SARS Scam?

Suspicions surface over the origin of the virus and the manipulation of its media image

by Rodger Herbst

The Bush Administration's strident accusation of foreign sources for chemical and biological Weapons of Mass Destruction should not blind us to possibilities right here at home. Dr. Leonard Horowitz provides us with some interesting alternative thoughts which deserve consideration.

Did you know, for example, that according to the US Congressional Record of 1975, Henry Kissinger, as National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon, selected an option to have the CIA develop biological weapons? Under Kissinger's watch, influenza and parainfluenza viruses were, for example, recombined with quick acting leukemia viruses (acute lymphocytic leukemia) to deliver a weapon that could potentially spread cancer like the flu. Such activity was documented by the US Government, National Institute of Health, and National Cancer Institute. (www.SARSscam.com)

Facts such as this have been generally neglected by the press, if not officially classified by the government under the guise of "national security." Weapons selections such as these continue to the present day not simply by radical terrorist groups, but also among a handful of military cartel industrialists that continue to produce and sell weapons of mass destruction to those who can afford them.

Dr. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., and author of 13 books, is a Harvard graduate in public health, and expert in the fields of medical sociology, behavioral science, and emerging diseases. Citing documentation that numerous viruses resembling AIDS and Ebola were bioengineered for the US Army by Litton Bionetics, his national best-selling book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Tetrahedron Press, 1998) challenges earlier theories that contaminated polio vaccines, species jumping viruses, or recreational drug use were the source of AIDS. As a result of publication of this book, the United Stated General Accounting Office is now investigating the man-made origin of AIDS theory. (www.originofAIDS.com.)

Is it also possible that the recent SARS virus was man-made? One highly suspicious aspect of SARS, according to Dr. Horowitz, is its timing, having arrived virtually at the same time as the global war on terrorism, and the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. Dr. Horowitz's website (www.SARSscam.com) examines the social and political implications of the SARS epidemic. According to Horowitz, his information "...offers educated people an alternative to the fright and irrational behaviors promulgated by 'mainstream' propagandists including news sources and health officials".

Health authorities have generally explained Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) as simply the latest threat in an ongoing series of attacks on humanity by mysterious mutating super-germs. Even if such authorities are correct, another suspicious aspect of the disease is the exaggerated danger associated with it. According to Horowitz, there are few grounds for excitement, much less panic: "With a mortality rate far below many more serious illnesses, SARS's power lies in its dependence on media propaganda used to herald its presence, prompt hysteria, and broadly engage social and economic resources."

"Clearly, what you are witnessing is a well organized terror campaign carried out by mostly well-meaning, but propagandistically indoctrinated authorities." With respect to the SARS outbreak in Toronto, for example, a criminal complaint is being filed by Canadian consumer health groups against Health Canada, Dr. Colin D'Cumba, Ontario's Commissioner of Public Health, and Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement, for negligence and public health malpractice bordering on fraud. This legal action is supported by the defendants' having: 1) consistently and knowingly misrepresented mortality (i.e., death) rates from SARS; 2) failed to relay standard infection prevention information to the public; and 3) prompted panic, widespread phobia and public avoidance behaviors causing economic, physical and psychological harm to hundreds of thousands of people and businesses across Canada. (www.SARSscam.com)

Horowitz diagnoses this illness, by medical-sociological parameters, as a "sickening and repulsive scam," a conspiracy perpetrated not only for fueling a multi-billion dollar "cottage health industry," as some analysts have written, but also as an experiment in global societal manipulation and possible population reduction. He identifies the "global military-medical-petrochemical-pharmaceutical cartel" as the only suspect that can wield the powers necessary to effect such outcomes. In his website, Horowitz notes, "The outcome of this experiment... depends on you."

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