US Used Bogus HIV 'Education' Campaign As A Way To Recruit Anti-Government Activists In Cuba
from the another-bad-idea dept
Following the revelation that USAID built a special "Twitter for Cuba" in an effort to foment dissent in that country, it's now come out, via some AP reporting, that USAID also sent a bunch of Latin American youths from other countries to Cuba on a bogus "HIV prevention" campaign, which was really a cover for recruiting young Cubans to be anti-government activists.Of course, remember that a bogus Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan has resulted in people there no longer trusting such vaccinations and a rapid return of polio. While it's not likely that this campaign will directly lead to people totally ignoring HIV prevention advice, just the fact that the US government seems to be trying to make use of important health campaigns as part of a strategy to undermine others will have significant consequences, making people who need such information a lot less willing to actually pay attention to it. This doesn't seem like a good thing.
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A fitting punishment
Screw up a polio vaccination effort, and make people less likely to trust actually vaccination efforts in the future because of it, leading to preventable illness and deaths? Enjoy your polio shot.
Destroy the trust in HIV prevention efforts by planting spies/agents in the group of people trying to save lives, and/or prevent the spread of a disease/STD? Enjoy your HIV shot.
The ones ordering these things may think the gains outweigh the costs, but they aren't the ones who have to deal with the results, the illnesses and deaths that could have been prevented, if people had been able to trust the programs that were meant to help them.
Maybe spending the rest of their lives sick, or if they're lucky, just a month or so of intense illness, would give those ordering these actions a little perspective on the real costs of their actions.
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Wrong Disease - Bad Reportage
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hell, even back during the vietnam war, when we would vaccinate kids, etc as *part* of a program of 'winning the hearts and minds' (part bullshit cover for more insidious actions), the vietcong would come in and cut off the vaccinated arms of the kids to terrorize the citizenry into not cooperating with unka sam...
(kurtz voice: the horror, the horror...)
as i've mentioned before (and this is merely incident #15663864 to confirm it) USAID been spooked-up a LONG time...
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For example, the anti-vaxxer morons in the US may have based their fear on a false study specifically about the MMR jab (since admitted to be false by its author), but some of them also refuse things like TB and polio vaccination that have nothing to do with it.
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WTF
I know, I know... where to start.
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'Merika War, Plague, Famine... whats that last one...
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Wonder how long the rest of the world is going to continue to sit back and watch the leading exporter of terrorism world wide work.
And yes the US government funds terrorism to fight terrorism because reasons, national security and all that
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"why do they hate us?"
then decide it's because of your freedoms.
never mind
Bible
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I don't see the problem
So you have anti-government workers, you've got a weakened enemy and bad press for him. What's not to like?
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Yaaay. /s
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The US government at work
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More evil is perpetrated by those in authority than those under it.
All it would take is to exterminate a bunch of the leading psychopaths and the rest of the snakes would take notice.
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Recruiting activists through medical efforts?
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