Lyndon
LaRouche's taped keynote was presented
at the opening of the ICLC conference in
Vienna, Virginia, on
September 5, introduced by civil rights
veteran Amelia Robinson. ``God never
chooses a weakling to carry his
message,'' Robinson said in closing her
introduction, ``and he knows just how
much his messenger can bear. We know,
Lyn, that you are empowered with the
strength God has given you and his
words of wisdom are indelibly imprinted
in your heart; for you fret not
yourself of evil doers. They shall soon
be cut down like the grass and wither
like the green herb. 
   ``I present to you a man who has
the strength of Samson, the wisdom of
Solomon, the patience of Job, the
determination of Paul, and the love of
God: our leader, Lyndon H. LaRouche.'' 

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   In part, what I have to say, I
would rather have said by a dear, ill
friend of ours, Allen Salisbury, who
was working on this subject back in the
middle 1970s and later, and who I
assure you would be here to deliver
part of this today, but for his
illness. Much of what he would have
said, would have been shared from the
podium with Anton Chaitkin, who I'm
sure will fill in for Allen on such
points as well as he can--and he can, I
assure you, do a good job. 
   Let me start with that particular
point, which is a good place to start,
historically and otherwise. 
   In the city of Washington, D.C.,
there is a statue of one of the most
evil men of the past two centuries, a
man known, according to the statue, as
General Albert Pike. General Albert
Pike was a racist, a traitor to the
United States on behalf of the British
monarchy, and a general
degenerate--meaning he was also a
professed Satanist. He was also, in
addition to being one-time head,
Supreme Commander, of the Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry in the Southern states
(i.e., the head for a while of what
became the Confederacy, a treasonous
agency), the founder in Nashville,
Tennessee, in 1867, of the Ku Klux Klan
with the backing of President Andrew
Johnson. He was at that time a citizen
of the state of Arkansas, but was
unable to go back there because of the
horrible war crimes which he had
perpetrated during the Civil War. 
   Pike's statue stands in
Washington, maintained at taxpayers'
expense by the U.S. Department of
Labor. It has stood there since the
time of Teddy Roosevelt's coronation as
President (Roosevelt himself being the
son of a treasonous family, the
Bullochs). It stands there--a monument
to the founder of the Ku Klux
Klan--facing what is today the largest
concentration of black population in
the United States. 
   We hear from the hypocritical
Justice Department and others,
including the B'nai B'rith, which was a
co-founder of the Ku Klux Klan and also
works with it to this day, that they
are concerned about racism and the Ku
Klux Klan. Notably, recently, the Ku
Klux Klan organization, in conjunction
with B'nai B'rith, the pro-slavery
faction of the Jewish community in the
United States, since the beginning of
the nineteenth century, but especially
since the 1840s, has been active in
sending Ku Klux Klanners and neo-Nazi
spin-offs of Ku Klux Klanners into
present-day Germany, where, together
with a British-sponsored group, called
Skinheads, they are parading around and
causing violence or directing the
violence, in the name of what is called
neo-Nazis. Lawrence Eagleburger, who is
closely tied to the backers of the Ku
Klux Klan, has written a strong
demarche recently to the German
government protesting against the
spectacle of neo-Nazism in Rostock,
Germany, a phenomenon which is in large
degree, sponsored chiefly by British
and American intelligence services
making use of phenomena such as the
British Skinheads and the American Ku
Klux Klan/neo-Nazi groups. 
   So, Pike's statue is not only an
insult to the black citizens of
Washington, D.C. and elsewhere; it is
also an insult to our allies and
friends abroad; it is generally a
travesty, an obscenity in the eyes of
the Almighty God himself. 
   I, naturally, as a candidate for
President, am going to propose that the
statue be removed. I would suggest,
perhaps, that Governor Clinton of the
state of Arkansas, who is proprietor of
those concerns now, might wish to have
the statue taken back to his state to
be destroyed officially, or perhaps, if
he's reluctant, Albert Gore from
Tennessee, might have some claim to the
statue since Nashville, Tennessee, was
the site of the founding of the Ku Klux
Klan. He might want to take it back to
Nashville and have it destroyed there. 
   But in any case, whoever does it,
I think it's time to have that statue
removed, to take that Ku Klux Klan
organization off the taxpayers' rolls
and removed from Washington, D.C., and
have it done before the November
election. 

   The Civil War
 
   The statue of Pike has several
other significances. I've mentioned the
fact that the Ku Klux Klan, which was
originally an enterprise of British
intelligence to destroy or disable the
United States from within, has been
used by the descendants of those same
circles today to cause troubles in the
United States and to run dirty
operations in Germany and elsewhere in
Europe. So it has continuing historic
significance. It's not merely a
{symbolic} insult to the black
pouplation of the United States and to
all who are patriotic supporters of
Abraham Lincoln and his cause; it's
very much an active problem today. 
   What I'm going to focus on,
however, are two things. 
   First, I want to emphasize the
importance of that statue and what it
represents. 
   We in the United States fought
three wars against the British
monarchy. One, the war for our
independence. Second, the war to crush
both the British monarchy and traitors
from Boston and elsewhere inside the
United States, who were conspiring with
Britain to take away our
independence--the War of 1812,
so-called. 
   And the third war we fought
explicitly against Britain, or directed
from Britain, was the Civil War, the
bloodiest war in our history,
relatively speaking--a war which was
brought upon us according to explicit
statements by a traitor who was then
head of the Democratic Party, August
Belmont; a war launched by the British
to split the United States into several
parts, so that it might be easily
demolished by British imperialism. 
   Let me just indicate what that
means. 
   We were saved by the aid given to
Lincoln by the czar of the Russias.
About 1862-1863, we were in a perilous
state. It had been demonstrated that
once we got rid of the traitors such as
General McClellan from the Union
command, and brought in some honest
patriots, such as Grant and Sherman and
similar people, the Union would win the
Civil War, if left alone, without
outside support for the Confederacy.
The British were at great pains to
rescue their Confederate operation and
planned, through Lord Palmerston,
together with Lord Palmerston's
personal puppet, Napoleon III of
France, to deploy British and French
forces, (and possibly with the aid of
some Spanish forces the way they did in
order to put the Hapsburg, Maximilian,
in power with his bloody regime in
Mexico) to use those naval forces, to
break the Union blockade of the
Confederacy and thus to force the Union
to the point that Lincoln's government
would have to accept the independence
of the Confederacy. The goal was to
effectively split the United States not
merely into two parts, but into
several, thus accomplishing the
effective destruction of the United
States by this fragmentation of the
North American continent. 
   It was at that point that the czar
of the Russias, Alexander II,
intervened with his naval fleet,
sending it to New York and San
Francisco under sealed orders, to make
war on the British and the French under
Napoleon III--the first Entente
Cordiale--in the event that the British
and French forces should act to attempt
to break the blockade of the
Confederacy. He also threatened to make
war throughout Europe, a threat which
was communicated to London, to Lord
Palmerston, and to the grandfather of
Bertrand Russell, Lord Russell, and, of
course, to the British puppet, the
French catamite, Napoleon III--or I
should say, political catamite,
Napoleon III. 

   Alliance Against Britain
 
   So Russia, in a sense, saved the
United States--not entirely, but
assisted us. As a result of that, an
alliance was developed which involved
Russia, Germany, the United States and
others--an anti-British, anti-Napoleon
III French alliance (or against those
sections of Freemasonry which were
behind Napoleon III)--an alliance which
was committed to propagating what was
known as the American System of
Political-Economy throughout this
planet as a means of bringing about
freedom and an end to an evil system
which had come to a dominant position
during the course of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. 
   This was represented on the
Russian side not only by Czar Alexander
II, but by a minority of the Russian
aristocracy and civil service, centered
around a fellow, later, Count Sergei
Witte, also a collaborator of the great
Dmitri Mendeleyev, the founder of
modern physical chemistry with his
periodic table. 
   The Russians of this group around
Sergei Witte, worked with certain
forces in France, notably a force
associated with Gabriel Hanotaux, the
famous French foreign minister, and
with forces in Germany and elsewhere,
to attempt to bring about an alliance,
a cooperation, among France, Germany,
Moscow, and Japan, too, to break the
British grip on China, while using
railroads and other infrastructural
programs to develop all Eurasia as a
continent of fraternal economic
cooperation for the general good. This
was a project which was not only
spiritually allied to the American
System, but was allied to the American
System in other ways. 
   The British rightly saw these
developments--Lincoln and the allies of
the United States in Germany and in
Russia--as the greatest threat to the
British design for a one-world empire
based on those philosophical views
which were expressed by such
representatives of the American
Southern Freemasonic group in
particular, as Albert Pike. The British
shot Lincoln for the purpose of
bringing into the Presidency an Andrew
Johnson, who was a pliable puppet of
British pressures and British policies. 
   Andrew Johnson promoted the
restoration of the banned Southern
Confederacy--that is, the southern
Freemasons, the B'nai B'rith, which was a
banned organization, a treasonous
organization, banned because it was a
treasonous agent of British
intelligence, and also the Knights of
the Golden Circle, which was
reconstituted by Pike as the Ku Klux
Klan of 1867 under the implicit
patronage of Andrew Johnson, a man who
should have been impeached, as the
great Thaddeus Stevens attempted to do
so. 
   Through the subversion of the
United States, which was aided by the
assassination of Lincoln and the
bringing into being of the Johnson
administration of the 1860s, the United
States was subverted, through the
Specie Resumption Act and other
measures and brought around toward a
Confederate point of view, to the point
that today, the head of the Supreme
Court, William Rehnquist, is not only
an admirer of the Justice Taney of the
notorious {Dred Scott} decision, a man
who in fact was implicitly a traitor to
the United States from the Supreme
Court bench, but a Rehnquist, a Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, who
admires the principles of the
Confederate Constitution and hates the
principles of a federal Constitution
which he, together with Justice Scalia
and others, is doing so much to destroy
absolutely in this country today. There
is no essential justice in the United
States today. 
   In point of fact, what is going on
is a form of fascism in law derived
from the teachings of the evil John
Locke, a worse kind of radical
positivist fascism in law than we
encountered under the influence of Karl
Schmidt in 1920s-1930s Germany. 
   As a result of this British plot,
we have fought two world wars. The
British again went to those forces in
France around Theophile Delcasse@aa which
represented the same tradition in
Freemasonry as Britain's earliest
political catamite, Napoleon III. This
relationship between the British
political sodomites and the French
political catamites of that species,
was called the Entente Cordiale. The
Entente Cordiale was used to drown all
continental Europe in its own blood, an
operation which is known as World War
I. 
   When Germany, in the early 1930s,
moved in a direction, under,
incidentally, a chancellor by the name
of von Schleicher, which tended to
revive the policy of cooperation which
Witte had sought, the British
intervened with support from the
Americans, to force upon Germany not
only the overthrow of Schleicher, but
the installation of a British and
American puppet known as Adolf Hitler,
whom certain forces in this country and
in Britain much admired because, in
their explicit language, the mother of
Averell Harriman, for example, admired
his racial purification policy, a
policy which they fully shared. 
   As concerns the world today: Why
are the British and the Americans
deploying American Ku Klux Klanners and
British Skinheads and so forth, into
Germany to give rise to what is called
a neo-Nazi movement? Why are they doing
that to Germany? Why are the friends of
Henry Kissinger, such as Lord
Carrington, who has recently resigned
from the relevant post, and Lawrence
Eagleburger--unleashed and sought to
inflame further, a civil war in the
Balkans? And believe me, Eagleburger
and Carrington typify those forces
which are responsible for starting and
continuing this war. They have
sabotaged every effort to bring the
area into a peaceful state, in order to
ensure the success of the Serbs. It's
still going on. 
   Why have these forces assisted in
inflaming wars in the Middle East? Why
have they assisted in inflaming the
Transcaucasus? Why are they working
with--[Zbigniew] Brzezinski again, of
course--to inflame all Central Asia in
what might potentially become a nuclear
war? Why are they working to inflame a
war potential between Pakistan and India
over Kashmir and other issues? Why are
they doing these evil things? Why did
they do the things they've done to
Somalia, and to the rest of Black
Africa--and that was deliberate, that
is not an accident, that is not
negligence, that is{ calculated
evil. }Why have they done these
things? Is it because they fear what
Lincoln represented and what Count
Sergei Witte represented? In part. 

   The Deeper Issue
 
   What's the issue? It's not simply
a question of a British Empire or today
an Anglo-American one-world system.
That's not the issue. It's only a
superficial issue. 
   In the course of this conference,
you will see part of that deeper issue
addressed: that for 2,500 years,
European civilization has been engulfed
in a primal conflict which has gone on
continuously to this point, but which
will not continue forever. It will come
to a final resolution. And the time for
that resolution is rapidly approaching. 
   For 2,500 years, there has been a
conflict between the patrons of the
evil Aristotle and the faction of
republicanism, which became absorbed
into Christian European civilization, a
faction of republicanism which is
typified in Greek history by such
figures as the great reformer Solon of
Athens, the man who banned usury in
Athens, and the greatest statesman of
all time to date, the great Plato, the
scientist and statesman, Plato, whose
work has been absorbed into the
essential features of Christianity, as
a contribution toward our Christian
civilization. 
   Out of the work of Plato, under
the guidance of Christianity, there
developed in Europe the greatest
civilization this planet has ever
known. One can show this by simply
looking at a chart of the growth of
population, European and world
population, since the middle of the
fifteenth century, since the time of
the Council of Florence. The unleashing
of new forms of statecraft, the
unleashing of what became modern
science, the unleashing of a
revitalized Christianity, at least for
that time, caused the greatest
florescence in the development of the
human mind, and the development of the
productive powers of labor, which this
planet has ever known. 
   Unfortunately, that European
civilization did not come only with its
Christian form of Platonic enterprise.
It was also burdened with something
from the East, the heirs of the patrons
of Aristotle. And the center of that
evil was the Byzantine Empire, which is
better known as the last remains of the
Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire
whose outpost of evil was Venice. And
from Venice came institutions of usury,
institutions which had imposed a system
which we call best oligarchism, upon
the West. 
   So since the time of Solon at
least, the fight within European
civilization has been between a
Christian form of Platonic enterprise,
and oligarchism, which is, essentially,
wealthy institutions, such as the usury
institutions of the Cult of Delphi in
the time of ancient Greece, or the
Lombard bankers in modern times. (Take
the case of Meshulim del Banco, whose
descendants are known as Warburgs, who
gave us the Federal Reserve system in
the United States and the federal
income tax system as we now have it;
who gave us also what is called Marburg
neo-Kantianism, or neo-Platonism, which
is another form of intellectual evil
sponsored by the Warburg Institute.) 
   These typify creations (and
they're not the most important ones but
very important ones), of this Venetian
influence. These are the oligarchs who
believe in usury, who believe in what
is called free trade today, which is a
method of destroying an economy, which
has done very well in destroying the
U.S. economy over the past 25 years, as
well as the British rubbish-heap of
today. 
   That's been the conflict. 
   To understand the way this
conflict is shaped in modern times, one
has to go back to Pike, not as an
individual, but as a typification of a
group of racist traitors and
degenerates called the Confederacy,
typified today by the thinking of the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as
well as the Ku Klux Klan, which tried
to destroy the United States on British
behalf and under British direction in
the nineteenth century. and Lincoln's
organization in collaboration with the
czar of the Russias, in defeating that
imperial plot from London, set into
motion the kind of hysterical efforts
on the part of the British-centered
imperial forces and those who resisted
them, which has dominated the entirety
of the past 130-odd years. To
understand anything of the history of
the past 130 years, to understand any
of the underlying issues which confront
us today, we have to understand two
things. We have to understand
{immediately }the 130 years of
American and European history since
Pike. That is the key to understanding
Central America, South America, and so
forth immediately. 
   We also have to understand the
larger context: 2,500 years of European
civilization engulfed in a mortal
conflict between two absolutely
irreconcilable foes, the followers of
Aristotle, typified by the Venetians,
of whom you'll hear something in this
conference, and who were typified also
by the Confederacy, and the Christian
followers, especially, of Plato. 
   We have reached the point that we
must recognize that conflict, and bring
it to a conclusion very soon. We must
eliminate the oligarchical system from
European civilization, eliminate the
tradition of Aristotle and things that
come under that tradition; and restore
in Europe the full promise of a
Christian civilization congruent with
the great Renaissance, launched by such
figures as the great Cardinal Nicolaus
of Cusa of the middle of the fifteenth
century. 
   We must launch a rebuilding, not
merely of the material means of
existence--we can do that. We must
launch a rebuilding of the individual
person, through appropriate forms of
education, compulsory education for
everyone, to give everyone the means to
participate in the building of society.
In addition to educating everyone, we
must also provide the opportunities for
every person on this planet to do
useful work, consistent with the
development of their mental powers. And
we must eliminate, the possibility
forever, of a recrudescence of what is
typified by that evil statue in
Washington, D.C., the statue which I've
proposed must be removed and destroyed,
the statue of that racist traitor and
Satanic degenerate, General Albert
Pike. 
   Thank you.