Defend the Vote with a Landslide Victory in November

The 'Malaysian Monkey-Trap'

The Magic of Music

Asymmetric Warfare

From Volume 3, Issue Number 40 of EIR Online, Published Oct. 5, 2004

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LaRouche in Dialogue:

Defend the Vote with a Landslide Victory in November

Here are excerpts from the discussion that took place following Lyndon LaRouche's keynote address, "A Moment of Epic Decision," at the Labor Day Schiller Institute Conference, Sept. 4-5, 2004, in Reston, Va. (Subheads have been added.)

Question (from a Midwestern Congressional candidate): Mr. LaRouche, there's a lot of discussion in the black community, that the election is going to be stolen. This discussion's around two principal topics, one I'm familiar with, and one I'm not quite as familiar with. One is the obvious possibility of vote fraud, and I think there are a number of people who are working on this, and who are working on exposing the scandal around the Diebold contract for election voting machines.

But, my second question is one that I'm a little bit more confused about, and that is, the fact that, I'm told that the GOP is heavily involved, in what my friends are calling a "voter suppression" operation, that they're running through a combination of the Moonies and the Faith-Based Initiative. I understand why they would intend to suppress the black vote, but I don't understand how they would do it. And I don't understand why the Moonies would have any stronghold in the black community, at all. Could you please comment on this?

LaRouche: The Moonies have a history, and the history is the Buchmanites, the origin of this. And the Buchmanites were, at one point, a pro-Hitler operation, which gives you an idea—it was created in England. And therefore, you get some idea of what's going on.

And what they did, is they took a situation in Korea, in the relation between North and South Korea, and they created a branch, essentially, of the Buchmanite movement. And used that as a weapon, through certain corrupt channels of the U.S. Allen Dulles intelligence service. And brought it into the United States, and used it here, and elsewhere. So, it's a typical kind of operation: It is not a religion, it's an operation. And when you have this thing, in which you got Senator [John] Warner [R-Va] quite upset, about finding himself involved in sponsoring one of these things, where the guy proclaimed he was practically a god, is not exactly what we want running loose around here.

But, the key thing here is, don't bother worrying about the details of the Moonies, or other groups. Much more dangerous, is the cult that Tony Chaitkin keeps talking about, in Washington, D.C., which includes this crazy "Zealot" Miller, this fanatic you heard babbling about his "precious bodily fluids" on Wednesday night on television, just preceding Dick Cheney [at the Republican National Convention].

The thing to look at is, what is the nature of the operation? Now, let's be very focussed: In this case, we're talking about the operations against the Americans of African descent—or Americans of perceived African descent—either way you want to have it.

The point is: We also have, in the Department of Justice, we have a system, extending into the state systems, in which we are disenfranchising large masses of, especially, young black men. Or, who are no longer young, when they come out of prison. We are, by using this against them—in other words, the issue of habilitating the voting rights of a convicted person, is a first line of defense against this aspect of fraud. Because, if a person, once they have completed their penalty, have been discharged from supervision after incarceration, or after any other term, the object should be to get that person back on the voting rolls as soon as possible. Because, if you do that, if you follow that policy, then you can not do the purging, that is being done now, in the state of Florida and elsewhere, by the Republican machine.

We have this in Louisiana, for example, a concrete case, that we're discussing with a political official down there. It's going on. You have also a similar case, like Cynthia McKinney, who won her position back in the Congress, at least on the primary level, by overcoming this kind of problem—not just the purging of the rolls—but, by having a serious voter mobilization, to get herself re-elected, after a period of being tossed out.

So, the key thing, is we're defending the rights of everybody, defending the rights of communities to a fair vote, by eliminating a factor of exclusion which is being used now, where similar-name identification on the voting rolls, is being used to take away voter registration. And this is especially targetting the communities of perceived African descent. So, that's one aspect of it.

The 'Malaysian Monkey-Trap'

The other aspect is this: What has happened since Newt Gingrich, the fascist, became the head of the House of Representatives in that campaign, the immediate effect of the Gingrich election was to throw the Black Congressional Caucus out of the Congress effectively, as a functioning entity, and to do similar things to spread this into state areas, with Justice Department frame-ups and the old kind of thing usually done. The "usual sort of thing" that the racists do, hmm?

What has happened, with the Democratic Party policy of going for a base in the upper 20% of suburban voters, as opposed to the general electorate, is that you have a complete period of ousting of key elected officials, of perceived African descent. (That is, you know, sometimes, they missed people who "passed," that sort of thing.)

And also, you have this process of discouraging people who were militants, to such a degree, that somebody comes along, and gives them an idea of a way to get some money for themselves. The usual way that the manipulation of the typical political person, of apparent African descent, the way they get at them, is you try corruption, get them to believe that some money is going to be given to them personally, or to their favorite cause, their church for example, which will not be given to them, unless they "behave themselves."

Then, what happens, is the people who are not in on that deal, around them, begin to want in. And they are controlled, as if in a Malaysian monkey-trap. You know how the Malaysian farmer catches a monkey: He takes a narrow-mouthed simple vase, or pot; he puts a nut in the pot. Now, the mouth of the pot is not so small that the monkey can't get his paw in. But, when the monkey gets his paw around the nut, and tries to pull the nut out, he could pull his paw out, but not with the nut in it. And, since he isn't willing to give up the nut, the farmer's family eats monkey for dinner that night.

And that's what's being done to a lot of the population in the United States. It's a typical tactic: You try a combination of intimidation and corruption, intimidation and corruption. The remedy for this thing—of course, all remedies that are legitimate, are legitimate: We have to fight against this purging. It's wrong. We have to fight for habilitation of voting rights, as universal. We do that. It's necessary! Otherwise, you're not going to protect anybody's vote, unless you protect everybody's vote.

But, the one thing we have to do, and we have to do it as part of the campaign organization: We must aim at creating a landslide victory in November. We must have that victory! The only way we'll get it, is, number one, mobilize the youth 18 to 25, the way we've demonstrated with our youth movement, so far. We've demonstrated a principle. The way we organize and operate with the youth movement, even sometimes against the advice of people associated with me—the adult, older people who have funny ideas they shouldn't be trying out on the youth. But, when it's done properly, a youth movement is the most effective political force, per capita, in the world today! Because the world is giving the youth a no-future society, and they've got enough spunk to want to do something about it!

And therefore, activating them will mobilize the older generation, which has grown pessimistic under the circumstances of the corrosion which has hit this society, so far.

By those methods, by aiming at the lower 80% of family-income brackets, in that way, to say, we, like Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, are campaigning for the victory of the interests of the common man, the "forgotten man." Conveying that idea clearly, not merely as an argument, but as exemplified by a course of practice.

The Magic of Music

For example: When you go into a demoralized community, where people have given up on life—they're just plodding along, trying to make ends meet. Waiting to die. Waiting to be carted off. In those communities, go in, and sing, a trained choral singing, of a Bach motet, and similar kinds of things. Sing with some aptitude, a Classical Negro spiritual, as part of the mix. I don't care whether it's white or black or whatever audience—do it! Do it, as a group. Don't do it, as just an individual or a couple of people. Do it as a group. Go in, create an intellectual force, a moral force, on the door-step of the poor. They come out. The children come out. Someone to sing with. It makes their day bright. Don't stop there. And they ask you, "Why're you doing this? Why're you here?" And you tell them why you're there!

Now, it doesn't mean you're going to recruit them, necessarily. It does mean, you're going to have an impact on them: That somebody good, a stranger, came into their community, and did something that they perceived to be beautiful. And it was done for them. This is what they don't get from the political establishment in the United States today. The parties don't give that to them!

They try to recruit youth—it doesn't work! They don't know how to do it. They're thinking in their fixed bureaucratic terms. They're not thinking about that person, in that ghetto, that poor, frightened, torn-out, worn-out, frightened person—as a human being! Who has a human potential inside them.

Your object is to bring forth within them, a sense of optimism, not based on promises. Not by buying them; not by bribing them. But, the sense that you are now treating them as a human being, which they are—not somebody who you use.

And, if we do that, and approach that this way, we can mobilize a mass movement. The world, which is horrified by the Republican Convention, and its reverberations, is looking for an alternative. Republicans are looking for such an alternative. They look in the direction of the only credible alternative to the Republican Party, the Democratic Party. They look at the nominated candidate for President of the Democratic Party. What's the action? What's the action?

We have to add this factor of action to that work. And, just as our work with youth works in touching people who are otherwise left untouched, so, if we can infect the Democratic machine, or more viable parts of it, by doing the same thing, we can create, very rapidly, in a frightened population, looking for answers—we can create the basis, as Roosevelt did in 1932, for a mass movement of the "forgotten man." If we do that, we can achieve a landslide victory.

Asymmetric Warfare

Question: My name is Joelle Wright. I'm from Oakland, and I'm very excited to be here today. And my question for you, Lyn, is: What is al-Qaeda, and why does al-Qaeda keep coming up in almost every terrorist attack that's happening around the world? Most recently with the holdup of children in Russia, and the murder of those children in Russia. And, is there really a threat coming from Afghanistan, from this al-Qaeda faction, or leaning, or whatever it is?

LaRouche:: Well, let's start with the hard side: The truth is, that if somebody sends a hit-man to kill you, and the hit-man doesn't know who sent him, but took it under contract, he is a danger to you. But, he's not the source of the danger.

Now, al-Qaeda is a offshoot of what the British intelligence service, out of the India Office, established as the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of World War I. They took the India Office, which used to run these things, and which was the source of the Muslim Brotherhood, but established it formally as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as part of the setting up of the so-called Arab Bureau by British intelligence, in the immediate period following World War I.

This has been around, and has been used as a provocateur operation, of various kinds—part of the chess-play. In other words, the way you manage countries, as an imperial power, you don't just go in and do the killing yourself; you get them to kill each other. And that's the way it's done. You create fights among people on false issues, and play them against each other, so they become impotent in resisting you.

For example, that's the way the British established their empire, through the Seven Years War on Europe. They got the powers of Europe to engage in a massive fight with each other, where the British were giving financial backing, up to a point, to Frederick of Prussia, and supporting all the other powers of Europe, in making war against Prussia, and in quarrels among themselves.

While the continent of Europe was engaged in these wars, the British snuck in, and stole India from the French, and stole Canada from the French. And, coming out of that treaty, after all these people had been bled in fighting the Seven Years War, now suddenly the British Empire, in the form of the British East India Company of Lord Shelburne, became the leading imperial power on this planet.

That's the way the method works—is to get people to fight each other. In other words, if you're a cop, and the barkeeper in a certain saloon is not paying his payoff to the corrupt cop, the cop will send in a guy to start a fight in the saloon. And then, the cop will send his troops in, to break up the saloon, and close down the saloon as a disorderly place. The next time, the guy will learn to pay the cop off in a timely fashion. Those are simple imitations of typical British foreign policy, in these matters.

So, al-Qaeda is that. It was a factor of destabilization. And the British intelligence service specialized, in its imperial operations, on religious warfare. If you want to study British intelligence, you go to Oxford; to some degree Cambridge, but especially Oxford. You look at the studies of religion, done by the British in this area. This is how they come up with ways to design religious plots, based on religious issues, to cause all kinds of strange religious sects to appear. These are then used, and motivated, on some kind of absolutist thing—they're sort of like Tom DeLay sects, you know, that kind of thing. To cause war without DeLay, or whatever—without his having to fight it. And these kinds of things are used as forces of manipulation. So, they have an ideological form.

Now, the Muslim Brotherhood was a significant force, especially in Egypt and elsewhere. And the Arab Bureau plays it, certainly. But, then comes the more relevant issue: is that during 1979, when Brzezinski was in charge of Carter, Brzezinski and Co., with his friend Samuel Huntington, set into motion the idea of asymmetric warfare, conducted against the Soviet Union, by drawing it into Afghanistan, by a provocation. And then, launching a massive Muslim religious movement, directed by people such as Vice President George Bush, Sr. and Jimmy Goldsmith, who were running the Afghanistan war.

This group of people created what we call today, al-Qaeda. Now, they are the people who, for example, created Osama bin Laden, as part of the Goldsmith, Bush, etc., operation back during the 1980s, from 1981-82, when Bush, as Vice President, also had this other office, involving people such as Ollie North. And they created this operation, involving drug money and things like that, as in Central America. They ran the operation.

Now, at a certain point, they cut off Osama bin Laden, and parts of al-Qaeda, dropped them as protégés, and began to treat them as adversaries. And thus, having set them into motion, once the Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan, at that point, they became a factor of destabilization, in the Middle East, for people like the neo-conservatives, who wished to use them to destroy the Middle East, as a part of effectively setting forth a destruction of the sovereign powers of states of Europe, and even the United States itself.

So, this is a special kind of warfare. In fact, it's called "special warfare." The methods are those which are called "asymmetric warfare."

So, we do not have a problem with al-Qaeda as such. Al-Qaeda is a problem. It's like one of the loose hit-men, on the terrain, which can be sent against somebody. But the main thing, what is happening now—forget the news inversion; forget the Cheney official version of what's going on. What's going on now, is a global destabilization, conducted under the auspices of the preventive nuclear war doctrine, which was introduced through Cheney, into the first Bush Administration, when Cheney was Secretary of Defense. This is the policy.

The launching of terrorism and destabilization, including the new Iraq war, the attack on Afghanistan, the targetting of Syria, the targetting of Iran, the targetting of Transcaucasia, the targetting of Turkey through the effort of the Iraq war; the intent to destroy Jordan, the intent to destroy Egypt by destroying Sudan, and by destroying Sudan and controlling its water supplies through their U.S. asset Garang, then they would shut off the water to Egypt, and that would cause Egypt to collapse or go into a wild state. And the entire area, the entire area which I outlined in my 1999 program, "Storm Over Asia," would become a reality.

The effect would be, in fact, the equivalent of $100-a-barrel oil, very quickly. We're on the verge, right now, of $100-a-barrel oil. We're just barely skimming, underneath the lid of $50-a-barrel oil, which is twice what the world can stand, on a durable scale. At $100-a-barrel oil, the whole system blows.

So, what's at stake is not this thing that people talk about. What's at stake is the deployment of bombs, like hand grenades, stink bombs, deployed into areas of the world—on a global basis! I mean, for example, this plays Russia. This plays the entire Middle East. This plays Japan. It plays Pakistan; it plays India; it plays Southeast Asia; it plays all of continental Europe; it plays Africa. It's all one thing. It's one policy.

We're fighting a war—not a war against terrorism, unless you want to call Cheney a terrorist. We're fighting a war, a special kind of war, which was known before. It's asymmetric warfare, with a global purpose, by global powers! In other words, it's not an entity, springing from an al-Qaeda—that's not your source of terrorism. Cheney typifies your source of terrorism. And it's these forces playing this long-term strategic game—what the British used to call a "Great Game," orchestrating events in various parts of the world, using small forces, in asymmetric warfare mode.

How do you know that the guy's coming in? You don't even know that he existed: A group that you didn't know existed, comes in tomorrow, to your school, takes over the school, and slaughters many of the children, teachers, and others. You didn't even know the group existed. It was created by something, but you didn't know it existed—how are you going to defend yourself against that? There is no absolute defense against that, in the sense of reactive going against organizations. Because the organization you have to fight tomorrow, may be one you didn't know existed, the day before.

So therefore, you have to take a global view, of the problem. You have to say, "Who are the swine who are creating this problem? Let's eliminate the source of the disease from the planet." And the source of the disease is the Synarchist International. The people behind this are the same people who killed the Jews at Auschwitz. And when you understand that, you understand what you're dealing with.

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