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Week of October 9 - 15, 2002
By Bud Johnson


Is AIDS a plague or a plan?
HIV linked to conspiracy to control Black population

It’s been over three years, since Mayor Lee P. Brown declared a state of emergency in 1999 Houston’s African- American community being consumed by the AIDS virus and a task force was created to combat the problem, therefore African-American News&Issues was sure to be present at the City Hall Annex Council Chamber, 900 Bagby, on Sept. 28. City officials held a press conference there to provide an update on the HIV State of Emergency.

Ironically, Ada Edwards, who had been at the forefront to educate the Black community about HIV, is now a City Council member of District D, wherein the “emergency” exists, and she now chairs the HIV Task Force. Edwards hopes to conduct more testing and information, but readily admits that naming and shaming the Black community is one thing, while actually doing something to address the deadly problem is entirely another. Nonetheless, for the first time, the city has designated $100,000 from the general fund to prevent the spread of the disease.


Edwards, who also hosts a radio talk show on The Box (KBBX-97.9 FM), each Sunday morning from 6-8 a.m., has often been at odds with AAN&I’s Black perspective about AIDS, inasmuch as it doesn’t line up with the popular viewpoints about the dreaded virus. AAN&I in fact, leans toward the conspiracy theory which asserts that AIDS is a man-made malady to control non-White populations, therefore we would be remiss not to share the following research that our articles inspired. To wit: “Mr. African Warrior, you’ve probably heard me call radio programs and talk about AIDS. If you have, you know that the varieties of hosts, simply endure my rantings about conspiracies against Black folks because it’s part of their job to do so.

“I want to share some information that I have with you. These dots can be connected. You might conclude that my argument is based on actual facts, circumstantial facts. I only hope that my argument proves to be compelling. (1) In the 1920s-30s many said to be eugenicists, like Prescott Bush and Margaret Sanger, advocated the reduction in populations in people of color. They theorized that said people were inferior and a hindrance to human progress (2). In 1969, Congress funded a request made by the Department of Defense for 10 million dollars to research and develop the AIDS virus (2a) The 91st Congress’ first session, HB 15090, chaired by George Herbert Walker Bush.
“House Republican research committee task force on earth resources urged action on the urgent need for population control activities to fend off the growing Third World crisis-- #1 and #2 are citied in ‘Emerging Viruses’ by Leonard Horowitz, pages 155 & 156, Governmental references pages 517-18. (3) Sometime within the 1978-80 period, I read an MIT newspaper in which it was written that research was being done on a virus that attacked melanin. This was 4-5 years prior to any public information about AIDS. Very little discussion resulted from the disclosure. There was very little concern or public outcry, but there was some conversation about the research.


“Sylvester Turner was at Howard University at the time, only one mile from MIT and he might be familiar with the article (4). In 1983-84 there were many articles about AIDS in Africa, Brazil, Haiti and pockets of the Black south. About a year later, most of the information on AIDS was about the homosexual community. AIDS then became a homosexual problem. I ask, were we duped into inaction? (5) In the early 1990s, several legitimate researchers theorized that AIDS was a man-made disease. Most notably was Dr. Strecker, who wrote numerous articles and made several videos in which he held seminars with researchers in the medical field.


“They concluded, beyond any doubt, that AIDS could not jump species and was man-made (6) In 1996-97, Leonard Herowitz wrote a book in which he researched and found that AIDS was paid for, researched and manufactured by the U.S. Government. He documents and gives references about those government agencies involved in the effort. On Page 4, he states that AIDS research requested by the U.S. government researched disease vulnerabilities of people of color. I gave you the reference to George H. W. Bush on pages 155 & 156. I ask the question: Can we connect the dots? Perhaps fear keeps us from connecting the dots. Sincerely, Vincent Goodridge.”


AAN&I acting on Goodridge’s suggestion (“P. S. There is much more! Henry Kissinger, etc.”), excerpted the following (from African Foreign Policy and Population Control): “In 1969… (the) United States Defense Department requested and got $10 million to make the AIDS virus in labs as a political/ethnic weapon to be used mainly against Blacks. The feasibility program and labs were to have been completed by 1974-1975. The DOD requisitioned the $10 million from Congress to fund the development of AIDS-like viruses. On July 29, 1969, the House Republican research committee task force on earth resources and population, chaired by the Honorable George Bush of Texas, cited the urgent need for population control activities to fend off a growing Third World crisis.”


As chilling as you are likely to find the information, AAN&I suggests that you read “Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola.” Meanwhile, “The Generation Crisis,” chapter from “Before The Mayflower,” is recalled. It suggested: “Some Whites said openly that the only solution to the ‘Negro problem’ was the ‘Indian solution.’ An Indianian said, ‘It would be better to kill them off all at once, for there is no other way to get rid of them.’ He added: ‘We know what the Puritans did with the Indians, who were infinitely more magnanimous and less imprudent than the colored race.’ Such then was the increasingly desperate situation of Blacks as the walls of the White fifties closed in on them.”
“‘What stone,’ New York Blacks asked in 1860, ‘has been left unturned to degrade us? What hand has refused to fan the flame of popular prejudice against us?’ Standing outside the pale of justice, enslaved in the South, despised in the North, nineteenth-century Blacks tasted the dregs of bitterness. Why did they take it? The answer is stunning in its simplicity: they believed in the real America, the one that was dreamed and betrayed. Their forefathers, they said, had settled the land and ‘manured it’ with blood. The land was theirs, the country was theirs—they were willing to fight for it.”

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