{What follows is the edited version of a speech by the Reverend 
James Bevel, independent candidate for vice president on the 
LaRouche ticket, at Pasadena College in southern California 
on October 24, 1992.}

I am happy to be here, to share with you this evening and to 
engage in moving ahead the American Revolution.
One of the things that is uniquely distinct in America, is that 
whenever there is a social problem, every person must put themselves 
in the equation to bring about the fulfillment of the need or 
the solution to the problem. That is true, because in America, 
the responsibility of the government is entirely left in the 
hands of the American people. That's unique and distinct, and 
you have to understand that, if you are an American, you have 
no one to turn to when there is a problem or when there is a 
need, but yourself.
And so the question always is: In light of what you know is 
true, what are {you} going to do?
This is because the nation is your nation. And not to assume 
responsibility for your nation, is like not assuming responsibility 
for a boat you have out on the ocean, and the boat is leaking, 
and you don't fix it. Well, you know what's going to happen, 
particularly if you can't swim a great distance.
We now have a situation in which our nation is in peril and 
circumstances and God and the need pose a question to each of 
us: What are you going to do? What are you going to do?
Unfortunately, most people don't know {what} to do. They sort 
of just freeze. I was talking to some people the other day, 
about these dreams you have, where you try to run, but you can't 
run. Have any of you had those kinds of dreams? A dog, a lion, 
or a mean person is after you, and you can't run. And so a lot 
of times when we detect a great problem with our nation, we 
become paralyzed, we become frozen. It appears that the problem 
overwhelms us, and we ask the question:  ``Well, where are the 
leaders? You're talking about a big nation. You're talking about 
a great big system that extends all the way from the Baring 
Straits, all around Hawaii, down to the southern tip of Florida 
back out past Maine--so how can I take care of that responsibility? 
What can I do? Little old me?'' That's what you people think.
And so most of us, when we see such a problem, we become paralyzed, 
we simply hide our heads in the sand and continue to do the 
things that we've been doing, hoping that the problem will go 
away.
But no problem goes away. All problems demand solutions. What 
you have to do, is you have to stand up and be as courageous 
as the Founders of the nation.
The Founders of this Nation were noble fellows, honorable men, 
and profound thinkers. Now once a thing is set up, say like 
aviation, or like the United States government, or any other 
invention or discovery, in order to maintain that, you have 
to have at least as much integrity and intelligence and commitment 
as those who brought it into being.
In other words, you can't solve the American problem if you're 
not willing to be {at least} as intelligent as Benjamin Franklin. 
And if you're not willing to be as courageous as George Washington; 
if you're not willing to be as powerful as Thomas Jefferson. 
Then, there is nothing you can do for America, because it is 
at that level of intelligence and commitment that the nation 
was formed, and in order to solve the problem, you have to at 
least rise to that occasion.
The problem is that most of us never think in terms of rising 
to that level. And I'm here tonight to challenge you to really, 
as Paul would say, throw aside every weight that has so easily 
beset you, so that you can run the race with patience.... The 
question comes right back to you: What are you going to do? 
The outcome for you and history is predicated on what you're 
going to do.
In other words, each person's outcome is always predicated on 
what that person himself will do. What you want the outcome 
to be, is what you must invest to create.
So if you want the nation to be saved, then you have to save 
the nation. Not the person sitting next to you. You have to 
save your America.

Man and God

I didn't know that, until back in the 1960s, when I was a student, 
and all these problems faced African-American people in terms 
of the restrictiveness that had been imposed upon us by the 
Southern Confederacy in terms of defining us as sex toys and 
work animals; and of course we couldn't eat here, we couldn't 
walk there, and we couldn't read here, and you had to go to 
the back in the alley to order your food, and you couldn't vote, 
and you couldn't rent and buy houses, and of course you had 
to be sent off to silly wars that had nothing to do with anything.
There was no Congress I could turn to; there was no President 
I could turn to; there was no senator I could call; there was 
no mayor I could talk to about all these things. I had to turn 
to myself, and I had to turn to other people like myself, and 
that's when I learned and discovered the efficiency of two things. 
One, is the theology of Jesus Christ--Christian theology....  
Jesus actually discovered the phenomenon of man. Most people 
don't know that. It was Jesus who was the discoverer of man. 
Jesus discovered man; and in the process of discovering man, 
he invented a process called church, {ecclesia.}
If you go back in history, as is recorded in the Bible, after 
God created man, man got lost. Man lost his consciousness of 
his definition, nature, and purpose. And nobody could get order 
going, nobody could have an intelligent going, not really, basically, 
because nobody knew what man was. You can't have an intelligent 
discussion about something, if you don't know the subject. Nobody 
knew the subject.
Jesus came along and discovered the fact of man, that which 
God had created. God created a thing and called it ``living 
soul'' in His image and likeness, to exercise dominion over 
the Earth. Once He created it, since He can't take back that 
which He created, that Creation was there. But nobody knew about 
His Creation. Everybody had concepts and beliefs and ideas about 
it, but nobody knew it. And the reason nobody knew it, was because 
nobody was as serious about that creation as God Himself was.
In other words, say God created man, and God is very serious 
about man.  In order to understand man, you have to be {at least} 
as serious about man as God is. Jesus was as serious about man 
as God was, and he was as serious about God's motions. See, 
God had put a motion on the floor.
I was at a black church the other day. They were saying that 
God was their God, and they were shouting about this, and then 
they said, Yes, God, is Sovereign; He can do everything. And 
so I thought about it, and I said, no, that's the mistake that 
black people make. They really think that God is supposed to 
do everything. That's why they don't do anything. That's an 
erring thing.
Well, what happened, was that God had put a motion on the floor. 
There's a motion: ``I move that man be made in my image and 
after my likeness.'' But that motion is an open motion, and 
it has to be seconded by every human being. That is, God has 
a motion on the floor, and that motion is to make man in His 
image and likeness, so man can have dominion over the earth; 
then every man, every male and female, must come along and second 
this motion.
Well, what happened? Jesus, for whatever reason, seconded the 
motion.  Jesus was the Christ because God had a main motion 
on the floor, to make man in His image and likeness, and Jesus, 
for whatever reason, stumbled upon the fact of the motion, and 
seconded the motion. That's how he got to know what he knew. 
So once he seconded the motion, then he had the privilege that 
everybody else didn't have, because he could have a meeting 
with God. He could just talk with God, just like we talk. Because 
if you don't second God's motion, He does not allow you to speak 
in his meetings.
This is the problem: Most of us don't know what's going on. 
What is going on, is that there is a motion on the floor; and 
the motion is, to make man in the image and likeness of God; 
and because you have not seconded that motion, you have become 
estranged.
Once you second the motion, then the chairman says, ``Now you've 
heard the motion. Do you have any questions?'' {Then} you can 
ask God questions. If you are not involved in the business of 
making man in the image and likeness of God, why should God 
listen to what you're talking about?
Now once you second the motion, you see, then you can get into 
the conversation.
Well, that's exactly what happened to Jesus. So he discovered, 
in that process, he discovered man. Jesus delineates man, the 
psychology of man, in what is called the Sermon on the Mount, 
which most preachers and most Christian people don't take time 
to read, and don't take time to study and time to understand, 
and don't learn those principles and apply those principles 
to themselves, till they prove the validity of those principles.
The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus's Ph.D. thesis. Now if you 
were serious about this scholar and you were going to understand 
this scholar, the first thing you should do at least is to read 
the man's thesis, to find out what he's talking about. And to 
test the thesis, to see whether it's true or false.

Gandhi and Tolstoy

So, back in the 1960s, what happened? We were dealing with how 
we were to change the South, without killing these people. Because 
I was not going along with this foolishness. I had just gotten 
back from the Korean War, I wasn't going to be going through 
back doors and stuff. So the question was, what are we going 
to do about this? {How} are we going to do this?
We got into the profundity of what Gandhi and Tolstoy had laid 
out. Gandhi said, if you go around killing people--you can go 
and study all the revolutions you want to. He said the revolutionaries 
killed the reactionaries, and in the next three or four years, 
the revolutionaries were thrown out by new reactionaries, and 
then more revolutionaries come along and kill those reactionaries--he 
said, nothing ever really happened. You change personalities, 
but nothing really ever happened.
And I said, ``That's true.'' So me being a black governor of 
Mississippi doing what white governors of Mississippi do, is 
no progress at all.  The question is: How do you change the 
conditions? Not how do you change the personalities [but] how 
will you bring about essential change, without getting off into 
this game of murdering people?
So we began to study Gandhi.  We began to study Jesus and Tolstoy....  
When we began to test this theology, which is the psychology 
of man, we found ourselves not even really aware of the Founding 
Fathers in a sense. But as we practiced this theology, we found 
ourselves sociologically totally in tune with the principles 
of the founders--just by practicing Christian theology. By practicing 
an internal principle, you manifest a correct external order.

The Constitution and Theology

In America, we hold these truths to be self evident: The Declaration 
of Independence is the sociology of New Testament theology. 
So if you don't practice New Testament theology, then the Declaration 
of Independence doesn't mean anything to you. Because if you 
practice New Testament theology, your social creed would have 
to be the Declaration of Independence: ``We hold these truths 
to be self-evident, that {all} men are created equal, that they 
{are} endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, 
and among these rights is life''--that's right, an inalienable 
right, life. The Declaration continues to say that ``to secure 
these rights, governments are instituted among men.'' And then 
it goes on and says, now we get together, ``we the people, in 
order to form a more perfect union,'' to preserve life, and 
so on and so forth.
Well, that's just common sense.  That's the logic of reason. 
That's not schemes and hustle and attitudes.  That's {common 
sense}. That's {thought,} that's {reason,} and that's {truth.}
The crisis we have today, is that we do not have people who 
are willing to practice the principles of Jesus Christ; therefore 
they can't comprehend their own government, because they don't 
even know the source of their own government. And that is creating 
a crisis.
Just let me give you another illustration of how deep that crisis 
is.
A bunch of satanic homosexuals and communists and racists got 
together and said, ``I'll tell you what we'll do.  Let's take 
prayer out of the school, and people might get a little angry, 
but just tell them that the problem is, that you've got to take 
it out of the school, you can't mix up church business with 
state business.''
[This is like] guy coming into the auditorium, and telling you: 
``well, in order for you guys to have a good meeting, we have 
to cut the electrical lines, so the meeting can go on.  Because 
we don't want too much light to get on the people. Because the 
light getting on the people, violates their rights.'' And we 
sit there and let them cut the electrical line, and then you 
get to fighting, and running over each other in the dark.
Don't you see that you would have to be insane, to let someone 
come up with this kind of hoax? And you're right back to Christian 
theology: Jesus said man must always pray and have faith. He 
said you can't think, you can't reason, you can't know, you 
can't plan, you can't execute your plans correctly, you can't 
serve your health, interests, rights, and needs and simultaneously 
serve the health, interests, rights, and needs of other people, 
if you're not in prayer. You've got to have a base from which 
you do your reasoning, and that is prayer.  Then why would you 
let some communist woman, and some drunken old men sitting on 
the [Supreme Court] bench, take the prayer out of the school? 
And you're at home watching television, drinking beer, eating 
sausages, and sleeping!  {Don't you understand the implications 
of that?}
So you have to say, well, what's wrong with us? That's what 
I mean when I say that if you're not practicing a principle 
when the law is broken, it does not even register in your consciousness, 
and you do not even experience it as a violation. So you go 
around as if nothing really happened.  Then, 30 years later, 
you can't turn a child out of a school system who can do anything 
basically intelligent. All you can produce is derelicts, criminals, 
and slaves. That's what's coming out of the public schools--at 
the Ph.D. level.  {All} you can produce, is derelicts, criminals, 
and slaves.
You see, because we have not taken certain basic fundamental 
principles seriously enough. We were so confused, we said, ``Maybe 
there is a problem with church and state.'' And it's total insanity.
When you give up being man, you don't even perceive yourself 
as being the authority of the government, and you certainly 
don't see yourself {as} the government. Why do you, being an 
American, knowing everything you know about the Declaration 
of Independence, the first line in the Constitution, ``We the 
people, in order to form a more perfect union....'' assume that 
there is someone else who is the government, other than yourself?
It just doesn't make sense--unless you understand what happens 
when you violate the fundamental principles of {being a man.}
So God's motion is a serious motion: {I move that man be made 
in my image and likeness,} says God.  {And man has to say} ``I 
second the motion.'' It is then that you understand man, then 
you understand government. And if you don't like the motion, 
if you don't second the motion, then you don't understand that.
So we learned what government was, by just practicing the Sermon 
on the Mount. Of course we walked, we opened up the theaters, 
and we opened up the interstate transportation, and we got the 
right to vote, by just practicing those fundamental principles.
So what we always worked on in the movement--we never worked 
on having good reputations, all of us had bad reputations--but 
we worked on having good character. It's different. We didn't 
work on reputations. We did not work to have good reputations. 
You have to have good character. You work on having good character. 
And if you work on having good character, obviously, you're 
going to have a bad reputation, with those who don't have good 
character.

Rebuilding the Government

I was talking to a bunch of young guys the other night over 
at the church, because we're getting ready now to establish 
the capital in Washington.  So we are recruiting, right? We've 
got to have some men who can build the capital, because we have 
a problem. Not having a government is a problem.
So we asked them: ``What are the first tools you think we need 
to build a government?'' And they start thinking about it, and 
nobody came up with the answer, so I said, ``Well, let me tell 
you the first tool you have to have, in order to build a government. 
The first tool you must have, is a mind. You have to have a 
mind. If you don't have a mind, there's nothing you can do about 
anything, is there?''
Now, then they asked: ``Well, how do you get one?'' That's real 
business, because that's serious.  How do you get a mind?
The first thing you have to do, in order to get a mind, is that 
you have to agree not to lie about anything to anybody at any 
time. How many of y'all have done that? How many of you guys 
have set down and said, ``Wait a minute. What I have to do is 
not to lie to anybody about anything at any time.  And I have 
to make that decision, in order to get done what has to be done.'' 
How many people have made that decision?
Until you make that decision, you cannot have a mind. Understand? 
That's how you get in the revolution, is making that decision: 
I will not lie to anyone about anything, at any time.
That's serious. You've got to understand the seriousness of 
that.  {You've got to understand the seriousness of lying.} 
Lying does to the mind what frozen water does to the block of 
a car: it busts the block and therefore it can't develop power, 
because the block is busted. Because in order to have power 
to drive an automobile, you've got to have fire, fuel, and a 
compression chamber.
Well, if the compression chamber is cracked, even though you've 
got fire and fuel, you can't get power. When you tell lies, 
you bust the compression chamber in the mind--and most of us 
have never had one. We don't ever remember having a compression 
chamber.  We started lying when we were little cars, right? 
And we don't know why we can't turn thoughts; we don't know 
why we can't generate ideas; we don't know--we say, well, Lyndon 
LaRouche thinks that way, why do you think that way? I say, 
because he doesn't tell lies.
So the revolution is not when you believe this and you believe 
that, and you believe this--no, no. {When you decide that you 
are not going to lie to anybody for any reason at any time about 
anything, you develop a mind.} And the strategy of the opposition, 
the strategy of the oppressor, is to always make sure that people 
don't have minds, by making people tell lies or live with lies.
Let me illustrate what I'm talking about. These guys come up 
on us and say, ``well, listen, you guys should be slaves--lackeys.'' 
We say, ``well, we don't know. We don't know much about economics, 
maybe y'all know something about it. We went along with that 
for 3-400 years. It turned out to be a hoax.'' So they came 
back and said, ``Listen. Yeah, that was a mistake. But what 
we need you guys to do, is to sit in the back.'' We said, ``Well, 
we don't know that much about social relationships, maybe you 
know what you're talking about, so we'll sit in the back.'' 
{That} turned out to be a hoax. Now they come back again, and 
say, ``Well, we know those things were wrong. But we have discovered 
now, that your rectum is a vagina. And you ought to agree with 
this. And it's correct politics.''
Why would you let somebody tell a lie like that, and you act 
like it's true? Because you've become so accustomed to living 
lies and not being a man--male or female--that you let folks 
just put out garbage and lies and you bow to them, cringing 
together.
Lying is a dangerous thing. To accept lying is a dangerous thing. 
It causes you to lose your mind. And we walk around here, a 
bunch of idiots with no minds, ruled and regulated by a bunch 
of drunken, drugged-up fools, because we won't just sit up and 
agree not to tell folks lies about anything, so we can have 
minds and give direction to our nation. That's a serious problem.
We can't do an analysis of the lie and then tell the truth and 
show the validity of the truth and then manifest action upon 
the truth, because we don't have minds. And so what we need 
to do, tonight, we need to make the agreement, that we're going 
to get in the movement, and the first step of getting in the 
movement, is to stop telling the lies.
Now, if you don't make that agreement, there's no point in discussing 
anything else with you. If I come up on you, to discuss the 
truth about something, and you are a liar, then who am I talking 
to? Did you ever think about that? You're discussing truth with 
a person who is a liar.  {How can a truthful man come to an 
understanding and agreement with a liar,} when the liar won't 
be truthful? If you gave the truth, what would he contain the 
truth in, if he's a liar? A liar can't contain truth. He doesn't 
have anything to hold it with.
So in order to solve the problem, we've got to have an army 
of people.  I'm not talking about believing in what I believe, 
because I don't believe in nothing. I don't believe in believing.  
I believe in knowledge. I deal with {knowledge,} not beliefs, 
not what do you believe. How are you going to get an old man 
talking about do you believe in God. If you don't know God by 
now, what's your problem? You ought to either know there is 
a God, or there is not a God. And if you've been running around 
the earth all these years and haven't discovered God exists 
or doesn't exist, something's wrong with you. Why don't you 
go do your research on that? Why don't you prove that to be 
so or not to be so? ``Well, I believe, I believe--'' What do 
you mean, you believe? Why don't you go check and find out whether 
it's true or not?
That's the crisis that's facing our youth, and that's the crisis 
that's facing our nation. They don't even have adults who have 
minds, and who are engaged in thought in their environments, 
because we all lie.
Now let's see the hands. How many are going to resolve tonight, 
that we're going to start tonight, {right now,} to give up lying? 
Let me see the hands of those who are going to give up lying.
We're making progress. This is great progress.
See, that's the first step in the revolution. Most people don't 
know--that's the first step.
Let me explain to you how important it is.


I remember, I went to a workshop and it was mostly young ladies. 
And I went to the workshop, sitting in the back, feeling all 
macho and militant.  And the guy said--he was talking about 
segregation and how low down racist segregationists were, and 
then he said:  ``Who do you think causes racist segregation?'' 
I put up my hand and said, ``White people.'' He said, ``All 
by themselves?'' ``Oh yeah, most things that go wrong in the 
world, we can trace it back to them.'' He says, ``When you get 
on the bus, and go to the back of the bus, is there a white 
man there holding a pistol on you to make you go to the back 
of the bus?'' I said, ``Of course not.'' He said, ``Why do you 
do it?'' And these young ladies were sitting around, and I was 
out on the stage. And I had to say the truth:  ``Well, I'm scared.'' 
He said, ``That's the problem. You're a coward.'' He said, ``Now, 
it appears that arrogant white people create the whole problem.'' 
He said, ``they only create 50 percent of the problem. The other 
50 percent is created by cowardly black people. If you got rid 
of your cowardice what do you think would happen?'' And I said, 
``Well, let me work on that.''
And sure enough: the sit-in movement started to the degree that 
those of us who were in that workshop, began to work on our 
cowardice--our fears. Because that was causing us to live the 
lie, right? As soon as we worked on that, we didn't go to the 
back anymore. We didn't jump on the arrogant white people, we 
just went to the restaurant and ate--as non-cowardly folks would 
do.
So, we were {half} of the problem; but until we gave up the 
lie about white folks were the whole problem, and blah-blah-blah, 
admit we were lying and living lies, we could not solve the 
problem.
As soon as we stopped lying, we were able to start solving the 
problem of segregation. Because it was lies told by arrogant 
men and cowardly men.  And that's what made the whole process 
work like it did.
{Half} of the problem is that Bush is this or Clinton is that, 
and Perot is this, all that's true; but [the other half is that] 
there is no citizens' movement that is working for the constitutional 
interests of all of the people.
If you are not working in the interests of all the people, you've 
got to deal also with where you have compromised in your thinking. 
Was it not God who created man a living soul in His image and 
likeness, to have dominion over the earth? Why would you lie 
about God's creation? Mexicans didn't make Mexicans; Chinese 
didn't make Chinese; British didn't make the Englishman; the 
French didn't make the French, because God made all the people. 
And because they go around with foolish ideas about themselves, 
why should you care about your foolishness upon their foolishness, 
when in fact you can act in relationship to people, based on 
God's definition of the people--which is the true definition 
of the people. So you have to ask yourself: where have I compromised, 
if I'm not working in the interests of all the people?
King brought it to me this way. He said, ``Now, Jim, you know 
it's not reasonable not to love people.'' ``Yes, it's true. 
It's unreasonable not to love people.'' ``{Even if they are 
foolish}.'' ``Even if they are foolish.'' ``{And even if they 
do hideous things}.'' ``And even if they do hideous things,'' 
``It is unreasonable {for you} not to love people.''
Let's take that a step further.  Then, when you don't love people, 
you're not reasonable. It doesn't have anything to do with the 
people; we know people are foolish. But the question becomes, 
well, why don't you love them?  You say, ``Well, they're ignorant, 
they're black, and they're stupid.'' Fine. Why is it that {you} 
don't love them? ``Well, they speak Vietnamese, and blah-blah.'' 
I say, ``That's fine.  {Why don't you love them}? Because you're 
not reasonable.''
So when you don't love people, you're not reasonable. You have 
to work to be reasonable. And you have to say to yourself, when 
I don't love people, I'm not reasonable. Then how can I become 
reasonable? By being loving to people, you become {reasonable.} 
And what happens, is that you discover you have a power to help 
that person address whatever problem they have.

Appearing in History

That's what we have to do. We have to all go back to the fundamental 
principle, of what man really is. And we have to take that seriously, 
in relationship to ourselves. Did you know, that when you look 
at yourself in economic terms, that until you are totally truthful, 
you cannot even be recorded in history? And do you know why?
What happens, is that when you are absolutely truthful for the 
first time, you appear in history.
See, your fantasy about you, is only your fantasy about you. 
It does not register in space, energy, elements and motion. 
History is the recorded dynamics of space, energy, elements, 
and motion. So until you become {truthful}, what could any truthful 
historian say about you?
When we began to read history--we go back in history--who can 
we read about?
We read about people who were truthful. The folks who were not 
truthful, there's nothing about them.  You understand that? 
What did non-truthful people contribute to the develpment of 
the mind of man? Go back in history. What books do we open up 
to gather knowledge from untruthful people?
In terms of the mind's development, in terms of the evolution 
of thought, the evolution of man, the creation, contributing 
to the evolution and the expanding of knowledge and the improvement 
of the human estate. When we read history we are talking about 
the evolution of mind and the evolution of the clarification 
of the human estate. If you are not truthful you can't be in 
that history. So when you die at 53, you are very dead. There's 
nothing else about you. Your fantasy about you dies when you 
die. The only thing that lives is the truthfulness and the impact 
that that truthfulness had on the human estate and its contribution 
to the evolution of man.  So until you tell the truth you can't 
be recorded in history. There's nothing historical to be said 
about you.
Say you die, right?! And you go up and knock on the heavenly 
door. Peter is going to be there with his computer.  He is going 
to say, ``What's your name?'' ``My name is Mrs. Brown.'' ``From 
where?'' ``California.'' Peter says, ``I don't see your name 
on the screen. What's your first name?'' ``Jean Brown.'' ``Where 
were you born?'' J.B. mumbles, ``California.'' Peter louder, 
``Where?!'' ``California.'' Peter says, ``There's nothing in 
here on you.''
Now this is fact. You can only know the validity of something 
until you are truthful all the way around.  And you know that's 
true. Because I was truthful, now I have a tool, this truthfulness, 
I can measure the truthfulness of this. But if this is not truthful, 
I can't know the truthfulness of this. Until you are truthful, 
you don't have a tool to examine anything. Nothing. All you 
have to go around are opinions and beliefs and attitudes and 
ideas about everything, but you can't know anything. Because 
you don't have anything to know it with.
This is why people get into political cliques--people who tell 
common lies get together, right? To impose their lies upon other 
people, right? To defend their lies, right? To rationalize their 
lies, right? That's what creates political cliques. Once you 
become totally truthful, you can get into constitutional communities.
All the black guys don't understand why I work with Lyndon LaRouche. 
They say, ``How much money did he give you, baby?'' ``I know 
you know I know you're ripping whitey off now.'' Because they 
have never been in a constitutional community. Because they're 
accustomed to getting into cliques. Doing something for nickels 
and dimes, and living lies. They don't understand that here 
is a man who is truthful and based on the truthfulness of his 
premise. You work to implement that premise. Because of its 
truthfulness. And the implementing of truthfulness produces 
wealth anyway.
But they never put themselves on to the seriousness of truthfulness. 
That's what I wanted to speak with you tonight. No point in 
getting into a whole lot of strategies and tactics with a guy 
who isn't truthful, is there? He'll go tell the FBI and have 
them shooting at me. He'll get it mixed up. This is how movements 
get distorted.
So the truthfulness has to come out; that is the first step. 
Why is that so? Because we are going to be waging a war to establish 
the principle of the Declaration of Independence. A lot of people 
don't understand why their church can't have influence in America. 
Your church starts on an assumption, a belief, when you believe.  
That kind of church can never have influence on America. Why? 
Because America began ``We hold these truths to be self-evident.'' 
Therefore, if your religion doesn't start with a fundamental 
truth, how can your religion have an impact on the government 
that is established on a fundamental truth, when your religion 
is a belief system?
A belief system cannot have an impact on a truth system. In 
order to have an impact, you would have to begin with the truth.  
The truth you have to start with is yourself.
How did I discover this? I didn't know there was no government. 
I really didn't find it out until I agreed to run with Lyndon 
LaRouche.
[On August 4, I went over to the National Press Club to] announce 
that I was a vice-presidential candidate. We sent out information 
and it said, ``I am running for vice-president. I'm on an independent 
slate and I'm in with Lyndon LaRouche.'' All the press was conspicuously 
absent, right? These guys think that by not telling the truth 
about something, it makes it not so.  So, I said to myself, 
``They're going to run several pimps in the newspaper and claim 
there is an election going on.''
The rumor got out in the 1960s: In order to have a movement, 
you've got to get along with the press.  I say that is not true, 
because when Moses came across the Red Sea, ABC didn't report 
it. NBC didn't say anything about it. There wasn't any C-Span. 
It wasn't in {The Los Angeles Times}. And all of us got the 
information.

The Purpose of America

It is very clear. If anybody comes along with foolishness and 
comes up with some mess, you've got to understand the document 
of our founders. The questions of Socrates being killed, Jesus 
being killed, all of our intelligent scientists through the 
Dark Ages and the Middle Ages getting killed, this was weighing 
heavily on [the Founding Fathers]; How do we have a social system 
where intelligent, scientific, truthful people can live without 
being hassled? And they set up a government so that honest, 
intelligent, truthful people could live. That's what it is set 
up for.
America is set up so people can live as the sons of God. Not 
dream about being that, but to be that. All the energy that 
has gone into that, all the people who died to make this reality 
so, so that you could come to the earth and be an intelligent, 
honest human being and have a government that supports you while 
you are doing this, and you bow to tyranny. That is about the 
worst vulgar treatment in this day that a person could do.
And the guy said, ``What about the document?'' If some mess 
comes up and somebody starts foolishness, it is your duty to 
do whatever you're supposed to do. {But never bow to tyranny.} 
Be a son of God, be the daughter of God.
We will be waging a war to establish the principles of the Declaration 
of Independence in this country. That's a war. That is not a 
political question, that's a war question. That is a military 
reality.  When you have need for food you ought to go farm. 
And when you wake up and discover that your government has been 
perverted by criminals and crooks, you've got to go to war. 
You can't get around that. If you try to wheeze around that, 
nature dictates that you become a slave forever. That's fact.
A lot of people don't understand that. They say, ``White folks 
enslaved black folks!'' There aren't any white folks that enslave 
black folks. Black folks tell lies, that's how they get enslaved. 
They become a bunch of pathological liars. They tell lies about 
everything. Everybody knows Clinton is a crazy man. And all 
these negroes go around voting for him and working for him. 
And all they got is dope and money. They're telling lies.  Living 
lies! And if you follow suit, the same thing will happen to 
you.
Nobody, listen to me very carefully, can even have a relationship 
with God, if they do not have integrity equal to Jesus Christ.  
At least when you get to wherever you're going, you can say, 
``Bevel told me, I do have that information.'' I'm telling you, 
if your integrity is not equal to Jesus Christ's integrity, 
you cannot have a relationship with God. In fact, he set the 
minimum standard and said, ``These are things you must do.'' 
And he defined himself as the least in the kingdom. We get up 
and tell the people, ``He is sitting up at the right hand of 
the Father.'' He didn't say that. He said, ``I'm the least in 
the kingdom.'' He said, ``Those born of women, there is none 
as great as John the Baptist, but he who is least in the kingdom 
is greater than John.'' This guy set the minimum standards.
I'm not going to lie to get along with you because you're lazy 
and don't want to discipline yourself, and because you get mad 
when somebody tells you the truth about yourself. No, I'm not 
going to tell you a lie to get along with you. That's the standard. 
I tell you the truth because you may be interested in making 
the standard. For us to pull off the revolution, we've got to 
have people at least as integrity-filled as Jesus.

Some Changes

Now we need 150 people. Congress is going to make the negroes 
in Washington vote to kill themselves. You all saw that, right? 
So we're going to be up there organizing. We're going to make 
them take the Pike statue down, we're going to change the Supreme 
Court or run them out of town. They define people's lives as 
privileges rather than rights. They mete out punishment and 
murder rather than corrective justice. They engage in criminal 
acts of plea bargaining rather than due process. They took prayer, 
education, and science out of the schools and put in drugs and 
homosexuality. They did all these crazy things. We're going 
to correct that.
Then, the Federal Reserve has to be constitutionalized and put 
under the Congress. The National Bank cannot exist for the private 
interests of some thugs, satanists, and drug dealers and homosexuals. 
It has to exist for the constitutional interests of the American 
people. Period! That's not going to be debated.
You can't develop your system when the pimps got the bank. Because 
they're not going to make the system to develop people and communities, 
because it's not to their personal advantage. So the paper [credit] 
has got to be put where it's supposed to be put. But you can't 
do that with a bunch of lying people, a bunch of scared people, 
and a bunch of undisciplined people.
The files, the killing of the killers, the killers of Martin 
Luther King, the LaRouche file [must be opened]! We've got to 
have our files!  Those are not Bush's files!
Now I can't go back home and pretend I have something more important 
to do, when all these criminal acts are being commmitted against 
us and the people. When there is war then you can't go around 
acting like a civilian.  You can't act like everything is alright. 
We can't just go watch television, give a few dollars here and 
there.
Martin Luther King said, ``As long as you are in jail, I'll 
have to work 168 hours a week.'' You may spend the rest of your 
life in jail. Then I've got to be at work. Any man who doesn't 
honor the man that much, something is wrong with you. We have 
to have at least 150 people on our administrative motor staff 
to take that city [Washington, D.C.]. We have got to end the 
violence, because we take the position: Stop the Murder at the 
White House. Stop the murder from the bench.  Stop the murder 
from the state house.  Stop the murder on the streets.
We've got to go in there. We've got to organize 10,000 volunteers 
to clean the city out. But we've got to have 150 people in the 
leadership mode who are working for a time on this.  This is 
what we've got to do. So you might sit out and wait to see who 
is going to be elected. I'm not going to even get into that.
As far as I know, the President is out there in Rochester, [Minnesota 
federal prison], I'm the vice president, and we have work to 
do.  We just have to go and do the work based on the legitimate 
will of the people, and the spirit of Christ and the spirit 
of the founders. We have to go on and do the work of the government. 
We need at least 150 people who give up lying and come to work 
full time so that we can get things done.
I'm happy to be here with you. I hope I didn't bore you and 
cause any serious problems. We are working, we will continue 
to work when the election is over. We will go more or less into 
an action mode.
We must radically change the nation, put the Federal Reserve 
under the Constitution. We can't wait for the next four years, 
we've got to put it under in the next 12 months. That means 
mass organizing people. As Martin Luther King said, we can't 
have business as usual. We need people to make those kind of 
sacrifices or adjustments. {If we don't do it, we won't even 
have a nation. You have to understand that. If we don't do this, 
we will not have a nation.} Once the meltdown takes place and 
the crisis starts, we're going to get a military dictatorship. 
We're going to get a whole slew of people, who haven't any idea 
of how to think, killed. So we have to move a non-violent movement 
into place before that meltdown comes.  That's absolutely necessary.
Double your efforts for the next 12 months, and those of you 
who are not working full time come to work full time. We must 
save this nation, just so we can have some context into which 
we can carry on an intelligent conversation. I want to thank 
you. God bless you; God keep you.