Black Triangle

In the US the H1N1 vaccine has been the subject of some debate. Here is some footage from Fox News, were you can seen several incredibly dumb people discussing vaccines, including Deirdre Imus:

Imus asks: “If it’s so safe, why doesn’t President Obama have his children vaccinated on TV in front of us.”

Ron Paul, a Republican congressman with degrees in biology and medicine, and medicine is also concerned. Apart from his paranoia that Obama’s recent decision to declare the H1N1 pandemic an emergency is an attempt to curtail liberty in the US and to aid the spread of socialised medicine, he notes that the President’s children have not received “the shots”.

However, even this right wing fearmongering pales in comparison to the conspiracy theories published in The Palestinian Telegraph, reportedly from an Al Jazeera interview with Dr Leonard Horowitz in an article called Evidencing Anglo-American H1N1 “PanGenocide” :

Host Ahmed Mansour, of “Bela Hodood,” interviewed Dr. Horowitz during the satellite broadcast on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009, from 7:05-55 pm (GMT). The show typically features famous personalities including presidents and prime ministers, and reaches an audience of 70 million viewers. The mostly Muslim audience learned of Dr. Horowitz unsettling findings that condemns vaccinations as being “genocidal weapons of mass intoxication, pharmaceutical addiction, and population reduction.”

Dr. Horowitz is a Harvard-trained medical investigator and best selling American author credited by leaders of every religion for his research and humanitarian efforts to wake people up the little known dangers of vaccinations.

Horowitz is actually a former dentist, warned off by the FDA from marketing a crank cure for SARS. He is certainly not a respected expert on vaccines.

He does have a nice line in conspiracy theories, pulling in Murdoch, the Rockefeller’s and Obama’s healthcare plans into a conspiracy theory that blames the jews:

Recently, members of the “9/11 truth” movement questioned Jay Rockefeller regarding his family’s powerful influence over the eugenics movement in the early 1900s, forerunning to the modern genetics industry and experiments addressing racial predispositions for cancers and more. Eugenics advanced as “racial hygiene” under the Third Reich, that according to historians was chiefly financed and administered through Bayer AG company president Hermann Schmitz. Schmitz formed a secret partnership with John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on behalf of the Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.

“I’m actually doing the work that is supposed to be done by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),” Dr. Horowitz says.

The ADL was founded to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” The ADL’s motto is, “It should never happen again.” They fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defend democratic ideals and protect civil rights for all.

“So let’s see what the ADL will do with a gang of mostly ‘not so nice’ Jewish guys linked to those who sponsored the holocaust of WWII and today’s vaccination genocide,” says Dr. Horowitz.

The reason Horowitz’ conspiracy theories are of interest (the internet is hardly short of conspiracy nut jobs) is that he is linked to Obama via the controversial preacher, Jeremiah A. Wright, who plagued Obama during his Presidential campaign, and who he had to eventually sever ties with. Wright cited Horowitz’s book in his accusation that HIV had been invented by the US government as a means to carry out a genocide against people of colour:

Wright will be horrified to find Obama’s children have now received the H1N1 vaccine:

The vaccine was administered last week to Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, by a White House physician, who applied for and received the vaccine from the D.C. Department of Health, “using the same process as every other vaccination site in the District,” according to the first lady’s Press Secretary Katie McCormick-Lelyveld.

The president and first lady have not yet received the vaccination. The White House said they will wait until the needs of priority target groups — young people under 24, pregnant women, and people with underlying conditions — receive theirs first.

“I suspect that I may come fairly far down the line,” The president told CNN last month. “We want to get vaccinated. We think it’s the right thing to do. We will stand in line like everybody else. And when folks say it’s our turn, that’s when we’ll get it.

Since Obama was elected the right wing has become increasingly anti-vaccine and paranoid about the President, in the same way the left wing become paranoid about the US slipping into fascism under Bush. However, it’s also reassuring that politicians do make the right decisions, despite some of the flaky people they have been associated with, whether it be the Blairs and Caplan or Obama and Wright.