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	<title>Comments on: HIV/AIDS Patients in Papua May Be Tracked with Microchips</title>
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		<title>By: Deanna</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deanna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is wonderful news, by all means track all pedophiles! Well, I guess its ok to be attacked as long as you remain uninfected??? I do,however, believe all HIV/AIDS infected people should be marked in a specific and discrete area that only a sexual partner would notice. I would agree to this requirement if it happened to me, because I have kids and will do anything to make the world a better place for them to live in. For me, there is no price or privacy limit that could get in the way of protecting my children. We also need laws with contracts for those relationships involving infected and an uninfected persons, this could defend the HIV/AIDS carrier from the partner who &quot;changed their mind&quot; about the risks involved in such a relationship.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is wonderful news, by all means track all pedophiles! Well, I guess its ok to be attacked as long as you remain uninfected??? I do,however, believe all HIV/AIDS infected people should be marked in a specific and discrete area that only a sexual partner would notice. I would agree to this requirement if it happened to me, because I have kids and will do anything to make the world a better place for them to live in. For me, there is no price or privacy limit that could get in the way of protecting my children. We also need laws with contracts for those relationships involving infected and an uninfected persons, this could defend the HIV/AIDS carrier from the partner who &#8220;changed their mind&#8221; about the risks involved in such a relationship.</p>
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		<title>By: Eliza Strickland</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eliza Strickland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s an update on this story: after a huge international outcry, the law seems unlikely to pass. 
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/news.2008.1274.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s an update on this story: after a huge international outcry, the law seems unlikely to pass.<br />
<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/news.2008.1274.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/news.2008.1274.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Zeo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zeo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MP--

I agree with your criticisms, but as for the tracking devices themselves being a problem:

They&#039;re a huge problem. It&#039;s easy to pass them off as being &quot;safe&quot; and &quot;necessary&quot; simply because -we- don&#039;t have AIDS/HIV and -we- aren&#039;t sexual criminals, so why worry? The fact is, this is not just a violation of privacy rights for these individuals, but for all of us. If you&#039;re willing to support the chipping of &quot;criminals&quot; (either actual criminals such as registered sex offenders or potential criminals such as the ones targeted by this bill), where are you willing to draw the line? Every one of us is a potential criminal, and these bills will pass every single time by people who say &quot;well, I&#039;M not the criminal this bill targets, so it&#039;s not MY problem.&quot; It very much is your problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MP&#8211;</p>
<p>I agree with your criticisms, but as for the tracking devices themselves being a problem:</p>
<p>They&#8217;re a huge problem. It&#8217;s easy to pass them off as being &#8220;safe&#8221; and &#8220;necessary&#8221; simply because -we- don&#8217;t have AIDS/HIV and -we- aren&#8217;t sexual criminals, so why worry? The fact is, this is not just a violation of privacy rights for these individuals, but for all of us. If you&#8217;re willing to support the chipping of &#8220;criminals&#8221; (either actual criminals such as registered sex offenders or potential criminals such as the ones targeted by this bill), where are you willing to draw the line? Every one of us is a potential criminal, and these bills will pass every single time by people who say &#8220;well, I&#8217;M not the criminal this bill targets, so it&#8217;s not MY problem.&#8221; It very much is your problem.</p>
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		<title>By: MP</title>
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		<dc:creator>MP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AIDS, the tracking devices themselves don&#039;t worry me. For individuals who have demonstrated that they are a danger to others - and I would consider people who knowingly, willfully infect others with that horrid disease - I think they have lost the right to complete privacy. In point of fact, for such people (like, say, recidivistic pedophiles), I think such tracking is fairer than they deserve.

No, what bothers me about this is how terrifingly vague the standards are. If you&#039;re going to set up a law that targets all members of class A who are also B (in this case, all people in the country with HIV/AIDS who knowingly infect others for whatever reason), you have to - well, should at least - have those standards defined *before* you get the law in place. That way, any potential shortcomings/hideously glaring issues can be dealt with before it becomes a law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AIDS, the tracking devices themselves don&#8217;t worry me. For individuals who have demonstrated that they are a danger to others &#8211; and I would consider people who knowingly, willfully infect others with that horrid disease &#8211; I think they have lost the right to complete privacy. In point of fact, for such people (like, say, recidivistic pedophiles), I think such tracking is fairer than they deserve.</p>
<p>No, what bothers me about this is how terrifingly vague the standards are. If you&#8217;re going to set up a law that targets all members of class A who are also B (in this case, all people in the country with HIV/AIDS who knowingly infect others for whatever reason), you have to &#8211; well, should at least &#8211; have those standards defined *before* you get the law in place. That way, any potential shortcomings/hideously glaring issues can be dealt with before it becomes a law.</p>
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		<title>By: AIDS</title>
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		<dc:creator>AIDS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is obscene that they would put tracking devices in people because they have HIV. This is a horrible. I bet this was triggered by new laws attempting to put GPS&#039;s on pedophiles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is obscene that they would put tracking devices in people because they have HIV. This is a horrible. I bet this was triggered by new laws attempting to put GPS&#8217;s on pedophiles.</p>
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