I have seen images on the television screen that have made my stomach squirm. I have watched some documentaries that have made me swear to put down the pen and take up the sword. I have seen the plight of the undesirables and the malcontents begging for acceptance on the street corner in front of the disinterested masses who only yearn for silver and gold. Nothing was as vile, savage and sickening as what I saw on the television screen in the wee hours of the morning last year.
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation showed a documentary called the Origin of Aids which is based on the book, the River by Edward Hooper. The documentary is based on the Oral Polio Vaccine AIDS theory ( OPV ) which states that the AIDS virus came from live polio vaccines that were prepared in chimpanzee tissue culture that was given to millions of African villagers in Zaire, Burundi and Rwanda between 1957 & 1959. The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia conducted the trials under the watch of Dr. Hilary Koprowski.
The documentary is considered controversial and has been dismissed by many scientists who think that the OPV Theory borders on conspiracy more than anything else. My friend who will be called P.H. were talking about AIDS one day and found out that we both saw the documentary and we decided to try and locate it so we could purchase it. Over the next week we found out that ordering the documentary was as difficult as finding the cure itself.
Operation Wounded Mongoose was the title of our project and P.H. hit the World Wide Web looking for the spoils of war. We thought that the CBC website would have a copy since they showed the documentary and although they did sell documentaries just not the one we were looking for. We then thought Amazon would be the next logical step of our journey and we were flabbergasted to find out that they did not have it either. BBC did not have any copies and we struck out on EBay as well. Something strikingly strange was taking place here; we were beginning to think that there was a sinister plot brewing.
Our suspicions were confirmed when we found Edward Hooper’s website which shed some light on the situation. After the CBC showed the Origin of Aids, Dr. Stanley Plotkin and Dr. Mark Weinberg who are two are of nine collaborators who have embarked on a disinformation campaign to dissuade television companies and film festivals from showing the documentary, petitioned the executive vice president of the CBC voicing their displeasure that the documentary was shown. Dr. Plotkin worked with Dr. Koprowski at the Wistar Institute and has worked feverishly to discredit Hooper and the Origin of AIDS documentary.
Armed with the information we needed to obtain the prize, we took to the phone with a new sense of confidence. P.H who is bilingual spoke to a woman in Montreal who stated that we should try a company in France to purchase the documentary. With no long distance plan in place we were going to need a second mortgage before this was over with!
We then contacted the National Film Board of Canada and spoke to timid fellow who preferred to whisper over the phone as if there was a CSIS agent hovering over his shoulder. It was going to cost us 29.99 for the short version of the film and it would take two weeks to ship. He stated that this was only for personal use and that under no circumstances could copies be made for public use. He reiterated this numerous times until we “pinky swore” to him that we would not copy the DVD, sell it free of charge over the internet to raise awareness about the OPV Theory and to show another example of Africans being used as guinea pigs by white foreigners. Our mission was finally accomplished.
Max De Luca is a freelance writer who lives in London, Ontario Canada. His short stories and articles have appeared in such publications as the Istanbul Literature Review, Inscribed Magazine and Mobius: A Journal for Social Change. He is influenced by the work of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Hunter S Thompson and Howard Zinn. Read other posts by Max De Luca.
