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In reply to the discussion: Delaware State U. won’t interfere with free speech of professor spreading Ebola conspiracy theories [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 27, 2014, 12:45 PM - Edit history (1)
I say that is their right, but killing the aid workers was not their right. If this guy is part of that, it makes him culpable for their deaths, but not legally.
We have people in this country who are listening to people with the freedom of speech here who will not go to a doctor, period. And people who are almost driven to death with fear of vaccines, food, water and chemtrails. We are not so different than them, and the people selling this to the American people are making money, in fact are no doubt saying Africans are being given Ebola by us.
Fearmongering has become a mainstream media industry. I'm not going to get too excited over this one guy. He's not the only source of this. Here's an African one:
Nigeria: Patrick Sawyer, Ebola and the 'Illuminati' Connection
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408250977.html
American source, quoted on a Philadelphia website, that will scare Americans:
Conspiracy Theorist Joins Dick Morris And Gary RNel And Shares Views On Ebola Outbreak, Claims It Could Be Airborne
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/08/06/conspiracy-theorist-joins-dick-morris-and-gary-rnel-and-shares-views-on-ebola-outbreak-claims-it-could-be-airborne/
THAT is from CBS! And from the king of CT:
So the People of Sierra Leone Believe the Ebola Outbreak Is a Government Conspiracy, Do They
http://www.prisonplanet.com/so-the-people-of-sierra-leone-believe-the-ebola-outbreak-is-a-government-conspiracy-do-they.html
These American sources tell people we're being given cancer when we get a flu shot!
From the UK, stories of two women in hospitals, one in London and another in NYC, and the problem convincing Africans to get treatment:
...Deep fear among patients and their families saw some trying to escape hospital, he said.
'Ebola is a new disease in Sierra Leone and when the first cases emerged, many people thought it might be a government conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors.'
This links to widely held scepticism about Western medicine and traditional beliefs and practices.
'Relatives don't get to see what happens to patients when they are isolated, so some expressed fears that they were being taken away to be killed by doctors...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2715647/Whats-shocking-Ebola-patients-look-die-British-doctor-working-Sierra-Leone-describes-horror-deadly-disease.html#ixzz3ETZUnnfo
At worst, he's indulging his own theories, based on his degrees and whatever else is going on inside his head. I wish that he was not saying this, but he can't be stopped, no matter how mad it makes us. I would like him to be stopped, seveneyes.
It's legal, just as Infowars cheering on the cop killers in Nevada. Just as Fox was cheering on Bundy.
I am simply suggesting to you that he may believe what he says and so do many Africans. Some of them claim that AIDS is from WHO vaccine. We can't talk to them directly.
Even if you don't care for the links here, please take a moment to read the details of how Obama has sent 3,000 personnel to Nigeria for the good:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110225557
Please don't take it out on me because you are upset at what this man is doing. I don't feel he has the right... but he does. It's like this question on another issue:

The interpretation of courts on the Constitutional right of media and others to lie in elections or in any other way, makes this possible. A lot of people are going to get hurt. From the UK piece, the sufferers look normal until the end. That is very deceptive.
To be extra clear, I don't approve of what this guy is doing, but the law and the school says he can. Do you have a solution, a way to get this guy to stop this?
The only think I can think of is to discredit him in the media scientifically, to have experts convince him to make him rethink what he is doing.
EOM.