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m It's my pleasure to be here today and I'm glad that all of you could atten.d. We're going to talk a little bit about AIDS. This is a topic we've all heardl a great deal ab0u.t but, quite frankly, most of what you've heard about is totally fiction. We got involved in this topic totally accidentally. . In about 1983 my brother and I began working on an insurance plan for a large bank in southern California and in doing that in 1983, nobody knew what AIDS was going to cost us. So we decided! that in writing an ,insurance plan for about 30,000 people, we would deteITfiine the cost of AIDS for ourselves. And that ledl us into this whole I5roblem of not only AIDS, but what has come out about it. And basically what came out about the inquiry was the fact that we concluded that the AIDS virus was a man-made phenomenon. It's not something that came from the jungles of Africa or some monkey virus, or from some monkey biting some African on the ass, and then bam, 100,000 cases of AIDS come out of Africa. This virUs was invented in a laboratory. They'd been working on producing it for 30-40 ye.ars. So, you would son of have to ask yourself, when AIDS occurred after they had been writing about it for such a long period of time, and they've been trying to make it for. such a long period of time, why no one is running around,. shouting and saying, "Hey, you know, we finally did what we were attempting to do. We succeeded in producing a virus that destroys ,the immune system and kills people." If people understood that this virus was designed in an attempt as an agent of mass destru'ction, instead of the misconception that somehow this is a virus that only attacks homosexuals or this is a virus that attacks drug abusers, I think we wO.uld all have a qiffcrent apprcciation. There are tWo topics that most of us don't really have any knOWledge about. One is the precedence of these kinds of experiments. Recently in the Los Angeles Times just a cou ple weeks ago, I was reading an article where they wcre talking about a small town in Washington state where a lot of people in that community had developed canc.ers of some strange sort. And of course the guys of whom an in their family dcvclopcd thcse cane'e-rs out of the blue, happcned to be living next to some tind of nuclear plant. The question was: was this plant somehow causing these can<;ers? WcU, of course they denied it and the doctors aU said, "These guys are crazy. These just happen to be occurring." But the fact was,,as it came out, this nuclear plam had actually been releasing radil\.tion into Ithe atmosphere. This was probably n.ot an accidental rekase, but an intentional release, and that they were actually studying the effects of these radiation releases upon the surrounding population. So you begin to get an appreciation of what the government is capable of doing. Then you tum to the history 'or the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and the history of experimentation on the United States citizens without anybody's knowledge or concern. Now, in a series of books such as A Higher Form of Killing by Packsman and Harris, or Clo,uds ofSecrecy by Leon.ard Cole who is a Rutger's professor, you can document over 300 open-air biological experiments conduetcd on us without our consent or knowledge. That's 300 that we have documented ,in the last 20 or 30 years. You have only to turn w the history of the Tuskegee, Alabama experiment to sec the illustration of doctors neglect ing what's been going on. they're s,,!ying, "Well, this kind of expcrimcnt couldn'ln occur; we'd all know about it. Doctors wouJd do somcthing about ir." In Tuskegee, Alabama, in the '30s, black men were recruited for an e.xperimcnt in which they were followed for about 40 years in open medical literature, where there was observed the prog-ression in these black men of syphilis. Now, the interesting part about this experiment was, when penicillin became available, these men were prevented from being treated. This was con ducted by the United States Public Health Service Department, which of course is now known as The Centers for Disease Control in AJnlanta, Georgia, who are the captains in charge of what's happening in our AIDS war. So you see, there is precedent for experi mentation on people without anybody's knowledge or consent. FEBRUARY -MARCH 1994 NEXUS • 23