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Published: Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 39
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Below appear Lyndon LaRouche's keynote remarks to the European ICLC/Schiller Institute conference on Sept. 24, 2004. The panel was moderated by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, who introduced LaRouche by saying, "And now, I'd like ask Lyn to address us, to tell us how the Kerry Presidency must shape world politics, and how Lyn is shaping Kerry's candidacy."
LYNDON LAROUCHE: I shall repeat today, inclusively, a few of the things I said at the seminar yesterday. So, those who heard it yesterday, will mark forbearance. It is important to repeat:
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You are now living in a time whose importance exceeds any in the memory of any living person on this planet. What will happen between now and the date of the inauguration of the next President of the United States, will be the greatest turning point in history, for better, or for very much worse, in a very long time.
The situation is not hopeless. But: On what I know, as of today from the United States, from the inside of the Kerry campaign, for example, one never says that one has won a war, until the war has actually been won. But I feel like Friedrich der Grosse at Leuthen, facing the Austrians where he thought he was outnumbered. And because he thought quicker and better, the outcome was successful on that day.
We're in such a situation.
The report that Bush is ahead, is utter propaganda and nonsense. No one, at this stage of a campaign, of a hotly contested campaign, knows who is ahead. No one knows, in such an election situation.
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This Week in History
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September 27-October 3, 1768
Samuel Adams Faces Down Gov. Hutchinson British Troops Driven from Boston
In addition to his birthday on Sept. 27, 1722, Samuel Adams is associated with another event that occurred this week, on Oct. 1, 1768, when British troops were landed in Boston to counter demonstrations against the hated Townshend Acts. The royal governor, hearing that the troops were on their way, adjourned the Massachusetts legislature and ordered the beacon taken down from Beacon Hill, so that the Bostonians could not alert the countryside when the soldiers arrived to occupy the city.
The precursor of the Townshend Acts was the Stamp Act, which Parliament passed in March of 1765, trying to raise revenue to pay off debts incurred during the French and Indian War (which the colonists had helped to win), and to aid the East India Company in expanding its empire. When the act was passed, a member of the British Parliament named Isaac Barre had predicted that "those sons of liberty" in America would fight the new law. Samuel Adams, who had been organizing Bostonians over for 20 years to resist any attempt by the British to revoke the few liberties which the colonists still enjoyed, adopted the name "Sons of Liberty" for his group of some 300 citizens. By October, Adams had also organized a Stamp Act Congress in New York to which nine colonies sent delegates.
While Patrick Henry was making dazzling and emotional speeches in Virginia against the Stamp Act, Adams was writing to other colonies and to British sympathizers, using reasoned arguments to show that the tax was illegal and unjust. This extensive correspondence evolved, in his 1772 proposal to the Boston Town Meeting, to become the Committees of Correspondence, which were established in each of the colonies. Under intense pressure, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in early 1766, but the Townshend Acts, which levied a tax on paint, tea, lead, paper, and glass, soon followed in 1767. This time, Adams used the organization he had already built to launch a campaign to keep British-made goods out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
This was too much of a threat to the East India Company's looting policies, so a total of 4,000 British troops were sent to Boston, one for every adult male in the city. The city's Tories were afraid to open their homes to the troops, and so the soldiers pitched tents on Boston Common, and were quartered in Faneuil Hall and unused warehouses. As a deliberate provocation, they set up cannons and aimed them at the Old State House, where the Massachusetts legislature met, and at other strategic spots. They also harassed Boston's citizens by stopping them on the street and demanded to know where they were going.
This created an explosive situation, and Samuel Adams and the other patriots worked constantly to calm things down. However, things went from bad to worse. In September of 1769, James Otis, a prominent patriot, was attacked with swords in the British Coffee House and given a head wound that affected his sanity. Then, in early 1770, a group of young boys put up an "Importer" sign in front of the home of a merchant who refused to honor the boycott against British goods. When he tried to take it down, they pelted him with stones, so he got his gun and fired at them, killing a 12-year-old boy.
Not long after the boy was buried in a funeral attended by most of Boston's citizens, a clash between a group of British troops and a mob hurling snowballs and ice resulted in the troops firing their muskets and killing five Americans. At a very large Boston Town Meeting the next day in Faneuil Hall, the citizens voted that all the soldiers must leave Boston. They appointed a committee, headed by Samuel Adams, to present Gov. Thomas Hutchinson of the demand. When the committee met with Hutchinson, he declared that he could send away the regiment that had been involved in the shooting, but that permission to send away the other regiment would take some time, because it had to come from General Gage in New York.
By the time the committee returned with the reply, the town meeting had grown to 3,000 people, and had adjourned to the larger Old South Church, where the huge gathering spilled out into the street. When they heard Hutchinson's reply, the citizens labelled it "unacceptable," and again sent Adams and the committee to meet with the governor. This time, Adams pointed his finger at Hutchinson and said, "If you have the power to remove one regiment, you have power to remove both. It is at your peril if you refuse. The meeting is composed of 3,000 people. They have become impatient. The whole country is in motion. Night is approaching. An immediate answer is expected. Both regiments or none!"
Adams turned to another member of the committee, who said that people would come in from the neighboring towns, and that there would be 10,000 men who wanted to remove the troops. In a letter he wrote afterward, Adams said that the governor turned pale and that his knees trembled. Hutchinson signed an order to remove the troops, and when Prime Minister Lord Frederick North heard what had happened, he called the departed troops the "Sam Adams' Regiments," a name that received wide usage for many years. He also referred to the American patriots as "Adams' crew."
Ironically, the successful outcome of the confrontation led to three years of relative calm, when Samuel Adams had difficulty convincing people that it was only the lull before the storm. He told his daughter Hannah that "I am in fashion and out of fashion, as the whim goes. I will stand alone." And he continued writing and organizing the Sons of Liberty until the passage of the new Tea Tax in 1773 reminded the Bostonians that he had been right. The new tax measure offered a cut in the price of tea by half, while maintaining the right of the East India Co. to tax the colonists; the British counted on greed to induce the Americans to substitute a bargain for their insistence on having some measure of control over the government that supposedly represented them. More tellingly, the salaries of many public officials would be paid by the revenue from the tea sales, thus wedding them to the policies of the East India Company, not the public good.
One of Adams's newspaper articles, in the Boston Gazette of Oct. 14, 1771, demonstrates his commitment to fighting for both the past and the future good: "The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors; They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence."
"It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter."
"Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember, that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers in the event."
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Feature:
LaRouche: Defeat Bush-Cheney To Prevent Perpetual War
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. issued this statement, titled 'A Vote for Bush-Cheney Is a Vote for Perpetual War and Economic Hell,' on Sept. 20, through the LaRouche Political Action Committee. LaRouche, who was a candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 2004, has endorsed John Kerry and John Edwards, and is aggressively campaigning for a landslide Democratic Party victory on Nov. 2.
- In Iraq: The Neo-Con Perpetual War Policy
by Carl Osgood (See p.5 of above article.)
While the content of a July 2004 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq, leaked to the New York Times on Sept. 16, shows the folly of the Bush-Cheney war policy in Iraq, Bush's public response to that intelligence estimate puts a fine point on Lyndon LaRouche's warning that a second Bush- Cheney Administration would mean 'perpetual war and economic hell.'
Israel Primed for Strike Against Iran
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed a resolution Sept. 17, setting a Nov. 25 deadline to resolve open issues about Iran's nuclear program, and calling for Iran to immediately halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, the Rubicon was crossed, at least for Tehran. Iran made known that it would not allow any foreign interference in its nuclear program, and pledged to proceedwith or without the IAEA.
Bush/Cheney Have Meant Poverty to Pennsylvania
by Richard Freeman
The current condition of once-prosperous Pennsylvania is one of the clearest and most agonizing examples of deindustrialization in the annals of U.S. history.
Pennsylvania Hospitals And Healthcare Vanishing
by Mary Jane Freeman
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania, the cradle of American healthcare, where Benjamin Franklin and others established the first hospital on these shores and promoted medical scientific research, has had its hospital infrastructure systematically looted and shut down over the last two and a half decades. The ongoing disappearance of hospital care in Pennsylvaniain particular, of the availability of hospital beds to the people of the Commonwealth, county by countyis emblematic of the destruction of healthcare infrastructure nationwide in the 'HMO era.'
A City in Need of Shelter
by Richard Freeman
In Philadelphia, one-sixth of all households pay 50% or more of their income for housing. The number of vacant apartments in the city has doubled over the past three decades; the rate of evictions from homes is running at 600-1,000 per month; and, at least 33,000 affordable housing units need to be built for the poor. Philadelphia echoes the nation's economic crisis: Its loss of 230,000 decent-paying manufacturing jobs over the past 35 years has created a large number of poor, who cannot afford housing.
California's Hospitals Closing, More Cuts Ahead
by Linda Everett
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced on Sept. 13 that Los Angeles County will lose yet another of its trauma centersthe Martin Luther King-Charles Drew Center which serves the very, very poor population of Watts. The King-Drew Hospital and Trauma Center was built after the 1965 Watts riots to serve the inner city population. Now, the Trauma Center is to close within 90 daysand it is not yet known if the Hospital itself will survive its multitude of financial crises. The shutting of the trauma center is emblematic of the crisis devastating California's entire healthcare infrastructure.
Germany Prepares for An Economic Emergency
by Lothar Komp
Remarkable things are happening in Berlin these days. On Aug. 12, the German government introduced a revision of the 1968 economic emergency law. In the absence of any public debate and any coverage so far by the established media (the new law was published in the official journal for legal affairs, the Bundesgesetzblatt, on Aug. 17), the new order has already been approved by the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament.
The IMF Is Killing Mexico With Thirst
by Alberto Vizcarra Osuna
In the Summer of 1982, Mexican President Jose´ Lo´pez Portillo launched the construction of the Fuerte-Mayo Canal in the border area between the northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa, for the purpose of reactivating the Water Plan of the Northwest (PLHINO). But ever since then, all succeeding governments have submitted to the fiscal austerity and budget- balancing policies dictated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The result has been turning Mexico away from public investment in basic infrastructure and, simultaneously, the suspension of strategic public works for national economic development.
International:
Elections in Saxony Transform German Politics
by Rainer Apel
The results of the Sept. 19 elections for state parliament in the German state of Saxony show the beginning of a qualitative shift in German politics. The inability to deal with the worsening economic crisis has devastated the 'established' national parties, first of all the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and, to a slightly lesser extent, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Chancellor Gerhard Schro¨der and his Green Party coalition partner.
Who, or What, Is the 'Islamic Army of Iraq'?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach and Hussein Askary
When Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Sept. 4, identified terrorists, like those who had organized the massacre of Beslan, North Ossetia, as 'instruments' backed by foreign powers, committed to destroying Russia, he relocated 'terrorism' in the global strategy of tension. In later statements, he identified those forces harboring such terrorist leaders (in London and Washington), thus pinpointing the origin of the threat. As Lyndon LaRouche has insisted for decades, naming the names is one crucial step in defusing terrorist threats.
Let's Tell the Truth About Sudan
by Lawrence K. Freeman
Washington, D.C. has been awash over recent weeks with forums about the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which feature speakers from the far lunatic right to those with a more moderate outlook. The Washington Post has been filled with editorials and commentary attacking Sudan. Hypocritically, many of the sponsors and participants in these events don't really give a damn about the people of Sudan,much less about the welfare of hundreds of millions of sub-Saharan Africans, who are barely existing in some of the worst conditions, not fit for human beings on this planet. Otherwise the conditions in Darfur, and other regions like Darfur, would never have been allowed to fester. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus demonstrate and partake in their symbolic arrests outside the Sudanese Embassy, with support from many gullible and naive African Americans.
Investigation:
LaRouche PAC Testifies To Senate Against Porter Goss Hearings
LaRouche PACExecutive Director Dr. Debra Hanania Freeman delivered written testimony, published here, to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Sept. 21, opposing the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) to the post of Director of Central Intelligence.
A Question for DCI Porter Goss
by Anton Chaitkin
On Sept. 13, the eve of hearings scheduled on the nomination of Florida Congressman Porter Goss as Director of Central Intelligence, LaRouche PAC released a question about the narcotics trafficking events around Lee County, Florida, where Goss had served as County Commissioner. The Sept. 13 question was appended to the LaRouche PAC testimony submitted to the Intelligence Committee (see p. 62). That question is still unanswered, and this report provides the dramatic background for what Goss must still be asked.
National:
Democrats At a Turning Point: Kerry Starts Telling the Truth
by Nancy Spannaus
A shift in the campaign strategy and tactics of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, to hold President George W. Bush and his controller, Vice President Dick Cheney, accountable for disaster in Iraq and for the horrendous condition of the U.S. economya shift demanded by leading Democrats Lyndon LaRouche and former President Bill Clinton, among othersholds the promise of victory for the Kerry- Edwards ticket in November.
Establishment Figures Demand That Candidates Address Pressing Issues
by William Jones
In two conferences in Washington at the beginning of September, angry voices have been raised by leading political figures about the paucity of discussion that had hitherto been held on the major issues facing the nation in this election campaign. In what Lyndon LaRouche characterized as the most important election in U.S. history, the political debate in the first weeks of the Presidential campaign consisted largely of attacks by the Karl Rove-instigated medley of discontents, the 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,' whose sole interest has been to to besmirch the military record of Democratic candidate John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, and the fending off of those attacks by the Kerry campaign.
Chas. Freeman:
'The Serious Questions Are Being Ignored'
The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) held its 13th annual conference in Washington on Sept. 12- 13, attended by about 300 oil industry executives, diplomats, journalists, and Middle East political activists. Chas. Freeman, who was an Undersecretary of Defense and the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, delivered these closing remarks.
Lee H. Hamilton:
Toward a Substantive Dialogue of Democracy
Lee Hamilton is the president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. A former Congressman from Indiana, he was also the vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ('9/11 Commission'). He gave the speech excerpted here to the Eisenhower National Security Conference, in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 15.
LaRouche Youth Expose Naderites as Fascists
by Our Boston Bureau
A Sept. 21 meeting of the Nader-Camejo Presidential campaign at Northeastern University in Boston, was the scene of a confrontation which exposed the Naderites as the fascist 'beast-men' they are. Under questioning from representatives of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM), Vice Presidential candidate Peter Camejo, a Wall Street speculator and veteran of the Socialist Workers Party, started raving, and ordered his goons to physically attack and drag out LYM member Nick Walsh, scratching, kicking, and nearly strangling him in the process. As violent as the suppression of dissent by the Naderites, was the attack by Camejo and his sidekick Dedric Muhammad (a self-described former aide to Al Sharpton) on the Kerry campaign, and, de facto, in defense of President Bush!
Tom DeLay's Cronies: Is 'the Hammer' Headed or the Slammer?
by Harley Schlanger
In the often strange and fascinating world that is Texas politics, allegations of illegal fundraising and abuse of power are not exactly unheard of. Yet, rarely are they so closely intertwined, as in the unfolding scandal surrounding U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay ('the Hammer'), whose fundraising apparatus and political hit team were served with 32 felony counts of indictment on Sept. 21, for allegedly funneling corporate campaign contributions to Republican candidates for the Texas state legislature.
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