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LAROUCHE ADDRESSES MONTREAL AND NEW JERSEY CADRE SCHOOLS AMERICA GIVES CHENEY A BRONX CHEER
Here are Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks via teleconference to simultaneous cadre schools in Montreal and New Jersey on July 1, 2004.
Now this is a very interesting period of life, you know. We have people, some two years ago, thought that when I was going after Cheney, that that was a fool's errand and that I could never, possibly get Cheney thrown out of power. But, we have a couple of incidentshe made a sexual offer to his members of the Senate, which got all over the place. And he went up to the sports event in New York, in the Bronx Stadium, where the Yankees are playing baseball, and his picture was flashed on one of these large screens, and the whole stadium broke out in bo-o-o-s! against Cheney.
Mr. Cheney is, in a sense, politically dead, in one way or the other. And we, in a sense, did it. We didn't do the whole job, but if we hadn't done what I did, he wouldn't be out, as he's going out now. And so, that's a sign of the times.
We're now going into an interesting period. Toward the end of July, we have a Democratic Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, in which I will be a factor. What kind of a factor? Nobody knows. I don't know. They don't know. But, something is going to happen. And we're going to be fully mobilized around that, knowing that Bush is a disaster; Cheney will probably be out, somewhere in this processall things are possible, but probably out; that Kerry is impossible at the present time: He's not qualified to be President of the United States. He couldn't handle the situation which exists, and that's shown pretty clearly. He also has a chief adviser, a fellow called Shrum, who's famous for having lost an assured victoryAnn Richardsin Texas, the governor, the election by her, against George W. Bush. And George W. Bush became governor, because Shrum really threw the election for his candidate. Shrum was also a factor in Gore's loss of the Presidency, his attempt there. And, the way it's going now, Shrum is going to assure that Kerrywhatever happens to Bushwill somehow either lose the Presidency, or, if we elect him, we'll lose the nation!
So, these are the kinds of times we live in.
In the meantime, the determining factor, apart from the war factor, which Cheney typifieswar and fascism, to put it bluntlyis the economic crisis, the financial-monetary crisis: The system is coming down. Some people have bragged, that they think they can keep the crash of the system from happening, until after the November elections. I don't know if that's possible. It's possible in some theoretical senses, but I doubt that it's going to actually happen. This thing is likely to come down before then. And if it doesn't come down before then, that's worse, than if it comes down laterbecause if it comes down later, the political system will be unprepared to deal with it.
So, we're in an interesting situation. We're on top.
We just hadwe will have had, tomorrow morning, the concluding session of a youth session in Germany, which I've been having reports from Helga and a few others on. It seems to be quite successful, and you'll probably hear much more from channels available to you, like Elodie and so forth in Paris.
We are on the move.
We're going into Boston, with a full commitment to do whatever we have to do. Whether I'm going to be on the convention floor, or not, I don't know. I don't think anybody knows. Some people would like to have me there. But we will be in the vicinity. We will be all over the place. We will be around it. And our presence there, is going to be a significant factor, in shaping the way politics goes in the United States, in the coming months.
The System Is Disintegrating
Now, our situation is as follows: As you know, we have an international monetary system, which is in the process of disintegrating. It's in a hyperinflationary modedon't believe all the stories that it's not hyperinflationary. You just have to look at the prices of things over the past couple of years, and see how ordinary articles which are boughtcost of housing, things like that. Look at the price, as measured against the family income: What percentile of family income do you have to pay to have a place of residence? What percentile of family income do you have to pay to buy the essential groceries, and so forth, and so on? It's a crash.
There is no solution for this crash, in the terms of the present system. No way it can be saved. The only thing that can be done, is put the whole blasted shebang into bankruptcy reorganization by governments, by concert of governments, and return to a system of international monetary order, fixed-exchange-rate system, gold-reserve-based, like that we had bequeathed to us by Franklin Roosevelt, for the first, approximately 20 years of the postwar period.
Something like that is the model for what would work. But the present system, the present international financial system, can not be saved in its present form. What they're trying to do to Argentina, for example, the vulture funds, trying to collect Argentina's debts: That will not work, except to cause chaos, to cause a new dark age for humanity. The bankers, the creditors, the financial creditors, are going to have to eat most of their debt. It's uncollectible. Nobody should try to collect it, especially that portion that's tied to financial derivatives debt.
That's where we stand.
The key problem here, as you know from reading, now I think, three of the "Beast-Man" series of reports we put out in pamphlet form, during the past couple years of the campaign: What has happened to our civilization is the following: You go back to the beginning of the 20th Century, and His Majesty, the Imperial Edward VII, had planned a war in Europe, and his two nephews were the chief victims of this planthe Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and the German Kaiser. Others were involved. But the plan was an old one, by the British East India Company tradition, the liberal imperialist tradition, it's called, the Fabian society tradition, to deal with a challenge to the British Empire, by causing the nations of Europe to get at each others' throats, and thus prevent any challenge to the British Empire. The British themselves paid a big expense in this thing, in terms of life. But, apparently, some them didn't care.
But, at the end of this process, there was a Versailles Treaty. Now, even though Edward VII, who had died in 1910, was actually the key author of World War I, the Versailles conference voted up the resolution that Germany was the sole guilty party in causing World War Iwhich is a damned lie! But, in any case, what they did with that, is they decided they were going to support the bankrupt nations of France and Britain, which had been bankrupted by the war, by having Germany pledge to war-reparations debt. Now, the debt of France and England was largely to the United States, to Wall Street, which had financed much of the war by France and by England. As Keynes said, this could never work, because the rate of war reparations needed to support France and Britain, to prevent them from going bankrupt, and to be able to pay their debts to the United States' bankers, was such that Germany could not sustain this. Which meant that, sooner or later, France and the United Kingdom were going to go bankrupt. And the United States, which was the chief creditor of France and the United Kingdom, was also going to go into a crisis.
The Synarchist Bankers Behind Versailles
This was the Versailles monetary system. And the intention was, never to have the system work! The system was not supposed to work. The bankers who were behind the system, intendedthey were called the Synarchist Internationalthey intended the system would not work. And they were determined to use the failure of the system, the breakdown of the system, to set up a fascist empire, or what we call fascism, today. That's what it was all about. In 1922, Mussolini was put into power in Italy, by Volpi di Misurata, one of the biggest bankers in Europe. Similarly, Hitler was put into power. Dolphus was put into power, and so forth. So that, between 1922 and 1945, the continent of Europe, on the western side of the Soviet Union, was one big mass of fascist tyranny.
Now, at the end of the war, Franklin Roosevelt had determined to end the system, that is, to end the British imperial system, and he so told Winston Churchill. He said, "Winston, you're going to have a problem with me. Because we're determined to eliminate all colonial status, and to build a nation, based on economic progress, shared among sovereign nation-states, where in many cases, colonial entities exist today."
The hour that Roosevelt died, his successor, Truman, moved in the direction of Churchilland did more than that. He brought into the Western system, the hard core of the Nazi SS, which became, in due course, an essential part of the security functions of NATO. It was this SS element, which created the structure of terrorism, which you're familiar with from the late 1960s, especially the 1970s. It's still functioning today. It's still there today.
We had a period, in the immediate postwar period, where under TrumanTruman was committed to preventive nuclear warfare. We didn't have the weapons to throw at the time, but he was committed to the policy. This policy led to a crisis, under which Truman was thrown out of office, then he was told not to run again, and Eisenhower was put in. And the plans for preventive nuclear warfare of the Truman Administration, were put on hold. But, when Eisenhower left office in 1961, he warned of something he called a "military-industrial complex." That so-called military-industrial complex was, at core, this Nazi SS system, which had been brought into the Western system by people like Allen Dulles and so forth, especially during the Truman period.
That was the right wing, the utopian right wing, which was unleashed with such effects as 1962, the Missile Crisis, the assassination of Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of Charles de Gaulle in France, and so forth and so on. Since that time, since the assassination of Kennedy, and the launching of the Indo-China War by the United States, the world has been moving in two directions: One, we've been moving in the direction of a post-industrial society. That is, up until 1963-64, the United States, Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and so forth, were committed to a producer society. The United States was the world's leading producer society, in agriculture, in industry, and technology.
In 1964-66, we changed: We began moving toward a post-industrial utopia. In 1971-72, we destroyed the Bretton Woods system, which had given us stability in international economy and in economic growth. We then began to change over the course of the 1970s, away from being a producer society, to being a parasite, like the Roman Empire, sucking the blood of nations we exploited, and closing down our industries and our farms, in order to enjoy the benefits of cheap labor, by looting the product, agriculture, industrial product, of the poorer nations of the world and the poorer populations of the world.
We've now come to the point, that system has come to an end. The system under which the United States, and some people, international bankers, are able to keep a system alive, by continuing to loot the poorer populations of the world, to produce our food and the things we wear, and use, is ended. It can not be perpetuated.
At this time, once again, the tradition of the Nazi SS, the tradition of the fascist movements of 1922-45, that tradition is represented and typified by Tony Blair and his crowd in London, and by people such as Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, in the United States. This is what we face.
The Congress of Cultural Freedom
So, we have two problems. Problem #1: The threat of perpetual nuclear-armed warfare, which is what Cheney merely typifies, and which Blair represents. The other side, an attempt to impose a fascist, globalized system, in which the nation-state as an institution no longer exists, and which most people don't have homesthey wander, as cheap labor, with no permanent place of residence, no health care, etc., etc. That's the crisis we face.
So, we've now come to the point, that we have choose. The problem is, that the generation which came into adulthood, after 1962-63, this generation was conditioned by the policies of the Congress for Cultural Freedom: They don't know what a productive society is! They are wedded to this system; they think it works; they think it's fine. They're dissatisfied, when it doesn't please them, but they think that is the system they have to support. And for the same reason, at the same time, we're facing a threat, of perpetual, nuclear-armed warfare, and things like Afghanistan and Iraq, in many parts of the world.
So, we've come to the point, this year, a turning-point, in which the outcome of the U.S. electionnot merely in who is elected as President, but what happens to the United States policy-making process, in the process of going through this election year. Out of this election year, we will know whether civilization is going to survive for coming generations or not. If we don't make the right change, this civilization will not survive. The planet as a whole will go into a new dark age. And maybe a couple of generations later, after the habits of the present generation, of so-called Baby-Boomersafter those habits are weeded out of us, over two generations of a new dark age perhaps then, humanity will begin to put civilization back together again.
My view is, that young people, who are young adults, typified by those between the ages of 18 and 25, who are thinking young adults, do not wish this to happen. If you are in that age-group, you have 50 to 60 years of life expected before you: How do you want to spend it, if at all? You have to care. Your parents' generation can hope, that somehow, the catastrophe won't hit until after they're dead, and they won't feel the pain. You know, that you will feel the pain: Therefore, you are a factor of leadership in society, which can kick the butt of your parents' generation, and bring them back to their senses, and get them to join us in doing the things which are fairly elementary, if we look at the record of what Roosevelt didthat kind of thing.
Do that, and we can survive. It will be hard work, but we can make it. And those of your generation, will see a better future for mankind.
That's what we're up against.
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