Knowingly exposing others to HIV, no biggie in California

"I need to be excused; my brain is full"

Governor "Moonbeam" Brown (D-Calif.) apparently believes that if someone intentionally infects another individual, either through sexual intercourse, or blood transfusion, it should not be considered a felony but a misdemeanor. Even if the victim dies.

Brown signed a law on Friday that lowers the penalty for intentional exposure of HIV. It is now a misdemeanor, a minor offense, like indecent exposure on Muscle Beach.

"Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals.," Sen. Scott Wiener (D. -- San Francisco).

So with that logic, someone who is a driver but uses his or her car to plow into people should be penalized with a misdemeanor because it's a driving issue.

The way intentionally plowing into people with vehicles is taken seriously today, exposing someone to HIV used to be treated more seriously under California law than infecting someone with any other communicable disease.

But this is a policy some libtards view as a decades-old AIDS scare that unfairly punished those who intentionally infected others. 

Under the old, morally appropriate law, if a person who knows they're infected with HIV has unprotected sex without telling their partner they have the virus, they have committed a felony for which they face significant time in jail. This not only prevented that person from infecting another innocent victim, but it also served as a disincentive to others with HIV who might have gone and done the same thing.

On the other hand, intentional transmission of any other communicable disease, even a potentially deadly one such as hepatitis, is a misdemeanor.

That's just as screwed up as Gov. Moonbeam's law to decriminalize the intentional spread of HIV.

Wiener appears to have the issue confused. He seems to think that because HIV/AIDS was an epidemic in the past and people were scared and ignorant about it, that it's okay to decriminalize its spread. "These laws were passed at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when there was enormous fear and ignorance and misinformation around HIV," he said. "It's time for California to lead and repeal these laws to send a clear signal that we are going to take a science-based approach to HIV not a fear-based approach."

In other words, if people understand that there is treatment for the disease and they might live a longer life than people originally did in the past, then it's okay to make it a misdemeanor because the person infecting a victim probably knows the victim won't die so soon.

If I only intentionally nick you with my car, maybe to just break your legs, I should get a hefty fine, a finger wagging, and some points on my driver's license.

GOP lawmaker, Sen. Joel Anderson, voted against the senseless bill.

"I'm of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony," Anderson said.

Brown isn't just a bleeding heart liberal; he a bloody fool.

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