Reply #102: In 1985 or 1986 (or both)

[salin]

when I spent several days a week up on Capitol Hill - frequently there was a group of LaRouche protesters on the south corner of the Rayburn House Office building with signs calling for the quarantine of people who were HIV+ to an isolated island. I witnessed it. Sorry I can't recall which year aging and all - but it was hateful.

Around the same time LaRouche was pushing a quarantine-type ballot initiative, I believe in California - tried a couple of times and I think a version of it actually was up for a referendum vote in 1988. That one can be googled.

Granted my memory and witnessing of the protests is only evidence as much as you want to believe me (but it is evidence to me - and the ballot initiative suggests that it was consistent with his views at the time.) I am sure there are others around who worked on or near the Hill in that time frame who also witnessed these bigots.