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Published: Monday, July 29, 2002
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The Electable LaRouche — by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

This statement was released on July 26 by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee, which is distributing it nationally in leaflet and pamphlet form.

Some people who ought to know better, exclaim, "But, LaRouche is not electable!" Do not become upset when you hear such foolish things being said. When people say that, they are not actually thinking; it is just another case of a mouth shooting itself off in a knee-jerk, Pavlovian reflex. If that exclamation were true, why did most of the U.S. system spend so much on desperate efforts to prevent my winning, over so many decades? .When all that and related matters are considered, especially considering the amount of money spent, over so many years, on trying to stop me, and considering the way the world's monetary-financial system is crashing today, I am, intrinsically, the most electable U.S. Presidential candidate since Dwight Eisenhower. William Jefferson Clinton was electable, because of qualities which some people, including admirers, described as those of a "politicalanimal."




Credit: Left: Dept. of Defense, Right: Website of Sen. Lieberman

He was so successful a campaigner that he could have elected even an Al Gore to be President, if Al Gore had not been Al Gore. I am a different kind of candidate, the kind sane voters prefer above all others when they wish to rescue their nation from the biggest and deepest financial crash in more than a century.
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FDRthis week in history

July 29-August 4, 1735

This week we choose to go back to 1735, the year in which the nascent United States (then still 13 colonies) established a principle which most Americans have come to take for granted. That principle is that truth is a defense against the charge of criminal, or seditious, libel.

The case in question is that of John Peter Zenger, a printer in the colony of New York. There is a room named after Zenger at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., because some people indeed do understand the significance of his action. Zenger published what we would today call an "exposé" on the colonial Governor of New York in his New York Weekly Journal, and was thrown in jail as a result. The charge against him was seditious libel.

Zenger had known that this might happen. Under the oligarchical tradition which reigned in England, as on the European continent, the publication of damaging material against a representative of the monarchy was a violation of the principle of lèse majesté. If the monarchy objected, the publisher could be thrown in prison. What about the question of whether the publisher were telling the truth, or a lie? That was settled also. According to the feudal lèse majesté dictum, the more true the damaging statements were, the greater the crime!

What Peter Zenger sought to assert went to the heart of the matter. Zenger, and his lawyer, argued that truth was a defense against the charge of libel. And a jury of his peers agreed with him, establishing once and for all the "truth defense."

What the Zenger case did was truly revolutionary, and set a precedent for the republican standard throughout the colonies. The same principle did not prevail in England for decades more—and still is inoperative in parts of Europe today. In Germany, for example, it is impossible (that is, illegal) to publicly accuse someone of being a "Nazi," even if the content of the charge can be thoroughly proven. "The greater the truth, the greater the libel," still rules there.

SocratesIn Depth Coverage
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LaRouche on Iranian Radio:
If U.S. Patriots Defeat the Tory Faction, We Can Stop the Drive to War
an interview with Lyndon LaRouche by Iran's IRIB Radio, broadcast across that country on July 13-15.

Knock Out Lieberman and McCain To Save the Republic
Faced with the specter of the worst financial and real-economic collapse in centuries, and the imminent danger of the outbreak of war on several Eurasian fronts, the very survival of the planet depends on effective policy leadership on the part of the President of the United States.

Two Years Into the Worst Financial Crash in History.
With the worst financial and economic collapse in history now playing out with thinly veiled hysteria in the daily media reports, it is useful to remind your neighbors that Lyndon LaRouche told them it was happening long before it made the pages of the New York Times, and that what is happening is the tragic culmination of a process—economic, political, and cultural—which has been playing out for three decades.

Italian Senator Shows The Plight of Pension Funds
Senator Oskar Peterlini made this contribution to a July 2 EIR seminar on a New Bretton Woods monetary system, held in an auditorium in the Italian Parliament and keynoted by U.S. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

National Food Self-Sufficiency Planning: The Case of Malaysia
Providing for a national food supply, under today's conditions of rapidly worsening financial chaos, and economic breakdown, is a matter of foremost importance.

Wall Street Takes a Hit in Peru, As Anti-Privatization Spreads
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was forced to bow to the inevitable and dump his Cabinet on July 12, in the wake of mass protests against a merciless privatization policy which was the foundation of his government.

Schisis in Putin's Russia
One of the first events after Vladimir Putin's accession to power in 2000, was very frightening for Moscow's liberal intelligentsia. The wall of the fortress-like building in Moscow's Lubyanka Square, headquarters of the Russian sepolice, was decorated with a plaque in memory of longtime KGB chief Yuri Andropov—the only head of that Soviet intelligence agency to finish his career as leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The liberal intelligentsia, bewildered, rang the alarm bell. The majority of the population slept well.

Sharon Orders a Massacre And Prepares for War
An Israel F-16 jet dropped a one-ton bomb on an apartment block in the Gaza Strip, killing 16 people, including 4 infants and 7 small children, and wounding 145 others on July 23. This massacre was ordered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who called the operation 'a great success.'

Sharon's Collective Punishment: A War Crime
Under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel is worsening its record of committing the worst war crimes of the new century. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on July 19 warned Israel against the policy it has now launched, of 'collective punishment' and forcible deportation of the families of wanted Palestinian fighters; these actions are defined as war crimes.

Ritter Debunks Iraq War Hype in London
Amidst growing nervousness amongBritish leaders that Tony Blair will very soon have Britain at the side of the United States in a new war against Iraq, Scott Ritter's presentation in the British Parliament had considerable impact.

The Murky Dismissal of German Defense Minister
The July 18 sacking of Germany's Defense Minister, Rudolf Scharping, may be for the benefit of anti-Iraq warhawks in the Pentagon around Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

Mexico in Crosshairs Of Human Rights 'Mafia'
Former Mexican President Luis Echeverr'´a Alvarez (1970-76) appeared before the Special Prosecutor for Past Political and Social Movements on July 2, and again on July 9. Echeverr'a faces charges of 'genocide,' 'forced disappearance,' and 'abuse of authority,' for his alleged responsibility for the bloody events of Oct. 2, 1968, when demonstrating students were killed in Mexico City's Tlatelolco Plaza, and of June 10, 1971, when paramilitary gangs attacked demonstrators near the city's Zocalo square.

The Usefulness of Nepad for Africa
'You are the masters of your continent! . . .My brother Mandela, mybrother Mbeki, forgive! My brother Mugabe, forgive the whites! They are now poor. . . . You are free.

'Homeland Security' Threatens Constitution
American experts on matters of national security, and guarding U.S. critical infrastructure, warned that the rush for Congress to ram through a Department of Homeland Defense is a threat to the Constitution, as well as a flight-forward reaction.
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