Posted on 10/12/2004 7:28:02 AM PDT by billorites
KENYA'S new Nobel Peace Prize winner believes the virus causing AIDS was a deliberately created biological agent unleashed on Africans.
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that," Wangari Maathai told a news conference a day after winning the prize. Ms Maathai, an ecologist and trained biologist, became the first African woman to win the prize on Friday for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation.
"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet.
"It's true there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq.
"We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare," said Ms Maathai, also Kenyan deputy environment and natural resources minister, who has gained a reputation as a fearless speaker.
"In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare," she added.
"Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious."
Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million people across the world infected with HIV, and the vast majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS estimates.
In August Kenya's daily Standard newspaper quoted Ms Maathai saying HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.
"We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to the primitive people," the Standard quoted Ms Maathai as telling a public workshop in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri on August 30.
"AIDS (is) not a curse from God to Africans or the black people.
"It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did."
Wow, they're all sounding alike. Is there a "Winning the Nobel Prize for Dummies" at my local bookstore?
Aliens from outer space are responsible for developing the AIDS virus.
Everybody knows that.
What an idiot, how do people like that get Nobel Peace prizes?? Oooops, didn't Carter get it?? Like I said, what an idiot.
John
She gets a prize for being smart or something and comes up with this crap? IT IS the end of the world.
There's an up side to this ... if Africans believed that AIDS was designed to exterminate them, then they could defeat it by adopting sensible sanitation practices and sexual morality. Go to it, Africans! Show the oppressor that he can't win!
I thought it was made to eliminate the gay population?
The sexual practices of sub-Saharan Africa are to blame, dearie. But go ahead and call up Jimmie Cahter if you want someone to cry to.
If extermination of humans in Africa was the goal, and a biological agent was to be the means, why spend $$ and years inventing a new agent that takes years to kill when there are plenty of others to choose from that already exist and kill much faster?
Furthermore, why kill Africans with bio when much of the continent is engaged in perpetual war already?
She got no prize for being smart. She is just another Left wing Nut case to receive the "Peace" Prize.
There is only one qualification required- Vehement and irrational hatred for the US/West.
It's Bush's fault. Kerry has a plan.
Another whacked out lunatic. AIDS got started in Africa as a Green Monkey(a staple food item)virus. It jumped to humasns as a retrovirus. Now maybe someone tried to eat the butt end of a dead monkey, and things went downhill after that. Most AIDS is preventable by the use of Trinoasitol.
Why bother indeed! Stop all aid and Africa will be the worlds largest uninhabited area within two generations.
Darwin at work.
Another Nobel Idiot.
Yikes!!!!! Nobel prize for the non-PC. Damn!!!!!
Michael Moore would rush to tell her HIV was cooked up in the 80s in the bowels of a Halliburton Laboratory.
She should travel the speech circuit with Carter and appeal to all of the "progressives" to change the world!
Between the two of them they would get so many whiners together that the rest of us can get on with our lives more comfortably............!
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