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If Civilization Can Be Saved: We Are Going To Do It!

Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche gave this keynote speech to a town meeting in Los Angeles Feb. 26, 2004.

Thank you all.

You know, politicians are lucky, they get the applause before the play.


We're in an interesting situation. You mention the little shindig that's happening down the street, on CNN, which doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Kerry is a significant candidate, but I doubt that he'll say much of significance today. Nor has he so far in the campaign. There are reasons for that, but he still is, under normal conditions, a plausible leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, and thereby, considering Bush's condition, and what George Bush would wish Cheney would do about his own heart condition—retire—normally you would say, Kerry would be the next President, with a little bit of fuss along the line.

But that is not yet the likely situation. Nor is Kerry presently manifest as a person qualified to be the President of the United States, under the present conditions. And what I can predict fairly, will be what is said tonight, in the other location, where "Brand X" is assembled, will be of no consequence with respect to the issues of the time.

Now, we're in a crisis. We're in an existential crisis, which has been coming on for a long time....

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LaRouche in Salt Lake City:
'If I'm Part of the Process, We Survive'

Lyndon LaRouche gave this press conference in Salt Lake City on Feb. 24. A selection from the question-and-answer period follows LaRouche's opening remarks.

LaRouche on "Focus on Loudoun" Taped Feb. 17, shown Feb. 19.

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this week in history

March 1 - March 7, 1857

The Hidden Implications of the Dred Scott Decision

In 1846, a decade before his case came before the U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott sued his owner's widow for his freedom, because his master had taken him to live for many years in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery had been prohibited by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Scott won his suit in St. Louis, but the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the decision. Then, his owner's widow married Dr. C.C. Chaffee, an abolitionist Congressman from Massachusetts, who decided to use Scott's suit as a test case. Agreeing to free Scott and his family no matter what the court decision, Chaffee "sold" Scott to his wife's brother, J.F.A. Sanford of New York, both because it was unseemly for an abolitionist to own slaves, and in order to obtain a different venue for the case and allow it to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

As Scott's case slowly wended its way from court to court, momentous events were building a tendency to make the United States, as Abraham Lincoln said, either all-slave or all-free. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, introduced by Stephen A. Douglas, virtually voided the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Just days before the Supreme Court rendered its decision on the Dred Scott case, Democrat James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, an aggressive supporter of the spread of slavery to Central and South America, was inaugurated President, after 11 Southern states refused to place the anti-slavery Republican candidate on their ballots, even though—or perhaps because—there was still substantial anti-slavery and pro-Union sentiment in the South. - Taney Strikes Against the Constitution -

Then, on March 6, 1857, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney delivered the opinion of the pro-slavery majority in the Dred Scott case, stating that a Negro whose ancestors were slaves, was not entitled to the rights of a Federal citizen, and therefore had no standing in the court. Furthermore, going beyond the matter at hand, Taney added that Congress and the Territorial Legislatures had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories, and that the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery in the Federal territories, was unconstitutional.

This thunderbolt caused great agitation, especially in the Northern states. The actions of the radical pro-slavery faction had made it clear over the previous decades that they controlled the Presidency, the Senate, and, when necessary, the House of Representatives, and now it was clear that they were ascendant in the Supreme Court as well. Lincoln had analyzed the radicals' control over the Presidency in a speech in October 1856: "If a Southern man aspires to be President, they choke him down instantly, in order that the glittering prize of the Presidency may be held up on Southern terms to the greedy eyes of Northern ambition. With this they tempt us and break in upon us.

"The Democratic Party in 1844 elected a Southern President. Since then they have neither had a Southern candidate for election nor nomination. Their conventions of 1848, 1852, and 1856 have been struggles exclusively among Northern men, each vying to outbid the other for the Southern vote; the South standing calmly by, to finally cry, 'Going, going, gone' to the highest bidder, and, at the same time, to make its power more distinctly seen, and thereby to secure a still higher bid at the next succeeding struggle."

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Economics:

New Bretton Woods Advances As Dollar Faces 'The Coming Storm'
by EIR Staff
Lyndon LaRouche's assessment of the current conjuncture--he called it "the moment of silence before the storm hits"--is being echoed repeatedly within the international financial elite, from London's Economist to the oracular pronouncements of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Defend Argentina—Honor López Portillo
by Cynthia R. Rush
With Argentine President Kirchner under pressure from the IMF to gouge the living standards of his nation's suffering citizenry even further, the LaRouche Youth Movement invokes the memory of the late Mexican President José López Portillo, as the appropriate banner under which to rally in defense of Argentina.

Alabama Schools Might Not Even Open Next Year
An interview with Talladega City Councilman Eddie Tucker
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Eddie Tucker is a City Councilman of Talladega, Alabama. He gave this report on the current crisis, and the last 40 years' shifts in the economy of his city, county and state, in an interview with Marcia Merry Baker of EIR on Feb. 14, 2004.

Germany and Turkey, For Once, Resist the IMF
by Rainer Apel

Whereas the domestic political future of Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schröder remains uncertain, after his Feb. 6 surprise resignation as party chairman of the Social Democrats, there can be no doubt that he has intensified the foreign policy side of his activities. side of his activities. Since he is a pragmatist, not a man of real positive vision or mission, one cannot expect too much of him. But there are aspects in his present foreign policy that give an idea of what a really sovereign, non-monetarist policy could look like, what a German Chancellor could achieve in this crisis were he a politician capable of grand designs.


Science & Technology:

Shortsighted Congress Blocks U.S. Vision of Space Frontiers
Micro-managing by Congress and timidity could delay the next Space Shuttle flight, and cripple Bush's Moon/Mars program. An interview with former Sen. Jake Garn.


International:

Peruvians Reject Toledo, George Soros' Inca Slave
by Sara Madueño

Ninety-three percent of the population is expressing disapproval of President Toledo's policies of subservience to the IMF and mega-speculator Soros, who bought his election with a $1 million "contribution."

  • The Decline of Soros' Presidents
    Alejandro Toledo came to the Peruvian Presidency in 2000 by virtue of $1 million that had been donated to his campaign by drug legalizer and international speculator George Soros. As EIR has documented in this publication, and in our Special Report The Ugly Truth About George Soros (1997), it was with aid of this money that the blatantly interventionist maneuvers of the U.S. State Department and Organization of American States succeeded in bringing about the coup d'état against then-President Alberto Fujimori.
  • Peru: The IMF Miracle Of 'Growth Without Jobs'
    by Sara Madueño

    Anyone who still doubts that the rejection of President Alejandro Toledo by 93% of the Peruvian population is a rejection of the International Monetary Fund, should consider the following evidence...

Glazyev Runs To Solve World Economic Crisis
by Rachel Douglas
In a Russian Presidential campaign that has become farcical—if not worse, for those candidates cut out of media coverage and threatened with violence—economist Sergei Glazyev continues, at every opportunity, to put forward the need for a fundamental policy shift to deal with world financial breakdown.

Trickster Brown Rising To Prominence in U.K.
by Mark Burdman

Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has close ties to John Kerry and the Kennedy family in the United States, and is promoting a phony "Global New Deal"—in opposition to Lyndon LaRouche's New Bretton Woods conception.

Sharon's 'Berlin Wall' on Trial in The Hague
by Dean Andromidas

The new Berlin Wall of the Middle East was the subject of testimony at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Feb. 23-25. The Palestinian National Authority, supported by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, is seeking a judgment by the court that the wall being built under the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a war crime and a crime against humanity. A ruling is expected in about a month.


National:

Chalabi Hammers Final Nail: Cheney War Fraud Fully Exposed
by Jeffrey Steinberg
We lied to get the U.S. into war, but so what? says Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and top "source" for Dick Cheney's disinformation campaign about Saddam Hussein's WMD.

LaRouche Educates Dems On How To Save Nation
by Nancy Spannaus and Lonnie Wolfe

As the field of Democratic Presidential candidates dwindles, Democrat Lyndon LaRouche has accelerated his campaign's organizing drive, with his sights set on the dramatic changes that must be made in the Democratic Party and the nation, by the time of the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for Boston July 26-29.

Unreal Bush Budget Will Worsen Fiscal Crisis
by Carl Osgood

President Bush's Fiscal 2005 budget, submitted to the Congress on Feb. 2, is already provoking confrontation with Congress and is sure to worsen the fiscal crisis. It is based on assumptions that ignore the realities of the economic collapse, the fall of the dollar, and the consequent collapse in Federal revenues.

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