BRIGHTON ZIMIDZI
In an investigation carried out by Karen Grigsby Bates, she asserts that Although scientists know what AIDS is and how it is spread, no one is quite sure where this virulent virus came from. That question mark has encouraged the spread of the conspiracy theory.
Dr Robert Stecker, MD, PhD, a Los Angeles specialist, puts it bluntly.
“AIDS was a disease that was requested, manufactured and deployed and does exactly what it was intended to do”, he says.
In a nutshell, he believes that sometime around 1972, scientists (with government approval, he insists) contaminated cows with the bovine visna virus which he calls the “mother and father of AIDS”.
He hypothesizes that the disease spread to humans in Africa when they were injected with the smallpox vaccine which was produced from viral lesions of the infected cattle. When injected into humans, says Strecker, this new recombined virus was capable of producing a new disease- AIDS.
He and others believe the virus was created as a tool for biological warfare and repeatedly cites scientific sources to back up their theories. In a videotape produced by The New American, a New York Black newspaper, Strecker insists that in a 1971 issue of the Bulletin of the world Health Organisation, scientists requested that a virus that infects the immune system be produced.
In his book AIDS and the Doctors of Death, Dr Alan Cantwell theorises that the AIDS virus was introduced into the United States via a 1978 programme to test the hepatitis B vaccine in more that a thousand gay males.
Newly ‘liberated’ homosexuals were anxious to cooperate with the government in matters of gay health and within a decade most men in the experiment would be doomed to die.
Strecker, Cantwell and others have not pointed to AIDS as a genocidal plot to rid the planet of Black people. But some have
“There is a possibility that the virus was produced to limit the number of African people and other people of color in the world who are no longer needed”, says Barbara J Justice, MD, a New York physician researching AIDS. She also believes there is a possibility that the melanin in our skin may make us more susceptible to AIDS.
James Small, PhD, a Black Studies instructor at the City College of New York, agrees. He firmly believes that AIDS was manufactured in a with government backing. He thinks that the thousands of whites who have died so far – mostly gay men – were merely a test batch, the practice run for the real target
France Wesling asserts that ‘any army that moves against an enemy people calculates that will lose some of its own.
The Reverend Cecil Williams, pastor of the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, is sure that the introduction of crack (and the AIDS that crack- addicted prostitutes often contract) was conceived expressly to prevent the Black community functioning.