Billy Corgan Vs. Swine Flu Vaccine

10/29/09 11:17am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Billy Corgan recently fought against The Cure's Robert Smith, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy and Amanda Palmer in a doll wrestling battle and now he's fighting something else: the new swine flu vaccine.

Corgan shared his feelings about the H1N1 vaccine in a post on his Everything From Here To There spiritual website on Tuesday (Oct. 27). He said he won't be vaccinated against swine flu because he has a problem with the "propaganda" and fear mongering behind the recent swine flu panic.

"I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apperatus [sic] behind it all to push it on us thru fear," Corgan wrote. "This is not judgment; it is a personal decision based on research, intuition, conversations with my doctor and my 'family'.

"If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord."

Corgan also said he thought American president Barack Obama should not have declared swine flu a national emergency because swine flu has "yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

"Our American President Obama has declared a national emergency about this virus, which he in his own words said was, at this point, a preventative measure. So, why declare an emergency if there isn't one?" he wrote earlier in the post.

While he also said he isn't suggesting swine flu does not exist, he wrote that he believes it's "not a naturally occurring virus."

"I have read reports from people who say (as doctors) that there is evidence to suggest this virus was created by man; to call it Swine Flu is then a misnomer, as it really is Swine Flu plus some other stuff stitched together," Corgan wrote. "These doctors said such genetic mutation was impossible in nature."

Corgan went on to say he thought everything should be questioned and his main problem with the swine flu vaccine is that it has been created in an atmosphere of fear. He said if it the "propaganda machine" had been promoting ideals like "kindness, manners, working together, human ingenuity, and grace" then maybe he would have a different opinion of it.

"But its current function is to maim and distort the truth, not to enlighten. How do I know this? Because it has fear attached to it, because it uses fear to move energy. Anything connected to fear is definitely not connected to Love or the promotion of Love.

"Scaring the daylights out of you over a virus or an unseen enemy only weakens us. Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness. The system works broken, because it is to the system's advantage to do so. The system pretends to have a limp and a heart so you’ll think it is both listening to you and incapable of moving too fast."

Corgan plans to release a 44-track Smashing Pumpkins album called Teargarden By Kaleidyscope at some point in the future.