THIS WEEK YOU NEED TO KNOW
Joe Lieberman's Dirty Little Secret
The "Breaking News" segment of this week's Electronic Intelligence Weekly is devoted to the seismic cultural shift now underway in Germany, in the aftermath of the April 26 school massacre in Erfurt, in which a 19-year old boy, Robert Steinhaeuser, killed 16 teachers and students, before taking his own life. The young killer was addicted to the same kind of violent point-and-shoot video games as the Columbine High School killers in the United States, who staged a similar premeditated mass-killing spree in April 1999. Dozens of similar incidents have occurred throughout the United States in recent years, fuelled by Hollywood's mass entertainment industry outpouring of movies, music, and videogames that literally program America's youth into "natural-born killers."
The difference between the German and American responses to the two incidents is striking. On May 3, over 100,000 Germans, mostly from the eastern region near the scene of the school carnage, gathered in Erfurt for a memorial service. President Rau and Chancellor Schroeder both addressed the crowd, and delivered frank assessments of the deep cultural crisis that the killing incident had revealed and spotlighted. Earlier in the week, the Interior Minister of Germany had issued a preliminary report on the incident, which warned that as many as 170,000 German youth were so deeply involved in the same culture of videogame violence and pornography, that any one of them could repeat the Erfurt incident.
Germany is going through a profound process of rethinking the direction in which the nation has drifted over the past decadesin culture, education, and economic policy. That process of national soul-searching will have a major impact on the national elections, scheduled for later this year.
Helga Zepp LaRouche, the founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, as well as a candidate in those German Federal elections, has issued a series of calls for a thorough international inquiry into the root causes of the "New Violence" (the full text of her latest statement appears in the EUROPE NEWS DIGEST in this issue of EIW, with a detailed news account of the Erfurt attack and its aftermath; her first statement ran in last week's EIW).
At an international webcast in Washington, D.C. on May 1, sponsored by his Presidential pre-campaign committee, Lyndon LaRouche directly linked Hollywood's "Nintendo brainwashing" industry to the strategic policy of leading American utopians, like Samuel Huntington, who promote "perpetual war" around the globe, modelled on the Roman Imperial Legions' far-flung operations, employing corps of stone-cold mercenary killers. As LaRouche asked the May 1 audience in Washington, "You think these Nintendo games are some accident, that crept up on us because of Hollywood? Yes, Hollywood is doing it, doing that kind of thing. No, this was done by the U.S. military. It was done intentionally. To do what? To create among our youth, stone killers who can be recruited to be sent in various parts of the world, and do there, exactly what the Israelis are doing."
Indeed, these utopianswho enjoy positions of prominence inside the Bush Administration, in the military, in the Washington think-tank community, in the leading tax-exempt foundations and law firms of the Boston-New York-Washington corridorare the chief patrons and sponsors of Ariel Sharon, whose present actions in the Mideast virtually guarantee that the goal of "perpetual war" in that vital part of the globe will be realized.
In stark contrast to popular opinion, the United States Congress and other policy-making centers are not "run by Israel." Israel is a controlled marcher-lord state, presently gripped by a Masada suicide impulse, which is run from the United States, Britain, and other centers of power in the Westbut principally from the United Statesthrough these utopians and their Mega Group-led corrupt Zionist Lobby allies. They also control large segments of the American Christian fundamentalists, whose own virulent anti-Semitism is promoted as "Christian Zionism," because they support the same Middle East "Clash of Civilizations" religious war as Sharon.
The Role of Joe Lieberman
Initially, Americans reacted with the same degree of shock to the Littleton, Colorado carnage as the German people did following the Erfurt school killings. Why was there no mass outcry, no march on Washington, demanding the banning of the point-and-shoot video games, the Hollywood sex-and-violence movies, and music?
A simple, but incomplete, answer is that Americans have become so anesthetized to the culture of violence and sex that their reaction was muted.
But something else happened in Washington. Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn), who has been falsely and hypocritically touted as "the conscience of the Senate," stepped in to bail out the Hollywood smut-and-violence mass-brainwashing industry. Three weeks after Columbine, in May 1999, Lieberman was joined by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) in pushing legislation through the Senate, giving Hollywood an exemption from anti-trust laws, so the videogame industry could develop its own "voluntary" rating system.
In September 2000, the Federal Trade Commission issued a report, confirming what was already well-known: Hollywood systematically violates its self-policing codes by devising marketing strategies, specifically targetting underage youth for sales of violent and pornographic movies, music, and videogames.
Less than a week after the FTC report was released, Joe Lieberman, by then the Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate, along with his running mate, Al Gore, journeyed to Hollywood for a $10,000-a-plate fundraising dinner, which generated $4.2 million for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. As Reuters reported the next day, "Lieberman sought to reassure those present that a Gore Administration would not seek to censor films, Hollywood's biggest fear."
Lieberman was quoted as telling the audience, "Al and I have tremendous regard for this industry. It's true from time to time we will be critics, but I promise you this: We will never, never put the government in the position of telling you through laws what to make. We will nudge you, but we will never become censors." As the Reuters correspondent observed, "For their donations of $10,000 or more, diners got more than chicken."
Just last week, at the end of April 2002, the New York Times reported that, once Lieberman became addicted to Hollywood money, he never gave up the habitto the point that his former running-mate, now 2004 rival, Al Gore, is furious that Lieberman has grabbed up big bucks from all the Hollywood smut moguls who were first introduced to Lieberman by Gore.
The Deeper Secret
Joe Lieberman's "morality" was demonstrated in September 1998, when he became the first prominent Democrat to call for President Bill Clinton to resign from office, over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This effort, launched from within the Democratic Party through the so-called Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), was nothing less than a full-scale assault upon the institution of the U.S. Presidency, and the U.S. Constitution. In this effort, Lieberman joined forces with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwho, along with Ariel Sharon, was the intellectual author of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, aimed at killing the Oslo peace accords. The effort to install Al Gore in the Oval Office was led by a powerful group of American-based billionaire Israeli Lobbyists, known as the "Mega Group," led by Edgar Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt. Joe Lieberman is "The Man From Mega."
The Lieberman "morality" was on display this past week, once again, with his sponsorship of a Senate resolution fully endorsing Ariel Sharon's ongoing campaign of genocide inside the West Bank. As the Forward weekly newspaper, owned by Mega Group member Steinhardt, proudly reported on its May 3 front page, Sen. Lieberman has taken the lead in confronting the Bush Administration for even daring to pressure Sharon to give up his murder spree against the Palestinian Authority. In his zeal to blackmail a notoriously weak President George Bush into abandoning his public statements of support for a Palestinian sovereign state, Lieberman has once again demonstrated "his morality." Lieberman is the poster boy for the Huntington "Clash of Civilizations." One can fairly assume, given that Lieberman is a very smart and cunning man, that he was equally aware of the consequences of his sabotaging of any effort to shut down the violent video ame industry, following Columbine. Perhaps he even understood the link between the two actions, as LaRouche exposed them in his May 1 webcast: Videogame-programmed stone cold killers today are tomorrow's front-line mercenaries in the "perpetual wars" being sparked, around the globe, by the ongoing Israeli actions in the Middle East.
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