Comments on: Gates spreads malaria message with mosquitoes

Microsoft's co-founder releases the insects at the elite TED Conference to draw attention to the plight of those affected by the disease.

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The TED video is there for all to see Bill Gates make a bioterrorist threat: "Now malaria is of course transmitted by mosquitos. I brought some here so you could experience this. [Gates releases mosquitos] We'll let those roam around the auditorium a little bit. There. There is no reason only poor people should have the experience." The fact that he says afterward the mosquitos are not infected does not erase the fact that he made a bioterrorist threat.

A terrorist threat is a crime even if there is no actual intent to carry it out.  The only intent you need is the intent to make the threat itself.  So if you threaten to commit a bioterrorist act, you will still be guilty of this crime even if you are completely unarmed and have no means of accomplishing this at all. Just ask the people who make "jokes" about airplane safety on airplanes, and are arrested for making terrorist threats.

Of course, the kool-aid drinkers and brown-nosers for Gates Foundation money see Gates's bioterrorist threat as a "awareness tool", "teaching tool" and "good publicity for a worthy cause". But the end does not justify the means. And just because Gates is a billionaire monopolist on a mission to make up for his past sins does not give him license to make a bioterrorist threat.

Worse yet is the effect beyond the auditorium. In his TED talk, Gates as a world-renown "philanthropist", "humanitarian", "outside-the-box thinker" provides world-wide publicity and justification and inspiration for bioterrorist and ecoterrorists to carry out terroristic threats and other acts of terror: Bill "There is no reason only poor people should have the experience" Gates. In talking about the history of malaria, Gates covers up the main culprit for stopping the world-wide progress in eradicating malaria: the radical environmentalists who stopped the effective DDT programs. Yes, DDT has adverse environmental effects, but sometimes severe adverse effects must be accepted to save tens of millions of lives. Radical environmentalists have obstructed and delayed the major DDT programs that would have saved tens of millions of lives.

Bill Gates is a despicable charlatan and coward for trying to pin the malaria blame on rich bald men rather than radical environmentalists. The developed countries were more than willing to give the undeveloped countries the same anti-malaria treatment decades ago, but it is radical environmentalists who stopped the world-wide eradication of malaria. So, here we have Bill Gates covering up for radical environmentalists, Bill Gates justifying hatred of rich countries, Bill Gates making a bioterrorist threat, Bill Gates providing world-wide publicity and teaching about how to terrorize rich countries, and Bill Gates's apologists saying, "Hooray! It's all for a good cause."

The end does not justify the means.