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LaRouche Spokeswoman Sets Date for First Candidate Debate
On May 28, Debra Hanania Freeman, the national spokeswoman for Lyndon LaRouche's campaign for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, announced that a date had been set for what she called "the first real, substantive discussion of the Democratic Presidential campaign."
"On July 2, in keeping with an invitation Lyndon LaRouche extended to his fellow Democratic Presidential pre-candidates, we will host a webcast emanating from Washington, D.C. on 'What is the relevance of FDR's policy for today's world?' Lyndon LaRouche will, of course, participate, and the invitation remains open to the other duly announced candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination."
In a sharply worded statement, Freeman said highly placed Washington, D.C. sources had indicated that major money interests associated with organized-crime figures, including Democratic Leadership Council founder Mickey Steinhardt, had put out the word that LaRouche was to be kept out of all Democratic Party functions and activity related to the Presidential campaign, no matter what the consequences. The same sources indicated that representatives of the Democratic National Committee had made clear to the other Democratic hopefuls that any candidate who chose to recognize LaRouche's candidacy would be "iced out" of any Democratic Party-sponsored activity and financing.
"At this point, it would appear that the only stated purpose the DNC has in this campaign so far is to lock Lyndon LaRouche out, and deny Democratic voters access to the only candidate who is prepared to address issues of immediate concern to them." Freeman noted that LaRouche has demonstrated a greater depth of active support than any of the other candidates, and referred to "recent FEC filings which indicate that LaRouche leads all Democratic candidates in contributions from individuals."
Freeman said, "At this point, the nine other candidates seem willing to capitulate to this pressure from dirty-money interests. If nothing else, that capitulation marks them as entirely not qualified to serve in the office of the Presidency." Freeman said that, although the source of the pressure would appear to emanate from the DLC, a group most closely associated with the candidacy of Joe Lieberman, in fact, the actual source of the pressure comes from the far right wing of the Republican Party. "The DLC simply represents that Republican right wing inside the Democratic Party. Their sole purpose is to wreck the Democratic Party and to guarantee George W. Bush's re-election."
The July 2 candidates' debate will be broadcast live over the Internet, available through the candidate's website at www.larouchein2004.com.
LaRouche to Mississippi Democrats: I Am Committed To 'Our Sovereignty, Our General Welfare, and The Security and Welfare of Our Posterity'
On May 31, Kesha Rogers, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement from Houston, Texas, addressed the annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraiser of the Mississippi Democratic Party, in Jackson, Mississippi. Rogers spoke during the awards reception which preceded the banquet, and after opening remarks, she read a statement from candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who is running for the 2004 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
LaRouche's statement said:
At last officially filed report, in numbers of campaign contributors, I am the leading of 10 current candidates for the Democratic Party's 2004 U.S. Presidential nomination. I have invited each of the rival candidates to participate in a series of debates which I will host. The subject of the first of those debates, to occur in Washington, D.C., on July 2nd, will be on the subject: Is the lesson of President Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in recovery from the preceding Great Depression, relevant for the Democratic Party's role in addressing the global depression exploding today?
For myself, I am committed to reversing the Nixon decision of August 15, 1971, to return the U.S.A., and the world, to the successful Bretton Woods model. I am committed to emergency and long-term economic recovery measures of the type which Franklin Roosevelt used, to bring about a great recovery of our presently mismanaged, collapsing economy. I am committed to reject all measures of so-called globalization, and to bring into being a world consistent with our republic's tradition, a world composed of a community of perfectly sovereign nation-states, freed of the past and present geopolitical adventures which have led the planet toward the great world wars of the past century, and in progress again under the influence of the radical right-wing neo-conservatives over the currently incumbent President.
I am, above all else, absolutely committed to those three great, ruling principles of the Preamble of our Federal Constitution which are being undermined by our nation's current right wing inside and outside the Supreme Court: our sovereignty, our general welfare, and the security and welfare of our posterity.
Prague Weekly Nase Pravda Interviews LaRouche
The following interview with Lyndon LaRouche about his campaign for the U.S. Presidency, and his policies, appeared during the week of May 23 in the weekly newspaper Nase Pravda, published in Prague, Czech Republic. The interview's publication occurred during a visit by a delegation of the Schiller Institute, consisting of Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi, Hartmut Cramer, and Dino De Paoli, who visited Prague to attend a public seminar on LaRouche's economicsespecially his proposal for a "new Bretton Woods" and his Presidential campaign.
The interview:
Nase Pravda: U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche stated in January 2001 when G.W. Bush assumed his functions in the White House that there was a danger that forces inside the U.S.A. would emerge, and threaten the world with wars, like that one condemned in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Do you suppose that the war of the U.S.A., Britain, and other satellites against Iraq is also connected with a Nuremberg war crimes tribunal precedent?
LaRouche: Yes. The connection exists. The Nuremberg Trial judgments coincide with other instances of current international law.
Prominent international law professionals concur with my own judgment as to fact. These acts by the Bush Administration were war crimes. President George W. Bush, Jr., might escape condemnation on the basis of evidence he is unable to understand the relevant law, but others in his administration are clearly culpable.
Nase Pravda: The Bush Administration says that the war in Iraq has had a purpose of removing Saddam Hussein from power and destroying his weapons of mass destruction. What do you think about it?
LaRouche: The war-plan against Iraq, which was introduced, again by Vice President Richard Cheney during the interval Sept. 11-12, 2002, was the same proposal made, unsuccessfully, by the same Cheney, when he had been Secretary of Defense during 1991-92.
Nase Pravda: What is your evaluation of the Bush's doctrine of "preventive" war?
LaRouche: The doctrine of "preventive war" introduced under President George W. Bush, Jr., is a prohibited revival of the doctrine of Adolf Hitler, against Czechoslovakia, in 1938, and in the 1939 invasion of Poland. The crafters of this policy, represent a circle of Cheney associates, the so-called neo-cons, who have proceeded from the fascist policies of the former Nazi legal official Carl Schmitt, and a Schmitt associate, the late Chicago University Professor Leo Strauss.
Nase Pravda: What might be the next step that neo-conservative group around G.W. Bush would take in their "crusade" intentions?
LaRouche: The intention is worldwide war, as indicated in such locations as the "axis of evil" feature of President Bush's January 2002 State of the Union address.
Nase Pravda: Do you see any connection between the intentions of the neo-cons and Samuel Huntington thesis of "Clash of Civilizations"?
LaRouche: Samuel P. Huntington is an integral part of the same utopian "Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)" circles as the so-called neo-cons.
Nase Pravda: U.S. public opinion is undoubtedly a very strong factor in pursuing domestic and foreign policy of U.S. administrations. Why can this "war cohort" still rely on the support of majority of American public ?
LaRouche: During the period preceding the launching of the recent U.S. invasion of Iraq, that war did not have majority support from the U.S. population. Rather, it was the cowardice rampant in the nominal political opposition, the right-wing leadership of the Democratic Party, which made themselves a virtual carpet, on which the President jogged to war.
Nase Pravda: How do you assess a possibility of a mutual impact of world public opinion on American one and vice versa, particularly with regard to war protests all over the world?
LaRouche: So-called "world public opinion" may be a useful factor in encouraging relevant leaders to act; but, world popular opinion, by itself, never stops a war launched by a determined, capable assailant. So, Adolf Hitler came to dictatorial power during the January 30-February 28, 1993 interval; German public opinion, which was opposed to Hitler, was useless during that crucial period.
Nase Pravda: Do you see any new features in today's militarization of American life in comparison with the past period?
LaRouche: There are comparable, but unsuccessful challenges of a related type in the past. The war which U.S. President Polk launched against Mexico paved the way for the formation of the London-backed Confederacy, which President Abraham Lincoln's government defeated. The Confederacy was linked to the circles of Napoleon Bonaparte's organization, and would be properly classed as fascist. There was an intended coup against President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, which failed. There was the right-wing terror in the 1946-53 U.S.A, under President Truman, but President Eisenhower prevented it from taking over the U.S.A. The assassination of President Kennedy occurred during a dangerous mobilization of right-wing forces inside the U.S.A., but President Nixon's attempted coup was defeated. The pro-fascist takeover of the U.S.A., beginning Sept. 11, 2001, is the most serious threat to the U.S. Constitution in the entire 1787-2003 interval.
Nase Pravda: Why are Democrats as an opposition party in U.S.A. so reluctant orlet me sayso weak in challenging the policy of militant Republicans?
LaRouche: The problem is a right-wing takeover of the Democratic Party's party organization. The right-wing, organized-crime-linked group involved is known as the Democratic Leadership Council. These are my most immediate enemies inside the U.S.A.
Nase Pravda: It is no secret that there is a direct connection or even a certain synchronization of steps between American neo-cons and Israeli "hawks" around Ariel Sharon. What do you think about it?
LaRouche: Sharon is a fascist follower of former Mussolini protégé Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and a member of the same fascist international as Cheney's pack of neo-cons, and shares the same international goals.
Nase Pravda: Professor Lyndon LaRouche talks frequently about accelerating world depression. What is the reason for it?
LaRouche: The presently onrushing economic collapse of the 1971-2003 "floating-exchange-rate" world monetary-financial system, is the combined effect of the U.S. shift, from the world's leading producer-society, prior to 1965, into today's decadent, predatory consumer society today. Since approximately spring 2000, the system itself has been in a terminal phase of decay and imminent disintegration. To account for the stupidity of the people of the U.S.A. and other nations, in tolerating this decadence for about four decades, one should reflect upon the famous poetic letter to the Athenians by aging Solon of Athens. Mankind progresses, in the long term, but often falls, drunken, into the ditch, along the highway to the future. Those of us who understand this, must intervene, to try to rescue our fellow human beings from their recurring follies.
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