Persons with AIDS vs. Uncle Sam Class Action Lawsuit
by Eric Taylor
The Philadelphia-based group, Brotherly Lovers, which is
presently in the process of petitioning the U.S. Federal Court to hear the
case for Congressionally-approved AIDS biowarfare by the Pentagon, has moved
its headquarters to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since March of this year,
Brotherly Lovers has received 48 signed petitions from 9 states, including
5 physicians and 2 attorneys. Among the evidence: One week after the New
York City Stonewall Riot, which spearheaded the Gay Rights Movement, Pentagon
spokesman, Dr. Ronald MacArthur, testified before Congress July 1, 1969:
The dramatic progress being made in the field of molecular biology led us
to investigate the relevance of this field of science to biological warfare.
A small group of experts considered this matter and provided the following
observation:
1. All biological agents up to the present time are representative of naturally
occurring disease, and are thus known by scientists throughout the world.
They are easily available to qualified scientists for research, either for
offensive or defensive purposes.
2. Within the next five to ten years, it would probably be possible to make
a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects
from any known disease-causing organism. Most important of these is that
it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon
which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.
3. A research program to explore the feasibility of this could be completed
in approximately five years at a total cost of $10 million. -Department
of Defense appropriations for 1970, House of Representatives Subcommittee,
p. 129, courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act.)
Further compelling evidence appears in the 1972 Bulletin of the United National
World Health Organization in an article entitled "Virus-Associated
Immunopathology: Animal models and Implications for Human Disease."
It states: "An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses
can, in fact, exert selective effects on immune function, e.g. by . . .
affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function. The possibility
should also be looked into that the immune response to the virus itself
may be impaired if the infecting virus damages more or less selectively
the cells responding to the viral antigens."
Both proposals are exact definitions of AIDS. The development of such an
immunosuppressive virus is described in Progressive Medical Virology, "Immunodepression
by Oncogenic Viruses," 14: 1-35, 1972; Nature, "Common Genetic
Alternations of RNA Tumor Viruses Grown in Human Cells," 230:445-447,
1972; Texas Medicine, "Cross-species Transmission of Mammalian RNA
Tumor Viruses," 69:65-75, 1973; and The Journal of Experimental Medicine,
"Immunosuppressive Activity of a Subline of Mouse El-4 Lymphoma,"
143:187-205, 1976.
Dr. Robert Strecker, M.D., Ph.D., and Ted Strecker, Esq., have compiled
a list of 50 other articles from respected scientific journals that led
them to conclude that AIDS was predicted, requested, produced and released
by the U.S. Government via smallpox vaccinations in Africa and hepatitis
B vaccinations in America under the supervision of Dr. Wolf Szmuness. The
list, "AIDS Reference," can be obtained by writing to The Strecker
Group, 1216 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017. Their video, The Strecker
Memorandum condenses this information into a 90-minute tour de force. I
have this tape.
Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr., M.D., has compiled two well-documented books on
the subject: AIDS and the Doctors of Death, 1986 (ISBN 0-917211-25-1) and
Queer Blood, 1993 (IBSN 0-917211-26-X). Dr. Cantwell initially dismissed
AIDS biowarfare as absurd until he became one of the few to actually investigate
the evidence. His book was banned by World Health Organization officials
at the 1989 AIDS conference in Canada. (Were they uncertain that the "experts"
were capable of coming to their own conclusions?) AIDS specialist and author
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., endorses Cantwell's research. William Cooper
resigned from the CIA after 30 years service upon gaining access to documents
verifying that AIDS was created as population control, after previous birth
control efforts failed. Cooper tours the country giving lectures in order
to protect himself with a high profile and has written a book entitled Behold
a Pale Horse, available from The William Cooper Foundation, Suite 301, 19744
Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach, CA 92648.
Newspaper articles on AIDS biowarfare have appeared in the New Delhi Patriot
(7/4/84), the Soviet Literaturnya Gazeta (10/30/85), the London Sunday Express
(10/26/86), and The New York Native (4/13/87). An anonymous source claiming
to have worked for the Fort Detrick Biological Warfare Lab in Bethesda,
Maryland, told the Native that the AIDS biowar program was called "Operation
Firm Hand." Dan Rather reported the mounting AIDS biowarfare accusations
on the CBS Evening News, 3/30/87, incurring the wrath of the Reap;gan
administration, which simplistically labeled it "Soviet propaganda."
Ironically, Dr. Cantwell's research is often dismissed as "Right Wing
fanaticism."
Upon examining evidence compiled by award-winning journalist Peter MacKenzie
in a five-part series published in the Clear Lake (CA) Independent, 6/22/93-7/20/93,
Washington State Supreme Court Justice William Goodloe (retired) wrote:
"I have heard and seen reports of the possible artificial origin of
the AIDS virus, but until this report, have not seen such compelling evidence
of its truth. Mr. MacKenzie has assembled a remarkable documentation of
heretofore unpublished data, and an immediate governmental investigation
at the highest level should be commenced." Judge Goodloe can be faxed
at (206) 451-3959.
Regrettably, without even examining the extensive documentation, this issue
is unthinkable to most people. Yet, the U.S. Army has a notorious history
of germ warfare. The first known case of germ warfare occurred a century
ago when the U.S. Army gave freezing Plains Indians smallpox-infected blankets,
intentionally decimating countless Native Americans. Furthermore, the recent
deadly "Navajo Flu" turns out to be the Hanta virus, which Science
Magazine, 6/11/93, reported had long been under study by the Pentagon for
biological warfare purposes.
The book A Higher Form of Killing, by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, 1982,
documents hundreds of incidents in which the U.S. Army experimented upon
soldiers and civilians with chemicals and viruses-sometimes upon entire
cities like San Francisco. The May 6, 1994, edition of the CBS Evening News
reported that the AIDS-like "Gulf War Syndrome," incapacitating
thousands of Gulf War vets and their families, was determined not to be
the result of Iraqi biowarfare, as claimed by the Pentagon, but, rather,
the result of experimental vaccinations given to the troops before the war.
(HIV-1 is likewise linked to experimental hepatitis B vaccinations first
given to 1,083 healthy Gay men from New York City in November 1978. The
first case of HIV-1 infection appeared in New York City in January 1979,
and since then most of the recipients have died of AIDS.)
Recent headlines report that Congressional hearings are currently underway
to recompense thousands of minority victims of radiation experiments conducted
by the U.S. military during the 1950s and '60s. Yet another gruesome example
is the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment, wherein 400 Black sharecroppers were
denied treatment for syphilis from 1932 to 1972 so that the U.S. government
could study the long-term effects of the disease. Having been withheld the
penicillin cure, they died agonizing deaths, and their syphilis-infected
widows were recompensed by the government (James Jones, Bad Blood, 1981,
Free Press, NY).
With all of these acknowledged precedents, why is the thought of AIDS biowarfare
so unthinkable to most people? Perhaps it is because people don't do much
thinking anymore, relying on headlines, soundbites and docudramas as their
only source of information. That TV Guide, Parade Magazine, People, and
The National Enquirer are the best-selling publications in America speaks
for itself. Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, M.D.-one of the first and foremost AIDS
experts-complains that "part of the problem today is that science writers
are a pretty limp lot. They don't do any investigating. They just sit there
and receive their press kits . . . They are so gullible, these science writers
now-lazy and gullible" (interview 12/92).
What is worse than gullibility and laziness is silence. Even the Gay community,
for the most part, ignores this issue. Few Gay papers have the guts to cover
it. Apparently red ribbons, quilts, parades, and benefits reassure us that
something is being done. Now that AZT proves to be as deadly as HIV, after
being prescribed even to asymptomatic patients for a decade, one would think
we would begin to suspect that something stinks. AZT was banned in 1957
by the FDA because it was killing the people it was supposed to be helping
(Health Consciousness Magazine 8/91). AIDS patients appear to be guinea
pigs for hundreds of toxic drugs, while safe treatments that are clinically
proven to eliminate AIDS symptoms, such as acemannan, are completely ignored
(Medical World News 12/87 and The Journal of Advancement in Medicine, Vol
3, No. 4, Winter 1990).
Denial is a powerful psychological mechanism that must be overcome if we
are ever to get to the bottom of AIDS. The truth is slowly surfacing. For
instance, 60 Minutes (6/19/94) presented a very strong case that Kimberly
Bergalis and five other plaintiffs who won a $10 million settlement for
supposedly contracting AIDS from their dentist, Dr. David Acer, all lied
about their sex lives. Kimberly, a self-proclaimed "virgin," had
been diagnosed with the STD genital warts, and had previously admitted on
videotape to engaging in sex with two men. The Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) overlooked conflicted testimony by all six plaintiffs and used highly
questionable DNA tests to generate public hysteria and homophobia in the
sensationalized case. Dr. Acer was accused of first degree murder by the
media. (The CDC also played a major role in the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment
and the hepatitis B vaccine trial.) Because the U.S. government enjoys immunity
from being sued by individuals, it is essential that hundreds of signed
petitions from HIV-positive people, their families and friends in all 50
states be received by Brotherly Lovers in order to initiate this class action
suit. Concerned parties should write a brief letter stating, to quote Washington
State Supreme Court Justice William Goodloe, "I have heard and seen
reports of the possible artificial origin of the AIDS virus . . . and an
immediate governmental investigation at the highest level should be commenced."
Send to Eric Taylor, 2028 Murdstone Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15241.