The third in a trilogy of fiction about the nature of the AIDS epidemic. Nicholas Regush, a former ABC News producer, called it "Eye-popping reading if you dare to expand your scope of thinking about AIDS and justice."

If you've ever had any doubts about the truth of what you've heard about AIDS, this is the one book you must read.

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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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1876316 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Review
"Eye-popping reading if you dare to expand your scope of thinking about AIDS and justice." -- Nicholas Regush, redflagsdaily.com, Dec. 10, 2001

About the Author
Charles Ortleb is the author if "Iron Peter," and "The Last Lovers on Earth."

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 public to keep calm. The Connecticut National Guard had to be deployed to separate hundreds of warring protestors from the AIDS activist movment and the black civil rights community.

Throughout the trial, many civil rights leaders called upon the African-American community to boycott all HIV testing and all toxic medical experimentation for the treatment of HIV infection. One of the most respected civil rights leaders called the HIV establishment "racist purveyors of fraud and genocide." A number of civil rights leaders called the AIDS activists "government lackeys and collaborators" and they exhorted the African-American community to oppose all initiatives that were supported by the AIDS activists. There were several minor incidences of violence between the two groups.

Frederick Douglas Thompson gave his closing argument to a packed but hushed Hartford courtoom. What follows is an unedited transript of his remarks.

When Mr. Thompson finished his closing argument, the judge had great difficulty quieting the courtroom, for many of the spectators stood, cheered, and applauded wildly.

Unfortunatey, Mr. Thompson never heard the jury's verdict the next day because, as he got out of his car in the parking lot behind the Hartford Court house, he was shot to death by a lone gunman who had driven to Hartford all night from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Customer Reviews

Courtroom fireworks spark HIV controversy
The Closing Argument is a compelling controversial meltdown of the government's HIV-AIDS pogrom. Every African-American should keep this book next to their Bible.