Subject: LaRouche Movement Meets in U.S.; Determines to Shift U.S. Strategic Policy, Bring Down Pike Statue

LaRouche Movement Meets in U.S.

Determines to shift U.S. strategic policy, bring down Pike statue

by Nancy Spannaus 

RESTON, Va., March 25 (EIRNS)--Meeting here 
on the eve of the 10th anniversary of President Reagan's announcement 
of Lyndon LaRouche's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) policy, 
the U.S.  branch of the LaRouche movement resolved to repeat 
the success of getting the U.S. government to adopt LaRouche's 
strategic policy toward the former Soviet Union. In addition, 
the 850 participants took up the other challenge presented by 
LaRouche himself, in a message to the conference: To bring down 
the atrocious public monument to Ku Klux Klan racism and Freemasonry 
in Washington, D.C., the statue of Albert Pike.

The fact that the Russian government was going through a new 
dramatic phase of crisis as the conference proceeded, made the 
conference discussion of the early 1980s fight over the SDI 
very immediate. Both political prisoner LaRouche, who spoke 
to the conference by audio tape (see transcript, p. 5), and 
his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, 
emphasized how ripe the situation was for LaRouche's policies 
to be adopted now. Despite the disastrous results brought on 
by the Bush-Thatcher sabotage of LaRouche's Productive Triangle 
program for post-communist Eastern Europe, LaRouche's own experience 
with the Russians and economic expertise provide a clear hope 
for avoiding the spread of a Yugoslav-like chaos which would 
bring the world into World War III.

Underscoring the organizing method by which LaRouche can be 
freed and put into a position to derail the war danger, was 
LaRouche's 1992 vice-presidential running mate, civil rights 
leader the Rev. James L. Bevel.  Speaking on the keynote panel 
after the taped messages by LaRouche and his wife, the Rev. 
Bevel concentrated on the message: ``There are no evil people, 
but there is a need for good people to let their little light 
shine.'' Bevel echoed the opening greetings by his friend and 
Schiller Institute vice chairman Amelia Robinson, when he argued 
that ordinary people had to exercise their responsibility as 
upholders of the U.S.  Constitution and Declaration of Independence, 
and ``control the battlefield'' by asserting God's truth.

On the evening of March 20, conference participants moved to 
Pennsylvania Avenue, and held a vigil demanding freedom for 
LaRouche (p. 1).

-  Halt Collapse of Civilization -

Helga LaRouche submitted the following thesis to the conference: 
a statement by LaRouche saying ``we shall have an end of Olympus's 
tyranny soon, and that by aid of God's own agent, the {imago 
viva Dei} acting within men and women.'' She elaborated the 
disastrous threat to human civilization represented by the West's 
embrace of geopolitical thinking, which is based on Malthusianism 
and the desire to prevent an alliance between Germany and the 
East in the project of economic reconstruction.

The geopolitical thinking of the West is what touched off the 
Balkan war, she said, and it is dominating strategic thinking, 
especially as defined by Anglo-American policy circles. In this 
view, Germany is outrageously branded as a ``Fourth Reich,'' 
in order to prevent it from taking a positive role. The other 
dramatic aspect is the labelling of the Islamic countries as 
the new ``enemy image'' for the West.

The crises resulting from this geopolitical thinking were absolutely 
not inevitable, Zepp-LaRouche argued, but are the direct result 
of the rejection of her husband's policy proposals, proposals 
which had the potential to change history for the better. These 
rejections were tragic turning points, analogous to the {punctum 
saliens} in a great play.

In 1982, LaRouche's proposal was Operation Juarez, a debt reorganization 
plan which could have saved the Third World and the U.S. banking 
system, but was rejected by the cowardly elites of North and 
South. The second major turning point came in 1983, when LaRouche 
proposed the conception for the Strategic Defense Initiative, 
a conception that would deal with the strategic danger, and 
provide the basis for a worldwide third industrial revolution. 
Despite President Reagan's adoption of the LaRouche policy, 
this opportunity was lost in the counteroffensive waged by former 
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's forces in the U.S. as well 
as the Soviet leadership itself.

The third turning point came in 1988-89, when LaRouche proposed 
the reunification of Germany around the conception of providing 
Western technology to the East, the famous Food for Peace proposal, 
and later, after the Berlin Wall had come down, elaborated the 
development proposal in the form of the Productive Triangle.

Zepp-LaRouche ended by outlining the method which LaRouche had 
used to come up with his proposals, the Platonic method of the 
hypothesis of the higher hypothesis. Thus, she said, changing 
the axioms of present reality in the direction of those which 
LaRouche used, must be combined with freeing LaRouche from prison. 
To do this, it is essential that ``we build an international 
civil rights movement around the world which realizes the inalienable 
rights of all individuals on the planet as {imago viva Dei}--of 
each human person in the image of God,'' she stated.

Elaborating the Message

The four panels which followed the keynote presentations detailed 
the threat represented by the axioms of the enemies of humanity, 
especially centered in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, on 
the one hand, and the potential for defeating those enemies, 
as reflected in the successful 1982-83 fight for the SDI, and 
in the fight to foster scientific breakthroughs in the areas 
of music and physical science.

The highlights were the panels on Freemasonry and on the SDI 
fight. The Freemasonry panel was kicked off by another message 
from LaRouche, who emphasized that the defeat of this tool of 
the oligarchy is absolutely essential for freeing the United 
States from moral, as well as physical, destruction. Critical, 
LaRouche emphasized, is the fact that the head of the Scottish 
Rite himself, C. Fred Kleinknecht, has been forced to come out 
and defend the least defensible of his faction's projects, the 
statue of KKK leader Albert Pike.

LaRouche's presentation was
followed by historical and policy reviews by four panelists. 
Anton Chaitkin unveiled new material on the history of Pike's 
conspiracy with international Masonry. Michael Minnicino demonstrated 
the effect of Freemasonic thinking in the cultural area, from 
architecture to TV. Jeffrey Steinberg presented an expose@aa 
of the role of organized crime and Masonry in promoting sports 
and gambling today, and Kathleen Klenetsky elaborated the axioms 
of the ``post-modernist'' social agenda which are leading to 
a Nazi youth movement, and an ideology which will demand that 
old people be killed, allegedly to make room for the young.

The panel on the SDI fight took off from LaRouche's opening 
remarks on his role in changing history for the better, by getting 
President Reagan to adopt the SDI--for only a short time, true, 
but sufficient to effect a process leading toward the destruction 
of the Soviet empire. Paul Gallagher of the Fusion Energy Foundation, 
an institution the federal government destroyed in 1987 with 
its illegal forced bankruptcy, began with a time line of developments 
on the SDI fight.

Gallagher was followed by European FEF leader Jonathan Tennenbaum, 
who identified LaRouche's crucial conceptual contributions to 
the SDI.  Anno Hellenbroich, of the European branch of Executive 
Intelligence Review magazine, spoke on the way LaRouche's Productive 
Triangle proposal functions as a strategic flank for defusing 
the danger of war and depression.

More glimpses into the process of LaRouche's intervention with 
the Reagan administration and the Russians were presented by 
Jeff Steinberg and Rachel Douglas of EIR. Both had been directly 
involved in the discussions in the early 1980s. Especially exciting 
were Douglas's slides showing LaRouche's current influence in 
Russia and the former East bloc; they demonstrated that, despite 
Soviet blockage of the SDI and success in getting LaRouche imprisoned, 
the opportunity for implementing the Productive Triangle policy 
is in fact growing.

From New Federalist v7, #12.