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Published: Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004

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Only Mass Insanity Could Elect an Insane President

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Mr. LaRouche gave this speech to a webcast conference of LaRouche PAC in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 6. It can be viewed, along with the animated graphics and the questions and answers that followed it, at www.larouchepac.com.

As I indicated, the problem which I'll address today, has to do with insanity. Not only, however, the insanity of the incumbent President, George Bush, which I shall refer to, but also the insanity of two other types: We have mass insanity, as typified by the role of religious fundamentalism in shaping the policies of the United States today; and secondly, we have cultural insanity, expressed in the form in particular, over the past 40 years, of the transformation of the United States, which had been the world's most powerful, most productive nation—the one that had rebuilt the world, or led in rebuilding the world, in the post-war period—40 years ago, began to transform itself, into the junk heap, the bankrupt junk heap, we are today.

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Oct. 8—"The mayors and elected officials who held a press conference in Cleveland, Ohio Oct. 4, are right," said Lyndon LaRouche, founder of LaRouche PAC, today. "The Presidential debates must address the 'real problems' the American people face, starting with infrastructure and physical economy."

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Oct. 9—"The President is a liar," said leading Democrat Lyndon LaRouche in response to the Oct. 8 Presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. "Whether the President knowingly lied, or lied because of some junk that was fed to him, he lied to the American people, and we cannot afford to have a U.S. President who lies."

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This Week in History

October 11-17, 1858

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates:

LINCOLN EXPOSES DOUGLAS — AS AN ENEMY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

On Oct. 15, 1858 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas faced off for the last of their debates in Alton, Ill. After the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois had been arranged in mid-summer, Abraham Lincoln sat down and drafted a speech that he never gave. It was a working paper of his closely-reasoned arguments to expose the sophistry of his opponent. Stephen Douglas posed as completely neutral on the subject of whether or not slavery was to be extended into new areas of America, saying that what he supported was "popular sovereignty," the supposed right of any territory's citizens to vote slavery in or out. Yet Douglas supported every legislative and judicial decision that made it impossible for the anti-slavery forces to stop the spread of slavery.

At the end of his paper, Lincoln focused on Douglas's tenacious support for the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, and posed the question of why this was so, when Douglas had denounced so many Supreme Court decisions before it. Lincoln asked, "Why does he adhere to it so pertinaciously? Why does he thus belie his whole past life? Why, with a long record more marked for hostility to judicial decisions than almost any living man, does he cling to this with a devotion that nothing can baffle? In this age, and this country, public sentiment is every thing. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions. He makes possible the inforcement of these, else impossible.

"Judge Douglas is a man of large influence. His bare opinion goes far to fix the opinion of others. Besides this, thousands hang their hopes upon forcing their opinions to agree with his. It is a party necessity with them to say they agree with him; and there is danger they will repeat the saying till they really come to believe it. Others dread, and shrink from his denunciations, his sarcasms, and his ingenious misrepresentations. The susceptible young hear lessons from him, such as their fathers never heared when they were young.

"If, by all these means, he shall succeed in moulding public sentiment to a perfect accordance with his own—in bringing all men to indorse all court decisions, without caring to know whether they are right or wrong—in bringing all tongues to as perfect a silence as his own, as to there being any wrong in slavery—in bringing all to declare, with him, that they care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up—that if any people want slaves they have a right to have them—that Negroes are not men—have no part in the declaration of Independence—that there is no moral question about slavery—that liberty and slavery are perfectly consistent—indeed, necessary accompaniments—that for a strong man to declare himself the superior of a weak one, and thereupon enslave the weak one, is the very essence of liberty—the most sacred right of self-government—when, I say, public sentiment shall be brought to all this, in the name of heaven, what barrier will be left against slavery being made lawful every where? Can you find one word of his, opposed to it? Can you not find many strongly favoring it? If for his life—for his eternal salvation—he was solely striving for that end, could he find any means so well adapted to reach the end?

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National:

Priority Campaign Issue Is President Bush's Insanity
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Mr. LaRouche gave this speech to a webcast conference of LaRouche PAC in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 6. It can be viewed, along with the animated graphics and the questions and anwers that followed it, at www.larouchepac.com. The moderator was LaRouche's spokeswoman Debra Hanania Freeman.

Dick Cheney: The Sociopath Uncorked
by Jeffrey Steinberg
When Sen. John Edwards mentioned the forbidden 'H word'—'Halliburton'—during the Oct. 5 Vice Presidential debate, Dick Cheney's knuckles turned white and the Vice President seethed with his now all-too-familiar sociopathological rage. While Senator Edwards failed to push Cheney's buttons to the point that the Veep might have uncorked with a barrage of his signature 'F words,' in every other respect, Cheney made it clear, in words and gestures, that his cynical disregard for the truth, and his obsession with waging war against the rest of the world, has not been tempered by a spate of highly public revelations that his Iraq war, and war on terrorism have been, to date, abysmal failures, which have isolated the United States from virtually every former ally.

New Moves To Clean Up Congress Without DeLay
by Anton Chaitkin
The Congressional enforcer for the fascist agenda of the neoconservatives, whom everyone thought could never be touched, is currently headed toward the ropes. Texas Republican Tom DeLay, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, was targetted for his corruption by Lyndon LaRouche's political campaigns months ago, under the slogan 'Clean Up Congress without DeLay.' Now DeLay has been admonished by the House Ethics Committee twice in the last week, and Congressional Democrats themselves are getting some guts.

As Iraq War-Lies Crumble, Bush Pushes Deeper Into the Quaqmire
by Edward Spannaus
While our delusional President and Vice President continue to insist that progress is being made in Iraq, and that freedom is on the march, a series of reports and statements have been forthcoming in the two weeks since Sept. 27, which 1) continue to devastate the Administration's fraudulent case for war, which was proclaimed mostly loudly by Vice President Cheney, and 2) portray a widening disaster in Iraq, one in which the Bush-Cheney Administration is marching forward, foolhardily, deeper into the quagmire.

Insane Rush To Push Intelligence Bills Through Congress
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are trying to rush an intelligence reorganization bill through Congress before the Nov. 2 elections, which will not only make the problem of politicizing intelligence much worse, but will also result in serious infringements on civil rights and liberties.


Feature:

Triple Shock: How To Think About The Global Crisis
by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Jonathan Tennenbaum, the Schiller Institute's science advisor, gave this presentation at the Institute's conference near Wiesbaden, Germany, on Sept. 26. The full title is 'The Coming Triple Shock of the Physical Economic, Financial, and Cultural Crisis.' The speech has been edited for publication, and some of the graphics used in the slide/video show have been omitted or adapted. See last week's EIR for a report on the conference, and the keynote speeches by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche.


Economics:

Produce Water, or Fight Over It, Is the Real Issue in the West
by Dennis Small and Paul Gallagher
One of the incoming U.S. President's greatest economic challenges, will be to work with Mexico and Canada as friends to produce new water-supply resources for the Great American Desert and surrounding areas of the continent, to allow economic progress and defeat an unprecedented drought. It is like the task taken on by Franklin Roosevelt's great 'Four Corners' projects which still anchor production of North America's water.

Rep. Hunter Backs Water Scarcity, Not Solutions
by Marcia Merry Baker
One of the long-time U.S. Congressmen from the U.S.-Mexico border region, prominent for promoting water scarcity, in effect, by opposing new water infrastructure, is Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of Southern California. Hunter has represented the 52nd C.D. since 1981. Until 2001, his district included the Imperial Valley Irrigation District—the world famous high-tech farming region in the desert—as well as part of San Diego County, a leading urban center in a water-short region.

IMF Needs 'Structural Reform,' Not Argentina!
by Cynthia R. Rush
The brutal warfare against the nation of Argentina has reached fever pitch. During the weekend of Oct. 1-2, at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank, leaders of the IMF, the European Union, the Group of Seven industrialized nations, and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) bankers' cartel, issued shrill warnings to President Ne´stor Kirchner: Argentina must come to a debt-restructuring agreement right away with the speculative vulture funds that pose as 'creditors'...


International:

Can Elections Really Take Place in Iraq?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The latest fairy tale from Arabian Nights being told in Washington is the following: The U.S. military, together with its Iraqi allies, will continue their Israeli-style sweeps through the major cities of the Sunni resistance, through December, by which time, all armed opposition will be eliminated and peace established. Elections will be held in January 2005, ushering in a new, democratic Iraq, and all will be well in modern Mesopotamia.
Like most fairy tales, this one smacks of fantasy, precisely of the sort that crazy George Bush likes to nurture. The reality of the situation is far more complex, and fraught with paradoxes.

Terrorism Ravages Northeast India
by Ramtanu Maitra
On the birth anniversary-day of modern India's greatest son, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, terrorists in northeast India, particularly in two of the eight northeastern states—Assam and Nagaland—went berserk and planted bombs which killed about 70 people. The powerful bomb explosions at a packed railway station, and at a popular market in Dimapur, the commercial hub in the state of Nagaland, on the morning of Oct. 2, 2004, took 26 lives, and injured another 104.

The Bloody Truth of Gaza Disengagement
by Dean Andromidas
A death toll approaching 100 Palestinians, including woman and children, from Israel's ongoing military assault against the Gaza Strip, is a bloody testimony to the fact that Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's 'disengagment plan' is a fraud whose aim is to destroy any hope for peace in the Middle East.

Bring Down Blair By Defeating Bush!
by Mary Burdman
'This election in the United States is being watched very closely in Britain, because it is much more important for us than anything happening here for a long time,' a leading British military historian emphasized, in a discussion with this author on Oct. 4. The Presidential election will have a big impact in Britain: If George Bush loses, this will be a 'crushing blow for Prime Minister Tony Blair, since he is so closely tied to Bush. If Bush goes down in November, he will leave Blair exposed.'

Report From Germany
by Rainer Apel
Monday Rallies Spread in Europe; The German protest wave against austerity is spilling over into Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France.

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