A robbery with mosquitoes?

In an article posted today Bill Gates convinced a room full of people that malaria was a serious disease carried by mosquitoes that kills people. I suppose he wasn't receiving as many donations as he would like, so he then said, "there is no reason only poor people should be infected", and then released a jar full of mosquitoes into the room. The people were led to believe by Mr. Gates that he just put their lives in danger so that he would get money from them.

Does that sound like a normal charitable foundation with billions of dollars already in the bank? Not to me. It sounds like he was a robber at a bank. He wanted money, so he convinced the bank teller that their life was in danger unless the teller gave him money. Usually this type of behavior is reserved for the bad guy in a movie. Mr. Gates has enough money to take care of this issue if it really means that much to him, so why did he terrorize a room full of people to make a point? This lasted less than 5 minutes before he told the people the mosquitoes were malaria free. That is about as long as a bank robbery lasts and most of the time the robber never shows a real weapon. Why was he not arrested? A charitable foundation extorting money from people. Fear is a great motivator. It is a tool used by the unethical and power hungry.

I am sure that my tax money has been spent on controlling malaria in my own country as well as other countries. Does Bill want to force people to give to his organization because he needs money? I hope he knows that forced charity, isn't charity at all. That is a concept the government needs to learn with their social programs as well.

Once you become rich, prideful and powerful, you only do nice things so that other people will see you doing nice things. It is always funny/irritating to watch charitable organizations and celebrities spend tens of thousands of dollars on TV commercials, to convince you to give them $5 to feed a kid. It is not surprising that these organizers always make a hefty salary.

Don't get me wrong, I think fighting malaria is a just cause. But seriously, does he really need to threaten lives to get what he wants. If that were the case there would be a lot of scared politicians. Well....Maybe there are.