LaRouche: Electoral College
Should Dump Bush And Gore
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seminar sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review, and by webcast to a live
international audience, former Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon
LaRouche today addressed the current electoral crisis in the United States,
as a unique opportunity for dealing with the stench of corruption from the
entire political process of the election. � Mr.. LaRouche's remarks can be
summarized as follows: � The election-crisis which has erupted in the U.S.
now, is to be regarded as a probable act of Providence, in the sense that it
compels the U.S., its leading institutions and its citizens, including the
institution of the Electoral College, to use that crisis itself as the
occasion to reexamine the evidence of the sundry qualities of combined fraud
and other wrongs against the intent of our Constitution which had brought the
process of the Presidential election to that cumulative state of pervasive
and systemic corruption which expressed itself in the circumstances of the
Nov. 7 election-crisis. � The world at large, and the United States itself
most immediately, is now haunted by the ghost which menaced Germany in
January 1933. During that January, the elected next President of the U.S.A.
Franklin Roosevelt and forces, such as those centered in the Friedrich List
Society of Germany, were committed, on both sides of the Atlantic, to kindred
policies for dealing with the effects of the world-wide Great Depression of
1929-1933. Then, as now, the opponents of President Roosevelt's policy aimed
to defend the overreaching power of that very Anglo-American financial
interests which had caused that depression, by using measures of austerity
based upon a savage looting of the populations, and by brutal political
measures designed to destroy the peoples' means to resist such depredations.
Those measures, then, were similar in form and intent, to the demagoguery
contained in the recent proposals of the Bush and Gore campaigns. Such
opponents of the Franklin Roosevelt legacy, echo in this form and degree the
financier interests which overthrew the government of then German Chancellor
von Schleicher, and brought Adolf Hitler to power. � We face today an
awesomely similar threat, in the U.S. itself and world-wide. The leading
forces of sanity in the world then, were typified in a most significant way
by Roosevelt's occupancy of the U.S. Presidency, over the hateful objections
of Wall Street-centered financier interests, and of forces in Europe then
politically allied with those same financier interests. Roosevelt and
Germany's Chancellor von Schleicher were leading elements of the resistance
to the support for fascists from those same international financier
interests, including the Wall Street interests, which funded Hitler's rise to
power at the close of January that year. A few weeks later, Roosevelt
succeeded in his timely occupying of that Presidency to which he had been
elected, but the financier interests associated with Britain's Montagu
Norman, had already imposed the choice of Adolf Hitler on Germany. We know
the hateful consequences of that Hitler takeover for the world at large. �
Today, such an internal, Nazi-like threat to the U.S. itself, is represented
by the overreaching, fanatical power which had been attained by that
combination of the slaveholder and shareholder legacies which exert today
what too often amounts to virtual control over the political decision-making
processes of the leading parties. This combination's domination of powerfully
funded forces controlling the recent Presidential selection- process, up to
the point of the Nov. 7 election, was the agency which polluted the conduct
of the electoral process, and which, in that process, thus created the vast
and systemic corruption now presented to us by the unwholesome stench of the
abortive Presidential election of Nov. 7th. � At the conclusion of his
presentation, Mr. LaRouche read the following statement, which poses the
Constitutional question he sees currently before the United States: � "Two
constitutional questions are posed to us at this juncture. Considering the
present circumstances, in which this election-crisis has erupted, does the
U.S. have both the right, and the obligation, to pause now for calmed, sane,
and sober reflection, during these weeks the Electoral College is being
prepared: to consider, thus, the implications of that present danger to the
very existence of our constitutional republic and the welfare of the world at
large? Have we the national will, as well as the constitutional right, to
consider thus the causes of that vast corruption which permeated the process
leading into the Presidential election-crisis of Nov. 7th? � "My reading of
the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, and my reading of the
circumstances of the choice of Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr, the
selection of President John Quincy Adams, and the Tilden-Hayes crisis,
indicates that we have not only precisely that right, and also that solemn
obligation, to the founders of our republic, to our Constitution, and to our
posterity, and to the world within which we have exerted great power, to use
the means which our Constitution has prepared for like contingencies, to
ensure the continued existence of our republic according to that solemn,
constitutional intent to promote the general welfare, that commitment to the
common good, upon which the very existence of our republic was premised."
