🚨🧵1997 INTERVIEW RESURFACES: BILL GATES ON POPULATION CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE, AND HIS “COMMAND OF SOCIETIES’ RESOURCES”
Ask yourself: when someone tells you who they are, how long do you wait before you believe them?
George Magazine's February 1997 "Survival Guide to the Future" issue featured John F. Kennedy Jr. sitting down with Bill Gates.
Some of what Gates says is flat out chilling...👇
1/ ON POPULATION CONTROL
When asked about his philanthropy, Gates was remarkably blunt about his priorities:
"I fund education projects, I fund population control. I'm very big on the United Way."
No hesitation. No euphemism. Population control.
2/ ON USING TERRORISM TO JUSTIFY SURVEILLANCE
Four years before 9/11, Gates floated this:
"The U.S. is the ultimate we-believe-in-privacy country, so the government will probably never issue smart cards.
At the same time, attitudes can change.
If, for example, the U.S. went through a terrible period of terrorism, people might decide to draw the line about privacy a little differently."
3/ ON CONTROLLING THE INTERNET
Gates argued against internet freedom decades before Big Tech censorship became normalized:
"It's overly idealistic to act like, Oh, the Internet is the one place where people should be able to do whatever they wish.
Society's values have not changed fundamentally just because it's an Internet page."
4/ ON HIS INFLUENCE OVER WORLD LEADERS
Gates openly admitted global leaders seek his approval:
"Every politician wants to be associated with the future.
There's no country where I've gone where there hasn't been interest among the top political leaders in sitting down and talking with me."
5/ ON HIS "COMMAND" OVER SOCIETY
Gates described his wealth in remarkable terms:
"Somebody who has this much money has a command on society's resources.
In my view, it all comes down to how you use it."
Not "influence." Not "responsibility." Command.
6/ HERE'S THE THING...
In 1997, Bill Gates was just the nerdy guy who made computers work.
Most people didn't take him seriously as a political figure.
He was a tech CEO, not a global power broker.
28 years later, Gates has his hands in global health policy, vaccine distribution, farmland ownership, education reform, media funding, and climate initiatives.
He's not elected. He's not accountable to voters.
But he shapes policy that affects billions of people.
The conspiracy isn't that he hid his plans.
The conspiracy is that he told us plainly and nobody took it seriously.
Source: George Magazine, February 1997, "Survival Guide to the Future"
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