AIDS in the Caribbean ..a "man-made" virus?

By David Muhammad | Last updated: Jun 15, 2012 - 10:33:42 AM

(FinalCall.com) There has been, throughout the last few decades, widespread belief that HIV/AIDS is a “man-made” virus created to destroy populations that were undesirable to a “White supremist” world view.

Let us consider some facts: On June 9, 1969, Dr. Donald Mc Arthur of the U.S. Department of Defense asked the U.S. Senate for $10 million to complete research for developing “synthetic biological agents to destroy the human immune system. …” Not long after, on July 29, 1969, the House Republican Committee, chaired by George H.W. Bush cited the urgent need for population control activities to fend off a “growing Third World crisis.” At the beginning of the 1970s, President Richard Nixon transferred part of the U.S. Army’s Chemical and Biological Division to the National Cancer Institute headed by Dr. Robert Gallo, who later mysteriously “discovered” AIDS.

A World Health Organization (WHO) Bulletin Vol. 47, p. 259 1972 said: “An attempt should be made to see if viruses can in fact exert selective efforts on the (human) immune function.…” Then National Security Study Memorandum NSSM 200 report April 24, 1974 authored by Dr. Henry Kissinger said: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of the U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World in regards to national security.” Why? Because the U.S.A. accounts for only six percent of the world’s population, but utilizes up to 34 percent of its minerals and resources, hence the population explosion of Third World peoples poses a direct threat to the availability of mineral resources to the American population.

Next, under President Jimmy Carter, Global 2000 was drafted by John D. Rockefeller 3rd whereby an objective was outlined to reduce world population from five billion to two billion, by the year 2000. Then, most significantly, in 1976 an initial request for $10 million was granted under House Bill HB15090 by the 91st Congress. The research was to take place at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Building 550 in the P4 Lab. What happened next was most alarming. In 1978 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in New York began Phase 1 of a Hepatitis B Vaccination campaign on 1,083 homosexual men, then Phase 2 of the project saw 1,402 homosexual men in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, and St. Louis given the same injection. These were among the first human beings in the Western Hemisphere to become infected with AIDS. Meanwhile the outbreak and rapid spread of AIDS in Africa was also linked to a Small Pox vaccination campaign by the World Health Organization from 1966-1977, according to a front page London Times story published May 11, 1987 and various other sources.

The first reported cases of AIDS in the Caribbean were in Jamaica in 1982 then Trinidad & Tobago in 1983. For the first three or four years of its existence in the Caribbean, all cases were among homosexual men. In 1985 the first heterosexual cases were detected. So AIDS would have been most likely transmitted to the Caribbean via the New York gay community intermixing with the Caribbean where bisexual transmission would have taken place. By 1988, there were almost equal numbers of new infections between homosexuals and heterosexuals. In the 1980s, 90 percent of all Caribbean AIDS cases were reported from five countries, Trinidad & Tobago led and accounted for 38 percent of all cases (310 of 827). The Bahamas ranked second with 214 cases, Bermuda third with 75, Barbados fourth with 63, and Jamaica fifth with 62 cases. Countries like St. Kitts, Montserrat, British Virgin Island, Antigua, Anguilla, and the Cayman Islands each reported three or fewer cases up to 1988.

Today the Caribbean islands have the second highest HIV rates in the world. Some 420,000 people in the region are HIV-positive. AIDS is a leading cause of death in Haiti and the Bahamas, which are the most affected Caribbean nations. Millions of dollars have to be diverted for research, care and treatment, and the challenge continues as not enough is being done to sensitize youth to the risk of infection. Various heads of government in CARICOM addressing forums such as the “Caribbean US Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS” admit the Caribbean’s political response has been inadequate and in many instances the entertainment industry irresponsibly promotes a promiscuous lifestyle to a gullible audience. It is time for our young people to learn the value of themselves, the worth of their virtue, and the threats to their lives—but how will they know except they be taught?

(David Muhammad is the Trinidad Representative of the Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Listen live to his “Black Agenda” radio program Mondays and Thursdays 8 p.m.-10 p.m. ET on www.wackradio901fm.com.)

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