Posted on 07/03/2012 3:50:01 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York, NY (CFAM/LifeNews) — Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives.
Colbert: “But now you’ve got a new charitable hobby horse you’re on, and it’s not necessarily saving people’s lives, so much as it’s stopping people’s lives from existing. You want to provide family planning to 120 million men and women around the world.”
Melinda Gates: “Right.”
The old population control movement existed for more or less the same reason, to eradicate poverty by eradicating the poor. In fact, the only major difference between the two movements is one of semantics. Today’s newest generation of population control proponents are still billionaires, still from the first world, and are still convinced that the poor are at the center of the world’s woe.
What’s changed is their marketing campaign and rhetoric.
The word “control”, especially when placed directly after the word population, evokes a flood of concrete historical memories that include coercive family planning programs still infamous today. The programs were known for addressing poverty through forced sterilizations, eradicating the poor in order to eradicate poverty. In the process, they robbed the poor person of their humanity and replaced it with a number in order to fill fertility quotas.
The policies were racist and driven by ideological fear. They were sponsored by many of the same organizations that make up the new population movement today. The new movement, however, has attempted to distance itself from its past with a very modern, subtle shift in ideology. No longer do they emphasize eugenics or even use the word “control”, but prefer the word “empowerment” and the ideology of women’s rights.
Today they use words like “population dynamics” and phrases like “demography is not destiny”. They shame the poor world into believing that the real problem isn’t so much investment in their education, health, or economy as it is their fertility. They tell them, “if you only would use family planning to ‘space your children’ properly you wouldn’t have the problems that you do, you wouldn’t be so poor and uneducated.” Then they tell these people, especially women, many of whom have access to modern methods of family planning, that it is their “right” to use those methods, even though, given their strong insistence, it seems to be less of right than an “obligation”.
Their message is as clear as it was 5o years ago: the poor are the problem, and according to this movement, it is the poor that are the ones responsible for solving it. How? By controlling their population growth. By not having children. The billionaires can’t do it for them, they can’t force them. They can pay them to do it, they can educate them on to do it, they can even increase their access to the services that will help them to do it, but they can’t make them. They already tried that.
So instead they focus on rights, and they focus on shame, and they tell people like me, in the first world, that the poor people in the Southern hemisphere would be okay if they just had access to contraception. And we mostly believe them. Except, something just doesn’t seem right.
Does development really come from contraception? And is it really a problem of too many people? What about investing in jobs, education, health and infrastructure? Perhaps those are the real problems. Perhaps, and this is just a wild guess, that is the way the North has been able to grow….
The North developed without contraception. It became rich and educated without contraception. Fertility began dropping later, and again, without contraception. Instead it was education that made the difference. It was economic growth provided by investment and the entrepreneurship of people, not numbers.
The new population control movement, led by billionaires like Melinda Gates in coordination with organizations the like UNFPA and governments that include both the United State and the United Kingdom, still wants to eradicate poverty by eradicating the poor, it’s just that, for historical reasons, they can’t come out and say it so directly. Yet, every now and then they do, just as Melinda did the other night. This needs to be made clear. This movement must be de-masked, and defeated once again.
I think that Melinda Gates actually believes that increasing the poor’s access to family planning will really better their lives. I also think that many of the people involved in the population control movement in the 40s, 50s and 60s did as well. However, what they don’t seem to be able to understand, or at least reconcile is that this is not the only solution. Instead it’s a solution that comes at the cost of reducing people to numbers, and one that will put billions of dollars into “empowering” people to stop having children rather than educating them and helping them to build a society where they are valued as a resource rather than a curse.
Yes, Melinda Gates is Catholic, but this is not the “preferential option for the poor” that we have been educated to at Church and in school for the last 2,000 years. No, that option is built on love, responsibility and the experience of seeing human beings as protagonists and not numbers.
LifeNews Note: Timothy Herrmann writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group’s Turtle Bay and Beyond blog and is reprinted with permission.
I’d love to see Melinda Gates go to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and get them to replacement level fertility or lower.
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Absolute power is the goal all of the “isms” that you mentioned. Mass murder is just part of their methodology.
I love GK.
My favorite:”If there were no God,there would be no atheists”
Just heard today that Bill Gates and CEO Balmer each just gave 100 G’s to some ‘gay’ rights advocacy group.
The left is obsessed with death and extinction.
Sick twisted mentally disturbed people.
"If anything ail a man so he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even... he forthwith sets about reforming - the world." - Thoreau
The desire to exterminate 90% of humanity is far beyond any passive hope, and is becoming more and more murderous in intent. The people of the world refuse to die on their own, and nature is not killing them off, so “logically”, these murderous people are moving in the direction of “helping nature out”.
People like herpetologist Dr. Eric R. Pianka get standing ovations from hundreds of “scientists” and their students when he proposes that a pulmonary (spread by coughing and sneezing) ebola virus would be just the thing “to rid the world of its excess population”, as Mr. Scrooge would say.
And while Pianka is wrong about that particular pathogen’s usefulness in this regard, his colleagues are aware of one plague virus that could actually cause such horrific death.
It is influenza, specifically H5N1 Avian flu.
Not in its current form, but efforts are underway to make it into a form that could do this. “For research”.
Does anyone, for even a moment think that if they had such a deadly virus, that such people would hesitate to spread it around the world, in hopes that it would kill vast numbers of people?
Wealthy people like Melinda Gates, who are sick of the “excess population”, and are willing to fund the research?
“I think that Melinda Gates actually believes that increasing the poor’s access to family planning will really better their lives”
And they are so caught in being “compassionate” about the poor, they fail to understand it is their disgust with them that makes them think this way.
They are disgusted with the way the poor “breed”
They are disgusted with how they look, dress, and live.
They cannot fathom there may be anything redeeming about them or their children.
Guilty white limbs appease their guilt by wiping out blacks and Jews. Jews and blacks vote for libs. I can’t explain it, I just observe
The entire population of the earth could stand on Rhode Island with about three square feet per person. Or could visit Texas with about 35 people per acre.
Overpopulation? Just another liberal lie.
Melinda Gates has gone demonic here and is quite self-excommunicated
already, by her actions, her influence, and words, until which time she repents as publicly as she has exhibited her apostasy. Regardless of what the namby pamby American priests and nuns and even bishops might say, who offer up milquetoast versions indicating otherwise.
The Truth stands with or without these people saying otherwise, and no official Vatican pronouncement to feed the media is remotely necessary.
In these cases, what IS, absolutely IS, no matter what the party to the apostasy says, nor their titled pals say, in or out of the Church. No matter what they call themselves. No matter what they do, or where they show up. They are still apostate from the Church.
The Truth does not have caveats.
If Bill Gates is a genius, then why did he marry such a dumb broad?!
I’m sure they love the absolute power and the feeling it gives them, but what is the ultimate goal of that power? The mass murder.
They’re in it for the mass murder. It’s the most glorious expression of, the absolute justification for, and the ultimate goal of absolute power.
I remember this: “In 1984 then Democrat governor of Colorado Richard Lamm was widely quoted (though he argues he was mis-quoted) as saying the elderly “have a duty to die and get out of the way.”[31]wikipedia.
Wonder if Richard Lamm is still alive or if he chose to die and get out of the way?
Blessings, Bobo
The Ghosts of Christmas Past, present and Future did it instead. Maybe Chesterton gave him some of those ideas.
Who know? Fun to speculate. I just love Chesterton, though, he says it like it is, and it’s hard to refute him.
Sort of like the quote of Ronald Reagan’s that goes something along the line of “Funny that all those who sre for abortion have already been born.”
I know I don’t have that quote perfect, but you get the idea!
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