Party: A Dramatic Comedy; The Truvada Trilogy: Three Resistance Plays from the Underground; The Last Lovers on Earth: Stories from Dark Times; The Closing Argument: A shocking courtroom novella about AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, racial injustice, and HHV-6, a virus that threatens us all; Iron Peter: A Year in the Mythopoetic Life of New York City; The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Trilogy.Charles Ortleb is the lyricist for these Chris Davidson albums on Spotify and iTunes: The Lady Upstairs; Hey You; Collaboration; The Girl from Perkins Cove Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The State of Connecticut versus Christian King was one of the most closely watched criminal trials in the early part of the twenty-first century. The trial was carried live on Court TV and was broadcast to nearly every country in the world, including China. The web site devoted to the trial was the first to have over a billion visitors in one day.Christian King was a young African-American man charged with attempting to murder Buffie Jaqueline Dakota, an older white woman who resided in Greenwich, Connecticut. The state contended that he infected her with HIV during sexual intercourse with her after she met him during happy hour at the Yacht Bar in Greenwich.King's attorney, Frederick Douglass Thompson, stunned the entire nation when he turned the tables on the government and put HIV, the officially declared cause of AIDS, on trial. In a grueling six-month trial, Mr. Thompson called some of the leading HIV researchers to the witness stand, as well as prominent scientists who argued that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. Mr Thompson tried to establish that Christian King was actually a victim of one of the biggest scientific mistakes in history.Because the trial presented evidence that the American government had lied to its citizens for over two decades, passions were explosive both in and out of the courtroom. The President of the United States had to go on television twice during the trial to ask the American publ