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Program No. 632
"The Crisis in the Democratic National Committee," Pt.1

On the eve of the first round of Presidential primaries for 2004, Lyndon LaRouche, a major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, told an international audience at a live webcast Jan. 10, that the time has come for the "forgotten men and women" of this nation to demand the urgently needed changes in policy that will avert the impending global calamity. Attending the event in Washington, DC were close to 150 persons--about 20% of which were young people who had just recently been met and brought in by the spectacular mobilization conducted in the nation's capital by the LaRouche Youth Movement--plus hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, overseas and on the Internet in every part of the world.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

Mr. LaRouche outlines three themes: First is the case of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its "official misleader," the compulsive liar Terry McAuliffe, and the related matter of the failure of any of the other candidates to challenge the "vast lies" perpetrated by McAuliffe’s DNC. Second, the nature of the crisis itself, manifested most sharply by the collapse of the dollar, and the massive account deficit. And third, the "tougher point": What is wrong with the people of the U.S. and Europe, that they have brought this crisis upon themselves?

To make his first point more sensuous, Mr. LaRouche turned to Friedrich Schiller, who, in his famous poem, "The Cranes of Ibykus," identifies the principle of divine justice, in which a group of murderers confess their crime, after later seeing the same flock of birds which witnessed it. "The Erinyes are about to get McAuliffe."

After outlining the past forty years of decline in the conditions of life, accompanied by a turning away from the Classical culture which formed the foundations of our Republic, Mr. LaRouche pointed to his Moon-Mars program from 1988, as a model for the type of science-driver approach to scientific and economic development needed to revive the optimistic outlook of the Kennedy years; which "will give us new technologies and principles to increase the productive powers of man on Earth."

In concluding, Mr. LaRouche urged his audience to consider the true meaning of their lives, their own mortality, and to stop "going along to get along." "What will save this planet, what gives you the courage to face whatever you have to face, for humanity, is a sense of mission." "My job, is to give the people of the U.S. in particular, a sense of mission, our mission, as a nation in the world. What we have to do, among nations, to lead other nations--by leadership--not by rule, not by domination, not by giving orders, but by being a factor of leadership on this planet, which gets this planet out of this horrible danger before us now." "And those who don’t have that, shouldn’t be President."

Release Date: January 16, 2004

Program No. 633
"The Immortal Talent of Martin Luther King"

On January 19, Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was the featured speaker at the annual Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast, hosted by the Talladega County chapter of the Alabama Democratic Conference (ADC). Invited by local ADC chairman and Talladega City Councilman Eddie Tucker, the event was held at the Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center, with close to 400 in attendance, including about ten elected officials (one state senator), the head of the Rules Committee, one state representative, three county commissioners, three city councilmen, one mayor, and 15 ministers, otherwise constituting the entire "civil rights establishment" of the county. Among the mostly adult audience were about 50 children. On the dais with Mr. LaRouche were Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights heroine, now living in Tuskegee, AL, and seven Baptist ministers. This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features:

City Councilman and Baptist minister, Rev. Horace Patterson’s introduction of Mrs. Robinson.

Amelia Robinson’s beautiful and moving introduction of Mr. LaRouche, in which she details her fight to register people to vote in Selma, and her fight to bring in Dr. King; how he was slandered, and rejected, just as Christ, Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, were; that "We are here for a purpose. There is a man here today who is walking in their footsteps, a man who can tell you that love can overcome anything, a man whom I’ve known for many years. He knows no color; he knows we are our brother’s keeper, and that man is Lyndon LaRouche."

Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, in which he takes the opportunity to honor Dr. King, to demonstrate for people what real leadership is, and to remind them of a time that, under King’s leadership, many of them had themselves played an important role in history. That quality is needed again, because we are now in a much deeper national and global crisis.

"The situation, relatively speaking, in terms of basic economic infrastructure, of the United States today, is worse than in 1933, when Roosevelt came into the White House, in March." "We’re in trouble on a world scale." "We face the same problem in principle, that Martin faced. And faced successfully. And, I would propose, that in the lesson of Martin Luther King, and his life, there is something we can learn today, which brings him back to life, as if he were standing here, alive, today. There’s something special about his life, his development, which should be captured today by us, not only in addressing the problems of our nation, which are becoming terrible; but the problems of our relationship with the world as a whole."

Mr. LaRouche then compared the "essence" of Martin, which made him special, with France’s famous heroine, Jeanne d’Arc, who revived France and got its independence, because she would not compromise and betray her mission, even though she burned at the stake for it; and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who, because of fear of what happens beyond death, will not change, and loses everything. Martin Luther King had the passion of a true leader, one of those rare people who had a deep sense of what it is to be a human being. He had a deep sense of the lesson of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.

"And, that’s where we are today. The problem in the United States, and the movement today, is the movement itself, has become---shall we say--"civilized" in "going along to get along" with the political establishment. And, in becoming so, you lose sight of the passion which should motivate the true political leader. The passion is this commitment: You have a talent. You have a sense of what your life means. You have a sense of obligation, a mission in life to uplift the nation, by uplifting a certain part of the population or all of it. And you will do nothing to betray that!" "That’s the lesson, I believe., that has to be taught, has to be understood, if we’re going to save this nation."

Release Date: February 2, 2004

Program No. 634
"The U.S. President Can Change the World!"

Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche arrived in Jackson, MS on Jan. 21, following a 3-day visit to Alabama. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his address of Jan. 22 to a town meeting at Tugaloo College, just north of Jackson, where he was introduced by Mississippi State Rep. Erik Fleming, who has endorsed Mr. LaRouche for President. Mr. Fleming is also the former State President of the Young Democrats for the State of Mississippi and a member of the Democratic National Committee.

Mr. LaRouche begins by defining the Executive Branch of our Federal government:

"When the constitution was formed, we created a form of government, a Presidential system, which concentrated great power, Executive power, in one branch of government, the Executive, the Presidency,"

"The system is largely, first of all, a Presidential system. The President is the center of the system. The Presidential system is all of these things that go together, to make the Executive branch of the U.S. government. This includes people who are in government; people who were in the Federal government; returned people; people who go in and out--like diplomats, who sometimes go out as a diplomat; then they go back someplace else, and they teach for a while, and breed more diplomats; then, after breeding more diplomats in the educational process, they go back, and be a diplomat again. And so, these people are always in the environment, whether in the intelligence community, military, and so forth, they’re always in the environment of the Presidency, as an institution. And their voices are always heard, even if they’re in office or out of office, they’re part of the discussion process within the presidency; which makes most of the policies, and decides most of the direction our country takes."

He then describes how this system has been violated, where the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has been allowed to run the President, in terms of dictating a policy called "preventive nuclear warfare," with the intention of establishing a dictatorship in the United States, much like the Hitler regime in Germany. Cheney must go.

At the same time, we are gripped by the worst depression we have known in more than 100 years. "the United States is now bankrupt. We have an annual current-account deficit, that is, our trade deficit, payments deficit, to foreign countries is over a trillion dollars a year. And the U.S.’ total magnitude of economy is estimated at $11 trillion a year."

"But we don’t have to have this crisis! We could take Franklin Roosevelt’s approach generally to the financial crisis. The federal government has the means and the precedents, to reorganize the financial system, the monetary system in any crisis. There may be hardship, but there’s no need for great suffering, if the government is organized and gets its head together in the right way, we can fix it. It may take us 25 years to fix it, properly, but we’ll fix it. And the nation will be standing 25 years from now, and healthy."

Release Date: February 19, 2004

Program No. 635
"The Crisis in the Democratic National Committee," Pt. 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first part of the discussion session immediately following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, moderated by Debra Freeman.

From a sitting member of Congress: "[D]uring the last session, Congress enacted what was much-needed legislation, to ensure that some 18 million lower-income workers would be entitled to overtime pay. Last week, the Dept. of Labor--I assume under the instruction of the President--put out guidelines instructing employers how to legally avoid paying those 18 million, that overtime. [W]hat do you do, in a situation like that, if you’re a member of Congress?"

From a former member of the Council of Economic Advisors, during the first Clinton Administration: "One of the points that Robert Rubin made [in a recent speech] is that the current policy of driving down the dollar, and of supporting the low dollar, which is clearly the policy of this administration, would be incompetent, and a bad policy under any circumstances. But, in a dollarized world, it is catastrophic. I don’t think that people understand exactly what he meant, and it world be useful if you would please explain."

From the Chairman of the History Dept. at a local community college: "Robert B. Stinnett's book Day of Deceit documents [President] Franklin Roosevelt knew in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor, but did nothing about it, because he believed that the U.S. population could not have been mobilized to fight otherwise. While there’s an argument that could be made for this, it also resulted in many American servicemen dying. Do you think that this explanation is true, and if it is true, do you think that his action were justified?"

From a well-known former civil rights leader in Alabama: "[O]ne of your organizers told me that your youth movement in Washington DC has been marching through the ghetto singing. Is it to alleviate people's fear because of the crisis, or is there something more involved?"

Nick Walsh (LaRouche Youth Movement leader): "There are a lot of people out there that I need to talk to. Do you continue to fight and fight and fight for 20, 30 minutes while many other people who could be talked to in a rational way, are walking by and nobody is speaking with them?"

Delante Bess (LaRouche Youth Movement leader): "Explain the idea of a "Monge Brigade" in further detail.

Howard Univ. Law School student: "Howard Dean comes from a state with no cities and no black people. He says he’s looking for the votes of people with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. Well, so's the Ku Klux Klan. I’m also sure you know that members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been getting up, one right after the other, including Jesse Jackson, Jr. to endorse Dean. Can you tell me what the hell is going on?"

Release Date: March 4, 2004

Program No. 636
"The Crisis in the Democratic National Committee," Pt. 3

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second hour of the discussion session immediately following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, moderated by Debra Freeman.

Adam Sturman (LaRouche Youth Movement member): On the Congress of Vienna.

Ed Hamler (LaRouche Youth Movement member): What’s the secret of leadership?

Karon Concha-Zia (LaRouche Youth Movement member): On Truth.

From someone in the Detroit, MI audience: What was the greatest strength of the movement that Martin Luther King led?

Mike Reeves: On Henry Wallace

From a group of questioners: Are chemical imbalances responsible for one’s irrationality or inability to control mood swings?

Will Van: On hip-hop and rap music vs. classical music.

Chris Staser (Midvale, UT): What do you say about [Utah Democratic Party Chairman Donald] Dunn’s statement that the Democratic Party is a private party?

From someone in the West Coast audience: Please elaborate your proposal to put the U.S. Government through bankruptcy. And, on the current breakdown of agriculture in the U.S.

Dan Sturman: On healthcare policy, especially on delivery of emergency services.

Release Date: March 17, 2004

Program No. 637
"I Stand at the Bedside of a Doomed Empire"

Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote address to the Presidents’ Day bi-coastal conference of the Schiller Institute on February 14 delivered quite a shock to those in attendance in Northern Virginia and Los Angeles California, as well as to many more listening over the Internet. Beforehand, he had promised that it would be "the most important political address to have been given anywhere in the world, by anyone, in more than a century to date."

While putting forward new conceptions in his analysis of the sweep of world history of the past 250 years, Mr. LaRouche also told his audience in no uncertain terms, that there is no longer any possibility of delay, if we are to change the tragic trajectory of world political-strategic and financial-economic developments. This is it. The time is now, in the days and weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July. And there can be no illusions that some kind of "LaRouche lite" program, implemented by some other ("less controversial") Presidential candidate, could function in this time of crisis. Only Mr. LaRouche has the intellect, experience, and expertise to steer this nation and this world into a solution to the crisis.

LaRouche: "[W]e're looking at not only the collapse of an empire, which came into being about 250 years ago, between 1755 and 1763, when the British victory over the French, in particular, established the British
East India Company as an empire, casting itself in the image of the Roman Empire, an empire which was constituted by a group of banking interests, essentially of Venetian origin, which ran the British East India Company, itself, an empire. At that point, in 1763, the British Empire, as it then existed, was led by a man who had not quite reached his 30^th birthday, known as the Marquess of Lansdowne, later, and also, more notorious, as Lord Shelburne. This man set forth two operations, part of the same thing, which have governed the direction of world history--as world history--from that time to the present day."

"The first intent of Shelburne was to destroy the English-speaking colonies of North America. And he assigned a number of people, including Adam Smith, as agents, to conduct that policy. This was a policy which led to the American Revolution, and led to the establishment of the greatest threat which the British Empire has faced, to the present day: the American Revolution, and the establishment in 1789, of the Federal Constitution of the United States. The greatest single threat to the empire, on this planet, over the entire past quarter-century has been that process, which created the United States."

"At the same time, Shelburne and Co., through agents including Adam Smith, most notably Jeremy Bentham, and others, organized in France, around some of the followers of Voltaire, a freemasonic cult called the Martinists. This Martinist cult, which included assets of Shelburne, such as Jacques Necker of Lausanne, Switzerland, Philippe Égalité, and others, set into motion on July 14, 1789, the Bastille event, which was intended to bring the danger of the spread of the influence of the United States to an end worldwide. Because, at that moment, you had the attempt by [Jean Sylvain] Bailly and by Lafayette, to introduce a reform in France, which would have established a constitutional monarchy, which would have steered that monarchy along economic-development lines, akin to those policies adopted by the United States, with its constitution."

"So, again, this is the way history has gone. The two English-speaking foci of the current of world history: the United States, which represented the best currents in Europe--typified by the Classical humanists and the influence of Leibniz; typified by the tradition of the Treaty of Westphalia; typified by the legacy of the 15^th Century Renaissance: These were the great English-speaking forces in the world, which were assembled for a collision, which is now coming to a point of historic decision, in the weeks and months immediately ahead of us."

"One way or other, this is the end of the Anglo-Dutch Liberal model of parliamentary government, and its influence in the United States--either for better, or for very much worse."

"The time has come, when we need to have a new vision of leadership of this planet. [F]or the sake of humanity, we must now create a global alliance, of respectively sovereign nation-states, committed to recovery, and committed to the principle of the immortality of the human individual. That the meaning of the individual lies, not merely in what happens between birth and death--which is a very short period of time on which to base a policy--but morality is based on a sense of what we, with our lives, with our talent, give to future generations; and to realizing the intentions of the generations before us: the kind of intention which enables us, if lived, to die with a smile on our face, that we have performed our mission, and it is good. And we are pleased."

"We need to select, and encourage, leadership of that kind [like Frances’s Jeanne d’Arc]. With that kind of leadership, and with insight which should be given to us by studying the history of mankind from the past, we should understand the time has come for a change in the planet: the change to a system of sovereign nation-states, united by certain common ecumenical principles. We do not need to look forward to war. We will still need to maintain strategic defense. But, the transition to strategic defense, will be to a world in which war, as we’ve known it in the past, is no longer a necessary condition of mankind."

"We are looking at the brink of a precipitation into a New Dark Age, beyond anything that recorded history has given us before. We have the option, the alternative, of moving upward again. And learning this lesson of the mistakes we’ve made, by taking steps to ensure these mistakes are not made again, then we can recover from the present situation."

"That’s the message of today. And we have to make the choice, in the immediate days and weeks ahead. If we don’t change, we are finished. We better start changing now!"

Release Date: March 26, 2004

Program No. 638
"I Stand at the Bedside of a Doomed Empire," Pt. 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of the discussion session immediately following Mr. LaRouche’s address, moderated by Debra Freeman.

From a leading Democratic Party activist (e-mail): Calls for an "internet summit of all the Democratic Presidential candidates, with a national audience."

From members of the youth movement and several leading U.S. bankers: (e-mail): On the situation in Argentina.

Victor Folayan (Baltimore, MD): "You mentioned recently, that the crowd closing ranks around John Kerry’s candidacy, should be recognized as a left faction of the Synarchist circles. Are they looking at Kerry as somebody who would put a human face to the kind of austerity policies they would like to implement, under the kind of crisis conditions we’re about to enter into? Is there a faction of the Synarchist movement that doesn’t use Beast-Men?"

Brendon Barnett (Los Angeles, CA): "We’ve been discussing the fact that its going to take a crisis, for the population to react. But how do you deal with that problem, if Ashcroft and the others are willing to lock the country down in a police-state?"

Christophe Paquien (Lyons, France): "The situation in Europe is becoming more and more tense, and the institutions don’t want to act. What can we do, to give them the courage to do what they know they have to do?"

Kay Hirsch (Teacher in Los Angeles, CA): "Since we are laboring, here in California-and the rest of the country--under the belief of George Bush's "No child Left Behind," which has turned out to be in the classroom, no child's behind is left untested, until it is thoroughly red--how should we be educating in the classroom?"

Release Date: April 10, 2004

Program No. 639
"LaRouche Turns Tide of Democratic Primaries"

Following a boisterous rally of 80 or so members of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) at the Capitol Rotunda, Democratic Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche held a press conference in Harrisburg, the state capitol of Pennsylvania., on March 29. The press conference was attended by Associated Press, the Allentown Morning Call, two labor officials from the Boilermakers Union, and a staffer for a State Representative.

The first 30 minutes of this edition of The LaRouche Connection covers this press conference, which includes opening remarks by Mr. LaRouche and the Q&A session which followed. Mr. LaRouche focused his remarks on the breaking developments, between the present time and the July Democratic Convention, and then the period following until the November general election:

Mr. LaRouche: (paraphrase) We are in the worst financial crisis in modern history, and there is yet no perception of the severity of immediacy of the crisis, in the Congress generally, or in the state capitols. We have a situation in which at least 48 of the 40 states are bankrupt. That is, they can not within reason, raise sufficient tax revenues presently, to meet their obligations as states, and the communities which depend upon state governments. Therefore, without an expansion of employment, in large degree, it will be impossible to solve the problem of the states. We have to go back to a Franklin Roosevelt approach. We also face a security problem internationally, and in the U.S., not what Cheney is describing, but a perfectly legitimate security problem, which is going to become more acute . Our understanding of the nature and origin of terrorist threats, both at the Federal level, especially, and somewhat at the state level, is not yet clear.

The next 25 minutes of this week’s program features a press conference held on April 12 in Philadelphia, at which Pennsylvania State Rep. Harold James (D-Philadelphia) announced his personal endorsement of Lyndon LaRouche in the April 27 Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential primary. The press conference was chaired by LaRouche’s campaign coordinator for Pennsylvania, Steve Douglas, who made some opening remarks and introduced Rep. James.

The program concludes with an a cappella rendition of J.S. Bach's motet Jesu Meine Freude by members of the LaRouche Youth Chorus, conducted by Jennifer Kreingold, from the Schiller Institute's Presidents' Day Conference on Feb. 14, in Reston, Virginia.

Release Date: April 27, 2004

Program No. 640
"The Keys to Peace: The LaRouche Doctrine"

At a campaign event held April 30 in Washington, DC, to explain how his "LaRouche Doctrine" policy initiative, issued April 17, is the only hope to bring peace to Southwest Asia and economic recovery at home, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche told the world to rally around him to solve the Iraq mess. The event was webcast live internationally over the internet in both English and Spanish.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his opening remarks (1/2 hour) and the first two questions from the discussion session immediately following, moderated by Debra Freeman.

LaRouche: "There is going to be no solution for the crisis in southwest Asia, unless we can adopt it as my doctrine, by name, because nobody else has the credibility to do what has to be done--that is, no [other] candidate, no other spokesman for the United States--has the credibility to make that proffer, and no one [else] can be trusted to carry it through." "The same thing is true on the question of the economic crisis. No one in the United States, in a leading position, apart from my leading position, is prepared to even consider doing the absolute minimal things, that have to be done to prevent this nation, and most of the nations of the world, from collapsing into a deeper depression, far deeper, far worse than 1929-33. Its coming now."

Those remarks reflect the central challenge issued by Mr. LaRouche, both to decision-makers around the world as well as to his own political movement: to make his required role a reality.

From the two and a half hour discussion session:

From a sitting member of Congress (a Democrat): "Do you still believe that the removal of [Vice President Dick] Cheney is an absolute necessity? And, do you think that we’ve come any further in this fight? Also, what do you recommend for the immediate period ahead?"

From an Arab diplomat, based in Berlin, Germany: "Can you please explain how you envision the transition government [in Iraq]? Will it be sovereign? If so, how can it be, according to international law, if it is not duly elected by the Iraqi people? Mr. Wolfowitz insists that it will not be completely sovereign. What exactly does he mean?"

Release Date: May 7, 2004

Program No. 641
"LaRouche in Dialogue with his Youth Movement"

All those who live in times of crisis will find themselves called to account for what they know, versus what they merely believe, or wish to believe--for in a time of crisis, only a dedication to truth can save a society; or in this case a civilization, from the tragedies that befell those foolish (and doomed) societies which came before. It is for this reason that the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) hosted a Cadre School May 7-9 for young people to challenge themselves and others to stop going along with foolishness just to get along like a fool, and start causing some real trouble.

That the world financial system is in an accelerating process of disintegration, few rational people still doubt; that, in the face of the pictures of Iraqi prisoners coming out of Abu Ghraib, LaRouche’s Children of Satan reports no longer seem extreme, but rather, directly on the mark, a growing number will now agree; to the question of whether in the shadow of the unfolding dark age, there still exists hope, most would solemnly answer, "no, unless they were among the 97 young people gathered in Douglassville, PA over Mother's Day weekend, or the tens of thousands who regularly watch The LaRouche Connection or read our publications.

The guest speakers for the weekend, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, Classical dramatist Robert Beltran, and geometer Bruce Director, led a beautifully crafted weekend-long dialogue on the necessity of truthfulness.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks the morning of May 8, in which he declared that if civilization is to survive, then today’s young generation must become a bunch of troublemakers--forget the rules and popular opinion, demand to know what's true and lay waste to the so-called "experts." "In the history of battles, in the history of struggles, that is often the way it goes. You don’t say: If you’re going to win, these are the rules by which you win. The minute the enemy presents you, and says, ‘These are the rules, which you have to play by; the rules, by which you will be scored,’ Smile. You’ve got the sucker."

So, how to go about becoming "troublemakers?" What does it mean to have the efficient will to change the Universe? LaRouche: "You are a university, but a very special kind, like the Platonic Academy, under Plato. The first principle of the university: Truth." "You do come, in the course of history, to points of crisis, which have been ripening all along, and in which you, maybe like a Baby-Boomer and under-62er, have been pretending you could ignore. And the crisis comes, and you have to make a decision. The decision involves several things. It involves changing, what you assume to be as unchangeable. We are [now] at one of those] great points in history. You have to change your values, you have to change your way of thinking, or you are not going to survive."

Release Date: May 20, 2004

Program No. 642
"LaRouche Interview: The LaRouche Doctrine"

On April 17, Democrat Lyndon LaRouche’s Presidential campaign committee released a document entitled "Southwest Asia: The LaRouche Doctrine"--his plan to bring peace to Southwest Asia (wrongly referred to as the Middle East), and a return to economic development again at home. Mr. LaRouche intensified his intervention into the terrible peril of current economic and military policies of both the George Bush Administration and the matching, negligent follies of Sen. John Kerry’s ill-advised campaign, with an international video webcast conducted from Washington, DC on April 30 [See The LaRouche Connection Program No. 640]. The transcript, including the text of the original document, was issued as a mass-circulation pamphlet on May 10.

To advance the process of organizing Americans (and others) around the vital importance of Mr. LaRouche’s candidacy and the unique efficacy of his proposed solution to the combined monetary-financial and strategic crisis in which the world finds itself, and in particular to the crisis of Southwest Asia, this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features an interview, granted by Mr. LaRouche to Hussain Askary, Arabic correspondent for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, on April 24 in Wiesbaden, Germany. [Available also from LaRouche in 2004 on DVD in both English and Arabic.], in which Mr. LaRouche elaborates on his 10-point proposal, and explains the way his initiative could work.

LaRouche: "The first [thing I do] is to emphasize that the present view of the strategic situation in the Middle East is wrong, and cannot possibly lead to a successful result. Therefore, we have to redefine the question on all sides; we have to create a zone of security, which is accepted among [all] the countries of the region." Scrap the term ‘Middle East,’ and use ‘Southwest Asia’ for a comprehensive policy orientation instead to the entire region. Shift the agenda from Iraq alone, to the subject of Southwest Asia as a whole.

Second, the proposal, says Mr. LaRouche, can only come from him directly, and must be issued in his name to succeed. "It can only come from me, because I’m the only leading American figure, from the United States, who is in a position to, and is willing to, take that view of what U.S. policy must be." No other notable political figure has the trust of the Arab and related parts of the world, for this purpose, at this time.

The third aspect of "The LaRouche Doctrine" concerns U.S. national and strategic interest, and a revision of current U.S. military policy. "I propose that the U.S. adopt as its intention my policy for the prompt, summary withdrawal of U.S. military forces from the Middle East. As President, I would pull the bulk of our military forces back to the U.S., for rebuilding those relevant institutions there. The military policy of the U.S. must be the affirmation of a military tradition of Strategic Defense--based on the securing and development of peace, not the pursuit of perpetual war."

And last, the reconstruction of the presently bankrupt U.S. economy cannot be accomplished without a massive long-term investment of Federal government-created credit in leading national and statewide programs of rebuilding and developing basic economic infrastructure, on the order of $6 trillion of capital formation, during the coming four years.

Release Date: June 25, 2004

Program No. 643
"LaRouche in Dialogue with his Youth Movement," Pt. 2

All those who live in times of crisis will find themselves called to account for what they know, versus what they merely believe, or wish to believe--for in a time of crisis, only a dedication to truth can save a society; or, in this case, a civilization, from the tragedies that befell those foolish (and doomed) societies which came before. It is for this reason that the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) hosted a Cadre School May 7-9 for young people to challenge themselves and others to stop going along with foolishness just to get along like a fool, and start causing some real trouble.

That the world financial system is in an accelerating process of disintegration, few rational people still doubt; that, in the face of the pictures of Iraqi prisoners coming out of Abu Ghraib, LaRouche’s Children of Satan reports no longer seem extreme, but rather, directly on the mark, a growing number will now agree; to the question of whether in the shadow of the unfolding Dark Age, there still exists hope, most would solemnly answer, "no, unless they were among the 97 young people gathered in Douglassville, PA over Mother's Day weekend, or the tens of thousands who regularly watch The LaRouche Connection or read the publications associated with Mr. LaRouche. A gathering of The LaRouche Youth Movement in Seattle, Washington was able to participate in the East Coast proceedings by means of a telephone hookup.

The guest speakers for the weekend, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, Classical dramatist Robert Beltran, and geometer Bruce Director, led a beautifully crafted weekend-long dialogue on the necessity of truthfulness. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks the morning of May 8, and the first five questions from the discussion session, moderated by Abdul Ali Muhammed.

Roman (in Douglassville, from Montreal, Canada): "[On ] the science-driver program: go into some of the new technologies we’ll be using, like the nano-technologies and the fission and fusion program."

Michael (in Seattle): "[C]ould you give us some advise, on what to look into, to gain the type of insight into the strategic thinking that you do, and continuous flanks that you’re always able to come up with?"

Unidentified person: "How do I go about understanding, or starting to understand, the political state of the world? What should I read?"

Unidentified person (in Seattle): "What is the actual intention of the financial oligarchy, behind their idea of an empire, which they wish to form? What are they going to get out of it? How long do they really believe it will last?"

Unidentified person (in Douglassville): On the Socratic method and the role of crucial experiment.

Release Date: July 10, 2004

Program No. 644
"The New Threat of Fascism Today"

On June 29, 2003, Lyndon LaRouche called for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. [See The LaRouche Connection Show No. 611.] A little more than one year later, the impact of his campaign to remove Mr. Cheney from office has become so widespread and compelling, that, the New York Times published a 1600 word article on its front page July 15 speculating, not whether Cheney will go, but how.

On July 15, the same day as the New York Times article, Mr. LaRouche spoke an audience of about 225 in Washington, DC., addressing the Number One issue which ought to be before the Democratic Party Convention in Boston: What has happened to create, the economic crisis threatening the lives of the people of the United States today? What was done that was wrong, which has destroyed the U.S. economy, and threatens the well being and even the lives of our people today? What is it? and how do we get rid of it? This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his opening remarks, which were webcast live internationally.

LaRouche: "Number One: we were, up until the middle of the 1960s and slightly beyond, the nation that launched the man on the Moon, in 1969. We were that nation. We did that with technologies we had then, we don’t have today! We were, in the postwar period, the world’s leading producer society, in terms of agriculture, in terms of manufacturing, in terms of technologies, in terms of the general welfare, standard of living. We were the world’s leading producer society."

Under Treasury Secretary Arthur Burns, during the 1964-68 period, the policy began to change, with the rise of the so-called "ecology movement," and the anti blue-collar movement.

"We were transformed, especially after 1971-72, as the Baby Boomers, coming out of the universities began to have more and more influence on politics, and on shaping economic practice; we became less and less a producer society." "[B]y orchestrating a floating-exchange-rate system, we have looted the entire planet, by forcing them to work for us as slaves--replacing the workplaces in the United States. So now, 80% of our family-income brackets have lost their farms, have lost their jobs in industry--at an accelerating rate." "We have become corrupt. We played games. We gamble. We don’t produce. We say "We’re rich; we’re powerful; we are the model of success!" We are the parasite of the world. What happens when the cannibal runs out of victims?"

"What has happened, is, our economy has been systematically and systemically destroyed, because principles of practice have been built into law, and into the practice of life generally; into our universities, into all our institutions; that we, as a nation, as a reflex reaction to reality, react like suicidal jerks, economically. And people say: "That’s the system. Ya can't put the toothpaste back in the tube!" I can! And I intend to so!"

Release Date: July 22, 2004

Program No. 645
"LaRouche in Boston: July 25, 2004"

On July 25, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche held a campaign event at the John Hancock Conference Center in Boston, on the eve of the Democratic Party Convention. In attendance were a number of State Legislators, Convention delegates, local supporters, and a large LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) contingent.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, followed by a portion from the discussion session which followed. Debra Freeman, National Spokeswoman for Mr. LaRouche, introduced the candidate, and moderated the discussion session.

LaRouche: "Now, you look at the convention which is about to open up, tomorrow afternoon. It will be, in large degree, a silly affair, at least to the degree that the people who control the convention, are able to control it. because there’s not a brain in a carload, in the kind of thinking that’s going into the leadership of that convention. Its an orchestrated farce; it is not reality." "But nonetheless, I am determined that the Democratic Party shall win the November election. And, we are going to do it." "We can not let this country go to Hell, out of spite and anger, against their foolishness. This is our country! It belongs to us historically--not to them! And, we have to defend it, through the institutions of government."

"The day after the convention, I will be launching my campaign of leadership. Perhaps not as a Presidential candidate…" "We will be launching a political action committee to take the Presidency away from what occupies it now. And, also, at the same time, to try to move the people of the U.S.— Republicans as well as Democrats, and people who don’t associate with either party--to bring them together, to act for the nation."

"So, the campaign is not for the Democratic Party: its to get this thing that’s in the White House, now, out. To get [Vice-President Dick] Cheney out, first. To administer a shock to the political system: they’re going to change their ways. And the job of the President will be to respond that mission. We will deliver the victory in November. When we win it, however, we will take our right: we will tell the winner, he works for us."

From the Discussion Session:

Cody Jones (LYM, and elected official of the Democratic Central Committee, Los Angeles County, CA): "How do we generate a kind of crucial experiment to demonstrate to people who lack [the idea of acting for the general welfare], that they can discover that there is really an efficient principle in the universe?"

Debra Freeman: Recognizes the following persons from the audience:

Rep. Harold James (Philadelphia, PA)

Former Rep. Billy McKinny (Georgia)

Rep. Perry Clark (Kentucky)

Rep. Joe Towns (Tennessee)

Councilman Robert White (Columbus, OH)

Matt Ogden (LYM): Reads statement from former Democratic Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy, expressing his "outrage at their (LYM's) exclusion [from the Convention] and my support for their mission. Let me be a part of their mission."

Jerry Halloran (Boston): Question on prisoner abuses: Afghanistan, Iraq, Ireland. What is the connection between the Vice-President's wife Lynne Cheney and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. And, how did the MK-Ultra program help sponsor the willingness to accept what passes for leadership today?

Release Date: Aug. 4, 2004

Program No. 646
"LaRouche Boston Press Conference: July 30, 2004"

On July 30, Lyndon LaRouche held a press conference in Boston, Massachusetts, to announce the drive he will lead, to win the November election for the Democratic Party. Mr. LaRouche has formed a new multi-candidate political action committee entitled the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC), which is already registered with the Federal Election Commission, which is set to immediately carry out the campaign he outlined in his opening remarks, and the discussion session, featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection.

Mr. LaRouche: "[W]e have a situation in which the [Democratic] nominee, [John] Kerry, must occupy the White House by election in November. There are many problems involved, so far, with the Kerry team, which is not actually ready to deal with the many problems which are gong to hit the U.S. during this period. But, when you look at the alternatives, you realize that Kerry is a decent person, with, for all ordinary purposes, a credible background, and credible commitments; but he just needs some touching up on a lot of very important issues which he does not yet, presently, understand."

"The problem with the Democratic Party machine in general, is that they might be able to get 40-plus percent of the vote in November; but they do not have the ability, to win the election, particularly after what the Republican machine will go after, now--trying to split off minority group and other group votes by special kinds of actions, either putting them into the [Ralph] Nader camp, or telling them to drop out of the election, or moving into something which complements the Nader camp. So there will be a draw-down of what the Democratic Party would count on as its core vote." "There is also a hostility toward an efficient expression of the young-adult/youth age group; that is, people between 18-25. Now, for anybody who’s a serious politician, the youth generation is the future of the nation. And, when the future of the nation is what is in question, as it is now, how do you stand on providing for the future of the nation, as represented by those who, in the next quarter-century, should be the leaders of the nation? The inheritors of power in the private and public sectors?"

"We have to move the lower 80% of the population of the country to turn out a substantial increase in their voter participation in the coming election at all levels. We will be able to do that by concentrating, first of all, on the natural leadership of such a movement, which will be recognized by the adult generation, in terms of the young-adult generation. So, therefore, our deployment around a youth movement, in the way the Youth Movement was deployed here in Boston for this Convention, is the model of action which I shall direct nationwide, for the coming three months, going into the election."

"There are 22 states in which there are locations in which swing votes can determine the outcome of the election in that state. And a number of these states will determine the outcome for the national election. That’s where we concentrate. But, we also concentrate, within that, in a very special way, on areas where we have candidates we can support, because they have the quality to carry the ball; and where we can be the factor that enables them to win their local campaigns, state campaigns in particular." "One of the key parts of this, is going to be the continued emphasis upon the musical program. Because, as you’ve seen, music has magic."

"We are going to build an impetus among the people we’re organizing, to turn out the vote, some of whom are already committed to vote, especially among leaders of existing Democratic Party constituencies, who are still viable. To give them a picture of what the reality is we have to deal with; and to build a programmatic base within the combination bringing Kerry to victory. A base which then becomes the basis for a new orientation of the United States, adequate to the crisis we’re going to get into. The Platform which I have issued will be the basis for this deployment, because it represents the programmatic outline of the real issues, issues which include those which Kerry would presently acknowledge, and issues which he has to be awakened to, at the same time. So, that will be our message; that will be our national, international, message."

"Now, what we’re going to do to get the average voter out, is to show those facts [of the collapse of the economy] county by county. Not in money terms! Yes, we’ll deal with the money terms. But the thing is to focus people’s attention away from looking at money, which is the great fraud of these times; and to look at the physical conditions of life, and the rate of change of the physical conditions of life of ordinary people in ordinary counties across the entirety of this nation. And be able to point to them: This is what is happening to YOU physically. Do you want to change this? Its about to get worse. Do you want to prevent that? Well, get out and vote. If you vote with us, to get John Kerry President, John Kerry will not let this go unnoticed; and he will know that his constituency is, in large degree, what we have helped to bring into an election victory."

"We represent history, in particular, of extended European civilization since the times of ancient Greece. We represent the struggle of ideas, to liberate people, to create a society which is based on justice, equal justice, for all people; for the General Welfare, and their posterity. We represent the leadership of the struggle to bring about a system, a community of sovereign nation-states among the nations of this planet--that which [President] Franklin Roosevelt fought for, and that [President Harry] Truman voted against, and that we tend to vote against ever since. We represent history, in terms of the long struggle for lifting humanity from the status in which most people were treated a human cattle, either hunted or herded human cattle--into a society in which the dignity of the individual, as a creature made in the image of the Creator, would become the standard of politics."

"We have to instill a sense of that, where the message will be well received. And I think the virtue of John Kerry and his circle, despite all the shortcomings I may detect in his current policies and practices, his susceptibility to the sense of leaving a legacy for the coming generations--as, his daughters, for example--a legacy by which he can say he has done well, is the thing that will move that circle around Kerry, to accept what we have to propose."

From the discussion session, chaired by Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Mr. LaRouche:

Jennifer Kreingold (LYM member): leads a chorus of youth in a performance of a four-part Mozart canon, to words adopted for the Democratic Convention..

Matthew (LYM member): Proposes a series of very large public free concerts, with the intention to change the culture, in the same way that was dome with the Marian Anderson concert in Washington, DC some years back, but this time with an explicit political edge.

Unidentified Person: "How can we avoid being marginalized, when we have this overwhelming media lock-step not dealing with these important questions." Proposes also simplifying the Platform with shorter texts, as the current culture has devolved into a shorter attention span.

A Young Man: For international policies, do you think we should keep such institutions as NAFTA, the Geneva Convention (which we have recently disregarded), and the Hague Convention of criminal court systems?

Release Date: Aug. 15, 2004

Program No. 647
"A Moment of Epic Decision," Pt. 1

The semi-annual conference of the LaRouche movement in the United States brought together approximately 900 persons in Northern Virginia and Southern California on Sept. 4-6, to deliberate on how to save our country and the world from disaster--specifically the re-election of George Bush and Dick Cheney on Nov. 2. As Lyndon LaRouche put it in his keynote address, entitled "A Moment of Epic Decision," featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection, this is not a fight to win an election; "its a fight to turn the course of history."

Speaking before a polemical conference banner that read, "The Crash You Were Hoping for is Here," Mr. LaRouche, in the course of his 90-minute opening address (see larouchepub.com for a full transcription), spoke about how this fight for the nation can be won, pressing relentlessly on the theme that the republican tradition of the United States must be revived, in order to save not only our own nation, but the world:

LaRouche: "Winning this election is not winning a prize: it is moving in, at a moment of crisis, to save humanity when humanity might not otherwise survive. Oh, human beings would live as a population, but we would go through a new dark age. And whole languages that are spoken in the world today, would disappear. Nations would disappear from the map, through the aid of globalization, and similar kinds of obscenities."

America has saved the world from disaster before, Mr. LaRouche told his audience, beginning with its founding in the 18^th Century. Abraham Lincoln did it in the 19^th Century; Franklin Roosevelt did it again in the 20^th Century, by leading the war against fascism. But, over the last 40 years, we have destroyed ourselves, adopting a post-industrial ideology that has driven us into financial bankruptcy that can be overcome only by dumping the system, and going back to Hamiltonian American-system methods. "With the introduction of free trade, and worse, with globalization, we have destroyed private capital, on which we depend for employment, and for improvement of the productive powers of labor."

"I know how we can make a good President, by pulling together the right forces in the right way, to transform John Kerry--who is a good man--but to transform him into the guy who could play the role of a great President." But its not only Mr. Kerry that must be transformed. The base of the Democratic Party itself must be changed. After all, its the action, or inaction, of the Party, and its traditional constituencies, which has tolerated the shift of the U.S. into the condition it has now reached. This change will not be created by sticking to the normal strategies of electoral politics. There must be the generation of a mass political movement, which will create a landslide for the Democratic Party ticket, from the Presidency on down.

"When we come to a crisis like this, we have to awaken in the mind of the individual who feels on the lower echelons of life, who feels that he can only beg for favors, or blackmail the boss, to get him to look at himself in a higher sense and ask himself is there something which you, as a human being, in the image of the Creator, must desire above all other things? To be a permanent part of creation, by contributing to creative knowledge and a creative act, which only a human being can do?"

Release Date: Sept. 22, 2004

Program No. 648
"A Moment of Epic Decision," Pt. 2

The semi-annual conference of the LaRouche movement in the United States brought together approximately 900 persons in Northern Virginia and Southern California on Sept. 4-6, to deliberate on how to save our country and the world from disaster--specifically the re-election of George Bush and Dick Cheney on Nov. 2. As Lyndon LaRouche put it in his keynote address, entitled "A Moment of Epic Decision," this is not a fight to win an election; "its a fight to turn the course of history."

The first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s address is featured in The LaRouche Connection Program No. 647. The current edition features the conclusion of his remarks, plus the first question posed to Mr. LaRouche in the Discussion Session, and his response, moderated by Debra Freeman:

E-Mail from someone responsible for the foreign policy strategy of an aspect of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry’s campaign:

"Is it the general view in Washington that Attorney General John Ashcroft intervened to stop arrests that could have actually led to a lot more information coming forward [in the current Israeli spy scandal, where Vice President Dick Cheney’s boys got caught]? He did it clearly to try to protect the administration, to protect Cheney, and to protect the policy [of a pre-emptive strike against Iran]."
"Despite the public scandal around the passing of documents to Israel, Under Secretary of State Bolton nevertheless held a press conference on Sept. 1 vilifying the nation of Iran. Is this a part of their re-election strategy, a part of the strategy to avoid relinquishing power?"

Release Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Program No. 649
"The Issue of President Bush’s Mental Health"

On Oct. 6, Lyndon LaRouche addressed an audience in our nation’s capital at an event which was also webcast internationally. Presenting a forceful, but scientifically precise, indictment of the insanity of the Bush-Cheney team, and the popular culture that supports it, Mr. LaRouche laid out a strategy for victory on November 2, and beyond. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of his opening remarks. Mr. LaRouche is introduced by Debra Freeman.

Mr. LaRouche got right to his key point: The reason the United States has allowed itself to be transformed form the world’s leading producer nation, to the post-industrial junk-heap we have become, is insanity.

We, as a nation, are afflicted with three kinds of insanity: "One, the insanity of the President himself--and that is the major factor in our problems. Because we, as the United States are crucial in this planet. If the United States goes insane, there’s no other part of this planet, nor any combination of other parts of this planet, which is prepared to prevent a global disaster, even potentially a new dark age."

But it is not the President alone. There is also mass insanity, which, in the U.S. today, takes the form of religious fundamentalism. And, there’s mass insanity expressed in the superstitious belief in "free trade," and other such economic twaddle. "We have cultural insanity," Mr. LaRouche declared, "which is taking the form of fascism today--the fascism represented by the Bush-Cheney Administration. The support for what Bush-Cheney represents, is a form of mass insanity."

Nonetheless, there are hopeful signs, notably an unprecedented surge of voter registrations across the nation, among those who are counted out of the "likely-voter" polls: the lower 80% of family income brackets, and youth, ages 18-25. While the "customary voters," those who have cast ballots in at least three of the last four Federal elections, have performed very poorly, these other constituencies are highly unlikely to be Bush-Cheney supporters. And the LaRouche Youth Movement is playing a central and unique role in inspiring both young people and the poor, concentrating their forces in key battleground states, starting with Ohio.

Mr. LaRouche made clear that to ensure victory on election day, we must organize a landslide for Kerry-Edwards. But, he cautioned, a Nov. 2 win is just the beginning. First, because John Kerry does not presently have the qualifications, on his own, to be the kind of President the situation requires, LaRouche’s role is crucial. "We’re considering what has to be added to a successful election of a Kerry-Edwards ticket, to produce a Presidency which is actually qualified to deal with the challenge which a mere Kerry-Edwards team would not be qualified to do."

Among other things, Mr. LaRouche proposed that a policymaking team be assembled, made up of those key people "who are not necessarily the richest" in the U.S., but who are senior representatives, in and out of government, from the diplomatic, intelligence, military, and other professionals, "who have the knowledge, as a group of people--for providing the Presidency with the kind of guidance it requires to get through this."

At the same time, a Kerry Presidency must follow President Franklin Roosevelt’s example, in breaking with the international bankers, to defend ordinary people and the nation: "We have to make sure that a Kerry Administration does not, out of liberalism, capitulate to the demands of the bankers, in the way the Europeans capitulated to the bankers in installing fascism in 1933, in particular, in Germany."

Mr. LaRouche reserved his harshest criticism for the mass insanity of "pseudo-Christian fundamentalism--both the nominally Catholic and the Protestant varieties--"because its not Christianity. Christianity is a religion of love--coincident with the Classical Greek principle of agapé." It is this principle, the sacredness of each human life, which must become the basis for economic as well as social policy.

Mr. LaRouche elaborated. "Christianity, as Moses Mendelssohn’s Judaism, or the Ummayyads of Spain for Islam, understood this principle. And therefore, when we develop the economy in this way, we are expressing ourselves, as citizens of a republic which is dedicated to this principle. We may call it Christian; some others recognize it as Jewish; some recognize it as Islamic. But its the same principle! And its the principle of the sacredness of the individual life."

Release Date: Oct. 13, 2004

Program No. 650
"The Issue of President Bush’s Mental Health," Pt. 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of his opening remarks, and the first part of the Discussion Session immediately following, moderated by Debra Freeman. [TLC Program No. 649 featured the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

Maddie Carlisle (The Progressive, Washington, DC): "How big a problem is this issue of the deficit. Is it the case that we cannot deal with it, in the course of four years? What would you do, if you were President?"

Abdullah El-Amin (Muslim Observer, Detroit, MI): "How do you plan on increasing voter participation in the political process, without consciously singling out ethnic groups, cultures, races, and genders to do it?"

State Rep. Juanita Walton (D-St. Louis County, MO): "To overcome election fraud, we have to get as many Democrats out to vote as possible. But, what about the computers that are being used for voting that we know can cause massive fraud? How do we address this?"

City Councilman Zachary Turner (East Orange, NJ): "What would be your plan to exit out of Iraq?"

Release Date: Oct. 21, 2004

Program No. 651
"LaRouche Address: Cleveland Town Meeting"

On October 27, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a town meeting, in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (L-PAC). Over 125 people attended, including 50 youth and a large contingent of LaRouche Youth Member (LYM) organizers from several states. Also attending were a Cleveland City Councilman and an Ohio state legislator, as well as community activists and trade unionists. Dozens more attended a parallel meeting in Washington, DC . Mr. LaRouche spoke via video webcast from Leesburg, Virginia.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, plus the first three questions from the Discussion Session. Mr. LaRouche was introduced by Robert Bowen, who also moderated the Discussion Session. [For a complete transcript, visit www.larouchepub.com, and click on LaRouche Writings.]

The worst economic-financial collapse in history.

LaRouche: "The subject tonight, is to deal with something that most people don’t understand, which they must understand now: We are in the worst financial collapse in modern, known history…. We’re going to the bottom. We’re facing a general collapse of the housing market. The tendency is to lose jobs more rapidly than ever before. How do we deal with this? We have to go back to [President] Franklin Roosevelt’s approach…. The U.S. government will have to step in, take the Federal Reserve system into receivership, and organize it to make sure that bank doors don’t close, make sure that things that have to be funded, with credit, are still funded, keep the economy going. The U.S. government [must] take responsibility for putting a sick, bankrupt, international financial-monetary system into bankruptcy [also]. We are not going to kill people in order to pay usurious debts."

How do we recover?

"Roosevelt had a program which worked. The program was basic economic infrastructure: things that are within the public domain, the public responsibility, as opposed to private responsibility. This includes schools, of course, which is usually a municipal responsibility. This includes hospitals, and related health-care institutions, which is partly private, but is regulated by city, state, and Federal law; large-scale transportation systems, including mass transportation for cities; water systems, which are breaking down; power generation and distribution." "Roosevelt took the obvious needs of the nation, and put people to work doing things that were obviously needed, within Federal, state and local government purview. Also big projects. And stimulating the private sector, by credit, for loans through banks, under government sponsorship and supervision, to ensure that worthy investors had the credit available to employ people and do things: the employment of a lot of people in infrastructure, created the market in which these private firms could prosper. And we have to do the same thing today." But its not quite enough.

How did we become a great nation?

"The development of science, technology, and Classical culture, in European civilization, from the 15^th Century on--despite religious wars and all the other things that happened--produced an individual who is more capable of
sustaining himself on this planet, than ever before. There emerged for the first time a principle that the function of government is to ensure the promotion of the general welfare of all of the people in the country, and of their posterity. And therefore, the obligation of government is to serve all of the people. How do we do that? Well, we did it party by education. We did it party by promoting new industries and new technologies. The human being is capable of cooperating, in developing and, by applying these principles, increases man’s power over nature.

Mr. LaRouche then discussed the spectacular collapse of industrial jobs over the past 40 years and the increase of low wage service-type jobs--the slow superceding of a society of producers with one of consumers--and the loss of basic infrastructure, and then returned to the solution: a return to being a true republic.

"What I must do is to undertake a program of educating the U.S. population in the ABCs of a science which I call "physical economy," the concept on which the American Constitution was based, the so-called Hamiltonian system. We have to realize that we must educate and develop the creative mental powers of the individual person, so he is a creative personality. We have to have a target of upgrading our youth in schools.

"We don’t want stagnation. We want scientific and technological progress. Not merely because it has benefits for us in society, but because you want the individual person to have the opportunity to participate in scientific and technological progress, as a part of their working life, as a part of their experience, as a part of their identity. We must eliminate the idea, that some people in this society are condemned to be on the lower level, are condemned to be ignorant, are condemned to be uneducated, are condemned to do as they’re told.

"Let’s do the same thing with people at work: give them jobs at which they have a chance to progress. And do that with the aid of technological and scientific progress. Give them a sense of being meaningful in their community. Give them a sense of participating, not as people who learn how to "get along" with society, but people who are citizens of a society, who actually, collectively make the decisions, are part of the deliberation process, which settles the policy of the nation.

"We have to change ourselves back to a true republic. Our job in politics, is to provide for every individual the opportunity to express that divine quality in themselves, in some manner of their choice, to give them the access to the education, to the opportunity, to do that. To be a society of ideas, not a society of blind passion."

From the Discussion Session

Richard Hughes (e-mail): "Why is the U.S. foreign policy toward Haiti so belligerent?"

Dr. Michael Williams (Director, African American Studies Department, Cleveland State University): "We are facing the most important election in the history of this country. The winner of this election will establish a course of action that will affect us and many future generations. This election is not just about who’s President, but, rather, its about who will make decisions concerning Supreme Court appointments, health care, Social Security, and environment, etc. No one can afford to be neutral or not involved in this election. The battle lines have been clearly drawn. I have chosen to support John Kerry, because I believe he is the clear choice in this election. We cannot afford another four years of George W. Bush. President Bush has consistently demonstrated that he does not operate in the best interests of poor, working, and middle class individuals. His policies leave the elderly vulnerable, children at risk, and the poor left behind. It is clear that Mr. Bush must be returned to his ranch in Texas. He has failed the ultimate test of leadership. He does not provide security for the must vulnerable of our society. I wish you success in your event tonight…."

Delantis Gogenauer: "I am still undecided …I need more information about the man, John Kerry, in order to make my decision next Tuesday. How can I trust Mr. Kerry, as a man, not the politician, who wishes to be President, when he allows visual and audio behavior that I don’t even allow my seven-year-old grandsons to do?"

Release Date: Nov. 3, 2004

Program No. 652
"Its Still the Physical Economy, Stupid!"

On Nov. 9, Lyndon LaRouche, former candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, addressed an overflow audience in Washington, DC on the disastrous implications of the apparent re-election of George Bush, and the exhilarating remedy to the crisis thus created. His words were carried via Internet webcast in Spanish and English, to audiences across the globe. Among those attending were about 100 youth fresh from election organizing in Cleveland, Columbus, Boston, Louisville, Detroit, Philadelphia; and Washington. In addition, there were young people from Africa, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, and Italy. Elected officials from around the country, plus other political leaders and diplomats, also attended. The event , including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first 25 minutes or so of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, preceded by a 19 person LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) chorus, under the direction of John Sigerson, singing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude motet (about 30 minutes).

The study of Classical art, combined with the discovery of universal principles in science, is the basis for the self-education of youth. LaRouche: "The secret of the Bach motet, is, ‘performing between the notes,’ in order to get the connection of the whole composition to each part within it, and how the parts relate to this whole idea. This is the social process. This is what society really should be like: to look at ourselves, in this way; to look at ourselves as an immortal kind of creature, which is born in the flesh, and dies in the flesh, but participates in immortality."

Americans must re-learn real economics. We must go back to the physical economic policies that President Franklin Roosevelt carried out, to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression. LaRouche: "You are the remedy. Your freeing yourselves of the shackles of illusion, is the remedy. Your giving up belief in money, is the remedy. What you need, is housing, food, clothing, education, medical care. The dollar in your pocket is imminently worth nothing. Its like the mathematician who married a plastic dummy, because her measurements were nice."

The problem with Bush supporters--the Protestant fundamentalists, as well as the right-wing Catholics--is that they don’t believe in immortality. They don’t believe in a Creator, "they believe in a magician!"--in someone who will perform magical tricks for them--not in reality.

Mr. LaRouche them returned to music, to bring out the concept of immortality. The Jesu, meine Freude, which was inspired by a Lutheran hymn was later elevated by Bach, just as Antonin Dvorak and Harry Burleigh found in the Negro Spiritual a similar quality: "something from inside the slave, which is human, asserts itself in its aspiration in a way which is resonant with us today."

It is this noble quality in man that the forces behind the evil Bush Administration wish to destroy. They wish man to be a beast. Like Zeus who tortured Prometheus for bringing science (fire) to mankind, they wish to deny man his creative powers.

LaRouche: "Now, what I have to do, in this process, is to get Americans to understand what economics is." He then showed, with a series of video animations, the collapse of the physical economy, taking the state of Ohio as a case study. The principle of animations, "is to take what is happening, or will happen, in an economy, over a period of years, or months at least, and to accelerate that into a lapsed-time picture of the actual changes occurring over that larger period of time.

Using these methods--Classical art, science, and animations--to educate people in real economics, we will be a catalyst in reorganizing the Democratic Party. "For the fact is, that Bush is going to fail. The war in Iraq is lost. The financial system of the world is finished. There’ll be a general financial collapse, worldwide, beyond anything that most of you in this room could even begin to imagine--and it will come on fast."

"We have to put the positive side. We gave to bring the spiritual side forward, in the real sense, not this fake tent show, snake-oil sense that we get from these fundamentalists. But, the real sense: that man is a creature made in the image of the Creator! And that man must be respected as that; man must be developed as that. Man must have regard for other human beings based on that. Nations must cooperate on that basis. Cultures must be developed on that basis."

Release Date: Nov. 17, 2004

Program No. 653
"Its Still the Physical Economy, Stupid!" Pt. 2

On Nov. 9, Lyndon LaRouche, former candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, addressed an overflow audience in Washington, DC on the disastrous implications of the apparent re-election of George Bush, and the exhilarating remedy to the crisis thus created. His words were carried live via Internet webcast in Spanish and English, to audiences across the globe. Among those attending were about 100 youth fresh from election organizing in Cleveland, Columbus, Boston, Louisville, Detroit, Philadelphia; and Washington. In addition, there were young people from Africa, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, and Italy. Elected officials from around the country, plus other political leaders and diplomats, also attended. The event, including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, in which he showed, with a series of computer-generated animations, the collapse of the physical economy, taking the state of Ohio as a case study. The principle of animations, he explained, "is to take what is happening, or will happen, in an economy, over a period of years, or months at least, and to accelerate that into a lapsed-time picture of the actual changes occurring over that larger period of time.."

Using these methods--Classical art, science, and animations--to educate our people in real economics, we will be a catalyst in reorganizing the Democratic Party.

Release Date: Nov. 22, 2004

Program No. 654
"Its Still the Physical Economy, Stupid!" Pt. 3

On Nov. 9, Lyndon LaRouche, former candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, addressed an overflow audience in Washington, DC on the disastrous implications of the apparent re-election of George Bush, and the exhilarating remedy to the crisis thus created. His words were carried live via Internet webcast in Spanish and English, to audiences across the globe. Among those attending were about 100 youth fresh from election organizing in Cleveland, Columbus, Boston, Louisville, Detroit, Philadelphia; and Washington. In addition, there were young people from Africa, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, and Italy. Elected officials from around the country, plus other political leaders and diplomats, also attended. The event, including the discussion session, was moderated by Debra Freeman.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the Discussion Session immediately following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

E-mail from former U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy: On the issue of political mandates, does Mr. LaRouche think someone stole ours this election?

From a Democratic consultant who was involved in the strategy of the last phase of the Kerry campaign for President: "I don’t think we have sufficient votes in the House or in the Senate, to win on many issues, but we sure as hell can gum up the works. Do you think this is an irresponsible approach?"

Asa Gordon (Executive Director, Douglass School of Government): Reports on his filing a civil action suit concerning the election of 2000, Gordon vs. Gore, citing Section 2 of the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution, on the right to vote. In that Section, it says that Congress must "reduce its representation predicated on the proportion of disenfranchised citizens." But this has never been enforced! Mr. Gordon also brought to everyone’s attention the fact that 23 States have a winner-take-all tradition in which the candidate who wins the popular vote is accorded all the Presidential electors. But there are no statutes on the books that require this be done, and that this tradition is maintained in order to "keep the hegemony of the two-party system." Mr. Gordon concluded his remarks by stating that "the reason why Kerry and Gore backed off [i.e., conceded], is because if they had counted all the votes, it would have expressed, in the end, a President who represented over 90% of the aspirations of the black vote, over a solid majority of whites who voted for Bush."

Release Date: Nov. 26, 2004

Program No. 655
"The Sovereign States of the Americas"

On Nov. 11, as part of its program of exchanging ideas for the purpose of recovering Argentina, the Regional Forum for Social Dialogue of Rosario invited Lyndon LaRouche, former candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, to address members of the Secretariat of Culture of the National Technological University (UTN) of Rosario, members of various representative entities, associations, trade unions, and business groups, students, and other youth, via video teleconference . His words were carried live via Internet webcast, in Spanish and English, to audiences across the globe.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and three questions from the Discussion Session. Mr. Emiliano Andino, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement, moderated from the Rosario branch of the UTN. Other universities also connected to the webcast were the UTN of Buenos Aires, the UTN in Córdoba, the Economics Department of the National University of Lomas de Zamora in Buenos Aires province, and the University of Callao in Peru. Mr. Andino was introduced by host Anuart Jarma, member of the Liaison Executive Committee of the Rosario campus of the UTN, and a member of the Forum for Regional Dialogue of Rosario.

LaRouche: "Our problem is an international cartel of financier oligarchical interests, who are not banks as much as they are controllers of banks, as a kind of Venetian oligarchy. This system, known in the 1920s and 1930s and early 1940s, as the Synarchist International, gave us the spread of fascist states across most of continental Europe…."

Once again, as a result of the role of this international Synarchist financier interest which has been controlling monetary financial policy since the 1971-72 introduction of the floating-exchange-rate system, we have come to a great international monetary-financial-economic crisis, in which the countries of South and Central America, as well as Mexico, have been crushed. We have been resisting.

"We’ve come to the point, where that system is finished. Whatever happens, nothing can save the IMF system in its present form. The only thing that could happen with the IMF, would be that a concert of governments put the IMF and related central banking systems, in to receivership, for reorganization of those banking institutions."

The U.S. Constitution, uniquely among republics, provides for the non-existence of any central banking system (even though the Federal Reserve System has sneaked in). Only the Federal government has the power to create and manage currency on behalf of the nation to defend the absolute sovereignty of the nation as a republic, defend the general welfare of all its people, and to defend both for posterity.

"All nations around the world, the entire system, is about to go under. We are on the verge of a greater depression than Western European civilization has known since the 14^th Century Dark Age. This is much worse than the depression of the 1930s, and its coming on fast and can not be prevented now. The only way the effects of the crash can be prevented, is by the intervention of a concert of sovereign governments, to put the international monetary-financial system into reorganization."

"The demand of the bankers, including the IMF, is to impose upon the people and nation of Argentina, conditions which amount to genocide, to turn all of Argentina into a vast concentration camp, and to squeeze Argentina’s people and resources for what the country no longer has. It no longer has the means for payment of these debts, and therefore, to proceed with these would be a Hitler-like, or worse, genocide against the nation and people of Argentina. The same thing threatens south America and Central America as a whole. It also threatens other parts of the world."

Mr. LaRouche then discussed the question of competent leadership to intervene in this situation, and the policy orientation required to come out of this crisis alive.

"Governments which have failed are going to be put to the test, in which the will of the people can intervene effectively. And, if it intervenes amongst a number of countries effectively, we will have changes in the behavior of governments. The development of a system of fraternity among sovereign nation-states, and the promotion of economic progress and technological progress throughout the plant are the objectives around which we must mobilize."

Question from Rosario: "What awaits us as a result of the [Nov. 2] election in the United States?"

Question from a student at the University of Callao in Lima: "How is the government of President Bush going to act with regard to the Free Trade Agreements with the countries of Ibero-America; how will this type of aide or economic help develop in terms of free trade in the future?"

E-mail question from Octavio in Argentina: "Once you get out of a world or a national crisis, how do you go about consolidating your situation, and avoid future collapse?

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2004

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