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Friday November 12, 1999


BILL GATES DUPED INTO POPULATION CONTROL SUPPORT

SEATTLE, Nov 12 (LSN.ca) – In its ongoing effort to educate Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, American Life League has discovered that his recent support for the ‘need’ for population control reflects a change from his original views. ALL cites a 1996 Forbes magazine article, which quotes Gates as saying, “Julian Simon [population growth advocate] is right and Paul Ehrlich [population doomsayer] is wrong.” In the same article, Gates also commented: “Resources are becoming more abundant,” and “I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.”

ALL notes that just three years after these statements, Gates is financially supporting population-eliminating groups like the German Foundation for World Population, Population Communications International.

“Bill Gates is a good man,” said ALL President Judie Brown. “Anyone can see that his donations to many worthy causes makes him a distinguished and caring philanthropist. It is because we believe this about Bill Gates that we come to the conclusion he has been duped.”

For the full report and supporting documentation see:
https://www.all.org/news/991110a.htm


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