“…It’s not necessarily a Haitian person that moved the virus from Haiti to the US,” now says Worobey, according to recent interview…| Letter from Boyd Graves to Worobey – AIDS originated in the United States and nowhere else

3 December 2007

Recommended HLLN Link: AIDS: From the United States and nowhere else: Letter from Boyd Graves, Esq. to Worobey (boydgraves.com) www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed6.html#graves

“I urge drug companies and the TB Alliance to stop lying to these people and to above all, stop using the African continent as one gigantic human laboratory. Africa isn’t Auschwitz. ….” ( “Stop using S.Africa as a human laboratory” by Adriana Stuijt Reports adrianastuijt.blogspot.com/2007/11/africa-is-not-human-laboratory.html )

-AIDS: From the United States and nowhere else: Letter from Boyd Graves, Esq. to Worobey (boydgraves.com) www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed6.html#graves

– EXCERPT Worobey, Haiti, AIDS & Racism | Worobey Clashes with the Irate Haitian Community and Luc Montagnier over His Controversial HIV/AIDS Finding By Smith Georges | Source: e-mail (whygeorges@aol.com ) Time Warner Cable, MNN | The World and Democracy newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/vnn/488667293.html

AIDS: From the United States and nowhere else: Letter from Boyd Graves, Esq. to Worobey (boydgraves.com) www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed6.html#graves

* November 26, 2007

The People’s Response to the False Haitian ORIGIN of AIDS

Dear Dr. Worobey:

I have studied the ORIGIN of AIDS for fifteen years and find that all roads lead to the U.S. Special Virus program (1962 – 1978). What is your prior familiarity with this federal program?

This federal program is guided by a 1971 flowchart which over four million people now have. www.boydgraves.com/flowchart/ .

In light of the extensive U.S. documentation in support of the need to develop a “candidate virus”, it is preposterous for an article in the 21st Century to seek to blame Haitians or anyone else.

The United States developed the esp-1 virus (HIV/AIDS) in 1971. The 1971 electron microscope of the esp-1 virus is identical to the 1985 electron microscope of HIV/AIDS. The 1971 photo is here, Nature New Biology, Vol. 232, pp. 140 – 2, 1971. The 1985 electron photo of HIV/AIDS is here, Science, Vol. 227, pp. 173 – 7, January 1985.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, sheep, not monkeys, are the etiological animal model for HIV/AIDS. See, PROC NAS Vol. 83, pp. 4007 – 11, June 1986, PROC NAS Vol. 92, 3283 – 87, April 11, 1995.

Dr. Worobey, when did visna cross species so as to become the etiological agent of HIV/AIDS? Specifically, and reading from the 1971 progress report (of the development of AIDS), page 39 says, ‘visna had not YET been associated with human disease’.

At the July 18, 1983 AIDS Task Force Dr. Matthew Gonda announced that HIV/AIDS had evolved from visna. SO this issue begs the question, when did visna cross species between 1971 and 1983?

If visna had not been associated with human disease as late as 1971, then why do I have in my blood, sequences of visna from a 1932 strain, ks-1514?

If we review and investigate the U.S. Special Virus program, we will solve and end this thing we call HIV/AIDS. Once you read U.S. House Resolution 15090, particularly page 129, you will find the true heart, intent and desire of our government to make HIV/AIDS. Also google, “Better” Than the Bomb. O.K., while you are at it, go to www.uspto.gov and enter 5676977 or 4647773.

I hope you engage this process to rid the world of this ‘synthetic biological agent’ we call HIV/AIDS. This World AIDS Day you can make a difference by correcting your errant article and base it on the truth, the U.S. Special Virus program. Looking forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Boyd Ed Graves, J.D. www.boydgraves.com 619-849-9364

Worobey Takes Time to Explain, but the

Haitians in Haiti and in the Diaspora See

the “R” Word (R-A-C-I-S-M) by Smith Georges, Time Warner Cable, MNN newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/vnn/488667293.html

New York, November 27, 2007 – No one can argue that the history of the AIDS epidemic has been one of continuous controversy over points such as who first discovered its viral roots, and why did it spring, apparently from nowhere. Worobey and his colleagues claim that the path of HIV from Africa to Haiti in 1966, then from Haiti to the U.S. in 1969, and from the U.S to the rest of the world.

During my live TV interview with Michael Worobey, Assistant Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, I asked him the tough questions that the Haitian community had in mind. I asked him about the negative and devastating effect that his press release can have on the Haitian community, such as discrimination against children going to school as well as housing and job discrimination. “ The idea of blaming any person or group for the spread of something no one knew about is transparently flawed. All of us should work together to fight such a faulty idea rather than to suppress good science that can benefit Haitians and non-Haitians alike,” said Michael Worobey.

“For what it’s worth, the US, not Haiti, appears to have been a more important “hub” for the international spread of HIV-1 group M subtype B. Again, the idea of blaming the US for this would be flawed, but tracing the path of the virus can potentially add important clues that might help control its future spread,” Worobey added.

In the Haitians’ eyes, Michael Worobey is seen more as a racist with an agenda, whose finding is interpreted more as recycled racism rather than an honest evolutionary biological research. Seventeen years ago, to be more precise in April 20, 1990, tens of thousands of Haitians and Haitian Americans marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the FDA decision that banned Haitians blood donation. The FDA ban was subsequently reversed. The Haitians felt that they were being stigmatized, and they saw FDA preying on a poor nation.

Luc Montagnier Rejects Worobey’s HIV/AIDS Finding According to “Haiti en Marche” Nov. 14 to Nov. 20, 2007, Vol. XXI-No. 42 (A prominent Haitian Newspaper), while Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who was first credited with discovering the AID virus, was in Grenade, Spain recently where he was presenting a conference at The University of Grenade about his research on AIDS in Cameroon, he flatly rejected Worobey’s assertion of HIV’s path out of Africa: Haiti, the US then the world. Montagnier said that “Some American tourist went to Haiti and infected the population there.” (French version: “Quelque touriste americain a été en Haiti et a infecté la population.”)

Worobey Not so Sure (See his own statements below) “…and first let me say the press release and the paper don’t say anything about the nationality of the person. What they say is we have strong genetic evidence that the virus – the variant of the virus emerged out of Africa and began circulating in Haiti and then after that at some point after that moved to the US”

“…it’s not certain whether it moved in a Haitian or in an American who traveled to Haiti and was infected with this variant of the virus…”

“…exactly how the virus got from Haiti to the non-Haitian US population is something that our method can’t actually tell…”

“… There is no way you can place blame on any person, or ethnicity, or nationality, and anyone who does that is doing something that’s not scientifically supported”

“– I am hoping that a lot of people would be able to follow and see what we’re actually saying in the paper itself as opposed to the message that gets filtered through the media which often not exactly the same.”

“…It’s not necessarily a Haitian person that moved the virus from Haiti to the US,”

…..The Government Secretive Experiment on Black People “Let the chips fall where they may,” said Worobey. But the question that’s in the mind of the Haitians: was the trajectory of the chips guided by a racist hand that conveniently dropped the chips on Africa and Haiti? Worobey replied “My only agenda was and is to scientifically investigate, with no prejudice whatsoever, how a terrible pathogen spread around the world and how that knowledge can be used to fight HIV/AIDS in the future…”

One cannot be too passive and complacent about what had happened in the past. We remember the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972) on largely uneducated and poor African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama…….

Alan Cantwell, Jr. M.D. made this remark: “Lost in the history of AIDS is evidence pointing to HIV as a virus whose origin traces back to animal cancer retrovirus experimentation in the “pre-AIDS” years of the 1960s and 70s. Evidence linking the introduction of HIV into gays and blacks via vaccine experiments and programs in the late 1970s has been totally ignored in favor of the politically correct theory claiming that HIV originated in chimpanzees in the African rain forest, and that HIV “jumped species” into the African population around 1930 or even earlier. Conveniently overlooked is the series of outbreaks of AIDS-like epidemics that broke out in US primate centers, beginning in 1969. A decade before AIDS, the first of five recorded epidemics of “simian AIDS” erupted in a colony of stump-tailed macaques housed in a primate lab at Davis, California. Most of the macaques died.”

Below is an Excerpt of my Interview with Michael Worobey S.G. = Smith Georges (Haitian-American producer/Host of the World and Democracy on Time Warner Cable, MNN)

M.W. = Michael Worobey (Assistant Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona)

……S.G. – Have you been to Haiti?

M.W. – No, I’ve never been to Haiti….

( For more info on the complete interview, contact Smith Georges at whygeorges@aol.com, for internet source of this HLLN posting excerpt, go to: newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/vnn/488667293.html )

Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network