Billionaire Bill Gates is facing charges in the Netherlands brought by seven people who allege they were harmed by the COVID-19 injections the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promoted.
A judge ruled on October 16 that the Dutch court had jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit against Gates, an American citizen. Other defendants include Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer and a U.S. citizen, and several Dutch officials.
Of the seven Dutch citizens who originally filed the lawsuit in 2023, one has died. A date for the trial has yet to be determined.
Globalism on Trial?
The court’s ruling specifically addressed Gates’ international role in supporting mandatory vaccinations to slow the spread of COVID-19, reported The Defender, the publication of Children’s Health Defense (CHD). CHD is a patient advocacy organization founded by Robert Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also affiliated with the with the World Economic Forum, … an international organization whose statutory objective is to unite ‘business, governments, academia, and society at large into a global community committed to improving the state of the world,’” states the ruling under the subsection, titled “The facts.”
“This is a project aimed at the total reorganization of societies in all countries that are members of the United Nations … as described by [World Economic Forum] founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab in his book COVID-19: The Great Reset,” the Dutch judge’s ruling states in the description of the dispute in the main case.
“Characteristic of this political ideology is that this forced and planned change is presented as justified by pretending that the world is suffering from major crises that can only be solved by centralized, hard global intervention,” the ruling states. “One of these pretended major crises concerns the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Gates’ Motive?
The ruling sums up what could be Gates’ motivation, says Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons and an advisor to The Heartland Institute, which co-publishes Health Care News.
“Bill Gates, acting through his ‘philanthropies,’ with the apparent intention of imposing global governance while drastically reducing global population, has immense harm to answer for,” said Orient. “What can a Dutch court do? Perhaps [it can] force Gates to pay damages to persons who were likely harmed because of false statements he made to government authorities. That would make an amazing precedent.”
U.S Implications?
While the Dutch lawsuit against Gates has received little attention in the U.S. media, it could have implications for potential litigation in the United States, says Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the Center for Consumer Choice.
“The case against Mr. Gates is in its early stages, and experts predict it is unlikely to prevail on its merits,” said Stier. “Nonetheless, the court’s jurisdictional ruling suggests that although Gates is not a Dutch citizen, his substantial efforts to impose vaccine mandates in the Netherlands suffice to expose him to litigation.
“Mr. Gates and his organization expended significant resources to impose vaccine mandates on the Dutch citizenry, and therefore, the legal theory goes, they should be held to account for their actions in the courts of the country where the affected citizens reside.”
Bonner Russell Cohen, Ph.D., (bcohen@nationalcenter.org) is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.