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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE APRIL 22, 1994
In 1978, vaccine trials began on New York gay men
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quires an excellent position immediately. Then he was allowed to re-enter the USSR to accept an award and give lectures. This was unheard of during the cold war. So what was the deal? Was he a spy? Double agent? What?
Then there is the illustrious Dr. Robert Gallo. Before Dr. Gallo became a household word, before the AIDS epidemic, did you ever wonder what he was doing? Starting in 1962 Dr. Gallo was project officer of a massive virus inoculation program that ran until 1976. The project injected over 2,000 monkeys with everything from human cancer tissue to rare viruses and even sheep's blood to try to find a transmissible cancer. Many of the monkeys succumbed to immune suppression after infection with Mason/Pfizer monkey virus, the first known immunosuppressive retrovirus, a group that includes the AIDS virus. How did Dr. Gallo discover the AIDS virus so quickly? He was the first to discover the enzyme reverse transcriptase in leukemia cells, an enzyme produced by retroviruses.
1978 Dr. Gallo is the first to discover and isolate human retro viruses from the T-cells of cancer patients and calls it HTLV I. In a 1982 paper, he states that HTLV I may be more closely related to bovine leukemia virus then any other known virus. In 1982 Dr. Gallo discovered a second HTLV but it is not identical to the first HTLV and Dr. Gallo names it HTLV II. Dr Gallo is appointed director of AIDS research at the National Cancer Institute and sets out to prove that AIDS is caused by one of his newly discovered viruses.
Dr. Gallo hypothesizes that this new pathogen originated in the green monkeys of Africa and in some freak accident of nature, jumped species and infected millions of black Africans. Dr. Gallo first named his new virus the human T-cell leukemia/ lymphoma virus. However, virologists had assured the public that the new gay disease had nothing to do with cancer. Leukemia and lymphoma are cancers, AIDS is contagious, and the medical community insisted cancer was not contagious, so they changed the name of the new pathogen, moved the goalpost if you will. Eventually the monkey virus was removed from the list of the animal virus category and the new virus was renamed the human immune deficiency virus.
AIDS and the cancer connection
As far back as the 1930s researchers indicated that cancer was in fact a bacterial pathogen and not an unavoidable component of the human gene structure. A researcher by the name of Rayale Rife discovered what was the equivalent of cancer "germs" which would indicate cancer as a bacterial pathogen. He suffered greatly for bucking the prevailing theory at the time and insinuating that there could be a cure for
cancer.
Wilhelm Reich discovered particles called bions that were clearly related to cancer. He was imprisoned for not co-operating with the Food And Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA axed all his instruments in his lab, burned all his books and notes, and destroyed all his work on a can-
cer cure.
Dr. Victoria Livingston-Wheeler wrote that a cancer microbe was the underlying cause of cancer. She was laughed at and called a quack.
Today we can culture cancer bacteria from all Kaposi's sarcoma lesions. This fact has been published in major medical journals. At autopsy, there is virtually no pathological difference between people who die of AIDS and people who die of cancer.
When you look at these facts there is a strong argument that AIDS is in fact cancer, and that cancer therefore is contagious, which is what the government scientists have been trying to deny. Why was the virus connection put aside? Because in 1976 environmentalists declared environmental causes were to blame for cancer. So if AIDS isn't cancer why are the players all the same in the war on cancer and the war on AIDS?
Why won't the experts admit they are dealing with a cancer epidemic? Why won't they pay attention to microbes in cancer and Kaposi's sarcoma?
How AIDS came to America: The government propaganda theory
Actually there's two theories. The first one is that after the virus jumped species in nature (something unheard of before the AIDS plague), Haitians working in Africa brought it back to Haiti.
Promiscuous New York homosexuals vacationing in Port au Prince had anal sex with the Haitians and brought the virus back to the island of Manhattan. There are several flaws to this theory. Statistics from Haitian hospitals and research done in Africa indicate that the virus was not present in Haiti prior to 1979 and contrary to the thought that AIDS was present in Africa for millenniums there is no record of AIDS in Africa prior to 1978. In fact European researchers have said AIDS came to Africa only recently.
The government AIDS researchers made sure the green monkey theory was repeated so often in the media that it became truth. The fact that this is only a theory has been overlooked.
The other theory boarders on the ridiculous-Patient Zero. The theory is that this single flight attendant named Gaetan Dugas was solely responsible for the spread of AIDS in not just America, but the entire North American continent. Fifteen years have passed since 1978 and we know a lot more now then we did when this idea was first introduced to the public. We know now that only 1 in 250 unprotected sexual encounters involving anal sex will result in an infection. We must re-think the libido of this superman. Patient Zero would have had to hit a home run each and every time he came into contact with another human being, from coast to coast, non stop.
Not only does this man's stamina have to be questioned, but Dugas was diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma in 1980 and had swollen lymph nodes and rashes for one year before that. However, AIDS had already been in New York for 2 years before Mr. Dugas got there. By the year that Gaetan Dugas was diagnosed, 20 percent of the hepatitis B vaccine participants were testing positive for HIV. After Randy Shilts' book And The Band Played On recorded the escapades of the likes of Gaetan Dugas, the mainstream media had a field day with headlines like "The Man Who Brought AIDS to America." No one has ever proven this theory and most evidence points against it.
Why has the man-made laboratory theory been ignored?
We need to go back about 25 years and look at what the biomedical warfare experts were mixing up in their labs. In 1963 Dr. Donald McArthur, deputy director of the Department of Defense, appeared before a Congressional hearing on bio medical warfare and declared the experts could develop a genetically engineered super germ. This new agent would be a highly effective killing device because the human immune system would be powerless to stop it.
The testimony was delivered in Washington D.C. before a subcommittee of the committee of appropriations for 1970 on July 1, 1969. When questioned about the cost and time, Dr. McArthur gave the following details: 1) all biological agents up to now are naturally occurring and readily available; 2) within the next 5 to 10 years, it will be possible to make an infectious microorganism which would differ in certain aspects than any known organism. Most important is it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic process upon which human beings depend to remain disease free.
In 1970 the Army's biomedical warfare programs intensified, particularly in regards to DNA and gene splicing. Soon after, in 1971, President Nixon transferred the Army's biomedical warfare unit over to the National Cancer Institute. Secret experi-
ments continued under the guise of cancer research. And what were they doing in these secret experiments? They were learning how to "jump" animal cancer viruses from one species to another. During the process, new cancers, immunodeficiency and opportunistic infections were produced in animals. As predicted the super germs were created.
The part of the Army's biomedical warfare unit that was permitted to operate under the National Cancer Institute is known today as the Fredrick Cancer Research Center. This is the facility that was to test the gp160 vaccine on 10,000 PWAs. Anybody want to get in line now?
Just as predicted, new cancer-causing monster viruses were created by our government scientists in these labs under cancer research funding. The only problem was while the scientists were creating these super killers, they never bothered to look for cures at the same time.
In one experiment, two chimps were taken from their mother and given bovine milk from cows infected with bovine type C virus. They both died, and at autopsy cancer was found in the spleen, liver, lymph nodes, bone marrow, and the chimps had severe immune deficiency. The experiment was considered a success because the researchers had created two, never seen before, diseases in primates, leukemia and PCP.
Many scientists raised grave concerns about these killer antigens escaping the lab. The researchers working on the projects admitted there was no sure way to guarantee that no virus would escape, but added that if 5 or 10 people lost their lives it would be a small price to pay to develop animal cancers that could infect humans. Science and ethics had officially parted company.
It wasn't too long after this that the World Health Organization (WHO) released a memorandum that stated "certain retroviruses could result in selective damage to the human immune system, particularly white blood cells called T-cells. This damage could lead to cancer." The WHO recommended systematic evaluation of these immune suppressing retroviruses which could have serious implications for human diseases. That same year, 1972, a document published in Federation Proceedings proposed the future study of bacterial and viral antigens that selectively kill T-cells. The scientific committee "visualized" human vaccine experiments conducted on siblings during preventive vaccines. "During preventive vaccinations" means the children would be covertly given experimental infectious agents. WHO stressed the need for proper choice of control population. (Keep in mind that the World Health Organization still classifies homosexuality as a mental illness.) Within a few years a mysterious immune suppressive agent begins killing millions of Africans. The extermination had begun.
Why us and why now
While the mad scientists were creating killer diseases in their labs in the late '60s and early '70s, the gay rights movement was picking up steam. The Stonewall riots put America on notice that we weren't going to take it any more. Gays began to understand our collective power as a group, if we would just come out. And come out we did. In droves. This made the right wingers in this country very nervous. Is it a coincidence that AIDS appears just as gays were demanding our civil rights? Does anyone doubt that the right wing fundamentalist Christians, the Reverend Phelpses of the world, would like us to disappear? Applaud our vanishing? You better believe it.
During the '70s as we were gaining power it was no longer acceptable to be racist, or anti-Semitic, however it was, and still is socially acceptable to hate gays. With our coming out the bigots, racists and white supremacists responded by putting us at the top of their hate list where we remain to this day. More hated then Jews or African Americans, we are the most hated minority in America.
Hepatitis B vaccine theory (the only possible explanation)
By the late '70s after it was declared that gays were a health menace, the trucks started coming around the Village to collect blood from gay men to develop the hepatitis vaccine. 10,000 gay men donated blood samples. And once again they were very selective as to who they choose. Promiscuous, single, etc.
There were no problems with the chimps that received the vaccine and no problems with the first 200 presumably gay men for several months before gearing up for the final experiment which would wipe out the gay population in New York City.
The first group started getting inoculated in November of 1978 and the experiment continued until October 1979. Over 1,000 men were injected. In January 1979, 14 months after the first inoculations began, the first cases of KS show up in the Village. Within 30 months doctors in New York City had dozens of cases of gay men with PCP, KS, and no immune systems. All young, all single, all promiscuous, almost all white. Sound familiar? All died horribly. Within a few years AIDS became the leading cause of death in New York City which is designated the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic.
Dr. Szmuness declares his experiment a success and opens five sites across the country. All in major metropolitan areas with high concentrations of gays. The cities were Los Angles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and Denver.
It is painfully obvious that either the researchers did not make the connection between the "new" vaccine and the "new"
deadly illness, or not only was the connection made but was part of the plan. It's hard to believe that with the surveillance that was taking place in regards to the health of gay men in New York City at the time, that no one noticed the strange correlation between the vaccination experiment and the "gay cancer." One year after the hepatitis vaccine experiment starts on the West Coast, a strange, never seen before illness begins killing gay men in San Francisco and L.A. The men were being diagnosed with KS and PCP. Six months later, in June of 1981 the AIDS epidemic becomes official. Experts can't explain why previously healthy young gay men were dying of this mysterious illness in New York, L.A. and San Francisco. With lack of a present antigen the experts said the immune disorder manifesting in gay men was due to a promiscuous lifestyle and immoral, unhealthy behavior characterized by drug abuse and anal sex.
The Centers For Disease Control declares AIDS a gay disease and states that the general population is not at risk of contracting this pathogen.
Most people were unaware of the experiment being carried out in the gay ghettos of America. But the details are recorded in the annals of medical literature. In June of 1982 Dr. Wolf Szmuness died of lung cancer. At his funeral were top government cancer and AIDS researchers. Heads of the most prestigious biomedical companies tied to genetic engineering, vaccine development and oh yes, biomedical warfare researchers. On May 11, 1984 a landmark event took place honoring the doctor. There was, and is a strong connection between AIDS and cancer. Why else would people from such diverse backgrounds come together to honor Dr. Szmuness?
How many clues does it take?
Remember Dr. Gallo's statement about AIDS not looking like anything seen before in nature and that it closely resembles the bovine leukemia virus, type C, and also resembles sheep virus called visna virus? (Remember the chimps?) The AIDS virus is so different than anything known it could not have possibly come from nature.
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