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Subject: LaRouche Speaks from Jail

via alt.activism Thu May 14 02:40:16 1992

From: [e-mail] (John Covici)

Date: 13 May 92 06:47:52 GMT

[NY TRANSFER NEWS EDITORS' NOTE: The fascist charismatic political cult-leader Lyndon LaRouche is on the outs
with the US Government these days, and spends his time in Federal prison where
he is serving a sentence for fraud. His international political intelligence
empire continues, however, and he continues to run for President. A few months
ago he bought a half-hour of prime-time Sunday night television on NBC to
broadcast his overall vision for Amerikkka.  As a public service, we reproduce
this speech, written for delivery to his organization's conference in Europe.

We do not endorse LaRouche, but believe he should be watched carefully and his
activities monitored. This speech is a good illustration of his propaganda
style, which is surprisingly appealing to disaffected citizens of all
political stripes, from right-wing libertarians to left-wing liberation
activists. Remember as you read this that LaRouche has performed extremely
lucrative freelance intelligence work for various corporations and
governments, including the USA, and that he is pro-nuke,
anti-environmentalist, pro-militarist, anti-feminist and homophobic. He was
also one of the more vocal advocates of "Star Wars" technology when he had the
ear of Ronald Reagan's science advisors.

We also caution progressives to be extremely skeptical about accusations,
rumors and innuendos that various civil libertarians and political activists
are "close" to LaRouche. Many of these rumors are spread with the specific
purpose of neutralizing effective progressive political activists -- there is
no better way to discredit someone than by associating her/him with Lyndon
LaRouche. -- NY Transfer.]

                                     ***

[This speech by Democratic presidential
candidate and political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche, was
delivered on his behalf at the conference of the
International Caucus of Labor Committees in Kiedrich,
Germany on May 3. The ICLC is the philosophical
association which LaRouche founded. The text is slightly
abridged. -- John Covici.]

                 BREAK WITH ILLUSION TO STOP THE NEW DARK AGE
                              by Lyndon LaRouche

   I would like to address you on the subject
of reality, politics, illusion, and the consequences of the
intermingling of these three. I shall reference primarily
the situation currently in the United States, but I shall
compare this briefly with some things in eastern Europe,
notably Poland, Russia, and Central Asia.

   The foremost event of the moment in the United States
is, of course, the rioting spreading out of Los Angeles,
and the reaction of the White House to those incidents,
particularly the failure of Bush to understand what he's
dealing with. The condition of the minority groups in the
United States should be well known and well understood.
Despite the silly talk about prosperity, over the period
of the past 20-odd years in the United States, since
1970-71, the condition of industry, infrastructure, and
agriculture has been: Industry has been collapsing,
agriculture has been contracting, especially since the
middle of the 1970s, and infrastructure has been
collapsing in net since 1970; that is, the rate of
destruction of infrastructure, wear-and-tear,
obsolescence, is greater than the replacement. So today,
if we were to try to get back to conditions equal to those
in 1970, it would require $4 or 5 trillion of expenditure
for infrastructure immediately.

   As part of this, the actual standard of living of the
household of four or five, is way below that of 1968.
That is, the real market-basket of consumption of a
household of wage-earners in 1992, is way below that of
the 1967-69 period. That rate of collapse has been
accelerating since 1979, since the introduction of the
so-called ``controlled disintegration'' of the U.S.
economy by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, with his
high interest rates and conditionalities.

   We have a similar situation, naturally, on a global
scale. The world economy is generally collapsing and,
except for the ``tigers'' of Asia, which are a mixed bag of
some reality and some illusion, the whole world is in a
state of economic collapse and contraction and has been
predominantly over a period of 20 years, with a few
isolated, temporary exceptions to this trend.

   We hear recently that there's an ongoing
recovery in the United States, which, of course, is not
true. There is some manipulation of financial figures, to
attempt to show in financial estimates that there might be
an increase in per capita income or a rate of change for
the better in per capita income, but that's all illusion,
that's all empty paper. In the meantime, the reality is
that the United States is headed toward collapse.

   This collapse is based on the fact that what enables
society to survive are things typified by industry,
agriculture, and basic economic infrastructure. I would
identify as basic economic infrastructure, five leading
categories:

   Water management: the amount of clean, usable
water available per square kilometer and per person, for
different kinds of land use, that is, residency,
agriculture, heavy industry, and so forth.

   Transportation: The ton-mile hours and
tons-per-mile per hour transported per square kilometer by
different kinds of land use is a measure of transport
capacity in a region.

   Energy: The amount of energy per capita and per
square kilometer is a measure of the potential
productivity and potential gross output of any area per
kilometer and per capita.

   In addition, we have two elements of social
infrastructure: the health system and education.

   These elements of basic economic infrastructure are
the precondition for the possibility of successful
investment in industry or agriculture. Without these
investments, industrial and agricultural investment is a
flop. When someone comes into a country and says, ``You
don't want to invest in infrastructure, the IMF or the
World Bank says you shouldn't invest in industry,'' you
should take that person and put them in the nearest
lunatic asylum, for people who are mentally incompetent in
economics.

   In those terms, the world is collapsing, and as a
result, per capita yields are collapsing around the world.
But the monetary values are artificially increased by pure
parasitical speculation. That's what we see in Russia,
that's what's happening in Poland, where there's an
increase in financial aggregates in some sectors of the
economy based on a collapse of the other part of the
economy. This is pure cannibalism: It's like eating
one's leg in order to stave off hunger temporarily. Then
you eat the next leg and then what do you eat next? That's
the process of primitive accumulation that is going on in
eastern Europe and Russia.


                        - The Los Angeles situation -

   That brings us to the so-called riots, which are not
essentially riots. The plan for these riots began about a
year ago, long before there was a Rodney King incident.
The Rodney King incident was merely something used
opportunistically by those plotting the riots.

   Those behind that, those connected to this process,
include Warren Christopher and the Center for the Study of
Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. It
also includes the Maoist groups, such as the Revolutionary
Union and the Revolutionary Communist Party. There were
some other organizations in this, some of them connected
to the FBI, the national political police force, who
orchestrated this. The hard core of this operation
includes these Maoist groups and drug-running gangs armed
with submachine guns and so forth.

   These will total probably a hard core of 500 or so
persons, who are rampaging, setting fires, and doing
random killings as an act of terrorism. This activity sets
loose looting by other parts of the population....

   It's very much like the Zubatov organizations of the
Czarist Okhrana back at the turn of this century, who were
trying to destabilize the government of Count Sergei Witte
by these kinds of processes, leading into the 1905
Revolution, which burned down Baku....

   But underneath what is being orchestrated by these
people, you have reality. Now go back to the 1960s. We
find exactly the same people in the establishment who
organized and prepared these riots, so-called, which
occurred over the 1964-68 period. The same people
orchestrated, in a large degree, the 1970-71 explosions,
the last wave of the anti-Vietnam War protest explosions.

   Then, as now, there were real, legitimate, mass-based
issues affecting the population, but the population was
not reacting in a riotous fashion. The very people who
were the oppressors, who were causing these atrocious,
burdensome realities, were orchestrating protests against
their own policies, in violent form, through gangs which
they controlled, and through opposing gangs which they
also controlled, in order to attempt to take the explosive
energy of protest against horrible conditions such as the
depression, and play this off into these controlled gang
operations, as we see exploding in Los Angeles, and
we'll see exploding in other parts of the world.


                        - The `Arc of Crisis' policy -

   For example, let's look at the Balkans. I did a
broadcast in 1988, as a part of a presidential campaign,
in which I outlined the relationship of certain elements
of the Soviet military, which turned out to include
Marshal Yazov, who were working closely with the Serbian
military, which was very much Soviet-controlled (and still
is, in effect, in terms of nomenklatura categories), which
would be used to set the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav Army
against various minority groups inside Yugoslavia, as part
of a general Balkan explosion akin to what the British did
in setting off the Balkan Wars of the early part of this
century to get World War I going.

   We also have Transcaucasia: That's a complicated
thing I don't need to touch upon here. But let's go to
Central Asia.

   Back in 1978-79, we knew and we broadcast at that
time the fact that, under Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski,
an operation was being set into place which had been
organized by British intelligence, that is, by the Arab
Bureau of Glubb Pasha, together with his subordinate,
Bernard Lewis, who had been seconded to the United States,
to develop what became known as the Bernard Lewis Plan,
which Brzezinski called the Arc of Crisis policy, and
which Carter referred to as the Islamic fundamentalism
card. It was under this policy that various things began
to happen in Afghanistan. The Soviets were provoked and
lured into Afghanistan. It was under this policy that the
British and Americans put Khomeini into power in Iran. The
fact is that Khomeini and his father before him had been
British agents going way back. So there was nothing very
surprising about that.

   Now we have the continuation of this policy with the
Anglo-American ``Great Game'' from the 19th century being
revived, in terms of destabilization of Central Asia under
this long-term operation. We also have the involvement of
Turkey. The present Turkish government has repudiated the
policy of Kemal Ataturk and has gone over to the opposing
policy, the Sykes-Picot policy, which was originally
intended to dismember Turkey. If this process continues,
Turkey may play a key role in contributing to
destabilization in the Transcaucasas and Central Asia, for
reasons which specialists will understand very readily.
But the end result is that Turkey itself will be
dismembered, as the British and French intended with the
Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1916.

   What we have, then, is reality. We have real problems
among people. We have real economic problems caused by bad
policy. But then we have the secret agencies, the
behind-the-scenes agencies, intervening with political
movements and riots and so forth, to exploit the energy
caused by problems and utilize that to neutralize the
population, and thus introduce what? Back in the 1960s,
the name of the game was to destroy industry, to induce
what the Anglo-Americans behind these operations called a
``cultural paradigm shift.'' To move society away from the
idea of a society based on reason, to move it to a
``post-industrial'' society, a post-industrial utopianism,
and to what was called the rock-drug-sex counterculture,
and malthusian, anti-industrial, anti-scientific
movements, which have become the dominant movements of the
so-called radicals throughout the United States, western
Europe and elsewhere today. These destructive movements,
these nihilist movements used to feed on the energy of
protest, the energy of legitimate issues back in the
1960s. This was used to destroy industrial society,
agricultural society, and bring us into the ruin which we
are now suffering.

   At the present stage, the riots, the destabilization
of Central Asia, the destabilization of the Transcaucasus,
the ignition of the kind of Balkan wars which the British
and their friends orchestrated in order to create World
War I, the imminent explosion of new general wars inside
the Middle East, the imminent explosions in Africa, the
imminent explosions of all kinds in South America and
Central America, the imminent explosions in East
Asia-Southeast Asia, the possibility of the
self-dismemberment of China coming in the few years
immediately ahead--all of these things are the result of
this kind of process. What some people think, including
the Trilateral Commission circles, which own Bush, who is
a Trilateral member, Carter, Mondale, and which own
Clinton--these circles are determined, as they say, to
impose upon the world a form of dictatorship mimicking
what they did with Hjalmar Schacht in putting Hitler into
power in Germany. This is a conscious intent. This was
discussed by the Trilateral Commission at the 1975 Tokyo
Commission meeting with the so-called Samuel P. Huntington
report, the "Crisis in Democracy," and that's what these
fellows are doing today.

                      - Americans' collective insanity -

   Now, how do they get by with it and how does that
affect us? Let me describe the American population to you.
I'll exaggerate only slightly, in order to make the image
a little more vivid. The American people, in the main
part, are collectively insane. It's organized insanity,
along the lines depicted in approximation by George
Orwell's novel "1984," and also by the famous book and
film "Clockwork Orange."

   What are the people of the United States involved in?
They're involved in flight from reality into what? A
television soap opera, entertainment of that type, which
has no correspondence to reality. It's a form of insanity.
They're involved with large-scale televised spectator
sports, in which the name of the game is winning and
losing, in complete childishness.

   You have the image in the United States that if a man
were run over by a truck in the middle of the street, he
would drag his injured body back home, crawl up the steps
of his house, go in his living room and turn on the
television set and wait for the mid-day news or the
evening news to see if there was any report of his being
run over by a truck. If he did not see such a report, he
would say ``I guess I wasn't run over after all. I guess
it never happened to me,'' and roll over and die.

   That, in the extreme, is the kind of mind-set which
has affected the American population today.

   How do they react? They watch soap opera, what are
called rock videos, which are the lowest form of visual
titillation, and mass televised spectator sports. These are
the principal concerns of the American population.

   How do they live? They live in fantasy life. Fantasy
life is based on reliving throughout the day a kind of an
echo, not of any particular soap opera or sports event or
rock video, but a blend of these things which, as a sort
of background noise in their minds, takes the place of
reality. Anything that happens to them in real life is
then interpreted from the standpoint of this mixture of
soap opera, televised spectator sports, and rock video.

   Even if they are more active and young and spend a
little less time with television, in the middle years when
they're out roving the streets and doing other things, the
same image dominates them.

   Some people ask: What's wrong with the United States.
Where's the corruption in government? As I've said
repeatedly, the most essential corruption in government in
the United States lies in the highest level of government,
which, in fact, is the mass entertainment and news media.
Complete fantasy life.

   The second level of corruption is in the population,
which worships at the throne of the television tube, and
whose beliefs, whose values, whose way of thinking about
the world is shaped by soap opera, rock video, and
televised sports spectacles principally.

   These people are completely labile, to such effect
that if an honest politician goes to Washington to
represent the interests of his people, and these news
media and entertainment media tell the people that the man
who is representing them faithfully is some kind of a
monster, the people will turn on the man who represents
them, in order to be in agreement with this entertainment
and news media. We've seen this again and again.

   In Washington, political figures are terrorized by
this kind of operation. And thus, the control of U.S.
public opinion by the mechanisms associated with the mass
visual (principally) entertainment and news media, has
become the mechanism by which the United States is ruled,
by which public opinion is ruled, by which people are
prevented from acting in their own interest and are caused
to act against their own interest.


                          - The enemy is illusion -

   The principal enemy we have, therefore--and this is
true in many parts of the world--is the illusions that
seize the minds of the people. For example, in eastern
Europe. The illusion was that, since capitalism was the
adversary of communism, capitalism must be good. What is
capitalism? Well, they didn't know. Whatever was practiced
in England and the United States, they presumed, was the
best model. They heard it was ``free trade.'' So they
said, ``Let's do free trade. That means freedom.'' They
had sent to them the fascists who are called social
democrats--otherwise known as the Project Democracy
crowd--and the fascists assured them, that free trade is
freedom. They said, ``We social democrats would not lie to
you. We admit that capitalism is good, and free trade is
the essence of capitalism.''

   Well obviously, free trade as practiced has no effect
but to destroy economies. It's no aberration that we see
free trade destroying Poland, destroying the eastern part
of Germany, destroying the areas of the former Soviet
Union, destroying Czechoslovakia, destroying Hungary, to
the degree that the Hungarians cannot resist it. It's an
illusion! But how many people say, ``We must stick with
the United States, we cannot buck the United States, we
have to submit to the IMF, we have to learn to live with
the IMF, we have to learn to live with these bankers''?
And therefore they vote on decisions which destroy their
own economy, destroy their own people, inch by inch.

   Illusion. Just as the illusion of U.S. television
entertainment and other mass entertainment and news media
are an illusion in the United States. And thus, the ruling
establishment create riots which they orchestrate largely
through the controlled news media, the way the NBC TV
network has orchestrated the rioting in Los Angeles, as
well as helping to create it by their manipulations. And
thus the people do not act in their own interests.

   Now, we poor, simple people, we are proposing that
people act in their own rational interests as a people, in
terms of the fact that every individual wishes, or should
wish, to have a sense of identity, that he or she is in
some way necessary to the welfare of his people as a
whole, that he or she is doing something with his life
which is improving the chances not only for his
descendants, but for all his contemporaries and
descendants, in some way, or contributing to that process.

   Our biggest opposition comes not from the forceful
powers of the enemy, but rather from the corruption of the
minds and wills of the very people we're trying to assist
in rescuing from this mess, the people who believe in
these various kinds of delusions.

                             - The battle ahead -

   It's a difficult road, but it's one which we can win.
When, I don't know. I have no idea. I always fight to win
tomorrow, to win the battle before me and would hope that
that battle can be turned into a decisive turning point
for a general victory of humanity. But often we lose those
battles. Sometimes we win a few here and there. But the
enemy keeps coming on. The enemy is becoming weaker, but
we have not yet won a battle which is a turning point for
the benefit of humanity.

   The world is sliding into a new dark age. It's
happening because of the beliefs which I've referred to.
It's happening because the American people predominantly
worship at the Satanic Church of the Television Tube,
administered by Satanic priests of the type that organized
these Maoists and drug gangs to start the bloodshed in Los
Angeles and elsewhere.

   It's happening because people believe in the delusion
of free trade. Because people wrongfully trust Project
Democracy, one of the most evil and fascist organizations
roaming this planet today.

   So we fight principally in the realm of ideas. We
fight not merely in ideas in the sense of one idea against
the other, we fight to develop in people, at least in a
nucleus of people and then more broadly, the ability to
understand the laws of the universe; to understand what
the general human interest is; to understand how the mind
must be developed to cope with the kinds of decisions the
problems before us present; to develop a nucleus of people
among all countries of the world, who can give the
ingredient of leadership to their own people, in concert
with similar groups in other countries. To the point that
when people realize that they've been living in an
illusion, have been controlled by a delusion, and wish to
come out in the fresh air of truth and say, ``How do we
reverse all this damage which we have assisted in doing to
ourselves, by complicity with this delusion?'' that there
are people there, in every country, whom Plato called the
Philosopher Kings, who will step forth and provide
leadership for the nation, to organize it.

   The proper thing I think at this time is to
concentrate above all on defining the programmatic
approach to what we must do to rebuild this world. Not
imagining that we'll win the program simply because of its
objective merits, but that in order to implement the
program, we must at the same time educate concentric
circles of people in other countries who are the nucleus
of new leadership, to provide the counsel to agencies of
government needed to bring about these policy changes, and
to begin the reversal out of this dark age into which
we're sliding, into a new global renaissance, dedicated to
the dignity of the individual human being, on principle.

                                     -30-

From Executive Intelligence Review V19, #20.

Please respond by e-mail as I get very far behind in reading this
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         John Covici
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