The ‘Two Bill’s’ hidden agenda
Today’s Wall Street Journal features in the front page of its "Marketplace" Section a typically fatuous article about the "Two Bills" – Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton – who have joined forces for the purpose of "bettering global health." The article describes at some length the informal partnership that has been developing between the two men and their respective foundations to bring private and public sector resources to bear in particular in fighting the international AIDS epidemic.
Curiously, nowhere in the article is there any reference to a particularly insidious focus of the Two Bill’s joint fundraising efforts: the idea of establishing "innovative sources of financing" – read, global taxes – to pay for their ambitious plans for countering the world’s diseases.
As it happens, this "hidden agenda" and the role of the Clinton and Gates Foundations (among others) in promoting it is the subject of a column in today’s Washington Times by Center for Security Policy President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. Mr. Gaffney warns that, unless President Bush acts to prevent it, the sub rosa global taxes agenda will likely be advanced at the upcoming G-8 meeting, where several members (notably, France, Britain and Germany) are committed to promoting such "solidarity levies" and, as of 1 July, the French have already instituted a prototype international tax on airline travel.
Mr. Gaffney also calls attention to a new legislative effort slated to be introduced in the Senate today by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Ben Nelson (D-NE). It is designed to prevent the UN from advocating, promoting or imposing global taxes.
The Center commends the Senators for leading a bipartisan effort to keep the Two Bills and their friends from sticking us with the bills for their surely well-intentioned global health endeavors, but in the process creating precedents for international levies that will make the UN more of an unaccountable nightmare – and accelerate its efforts to erode American sovereignty and that of other freedom-loving nations.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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