I read a story from Amsterdam, Netherlands about two Dutch men that were found guilty of injecting 14 people with HIV-AIDS.  Their punishment I think was somewhat of a slap in the face of the 14 victims who have all tested positive for HIV. Peter M., 49, who was also convicted of rape, was sentenced to nine years in prison and Hans J., 39, received a five-year sentence. Under Dutch privacy laws, the surnames of convicted criminals are not released.

That’s it?  That’s all the punishment they received for what should have been attempted murder? But in Wednesday’s ruling, judges said while the victims all had HIV, it could not be proven that they were infected by the injections because they willingly took part in orgies where gay men had unprotected sex.  The suspects were not charged with attempted murder since Dutch courts have held that HIV is a chronic illness rather than an inevitably fatal one.

Okay if HIV is just a chronic illness, then show me one person that has been cured of it then.  Can the judge do that?  Yes this whole thing angers me very deeply because it’s almost like ‘gay bashing’ by the courts to me but that’s just my opinion.