I would discount the opinion of anyone who isn't actually investigating the outbreak in an official capacity. Viral biology is extremely difficult for lay people to understand. It's difficult for biologists to understand.
People who have limited understanding of these organisms can't imagine their complexity, or their innate ability to change and adapt to their environments. They don't need our scientific efforts to do that.
The fact is that the influenza virus constantly mutates in the wild. They shuffle their genetic makeup so they can infect their hosts, who are constantly shifting their immunity to resist them.
The avian/swine mutant suddenly developed the ability to infect not only humans when passed from pigs, but to directly pass from human to human. That's the big change that made it a new world threat.
The reason nobody is being allowed around those pigs is because we are trying NOT to spread the bug. Besides, what difference would seeing the pigs make? Samples have already been taken from the pigs, and infected humans have been tested and found to have the same viral strain. The organism has been identified and analyzed.
Now there is much work to do, and our health care system is busy trying to do that work. The question at hand is: (1) How bad is this going to get? and (2) How long will it take to develop a safe, effective vaccine, and how much Tamiflu and Relenza will the USA need to protect its population?
Does that sound like some sort of conspiracy? No government agency in its right mind would try to develop a superflu bug. Any physician will tell you that a super-influenza would be uncontrollable. Once released into the environment, it would infect humans around the globe.
The situation would be similar to the use of mustard gas in World War I, which was only effective against your enemy if the wind was blowing in the right direction.
In this case, you can't even depend on the direction of the wind. The germ would always come back and infect your own country's population, because the world population is globally mobile. A case of this flu has now been identified in Germany. It's become a world-wide phenomenon in less than a week.
Even the Bush administration wasn't dumb enough to risk the catastrophe this near-pandemic might eventually become.
