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We lead our magazine this week, with a report from EIR’s Bonn
Ronald Kokinda conference, “For a New Bretton Woods System.” In his keynote
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Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, lead to the doom of civilization, unless we act soon.
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With every passing day, LaRouche’s authority grows, as the man
William Engdahl who forecast these developments, and showed the direction in which
History: Anton Chaitkin
Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small
we must move, to find a solution.
Law: Edward Spannaus More than 20 years ago, on April 24, 1975, LaRouche gave an-
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Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George other history-making speech in Bonn. This was a press conference
United States: Kathleen Klenetsky calling for an International Development Bank, in which the industri-
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Lima: Sara Madueño
Mexico City: Hugo López Ochoa disaster in human history.” Indeed, it is such a disaster that is now
Milan: Leonardo Servadio upon us, because those ABC’s have not been grasped.
New Delhi: Susan Maitra
Paris: Christine Bierre Then, on Oct. 12, 1988, in a press conference in West Berlin,
Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios LaRouche forecast the reunification of Germany, and called for the
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Washington, D.C.: William Jones U.S.A. and Germany to forge agreements with Moscow, to rebuild
Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund the ravaged economy of Poland. A little over a year later, the Berlin
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EIRContents
Interviews Departments Economics
49 Macleord Baker Ochola 52 Report from Paris 4 LaRouche in Bonn calls for
The Right Reverend Ochola is from Truckers strike paralyzes country. new monetary system
the Kitgum Diocese of the Anglican A report from an international EIR
Church of Uganda. 53 Australia Dossier conference, titled “For a New
Police under attack, as crime soars. Bretton Woods System.”
58 Thomas J. Gumbleton
Thomas Gumbleton, the Roman 72 Editorial 7 G-15 forges common cause
Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Yes, let’s outlaw George Soros. vs. speculators
Detroit, Michigan, talks about his Led by Malaysia’s Prime Minister
recent fact-finding mission to Iraq. Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, a
growing number of nations are
61 Helen Prejean joining together in an effort to
Sister Prejean, C.S.J., the Correction: In our coverage of the protect their economies.
internationally acclaimed author of China summit last week, “Clinton,
Dead Man Walking, discusses the Jiang Broaden U.S.-China Ties” 9 Cardoso leads Brazil into
fight against the death penalty. (p. 23), the Chinese leader who hell
visited the United States in 1985 The government’s much-touted
was not Deng Xiaoping, but the late “monetary stability” is a fraud, and
President of China, Li Xiannian. Brazil is now on the chopping block
Photo and graphics credits: of the international speculators.
Cover, EIRNS/Angela Vullo.
Pages 10, 11, EIRNS/John
Sigerson. Pages 17, 18, EIRNS/
12 Currency Rates
Stuart Lewis. Page 22, Library of
Congress Prints and Photographs 13 India’s Gujral faces crisis
Division. Page 58, Courtesy of of confidence
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. Page
61, EIRNS/Marianna Wertz. Page 14 Business Briefs
65, © Jack Cofield.
 Volume 24, Number 46, November 14, 1997

Strategic Studies International National

42 U.S. sanctions against 56 Virginians buy fascism for
Sudan further British aims a ‘mess of pottage’
The Clinton administration’s The Democrats’ failure to address
sanctions, which don’t amount to the economic crisis, left voters prey
much, were designed to take the to the “little me,” self-interest pitch
initiative out of the hands of the of the Gilmore Republicans—who
Sudan bashers in Congress. But, offer a fascist program of services
they are hindering the efforts for cuts, prison labor, and anti-Federal
peace. government policies.
A scene at the Promise Keepers’ rally in Washington,
D.C., on Oct. 4. 43 U.S. shoots self in foot on 58 The United States could
Sudan end the blockade of Iraq
16 Whose God does Pat A comment by Lyndon H. today
LaRouche, Jr. An interview with Bishop Thomas
Robertson serve?
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The J. Gumbleton.
Promise Keepers and such 45 Cox, the CSI, and British
predatory cults are not only “a fraud intelligence vs. Sudan 61 Catholic activist discusses
upon their principal victims, their fight vs. capital punishment
supporters, who have been misled 46 Uganda churches lead An interview with Sister Helen
into believing that these are ‘Prayer for Peace’ march Prejean.
Christian organizations. in Kampala
Investigation has shown, beyond In an event without precedent in 64 William Faulkner: the
any reasonable doubt, that the most Uganda, more than 10,000 people ‘Great American Novelist,’
prominent among these cults serve a joined a Prayer for Peace walk and with pure British aroma
foreign power, a power which is, rally in the capital city. Stanley Ezrol examines the
today, once again, the leading pedigree of this novelist, whose
strategic threat to the U.S.A.” 47 A call for peace and writings are the rambling record of
reconciliation the impressions of a stumbling
32 The Promise Keepers cult By His Eminence, Emmanuel drunk.
and homoerotic Cardinal Wamala, archbishop of
brainwashing Kampala and chairman, Uganda 68 Congressional Closeup
A cult created by the same British Joint Christian Council.
psychological warfare specialists 70 National News
that shaped the lesbian and Wicca 48 Binaisa endorses Prayer for
upsurges of the 1960s. Peace
Godfrey Binaisa is former President
34 ‘Diamond’ Pat’s mining of Uganda and chairman of the
scam African Civil Rights Movement.

36 British Israelites and 49 Ugandan bishop: Time is

Empire running out
The story of a syncretic cult that is An interview with the Rt. Rev.
one of the most significant Macleord Baker Ochola.
examples of British intelligence-
sponsored cultural warfare against 54 International Intelligence
the United States.

38 Ye shall know them by

their fruits
EIREconomics

LaRouche in Bonn calls

for new monetary system
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Over 150 people gathered in Bonn, Germany, on Nov. 5, The causes of the crisis, he explained, are “not economic,
to attend a symposium organized by EIR and titled “For a but ideological and political.” He traced the unfolding of the
New Bretton Woods System.” The speakers and guests, process from the 1960s cultural paradigm shift, away from a
many of them from the diplomatic corps, came from many commitment to technological progress, to the idea of a post-
nations across the Eurasian continent, and a significant num- industrial society, and the concomitant monetary and finan-
ber of African countries were also represented. The one-day cial policy shift, dubbed “controlled disintegration,” which
symposium, which was extremely concentrated, succeeded led to a decoupling of finance from reality.
in putting the issue of the day on the agenda—even for During the same 30-year period, the radicalized students
the political elites of Germany, who have been living in of the 1960s, imbued with the post-industrial ideology, con-
virtual reality. ducted their “march through the institutions,” and now oc-
For Lyndon LaRouche, who was the keynote speaker of cupy positions of responsibility in the corporate, banking, and
the opening session, this appearance in Bonn had a special political world. That poses the problem of leadership, which
significance. It was in April 1975, that he first spoke to a LaRouche addressed throughout the discussion process.
gathering of German political figures, bankers, and business-
men, on the need for sweeping changes in the monetary and International reports
financial structures of the world. At that time, LaRouche pre- Just how devastating are the effects of this policy shift,
sented his proposal for an International Development Bank, was detailed in several contributions to the symposium, deal-
as a vehicle for promoting infrastructure development partic- ing with different national economies.
ularly in the nations of the “Third World.” In a paper by Dr. Sergei Glazyev, a former minister of the
Coming back to Bonn, LaRouche laid out the reality of Russian Federation, and head of the Information and Analyt-
the world crisis in stark terms, identifying the causes of the ics Department of the Council of Federation Staff in Moscow,
worldwide financial/economic collapse, and the approach re- which was read to the symposium, the shocking state of the
quired to find a solution. The central point he made, was to Russian economy and population was presented: Through the
prove, drawing on the scientific tradition of Kepler, Leibniz, “shock therapy” polices imposed by the International Mone-
Gauss, and Riemann, that the current crisis is no “cyclical tary System since the end of the Soviet Union, the costs of
crisis,” no passing phenomenon, as the inhabitants of virtual rent and heating for citizens doubled; industry and the energy
reality would like to believe, but systemic in nature. “It is not sector were handed over to foreign interests; the external debt
like a planetary orbit,” he said, “but like a comet heading service skyrocketed; living standards plummeted.
directly into the Sun.” Thus, there is no way precedents can As Dr. Glazyev stressed, the most precious asset of the
be used, to find answers to this breakdown. country, its scientific potential, has been wrecked.

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 A similar picture emerged from the report given by Hrant precursor, LaRouche’s “Productive Triangle.”
Khachatrian, of the Union of Constitutional Rights Party in To implement these great infrastructure programs, which
Armenia, a former Member of Parliament, who chronicled provide the motor for world development, she explained, it
the process by which Armenia has become a “hostage to the will be necessary to launch a crash program to rebuild the
IMF.” And, according to a report submitted by Natalya Vi- productive capabilities which have been gutted; followed by
trenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and co-initiator a phase of infrastructure construction and expansion of indus-
of the Urgent Appeal to President Clinton To Convoke a New trial capacities (1998-2003); and then, by a third phase of the
Bretton Woods Conference, Ukraine is no less a victim of the Eurasian Land-Bridge, entailing the complete industrializa-
“reforms.” Not only the debt and unemployment figures, but tion of the Eurasian continent, to begin in 2003.
the raw data on basic demographic parameters—population, What this means, said all the speakers in different ways,
birthrates and death rates, child mortality, diseases and life is a return to the methods of national economy. It means
expectancy—show a “national catastrophe” for the period shifting back to investment in the source of social wealth,
1991-96. human beings. Dr. Oskar Weggel, of the Hamburg Institute on
In the words of K.R. Ganesh, a former union minister of Asian Studies, presented the manner in which this approach is
finance and a senior political figure in India, who sent a paper reflected in the Asian economic models which are based on
to be read at the symposium, the “free market” liberal policies Confucian philosophy: The state, to express “good gover-
which have also been thrust upon the developing sector, have nance,” must intervene to direct the economy, forging a part-
“made the [old] Bretton Woods system a threat to all nations, nership of labor and capital, to invest especially in education
and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the most dreaded of the labor force, and in necessary social structures.
words among the poor.” Jean Royer of France introduced a complementary ap-
But even more dramatic were the dimensions of the crisis proach, proposing that capital be matched with labor to pro-
as experienced in Germany, the country which should be lead- duce real wealth, as opposed to chasing after monetary profits
ing Europe in contributing to rebuilding the world economy. through speculation. He spoke of his efforts to get the French
Helga Zepp LaRouche drew on studies of the physical state National Assembly to pass legislation creating a FFr500 bil-
of the German economy to document the de-industrialization lion Fund for Economic and Social Development, to tackle
process, which has drastically reduced the productive capacit- the crisis of the estimated 7 million unemployed in France. “I
ies in plant and, most important, qualified labor power. Of the have never believed in the stock market or in derivatives,” he
18 million officially unemployed in European Union coun- said. “You cannot have development with that. I do not be-
tries, she noted, 4.3 million are in Germany. lieve in the game of speculation, as Mr. Soros does. My fund
Of these, 2.5 million industrial jobs have been destroyed would extend credit at zero interest to small and mid-sized
since 1990 in western Germany alone. In eastern Germany, firms for 40-50-year loans, and to big firms at very low rates,
the situation is worse—only one of five industrial workers for the grand projects like TGV trains, or military projects.
has managed to keep his job. Again, the technology-drivers The problem in the French economy today, is that we lack
of the economy, from the machine-tool-design sector, to the investment at the top and at the level of small firms. We
nuclear energy and space sector, have been dismantled, and must stop this unemployment and requalify human beings to
the number of students entering university studies in these become economically productive again.
areas has dwindled to a trickle. Further presentations echoed “Today, France has no investment policy to provide for
the point for Italy. And French parliamentarian Jean Royer, the future generations. With FFr939 billion in state debt,
who has held ministerial posts in national government, ad- French savings are no longer to go for investment in needed
dressed comparable problems in France. hospitals, roads, infrastructure, but to protect against mone-
What such case studies brought home, is the point that not tary disintegration. The French Planning Commission [of the
only are such policies failures, but they express the ultimate de Gaulle era] no longer has control of money. Cities have
in immorality. Zepp LaRouche, referring to the abject poverty high debt. My proposal is to issue money via the Bank of
she had recently seen during a trip to India, drove the point France for all these needs, and that all the European Union
home, that to be indifferent to such suffering is not human. countries work in parallel for such programs. Most important,
To be human, she said, is to “have a noble desire to be a part the funnelling of credit to create new workplaces and industry
of the solution” to these problems affecting most of humanity. would transform the spirit and the mind of human beings back
The solution, as LaRouche put it, is “to define a new into society. As de Gaulle said, the wealth of the human mind
frontier of economic development.” Given that the center of is more important than the wealth we have now, without hope.
world population is in Asia, Southeast Asia, and India, the I am in significant agreement with what Mr. LaRouche said
center of economic development for world recovery must here today, especially the idea of humans in the image of
be focussed there. Zepp LaRouche filled out the picture, by their Creator.”
presenting the Eurasian Land-Bridge program and its 1990 Italian parliamentarian Publio Fiori, in a paper presented

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for him, discussed the tradition of Enrico Mattei, who built nese President Jiang Zemin, who has demonstrated the quality
Italy’s energy sector. Fiori reported that he has embraced of leadership of a de Gaulle or an Adenauer. Professor Qian
the initiative for a “New Bretton Woods” conference, “with Jing, a member of the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences
enthusiasm and conviction,” and that he himself has promoted and adviser to Chinese enterprises, from Beijing, told the
“a parliamentary initiative, which aims at pushing the Italian conference that at that summit, “international financial prob-
government to adopt serious measures of defense and preven- lems” had been on the agenda. If the strategic partnership
tion, against the plague of massive speculation, nourished by forged at that summit is maintained, LaRouche said, there is
financial derivatives.” He has asked the government “to apply reason to be optimistic.
a special tax to transactions of derivatives, to act in coordina- The most obvious expression of the kind of leadership
tion with the United States government to promote a “New required, was that displayed at the symposium by the
Bretton Woods,” and to adopt extremely severe measures LaRouches. Indeed, the turnout of institutional representa-
and penal sanctions against the great predators of derivatives tives from Germany, as well as members of the diplomatic
trading, like George Soros.” corps, testified to the growing recognition of LaRouche’s con-
ceptual and political leadership at this juncture. As Prof. Qian
The issue of leadership Jing related in his speech, the influence of LaRouche’s ideas
But how to effect the necessary fundamental shift in val- has been significant in China. In closing, Qian Jing expressed
ues, and therefore policies? LaRouche hammered away at the his confidence that the “era of the Land-Bridge economy”
point that it is a question of leadership. What is required, he has come.
said, is the same quality of leadership which Franklin Delano He added, “There is no doubt, that there are many new
Roosevelt displayed, in mobilizing the American population difficulties along the path ahead. However, as an ancient Chi-
after Pearl Harbor. Today, too, it must be the U.S. President nese philosopher told us, a long jounrey starts by taking the
who assumes such responsibility. first step.” He concluded: “Mr. Lyndon LaRouche has already
In this context, LaRouche stressed the extreme impor- taken the first step by his great efforts. I believe more and
tance of the summit talks between President Clinton and Chi- more people are following him.”

ian Parliament, Rome. (A summary of his theses was read

by Paolo Raimondi.)
Conference program Natalya Vitrenko, member of the Ukrainian Parlia-
ment, co-initiator of the “Urgent Appeal to President Clin-
International Symposium “For a New Bretton Woods Sys- ton to Convoke a New Bretton Woods Conference,” Kiev.
tem,” Nov. 5, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany. (A summary of her theses was read by Dr. Tennenbaum.)

I. The Fundamental Reorganization of the II. The Development of the Eurasian Land-
Global Financial and Monetary System Bridge as the Motor for Economic
Keynote: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., founder and Reconstruction
contributing editor, Executive Intelligence Review, candi- Keynote: Helga Zepp LaRouche, chairman of the in-
date for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic ternational advisory board, Schiller Institute.
Party, U.S.A. Prof. Qian Jing, member of the Chinese Academy for
Jean Royer, former French minister of commerce, for- Social Sciences and adviser to Chinese enterprises,
mer minister of post and telecommunications, long-term Beijing.
member of the French National Assembly, Tours. Dr. Oskar Weggel, author, scientific referent at the
Dr. Sergei Glazyev, former minister of the Russian Hamburg Institute for Asian Studies.
Federation, head of the Information and Analytics Depart- K.R. Ganesh, former Indian union minister of fi-
ment of the Council of Federation Staff, Moscow. (A sum- nances, and Pranab Mukherjee, former finance minister
mary of Dr. Glazyev’s theses was read by Dr. Jonathan of India, New Delhi. (A summary of his theses was read
Tennenbaum.) by Hartmut Cramer.)
Hrant Khachatrian, president of the Union for Con- Dr. Jozef Miklosko, former deputy prime minister of
stitutional Rights in Armenia, former member of the Ar- Czechoslovakia, vice-rector of Trnava University, Trnava.
menian Parliament, Yerevan. Benito Li Vigni, author, former collaborator of Enrico
Publio Fiori, former Italian minister of transportation, Mattei (founder of the Italian Energy group ENI), Rome/
coordinator of the Alleanza Nazionale, member of the Ital- Palermo. (Read by Paolo Raimondi.)

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 as to the source of funds. These recommendations will then
be circulated to the heads of state and passed on to the IMF
and World Bank. The G-15 also decided to accelerate its own
meetings, moving up the next summit to May 1998, in Cairo,
G-15 forges common because of “the urgency of matters and the rapidity in changes
in the world trading system,” Dr. Mahathir said. He conceded
cause vs. speculators that drawing up rules on currency trading will not stop specu-
lation.
by Gail G. Billington
South-South cooperation
The G-15 was founded in 1989 to promote trade and in-
On Nov. 3-5, heads of state and ministers of developing na- vestment among some of the most important “emerging mar-
tions in Ibero-America, Africa, and Southeast Asia met in kets” on three continents: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Malaysia for the Seventh Heads of State Summit of the Group Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria,
of 15 nations. The meeting focussed on so-called “free trade” Peru, Senegal, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. Kenya was admit-
liberalization and the role of speculation in targetting national ted at this year’s summit as the group’s 16th member. Six
currencies and financial markets, which has wiped out 25- heads of state attended the Kuala Lumpur meeting: Algerian
40% of currency and market values in Southeast Asia in little President Liamine Zeroual, Egyptian President Hosni Mu-
more than four months. barak, Indonesian President Suharto, Zimbabwean President
By the end of the three-day meeting, a unanimous consen- Robert Mugabe, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, and
sus was reached. As Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir host, Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia. The remaining
bin Mohamad said at the end of the summit, the currency countries were represented by ministers.
crisis has inadvertently given the G-15 a “new lease on life,” Following the one-day trade and economics ministers’
because it served as a stark reminder that no nation dare think meeting on Oct. 31, there was evident reluctance, particularly
it is immune to attack. But the text of the joint statement among the Ibero-American delegations, to adopt tougher re-
makes clear that the consensus still accepts the legitimacy of forms on currency speculation, as Malaysia has suggested.
“globalization” and “liberalization,” and the authority of the The draft that emerged from the meeting made no specific
“globalizing” institutions themselves—the International suggestions, but asked the IMF and World Bank to study
Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade developments in currency markets with a view to increased
Organization (WTO), and the United Nations—to enforce regulation and greater transparency.
and create a more “level playing field” in world finance and Argentina’s Vice Foreign Minister Julio Alberto Cáceres
trade. told reporters the meeting discussed only the need to study
The final statement called on the IMF and World Bank to volatility “without any qualifications.” Mexico’s Deputy
study developments in the currency markets with a view to Trade Minister for International Negotiations Jaime Zablu-
improving regulation and transparency, called on the WTO dovsky said what was discussed was “nothing special.” He
to study the impact of currency swings on trade, and to create added, “We are opposed to currency controls,” a notion Dr.
a more “supportive, fair, and non-discriminating international Mahathir is erroneously accused of promoting. Only Presi-
economic environment.” The G-15 committed itself to de- dent Alberto Fujimori of Peru, among the Ibero-Americans,
velop South-South cooperation; its economic ministers will supported Mahathir’s concern over the problem of specula-
meet prior to the December WTO meeting in Geneva to craft tion run wild.
a common stand. Dr. Mahathir would not be deterred. Returning to Malay-
The driving force moving the conference forward was sia on Oct. 29, following the British Commonwealth Heads
Prime Minister Mahathir, who has aggressively challenged of State Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mahathir told re-
the role of speculation, and has admitted the error of believing porters what he thought of the IMF’s offer of financial assis-
in the invincibility of the Southeast Asian “Tiger” model. tance to Southeast Asian countries: “We’re quite disap-
Without doubt, he is responsible for the activist approach that pointed that they see this as an opportunity to impose
emerged from the summit, including convening a meeting of additional conditions. . . . We can overcome the problems if
G-15 finance ministers and central bank governors in Kuala the people support the government and are prepared to be
Lumpur on Dec. 1-2, to meet concurrently with the Associa- more disciplined. . . . If we are willing to do this, we will not
tion of Southeast Asian Nations finance ministers meeting. become slaves to anyone. . . . If not, we will be colonized
The G-15 heads of state have directed their finance ministers again.” Asked about the G-15 draft to the WTO, Dr. Mahathir,
to meet, under Malaysia’s chairmanship, to make specific “Malaysia will send a similar message . . . there will be no
recommendations on trading and currencies, including per- globalization, no deregulatory trend unless new rules are im-
haps registration of currency traders and greater transparency posed on all countries. . . . We’ve been asked to open up our

EIR November 14, 1997 Economics 7

market, welcome all foreign investments, but they’ve abused Fujimori for Ibero-America, and Zimbabwe’s President Mu-
the freedom that we’ve accorded them.” gabe for Africa. India’s Krishan Kant and Indonesia’s Presi-
In the week between the Commonwealth meeting and the dent Suharto gave the strongest endorsement to drafting spe-
G-15 summit, Malaysia was aggressively engaged—along cific reforms in currency trading. Suharto described the “bitter
with Singapore and Japan, in particular, in line with the infor- experience of . . . hard work, diligence, and sacrifices over
mal alliance taking shape around the Asian Monetary Fund— decades . . . wiped out overnight,” and called on the members
in putting together emergency bilateral funding to help Indo- to “immediately find the most efficient means to dampen the
nesia blunt the impact of an anticipated IMF stabilization adverse impact of sharp currency fluctuations on our develop-
package. At the close of the G-15 summit, Dr. Mahathir told ment.” But, he added that Indonesia believes the UN is “the
press he believes the AMF should be independent of the IMF. only international organization with the universal mandate
On Nov. 1, Mahathir took charge, advising the G-15 min- and democratic orientation to assume the task of ensuring
isters to be “more circumspect” in implementing trade liberal- justice and equity in the economic relations among nations.”
ization. He warned, “We have already seen how a liberal Krishan Kant said market volatility “calls for a new approach
policy toward currency and share trading has resulted in to regional and international cooperation” and “highlights the
abuses which undermine years of painstaking efforts to de- need for some insulation of developing countries from the
velop the countries of Southeast Asia. . . . While the majority whims of ‘market sentiment.’ ”
of those who take advantage of our openness are genuine and Zimbabwe’e President Mugabe warned that Africa, with
serious, we must not forget that there are many who only 33 of the world’s 48 least developed nations, runs the risk of
see opportunities for enriching themselves at our expense. being sidelined in the current global economic environment.
Impoverishing us in order to enrich themselves is not some- He said, “For most of the developing countries, the gains of
thing that they will hesitate to do.” globalization and liberalization are yet to be felt.” Nigerian
Planning Minister Chief Ayu Ogunlade described currency
A new, more debilitating imperialism traders as viruses: “if their actions had affected Southeast
In his keynote address on Nov. 4, Dr. Mahathir left little Asia and Latin America, it will soon reach Africa.”
room for confusion on the effect of speculation. “Without Egypt’s President Mubarak, whom Dr. Mahathir de-
clear definition as to what is meant by globalization, we may scribed as one of those leaders most concerned with the risk
find ourselves disadvantaged and helpless, as it is quite often of the speculative contagion engulfing his country, called
impossible to make corrections after the facts have been cre- for the G-15 central bank governors and financial market
ated,” he said. authorities to “meet to deal with the rapid flow of capital and
“A world trading system cannot rely entirely on market gradual liberalization in financial services and investments,”
forces. It is time that we draw up fair rules for the market and said all nations must work to establish a fair world
place. If we don’t, then the fight for independence will have order. Mubarak, as did others, referred to the Uruguay Round
to begin all over again, for the present market rules will surely of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as proof of
result in a new imperialism more noxious and debilitating the developing countries cooperation in obtaining liberal-
than the old. ization.
“The international institutions in which we had placed our Peru President Fujimori’s remarks at the end of the meet-
trust claim that they are powerless to act against these traders. ing are the best example of how the momentum of the debate
“This deliberate devaluation of the currency of a country can cause an uncharacteristic shift in perception. In language
by currency traders, purely for profit, is a serious denial of the not often heard from Fujimori, he referenced the recent
rights of independent nations.” collapse of the Asian markets, and said: “The countries
Dr. Mahathir turned to disturbing trends in the WTO, which are on the path of development, to become emerging
where “we face the threat of unilateral action, the denial of nations, and later, developed nations, can see their aspira-
developing status, and virtually little liberalization on trade tions ruined by some sudden intervention of financial inter-
in textiles, garments, and commodities. Systems of trading mediaries, financial speculators. . . . This motivates our justi-
conceived before the WTO have now become entrenched and fied concern and solidarity.” Some are hesitant to take this
little sympathy is shown to complaints that they are detrimen- on, he admitted, adding that in the end, the G-15 “came to
tal to the economic well-being of developing nations.” Devel- the conclusion that it could not take a position, nor make
oping countries, he continued, have failed to distinguish long- recommendations on it, but did decide to make the request
term investments from short-term “hot-money” speculative to the World Bank and IMF.”
investments. But, he admitted, “We must be aware that no country
can remain isolated from the repercussions of these kind of
Leaders rally in support turbulences,” and singled out Malaysia for praise: for reviv-
Following the keynote, India’s Vice President Krishan ing the G-15, with a focus on “economic-financial matters
Kant spoke on behalf of Asian members, Peru’s President of international interest.”

8 Economics EIR November 14, 1997

 because Brazil’s collapse would pull all the rest of the Ibero-
American markets down with it. Despite assurances that they
are okay, Mexico and Argentina are panicked that they are
next in line, and that a Brazilian firestorm would instantly
Cardoso leads engulf their equally exposed economies.

Brazil into hell A repeat of Mexico . . . but bigger

The bitter irony in all of this, is that Brazil’s crisis today
is a virtual repeat of Mexico’s crisis of 1994-95, although in
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa a much more volatile international environment: Brazil has a
vast trade deficit as a result of trade policies, which it has
The dramatic collapse of Brazil’s stock markets at the end of papered over with derivatives and speculative capital flows
October and early November, matching the panic in stock that built up a huge, cancerous financial bubble. Even worse,
markets worldwide, showed just how much of a fraud the so far, Brazil is imitating, measure for measure, the disastrous
Fernando Henrique Cardoso government’s much-touted policy responses taken by Mexican President Carlos Salinas
“monetary stability” really is. Brazil is now on the chopping de Gortari and his successor, Ernesto Zedillo.
block of the international speculators, slated for final slaugh- In the face of this crisis, and trapped by his own monetarist
ter unless it complies, and fast, with every last demand of the schemes, President Cardoso had two principal options to try
financial vultures. to halt the capital flight. The first would have been to accept
Over the course of the immediate crisis, the São Paulo a 10 to 30% devaluation of Brazil’s currency, the real, which
stock market dropped by 30%. On Oct. 27, following three would have had an immediate, devastating effect. It would
days of continuous decline in the markets, foreign speculators have provoked monetary chaos, putting an end to Cardoso’s
decided to pull part of their money out of Brazil, provoking reelection aspirations, and instantly engulfing neighboring
the collapse of the São Paulo market. Speculation and capital Argentina, whose economy depends totally on Brazil as its
flight were so enormous, that on Oct. 28, the Central Bank major export market, in an unsustainable situation.
was forced to sell about $10 billion in dollars, of which about In the middle of this crisis, Argentine President Carlos
$5-6 billion left the country the same day. Capital flight Menem phoned his Brazilian counterpart several times, beg-
throughout the week is estimated to have been close to $9-10 ging for guarantees that the real would not be devalued. Ac-
billion, leaving foreign reserves at $50 billion, down from cording to Menem’s own report, Cardoso replied, “If we de-
$60 billion. value, who knows where we’ll end up.” The Argentine
Panic first took hold of the government, starting with the President told local media, “I spoke with the Brazilian Presi-
President himself, followed by Finance Minister Pedro Ma- dent, who, in these very words, said, ‘Carlos, there is no doubt
lan, and then Central Bank President Gustavo Franco. At the of this: If we devalue, then you’ll have to devalue, and who
beginning of the week, the petulant Franco dismissed the knows where we’ll end up.’ ”
gravity of the crisis, actually claiming that Asian volatility Rejecting that option, Cardoso opted for the only other
would benefit Brazil, because capital fleeing that part of the course acceptable to the speculator vultures: a brutal increase
world would come to Brazil. But by Oct. 31, he had come in primary interest rates, doubling them from a monthly level
down from the clouds, and admitted that “we’re in the middle of 1.58%, to 3.05%. For basic bank interest rates, this means
of a storm, and it’s harder to fly the plane under these condi- an increase from 1.76%, to 3.23%, or an annual rate of 43.4%,
tions. I don’t understand this crisis, because there’s no logic by which the government hopes to keep speculative capital
to it. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.” inside the country.
Also fueling the panic is the fragility of Brazil’s foreign To stop the flight of “motel capital”—that which comes
reserves, because two-thirds (about $40 billion) consists of in at night and leaves in the morning, without producing any-
short-term, volatile capital, which can disappear overnight. thing—the government’s economics team, with the President
Strictly speaking, they are hardly reserves at all; in fact, they at its head, is acting like the manager of a brothel. When his
are just accounting entries, for which Brazil pays dearly, as if clientele declines, he lowers the price of his services, offering,
they were renting their services on a monthly basis, while as São Paulo Mayor Paulo Maluf put it, pornographic interest
guaranteeing their right to withdraw on a moment’s notice. rates. Maluf is a potential rival of Cardoso’s in the next Presi-
The truth is that the Brazilian crisis has only just begun, dential elections.
and even if international markets are able to reduce volatility, This is pretty much what Mexico did at the end of 1994.
at least in the short term, Brazil is headed toward huge domes- In a matter of weeks, the country spent $11 billion of its $17
tic financial turbulence. This, in turn, can feed the world fi- billion in reserves, and tripled its interest rates from 13% to
nancial crisis, both because Brazil is the Third World’s largest 40% annually. Despite these measures, the peso was devalued
debtor, with over $200 billion in official foreign debt, and by more than 40% (see Figure 1).

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 finance the deficits.”
FIGURE 1
Even as he placed his bets, the President was fully aware
Reserves and interest rates in Mexico of the risk of a systemic crisis in international finances, as he
himself revealed in his answer to the first question of that
interview: “What is the thing you most fear at this moment
. . . from every point of view?” Cardoso responded: “What
could have negative consequences here, would be a break-
down of the world financial system. I do not foresee this
occurring, but it is something that would affect us, because
we do not have the means to control the situation.” His second
fear, he explained, is the possibility of a generalized social
convulsion.
It is clear that President Fernando Henrique Cardoso lost
both his bets, because a deep institutional crisis now looms
as the result of the imminent bankruptcy of the Brazilian econ-
omy. The same thing happened to the bets placed by Mexican
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, whose loss meant Mexi-
co’s bankruptcy in 1994.

The outline of the crisis

The outlook would be simple, if the situation were limited
to a mere stock market or institutional crisis, no matter how
grave they might be. But the reality is, that the fall in the
Brazilian markets reveals multiple, interwoven crises.
First, the leveraging of the financial system which led to
Sources: Banco de México, IMF. the excessive over-valuation of assets, especially in the São
Paulo stock market, on the assumption that the massive priva-
tizations of the state companies would attract a continuous
flow of foreign capital, has entered a phase of reverse leverage
The President’s bets which threatens to provoke a chain-reaction bankruptcy of
Before this crisis exploded, and with the aid of $500 mil- the national financial system as a whole.
lion annually in official propaganda, President Cardoso had This means that the massive outflow of foreign capital can-
cultivated the image that the only alternative to his program not be viewed linearly as similar to past crises, since, because
of “monetary stability” was chaos; and that the capital flows of the leverage, the financial system carries a retarded potential
whichfedthegrowing balance-of-paymentsdeficit,wouldlast of much greater destructive capacity than the simple loss of
long enough for him to be reelected at the end of next year. In foreign reserves. That is why the Central Bank, from the onset
statements published in Jornal do Brasil on Oct. 20, the Cen- of the crisis, made large amounts of liquidity available to the
tral Bank’s director of foreign affairs, Demostenes Madureira banks, to head off a crisis of generalized insolvency, at the
de Pinho, predicted that foreign capital flows would last more same time that it brutally raised the prime interest rate.
than 10 years. But, they didn’t even last a week. This measure to brake the outflow of foreign capital, will
The President explained his gambling operation in state- have disastrous consequences for the real economy of Brazil.
ments to the editor-in-chief of the daily Gazeta Mercantil, Initially, it delivers a blow to the financial system itself, which
published on June 19 of this year. Here, he confessed that he already faced such high rates of arrears on its loans, that vari-
was pushing the country into the casino of the international ous banks closed in the last year. Second, the rise in interest
financial system, betting that the system would collapse over rates, which translates into annual interest rates of up to 50%
the next three to four years. He admitted, “We’re making a for many clients, will violently affect agricultural and indus-
bet that this risk [of a world financial crisis] is temporary. You trial economic activities, provoking a drastic collapse of em-
know that in politics, as in economics, you always have to ployment and industrial activity. And this will obviously
take some chances, because politics is the domain of the un- worsen the broad social unrest in the country. As the vice
foreseeable. . . . What do we bet? That we are in a phase of president of the São Paulo Industrial Federation (Ciespo),
changing the structural pattern of our productive system. . . . Mario Bernadini, remarked, the government is prepared to
So this is our bet, and we hope that this will go on for three or defend the value of the currency “down to the last industrial
four years. And, in this period, although there will be deficits job and the last industry.” Already, in September, before this
. . . the conditions exist for a climate of development and phase of the crisis hit, unemployment had reached record
political stability, as well as the ability to attract capital to levels of 16.3% in Greater São Paulo, with an accumulated

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FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3
Brazil: balance of trade versus debt service Brazil: total government debt
(billions $) (billions $)

$35 $400
Debt service
30 EIR projection
350 Official projection
25
300
20
250
15
200
10
150 Foreign
5
Balance of trade 100
0
Domestic
–5 50

–10 0
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Source: National Treasury Secretariat. Brazil.

250,000 layoffs from the industrial sector since the inaugura-

tion of the Cardoso government.
According to the figures of the secretary of the national trea-
Domestic debt sury itself, published in Gazeta Mercantil on Oct. 14, the
Another time-bomb is the effect of the interest rate hike government calculated that from December 1996 to Decem-
on the federal public debt: The government will have to pay ber 1997, total public debt grew by 54%, from 231 billion reals
an additional $2 billion in interest payments per month. To ($210 billion) to 356 billion reals ($320 billion), basically as
get a clear idea of just how insane this is, consider how the rate a result of the increase in the government’s domestic debt,
of expenditures on debt service (interest and amortizations)— since the government’s foreign debt component remained
public and private—had already been accelerating. Last year, more or less constant in this period.
debt service payments totalled a bit less than $25 billion. The government had intended to stabilize its debt at
Before the latest hike in interest rates, the Central Bank itself around $378 billion, for the end of 1998. But that was before
projected that debt service would jump to $32 billion in 1997, the current crisis. EIR estimates that in reality, the public debt
a figure which now looks to rise to over $35 billion. If these will probably be greater than $400 billion by the end of 1998.
interest rates are maintained, payments on debt service in Along with this picture of public indebtedness, one has to also
1998, initially calculated at $34.4 billion, could jump to nearly consider the private foreign debt, which in 1996 (the latest
$50 billion! figures available) was around $100 billion; by the end of 1997,
Under the perverse algebraic logic of the Brazilian gov- it will probably be closer to $150 billion.
ernment, this means that it will have to make it even easier The picture is no less dramatic for states and municipali-
for hot international capital flows to enter Brazil, because it ties, whose public debts are around $50 billion.
will need some $60-70 billion to balance its books in 1998.
As the government has decided to maintain the value of the Camdessus’s kiss of death
real no matter what, over the coming year, this means that it The rapidity with which International Monetary Fund
will continue incurring growing trade and balance of pay- (IMF) Managing Director Michel Camdessus moved to sup-
ments deficits. This year, the trade deficit will be more than port the increase in interest rates adopted by President Car-
$10 billion, and the balance of payments deficit, close to $34 doso, and demand the new level of economic looting required
billion. For next year, an even greater balance of payments by the international financial oligarchy, was revealing. Cam-
deficit is projected, possibly on the order of $40 billion (see dessus called the decision of the Central Bank, “the first strong
Figure 2). indication, in the monetary field, of the effort which the gov-
This devastating reality is seen also in the growth of the ernment intends to display in other fields.” Those “other
federal government debt (domestic and foreign), especially fields” are economic and fiscal reforms which the government
after 1995, when Cardoso came to power (see Figure 3). has sent to Congress, to impose a greater level of austerity.

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system to foreign groups, especially the British, which, as in
the case of Mexico, will end up owning virtually the entirety
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 17,000 MW may get commissioned some time in the 21st
century. The Gujral government knows (because industrial-
ists have been shouting it from the rooftops for years) that
India’s Gujral faces India needs at least 50,000 MW of additional capacity now.
Cooking up numbers and covering them with half-truths will
crisis of confidence do little to convince people.
The document has yet another gem. India’s 11 major ports
together can handle some 215 million tons of freight annually.
by Ramtanu Maitra By comparison, Singapore’s freight-handling capacity annu-
ally is some 270 million tons, and Rotterdam’s is 285 million
On Nov. 3, a leading daily, the Hindu, reported on an eco- tons. Naturally, our ports are a mess, and foreign direct invest-
nomic performance balance sheet of the present government, ors and exporters-importers have said so in no uncertain
drawn up by Prime Minister Inder Gujral. Its ostensible pur- terms.
pose, is to lead people to believe that India’s economic funda- According to the Hindu, the document says that “action
mentals are sound and that the United Front government’s has also been taken to decongest the ports, and the waiting time
economic policy, now completely in the hands of the Harvard- for containers has been reduced to 24 hours, and for other ves-
trained free-market guru, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, sels it has been reduced from an average of 21 days to five
is on the right track. days.” With the government’s credibility gap growing by the
The prime minister, who avoided attending the G-15 hour, it would have been wise for the Gujral government to
meeting in Kuala Lumpur, where, under the tutelage of Ma- explain what this magical “action” was and how it was
laysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, foreign hot- achieved. Even if we were to believe this incredulous state-
money investors came under heavy attack, is reportedly busy ment, we still would like to know how India can ever be a major
meeting with his bureaucrats to prepare a smiling mask for trading nation where waiting time for vessels is five days.
the Indian economy. It is necessary to do so, because the
economic situation is getting worse, and domestic investors Bowing to the IMF
are fast losing confidence in the government’s economic pol- The truth behind this public relations exercise, is that the
icy. According to the Hindu, the government is planning to government is endorsing its cutting down on spending for
present a set of numbers which would suggest that the econ- development, and thus sabotaging all infrastructure develop-
omy is doing nicely. ment plans. The Gujral government is doing this to please the
The deception is obvious. For instance, take power gener- IMF, and treading this dangerous route to reduce the fiscal
ation. Everyone, particularly those involved in manufactur- deficit.
ing, knows that the acute power shortage has helped slow Finance Minister Chidambaram spends his time trying
industrial expansion significantly. They also know that if this to impress upon the media, and foreign institutions, that the
shortcoming, along with others, such as poor rail transport, Indian economy is doing better than ever. He also spews out
grossly inadequate port facilities, and the lack of a modern growth figures which are not only absurd in the present con-
highway system, are not attended to immediately, the Indian text, but disputed as well by all and sundry.
economy will go to pot sooner than later. In addition, the Then, why this game of smoke and mirrors? In order to
dilapidated infrastructure, nurtured with care by the Finance find an answer to that, one must dip into the IMF annual report
Ministry in order to satisfy the International Monetary Fund of 1997. The report said that the directors of the IMF have
(IMF) demands to cut development budgets and thus reduce urged the Indian government to undertake a more ambitious
the fiscal deficit, is steadily criminalizing the Indian economy. public enterprise reform program and deeper cuts in public
If the present tend continues, only thieves, robbers, money financing, among other unsavory demands. Chidambaram,
lenders, land speculators, and drug runners will flourish. whose single-item agenda as finance minister has long been
The Hindu says that the government is ready to claim that to implement standard IMF policies in the guise of economic
“many factors delaying private investment in the power sector and financial reform, has little understanding of the role of a
have been eliminated, and private projects with a capacity of sound infrastructure in the process of nation-building. There
4,000 megawatts have already been commissioned or are in are many in India, however, who know better.
an advanced stage.” And, that “some 30 power projects with While the stock and consumer markets in Asia continue
a capacity of nearly 17,000 MW have obtained all linkages to shrink, the Gujral government continues to pledge its faith
and received the techno-economic approval of the Central in the decrepit monetary system. The question, is whether
Electricity Authority.” Such statements are wholly untrue. Chidambaram and his co-thinkers in the Finance Ministry
The reality is that less than 500 MW have been commis- will be allowed to do further harm to this poverty-stricken
sioned; the other 3,500 MW may take years to be commis- economy, or the people will demand a change in the govern-
sioned. Similarly, 30 power projects cleared, means that the ment’s present economic policy.

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Business Briefs

Labor Conceived in 1988 at a projected cost would also go through Syria and Turkey, un-
of $2 billion, the project was criticized by til a more direct route were constructed,
Ontario teachers the World Bank and other lenders as too through Iraq.
expensive and ill-conceived, because it was
shut down schools to be located in a remote corner of south-
eastern Akwa Ibom state lacking decent in-
The Ontario, Canada Teachers Federation, frastructure. Initially slated to open in Octo-
Infrastructure
representing 126,000 teachers at primary ber 1996, the smelter was delayed by a lack
and seconary schools, shut down the prov- of working capital and raw materials. Kazakhstan proposes
ince’s schools on Oct. 27, forcing nearly 2.1
million students out of their classrooms. The
But, for Nigeria, it was a chance to pro-
mote self-reliance in producing aluminum
rail cooperation
action is supported by both opposition par- ingots and billets for local industry and for
ties, but Premier Mike Harris, a conservative Kazakhstan’s Transport Minister Erkin Kal-
export, and to make use of natural gas asso-
revolutionary, vowed he would seek a court iyev suggested on Oct. 29, that tripartite co-
ciated with oil production that was simply
injunction within a week to shut down the operation should be forged with Iran and
being burned off. Geological surveys had
strike. The teachers argue that the walkout is China, in the field of transportation. This
also inspired Nigeria’s economic planners
a political protest, not a strike, against Bill arrangement would be aimed, he said, at
to believe it could become a producer of
160, which would give control over many reactivating the China-Kazakhstan-Iran
bauxite. That dream never materialized, and
aspects of the province’s schools to the pro- railway.
bauxite for the smelter is currently secured
vincial government, headed by the Tory, Kaliyev told the Iranian ambassador in
from Friguia in Guinea, an ally of Nigeria’s
Progressive Conservative party. Almaty, Hassan Qashqavi, that Kazakhstan
current military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.
In an interview with EIRNS, a union was eager to consolidate cooperation. He re-
Compared to Nigeria’s Ajaokuta steel
spokeswoman said that the Harris govern- ported that China had already voiced its
project, on which over $5 billion was spent
ment wants to replace teachers with uncerti- readiness to take part in such an arrange-
on Soviet technology without producing a
fied aides, fire about 10,000 teachers, and cut ment. According to Iranian press accounts,
single billet, Alscon has been a shining suc-
billions of dollars from the education budget, Kaliyev “further stressed that all the re-
cess among several large projects intended
in a system where classes are already at 35- quired infrastructure facilities were avail-
to make Africa’s most populous nation less
40 students per classroom. able in Iran for the transport of goods from
reliant on oil exports. Nigeria’s technical
The teachers union and five affiliated Kazakhstan and other Central Asian Repub-
partners, Germany’s Ferrostaal and U.S.-
unions held demonstrations across the prov- lics, to East Asia, Europe, and the Persian
based aluminum giant Reynolds Interna-
ince. It is the largest teachers action in Cana- Gulf, and vice versa.”
tional, have a 30% share in Alscon.
da’s history. In their meeting, Kaliyev and Qashqavi
agreed to convene a session of the Kazakh-
Iranian joint transportation commission, in
Almaty in December. The Iranian ambassa-
Industry Middle East dor also called for the resumption of Kazakh
Air flights on the Almaty-Mashhad route,
which have been suspended for economic
Nigeria’s aluminum Lebanon wants to join reasons.
smelter begins operation Eurasian Land-Bridge
Nigeria’s much-delayed Ikot Abasi alum- In the course of his four-day visit to Teheran, Brazil
inum smelter began operation on Oct. 15 and Iran, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri
will steadily build up production to 193,000 “called for establishment of trilateral ground Government must act to
tons per year, the Aluminium Smelter Com- transportation among Iran, Lebanon, and the
pany of Nigeria (Alscon) told Reuters on Central Asian states, as well as launching an protect public health
Oct. 30. Officials from Alscon, in which the air transportation link between Iran and Leb-
military government has a 70% stake, said anon,” according to reports in the Iranian O Estado, one of Brazil’s leading newspa-
they were not permitted to provide more de- press. Hariri stated that his government is pers which usually promotes free-trade ide-
tails on when full capacity might be reached seeking “access to the Central Asia ology, on Oct. 14 editorially called for gov-
at the natural gas-powered plant. The smelter markets.” ernment action, in the face of a growing
was originally intended to export over 80% Hariri was in Iran with several ministers, health crisis. “The control of ‘old diseases’
of its production. Local aluminum products including the minister of transportation, who depends largely on elementary structures of
companies say they have not yet reached signed an agreement for cooperation in trade basic sanitation, and campaigns of vaccina-
agreement on how much they will pay for and surface transport with Iran. tion and education—the first, the responsi-
Alscon aluminum, or how much they can If Lebanon were to be hooked up to the bility of state and municipal governments;
take. Eurasian rail network, through Iran, the line the second, of authorities of all three levels:

14 Economics EIR November 14, 1997

 Briefly
GERMAN former Labor Minister
Heiner Geissler called for a capital
federal, state and municipal. In the medium said. Historical records show the flow of the gains tax, in an interview with Info
to long term, such actions cost less than pay- Yellow River (Huang He) once exceeded Radio Berlin on Oct. 29. Immense
ing the treatment costs of hospital patients. 30,000 cubic meters per second, and the river sums are invested in monetary opera-
The majority of public health problems had breached its banks more than 1,500 tions, decoupled from real economic
could be solved before they get to the hospi- times in the past 2,500 years, causing cata- activity, he said. Markets are in a
tals,” the paper said. strophic flooding. “dance around the golden calf.”
The editorial outlined the disease threat: When completed, the project will help
“Tuberculosis, leprosy, cholera, dengue, stop the 10-centimeter annual rise of the bed A CHOLERA epidemic has broken
measles, yellow fever, and malaria are some in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, by out in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda,
of the diseases which are once again being controlling 93% of its 649,000 km2 drainage the Daily Nation in Nairobi reported
recorded in the medical registries of the most area. The dam has other functions as well: on Oct. 28. More than 1,000 people
advanced and urbanized areas of the country. ice-run prevention, silt reduction, irrigation, have died. The epidemic began in
. . .Choleraanddenguearediseasestypically and water supply. It is the largest World Tanzania, said John Sparrow, of the
associated with a lack of basic sanitation. In Bank-financed project in China, and the International Federation of the Red
the last 12 months, the number of deaths from project that employs the largest number of Cross, due to poor sanitation and wa-
cholera rose by 20%. In the same period, the foreign technicians and experts. John Ander- ter quality.
number of cases of dengue increased by 8%.” son, head consultant of the project, told Xin-
Some 10,000 people died of AIDS in the last hua, “The Xiaolangdi Project shows that PUERTO RICO witnessed an esti-
three years in Brazil, but another 18,000 died China needs the world and the world needs mated 200,000-person demonstra-
of “so-called old diseases.” China.” tion on Oct. 1, against privatization of
The paper singled out the increase in tu- the telephone company and the “Chil-
berculosis as cause for concern. AIDS ac- eanization” of government workers’
counts for only 10% of the TB cases; the rest pensions. Two leaders of the protest,
can be laid at the door of “precarious sanitary Rep. José Varela and Labor Federa-
conditions.” With 15-35% of patients leav- Science tion President José Torres, warn that
ing treatment before they are cured, the dan- Puerto Rico is being turned into a
ger of antibiotic-resistant strains is rising. China, Indonesia sign “fascist” state, in an interview in the
Already, the morbidity rate for TB has risen Nov. 10 New Federalist newspaper.
alarmingly in Brazil (3 per 1,000 cases), and cooperation agreement
nearly 6,000 people die each year from this THE HONGKONG government
disease. On Oct. 27, in Beijing, Indonesia and China will spend over $18 billion on infra-
signed a science and technology cooperation structure projects over the next five
agreement. The accord is a follow-on from years, Secretary for Transport Nicho-
a memorandum of understanding signed in las Ng said on Oct. 29. Plans include
Jakarta in June 1994, covering short-term three rail projects: the West Rail, the
China cooperation in the fields of forestry planta- Tseung Kwan O extension, and the
tion technology, remote sensing, computer Ma On Shan to Tai Wai extension.
Flood control under software development for digital image
processors, designing telecommunications STOCKS of U.S. banks are falling,
way on Yellow River digital switching systems, building a genera- in reaction to the worldwide financial
tor factory in Indonesia, and rural electrifi- crisis, the Oct. 31 New York Times
The Yellow River was successfully dammed cation construction technology. reported. Investors are worried about
on Oct. 28, in the first phase of construction Indonesian State Minister for Research the banks’ exposure to potential ca-
of the Xiaolangdi Multi-Purpose Water Con- and Techology B.J. Habibie witnessed the tastrophes in Asia, Ibero-America,
servation Project. This huge project, second signing. He was joined by Chinese State Sci- and Russia. The losses make the
in importance only to the Three Gorges Proj- ence and Technology Minister Dr. Song Jian banks’ large holdings of derivatives
ect on the Yangtze River, will be able to con- and the latter’s deputy, Deng Nan, daughter all the more dangerous.
trol catastrophic floods and provide a foun- of the late Deng Xiaoping.
dation for flood control on the lower reaches Earlier, Habibie met with Chinese Min- TRADE UNION officials esti-
of the river, water-soil conservation on the ister for International Trade and Economic mated that up to 200,000 residents in
Loess Plateau, and economic development Cooperation Wu Yi, and Deputy Foreign Primorskii Krai, Russia, took part in
on the middle and lower reaches, Xinhua Minister Tang Juanxuan. Habibie raised protest actions on Oct. 30, over wage
quoted Chinese Premier Li Peng. trade possibilities involving Indonesia’s air- arrears and worsening living condi-
“Controlling Yellow River floods and craft producer, and possible delivery of natu- tions. Protesters demanded the resig-
developing its water resources have re- ral gas supplies from the Natuna fields. Indo- nations of President Boris Yeltsin and
mained a top priority of the Party Central nesia has lately been promoting counter- the federal government.
Committee and the State Council,” Li Peng trade deals with its trading partners.

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EIRStrategic Studies

Whose God does

Pat Robertson serve?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

October 26, 1997 during the recent thirty years, will have ceased to exist. It will
have vanished, either because it simply self-disintegrated, as
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said: it is now threatening to do, or because civilization will have
“Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are survived by taking radical measures to put the present world
too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your financial system into government receivership in bankruptcy,
devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: ‘To and established a new system to replace it.
The Unknown God.’ Whom ye therefore ignorantly Those who care about humanity will insist that the govern-
worship, him I declare unto you.” ments act soon, to put the bankrupt, present system into re-
—Acts 17:22-23 ceivership, and create a new system in its place. Unless that
is done, the system will self-vaporize within the time-frame
The British monarchy is currently engaged in a indicated, and, the world as a whole will implode into eco-
massive effort, both to disrupt the relations between nomic and related conditions echoing the so-called “New
the governments of the U.S.A. and China, and to drive Dark Age” of Europe’s mid-Fourteenth Century. In that latter,
Japan, Hong Kong, and others, into throwing the U.S.A. dismal alternative, it were utopian to imagine that the United
into financial and political chaos by impelling Asia in- States itself would still exist a few decades ahead, and wildly
stitutions into dumping hundreds of billions of dollars optimistic to imagine the world’s population would not col-
of U.S. Treasuries on the market. lapse to a level of a few hundred millions individuals within
about two generations.
Only recently, has any significantly measurable ration of It is not inevitable that the United States disintegrate, nor
the population of the U.S.A. begun to sense the awesomeness the planet plunge into a New Dark Age. Rather, what occurs
of what is occurring during the weeks and months now in will reflect the executive qualities of the leadership we choose
progress. Some, mostly in higher places, have, at last, begun for the perilous years now afoot. The U.S. could not make
to sense that the world as nearly everyone has taken it for the global changes needed, without the help of allies, which
granted until now, will no longer exist, in that form, by about would, at the present instant, tend to be found outside Prime
the approaching end of this present century. Minister Tony Blair’s western Europe. However, no group of
What we are presently experiencing is no mere echo of nations could halt the plunge into a New Dark Age without
the mythological 1929-1931 international financial collapse. the participating, leading role of the U.S. Executive Branch.
Something much more profound is in progress, an ongoing Thus, the greatest danger to humanity, and to the United
systemic breakdown crisis of the existing financial and mone- States itself, comes from the rampant foolishness which has
tary institutions of present-day, “globalized,” post-industrial spread, during the recent three decades, among the ordinary
utopia. citizens of the U.S.A. For that reason, we turn attention to the
By the end of this century, give a year or two, plus or strategic danger to the United States represented by the spread
minus, the international financial system, as it has been known of certain religious and related cults among large rations of

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 To understand
“Diamond Pat”
Robertson properly,
writes LaRouche, “one
should adopt as the
bench-mark of one’s
survey the fact that the
origin of Adam Smith’s
and the Mont Pelerin
Society’s ‘free trade’
dogma of political-
economy is, quite
literally satanic.”

the U.S. population. Lincoln,1 and Harding,2 openly threatening the continued sov-
That said, we now turn to that latter, particular subject of
this strategic study. By the close of this report, the most rele- 1. The southern slaveholders’ Confederacy (CSA) was a creation of Lord
vant connections should be recognized by the reader. Palmerston’s British Foreign Service. The creation of the forces which estab-
lished the Confederacy, was conducted through, chiefly, a U.S. (“Young
The recent, right-wing political ruckuses stirred up by
America”) branch of the same Benthamite, left-wing, Giuseppe Mazzini-
TV’s Reverend “Diamond Pat” Robertson, and by those “El- led “Young Europe” organization which gave us Karl Marx, bomb-thrower
mer Gantrys” harvesting the highly lucrative rallies of the Bakunin, Bakunin’s personal terrorist, bomb-throwing accomplice of 1848-
“Promise Keepers,” are not merely a key part of the “soft 49, composer Richard Wagner, and that 1848-49 revolution which, among
money,” sleaze-ball operations which President Clinton’s en- other things, brought Palmerston’s puppet, Napoleon III, to power in France.
The creation of the Confederacy was greatly assisted by Palmerston agent
emies are presently deploying for the 1997-2000 elections.
Judah Benjamin, who became the Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and,
Such predatory cults typify a dangerous abuse of the name of later, the immediate director from London, of the assassination of President
religion. Investigation has shown, that not only are these cults Lincoln. Another Palmerston agent, August Belmont, a New York banker
a fraud upon their principal victims, their supporters, who who occupied the position of Democratic Party “king-maker” at that time,
have been misled into believing that these are Christian orga- greatly assisted the military campaigns of Robert E. Lee et al., through such
included means as his political connections to General George B. McClellan.
nizations. Investigation has shown, beyond any reasonable McClellan was willing to defend Washington. D.C. against Lee’s invading
doubt, that the most prominent among these cults serve a army, but not willing to destroy Lee’s army when he had the means and
foreign power, a power which is, today, once again, the lead- circumstances to do so. Following his discharge, for cause, by President
ing strategic threat to the U.S.A. Lincoln, McClellan ran as Belmont’s 1864 Democratic candidate for Presi-
This case presents us with problems, both of conception dent, on the program of Belmont: to seek “peace” through London-designed
peace-treaty agreements, carving the U.S.A. up into several perpetually
and action, some of which I am uniquely qualified, personally,
squabbling baronies. Palmerston and Napoleon III would have deployed the
to address. Since this is a matter of great and immediate ur- combined British, French, and Spanish fleets in support of the Confederacy,
gency for our nation, and also to those individuals who may had Czar Alexander II of Russia not threatened to make war throughout
have been misled into one of these pseudo-Christian cults, it Europe if they did so.
is morally obligatory that I address this strategic issue as I 2. The major escalation of U.S. official war-plans “Red” and “Orange,”
now do here. occurred in the context of the post-World War I “détente” efforts, the naval
Our nation’s present, mortal adversary, that foreign parity negotiations, during which Britain worked to consolidate an alliance
with Japan, against the U.S. As U.S. Army General William “Billy” Mitchell
power, is the veritable “Addams family” of international poli- leaked, during his court-martial proceedings, the December 1941 preemptive
tics, nasty Queen Elizabeth II’s British monarchy. That mon- naval assault on Pearl Harbor was anticipated in those U.S. war plans of the
archy is once again, as in the time of Presidents Washington, early 1920s. At that earlier time, Japan’s attack upon Pearl Harbor had been

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 Vice-President George
Bush’s key drug-
trafficker of the 1983-
1986 interval, Lt.-Col.
Oliver North (ret.), is a
thug closely associated
with the more eccentric
side of “Diamond Pat”
Robertson’s cultish
persuasions.

ereign existence of the U.S.A.3 This efflorescence of wildly irrationalist varieties of

These cults, typified by the case of Robertson and the highly politicized, nominally Protestant, “right wing” sects,5
mercenaries controlling “Promise Keepers,” are run, from is complemented by overtly gnostic cults spread among nomi-
behind the curtain, as subversive operations of the highest nal U.S. Catholics, that typified by the satanic rhythms of
administrative agency of the British state, the Privy Council. “rock masses” and by the proliferation of neo-Manicheans
They are part of an international intelligence operation di- such as U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
rected by the highest-ranking department of that Privy Coun- and Michael Novak. As these cases, of Scalia and Novak,
cil, the Church of England. These operations are conducted, illustrate the fact, the nominally Catholic varieties of gnostic
most notably, under the cover of the international apparatus of cults, are run, in significant part, through British intelligence’s
the Church of England, known as the Anglican Communion, Mont Pelerin Society operations, including such U.S. subsidi-
which operates through such covers as the paganist, “one- aries of the late Friedrich von Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society,
worldist,” World Council of Churches.4 as the London-directed, Washington-based Heritage Foun-
dation.6
foreseen as the Pacific arm of a joint Japan-Britain attack on the U.S.A.
The replacement of Harding by rabid Anglophile Calvin Coolidge, calmed role of the World Council of Churches, see Anton Chaitkin, “Who Is Wagging
matters down a bit; after that, the relevant U.S. war plans were gradually Your Neighbor’s Tongue? The Militias and Pentecostalism,” EIR, Aug. 22,
downgraded, to paper planning options, and eventually shelved, during the 1997, pp. 31-41; Anton Chaitkin, Treason in America (New York: New
latter 1930s. Echoes of the early 1920s conflicts with Britain reverberated in Benjamin Franklin House, second edition, 1985), Chapter 19.
U.S. patriotic circles, once again, during World War II and its immediate 5. Vice-President George Bush’s key drug-trafficker of the 1983-1986 inter-
aftermath; Churchill’s cronies in the influential circles of Averell Harriman val, Lt.-Col. (ret.) Oliver North, is a thug closely associated with the more
successfully lured Churchill-maven Harry Truman into directions which eccentric side of “Diamond Pat” Robertson’s cultish persuasions. A related,
they preferred. relevant example of such connections, is U.S. Representative Frank Wolf
3. This time, the British strategic threat to the U.S.A. comes chiefly by way of (R-Va.), a key asset of Britain’s Baroness Caroline Cox. Cox is the Deputy
schemes, including so-called “environmentalist” schemes, to put the United Speaker of the House of Lords, and the motherly “Morticia Addams” of
States under the self-enforcing social (e.g., population), economic, and “eco- Christian Solidarity International, the latter a front organization of British
logical” statutes of supranational regulatory agencies, such as the United foreign intelligence. She is Frank Wolf’s British intelligence handler on such
Nations Organization and its IMF. Thus, at the recent Denver G-7/8 “sum- areas of the world as Africa and China. Not only are these right-wing cults
mit,” where Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair displayed his government deployed for action in the November 1997, 1998, and 2000 election-cam-
as a recasting for the film Clockwork Orange, Blair disrupted the conference paigns, they are crucial for former Vice-President George “Iran/Contra”
with his and his anti-U.S.A. European allies’ banshee demands for savage Bush’s efforts to have his son, the present Governor of Texas, elected millen-
cut-backs in the U.S. economy, all in the name of “Global Warming.” nial U.S. President in November 2000.
4. Paganism is typified by the view of Christianity presented in William 6. The Mont Pelerin Society was founded as an arm of British operations
James’ widely employed The Varieties of Religious Experience. On the against what Britain’s Winston Churchill hated bitterly, the legacy of U.S.

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 In nominally Protestant and Catholic varieties of such Since this is a political-intelligence matter, in this location
gnostic, “free trade”-oriented, politically neo-conservative I shall sharply limit our attention to Biblical text, chiefly to a
cults, there is, often, also a strong influence from the tutti- few unavoidable references, such as Genesis 1:26-30 and the
frutti “New Religions” projects of a U.S. organization, the authority of the Apostles John and Paul. That is in keeping
highly-secretive, behind-the-curtains, “family jewels” asso- with the subject of this present report: the hostile use of reli-
ciation known as the American Family Foundation. Among gious covers by a foreign power. The issue here, is that pow-
nominally Protestant varieties of these cults, as rooted in the er’s openly stated intent to subvert, and perhaps to destroy
early development of what emerged as the Promise Keepers, our sovereign constitutional republic, that by aid of a wicked
there are highly indicative bits and pieces of the degrading sex abuse of religious belief.
myths of Carl Jung7 and Wilhelm Reich8 thrown in. Sinclair
Lewis’s “Elmer Gantry” would have understood the nature ‘The American exception’
of the latter interest. The direct line of connections between the ministry of
The historian, witnessing this sordid politico-religious Jesus Christ and the exceptional historical mission of our
putrescence, is reminded of the circumstances in which kin- United States, is summed up as follows.
dred mass-insanities, such as the Flagellant cults, pervaded Relevant historical studies specify, that Jesus Christ was
the European landscape, during Europe’s Fourteenth-Century crucified in the year A.D. 33, during the reign of the Roman
“New Dark Age.” What is overtaking European culture as a Emperor and Mithra-cultist Tiberius, then residing at Capri.
whole, today, is a calamitous spectacle echoing what is de- Official archives support the report supplied by the Gospel of
picted in the relevant paintings of Pieter Brueghel the Matthew, that that murder was the result of a “Scalia-like”
Younger, or of Hieronymous Bosch, or, in literature, Johann order of Procurator Pontius Pilate,9 who, in fact, had acquired
Goethe’s Faustian vision of Walpurgis night. It is a spectacle that official appointment as a consequence of his marriage to
of the type which, in known history, comes to the surface of Mithra-cultist Tiberius’s ward.
a culture, only when that society, like Biblical Belshazzar’s On account of Tiberius’ role in the crucifixion of Christ,
Babylon, has lost, or nearly lost, its moral fitness to survive. the memory of Tiberius, he and the site of his residence on
the Island of Capri, are both objects of pagan adulation for
President Franklin Roosevelt. From the beginning, the Mont Pelerin Society Twentieth-Century satanists in the following of theosophist
was led by Churchill’s preference, radical right-winger Friedrich von Hayek. Aleister Crowley and of Alex Muenthe.10
Hayek was, to the end, a devotee of the avowed satanist Bernard Mandeville Christianity became widespread throughout the Roman
(e.g., Fable of the Bees, 1714). During the 1978-1980 interval, the Mont
Pelerin Society of von Hayek, charlatan Milton Friedman, et al., moved to Empire, especially among Greek-speaking populations, and
take over top-down ideological control of the Republican Party. Through
operations conducted through Hong Kong, and through the foreign-intelli- 9. Cf. Matthew 27:11-31. Despite Pontius Pilate’s statement, a moment
gence arms of the Church of England, my then-avowed personal adversaries earlier, that he believed Jesus Christ to be innocent of the charges, he con-
in London took over control of the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Founda- demned him to be executed by the Roman state, on the grounds that perceived
tion, and placed a British agent, Ed Feulner, in charge as a local commission- local popular opinion demanded this. Thus, Pontius Pilate practiced law as
aire. Attacks against this writer, launched simultaneously, publicly, begin- U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done in cases of
ning May 1978, by the Heritage Foundation, the Anti-Defamation League, condemned persons whom evidence proclaims innocent. Scalia walked in
and the Rockford Institute, show that the present writer was one of the earliest the footsteps of that Pontius Pilate, when he placed procedure in opposition
principal targets of that Mont Pelerin Society attempt to establish top-down to, and above the principle of truthfulness. Notable, are the avowed political
control over U.S. policy-shaping. One such libel, planted in then-Presidential darlings of such neo-conservative types of “born-again Christian” cultists as
pre-candidate Ronald Reagan’s Citizens for the Republic newsletter, was certain Republican officials of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These politi-
traced, with the help of Michael Deaver, to a Mont Pelerin Society Hong cal figures include incumbent Governor Allen, gubernatorial candidate Gil-
Kong meeting. more, and Caroline Cox’s pawn, U.S. Representative Frank Wolf; the ob-
7. Robert Hicks, The Masculine Journey (Colorado Springs: NavPress, served practice of these darlings of the “Christian Right,” shows that they
1993) played a key part in the indoctrination of recruits to the Promise Keep- have no difference of principle with Scalia, or Pontius Pilate on the relevant
ers. See, Anton Chaitkin, op. cit., EIR, Aug. 22, 1997. point of morality and law.
8. During the period preceding the Averell Harriman-backed Nazi coup d’état 10. Although banned from the city of Rome, the Middle East cult of Mithra
in Germany, a scurrilous clone of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, was the is key to Octavian Caesar’s victory over his rivals, in the course of becoming
key intellectual figure of an exceptionally influential Berlin Communist Party the Emperor Augustus Caesar. Octavian’s negotiations with the priests of
commune. Reich typified those, such as existentialists Theodor Adorno and the Mithra cult, on the island of Capri, established the agreement under which
Hannah Arendt of the so-called “Frankfurt School,” who during the 1920s, Near East forces of the Mithra-worshippers backed Octavian’s claim against
and later, came to represent the nihilist dogma of Georg Lukacs, he the former the competing alliance of Mark Antony with Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra. In
cultural minister of the 1919 Bela Kun dictatorship in Hungary. During consequence of that, that cult became a legalized religion of the Roman
the 1930s and early 1940s, Reich’s Communist credentials gained him a legions, the island of Capri became sacred to it, and, that island soon became
proportionately large constituency among left-wing New York City and other nominally the personal property of the incumbent Roman Caesar for the
centers. Later, Reich’s lunatic sex dogma shifted its political constituency following five centuries, until approximately A.D. 500. Tiberius spent most
somewhat, into the neighborhood of the religious far right, just as the kindred of his term as emperor on that island, where he maintained a palace-residence.
homosexual pornography of Nazi-leaning Carl Jung played a key role in the The archive materials from relevant secular sources, indicate that it was
origins of the “Promise Keepers” cult. Tiberius who personally ordered the execution of Jesus Christ.

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widely persecuted in Judea, and in Rome, during the thirty- plainly contrary to the Mosaic principle of Genesis 1:26-30.12
odd years between the crucifixion of Christ and the executions However, such racialist views had become intrinsic to much
of Peter and Paul by the Emperor Nero. To historians, it is of Hebrew tradition, since no later than the changes in Hebrew
relevant, that the Apostle John is documented as living until sacred writings introduced under the tyranny of the first Baby-
A.D. 100. On these and related accounts, there is nothing lonian captivity.
mythological, or historically mysterious, respecting Jesus Before Christ, and until those western European develop-
Christ or Christianity’s origins, or its early role under the ments, of the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, which
tyranny of that evil Rome which Jewish scholars, and Chris- led into the 1789 establishment of the U.S. Federal republic,
tians, including the Apocalypse of the Apostle John, referred virtually no society functioned on the basis of a generally
to, variously, as “Babylon,” or, as “The Whore of Babylon.”11 accepted body of law, or custom of civil society, which was
The crucial political effect of Christ’s ministry, is that, not alien to Christian principle. All societies, until the estab-
for the first time, all men and women were defined efficiently, lishment of our Federal republic, were based upon axiomati-
as “made in the image of God,” thus beginning the approxi- cally “two-tier” (or, “multi-tier”) cultures, some men on top,
mately 1,400-year process in western European civilization, with as much as ninety percent, or even more, degraded to a
the which unleashed the Fifteenth-Century Golden Renais- bestialized status, alien to the principle of Genesis 1:26-30.
sance. That Renaissance, in turn, unleashed the revolutionary Those on the lower tier were degraded into the status of half-
establishment of the first sovereign form of modern nation- men, as slaves, serfs, or even worse.13 The reigning form of
state, the 1461-1483 reconstitution of France under King multi-tier society in Europe and the Middle East, from the
Louis XI.
This process, leading from the great ecumenical Council
12. For example, the case of those racialist, heathen swine, such as apologists
of Florence, through Louis XI’s France, culminated in the for the treasonous establishment of the British client-state, the Confederate
establishment of the U.S. Federal constitutional republic. Our States of America (CSA). It was commonly argued by such degraded persons,
Federal republic was the first sovereign nation-state which that the Old Testament account of Noah and his children gave Biblical
adopted that Christian principle, explicitly, as its fundamental authority to the imposition of chattel slavery upon “the descendants of Ham.”
The proponents of that sophistry represented the specific type of “low church”
law: that men and women are equally made in the image of
mind-set associated with the British-Israelite cult-tradition represented by
God, and that the state’s mission is not to serve the interests “Diamond Pat” Robertson today. However, as the Venice faction’s persisting
of some landed- or financier-oligarchical class, but, rather, struggle against Spanish Queen Isabella’s ban on slavery illustrates this point,
to meet the obligations to all persons, and all nations, implicit the British-Israelite cults merely copied the precedent of Venice’s pro-usury
in that same Christian principle which is centered in our faction operating as a subversive force inside the Sixteenth-Century Catho-
lic Church.
Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of our 1789
Federal Constitution. 13. President Abraham Lincoln was correct respecting the original intent of
our Federal Constitution; on that account, the XIVth Amendment is the
From the historian’s vantage-point, this feature of Chris- only Amendment which has a substantial, pervasive quality of constitutional
tianity, as embodied in our Declaration of Independence and weight; the others, even when morally sound, or otherwise necessary, have
Preamble of our Constitution, first appeared as an axiomatic the relatively inferior lawful quality of merely positive law. The latter are
departure, by certain devout Jews (Christ and his Apostles), fairly associated with widespread use, in other nations, of the term “basic
from the implicitly racialist misconception of what we call law,” the latter the morally inferior notion commonly employed as a substitute
for constitutional law in the creation and reading of virtually all state constitu-
today the Old Testament, as a special contract between the tions but that of the U.S.A. The distinction to be made, is between the articu-
Hebrews and God, to the detriment of other peoples as peo- lated expression of some principle of nature which it would be folly to evade,
ples. The latter, Babylonian view of such a covenant, which and a mere preference expressed by law enacted in considerably less haste
is still espoused today by racialists such as British-Israelites than the customary follies proclaimed as statute, or the half-witted caprices
and extreme right-wing factions among Zionists, was, and is which are often solemnized as judicial precedent. The Preamble of our Con-
stitution, as it reflects upon the principles adduced by Leibniz, as set forth in
the Declaration of Independence, is the fundamental, natural law of the
U.S.A. Federal republic. The original body of the Constitution is the integral
11. The Jewish and Christian theologians’ reference to Rome as “Babylon” design of relations among Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, and the body of
was not hyperbolic, or otherwise symbolic. The Roman Empire was an ex- citizens, deemed necessary for meeting the overriding requirements set forth
plicit continuation of what had been known to Classical Greeks of the time in the Preamble. For contrast, read Jonathan Swift’s fictionalized account of
of Socrates, Plato, and of Plato’s adversary and Aristotle’s controller, the a visit to England under George I: Lemuel Gulliver’s voyage to the land
Rhetorician Isocrates, as the “Persian model” or “oligarchical model.” This of the Houyhnhnms, where one might view aristocratic horses’s posteriors
model was a direct continuation of the social-political model of society which lording it over their body-slaves, the illiterate, rutting, lower classes of the
the Achaemenid (“Persian”) dynasty had inherited from the Babylon of Bibli- United Kingdom, called “yahoos.” A return to that state of affairs, according
cal Belshazzar. For those who then knew the preceding centuries’ history of to “Third Wave” devotee Lord William Rees-Mogg, is the utopian design to
the Mediterranean littoral, the sensible Jewish and Greek scholars of that be reestablished by “information society,” a condition in which libertarian
period, the continuity, from Babylon through Rome, of this specific form of constraints upon government expenditure, ensure that ninety-five percent of
moral degradation of mankind was clearly recognized. The British Monarchy the population of every nation shall be left uneducated, illiterate yahoos,
of 1714-1997, is, similarly, a continuation of the oligarchical models of assigned to the subhuman standard euphemistically termed “services em-
Babylon and Tyre to the present day. ployment.”

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time of Babylon to the middle of the Nineteenth Century, is of saving humanity from the horrors of the presently looming
what is described in Classical literature as the “oligarchical threat of immediate plunge into a generations-long, global
(social) model.” “new dark age.”
The “Babylonian” form of this oligarchical model, is the During the history of our Federal Republic, from a time
form of this degeneracy which predominates within European before President George Washington’s “Farewell Address,”
civilization today, from Babylon and Hiram’s Tyre, through until the aftermath of the Crimean War aggression against
Rome, through Byzantium, and through the European feudal- Russia, by Britain and her toady, France, the United States
ism derived from the debased heritages of Rome and Byzan- had no friends among governments anywhere in the world.
tium. In other parts of the world, different forms of oligarchi- Britain, and the dynasties of Clement Prince Metternich’s
cal rule are found, such as the debased Aztec, heart-rending “Holy Alliance,” like Metternich’s admirer, misbeknighted
tyrants of what is called Mexico today, or the abominable Sir Henry A. Kissinger of today, were devout adherents of
form of slave-society practiced deep into the present century, the “oligarchical social model,” each and all committed to the
by the hesychastic monasteries of Tibet. destruction of our republic.14 Under these hostile conditions,
The development of the modern nation-state, within Eu- the enemies from without fostered the prosperous growth of
rope, as a replacement for the intrinsically evil institutions of our enemies from within: New England partners of the British
feudalism, was a relative boon to all humanity. However, East India Company’s drug-trafficking, southern slave-hold-
betrayal of the League of Cambrai, first by the cupidity of ers, and New York bankers in that treasonous tradition whose
Pope Julius II, and, soon after, the morally criminal support benchmarks include Aaron Burr’s Bank of Manhattan and
of Venice, against the League, by Spain, saved a virtually August Belmont. Our political and social systems were
satanic Venice from well-deserved destruction of its power, mightily corrupted, as shown, later, by the wicked influence
and prevented the necessary full defeat of the feudalist cause. of Belmont, Morgan, and such spawn of the slave-owners’
Thus, from that point, until the calamitous introduction of the Confederacy as Presidents Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roo-
“rock-drug-sex, youth counter-culture,” and matching cults sevelt, and Ku Klux Klan-booster Woodrow Wilson.15
of “post-industrial” utopianism, during the middle to late The potential of the U.S.A. was freshly unleashed by the
1960s, European society progressed, if unevenly; but, it de- initiatives of President Lincoln, which, over the 1861-1876
veloped only as a mixed form of society, partly national econ- interval, made the U.S.A. the world’s leading, and most tech-
omy, but under the corrupting domination of the kind of Vene- nologically advanced nation-state economy of the world. This
tian-style financier-oligarchical overlordship, which came to role of the U.S. created the post-1865 industrial revolution in
be centered in that maritime financier oligarchy gathered, like continental Europe and Japan, and we threatened, thus, to
covens of foul oligarchical vultures, around the Anglo- reduce the enemies of our nation’s principle to that enduring
Dutch monarchies.
Thus, under those unwholesome circumstances prevail-
ing within Europe during most of the Sixteenth through Nine- 14. See Henry A. Kissinger’s May 10, 1982 public address to a London
teenth Centuries, the emergence of the U.S. constitutional Chatham House audience: “All accounts of the Anglo-American alliance
during the Second World War and in the early postwar period draw attention
republic of 1789, came as a globally historic exception to the
to the significant differences in philosophy between Franklin Roosevelt and
moral corruption which dominated the fundamental law and Winston Churchill. . . . Many American leaders condemned Churchill as
statecraft of other nations during that time. needlessly obsessed with power politics, too rigidly anti-Soviet, too colonial-
Within the focus so circumscribed, lies the special impor- ist in his attitude to what is now called the Third World, and too little interested
tance of the United States’ Federal constitutional republic to in building the fundamentally new international order towards which Ameri-
can idealism has always tended. The British undoubtedly saw the Americans
all mankind: in 1789, under President Lincoln, and today. On as naive, moralistic, and evading responsibility for helping secure the global
the shoulders of our nation, still, rests a crucial responsibility equilibrium. The dispute was resolved according to American preferences—
of leadership, upon which all mankind depends, now desper- in my view, to the detriment of postwar security.” On that occasion, Kissinger
ately, to avoid the threatened “New Dark Age” which now not only bragged publicly, that he had been an agent of the British Foreign
looms immediately before us. Our republic can not, and, Service during his tenures as U.S. National Security Adviser and Secretary
of State, under Presidents Nixon and Ford. The thematic feature of that
therefore, will not do this good thing by itself; but, it must
Chatham House address echoed Kissinger’s A World Restored, in which
provide an element of leadership among nations, without Kissinger avowed himself a follower of the leading enemies of the U.S.A.
which the combined best efforts of all other nations would fail. during the early Nineteenth Century, such as the Holy Alliance’s Clement
This is the crux of the political issue posed by the present Prince Metternich and Metternich’s ally, London’s Lord Castlereagh. In the
proliferation of virtually treasonous gnostic cults, such as that May 10, 1982 Chatham House address, Kissinger emphasized that his service
to London while a U.S. official, expressed Hobbesian Kissinger’s faithful
of Reverend “Diamond Pat” Robertson, in the U.S. today. adherence to the anti-American policies of Prime Minister Winston Church-
This does not mean that we should not aid would-be Chris- ill, and hostility to the “intellectual,” anti-colonialist heritage of the U.S.
tians to free themselves from the seductions of such virtual- Declaration of Independence and Federal Constitution.
reality cults as Robertson’s TV side-shows. It means, that that 15. Cf. Anton Chaitkin, Treason in America, 2nd ed. (New York: New
concern must be situated within, and subsumed by, the task Benjamin Franklin House, 1985).

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The British-Israelite cult was based upon the presumption that the British population represented the “Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.” This
tradition continues to be the root of Ku Klux Klan-style, populist anti-Semitism of a racialist form among low-church types in the U.S.A. today.

relative weakness they so lavishly deserved.16 With the acces- as much faithful followers of Jesus Christ as mortal men might
sion of Confederacy-spawn Theodore Roosevelt to the Presi- be. Among those Apostles were John and Paul, who under-
dency, we failed to reach fully the necessary precondition of stood the hidden genius of that Greek culture which had come
durable national security. to dominate the Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean since the
Yet, in times of crisis, as on December 7, 1941, the old time of Alexander the Great’s successive victories over Tyre
heritage of Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln may and the Babylonian empire of the Achaemenid emperors. It
erupt anew from among us, as the name of Lincoln and the is relevant, to recall, that existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche
patriotic tradition popularly associated with that name, led and his pagan Romantic followers, such as the theosophists,
the United States to victory in World War II. Although rabid Alex Muenthe, and Adolf Hitler’s Nazis, have never, down
Anglophiles have worked long and hard, since the close of to the present day, forgiven virtually any Jew for what Christ
that war, to uproot the Lincoln tradition, that heritage lies and his Apostles did, in taking over the legacy of Classical
waiting, like fallow rich farm-land, ready to be quickened Greek culture, to build the Christian church, all to the included
again, at a time we need it most. political, social effect, of spoiling the continuation of oligar-
chy’s evil game of reducing the majority among men and
The origins of Christian statecraft women made in the image of God, into the status of yahoo-
To return to the well-springs of our republic’s historical like “human cattle.”17
position, early Christianity itself: modern European civiliza-
tion was the wonderfully inspired work of some Jews, they
17. It is notable, that the British-Israelite cult, dating from England’s Seven-
teenth Century, was based upon the presumption that the British population
16. On the Carey-Lincoln 1861-1876 industrial revolution, and its spread represented the “Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.” That cult long regarded the Jews
into Japan, Germany, Russia, and China, see Anton Chaitkin, “The ‘Land- as upstart “fake Hebrews,” who must not be permitted to share the British
Bridge’: Henry Carey’s Global Development Program,” EIR, May 2, 1997, people’s racialist, imperial claim to the original “Chosen People” contract
pp. 30-53. (“covenant”) with the Almighty. This British-Israelite tradition continues to

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 It is important to stress a certain point, for the benefit of The desired downfall of the oligarchy of pagan gods, which
the reader, at this juncture. For reasons which will become implicitly pervades the Homeric epics in their totality, erupts
clearer in the course of this report, there is a reciprocal rela- in the poem of Solon, is summed up by Aeschylus’ Prometh-
tionship, and coherence, between a person’s implicit ideas eus Bound, and embodied in the dialogues of Plato. This
about God and religions, on the one side, and that person’s artistic and scientific legacy, of the emergence and develop-
beliefs and practice in economic matters, on the other side. ment of Classical-Greek culture, from Homer through Plato,
This is the point I have stressed, in setting forth the principles was the ploughed fertile ground, into which the work of
of a science of Christian economy.18 Christ’s Apostles planted the seeds of the Christian church’s
In reality, as opposed to the popularized nonsense gener- rapid growth into a moral force tantamount to a world power.
ally accepted in today’s university classrooms, on the Whore During the lifetimes of the Apostles Peter, Paul, and John,
of Babylon’s current City of London and Wall Street resi- the Apostles’ evangelization of the Greek-speaking popula-
dences, such as most of our daily news media, economics is tion of the Mediterranean, first established the Christian
the human species’ efficient relationship to the universe as a Church as a leading force. The understanding of the way in
whole. Just so, the proof that self-proclaimed Catholic Mi- which this evangelism among Greek-speakers accomplished
chael Novak is a gnostic, rather than a Christian, is conclu- this, is crucial for understanding Christianity historically, and
sively demonstrated by his heathen misconceptions respect- in respect to demonstrating the crucial features of its specific
ing political-economy. No one could share Novak’s gnostic content. It is the process of change, by means of which the
views and practice on the subject of political economy, and apostolic evangelist prompts the persons addressed to trans-
also be a Christian: one’s belief and practice respecting eco- form themselves into Christians, which reveals, within that
nomic matters, not only determines the fate of nations and process of change itself, the living essence of Christianity.
humanity at large, but also implicitly defines one’s ideas about What did the evangelist Apostle find in the Greek mind, in
both “human nature” and the composition of the universe. For that principal pathway of such change, among other, parallel
such reasons, what people say and do in economic matters, pathways also used, to building the initial Christian church?
reveals which god they serve, with far more accuracy than all That, my proposed approach here, is not an egregiously
of their most impassioned and other utterances respecting novel one. Since the evangelical ministries of the Apostles
their religious beliefs as such. John and Paul, valid Christian theology has always expressed
With that consideration in view, to understand the issues itself in terms of that notion of Reason provided uniquely by
of Christian religion today, one must proceed from a focus the method of Plato.
upon the implications of the apostolic evangelists’ building The crux of the issue, is the conflict which arises between
the Christian church during the lifetimes of Philo of Alexan- Christianity and societies which define large parts of their
dria, and the Apostles Peter, John, and Paul, chiefly through populations as, in effect, less than fully human. In other
their missionary work among the Greek-speaking culture of words, the following. The quality of each individual person
the Mediterranean littoral. It is that connection of Christianity which defines the human species as “made in the image of
to the culture produced by Classical Greece, which defines God,” is, otherwise, the quality of the human species which
the characteristic issues of the global history of European sets it absolutely apart from, and superior to all animal spe-
civilization, from its beginnings in the emergence of Classical cies. The exact, experimentally demonstrable nature of that
Greece, to the present day. distinction, as we shall redevelop that conception here, is
There are certain relevant peculiarities in the evolutionary the cognizable essence of Christian theology, and implicitly,
development of the Classical Greek culture, from the Homeric thus, the essential distinction of Christianity from all preced-
epics, through both the Classical tragedies, and the subse- ing forms of religion.
quent work of Plato, for which there is no approximation in As this bears upon the political and social characteristics
the earlier history of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. of particular societies, there arises immediately the question,
whether those political and social forms are suited for a soci-
ety of persons made in the image of God. Is the individual’s
be the root of Ku Klux Klan-style, populist anti-Semitism of a racialist form development, as made in the image of God, fostered, ignored,
among low-church types in the U.S.A. today. There was a deep-rooted anti-
or even repressed by the custom of that society? Is any class
Semitism, therefore, among the English people and those Protestant “low
church” sects which, like Robertson’s cult, are U.S.-based offshoots of the of persons, regarded as belonging to a “lower” social tier, and
British-Israelites within the United Kingdom itself. Since the time Edward treated as if the distinction, “made in the image of God,” were
VII was still acting as Prince of Wales for his dotty, widowed mother in the substantially, if not entirely denied to that class of persons?
attic, there has been modification of British-Israelite cultists’ attitudes toward This pertains not only to the development of that personality’s
Britain’s use of Jewish assets, whether the latter were willing assets, or not.
Thus, the largest faction of right-wing Zionist fanatics inside the U.S.A.
potential, but also to the mode of life which society makes
today are not Jewish, but, rather, members of low-church sects which are U.S. available to the developed personality of each and all mem-
offshoots of the United Kingdom’s and South Africa’s British-Israelite cults. bers of society.
18. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., The Science of Christian Economy (Washing- On this account, it is obvious, that any society which toler-
ton, D.C.: The Schiller Institute, 1991). ates the institution of slavery, or serfdom, or simply the popu-

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lar types of Hollywood “yahoos,” can not be a Christian so- not only the fact that they have been duped; more painful is the
ciety. evidence of that moral defect in their own personal character
There is another aspect to this. If man is made in the which allowed them to be duped.
image of God, then man’s conception of man will affect his I restate this important point. They will be reluctant to
conception of God accordingly. If the subjects of a society recognize those mechanisms of sophistry, by means of which
are compelled to define their social identity in ways which they have been taken in. They will resist these facts, because
conflict with the notion of persons made in the image of God, recognizing the fact of the sophistry employed to dupe them,
the acceptance of the authority of the ruling institutions and confronts them with that flaw in their own personality which
customs of that society, must foster habits of thought, of rela- makes them susceptible to being swindled in such a manner.
tions among persons, and of self-conception which are corro- As some would state the point: they consider being obliged to
sively antagonistic to Christian principle. The conception of face the truth about themselves, a “violation” of their privacy.
God among empiricists, for example, can not be the Christian Therefore, we must “violate them” all the more exhaustively.
God, but, rather, of a wicked tyrant such as a pagan Shakti, The populist must be forewarned of the following consider-
Ishtar, Gaea, Zeus, Lucifer, Isis, Baal, Moloch, or Mithra. ation.
This view of the matter, is key to an understanding of It has turned out to be the most unfortunate consequence
the characteristic problems of Christian associations over the of the illiterate populist’s misreading of the King James Au-
recent two millennia; it is from this standpoint, that we are thorized Version of the Gospel of John, that the term “Word”
able to adduce the U.S. national-security implications of those was supplied for “In the beginning was the Word.” To the
kinds of epidemic pathologies which foster the influence of illiterates and pseudo-literates since, it has become the com-
pseudo-Christian cults such as those of Robertson, the Prom- mon practice to read that term “Word” in the sense of written
ise Keepers, or the perverted sort of nominal Catholic typified text. It is useful, on this account, to consider the equally bad,
by Scalia and Michael Novak. extreme opposite, as Johann Goethe puts this view into the
To comprehend such matters, we must address an essen- mouth of his Mephistopheles. There, in Faust, Mephistoph-
tial question: How can one know that one’s conceptions of eles offers his dupe, the Romantic Faust, the seductive, blas-
God, and man in the image of God, are true? How can one phemous expostulation, “In the beginning was the deed!” The
know this in the same sense one knows an experimentally meaning of the Apostle John’s utterance, is to be read in
proven discovery of a principle of nature? How does the case the sense which Plato’s Timaeus dialogue has supplied to
of Classical Greek culture help us to answer these latter two Christian theology: in the beginning is the Idea.
questions? Our qualification encounters the practical difficulty, that
That is the area of inquiry on which our attention is to be most contemporary Americans, for example, have no concep-
focussed here. For the Christian, we may know Christ, as God tion of what the word “idea” signifies. The problem of such
made man, only once we establish that we know God because functional illiterates, especially populist ones, is not that they
we know man as made in the image of God. We may then have failed to learn the appropriate dictionary-style definition
understand the origins of the kinds of psycho-pathological of the term. The problem is, that the idea of “idea” does not
falsehoods which the cases of pseudo-Christian gnostics, such exist in their conscious mental life. “That is only a theory,”
as Robertson et al. merely typify. they are wont to say; “I believe” (like Mephistopheles) “only
Consider the problems of legalized and other Christianity in facts.” They are saying, in such assertions: “I am an animal,
from this vantage-point. Begin with the corruption which in- whose knowledge is limited to my instinctive use of the art of
herently accompanied the legalization of Christianity under seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling. Who needs a mind,
the Byzantine Emperor Constantine. when I have my good, unwashed ‘common sense,’ as forged
The legalization of Christianity under the Emperor Di- in my personal experience, to guide me?”
ocletian’s heir, Constantine, created a crisis for Christianity. In that sense, since ideas do not presently exist in the
That arrangement placed the Christian Church in the position mental dictionaries of such heathen persons, it does no good
of being, under Roman law, just one more legalized cult merely to supply them with the canonical name for which
within the pagan pantheon of Pontifex Maximus Constantine, their sense of smell knows no corresponding object.
and subject to the anti-human policies of Constantine’s em- In consequence, either, because they are empiricists or
pire, the notorious Code of Diocletian. This led to the crisis materialists, they reject the Gospel out of their organic prefer-
which was the occasion for the famed Council of Nicaea, ence for the religion of Goethe’s Mephistopheles; or, as amia-
which enunciated a doctrine—the Nicene Creed—but which ble, mystically inclined, but pathetic illiterates, they “decon-
did not resolve the underlying problem, that of Christian struct” the New Testament as a whole, as “God whispering
church versus pagan state. into my mind’s ear.” They impute to it the character of a
At this moment, since many credulous dupes of gnostic personal message from a God Who intended the literal sym-
cults, such as those of Robertson or the Promise Keepers, bolic meaning of that passage to be accurately understood as
suffer a politically populist, often even racialist misconcep- a direct, personal communication to the individual, function-
tion of human nature, it will be painful for them to recognize, ally illiterate populist.

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 Such are the populist gulls who are the natural prey of a That problem was not only a product of Byzantine manip-
fictional “Elmer Gantry,” or a real-life political asset, “Dia- ulation of legalized Christianity. The Roman-Byzantine pan-
mond Pat” Roberston, of the 1980s former U.S. President in theonic model, has been a recurring means of induced corrup-
charge of Vice, George Bush. tion through the institutions of established state churches,
To read the Gospel of John, for example, we must under- such as the Church of England’s supervision, on behalf of
stand “idea” in its Platonic sense: a provable principle of the Pontifex Maximus Elizabeth II (today), of the legalized forms
universe, which is fully efficient, but which does not appear in of religious belief under the British Empire, and wherever
the form of that kind of nameable object of sense-perception else today’s gnostic World Council of Churches might reach,
preferred among the Yahoos.19 Let the reader be assured, that from the Seventeenth Century, to the present.
we shall provide the demonstration of that point in the course We have indicated the genesis of imported U.S. cults,
of developing our present report. First, we must locate the derived from the Church of England’s British-Israelite “fun-
ultimate source of the infection with that mental and moral damentalism,” as typified by Protestant cults such as Robert-
disease whose effects are illustrated by the pseudo-Christian son’s and the Promise Keepers, on the one side, and the An-
paganism of Robertson’s cult today. glophile gnosticism of nominally Catholic gnostics, such as
The problem created by the Byzantine legalization of Scalia and Michael Novak. The most extreme expression of
Christianity, was the axiomatic root of the persisting infusions this type of corruption, is the presently ongoing effort to place
of Delphic20 gnosticism to which Christianity became suscep- the internal social policies of practice of sovereign nation-
tible through its status of being a state church within the Ponti- states under the rule of self-enforcing law dictated by suprana-
fex Maximus’s official, Olympus-mimicking, pagan pan- tional institutions such as the United Nations Organization
theon. It was not the state’s toleration of Christianity which (UNO).
caused this problem, but, rather, Christianity’s succumbing The 1994 Cairo conference on population control, and
to toleration of the theology implicit in the law and social the impending, December Kyoto conference on the “Global
relations of the evil form of society and custom which Byzan- Warming” hoax, typify the latter type of currently escalating
tium represented. Hence, what recent Papal encyclicals have political assault upon religious freedom.
termed the influence of “the structures of sin.” The contrast in conception of man, between the Greek
There lies the cause which became the historically crucial converts of the Apostle Paul, and the low-church cults, such as
importance of the conversion of Augustine of Hippo: the issue that of Robertson, which the U.S.A. has acquired as imported,
of establishing a church free of the kind of pro-paganist state corrupting, “free trade” and related influences from the Brit-
control exerted then by the internally degenerating Byzantine ish-Israelite cults of Britain, exemplifies this problem.
Empire. The impact of that state control, was expressed as the The most common characteristic among the gnostic,
state’s use of sundry forms of gnosticism, such as Arianism, pseudo-Christian cults, such as Robertson’s, or the founders
Manicheanism, and hesychasm generally, as methods for neu- of the Promise Keepers, is the satanic method otherwise com-
tralizing Christian influence to effects which the state consid- mon to Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, to the
ered undesirable. By utilizing the state-church relations of a satanic Bernard Mandeville, to David Hume, Adam Smith,
legalized Christianity, to protect paganist infusions into the Jeremy Bentham, William James’ The Varieties of Religious
practices of the church and its communicants, the church was Experience, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and the so-
corrupted to the effect desired by the pagan state and ruling called “god-child” of John Stuart Mill, the thoroughly
oligarchy. Mephistophelean Bertrand Russell. The evolution of the
Promise Keepers out of programs of indoctrination featuring
Lt.-Col. Robert Hicks’ sexually perverse The Masculine
19. History itself usually displays a wonderful sense of irony, as it has done
in making the shout, “Yahoo!” the virtual mating-call of the Confederacy tra-
Journey, is an example of this.
dition. Thomas Hobbes’—and, also, John Locke’s—implicitly
20. “Delphic”: signifying the method of the priests of Apollo, as practiced at satanic, Hobbesian definition of “human nature,” as expressed
the cult-site of Delphi, Greece. The site was originally the place reserved for by the Physiocrat’s neo-feudalist dogma, laissez-faire, or the
worship of the satanic earth- and sex-goddess Gaea and her consort-son British empiricist translation from the French, “free trade,” is
Python, he otherwise known as Dionysos. The Gaea-Python cult is an expres- the common key to the economic content of the theology
sion of the same pagan root as the Shakti-Siva, Ishtar, Athtar, Astarte, Cybele- of “Diamond Pat” Robertson and Michael Novak, and the
Dionysos, and Isis-Osiris offshoots of the same general doctrine found in
other locations. The cult of Gaea-Python-Dionysos was taken over and main- Jungian sexual perversion of Hicks’ The Masculine Journey.
tained by the priests of Apollo. The priests of Apollo were also the leading Both perversions, “free trade” and the Jungian homosexual
“loan sharks” of Classical Greece, and later of the Mediterranean of Hellenis- pornography of Hicks’ doctrine, are understood most effi-
tic times. This cult was the founder of the rise of Rome to power in central ciently from the opposing standpoint of Christianity’s inter-
Italy, first, over other Latins, then over the Etruscans, the Italians, the Greeks, section with the Classical Greek legacy, as this intersection
et al. The Apollo cult was therefore the proximate origin of the methods of
sophistry employed both by ancient pagan Rome and Byzantium, as more is most efficiently exemplified by the Gospel of John and the
recently echoed by the devotees of William James’ The Varieties of Reli- Epistles of Paul.
gious Experience. Turn attention, once more, to the Apostle Paul standing

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on Mars’ hill in Athens. Capture the moment, as through the most essential applications, that method pertains to the power
eyes and ears of the Athenians gathered about the Apostle at of the individual mind to solve the seemingly impossible con-
that moment: “Whom ye therefore ignorantly worship, him I tradictions in belief which are supplied in the case in which
declare unto you.” In that utterance, the entirety of Christian mutually contradictory conclusions are equally well sup-
theology is implicitly summarized. ported by equal authority of evidence. The Socratic method
Imagine yourself in Paul’s sandals; how would you ex- is employed typically, to present such contradictions, to the
plain to pagans of Athens, the meaning and implications of purpose of forcing the generation of a valid discovery of new
Genesis 1:26-30? How would you enable members of that principle, through which that contradiction is resolved,
audience to know that what you say is true? To know, not through the discovery of the underlying reasons for that con-
merely to learn, as some sophist of a preacher might interpret tradiction’s occurrence. Typical of this, is the validated dis-
a bit of Biblical text, as mere words to be learned, perhaps covery of a new physical principle.
with a certain impassioned attachment to those words. As The ability of the individual human mind, to conceptual-
Paul’s I Corinthians 13 stresses, neither “works” nor “blind ize those forms of ontological paradox for which there exists
faith” will do. How can individual members of that Athenian no valid solution, but the discovery of a valid new principle
audience, know, with the scientific certainty of Reason, that of physical science or of the human mind itself, expresses the
what is communicated by Paul—or, by you—is true? The type of distinction which sets the individual member of the
notion of Reason, which had been developed as a communica- human species absolutely apart from, and above all species
ble, and validatable idea, through Plato’s dialogues, supplies of animals.
the answer. All Christianity is premised upon these considera- This ability expresses most directly that quality of mem-
tions. bers of the human species which identifies each such individ-
In that lies the unbridgeable gulf of separation of Chris- ual as “man in the image of God . . . to have dominion . . .
tianity, from the mercenary sophistries of predatory gnostics over every living thing. . . .” The quality of emotion which
such as “Diamond Pat” Robertson, Michael Novak, et al. Such accompanies and energizes that peculiar quality of efficient
are the Classical Greek origins of the Christian statecraft concentration, by means of which the individual human mind
which must inform the practice of the United States’ govern- generates a validatable solution to an ontological paradox, is
ment today. agapē; it is the compelling passion for higher truthfulness, a
compelling horror of customary, false, or simply petty, “main-
Science, Classical art, and Christianity stream” beliefs, which, as I Corinthians 13 expresses this,
If one wished to present the subject, the essence of Chris- defines the essential quality of the Christian. This quality of
tianity, in the form of homily, the preferred selections of refer- agapē sets the human individual apart from, and above all
ences from New Testament text would be Paul’s I Corinthi- other species; this quality defines the person as “made in the
ans 13, or a cohering passage from the Gospel of John. The image of God.” The notion that “God is love,” signifies noth-
kernel of the homily’s subject-matter would be the Christian ing other than that principle of agapē which marks the person
Apostles’ use of that specialized meaning which had been as “made in the image of God.”
supplied by Plato, earlier, to the Greek term agapē. Must we say that animals are capable of learning? Are
This term, agapē, has been somewhat stripped of its monkeys and apes, for example, capable of learning, and
essential significance in the course of its translation into transmitting learning to their young? Yes, of course they are.
the Latin caritas, the essential meaning of caritas almost Are they capable of effecting the validatable new discovery
trivialized by Aristotelean commentary. Matters become of a principle of nature? Absolutely not. Then, why do pres-
much worse, in the putative significance which caritas has ent-day educational policies usually emphasize the impor-
acquired in its usage as the King James Version’s charity. tance of learning, as so-called “information theory” does,
In Plato’s usage of agapē, it signifies a compelling passion rather than reliving the mental experience of reenacting a
for justice, a compelling passion for truthfulness. It is a valid discovery of a principle of nature? Why do we permit
quality of emotion, as the term “passion” signifies even the followers of William James and Dewey, or, worse, the
among artistically semi-literate persons; as an emotion, positivists and existentialists, to transform our educational
agapē is that quality of “sacred love” which we should institutions to places where the emphasis of various branches
associate with Classical art-forms, as counterposed to the of “support groups” is upon attempting to make monkeys of
eros which signifies the quality of “profane love” we should our children?
associate with the Romantics, “Country Music,” “rock,” and Are human beings capable of increasing the ecological
other relative degeneracies in art-forms. However, in Plato, potential of our species as a whole, or a branch of human
as in the argument of the Apostle Paul, or the Gospel of culture in particular, through changing the behavior of the
John, it signifies something else, as well. society to bring it into conformity with validated, newly dis-
The significance of Plato’s and Paul’s usage of agapē, is covered principles of nature, as through adoption of scientific
supplied by reference to Plato’s Socratic method itself. In its and technological progress? Of course. No lower species has

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ever done so. enced, and the proposed tests by means of which the notion
Thus, we should make a distinction between the signifi- of the principle might be validated or needed corrections indi-
cance we attach to use of the term “learning,” and the use of cated.
the term “knowledge” to identify the human quality which This third step is representable.
we associate with the power of the individual human mind to Step 4: The design of the validating experiment
reenact the original discovery of some validated principle of Step 3 leads toward the process of successive designs, as
the physical universe, or of the human mind itself. Animals if recursively, of experiments, or equivalent forms of observa-
and empiricists are capable of mere learning; but, only human tion, by means of which: (a) the proposed new principle is
beings could know. demonstrated to be an efficient one in the universe, and (b)
The Socratic method of valid discovery of principle, can additional characteristics of the new principle’s relations to
be illustrated by treating it as composed, in each successful other principles may be adduced, and, hopefully measured to
instance, of four distinguishable stages of progress. The im- the desired degree of refinement.
portant thing to be emphasized, in this illustration, is the dis- This Step 4 is representable.
tinction between those aspects of the process of discovery This same four-step method, is the proper approach to
which are, or are not, directly representable, as processes, to providing students with knowledge of the leading achieve-
persons observing the individal effecting this discovery. The ments of human culture up to their present time. The student
purpose of this tactic of illustration, is to make clearer certain should be educated in such a way, that the student is prepared
crucially relevant implications of the phrase “made in the to undertake the reenactment of the original act of discovery
image of God.” of each principle considered, rather than merely learning that
For our immediate purposes, consider the following de- principle. Thus, education becomes predominantly a process
scription of the four-step process as typical of a validated by means of which the young relive many among the most
discovery of new physical principle in physical science. How- crucial discoveries of principle in all of the preceding known
ever, bear in mind, that this is the same principle which ac- generations of mankind.
counts for the generation of ideas in Classical forms of art. That said, focus upon Step 2. The mental act located
Step 1: Posing an ontological paradox (metaphor) within this step, is the act of cognition which distinguishes a
Given, for example, an established mathematical physics. human individual from a beast. This is the act upon which
Some newly considered array of physical evidence is shown actual knowledge, as opposed to mere learning, depends. This
to exist, but which should not exist if the established mathe- act is the location in which the passion of agapē is expressed,
matical physics did not contain some crucial falsehood. Since, in which agapē is the passion on which we rely for the “en-
in the normative case, both the established old mathematical ergy” required to achieve the needed result. Here, in this Step
physics and that newly considered evidence which refutes the 2, the quality of truthfulness, and the corresponding sense of
old physics, are equally well premised in the faculties by true justice, are located within the individual personality.
which we determine empirical evidence, the contradiction Nonetheless, although the action characteristic of the suc-
between the old physics and newly considered evidence rep- cessful mustering of Step 2, is not directly representable to
resents what we term an ontological paradox. the sense-perceptions of an onlooker, the action can be
In the domain of Classical art-forms, the same quality of known, and with great precision, by any other person who has
paradox is identified as a Classical metaphor. replicated the same action. This, for example, is what students
This first step of the process is representable to relevant in a well-ordered curriculum do, in reenacting the original
onlookers. great discoveries of thinkers from the past. These replicatable
Step 2: The discovery of a validatable solution notions which we can acquire only by replicating the Step-2
Through intense concentration, the mind of some individ- phase of a discovery of principle, within ourselves, are Pla-
ual who has been confronted with the ontological paradox, tonic ideas.
generates a newly discovered idea of a principle of nature, Every valid principle of physical science, for example,
together with an ensuing preview of the means by which this exists for knowledge only as a Platonic idea. However, as
newly discovered principle might be validated. validated physical principles develop, it is through these
This second step of the process occurs behind those ideas, and only these kinds of ideas, that mankind increases
opaque screens which hide the cognitive processes of the its power over nature. Therefore, the fact that Step 2 is not
individual from the sense-perceptions of onlookers. The effi- representable to the mere sense-perceptions of onlookers,
cient action within this step of the process is not directly does not signify that it is in any way a mere phantom (except
representable to the onlookers. in the worthless opinion, of empiricists, Ku Klux Klanners,
Step 3: The argument for the principle and other illiterate and superstitious savages).
On the basis of completing Step 2, the individual who has These are the same kinds of ideas which are characteristic
discovered a validatable quality of new principle identifies of successful compositions in Classical art-forms. Classical
that principle in terms of both the ontological paradox refer- art is based on a notion of certain kinds of double meanings,

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akin in nature to the ontological paradoxes of experimental as expressed in terms of Gaussian notions of curvature, in
physical science’s four-step procedures. In Classical art, these mankind’s practical power over the universe.
are termed metaphor. It is the ideas associated with the com- To emphasize the practical implications of what I have
posers’ and audiences’ cognitive (Step 2-like) solutions to just said, consider the fact that mankind has reached the point
metaphor, which define the ideas of a Classical artistic com- of scientific progress, that our species is nearing the point we
position, whether in plastic or non-plastic arts. I have given can make extensive changes in the direction of certain large-
numerous illustrations of this, respecting poetry, tragedy, mu- scale processes within the universe. In practice, this defines a
sic, and some examples from famous paintings, in earlier new quality of relationship between mankind and the uni-
locations; here, I believe, one will suffice, the case of the verse. In principle, this has always been mankind’s implicit
sculptors Scopas and Praxiteles. relationship to the universe.
These two Greek sculptors have been often cited, in class- The characteristic of human existence, is ideas, as we
rooms, and elsewhere, as typifying the distinction between have identified the definition of ideas here. The nature of this
the so-called “Archaic” sculpture of both Egypt and Greece, activity is, as Riemann’s dissertation implies, a continuing
and the Classical. The essential distinction of the Classical action by human minds to introduce socializable changes in
sculpture, as these cases illustrate, is the liveliness of the Clas- human practice, changes which are derived as validatable
sical, the tension of a fixed image sculpted as if in mid-motion, discoveries of new principle, principles expressed in a form
to see a fixed object as impressing upon the mind the sense suited for those kinds of changes in general social practice
that this fixed object is the image of change as such, like the which increase mankind’s power in the universe. In other
ambiguous smile of Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa.”21 Classical art words: we are changing the universe.
is distinct from other art, inasmuch as it deals with ideas, as Why do we do so? Because we are made, each, in the
we have defined ideas here: in other words, Classical art is image of God.
agapic, rather than erotic. Our awareness of this power, and this corresponding re-
In the case of Classical art, taking the subject-matter in sponsibility for our actions (and acts of omission, too), be-
the small, the apparent practical subject of this art, is relations comes a prescience of the nature of mankind, and of the God
within and among individual human minds, relations as de- in whose image man and woman are manifestly made.
fined in terms of actions locatable within Step 2 of the process What, then, is mankind’s relationship to the universe, and
outlined above. Standing back a bit, to view this matter in what is the relationship of the existence of the mortal individ-
a wider perspective, a most important consideration comes ual person to this relationship between the universe and man-
into view. kind? Change the form of the question slightly: what is the
As physicist Bernhard Riemann summed the matter up, characteristic form of the specific action which governs those
as in his epoch-making, revolutionary, 1854 habilitation dis- changes, which, in turn, define mankind’s efficient relation-
sertation,22 the addition of newly-discovered physical princi- ship to the universe as a whole?
ples to the repertoire of our knowledge of the physical uni- As we have already indicated here, the unit of action un-
verse, creates an entirely new physical geometry, a new derlying the change which is the relationship between man-
geometry which defines an implicitly qualitative increase, kind and the universe, is the Leibnizian monad, as located as
resident within Step 2 of the four-step cognitive process of
21. There is a precise analogue in mathematics for this difference between creative discovery outlined above. This “infinitesimal,” virtu-
the Archaic and Classical: the difference between the notion that curvature ally dimensionless monad is the active principle of the person
in the infinitesimally small is intrinsically non-linear (the equivalent of the as made in the image of God.23
Classical notion in plastic art), that of Kepler, Leibniz, Gauss, Riemann, et
al., and the notion associated with the anti-Leibniz Augustin Cauchy, who
falsified the Leibniz calculus, by his introduction of the implicitly Archaic, The package you would rather not open
so-called “limit theorem” which assumes, arbitrarily, the universality that The set of relations, between the individual cognitive pro-
action in the infinitesimal converges upon linearity. In the modular functions cesses—the monad, and the universe at large, locates the exis-
which real-life physics requires, curvature in the very small has a relationship tence of the human individual in a well-defined way. Think of
of a type called self-similarity with the curvature of the entire process in the
individual existence as a personality on a mission to mortality.
large: the principle employed by Carl Gauss to be the first to define the orbit
of the newly-discovered asteroid, Ceres. To capture the curvature of action Think of that mission as in the image of the Good Samaritan;
in the large, in the representation of that action in the small, so as to convey we are sent, to be here, to take up the task which may lie
a sense of a living process in representation of a still life, is the essential of beside the road. However, this is not merely a matter of simple
Classical plastic art. The difference between the Archaic and Classical: the
former expresses the philosophy of tombstones, the latter the joy of perceiv-
ing life. 23. The mathematician-reader should think in terms of both (a) the kind of
22. Bernhard Riemann, Über die Hypothesen, welcher der Geometrie zu modular functions which correspond to a Riemannian universe whose unit
Grunde liegen (“On The Hypotheses Which Underlie Geometry”), Bernhard of action is so defined, and, (b) the Gaussian curvature internal to the Leibniz
Riemanns gesammelte mathematische Werke, H. Weber ed. (New York: monad of this case. (In theological Latin, what we have outlined as the
Dover Publications reprint, 1953). function of the monad, is Nicolaus of Cusa’s notion of capax dei.)

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deed, but, rather, something better suited to the capacities of world in which they live. Rather, they treat mortal existence
the monad within us. as a kind of rite-of-passage, a nightmarish maze which con-
If we were to view our republic as the Preamble implies ceals the tortuous pathway leading to a next-world utopia.
a governing constitutional principle, then, each of us, as a The obsession with “Biblical prophecy” typifies the character
citizen, has a responsibility for the nation as a whole, and of these denominations as “poor-man’s speculative-freema-
through that responsibility, a related accountability respect- sonic cults.”
ing the condition of mankind as a whole. Which part of man- There is no rational method to the theologies of such cults,
kind? Accountability for the preservation of the good be- but, rather, a great fuss about do’s and don’ts, all stewed in
queathed from past generations, accountability for the well- the spice of sophistry, and a great amount of morbid, porno-
being of the living, and for the world which the living be- graphic obsession with the subject of sinfulness. It is fair
queath to the future. That is the mission of the true citizen, to refer to those famous tent-meetings, the famous revivals
the moral obligation of all true citizens. during which “more souls were created than saved.”
What we, as individuals, might do, on such accounts, is This is typical of the kinds of witchcraft and other cults
ordinarily modest. However, to use a sense of modesty on which are fostered, for the edification of the lower classes, by
that account to evade that sense of responsibility in all matters, the pantheon of a multi-tier oligarchical society. Under the
including great ones, is a disgusting thing to do. While we are kind of pantheon run by the Church of England’s imperial
each on our mission to mortality, we are well advised to strike Anglican Communion, low-church cults of this type have
the balance between deed and duty to such effect, that we been sedulously cultivated, to encourage the lower classes to
never abandon the passion for the whole, but, rather, let the cultivate a desired state of submissiveness. The essence of the
passion for the nation as a whole, for mankind as a whole, be matter may be summed up fairly: “You get your reward in the
the motive which shapes the deeds which lie within our reach next world, but, while you are waiting for that, a little magic
to do. might be offered, just to soothe the difficult moments of pas-
Contrast that with the gnostic cult of the “rapture.” Take sage with a bit of health, wealth, and sexual entertainments.”
the case of the poor fellow, probably an anti-Semite by popu- As William James understood, these low-church and re-
list impulse, who is a fanatical supporter of the plot to rebuild lated kinds of “church-from-below” cults, were fostered by
the Temple of Solomon on a sacred Islamic site, strictly be- oligarchies to allow the lower classes of the subjugated tiers
cause he believes that this will bring on certain consequences of the population to make their own religious fantasies to
which he believes are matters of Biblical prophecy. One must suit their sensed emotional needs. James’ The Varieties of
not overlook the element of Hobbesian cupidity in this obses- Religious Experience is to be read with this intent of his kept
sion with what the poor fellow mistakes for Biblical prophecy. in view.
If he were to be raptured next Tuesday, he need not worry 2. The “free market”: how to worship Satan without
about the bills come due next Wednesday, nor that worrying really trying
appointment at the hospital scheduled a couple weeks hence. To understand both “Diamond Pat” Robertson and Mi-
For such and related kinds of cases, there is no sense chael Novak properly, one should adopt as the bench-mark
of personal responsibility for mankind, nothing of the Good of one’s survey the fact that the origin of Adam Smith’s and
Samaritan. According to Paul’s I Corinthians 13, there is no the Mont Pelerin Society’s “free trade” dogma of political-
Christianity in such people. There is no agapē, but only mean- economy is, quite literally satanic. Friedrich von Hayek, the
spirited selfishness, pathetic vanity. recently deceased ideologue of the Mont Pelerin Society, em-
Did you ever receive a package, which you were loathe phasized that the Society’s libertarian enthusiasm for “free
to open, because, for one reason or another, you suspected the trade” should be traced to the outrightly satanic argument
content of that package might turn out to be disgusting? Can of Bernard de Mandeville’s 1714 The Fable of the Bees.
you imagine that the idea of peering into the mind of such Mandeville’s frankness respecting the satanic quality of his
low-church fundamentalists might evoke a similar prescience argument was so plain, and so prolifically stated in his relevant
of disgust? Steel yourself: for at least, this one time, look at writings, that this could not have been overlooked by a devo-
what is inside that package. tee so perfervid as von Hayek.
We have three points to make on the subject of the gnostic The openness with which Mandeville promoted satanic
perversions these types of dupes have been swindled into doctrines must be seen as a bit of license coinciding with the
joining. First, the essential hypocrisy of such pseudo-Chris- circumstances under which overtly satanic societies such as
tian cults. Second, the Hobbesian immorality of that hypoc- the Hell-Fire Clubs proliferated liberally among the dissolute
risy. Third, the kind of political mass behavior these kinds of gentry of King George I’s United Kingdom. Putting to one
cults engender against the security of our republic and the side Mandeville’s more brazen admissions in the matter, the
welfare of humanity in general. essentials of Mandeville’s dogma had already been popular-
1. The great hypocrisy swindle ized as the hedonistic doctrines of Thomas Hobbes and John
The cults do not practice belief in the existence of the Locke. We must emphasize the extensiveness of these con-

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nections of the “free trade” cult to Hobbes here; since these Philosophically, and in theology, Sarpi went to a more
connections are integral to the proof of the perverted concep- radically nominalist version of Aristoteleanism, that of Wil-
tion of man inherent in any nominally Christian association liam of Ockham, thus creating what is known today, vari-
which adopts the “free trade” dogma as the political doctrine ously, as empiricism and philosophical liberalism. Galileo
virtually integral to its “religious belief.” Galilei was Sarpi’s personal lackey, and the principal spokes-
The following additional elements of historical back- man for Sarpi’s doctrines on the subjects of mathematics and
ground are crucial for indicating the horror with which honest physics. The Cecil family’s Francis Bacon, and Galileo’s
men and women ought to regard this political-economic fea- mathematics pupil Thomas Hobbes, were the original English
ture of the putative religious outlooks of Robertson, Novak, spokesmen for Sarpi’s doctrines of empiricism and philo-
et al. Not only do they shed the light of understanding on the sophical liberalism.
brutishly anti-Christian misconception of human nature repre- Politically, strategically, the stated commitment of Sarpi
sented by Robertson, et al.; they aid the reader in recognizing and his faction, was to impose a Venice-dominated “balance
the feudal mentality behind the sponsorship of such cults. of power,” through dividing Europe between southern, pro-
When the success of its Fourth Crusade, established the Catholic Europe, and a northern, pro-Protestant Europe. One
Venetian client-state, the Latin Kingdom, as occupier of faction of Venice would be assigned to work, as agents of
looted Constantinople, the financier-oligarchical maritime Venice, within the Catholic party, and the other faction to
power of Venice emerged as the dominant imperial force of work as agents of Venice within the Protestant party. In addi-
the Mediterranean and most of Europe besides. Although the tion, it was Sarpi’s stated policy to build up the maritime
Fifteenth-Century Renaissance was a threat to all feudal power around the Netherlands and London as a clone of Ven-
forms of oligarchical power, both the landed and financier ice and extension of Venice’s financier-oligarchy into north-
oligarchies, Venice was the principal and most dangerous ern Europe.
foe of modern civilization. The heritage of that Venice, as In both physics and mathematics, Sarpi and his agents,
represented by the Anglo-Dutch “Venetian model” of finan- such as Galileo, Bacon, and Hobbes, insisted upon expelling
cier-oligarchy, remains the principal enemy of civilization to the notion of efficient reason from physics, and replacing it
the present day.24 with the notion of percussive, mechanistic “causality.” This
Venice used the advantage it had gained through the appears as the principle of causality underlying the entirety of
treachery of Pope Julius II and the Spanish monarchy, to Hobbes’ Leviathan. Read carefully, and therefore clinically,
launch counteroperations aimed at setting its former enemies, Leviathan contains more than as much evil, both explicit and
the former members of the League of Cambrai, against one implicit, as the world might desire. The essential feature of the
another’s throats. Venice’s manipulation of England’s King work, apart from its pervasive reliance upon the mechanistic-
Henry VIII, as part of setting the former allies, France, Spain, percussive and hedonistic model of interactions within and
and England, against one another’s throats, was part of this, between man and nature, is to deny the existence of individual
as was Venice’s organizing the Protestant faction in Europe, human reason (i.e., Step 2 of our summary above), and also
in order to divide Europe into two warring religious parties, to outlaw metaphor and the subjunctive mood.
and Venice’s organizing the 1618-1648 Thirty Years War, to Hobbes, like Locke, Mandeville, François Quesnay, Vol-
the same purpose, later. taire, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham after him, insisted
Inside the Catholic Church, Venice’s initial thrust was to that only evil, hedonistic motives were efficient in the real
eliminate the Platonic influence which had revived the Papacy world in which man acted both against man and against na-
through the key sessions of the great ecumenical Council of ture. Their argument was, that man could not behave other-
Florence (1439-1440), by introducing the influence of Aver- wise, that all that was flesh, or otherwise part of the material
roes’ Aristotle by way of Padua’s Pietro Pomponazzi and world, belonged to the kingdom of “the Fallen Angel.” In
his student Gasparo Contarini. During the second half of the other words, in all of the systematic features of their doctrine,
Sixteenth Century, Venice completed the formal division of they copied the essential features of those satanic cults known
Europe through the 1582 victory of Paolo Sarpi in securing as the Manicheans and Bogomils.
majority support within Venice. Their argument was, that Good comes out of the spontane-
Two things about Sarpi’s policy are crucial for under- ous, libertarian interactions of evil deeds done out of evil
standing Robertson et al. today. motives. Thus, they argue, that whatever comes out of the
interplay within society, among competitive activities, and
competing opinions, is what was necessary, was God’s Will.
24. During the late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, the factions associ- Whoever prevails, must have been the beneficiary of God’s
ated with William of Orange, the Duke of Marlborough, Venice’s Paris- Will, and is therefore better than those whose success is rela-
based Abbe Antonio Conti, and George I of England, were known throughout
western Europe as “the Venetian Party.” This included those political factions tively inferior. In effect: “It is God’s Will that the slave obey
known, from approximately 1763 on, as the “American Tory” faction of the his owner.”
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to Britain, until the assassination of a President which brought must favor the policies and government which do good. Op-
spawn of the Confederacy Teddy Roosevelt into the Presi- posite to the satanic inclinations of Mather’s foes, good comes
dency, the principal political division of the world was be- not from giving license of evil, but good comes from the will
tween the forces associated with what became known as U.S. to do good.
Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s “American System Educate the illiterate, because they are illiterate. Help the
of political-economy,” versus the forces supporting the Brit- poor to prosper, because they are poor. House the homeless,
ish East India Company’s satanic dogma of “free trade.” This because they are homeless. Be Christian; express agapē.
was never a purely ideological issue, but essentially a practi- About a decade-and-a-half ago, a celebrated British figure
cal one. was the dinner guest of my wife and me. The first thing he
From the 1461-1483 reconstruction of King Louis XI’s said to me, as he took his seat, was: “You are wrong. There is
France, as the first modern nation-state, the superiority of no ‘divine spark of reason.’ ” The gentleman in question, was,
Louis’ dirigist policies over all alternatives was never factu- and still is, a man whose political and related connections lean
ally in doubt. During Louis XI’s reign, the national income of chiefly to the British-Israelite side.
France approximately doubled. Until reversals of this policy There is no monad, no actual soul, there is no compulsion
introduced during the middle to late 1960s: As a result of the to do good, in the kinds of cults which are spun out of the
impact of the revolutionary change introduced in Europe as empiricist notions of “human nature.” These, such as Robert-
the dirigist model of modern nation-state economy, the rate son, the Promise Keepers, and Michael Novak, are modern
of increase of the potential relative population-density of the Manicheans, modern Bogomils. They are the modern Flagel-
entire planet has progressed, and the standard of living has lant cults of the late Twentieth Century, potentially a security
improved at higher rates than in all earlier known human exis- threat today, as the Flagellants and kindred wild sects were
tence. during the New Dark Age of the Fourteenth Century.
The crucial elements of this success were, first, the in- 3. The corrosive force of irrationalism
crease of the rate of education of the young of all strata of The case of the neo-Manichean cults addressed here, ex-
the population. This educational development was begun in presses a social phenomenon more broadly represented by
Louis XI’s France, using the model of secondary education the neo-conservative and radical-ecologist political cults in
provided by the Brothers of the Common Life. Second, the national policy-shaping. The characteristic common to each
first of the modern forms of public hospital was established and all of these currents, is their hatred of reason. In each case,
in Beaune, in France, during the same period. Third, the rate this hatred is expressed in the form of some argument which
of improvement in public infrastructural works generally, fos- asserts, that since reason tends to obstruct the realization of
tered increased rates of growth of productivity and produc- some obsessive ideological goal of theirs, that reason must be
tion. Fourth, Louis XI set the pace with a protectionist policy pushed aside for the sake of the constituency which shares
of fostering the trade, agriculture, and urban manufactures of the particular obsession at issue.
France. These were characteristic of all successful periods of The same general problem, is encountered in what are
development of all modern nation-states since. nominally apolitical issues of “cultural preferences,” which,
Such success in political-economy is the natural conse- in general, are as irrationalist in character as the neo-conserva-
quence of fostering such benefits as scientific and technologi- tive’s or radical-ecologists’ pet peeves.
cal progress. The essence of this matter, as was set forth earlier We have entered now, into a period of crisis, in which the
here, is the fact, that those discoveries of principle which are most sudden, most sweeping, and most radical changes must
the source of the increase of the productive powers of labor, be established as the functioning alternative to a self-disinte-
are products of the Step 2 phase of the four-step process out- grating economic order which had emerged during the past
lined above. In other words, the advancement of a society thirty-odd years. The necessary consent to support such
depends upon the degree to which the “curvature” expressed needed initiatives by our nation’s executive, can not be ob-
by the monad of individual cognitive developments accounts tained, unless the irrationalism identified here is effectively
for such progress. Crush, or inhibit the development and ex- neutralized, and that soon, at least to a large degree.
pression of that monad, and the entire society must suffer ac- Thus, even without considering the fact, that the cults
cordingly. examined in this study have demonstrated their proneness to
In the United States, this policy was expressed in a cele- unthinking obedience to orders from powers which are our
brated way by Massachusetts’ Cotton Mather, with his influ- republic’s dedicated adversaries, the sheer corrosiveness of
ential campaign for a policy of the commitment to do good. these cults’ irrationalism is already a national-security threat
The basis for successful government and economy, is this in its own right—at least, under present circumstances. The
principle: Do good. Prefer those activities, public or private, obvious need, is to appeal to reason, to draw as many victims
which are beneficial to the society: Do good. Withdraw sup- of these cults as possible, back into the domain of reason,
port from less useful practices, to those which better do good. where their services, as once-again rational citizens of this
The government must favor that which does good. The people republic, are very much needed now.

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The Promise Keepers cult
and homoerotic brainwashing
by Anton Chaitkin

These days, when an army of men stands in a football stadium, people came to PK rallies, and 1995, when attendance hit
or on the Washington mall, chanting Jesus slogans, weeping, 725,000.
each man hugging the next man and purging his sins in front By 1995, the Hicks book had come under increasing criti-
of a giant video altar, they are in general unaware of who it is cism. Promise Keepers stopped publicly selling the book; but
that has amassed this army and brought them there. they continued to endorse it for their inductees, who buy it
The Promise Keepers cult is an American-based project from NavPress.
of “utopian” military and related religious and political opera-
tives, associated with British imperial strategy and the George Masculine journey to Sodom
Bush machine. We will detail here some of the key personnel, Under a veneer of Bible chapter and verse citations, Mas-
and the New Age sexual brainwashing they used to manufac- culine Journey is pagan psychological manipulation, akin to
ture the movement. the New Age pornographic training that shaped the lesbian
This exposure is essential, because the project has been and Wicca upsurges of the 1960s. Its techniques are congruent
consistently boosted by the “mainstream” media, with no in- with those developed by the British military and intelligence
vestigative journalism to find out what was really going on. services through the Tavistock psychiatric institute, a pivotal
ABC News anointed Promise Keepers founder/front-man Bill agency in introducing the drug-rock-sex counterculture to the
McCartney, a former University of Colorado football coach, U.S.A. The author, Lt. Col. Robert Hicks, is an intelligence-
as their “Person of the Week” in February 1996. The Eastern community professional in the field of post-traumatic shock.
Establishment press lavishly promoted the October 1997 rally The Tavistock Institute, pioneer in this field, viewed public
in Washington, D.C., ending with a cover story in Time maga- shocks such as the Vietnam War and the 1960s’ multiple
zine. Press coverage of criticism from feminists, lesbians, and assassinations, as the opportunity to radically alter the philos-
atheists only served to promote the project. ophy of the American population. The current societal break-
The Promise Keepers experiment was begun on 70 Colo- down, with the stimulus of PK Nuremberg-style rallies, gives
rado men in 1990. About 4,000 turned out to rallies in 1991. this mindbending a fair chance to succeed.
As attendance grew to 22,000 in 1992, the project leaders Hicks teaches “Religious Terrorism” to officers at the Air
arranged for the writing of a bizarre book, intended to mold War University (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama). In that
the emotions and self-conception of their now-growing mass military course, he explains the mental path that Christian
following. Masculine Journey was written for the Promise Identity and other varieties of British-Israelite race cultists
Keepers by Lt. Col. Robert Hicks, a military expert in reli- are induced to travel, and, similarly, with Jewish fanatics
gious terrorism. It was published in 1993 under the supervi- (Kach, Kahane Chai), Islamic suicide bombers, and Japanese
sion of Hicks’s Air Force colleague, Gen. Jerry White, a spe- armageddonist terrorists.
cialist in military mobilization, military police, and electronic His Masculine Journey complements and competes with
security. General White is the longtime chairman of a mili- radical feminism, making the genitals the center of the Prom-
tary-ministry group, “The Navigators,” whose NavPress pub- ise Keeper’s psyche. The book explains:
lished the book, and a companion study guide for Promise “Possessing a penis places unique requirements upon men
Keepers (PK) psychological trainers. before God. . . . We are called to worship God as phallic kinds
Hicks’s book was distributed to every one of the 50,000 of guys, not as some sort of androgynous, neutered nonmales,
men who assembled for the first PK mass rally, held at the or the feminized males so popular in many feminist-enlight-
University of Colorado’s Folsom Field. This free distribution ened churches. We are told by God to worship Him in accor-
was unique, since PK usually charges its men high prices for dance with what we are, phallic men.”
group clothing items, worship accessories, and commercial If you think pornography is an organized-crime racket,
aids to male bonding. you probably haven’t considered it as a phase of worship.
Promise Keepers then mass-marketed Masculine Jour- Writes Hicks:
ney, and its study guide, through 1994, when about 275,000 “I remember staring at . . . [an] ancient Hawaiian . . . statue

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[when my wife] questioned, ‘Why is it so large?’ Her question
was . . . related to . . . the size of the protruding phallus. . . . To
me there was very little difference between this Hawaiian idol/
image and the artifacts that are sold regularly in ‘adult’ book-
stores. I’m sure some day future archeologists will dig up the
adult toys from our current society and view them as elements
of our religious worship. They will be right, because that’s pre-
cisely what they are and always have been. The phallus has
always been the symbol of religious devotion and dedication.
Professor George Elder notes, ‘Phallus, like all great religious
symbols, points to a divine reality that cannot be apprehended
otherwise. . . . It is not as a flaccid member that this symbol is
important to religion, but as an erect organ.’ ”
On the naked Jew:
“Every Israelite, when looking at himself naked, was re- A military expert in
minded of how different [circumcized] he was from the gen- “religious terrorism”
tiles and for what purpose. In this sense, his sexuality took on wrote this homoerotic
spiritual significance. Every time he used his penis, he was pagan travesty, which
making a spritual statement about who he was and who he shaped the Promise
Keepers movement.
worshipped and why.”
On the “playful pleasure” of homosexuality:
“God . . . obviously knew men would be put into situa-
tions where this would be a very real temptation. Whether it portrays. . . . If temptation means anything, it means Christ
be men at sea for months at a time, or men in prisons, or was tempted in every way as we are. That would mean not
adolescent boys playfully experimenting with each other, sit- only heterosexual but also homosexual temptation! I have
uations can create the temptation. The pleasure experienced found this insight to be very helpful for gay men struggling
in those playful moments, or the bonding that occurs through with their sexuality” (emphasis in the original).
the first experience—subsequently repeated—does not Based on the archetypes of the Satanic/occult psychiatrist
change the reality of the creational order. Carl Jung, the PK book calls for today’s Christians to re-create
“I have often counseled gay men on my observation that pagan-modelled phallic initiation rites to celebrate personal
even in their sexual relations with each other, they must find milestones. In an appendix summarizing the book’s argument,
a substitute opening for their penis. . . . For a man to have Hicks lists some of these personal spiritual breakthroughs: the
satisfactory sex he must find an opening for his penis. In first time for “wet dreams”; appearance of “pubic hair”; “mas-
rejecting the God-given opening of the woman, the homosex- turbation”; and “intercourse.” Hicks intersperses this poison
ual merely affirms what he thinks he is denying whenever he with homilies about staying faithful to your wife.
finds an alternate opening.” Promise Keepers spokesman Pete Richardson defended
And if men are going to “bond,” PK style, they’ll need to Masculine Journey in an April 7, 1995 letter replying to ques-
visualize Jesus—nude: tions from Al Dager of Media Spotlight:
“Jesus was also very much zakar, phallic. . . . Jesus was Question: “Dr. Hicks has been quoted as saying that men
very much masculine, and masculine means being male, and should worship Jesus with their phallus. Isn’t this a blasphe-
being male means having a penis. There’s no way around it. mous statement? Why should someone associate Jesus with
Some in church history could not tolerate the exposure of sexuality?”
the Son of God’s genitalia. Therefore, you will never find a Answer: “This raises two issues. First, the nature of wor-
portrait of the crucifixion of Jesus with penis exposed, even ship, and second, the issue of associating Jesus with sexuality.
though it was a common Roman custom to crucify criminals The idea of worshipping Jesus with one’s sexuality grows
naked. Even the Gospel writers tell us that Jesus’ outward out of Dr. Hicks’ understanding of the nature of the book of
garment was torn into four pieces, leaving the inner tunic, Leviticus. . . .”
which was then gambled for intact. . . . That left nothing. No Richardson elsewhere describes the book as a “biblically-
underpants. Nothing.” centered, frank, and honest account of a man’s journey with
Promise Keepers are told that homosexuality is an “inher- God.”
ent passion,” even in Christ:
“I believe Jesus was phallic with all the inherent phallic Origins of the Promise Keepers
passions we experience as men. But it was never recorded Whose project is this? The operatives who make up the
that Jesus had sexual relations with a woman. He may have PK leadership were developed in several phases. The first was
thought about it as the movie ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ in the post-World War II years, when British-allied banker

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Averell Harriman directed the U.S. military and intelligence ies and for their turncoat American intelligence allies, super-
reorganization, along with John Foster Dulles, globalist reli- vised Pentecostalism’s “charismatic renewal,” with agencies
gious leader and secretary of state, and his brother Allen Dul- such as the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship and the
les, Director of Central Intelligence. The last preparatory Far East Broadcasting Co. The same intelligence apparatus
phase involved the military/mercenary covert operations un- spun out Bill Bright’s Campus Crusade for Christ in 1951,
der George Bush as Vice President and President. (George’s and Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network in the
father, Prescott Bush, was a partner of Harriman; the Dulles 1960s (see EIR, Aug. 22, 1997). Bill Bright, heavily funded
brothers were their lawyers.) by billionaire misanthrope Nelson Bunker Hunt, and com-
David du Plessis, an agent for the Anglo-Dutch monarch- manding 13,000 paid staff and 100,000 global volunteers for

ing company—which is plundering Zaire on behalf of the

‘Diamond’ Pat’s British Empire’s Anglo American Corp.—has asked Rob-
ertson to go back into action with the Shaba-Lobito rail
mining scam link project. The Journal reported that Boule believes that
“anyone able to win a concession to rehabilitate and run
Two pilots who flew more than 100 “charity” missions in the railroad could make a fortune if Zaire’s copper and
Zaire for Pat Robertson, said that the televangelist used cobalt industries are revived.” The Journal quoted a Rob-
most of the flights to run a diamond-hunting scheme. In ertson spokesman: “Mr. Robertson’s main concern is for
interviews on May 7, 1997 with this reporter, pilots Robert the spiritual needs of the Zairean people.”
Hinkle and Tahir Brohi described their flights in Caribou Tahir Brohi, who flew for Robertson from November
cargo aircraft, a fleet purchased with funds donated to Rob- 1994 through September 1995, told EIR that he made “one
ertson’s “Operation Blessing.” Contributors to that tax- or two flights a week.” The majority of these, he said, were
exempt charity were told they were paying for the evange- related to the diamond dredging. One of Brohi’s flight
lization and medical relief of suffering Africans. bases was the Zaire port city of Matadi on the Congo River.
During 1994 and 1995, Operation Blessing cargo Writing in the Richmond, Virginia Times-Dispatch on
planes carried equipment and supplies for the river-dredg- Feb. 1, Robertson explained that his Zaire operation was
ing of diamonds, on behalf of the African Development undertaken on President George Bush’s request: “Before
Company. Robertson, the sole owner, had chartered that a visit to Zaire, I met with George Bush in the White House
company in 1992. It suspended operations in October and asked his advice.” Bush told him he should go into
1995. Before then, chief pilot Hinkle had quit in disgust at business in Zaire, allegedly, according to Robertson’s
Robertson’s fraud and deception. story, in order to save Zaire’s government. “I brought with
Hinkle told EIR that he flew about 40 missions for the me,” Robertson wrote, “a former undersecretary of state
Robertson organization, headquartered in Goma, Zaire. from the Bush administration for the purpose of advising
Hinkle set up the cargo-flying operation and hired others, [Zaire’s President] Mobutu [Sese Seko] on fiscal and mon-
including pilot Tahir Brohi. Hinkle told of his flights from etary issues. . . . I personally met with the Cabinet of Zaire
N’jili airport near Kinshasa, and from N’dolo, around 15 and warned them that if they continued printing money
miles away, to Tshikapa, some 200 miles into the interior. there would be runaway inflation with rioting and looting
Hinkle observed Robertson’s attempts to pick dia- in the streets.”
monds out of fast-flowing river currents; when he failed to Robertson “evangelized” with advice to lay off work-
get much more than industrial-grade diamonds, Robertson ers and to give away the national patrimony to foreign
launched legal action against the U.S. company that had looters. “I . . . analyzed the . . . Gecamine copper mines,
supplied the dredging equipment. The diamond hunting where I discovered 16,000 surplus workers . . . [and] the
was near the Zaire-Angola border. Hinkle said he had government-owned Kilomoto gold mines, where 3,300
heard Robertson’s aides discussing buying diamonds from workers produced a pitiful [quantity] . . . of gold . . . and
smugglers operating between Angola and Zaire. the government-owned industrial diamond facility in
In one instance, Hinkle recalled, he flew Robertson Mbuji-Mayi, where I discovered production limping along
into a landing in Angola. On that trip, he told EIR, Robert- at 50% of peak capacity.”
son discussed with Angolans Robertson’s project to re- After Mobutu was overthrown, and the mass-murderer
build a railroad from mineral-rich Shaba province, Zaire, Laurent Kabila took over to give away all resources to the
through to the Atlantic Ocean port in Lobito, Angola. The London mining cartel, Pat Robertson invited Kabila to
Wall Street Journal reported on April 30 that Max Boule, come to the United States as Robertson’s guest.
boss of the Canadian-based American Mineral Fields min- —Anton Chaitkin

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his Campus Crusade, now sponsors Promise Keepers. Pat apply to him: “Is wearing boxer shorts or bikini briefs”; “Has
Robertson fervently pushes PK on his 700 Club television been arrested at least once”; “Has made most of his funeral
show. arrangements”; “Is going through a mid-life crisis”; “Has had
Coach Bill McCartney launched Promise Keepers after circumcision, vasectomy, or prostate operation”; “Was ne-
being recruited into the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a de- glected or abused by father.”
praved “Third Wave Pentecostal” venture. Vineyard’s leader, In the build-up to the 1997 Promise Keepers Washington
former rock musician John Wimber, is one of the operatives rally, inquiring journalists interacted with national capital re-
produced by the old du Plessis-Dulles machine, through Ful- gion PK manager Mike McDaniel. He could be counted on to
ler Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Vineyard prevent embarrassment to the project. McDaniel was for-
set up churches notorious for their barking, shrieking, and merly executive director of the American Defense Institute,
wretching worshippers at Toronto Airport and in Pensacola, a right-wing military lobbying group close to the Heritage
Florida. Foundation. ADI was founded by McDaniel’s father, Eugene
Steven Strang, publisher of the Promise Keepers’ glossy “Red” McDaniel, the Navy and Marines liaison to Congress.
magazine, New Man, also puts out Charisma, organ of the The McDaniels are decent, but limited individuals, who are
Third Wave and herald of every British intelligence project being used by the cultists.
even faintly related to religion, “Christian” environmental-
ism, etc. African-Americans targetted
Preparing for the big Washington event, Promise Keepers
Penetration of the military stepped up its outreach to African-Americans, using a grow-
Let us now observe the efforts of this gang to penetrate ing pool of proto-fascists and military specialists. Joining the
the U.S. military, aided by the Bush machine, already in place. PK board in 1996 was Lt. Gen. Alonzo E. Short, Jr. (ret.), an
In February 1996, a Promise Keepers’ gathering of thou- African-American Pentecostal, who was Commanding Gen-
sands of clergymen in Atlanta, Georgia featured a special eral of the U.S. Army Information Systems Command, an
meeting for recruiting military chaplains. Air Force Gen. intelligence-gathering service. During 1990, General Short
Richard Abel (ret.), who manages Bill Bright’s military pene- was commander of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the training cen-
tration ministry, addressed this meeting, as did Lt. Col. Chuck ter for U.S. military intelligence officers.
Stecker (ret.), a 23-year Army Special Forces veteran who Wellington Boone is an African-American Promise
now manages the Promise Keepers organization in Alabama, Keepers cult guide, frequent PK speaker, and editorial board
Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and member of New Man. He wrote in Charisma, this brainwash-
Tennessee. ers’ credo: “We are called to be ‘worms.’. . . A worm never
Following the chaplains’ meeting, a Promise Keepers protests. . . . Can you say, for Christ, ‘I am a worm and am no
rally was held for hundreds of soldiers on the Fort Bragg, man’? . . . If we allow God . . . to work into us the idea of
North Carolina, Army base, home of the Special Forces units. ‘worm-training,’ it would be revolutionary. We would gain a
That rally was led by Col. Jim Pack (ret.), a psychological worm’s-eye view of what God wants. . . . When we really
warfare specialist who now manages the Promise Keepers’ meet Jesus and allow ourselves to be crushed as we model
operations in Texas. [sic] His example, the impact will rock this world.”
Colonel Pack spent 25 years in Army Special Forces. This Lawrence Reed, PK regional manager for all the states
is the U.S. service force deeply infected with British imperial from West Virginia to Maine, was formerly the financial man-
philosophy, in the tradition of T.E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”), ager for “Worm” Boone’s personal ministries enterprise.
Orde Wingate, and Denis Sefton Delmer, the fascist British Boone is also a leader of the Coalition on Revival, a Chris-
intelligence black arts practitioner who lectured at Fort Bragg tian Reconstructionist grouping calling for abolition of public
in 1962. Special Forces veterans, and Air Force kooks of schools, capital punishment for violations of the Bible, and an
the Robert Hicks variety, are heavily represented among the outright theocracy. Frequent PK African-American speakers
leaders and agents provocateurs in the militia and separatist Joseph Garlington of Pittsburgh (an ally of Richard Mellon
movements. Homoerotic specialist Hicks, we note, also trains Scaife), and John Perkins of Pasadena, California (a board
military chaplains at Maxwell Air Force Base. member of New Man), are both core leaders of the fascist
In a 1995 interview (quoted in June 1995 in The Heritage, Coalition on Revival.
a Protestant newsletter) Colonel Pack defended the Promise
Keepers’ privacy-stripping psychological techniques derived * * *
from Hicks’ book, and explained, “There are probably men Let the foregoing facts, then, give warning:
out there that probably need almost an electrical jump start Before your husband, brother, or son is herded into a mass
to get their engines going before they’re willing to confront “religious” rally, or submits to personal questioning by a PK
anything.” Colonel Pack referred to the “People Bingo” quiz trainer, you and he must go beyond “sincerity of feelings,”
specified in the study guide to Masculine Journey. The small and beyond blind disappointment over the collapse of our
group leader asks each man to reveal which of the following society—lest you foolishly contribute to that collapse.

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British Israelites and Empire
by Scott Thompson and Michael Minnicino

One of the most glaring examples of British intelligence- would later be known as British Israelism—can be traced
sponsored psychological warfare against the United States, is to the efforts of Venice’s top psychological warfare officer,
the bizarre cult ideology called, variously, “British Israelism” Paolo Sarpi. Venetian strategic interests demanded that Eu-
or “Christian Identity.” Victims of this foreign-sponsored rope be kept controlled and divided, and that the scientific
ideological virus can be found to hold key positions in the breakthroughs of the Renaissance—and the implication of
“militia” and other movements committed to the destruction those breakthroughs for the growth of human mental free-
of the American republic; they are believed to be crucial ac- dom—had to be destroyed.
complices to the terrorist bombing of the Murrah Federal Venice had long learned that manipulation of religion is
Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. More broadly, a signifi- one of the most potent methods to control societies. Venetian
cant portion of what today claims to be “Christianity” in agents had a direct hand in the English King Henry VIII’s
American society is—consciously or unconsciously—based break with Rome and in the creation of the theocratic Church
on religious cult belief structures designed by the British Co- of England. Venice was crucial to the transformation of Mar-
lonial Office to undermine Christianity in general, and the tin Luther’s ill-formed movement into a Europe-wide Protes-
American republican form of government in specific. tant schism; and Venice was equally pivotal in shaping the
British Israelism is a syncretic cult which, in its simplest Vatican’s countermeasures—thus ensuring decades of reli-
variant, claims that the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic race is the true gious warfare.
“Ten Lost Tribes of Israel,” that the British sovereign is de- Within this Venetian onslaught, Paolo Sarpi’s particular
scended from King David, and, that as such, an all-encom- speciality was science. One of the greatest dangers to the
passing British Empire is biblically prophesied to rule the oligarchical world outlook had arisen in the mid-15th century,
world in the few, final days before Jesus Christ touches down when Nicolaus of Cusa in effect founded modern science and
on the Mount of Olives and ends human history. There are threatened to sweep away the mental straitjacket of Aristotel-
many variations on this theme: Some versions say that the eanism. Sarpi’s job was to repackage Aristotle’s discredited
horrors described in the Book of Revelations have begun, and method in seductive new ways. Sarpi’s primary tool was what
others believe that the Tribulations are yet to come; almost we today call empiricism, the insistence that science is not
all, even the militant anti-Semites, look to the Mideast, to based on creativity, but is merely the discovery of the rules
Jerusalem, and yearn for the final rebuilding of Solomon’s of nature which we deduce from the “facts” which impinge
Temple, which will be the incontrovertible sign that the end upon our senses.
of the world is nigh. As a skilled intelligence operator, Sarpi did not simply
The roots of British Israelism are obscure, but some trace create one ideological package, but several; then, whichever
it to the late Elizabethan period in England, a time which one took hold could be further sponsored. Some cult variants
coincided with the consolidation of the Church of England, were designed to appeal to scientists, and had little to say
and the beginnings of Britain’s maritime empire, as well as about religion; others were openly religious, some flavored
the creation of a full-time secret intelligence service. One for Catholics, some for Protestants, and yet others were meant
person who is reputed to have contributed to the early devel- to draw in people who were confused about religion in
opment of the British Israel ideology is John Dee, a Fellow of general.
Trinity College and adviser to Queen Elizabeth, who openly Sarpi relied heavily on the ideas originally developed
practiced black magic and prophesy, and was among the first by Gnosticism, a cult of obscure Eastern origin which held
to talk of England as an empire. Also, Sir Francis Drake, that the universe—including the Diety itself—was abso-
Elizabeth’s favorite pirate, was notoriously partial to describ- lutely divided into Spirit and the filthy degeneration of Spirit
ing the fledgling empire of England as “Israel” and the called Matter. A key belief of the Gnostics was that transcen-
“New Jerusalem.” dence from the world of Matter was dependent on secret
knowledge (gnosis means “knowledge”) which was attain-
‘Secret knowledge’ able only by an elite of the sect who had achieved purity,
The beginning of the 17th century saw the rise of hundreds and had become born again out of the evil flesh. In the 11th
of cults across Europe. The majority of these—including what and 12th centuries, Europe had seen large-scale Gnostic

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heresies—notably the Cathari (or “pure ones”)—and their Freemasonry, with its first lodge in London in 1717). The
violent supression. introduction to Fama Fraternitatis is a reprint from the works
This Gnostic “secret knowledge” ideology is what Sarpi of Trajano Boccalini, a Venetian theologian and a close friend
and his two famous collaborators, Galileo and Francis Bacon, of Sarpi, and who also wrote La Bilancia Politica, the first
used to create a neo-Aristotelean “scientific method,” in oppo- book in history to describe the need for a “balance of power”
sition to the creative one pioneered by Cusa and his followers to rule Europe.
like Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler. Under the Gnos- At the same time, Sarpi’s operations also encompassed
tic methodology, science explicitly becomes the same as al- several strictly religious ideologies. Venice had previously
chemy, prophesy, or magic—which are all just a matter of encouraged the most extreme Protestant forms, like Calvin-
hitting upon the right combination of chemicals, the right ism and its English variant Puritanism, while simultaneously
incantation, the plausible interpretation. This took many working to harden and militarize Catholicism against them.
forms, including a few which contributed directly to British In the early 17th century, Sarpi’s collaborators (like the oli-
Israelism. garchical Sandys brothers in England, and the legal theorist
Francis Bacon—whom many classify as the founder of Hugo Grotius in Holland) began calling for yet a new religion,
modern scientific method—explicitly saw science as nothing which would supposedly chart “a third way” between the
more than forcibly wresting from nature the secrets that God extremes of Calvin’s theocracy and the Vatican’s Jesuits.
(a Gnostic Diety containing good as well as evil) has mali- Typically, this new form would be based on Gnostic-style
ciously refused to reveal. Bacon’s text New Atlantis, which secret knowledge: the discovery of the original form—the
suggested that England could become the site of the new King “prisca theologica,” as they called it—of Christianity, before,
Solomon’s Temple, became the founding document of the as they claim, it was deformed by the early Church (including
British scientific espionage operation known as the Royal St. Paul!) and lost to man. The writer Edwin Sandys even
Society. It was here that Bacon coined the ominous phrase: stated that this new religion should be an amalgamation of
“Knowledge is power.” This original Royal Society held al- the Church of England, plus the kind of Catholicism then
chemy and ghost-hunting on the same scientific level as as- practiced in places like Venice.
tronomy and chemistry. Much of the religious history of 17th-century England
Another cult spun out of the Sarpi network which contri- can be characterized as various factions’ attempts to decipher
butes to many forms of British Israel, as well as to Freema- the secrets of the Bible and revive the “old-time religion.”
sonry and Theosophy, is Rosicrucianism. Here again, the ear- Indeed, much of the original theology of such modern groups
liest origins are obscure, and include unverifiable references as the Quakers, the Pietists, and the Unitarians, derives from
to the crusading Knights Templar (officially, “The Poor these debates. This is a major reason why the Cromwellian
Knights of the Temple of Solomon”) and to various Satanic revolution of the mid-century saw intense public debates over
cults. According to Masonic legend, a small group of Knights Biblical texts that might be used to proclaim that English law
Templar escaped the Inquisition for the Order’s practice of was in conformity with the laws of the Israelites, and allow
the Eastern Baphomet cult (whose initiation rite involved spit- the Roundheads to claim that London was the New Jerusalem.
ting on the visage of Christ) to fight with King David Bruce Oliver Cromwell’s offer to let the Jews return to England after
at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, thereby engendering centuries of exile was not humanitarian, but was made in
the origins of British Freemasonry and of Rosicrucianism. the hope that the Jews could somehow reveal their Biblical
Within higher order Freemasonry, the degree of Rose Croix secrets; John Milton’s intense study of the Cabala and other
is known as the “Degree of Revenge” against the Pope and Jewish esoteric texts was to the same end.
the French King. Thus, the Jacobinites of the Duc d’Orleans Even after the monarchy was restored in 1660, the debate
(“Philip Egalité”) during the French Revolution were known merely intensified. Typical is Sir Isaac Newton, who was
to be followers of neo-Templarism. devoted to the search for “prisca theologica.” A Freemason
Notwithstanding their primordial roots, the Rosicrucians’ in the tradition of Sir Elias Ashmole, Newton studied al-
strict adherence to a system of esoteric “secret knowledge” chemy, and corresponded with John Locke on the subject.
made them grist for Sarpi’s Gnostic mill. One of the few solid Like Archbishop James Ussher at the beginning of the cen-
pieces of evidence we have about Rosicrucianism is that it was tury, Newton claimed to have divined the secret chronology of
popularized in the early 17th century by a book by German the Bible; in his book The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms,
theologian Johann Valentin Andrea, titled Fama Fraterni- Newton presented a scheme for the rebuilding of Solomon’s
tatis. Andrea’s book described the fictional activities of one Temple. Many of Newton’s last years were spent writing
Christian Rosenkruz, who, after studying the magical theories notes for a book of prophesy based on the Revelation of St.
of the East, returned to found a new Society. Andrea’s book John, in which he described the ultimate destruction of the
was used as an organizing document by several of Bacon’s “Anti-Christ,” by which he meant the Roman Pope.
more occult-oriented contemporaries, including Robert By Newton’s time, England had not only taken over the
Fludd and Sir Elias Ashmole (later the founder of speculative oligarchy’s imperial mantle from Venice, it had also become

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the cult center of the world. And, just as Sarpi had planned, people themselves were descended from the Lost Tribes of
the corruption of religious belief was vital to the corruption of Israel, and that they must restore the Temple in Palestine.
scientific understanding. A very large reason why Newton’s The time for such theory was not ripe, and Brothers was
empiricist theories became so widespread, was that they con- suspected of being a radical and was ultimately confined to
formed to the new, corrupt theologies; indeed, the English an insane asylum.
clergy and their colleagues became Newton’s greatest popu- Around 1840, however, a decision was made somewhere
larizers. The one person who fully understood this was the at the Colonial Office or the East India Company headquar-
greatest scientist of his day, Gottfried Leibniz. When the ters, to revive Sarpi’s old method of religious manipulation,
Royal Society realized that they must use Newton to destroy and the next few years would see the rise of two, interrelated
Leibniz’s influence and began an international defamation cults which would become a major weapon in British foreign
campaign, Leibniz responded in a famous series of letters to policy. First, Irish clergyman John Nelson Darby started pub-
Newton’s friend Dr. Samuel Clarke. It is telling that Leibniz lishing texts which, he claimed, decoded the secrets of the
opened what was to be one of the great works of science Bible and prophetically laid out the fast-approaching Apoca-
with the line: “Natural religion itself seems to be declining lypse. Darby’s theories—which we today call “premillennian
in England.” dispensationism”—had several striking components: 1) the
millennial Kingdom of Christ will sweep away all civiliza-
British Israel proper tion, and the only people saved will be a tiny group of elect
Although the preconditions for British Israelism were who will be raptured physically into the new kingdom; 2) the
rampant in England, the first formal statement of the ideology evil power in the world is “Gog,” as identified in Ezekiel, who
did not occur until the 1790s, when Richard Brothers, a will sweep down on Israel and begin the end days—Darby
Royal Navy officer who had fought against America in the confidently identifed Gog as Russia; and 3) the End will come
Revolutionary War, began to write that England was not only when the Scripture is fulfilled and the Jews return to
just theoretically the New Jerusalem, but that the English Israel and rebuild the Temple.

say, only the “saved” are truly in the image of God, and
Ye shall know them the rest of humanity are second-class souls. This kind of
thinking often afflicts the person who is loudly opposed to
by their fruits anything that would take a life before birth (theoretically
saving an elected soul), but who cannot muster much care
There are millions of Americans who are now involved in for those “lazy” souls that God has apparently abandoned
Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Millennialist religious ac- to their fate.
tivity—including some who may be reading this right now. Another important clue to what your congregation re-
Having “good feelings” about those activities is not ally believes, can be found in their understanding of the
enough—that can be pure salesmanship. Simply knowing role of reason in the worship of God. For instance, many
that your group is involved in “good works” is not people who call themselves Fundamentalists become quite
enough—the New Testament warns against that kind of agitated at the mention of Philo, the Jewish philosopher of
thinking. There are a lot of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Alexandria, or the Church Father Augustine. The best-
These days demand that you look beneath the surface, and selling Apocalyptics Hal Lindsey and John Walvoord have
find out what are the core beliefs of your congregation. both written tracts against Philo, because the Platonic phi-
You may be shocked to find that your co-religionists have losopher proved that any attempt at Scriptural prophesy
ideas which make it impossible for them to understand was a narcissistic and impious attempt to make God con-
Lyndon LaRouche’s article in this issue. Ask your minis- form to man’s schedule. Scripture, said Philo, was a meta-
ter, or your priest, or your friends, and find out. Start a fight. phor, subject to a deepening interpretation as man grows
The single-most important test, is what your congrega- in understanding. Augustine ususally gets a blast for sub-
tion believes about man being in the image of God. This scribing to Philo on this and related points.
point is often taken for granted, because the Scripture tells But, what really perturbs the Apocalyptics is Philo’s
us that God made man and woman in his image, and there- and Augustine’s absolute insistence that worship can never
fore, if you believe Scripture, you believe that. Not so. be irrational. As Philo beautifully puts it, God insists that
Many Protestant denominations believe that Adam and his worshippers offer him only “the first fruits”—and for
Eve were made in the image of God, but that this image man, says Philo, that first fruits to be offered must be our
was hopelessly tarnished after their Fall. Therefore, some creative reason.—Michael Minnicino

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 Almost simultaneously, one John Wilson picked up the from oligarchs to apocalyptic crazies.
theories of Richard Brothers and published Lectures on Our Again, religion made a brilliant cover for espionage and
Israelitish Origin in 1840, claiming—also on the evidence of colonial manipulation. Nominally charged with surveying the
Biblical secret knowledge—that the Ten Tribes migrated to Mideast, so that “the country could be restored by the Jews to
Europe after the destruction of the second Temple, primarily its ancient prosperity,” the PEF spent its time subverting the
turning into Christian Englishmen and Germans; the racially Ottoman governor, and making the maps that the British
inferior tribes of Judah, said Wilson, remained in Palestine Army would use in the area in World War I.
and became the modern Jews. One of PEF’s leading explorers in Palestine from 1867-
Both these bizarre theories were sponsored by the British 70 was Gen. Sir Charles Warren. According to British author
oligarchy, because they exactly fit the Crown’s policy require- Stephen Knight, Warren, who had been commissioner of Lon-
ments. Darby’s identification of Russia would be crucial to don’s Metropolitan Police, oversaw the cover-up of the Jack
drumming up support for the war against that country which the Ripper murders, protecting both the United Grand Lodge
the British would shortly provoke in the Crimea. Wilson’s of Freemasons and the fact that the Prince of Wales had had
Biblically sanctioned friendship with the Germans was also an illegitimate heir by a prostitute. The Chief of Criminal
British policy. The fraud of the whole thing is exposed when, Investigations on the case for Scotland Yard was Sir Robert
slightly later, British foreign policy turned against the Ger- Anderson, who was a follower of John Nelson Darby.
mans; immediately, Wilson’s organization was factionalized, Warren is credited by Masonic sources with virtually re-
and it was discovered by the winning faction that the Germans discovering the project of rebuilding Solomon’s Temple. He
were actually the racial heirs of the Assyrians, the ancient founded the Quatuor Coronati Lodge 2076, which, under the
enemy of Israel, and therefore the enemy of British Israel. guise of being the “research lodge” within the United Grand
And both Darbyites and the British Israelites provided Lodge of England, has been active to this day, collaborating
invaluable assistance in firmly turning the attention of the with Zionists in attempts to create Holy War in the Middle
British population to Palestine, and the need for the rebuilding East by blowing up the Muslim shrine Haram al-Sharif on the
of the Temple. The timing was crucial: In 1840 British For- Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in order to rebuild Solomon’s
eign Secretary Lord Palmerston had unofficially committed Temple.
the British Empire to Zionism, and the creation of a British- Ironically, when the Quatuor Coronati Lodge succeeded
controlled entity in Palestine. On one hand, Britain needed to in taking over Theosophy, it spun off the Hermetic Order of
ensure that the increasing chaos in the Ottoman Empire did the Golden Dawn, run by the Satanic SIS officer, Aleister
not invite other Great Powers from developing influence Crowley, who was a major influence upon the Thule Society
there; on the other, it needed to protect the land routes to India that gave birth to Adolf Hitler’s movement and much of the
and its growing colonial empire. This became official policy inner cult belief structure of the Allegemeine SS.
in 1845, with a Colonial Office report proposing “the estab-
lishment of a Jewish nation in Palestine, as a protected state British Israel World Federation
under the guardianship of Great Britain”; such a state, the In 1919, the 40-odd British Israelite organizations were
report concluded, “would place us in a commanding position consolidated into the British Israel World Federation (BIWF),
in the Levant from whence to check the process of encroach- which, today, spans the British Empire and permeates the
ment, to overawe our enemies, and, if necessary, repel their United States. The first patrons of the BIWF were the Mar-
advance.” chioness of Headfort and Adm. Sir Richard Peirse.
The Crown’s “case officer” for this project was Anthony This consolidation followed two developments that were
Ashley Cooper, the Seventh Earl Shaftesbury, a “pious” the work of British leaders who had been influenced by British
oligarch who combined aspects of both the Darbyites and Israelism. The first was the 1917 conquest of Palestine and
the British Israelites, cleaned them up for general consump- entry into Jerusalem by Field Marshal Lord Allenby, which
tion, and became the leading spokeman for a plan to resettle was intended to achieve a Palestinian Mandate for the British
Jews back in Israel. Shaftesbury’s “High Church” version Empire at the Versailles Peace Conference. The second,
of British Israelism, as well as the various “Low Church” which sought to give an “imaginative” purpose to a British
versions, grew through the 19th century. Queen Victoria’s mandate, was the Balfour Declaration, backing “the establish-
daughter, Princess Alice, became a patroness of the move- ment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
ment. In 1862, the Prince of Wales and future King Edward The Balfour Declaration was nowhere more joyously cel-
VII made a tour of the Holy Land, the first English Royal ebrated than in the Darbyite and British Israelite congrega-
to set foot there since 1270. In 1865, Shaftesbury’s efforts tions in England and America. But, the joy had little to do
came to fruition with the founding of the Palestine Explora- with the Jewish people; indeed, many of the celebrants were
tion Fund (PEF). Under the official patronage of the Queen, anti-Semites who would soon join the revived Ku Klux Klan.
the PEF brought together funding from the Rothschilds and The issue was the final fulfillment of the Biblical prophesy,
the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons; membership ranged and, then, the end of the world.

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British Israelism in America is that they adhered to the “Fundamentals” described in
Both British Israelism and Darby’s prophetic apocalyp- these pamphlets.
tism were, surprisingly, welcome in America. Since both con- Meanwhile, British Israelism grew.
tained a Gnostic core belief, they were not altogether foreign The first American organization based on the writings of
to the theological ideas of many transplanted Puritans. Large Edward Hines, the reigning British Israelite, was the 1879
factions of the American Puritans could easily be classed as Lost Israel Identification Society of Brooklyn, created by Jo-
Gnostics. Some early Puritan settlers even came up with a seph Wild, the pastor of Brooklyn’s Union Congregationalist
version of Israelism, and believed that native Americans were Church. In 1883, C.A.L. Totten, who was a U.S. Army officer,
among the Lost Tribes of Israel. This idea was sufficiently wrote Palestine Regained, or the Relation of Our Race to the
widespread that it had to be attacked by Cotton Mather, the Race of Israel: The Means Toward the End. That writing was
Puritan humanist. based on the work of Hine, who toured the Northeast for four
The continued effect of Puritan forms of Gnosticism, years, starting in 1884.
and its use by Britain, can be seen in the work of Jonathan There were two American delegates to the 1919 founding
Edwards, who started the first big wave of revivalism in of the BIWF in London, namely J.H. Allen and Portland,
the first half of the 18th century. After studying Locke’s Oregon pastor Reuben Sawyer. The latter was a Darbyite who
psychological doctrines, Edwards came up with his own came to incorporate British Israel into his views. Sawyer was
theory of “religious affections,” the realization that rhetori- replaced as the U.S. representative to the BIWF by Howard
cally conjuring up horrific images of hellfire might have a Rand, a lawyer who ran for Attorney General of Massachu-
dramatic effect on susceptible minds. His famous sermon, setts on the Prohibition Party ticket. In 1930, Rand founded
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” with images of the BIWF-affiliated Anglo-Saxon Federation of America,
the sinner’s soul as a tiny spider held by a thread over a pit which soon had chapters across the United States.
of everlasting torture, created a preaching format still used There has been an intermingling of British Israelism with
today. Edwards’s “Great Awakening” succeeded in creating major Protestant Evangelical denominations ever since this
mass hysteria in large parts of the Northeast, coming into time.
direct conflict with American leaders like Benjamin Franklin For example, Garner Ted Armstrong, the founder of the
and other followers of Cotton Mather, who wanted to fire Worldwide Church for Christ, preached that the Anglo-
up the population to build a nation. Edwards’s son-in-law Saxon-Celtic race was the true Israelites and that the British
was Aaron Burr, the murderer of Alexander Hamilton, who Sovereign was descended from King David. Upon his death,
presided over the American chapter of the British Hellfire his church split between adherents of British Israelism and
Club, the secret society devoted to the philosophy of Bernard those who believed in “the Rapture.” Likewise, Billy Graham,
de Mandeville, who argued against any interference by the who founded the Evangelistic Association, got his first train-
state in “Private Vices,” no matter how Satanic. It was Burr ing from a British Israelite named Mordechai Hamm. Graham
who saw that Edwards was made president of the House of rose to prominence after his revival meetings in Britain, where
Orange’s Princeton University. he became associated with such British Israelite-influenced
Neither Darbyism nor Israelism were very popular in notables as Lord Home of the Hirsel. Graham’s writings were
themselves in America through the 19th century, although published by the leading BIWF geopolitician, Kenneth Hugh
the British attempted unsuccessfully to capitalize on Biblical de Courcy (see below), in his publication, Religious Review.
prophesies about Russia (the evil “Gog”) to undermine Abra- Although Graham seeks to keep it hidden, some of his closest
ham Lincoln’s Civil War alliance with Russia. At the turn advisers practice cabalistic Biblical “prophesy” from “the
of the 20th century—coinciding with the British efforts to signs of the time.”
bring America into a strategic alliance—both premillennial Another offshoot of British Israelism that has permeated
dispensationism and British Israelism began to expand. Brit- the United States, posing a significant national security prob-
ain supplied a constant stream of preachers for U.S. “proph- lem, is the Identity Church. It agrees that the Anglo-Saxon-
esy conferences,” whose message was that the secrets of the Celtic race is the true Israelites, but differs from the BIWF by
Scripture were being decoded and were coming to pass; that proclaiming the Jews to be descended from Eve’s mating with
“wars and rumors of wars” portended the Jewish return, the the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Identity has significant
Tribulation, and the Rapture. The Darbyite theories were influence within a number of paramilitary groups and in the
assembled in a series of pamphlets (several edited in En- militias, which overlap factions within the U.S. intelligence
gland) called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony of Truth.” community and military units such as the Special Forces.
These pamphlets—which included the statement that, al- This influence of British Israel upon paramilitary and mi-
though man was originally made in the image of God, he had litia forces in the United States is longstanding. William Pel-
lost that honor by Adams’s sin—circulated in the millions in ley, who founded the Silver Shirts, in imitation of the Nazi
the United States. Indeed, the reason why many Protestant Sturmabteilung (SA), in the 1930s, was one such case. Others
evangelicals and apocalyptics are called “Fundamentalists,” include Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, who created the American

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Destiny Foundation and then formed the paramilitary Califor- for the House of Windsor’s involvement in the drive to impose
nia Anti-Communist League; Rev. Wesley Smith, who Adolf Hitler upon a prostrate Germany for a “drive to the
founded two paramilitary groups, the California Rangers and east,” against Russia. Among his Club of the Isles friends who
the Christian Defense League; Lt. Col. William Potter Gale were involved in the project were HRH George Duke of Kent,
(ret.), who first worked with Swift’s Defense League, then who was also a leader of the United Grand Lodge of England,
broke off to found the Posse Comitatus; and so forth. and King Edward VIII, who was forced to abdicate because
of his pro-Nazi views, when, by 1936, a faction of the Club
Kenneth Hugh de Courcy of the Isles had come to see Hitler as a dangerous Frankenstein
Kenneth Hugh de Courcy, the leading geopolitician of the monster. De Courcy remained faithful to the Duke of Windsor
low churches’ BIWF, was chosen by the House of Windsor- even after the Duke was known to have entered into negotia-
affiliated Club of the Isles, to be an intermediary in the 1989 tions with Hitler to be restored to the throne of England by
railroad of Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. and six other defendants the Wehrmacht. De Courcy was very close to the Evangelical
in an Alexandria, Virginia Federal court. In a meeting with Lord Home of the Hirsel, who was with Prime Minister
LaRouche several years earlier, de Courcy had insisted that Neville Chamberlain at Munich.
LaRouche must give up his belief in a “divine spark of rea- However, the egotist Kenneth Hugh de Courcy made the
son.” At the end of 1988, de Courcy spoke with LaRouche mistake of placing some of his records on file at the Hoover
associates in Europe, outlining the terms of a possible deal, Institution’s archives, including a document he claims he
under which LaRouche would not be sent to prison. wrote in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, while serving a sentence
In LaRouche’s allocution to the court, prior to sentencing, there for financial fraud. This document concerns his own
he descibed the “deal” outlined by de Courcy: role in the escape of convicted Soviet spy, and suspected
“I wish to deal briefly with a matter which bears directly British “triple agent” George Blake, in October 1966. Some
on the business before us. During the middle of the preceding U.S. intelligence sources believe that Blake did more damage
trial I received a communication from a senior, well-known, to U.S. interests than British “triple agent,” H.A.R. “Kim”
high-level member of the British intelligence establishment. Philby.
This gentleman is known as Kenneth de Courcy, he is other- In his latest “prophecy” appearing in the pages of Cour-
wise known as the Duc de Grantsmenil. He is a figure whose cy’s Intelligence Digest and Special Office, he is once again
history in British intelligence prior to and during the last war claiming that there will be a renewed Middle East war by
is a matter of record in the Hoover Institution. He is well 1998, that will escalate into World War III. According to de
known to be a powerfully connected and influential person in Courcy, Russia is assisting Iran and Syria to prepare for such
Britain, by members of the U.S. establishment. . . . a war, through the transfer of nuclear technology. In order to
“He communicated to me that he had been in contact with save Israel, the British will have to rely upon the United
people who claimed to be responsible in the American liberal States’ arsenal to obliterate the Russian-Syrian-Iranian alli-
establishment for bringing of the prosecution and this trial. ance. Should President Bill Clinton, who, de Courcy states,
He also represented to me that he believed that persons with hates Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, balk at
whom he had been discussing were interested in presenting this escalation, then the British will destroy Clinton, by play-
to me political conditions to which, if I would submit (they ing their trump card: 60 million Evangelicals in the United
didn’t specify the conditions), but if I would submit to them, States. The situation is such, that Netanyahu may himself
they would use their influence to shape the outcome of this launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
proceeding trial and sentence. I responded to this by stating Otherwise, de Courcy said that China was doing every-
to them, and to Mr. de Courcy, that I was perfectly willing to thing it could, to maneuver Russia into an alliance with Iran
discuss any political matter on its merits, but I was not going for the forthcoming Middle East war. The reason is that Russia
to engage in bargaining for influence on the outcome of the is extremely weak militarily. It has only its strategic missile
trial in the United States. . . . capability left, after having decimated its other military units.
“Mr. de Courcy subsequently informed me through inter- If there is a new Middle East war, then, he foresees, China
mediaries, that my refusal to accept the offer, at high levels might move to take eastern Russia, which he claims has been
of the British establishment, had meant I was consigned in a long-term goal. It would be impossible, given China’s vast
effect to hell. . . .” population and territorial depth, for it to be conquered by
De Courcy, a protégé of British SIS chief Sir Stewart Russia.
Menzies was born Nov. 6, 1909. He was the son of the claim- De Courcy’s latest “prophecy” is a reliable expression of
ant to the title of the Eighth Duc de Grantsmenil, which is the viewpoint of a powerful faction within the Club of the
a dubious title of Anglo-Norman origin, nonetheless given Isles. As a leader of BIWF in London pointed out, King
credence as an “honorary” by DeBrett’s Peerage. George VI had had his genealogical chart traced back to King
De Courcy has had numerous high-level associates within David, and he educated his daughters in British Israelism,
the Club of the Isles, and he is one of the leading apologists including his heir, HM Queen Elizabeth II.

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EIRInternational

U.S. sanctions against

Sudan further British aims
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The announcement on Nov. 4, that the United States govern- failed to respond to repeated expressions of concern or to the
ment would impose “sweeping new economic sanctions” imposition of lesser sanctions. Instead, it has earned interna-
against the government of Sudan, is one more glaring example tional condemnation by persisting in its objectionable poli-
of the problem with Washington’s foreign policy. In Lyndon cies, causing us to conclude that more dramatic action is re-
LaRouche’s in-depth analysis of the phenomenon (see EIR, quired.” She concluded with assurances that the measures
Oct. 24, 1997, “Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Going!”), he would not harm civilians, as “humanitarian assistance to the
laid it out in black and white: “Any person who claims, that victims of Sudan’s civil war” would continue. Finally, she
the United States government has a specific policy toward said, “The purpose of the sanctions is to deprive the regime
any part of the world . . . doesn’t know what he is talking in Khartoum of the financial and material benefits of U.S.
about. In most leading areas of foreign policy, for example, trade and investment, including investment in Sudan’s petro-
the Clinton administration has at least two, mutually contra- leum sector. To ensure flexibility, the administration will con-
dictory policies at the same time.” Further on, he explained: sider issuing licenses on a case-by-case basis for activities
“The Clinton administration’s impulse for negotiating com- that are in the U.S. interest.”
promises with two or more mutually irreconcilable policies,
simultaneously, has locked the U.S.A., for the moment, into a Pressure from Congress
‘yes . . . but’ policy toward almost every corner of the globe.” As it emerged in the question-and-answer portion of the
The case of Sudan could provide the proverbial textbook briefing, the main impetus behind the Executive Order seems
example. For while Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to have been the pressure exerted by the U.S. Congress, rather
was informing the press of the Executive Order to this effect, than by any of the actions attributed to Sudan. In response to
moves initiated earlier, to reestablish a normal diplomatic a question, as to whether this measure would render Congres-
presence for the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, which had sional action superfluous, Rubin answered that consultations
moved out in January 1996, were reportedly continuing. with Congress had taken place just prior to the decision. Fur-
The devastating contradictions in the policy/no-policy to- thermore, he said, “We tend not to, as a matter of practice,
ward Sudan, were evident in the State Department briefing support sanctions put in place by Capitol Hill because of the
held by James Rubin, where Albright made the announce- fact that they normally lack flexibility.” He said he hoped that
ment. The secretary of state announced that the new sanctions Congress would not find further sanctions necessary.
were in response to Sudan’s alleged “continued sponsorship And, in the discussion on the response of U.S. allies in the
of international terror, its effort to destabilize neighboring region, as well as within the United Nations, Rubin admitted,
countries, and its abysmal record on human rights, including “Obviously, we have not achieved the kind of unanimous and
religious persecution.” The Executive Order, she said, would widespread support in the United Nations for a toughened
block Sudanese government assets in the United States, pro- stance against Sudan.” He added, “We haven’t received as
hibit U.S. trade with Sudan, as well as most financial transac- much support as we would like.” The U.S. unilateral decision,
tions between the two countries. Albright reiterated that the he said, he hoped would be a “harbinger of additional action
steps had been taken “because the government of Sudan has by other countries.”

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 In short, since the UN was split on further sanctions, and could be cut off from vital imports, and from foreign exchange
the U.S. Congress was about to pass vicious sanctions, it was revenue for exports, this would weaken the government mili-
decided to strike a compromise: “Sanctions? Yes . . . but.” tary defense effort. If, at the same time, foreign forces, such
The actual effect of the sanctions announced, will be very as those of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, Rwandan
limited. As Rubin himself acknowledged, the total volume of strongman Paul Kagame, Congo dictator Laurent Kabila, as
trade between the two, is only $70 million, of which $50 well as those of Eritrea and Ethiopia, could be mobilized to
million is U.S. exports. The U.S. imports from Sudan are open new fronts against Sudan, from the south and the east,
mainly gum arabic. There are 63 American companies which there would be more chances of military gains. “Humanitarian
import over one-fourth of Sudan’s gum arabic production, of aid” could be shipped in to the insurgent forces, to provide a
which it is nearly the exclusive producer. Sudan exports up further margin of logistical and military support. If, at the
to 90% of the world’s gum arabic, which is used in the produc- same time, a political puppet force were put together, in the
tion of soft drinks, candy, some inks, and pharmaceuticals form of the two religious sectarian parties, the DUP of Oth-
products. Now, these companies, which in fact had raised man al Mirghani and the Umma of Sadiq al Mahdi, it could
loud protests against proposed Congressional action, will be be glued to the military forces of John Garang’s SPLA, and
forced to purchase their product through middlemen, paying, stand poised to take power as a civilian government.
obviously, a higher price. Or, as Rubin indicated, this would This, in short, is what British intelligence has plotted and
be one area in which “flexibility” would be shown, and “in achieved over the past two years, through the good graces of
certain specific commodities,” precisely these firms would be Baroness Cox (see EIR, Jan. 24, 1997, pp. 22-45; Jan. 31,
licensed to continue trade. pp. 12-41; March 14, pp. 34-45; April 18, pp. 53; June 20,
From the Sudanese side, the ban on U.S. investments will pp. 40-53; Sept. 26, pp. 54-60).
not be of consequence, particularly in the oil sector which was A monkey wrench was thrown into the operation in April
singled out as a target by Albright. In fact, there are Malaysian, 1996, when the Sudanese government succeeded in drawing
Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and French companies which up a charter of principles, for a peace treaty with the rebel
have already contracted for developing the sector, including forces, which peace treaty was signed one year later in April
theconstructionofapipeline.AsforU.S.economicassistance, 1997. All rebel forces except Garang’s British-backed group,
that was terminated in 1983, so there will be no change. Fi- have signed on to a peace agreement with the government,
nally, the Sudanese assets in the United States which will now which, since April, has been translated into an institutional
be frozen, do not amount toanything near the billions of dollars
in assets seized from Iran and Iraq. It has been reported that,
following the issuance of the Executive Order, U.S. govern-
ment authorities entered a Brooklyn travel agency and seized
its account with Sudan Airways, which amounted to $15,000. U.S. shoots self
The British hand in foot on Sudan
So, what is really going on?
It is no secret in London elite circles, that British intelli- London’s continuing war against its former colony, Su-
gence has been working on a very precise timetable, to bring dan, is a crucial flank of the geopolitical war against the
down the current Sudanese government. Baroness Caroline U.S. by President Clinton’s personal enemies in Britain
Cox, the deputy speaker of the House of Lords, and key asset and Canada. If Sudan were to fall, the U.S.A. would
of British intelligence in its war against Sudan, has been over- be forced to retreat from all of Africa, its tail tucked
heard muttering in the corridors of power, that “the NIF [Na- shamefully between its legs. Thus, while Clinton re-
tionalIslamicFront]regimemustbeoutbytheendoftheyear.” acted to heavy pressure on the Sudan issue, organized
It is for this reason that Cox accelerated her drive, begun by enemy (i.e., British) agents in the U.S. Congress,
several years ago, to set up the overthrow of the government his tactic was gravely mistaken. One thing which the
of Gen. Omar al Bashir. Cox has spearheaded the international President must soon learn, is that it is never smart poli-
campaign to impose sanctions against Sudan, with her Chris- tics to abandon the cause of truth and justice. The steady
tian Solidarity International (CSI), a branch of British intelli- increase of citizens out of the ranks of voters, as we see
gence. Her allegations, that the “Muslim northern govern- in the recent, devastating defeat the President’s party
ment” practices slavery against the “Christian south,” and of suffered in the Virginia elections, reflects the disgust
other grave human rights violations, have been propped up an aggrieved population experiences when its govern-
by fabricated reports she has issued, during trips to areas in ment—i.e., its President—lacks the strength to stand
Sudan controlled by rebel forces of the Sudanese People’s up for the principles of truth and justice. It is very tough
Liberation Army (SPLA) group. to win any kind of war, if your troops are not confident
The rationale behind the CSI’s campaign for sanctions of your principles.—Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
was quite explicitly of a military-strategic nature: If Sudan

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power-sharing process. First Vice President Lt. Gen. al-Zubeir Mohammad Saleh.
It was to sabotage this peace process, that Cox revved up The meeting dealt with general as well as specific issues in
her anti-slavery campaign in the spring and summer of this bilateral relations, and led to the formation of committees to
year. Knowing that far-reaching economic sanctions were the resolve outstanding problems. As Mustafa Osman Ismail told
precondition for reversing the military situation, Cox concen- the weekly newspaper Akhbar al-Youm, the idea for the com-
trated on the U.S. Congress. Her staunch allies in the effort mittees was born during the Cairo meeting. They talked “on
have been U.S. Reps. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), Chris Smith the resolution of most issues discussed, and left the details to
(R-N.J.), and Frank Wolf (R-Va.), the latter two being mem- specialized quarters in both countries to implement. While I
bers of her intelligence front, the CSI. Hearings in the summer wouldn’t say the problems between the two countries have
were followed by hearings in September, when Cox testified been resolved, the trip of General Saleh to Egypt is an impor-
in person. Also in September, the U.S. Institute for Peace tant step to the return of ties between the two countries to their
hosted a two-day seminar on Sudan, whose sole purpose was natural state,” Ismail said. He stressed the “eternal” nature of
to thwart ongoing peace talks and generate support in Con- the bilateral relations, referring to cultural and geographical
gress for sanctions. At that meeting, National Security Coun- factors, and said, “if there are problems in the relationship,
cil director John Prendergast lyingly presented as “U.S. gov- there is no way out but through dialogue.”
ernment policy,” the British line as articulated by Cox. He For his part, Mubarak’s adviser Osama el-Baz said after
also announced a program for supplying not only “humanitar- the Cairo talks: “We hope that this meeting will be a new
ian aid,” but also “development assistance” to insurgent endeavor to strengthen relations, because we look at Suda-
forces in areas under their control, as per Cox’s instructions. nese-Egyptian relations as special. . . . We hope the coming
As a result of these moves, the CSI agents in the Congress period will witness tangible progress in this respect.”
were preparing to put through legislation which would have President Mubarak reportedly placed emphasis in the
satisfied Cox’s demands for a full embargo. Her demand has meeting, on stability in the region. Referring to Mubarak’s
been, consistently, that an oil and arms embargo be imposed, view, Mustafa Ismail issued a statement with rather extraordi-
and that the country be totally isolated. Thus, Clinton’s Exec- nary formulations; he said, “We have listened to the instruc-
utive Order. With it, the administration seems to be snipping tions and guidelines and advice of President Mubarak and
the fingers of the CSI operatives in Congress, instead of going found that he comprehends the problems of Sudan. We will
for the head of the beast, in London. go back to Khartoum and explain his instructions and advice
to the Sudanese leadership. . . . We hope that relations will
The priority of peace return to their natural conditions, for mutual benefit.”
If the White House has thus snatched this foreign policy This is the first meeting at such a high level between the
initiative out of the meddling hands of British agents in Con- two governments since before the June 26, 1995 assassination
gress, this does not mean it has elaborated an alternative, attempt against Mubarak in Ethiopia, which was blamed on
positive policy for Sudan. the Sudanese. Stability in the region depends very much on
On the contrary. The sanctions decision, although cos- stability of relations between these two major nations. Be-
metic, is sending precisely the wrong kinds of signals to cause Egypt is not a member of IGAD and would not, there-
undercut those precious few forces in the region, who are fore, be a participant in the peace talks, it was crucial for
struggling to achieve peace and stability. On Oct. 28, talks Mubarak to conduct such consultations to put forward his
were scheduled to begin in Nairobi, between representatives views. It is known, that, regardless of political conflict be-
of the Sudanese government and of the SPLA of Garang. tween the two governments, which was exacerbated by the
The talks, sponsored by the Inter-Governmental Authority on British assassination plot, and despite contacts which the
Development (IGAD), represent the first time that Garang Cairo government has had with part of the political opposition
(who has categorically rejected the peace treaty signed by the of Sudan, Mubarak knows only too well, that a breakup of
other rebel factions) has consented to come to the negotiating Sudan would immediately threaten the territorial integrity
table with government representatives. and independence of Egypt. Most explicitly, any secessionist
The talks began one day later, on Oct. 29, ostensibly be- moves on the part of John Garang in the south of Sudan, would
cause the Kenyan foreign minister had not yet returned from threaten the free flow of the Nile waters into Egypt.
the Commonwealth meeting in Edinburgh. But in fact, the According to Sudanese sources, the visit to Egypt was
postponement may have been due to a meeting which took supposed to be kept discreet, as per prior arrangements. How-
place in Cairo, between Egyptian and Sudanese government ever, when the delegation landed at the airport, it was greeted
officials. In an extraordinary development, Egyptian Presi- by press, which indicates the Egyptians wanted to make it
dent Hosni Mubarak (the same who, according to the official public.
line on Sudan, had been the target of Sudanese assassins two Following this refreshing development, the peace talks
years ago) cordially received a high-level delegation from began in Nairobi. The Sudanese government delegation in-
Khartoum. The Sudanese delegation was composed of Minis- cludes Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Osman Mohammed
ter of State for Foreign Affairs Mustafa Osman Ismail, and Taha; Minister for Federal Rule Ali al-Haj Mohamad; the

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head of the Council for Peace, Mohamed al Khalifa; National self-determination, it is there in the agreement. So, we are
Security Adviser Dr. Obed Mahdi, and others. The delegation asking this question—what do they want?”
also includes two former rebel leaders who have signed the “We have got a model now for power-sharing,” he said.
peace treaty with the government, and are now functioning “The federal system is a formula for power-sharing, and we
as leaders in the political structures in the south: Arok Thon have got our own suggestions for that.” He said, if the other
Arok, and Dr. Riak Machar. There are representatives of all side rejected these suggestions, “they should tell us their sug-
the IGAD states, and the United States was also expected to gestions.”
attend with the status of an observer. Less than a week after the talks had gotten off the ground,
The SPLA is represented by a six-man team, which does the news was released in Washington, that sanctions would
not include any members of the “political opposition” parties be imposed. At about the same time, Garang’s delegation in
of Cox’s National Democratic Alliance, much to their chagrin. Nairobi made known that it wanted to change the agenda of
Although no reports are expected to be released until the the talks. The demands put forward by them, according to
talks conclude, Ali al-Haj Mohamad expressed optimism in unconfirmed reports in the Arabic press, were that a two-
talking to reporters. “Sudan wants to negotiate peace,” he state confederation and a multi-party democracy, with the
said. “We do not want to fight, but if we are compelled to, we participation of Cox’s sectarian parties, should be set up. The
are going to fight.” He stressed the importance of this meeting, transition period to a referendum in the south, would be cut
as different from others years ago with the SPLA, because the down to two years. And most important, the SPLA delegates
government has in the meantime signed a peace treaty with called for redrawing the map of the south, enlarging it consid-
other rebel factions, whose clauses should satisfy the demands erably, by including in it, the Nuba Mountains and the Blue
of Garang. “This is important because this is the first time in Nile province. Posing such demands, is tantamount to explod-
the history of the conflict between North and South, and the ing the peace talks. Furthermore, the demand to include the
first time in the history of the Sudan, that there is a concrete Blue Nile province, means claiming control over the Nile—
agreement,” he said. “I know it [the peace treaty] didn’t in- precisely what would destabilize Egypt immediately.
clude the SPLA,” he went on. “That’s why we are going to How this turnabout occurred is not yet known. But what
Nairobi. But I know that agreement has actually addressed all is clear, is that the ambiguity in Washington’s position, as
the issues which were raised by the SPLA and which we are perceived by the interlocutors in the peace talks, can only
going to discuss. . . . If they want a united Sudan, that is fine; complicate the process, and encourage Garang’s forces to
if they want a separation, there is a referendum; if they want balk at peace.

second strategy, she did not specify. What was meant, was
the CSI’s continuing strategy to overthrow the government
Cox, the CSI, and British of Khartoum. Baroness Cox showed slides of some of her
20 illegal visits to Sudan, among them pictures of herself
intelligence vs. Sudan in the company of Abdul Aziz Khaled, the commander of
the British-backed “rebel” forces of the SPLA and Eritrea,
It is no coincidence that, just days prior to the convening in the east.
of peace talks between the Sudanese government and the Among the participants at the CSI conference, were
SPLA rebel faction of John Garang, in Nairobi, British the following: Rev. Stuart Windsor; Dr. Mircea Ciumara,
intelligence operative Baroness Caroline Cox would mo- deputy prime minister of Romania and head of CSI in
bilize her Christian Solidarity International (CSI) for a Romania; David Atkinson, Conservative MP, vice presi-
strategy session. dent for life, CSI-UK; Paul Diamont, barrister; “Mamma
The conference took place in Westminster Chapel, on Lobita,” Isabella Torres, Mexico; Bishop Richard Hara;
Oct. 25. Representatives of CSI from the U.K., Pakistan, Richard O’Connor; Mervin Thomas, chairman of CSI-
Mexico, Romania, and other international offices were UK; and Dr. R.T. Kendall from the U.S., now of the U.K.
present at the conference, which had “Christian Human Among those who had been invited, but sent messages
Rights” as its theme. In her keynote address, Cox recycled expressing their regret that they could not attend, were
material she has presented orally and in written form over MPs: Julian Brazier, Win Griffith, Dr. Liam Fox, Maria
the last years. Three-fourths of her remarks dealt with Su- Fyfe, Roger Gale, Lord Avebury, Lord Ashbourne, Simon
dan, which she damned for alleged support of terrorism, Hughes, Gary Street, Don Toughic, Sir Teddy Taylor,
slavery, ethnic cleansing, and so on. Regarding slavery, Lord Hayhoe, and Lord Gilbert; and Members of the Euro-
she said that the CSI had “two strategies”: one was to pay pean Parliament: Anita Pollack, Stan Newans, Tessa Jo-
ransom, to buy slaves back out of bondage; as for the well, David Hallam; and the Bishop of Ely.

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Uganda churches lead ‘Prayer
for Peace’ march in Kampala
by Linda de Hoyos

In an event without precedent in Uganda, more than 10,000 Ogwal of the Ugandan Peoples Congress and Paul Ssemoger-
people joined a Prayer for Peace walk and rally in the Consti- ere of the Democratic Party, and even within his own military,
tution Square of Kampala on Nov. 2. The march was led to end the war through negotiations. Museveni has stated that
by Roman Catholic Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, and was he will accept only the military defeat of the LRA. In 1994,
joined by church leaders of all Christian denominations in an LRA bid for peace negotiations was rebuffed by Museveni.
Uganda’s capital city, with solidarity from Muslim religious Many well-informed Ugandans believe that the British
leaders who also attended. The march gathered Kampala’s warlord has contrived to keep the war going as his excuse for
Christians from their churches, and then headed for the main continuation of his one-party system, as a cover for military
city square, where Cardinal Wamala and Rt. Rev. Macleord operations in support of the Sudanese People’s Liberation
Baker Ochola, of the Anglican Church of Uganda, led the Army (SPLA) war against southern Sudan from northern
Prayer for Peace rally. Uganda, and as a justification for the disbursement of govern-
The theme of the Prayer for Peace, said Cardinal Wamala, ment monies for military hardware imports, which are then
is peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation. often diverted to other military adventures, such as in Rwanda
Although the Cardinal never directly addressed the gov- or eastern Congo.
ernment, his speech called upon all Ugandans to carry out the The initiation of peace negotiations is made all the more
mandate of the Ugandan Constitution for the establishment urgent by the push for a total war to “bring down the National
of peace throughout the country (see speech excerpts below). Islamic Front government in Khartoum” coming from the
Cardinal Wamala also indirectly countered the British in- British Privy Council, speaking through Deputy Speaker of
telligence methods of divide-and-rule that have kept Uganda the House of Lords Caroline Cox, and in Washington, through
in a state of perpetual violent turmoil for more than 30 years, Roger Winter, U.S. Committee for Refugees; John Prender-
by citing the common heritage of all Ugandans: “The God we gast, of the U.S. National Security Council; and Susan Rice,
believe in, the Creator of us all, is the God of Peace, Forgive- assistant secretary of state for Africa.
ness, and Reconciliation. We are all created in His image: male
and female He created us. We share the same human nature, Military build-up is proceeding
same equality before Him and inhabit the same earth. . . .” The military build-up for this war is proceeding within
An attempt to hold a Prayer for Peace earlier in March Uganda, even as the Sudan government and the SPLA are
had been thwarted by the government, when it refused to grant engaged in ongoing negotiations for peace in Nairobi, Kenya
a license for the rally. This time, the march took place without (see article this issue). But such a war, which Winter declared
incident, although march organizers were threatened by state on Sept. 17 would cause a “humanitarian catastrophe,” will
agencies, according to sources. No government official at- bring death and destruction not only to Sudan, but also to
tended the rally. Uganda.
The Prayer for Peace was prompted by the dire situation Within Uganda itself, the policies of Museveni since he
afflicting northern Uganda, where a full half of the population came to power in January 1986 with the backing of Winter, the
is living in so-called protected villages, where they are dying British Crown’s Lonrho Corp., and the British Broadcasting
from lack of food, sanitation, medicine, and clean water (see Corp., have sacrificed the well-being of the citizens of
accompanying interview with Bishop Ochola of Kitgum). Uganda, to the opening up of the country to external looting
The protected villages are the government’s answer to the and to a policy of regional militarism sponsored by the British
threat increasingly posed to the people of the two northern Privy Council. This has created conditions of despair for in-
districts of Kitgum and Gulu by the war between the govern- surgencies not only in the north, but now also gravely affect-
ment of Yoweri Museveni and the Lord’s Resistance Army ing western Uganda, eastern Uganda, and the Kampala area
of Joseph Kony, a conflict which has persisted for more than itself.
11 years. To bring an end to the British-sponsored culture of vio-
President Museveni is coming under increasing pressure, lence in Uganda, the Prayer for Peace made clear, requires
from church leaders, from opposition leaders such as Cecilia that Ugandans learn to reconcile their bitter differences, but

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also requires that the government act to bring about an envi- where would we be? But with God there is mercy and forgive-
ronment of peace in which true economic development can ness. If there were no forgiveness in our inter-personal rela-
take place. Instead, the government, Ugandan sources report, tions, in the families and communities, where would we be?
is using the cover of counterinsurgency to physically elimi- We would be at each other’s throat every day.
nate any potential civilian and constitutional opponents. Forgiveness is a religious and human must for everyone,
Rather than protecting populations caught in war zones, the every leader and every community. Forgiveness restores har-
Ugandan military has been deployed to gun down opponents mony, love, and trust. It restores unity and togetherness. It is
under the guise that they are “supporting the rebels.” not always easy to forgive, that is why we need God to touch
The Prayer for Peace, as Cardinal Wamala and Bishop our hearts in order to learn to forgive, discover the power
Ochola have made clear is their intent, raises a voice not heard of forgiveness, and become committed agents of spreading
from in Uganda for many years—that of the people, whose forgiveness. We have, as a people and as a nation, to learn to
inalienable rights to life and liberty are being trampled on love our enemies and in doing so, turn them into friends. This
daily in Uganda. is the message Jesus Christ gives us:
“You have heard that it was said: You shall love your
neighbor, and you shall hate your enemies. I say to you: Love
your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that
A call for peace you may become children of your Father Who is in heaven,
because He makes His sun to rise upon the evil and the good,
and reconciliation and sends rain upon the righteous and the unrighteous.”
(Matthew 5)
3. Reconciliation
by Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala
Reconciliation is a fundamental requirement for our hu-
man solidarity, religious unity in God, and nation-building.
Here are excerpts of the keynote speech of His Eminence, The moment we allow divisions among us to sharpen and
Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala, archbishop of Kampala and deepen, we undermine ourselves. We need negotiations and
chairman, Uganda Joint Christian Council, to the Prayer for negotiators to heal divisions among us. We need people al-
Peace rally in Kampala, on Nov. 2: ways committed to preventing such divisions from develop-
ing into hatred, prejudice, and disunity.
Distinguished leaders from the civil, religious, cultural and My appeal to you is to be ambassadors of reconciliation
diplomatic sectors here present, and all of you dear brothers wherever and whenever there are dangerous divisions among
and sisters in God our Father, I greet you with the words of us. Where there is hatred, let us sow love. Where there is
God’s peace: Peace be with you; Salamalekum; Amani iwe injury, sow pardon. Where there is discord, sow unity.. . .
nanyi; Emirembe gibe namwe; Obusingye bube naimwe. . . . 5. Our common human and religious heritage
The Peace-March we have made to this Constitution Although coming from different religious, ethnic, and re-
Square has a deep symbolic meaning. It has shown the unity ligional backgrounds, we do share some common and funda-
and solidarity of the people of God in search for lasting peace mental beliefs and values which should unite us in the work
throughout our country. . . . of promoting peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
1. Peace • The God we believe in, the Creator of us all, is the God
We all need peace and therefore we all have a religious and of peace, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
human duty to be peace-makers, peace-keepers, and peace- • We are all created in His image: male and female He
promoters. This duty cannot be left to the state alone, and its created us.
security organs. It is a duty in which each person, family, • We share the same human nature, same equality before
community, religious organization, and each part of Uganda Him, and inhabit the same earth.
has an important role to play. • To each one of us God has given a conscience, His inner
I appeal to everyone here present and to all Ugandans to voice in us, which tells us to distinguish the good from the
take up this challenge seriously: to do all we can to keep evil, the right from the wrong, the just from the unjust, the
peace, preserve peace, and promote peace where it exists, peaceful from the violent.
to restore peace, to reject armed conflicts and seek peaceful • We share the same beautiful nation, one constitution,
resolution of conflicts where they exist, and always to be and one government.
God’s instruments of peace wherever we are. “Blessed are • We share our joys and aspirations, and our sufferings
the peace-makers, they shall be called the children of God.” and our problems, jointly.
(Matthew 5:9) • We have a common past, a common present and shall
2. Forgiveness have a common future. . . .
We all need God’s power to forgive and God’s grace to 7. Our National Constitution challenges us to peace and
be forgiven. If God were to remember all our sins and faults, reconciliation

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 all men were created equal in the image of God, and are
Binaisa endorses entitled to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These
words from the American Declaration of Independence
Prayer for Peace prove that the human species has no lower forms of men,
who should be treated as if they were cows. By your action,
Godfrey Binaisa, former President of Uganda and chair- you have rejected ethnic origin, caste, religion, sex, and
man of the African Civil Rights Movement, endorsed the political opinion, as a basis for opportunities in education,
Prayer for Peace walk called for Nov. 2 by Emmanuel business, or office. This means that everybody’s human
Cardinal Wamala, with this statement issued from New rights have to be protected. Democracy is for all. Full par-
York on Oct. 31: ticipation in the economic development of the country is a
birthright of everyone, but not a right enjoyed as a divine
I salute Your Eminence Cardinal Wamala, head of the right by those in power, to be handed out to foreign inter-
Uganda Catholic Church, for your leadership of the peace ests, particularly the interests of our former colonial mas-
march. I also salute the leaders of the Episcopal Churches ters in their aim to control our natural resources.
and other Christian denominations, the Muslim leaders, Finally, military adventurism, which has now lasted 20
and leaders of African Traditional Religions who have years, 1978-1997, must be brought to a quick end. It has
joined in this glorious march for peace. I wish I was with been proved over and over again throughout the history of
you all in Kampala to march with you. You are walking many nations, that militarism in the long run creates more
the last mile to the freedom of our country. You are march- problems than it purports to solve. Your peace march is the
ing in peace, dignity, respect for the rule of law, and a only lasting solution for a happy and prosperous Uganda.
yearning for true democracy that has now reached its peak Remember the words of a great African-American
by your march. freedom fighter, Frederick Douglass, “You are the ones to
You intend to hurt nobody, but merely to pass on the put a limit to how much you can endure.”
message for peace, that the time has come to supplement We all pray that this time the Uganda government will
our long march for matters spiritual, which in our history enter into negotiations with the rebel groups seriously, and
produced martyrs among Christians and Muslims, with a fully committed to abide by the decisions reached by all
great concern for matters temporal, and thus confirm that parties to the conflict.

Dear brothers and sisters in God, we should reflect on This paragraph is at the center of the theme of our prayer
the challenges contained in our National Constitution which service today. I strongly urge every Ugandan to read, study,
relate to our commitment to peace and reconciliation. This and reflect on it in order to find the challenges it gives to all
reflection will enable us to visualize the aspirations of the of us:
people of Uganda in this respect. • “All organs of State and people of Uganda shall work
Both the Preamble and the National Objectives pay much towards the promotion of national unity, peace, and sta-
attention to peace and nation-building among all people. bility.
“We the people of Uganda • “Every effort shall be made to integrate all the people
“Recalling our history which has been characterized by of Uganda while at the same time recognizing the existence
political and constitutional instability, of their ethnic, religious, ideological, political, and cultural di-
“Recognizing our struggles against the forces of tyranny, versity.
oppression, and exploitation, • “Everything shall be done to promote a culture of coop-
“Committed to building a better future by establishing a eration, understanding, appreciation, tolerance, and respect
socio-economic and political order through a popular and for each other’s customs, traditions, and beliefs.
durable national Constitution based on the principles of unity, • “There shall be established and nurtured institutions
peace, equality, democracy, freedom, social justice, and prog- and procedures for the resolution of conflicts fairly and peace-
ress. . . .” fully.
These paragraphs recover the sense of bitter history we • “The State shall provide a peaceful, secure, and stable
have lived and offer the vision and hope for the future. Our political environment which is necessary for economic devel-
aspirations are to change from a history of instability to stabil- opment.”
ity, from a reality of war to a reality of peace, unity, and social . . . My prayer is that all of us, and each one of us should
justice. . . . take up this constitutional challenge most seriously in order
8. National Objectives paragraph III. National unity and to have peace in all parts of the country, peace which can only
stability be achieved with forgiveness and reconciliation. . . .

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 13. Call to action these abducted Ugandans and children has a moral and reli-
. . . Let us be committed to peace in our whole nation, gious and human duty to reveal that information which can
search for solutions to end war and insecurity, then we shall lead to the freedom of these people.
live together joyfully as a nation and fully embrace genuine 6. On this day, when the Christian churches are focussed
development. (Isaiah 2:3) “Let us hammer our ‘swords’ into on All Souls, we want to remember all Ugandans who have
ploughshares, ‘our spears into sickles.’ ” met violent deaths in the current insecurity in parts of our
The greatest treasure we can leave to the next generation nation. May they rest in peace. We want to pray for all their
is the culture of peace. It is the precious gift with which we parents and relatives to have God’s courage and consolation.
should plan to enter into the new millennium. The expected results:
1. To have continued, strengthened, and more committed
collaborations among all religious leaders and their members
to peacemaking and peacekeeping and promotion through
joint action and strategies.
Interview: Macleord Baker Ochola 2. To be committed to promotion of peacemaking, the
religious and ethical values of the non-violent method, and
peaceful resolutions of conflicts and strategies for prevention
of conflict.
Ugandan bishop: 3. To begin a joint religious effort for peace, forgiveness,
and reconciliation from the grass roots for purposes of regular
Time is running out reflection, prayer, information-gathering, and education.
4. To continue to sustain the hope that peace is possible
throughout Uganda if only Uganda became a peace lover,
The Right Reverend Macleord Baker Ochola of the Kitgum peace maker, and peace keeper.
Diocese of the Anglican Church of Uganda, was interviewed So, in brief, we are actually trying to help the people of
by Linda de Hoyos, via telephone, on Nov. 5: Uganda to become aware of the cry of the people who have
been crying for peace, especially in northern Uganda, for
EIR: Could you tell us why the Prayer for Peace in Kampala more than 11 years now.
on Nov. 2 was called, and what your aims are? We are also appealing to the international community,
Bishop Ochola: The Prayer for Peace was mainly to sensi- which has been so much aloof for more than a decade now,
tize the people of Uganda, to be aware about peace. The aims when the children of Uganda were being abducted, being
of the Prayer for Peace are: killed, and people’s properties were being looted and de-
1. To make all participants and all Ugandans fully aware stroyed. The international community kept quiet all this time.
and convinced that God Almighty is the God of peace, for- So, we are appealing to the international community to be-
giveness, and reconciliation. God wishes all his children to come aware of our situation, so that altogether we can join
live in peace and harmony. hands to bring about peace in Uganda.
2. To proclaim to all that all religions in Uganda share the
common and fundamental belief in peace, forgiveness, and EIR: If there were peace inside Uganda, do you think this
reconciliation. Religious leaders and all their members should would result in a decrease in the external deployments of the
always be united in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace Ugandan forces that we have seen in Rwanda, eastern Zaire,
promotion. and other places?
3. To implore God to empower us and the entire nation Bishop Ochola: Yes, I think the global dimensions of the
in finding peaceful means and initiatives to end the war in war in the Great Lakes region are there, simply because
the northern and southwestern parts of Uganda, so that all there are some people who are not for peace, and there are
parts of the country can enjoy peace, happiness, and devel- others who would like to promote their own interests. But,
opment. we are saying that God has created people to live in peace.
4. To make a united religious cry and appeal to all those People have been created in the image of God; that is why
who are behind these conflicts to heed the voice of God and we have community. We live in community. Living in com-
of the people, to stop acts of violence, and seek ways of peace munity means peace. So, we are discouraging our govern-
and reconciliation. ment and other governments in the region from pursuing
5. To make an appeal in the name of God to all those these violent attitudes that will destroy the peace of others
groups which have abducted Ugandan children and citizens, in the region. That is what we are trying to do as a church,
and those who are keeping them prisoners or are abusing them and also to discourage the international dimension of it. We
in any way, to be moved by the sufferings of the parents and are aware that it is not just something that is done within
relatives and the entire people of Uganda, and release them the Great Lakes region, without the great powers from out-
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EIR: What toll has this war in northern Uganda taken on the EIR: Does the government give a reason for not declaring
economy and the population? a disaster?
Bishop Ochola: The total population of Kitgum is 357,184. Bishop Ochola: Not yet. As far as I know, there are no rea-
The total population of Gulu is 337,172. Now, out of this, in sons given. We are just wondering why it is not being done,
Kitgum, we have more than 100,000 people living in camps. in spite of the fact that people are dying. There is real need.
Because of the insecurity in Kitgum from January to July,
they ran, left their homes, and came to live in camps. They EIR: These populations are what they call “at risk”?
have been forced by insecurity to live in camps. The total of Bishop Ochola: Yes, they are at risk—very high risk. In
those displaced people was 64,000 people from one county Gulu, it is even worse, because already almost two-thirds of
of Lamoa in Kitgum district. Then, of late, in Aruu County, the people are in the camps. In Kitgum, it is only 109,000
people have been forced by the military to go into the camps. people in the camps. But in Gulu, over 200,000 people are in
The military is saying that this was necessary because the the camps. So, you can see the situation. That means they
military does not want the rebels to abduct or kill people in don’t have access to their land, they cannot produce food, and
the villages. A total of 44,000 people are now in the camps in therefore they have to depend entirely on relief food. For how
Aruu County. These are what we now call protected villages. long, is what we don’t know. Who is going to give food that
They were forced to go there, according to the government, will go forever?
because of insecurity.
EIR: When was this policy of protected villages begun?
EIR: What are these camps composed of? Bishop Ochola: In Gulu, it started last year. We objected to
Bishop Ochola: These camps are just an area where you it, but the government went ahead and put in those protected
are driven without any assistance whatsoever, no food, no villages. In Kitgum, it started at the beginning of this year.
nothing, not anything; no provision for food, no sanitation, Because of insecurity, people just ran from their homes and
no health facilities for you. You are just forced to go there. If found themselves in those camps, and then, in September,
you have food, well and good. If you don’t have food, too bad people were forced by the military to go to the camps in
for you. This is what it means. Aruu County.

EIR: There is no assistance to the people in these camps? EIR: Do you see any modalities for the war in the north to
Bishop Ochola: They were just told to go, and that’s all. end? Museveni said on Oct. 29 that he would grant amnesty,
There was no arrangement whatsoever. against his will, to the rebels.
Bishop Ochola: I think that was a positive statement, but it
EIR: There is a news report that people have starved to death has to be followed by talks. You can’t just say things like that
in these camps in the recent period. and have it remain like that. If the war is to end, the govern-
Bishop Ochola: Yes, people are dying. It is true. People have ment and rebels must talk to each other, so they can end the
been dying, especially the children, of measles, pneumonia, war. Right now, we don’t know; there is war and insurgency
malaria, diarrhea, and many other related health problems. in the north, there is war and insurgency in the west, so the
government has to show that good will, and talk to all these
EIR: There is no international press that has gone up there? people and end the war.
Bishop Ochola: The government has to show the good will
to declare the area a disaster area, so that the government can EIR: Since the government has been unable to end this war
appeal to the international community, like the non-govern- in 11 years, has its military option failed?
mental organizations, and governments like the U.S.A. and Bishop Ochola: What I want to say, is that if the government
others, to come and help. But this has not been done officially has the political will to end the war, it can be done. But the
by the government, so people feel that they cannot interfere war has been going on for more than 11 years, simply because
in Ugandan internal affairs. the government did not have the will to end the war. Yes.

EIR: Is this food problem compounded by the drought? EIR: Is the Sudan People’s Liberation Army [SPLA] active
Bishop Ochola: There have been droughts for the last two in this area also?
years consecutively. In 1996, we had a long drought and very Bishop Ochola: They are there at the border, and they also
poor yields at the end. Now, we have drought again, from come to Uganda. They don’t operate from Ugandan soil, but
May up through October of this year. So, we have lost all our they have access to Ugandan soil, really.
crops in the first planting season. Even in the second season,
in July, we could not plant. Now rain has come, but we have EIR: Does that compound the problem, or is it irrelevant?
no seeds. We have no food. People are dying. So we are in a Bishop Ochola: It is a big problem. That is why Sudan is
very bad situation. supporting [Joseph] Kony’s rebels [of the Lord’s Resistance

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Army], because Sudan is claiming the Ugandan government cattle rustling carried out by the Karamajong. The people,
is supporting the SPLA. because they are now in the camps, they have lost their agri-
culture. These are the two means of livelihood of our people—
EIR: There are peace talks between Sudan and SPLA leaders agriculture and livestock. People cannot survive without
in Nairobi now, and the Kenyan foreign minister has indicated these. At least, they might survive without their livestock, but
they are going well. Would it help the situation in Uganda if without agriculture, if they are kept in the camps, eventually
there were peace in southern Sudan? everybody will die. Because you cannot feed people in the
Bishop Ochola: If both of them are serious, it would be very camps for too long. Something must be done. And that is
helpful. If the SPLA stops the war, and if the government why we are really appealing to the government for a peaceful
stops the war, then Uganda will be at peace. Because we don’t means to solve the war in Uganda, to bring about peace in
have any quarrel with the people of the Sudan. Because the Uganda.
people of Sudan have all along lived with the people of
Uganda peacefully, for a long, long time. This is purely a war EIR: Then, time is beginning to run out?
between Garang and the government of Sudan, not with the Bishop Ochola: Yes. Of course, it has been running out for
people of Uganda. the last 11 years. Every time you delay, people are dying,
people are being killed, and the problem is not solved, the
EIR: Do you see any role for the United States to play? suffering of the people is increasing day by day.
Bishop Ochola: Yes, the United States should really not fuel
the conflict in other people’s countries, like Uganda, like Su- EIR: It looks like more than a third of the population is in
dan, or in Zaire, or in other parts of the world. If anything, the these camps. Time is running out for their lives.
United States should be very careful not to interfere with these Bishop Ochola: Yes. Also, this war has created a large-scale
ethnic conflicts in Africa. disparity in the geographical distributions of resources and
development and distributions of incomes among the social
EIR: Do you see any positive role for the United States? groups in Uganda. Household incomes in the north are gener-
Bishop Ochola: The positive role of the United States should ally very low compared to the household incomes in the south,
be in development, to help rehabilitate the countries like and the gap is widening very badly. Education attendance is
Uganda, which have really become impoverished because of very low, and illiteracy is still very high in the north. For the
this war. This war has destroyed a lot of things in northern last ten years, many of our schools were destroyed, many of
Uganda, and probably now in western Uganda, especially our schools were closed, apart from those in the towns like
the infrastructure—like schools, hospitals, and so on. All the Kitgum and Gulu. You can imagine that the rural children did
infrastructure is gone. So, we need the help of a country like not have the opportunity to come to Gulu or Kitgum to go to
the United States of America, to come openly and help in de- school. Recently, I visited some schools in my diocese, and I
velopment. was so surprised that in some secondary schools, where the
number was 240, it has now dropped to 140. This is because
EIR: Roads, clean water, sanitation, all these types of infra- parents can no longer afford to educate their children in
structure are lacking? schools. So, our children will not have education.
Bishop Ochola: In those camps, there are no drugs, no la- Another problem that we have is that 16% of all the chil-
trines, no safe water resources, no health facilities. At least dren in the north, are orphans. Either their parents have been
50% of all the children in the camps are suffering from malnu- killed in the war, or they died of AIDS. So you see, we have
trition. Adults are underfed. Sometimes they have food, some- people who have no parents to look after them, and even the
times they have no food for months. People are really suffer- foster parents, if they cannot afford to look after their own
ing terribly. children, they cannot afford to look after their brothers’ chil-
dren who are orphans.
EIR: Is there anything else you want our readers to know? I would like to end this interview on a very sad note. I lost
Bishop Ochola: What I want to say, is that because of this my wife in a land-mine explosion in May. She died in a land
war, which has been there for more than 11 years, the people mine that was actually planted by the rebels of Joseph Kony,
in those areas have lost their dear ones, who have been killed just within Kitgum town. She died. There are many people
in ambushes, who have been killed in cross fire, and abducted; who have become the victims of this war, like myself, simply
people are dying because of diseases related to this kind of because the government is not listening to the cry of the peo-
situation; the problem of confinement in the camps—all this ple: Stop this war, stop this killing, stop this unnecessary
has made our people not only impoverished, but everybody, killing of innocent people. If Kony has been doing this for the
all of us, are traumatized. The trauma is just overwhelming. last 11 years, he should not be allowed to continue to do this.
Yes. The moment we say, we are continuing the war, then many
Remember, the people have lost their livestock through people will continue to die a senseless death, like my wife.

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Report from Paris by Christine Bierre

Truckers strike paralyzes country

Maastricht system.
Overshadowing the cutthroat competition that led to the third The government, however, is in a
tough bind. The Socialist government
strike in four years, is the deregulation under Maastricht. of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin im-
mediately sided with the drivers, who
have strong popular support, and in-
tervened to find a rapid solution for
T he truckers strike which has para-
lyzed France since Nov. 3, blocking
1,000 additional companies each year
over 1986-96. Today, 22,600 compa-
this potentially tremendously costly
conflict.
most of the oil and food distribution nies employing 247,600 workers are The strike gave Jospin the oppor-
throughout the country as well as the competing for a market that is dwin- tunity to strike back at the national
main factories, illustrates the acute dling because of the economic crisis. employers association, the CNPF,
problems provoked by the deregula- Now, competition has sparked a dra- which last month decided to boycott
tion of markets linked to the Maas- matic drop in transportation prices the government’s 35-hour work week
tricht process. Competition in the and, hence, profit margins. legislation aimed at fighting unem-
transportation sector has been so fero- Three major conflicts have oc- ployment. This conflict between the
cious in recent years, that French curred since then, in 1993, 1996, and government and the CNPF, had reper-
truckers work an average of 240-250 the present one, to try to correct this cussions in the trucking conflict. The
hours per month for an average pay of situation. Each time, the truckers won UFT, the CNPF affiliate representing
$1,400, far below the minimum wage. some gains from the companies and 80% of the trucking companies,
Are the employers keeping all the the state, but most never became real- played hard-ball from the very start,
money for themselves? No. The cut- ity. Rage over broken promises—no- boycotting much of the negotiations.
throat competition has left trucking tably the refusal by employers to pay The Jospin government responded by
companies settling for profit margins a 3,000 francs bonus which they sending Communist Transport Minis-
of barely 1-2%. Who has anything to agreed to after last year’s conflict— ter Jean Claude Gayssot, to fraternize
gain from this brutal business jungle? has added to the terrible working con- with the strikers at the blockade
Who is calling the shots on both em- ditions. At the core of this year’s strike points. But, the government has also
ployers and drivers? In this case, it is is the demand that wages be raised to proposed a series of tax reductions for
the clients, transporting goods, who a minimum $2,000 per month for a the trucking companies, on condition
have been playing one company maximum of 200 hours work by the that they use those reductions to in-
against the other, forcing transporta- year 2000. Drivers are also demanding crease wages. The government will
tion prices down by 30% in a matter of that the 3,000 francs bonus be paid. also introduce a bill into the National
a few years. The demand is far from unreason- Assembly to tighten controls and
Even though the French trucking able. The problem, however, is that the sanctions against companies that vio-
industry had many structural problems employers are also squeezed by the de- late the legislation on wages and on
going back to the early post-war years regulation imposed by the Maastricht working hours.
(mainly many tiny one-man compa- Treaty. How can they increase wages However, as full deregulation hits
nies and very little unionization), it is by 30%, when profits are at historic the European market in 1998, the ef-
the deregulation started under Presi- lows, and when, in 1998, the European fect of these rearguard measures will
dent François Mitterrand which has Union will deregulate all transport, rapidly disappear as Maastricht-
led to today’s acute problems. In 1985, allowing drivers and companies from driven competition leads to more
Mitterrand abolished the Oligatory any EU country to operate directly in bankruptcies and more unemploy-
Highway Tariff (TRO), which had France? Industry competition in ment. The left-wing “realist” Jospin
regulated trucking since the end of the France will become even worse, since will have to realize then, that, unless
war, by fixing a price per kilometer of French social laws are generally he takes on the financial markets and
transportation and enabling the state to stronger than in other European coun- the neo-liberal Maastricht Treaty, his
set the framework for regulating the tries, keeping prices higher. Under the government will be reduced to being
profession. circumstances, the common interest of the Lady Do Rightly in a brutal order
The result was a huge growth in the truckers and companies becomes run by the global financial oligarchy
number of trucking companies, some clear: to fight deregulation and the to loot the world’s populations.

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Australia Dossier by Allen Douglas and Michael J. Sharp

Police under attack, as crime soars

ing to fight the war, as an Aug. 25
Budget cuts and orchestrated scandals have given free rein to AFPA communiqué to its members
made clear: “Contrary to populist
drug trafficking and pedophilia. dogma, the war on drugs is not lost. As
a nation we just haven’t been serious
enough about it. . . . Properly re-
A midst a deafening media drum-
beat about record numbers of young
received 1,400 allegations of child-
sex-tourism offenses, of which it con-
sourced and enabled, AFP federal
agents can stop most serious drug im-
people dying from heroin overdoses, sidered at least 330 worthy of further portations before they reach Australia.
Prime Minister John Howard in early investigation, was staffed by “one . . . The so-called war on drugs can be
June announced a three-year “national Federal agent with no investigative ca- won, with national commitment, com-
campaign against crime.” Howard’s pacity.” And, although the govern- munity sensitivity, and by resisting
“war” is to be funded at a paltry total ment in October signed a much-bally- weak, soft-option surrender.”
of $13 million. Like the pious hand- hooed document with the Philippines While Federal funds are being
wringing of the media, it is a com- against pedophiles bringing Filipino slashed, New South Wales found $100
plete fraud. children into Australia, the agreement million to fund a three-year Royal
Australia’s first line of defense merely tightens immigration proce- Commission investigation into “po-
against crime, particularly the bur- dures, so that Filipino child visitor-im- lice corruption” and pedophilia, run by
geoning drug trafficking and orga- migrants must be accompanied by an Justice James Wood. Wood has
nized pedophilia, is the Australian adult who has the written consent of worked in tandem with a British cop,
Federal Police (AFP), supplemented their parents. Peter Ryan, who was recently ap-
by the National Crime Authority “Now, of course this is laughable,” pointed head of the N.S.W. force, to
(NCA), and both backed up by state said Cornelius, who noted that a De- eviscerate that 13,000-man force, the
police forces. But, the AFP and NCA partment of Immigration officer “has largest in the nation, as Wood’s final
are being savaged by budget cuts, absolutely no way of confirming the actions made clear: He dismantled the
while police “reforms” and media-run veracity of this written consent,” with- force’s anti-drug squad, which he ac-
scandals are aimed at crippling the two out the funding necessary “to take up knowledged had been “highly effec-
largest state police forces, of New these investigations overseas.” Simi- tive”; he recommended dropping the
South Wales and Victoria. larly, he noted that whereas “the eco- sexual “age of consent” from 18 to 16,
The AFP has been cut by some 500 nomic activity generated by illicit drug thus facilitating pedophilia; and he
officers over the last five years, leaving trafficking amounts to some $7 billion, recommended that legalized heroin
a force at pre-1983 levels of only 2,027 the AFP would be lucky to be able to shooting galleries be established.
agents, while funding has been slashed commit $15 million of its budget spe- Meanwhile, his rabidly pro-heroin le-
by an estimated $26 million per year. cifically to drug law enforcement . . . galization buddy, Ryan, fired many of
In early September, Australian Federal nothing more than a token effort.” the force’s top officers, and imple-
Police Association (AFPA) National Meanwhile, the NCA, the second mented other “reforms” which, as
Secretary Luke Cornelius said that major national law enforcement body, even he admitted, caused chaos and a
“overseas travel by Federal agents has will be slashed by $35 million (17% soaring crime rate in N.S.W.
virtually come to a standstill,” making of its total budget) over the next three In Victoria, the state police’s
the fight against drugs and pedophilia, years. As the Brisbane Courier Mail highly effective Police Support Intelli-
in particular, impossible to carry out. of June 11 editorialized, “So, at a time gence Group has come under attack by
In an Oct. 17 interview with the when every state and territory in the the Melbourne Age, which has devoted
New Citizen, the newspaper of the Cit- nation is increasing its spending on article after article to alleged PSIG “il-
izens Electoral Council, Lyndon law and order, the Federal government legal spying” on community groups.
LaRouche’s co-thinkers in Australia, is doing the opposite. That is bizarre.” The purpose of the attacks is to dis-
Cornelius charged that, although the It is particularly destructive because mantle the Victorian police’s intelli-
government talks about fighting pedo- Federal law enforcement provides the gence monitoring of such British intel-
philia, it has provided zero funding to bulk of drug-related intelligence to ligence terrorist-support capabilities
do so, and that the AFP’s anti-pedo- state law enforcement bodies. as Greenpeace and the International
phile “Project Mandrake,” which had For their part, the police are will- Socialist Organization.

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International Intelligence

over again in Damascus, presumably to re- ship Federation of Virginia aristocrat Nicky
British smear port back on the reactions to the Syrian pro- Arundel during Eritrea’s independence war
Dodi Fayed’s family posals which he mediated to the Israelis. The with Ethiopia, and which the war-torn, starv-
Syrian proposal is to restart talks with Israel, ing new country dutifully turned into a pre-
A new element in the cover-up of the Aug. at the point they were interrupted in Febru- serve in 1991. An Israeli missile battery un-
30-31 murder of Princess Diana is now ary 1996, i.e., under the former Labor Party der construction at Asseb, a southern port
afoot, through increasing propaganda at- government. The Russians would like to city bordering Djibouti, overlooks the en-
tacks against the family of her late compan- host the talks in Moscow, it is reported. Pri- trance to the Red Sea.
ion Dodi Fayed. According to Rupert Mur- makov would not say anything on the spe-
doch’s New York Post on Oct. 27, the cifics of his three-hour discussion with Syr-
“British establishment” is going all-out to ian President Hafez al-Assad. Vatican takes point vs.
Primakov met with Israel’s Foreign
smear Mohamed al-Fayed, Dodi’s father.
Post columnist Neal Travis reported: “ ‘I al- Minister David Levy, Defense Minister Yit- Christian anti-Semitism
most feel sorry for Fayed,’ reports a friend zhak Mordechai, Infrastructure Minister Ar-
iel Sharon, as well as Prime Minister Benja- From Oct. 30-Nov. 1, the Vatican sponsored
who is an old and trusted member of that a meeting of some 40 Catholic, Protestant,
establishment. ‘He is about to learn that the min Netanyahu. While shaking Levy’s hand,
he said, he understood the gesture to mean and Orthodox scholars on “The Roots of
British only give lip service to the idea of Anti-Judaism in Christian Circles.” Accord-
what is and isn’t cricket.’. . . As Page Six that Levy agreed with his “land-for-peace”
approach. Levy was visibly embarrassed. ing to the official Vatican release, the meet-
[the Post’s gossip page] reported yesterday, ing concluded that: “Anti-Judaism offends
he has just been accused of illegally rifling Nonetheless, Netanyahu repeated his stance
during a heated debate in Israel’s parliament, God and the Church.” Greeting the partici-
and photocopying the contents of a safe-de- pants at the meeting, Pope John Paul II said
posit box owned by his bitter rival ‘Tiny’ the Knesset, that he would “never, never,
never” accept the existence of a Palestinian that anti-Jewish prejudices in the Christian
Rowland. . . . community had prevented Christian resis-
“This alleged offense actually took place state.
tance against Nazism from being “what hu-
more than two years ago, and it seems odd manity had the right to expect from
that it is only now resurfacing. . . . Christ’s disciples.”
“The lawyers are circling too. As I have
predicted from Day One of this tragedy, var-
Netanyahu spreads war to Not everyone was pleased: In an inter-
view with the Nov. 2 Corriere della Sera,
ious parties—including injured bodyguard Britain’s African targets Sergio Romano (who has elsewhere pro-
Trevor Rees-Jones and perhaps Diana’s claimed “Britain is the new Venice”)
family, are prepared to sue Fayed as the em- EIR sources have emphasized that one of charged: “On one end, the Church wants to
ployer of a drunken driver who should never the main assignments of the Israeli regime settle accounts with the past, through travels,
have been behind the wheel that or any of Benjamin Netanyahu regime is to spread statements, and rehabilitations. You go from
other night. the Arab-Israeli conflict into Africa. Israeli Galileo to Giordano Bruno, passing through
“ ‘The establishment is now seizing on military involvement in operations against Judaism. But at the same time . . . it practices
this terrible incident to drive Mohamed al- Sudan, as well as in Somalia (a member of de facto an aggressive and missionary eccle-
Fayed out of Britain,’ says my well-con- the Arab League), are rapidly increasing, siastic policy, which could be summarized
nected friend. ‘It’s not about Diana at all. It’s well-placed sources in the Horn emphasize. as follows: ask for pardon in order to con-
just a blood sport—the kind the Brits play Most dangerous is Israel’s developing rela- quer. . . . All this seems to me in reality to be
very well.’ ” tionship with Eritrea and Ethiopia. Both religious expansionism. I would even define
states have become, in effect, Israeli puppet it Imperialism of Faith.”
states, deployed in coordination with the
Russia’s Primakov meets Uganda of British marcher-lord Yoweri Mu-
seveni. World Bank AIDS project
with Middle East leaders Currently, Israel has three military bases
in Eritrea (the former Ethiopian Red Sea ensures high death rate
According to reports from the Middle East, coast): In Northern Eritrea, at least 50 Israeli
Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Prima- Army officers oversee a missile base target- A new study by the World Bank, released at
kov told Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders ting the strategic Port Sudan-Khartoum a Washington press conference on Nov. 3,
during his visit in late October, that Russia road, with the capability of also targetting was put together for the purpose of “helping
would be the first to recognize a Palestinian Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea sea lanes. On countries set their priorities.” In the report,
state, once it were established. Primakov met the Dahlak Islands, a covert Israeli naval the World Bank tries to prove that condoms
with leaders in Syria, Israel, Jordan, and the base has been built to potentially police the and free needle programs are the affordable
Palestinian Authority. southern Red Sea. The islands were origi- solution for poor countries.
On his return to Moscow, he stopped nally cased by the African Wildlife Leader- To show how “concerned” the Bank is

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 Briefly
A BRITISH parliamentary group is
threatening to launch a boycott of the
2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,
Australia, if Prime Minister John
about AIDS, chief economist Joseph Stiglitz exclusive knowledge or skill. . . . This mys- Howard changes the Aboriginal na-
hastened to say that the Bank’s main concern tery was intensified, perhaps deliberately, by tive title laws, respecting pastoral
was how its money was being used. “This the personality of Montagu Norman, who leases. Present law forces farmers
study differs from many other studies of for 21 years was governor of the Bank of (pastoral leaseholders) to negotiate
AIDS. . . . It focusses on the question of how England. . . . It was Norman who created the any improvements, such as fences or
best to allocate scarce government resources international Freemasonry of central bank- dams, with all Aboriginal groups hav-
in order to identify responses to the epidemic ers.” Norman, of course, and his close friend ing claims of prior ownership.
that are fair and cost effective,” Stiglitz said. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, sponsored Hitler, who
Britain’s Richard Feachem, CBE, director later made Schacht the first Nazi econom- BUKAVU’S CATHOLIC Arch-
for the Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Popu- ics minister. bishop Muziriwa was killed in late
lation section, clarified: “Advances in using Later in life, Coombes earned himself October, although the identity of the
drug therapy have been good, but it is very the title of the “father of Aboriginal land assailants is not clear. Bukavu, on the
expensive and those countries can’t afford rights.” As EIR exposed in 1995, Coombes Congo-Zaire border with Rwanda, is
it.” was working closely with transplanted currently held by the coalition fight-
Curing AIDS is not on the Bank’s “con- Canadian Peter Jull, who had pioneered ing the Rwandan-Ugandan occupa-
cern” list. Martha Ainsworth, a senior econ- “Aboriginal land-rights” in 1993, using tion of Congo, and is under siege by
omist with the Bank’s Development Re- Canada’s Inuits to carve a “Nunavut” nation the Rwandan army. The coalition in-
search Group, told the media, “There are out of 20% of Canada—all sponsored by cludes Mai-Mai fighters of Congo,
cheap treatments for AIDS in terms of reduc- Prince Philip’s Inuit Circumpolar Con- the Forces for the Defense of Democ-
ing people’s suffering, and [these] some- ference. racy of Burundi, and others.
times prolong their life.” In response to a
question about how much money was going PRINCE CHARLES may not be-
toward finding a cure, Feachem said that come head of the British Common-
$800 million was going into AIDS preven- Russia’s Yeltsin visits wealth, according to the Oct. 29-Nov.
tion programs, and that $3.5 million (less China, confers with Jiang 4 issue of International Express. Sir
than one-half of 1%) goes into research. That Humphrey Maud, deputy to Com-
money goes to the UN’s new UNAIDS pro- Shortly after China’s President Jiang Zemin monwealth Secretary General Emeka
gram, whose research is devoted to preven- returned from his trip to the United States, Anyoku, “confirmed that Common-
tion, and to the International AIDS Vaccine he received a visit from Russian Presient wealth members would decide who
Initiative, “which is a new body set up to Boris Yeltsin over Nov. 9-11. According to should be head when the Queen dies.
accelerate the pace of progress toward an an Oct. 28 release from the Russian news Prince Charles seemed happy. . . .
HIV vaccine.” agency Itar-Tass, the two heads of state Asked if he expected to take over the
were to sum up experience and achieve- role, he said: ‘I have no idea. It de-
ments in bilateral relations, and discuss key pends on the people.’ ”
international issues and development of a
Central banking guru Sino-Russian strategic partnership. China’s RUSSIAN CITIZENS in Ardatov,
Coombes dies in Australia Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Deguang Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast, have
said that “a breakthrough in the study of signed a petition protesting plans to
Dr. H.C. “Nugget” Coombes, the “father” of the eastern sector of the Sino-Russian bor- establish a special prison colony for
Australia’s ruinous central banking system, der will be announced,” during Yeltsin’s HIV-infected convicts. With nearly
died last month at the age of 91. Coombes visit. Simultaneously, the Sino-Russian 500 registered cases, Nizhnii Nov-
was educated at the London School of Eco- committee for friendship, peace, and devel- gorod has the third-highest incidence
nomics during 1931-33, where he wrote his opment in the 21st century planned to hold of HIV among Russia’s 89 regions,
doctoral thesis on central banking. Back in its first meeting during the Beijing summit, after Kaliningrad Oblast and Krasno-
Australia, in 1948, he was appointed head of following recent talks in Moscow between dar Krai.
the Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s great its co-chairmen.
national bank. He was responsible for turn- Russian Presidential Press Secretary ZAMBIA’S President Frederick
ing the Commonwealth into a central bank, Sergei Yastrzhembsky said on Oct. 28 that Chiluba survived a military coup at-
called the Reserve Bank, and became its Russia expects that Jiang and Yeltsin will tempt in October, by a group calling
first chairman. consolidate the political tendencies that itself the National Redemption Coun-
In his autobiography, Coombes wrote: have appeared in the Russo-Chinese rela- cil. The attempt followed the govern-
“Those who practice [central banking] often tions, likely referring to the agreement on ment’s decision to sell off its copper
feel themselves to be members of an interna- strategic partnership between Russia and fields to a South African-British con-
tional Freemasonry, a kind of mystery in the China in the 21st century, signed when Ji- sortium.
medieval sense of a group who possess some ang Zemin visited Moscow earlier this year.

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EIRNational

Virginians buy fascism

for a ‘mess of pottage’
by Nancy Spannaus

In the last two weeks of the gubernatorial campaign in Vir- this outcome is not just a matter of concern to Virginians, but
ginia, Democratic candidate and current Lieutenant-Gover- to the United States as a whole. The Gilmore ticket, organized
nor Donald Beyer lit into the “no car tax” campaign of his as it is around the implementation of a fascist economic and
opponent, Jim Gilmore, and accused voters who fell for this social policy, does not actually have a mandate; but, unless it
single-issue goody, of following the Biblical Esau in selling is stopped by a citizenry aroused from its lethargy, and
their birthright for a “mess of pottage.” Beyer was right— shocked out of its rageful insistence on “me-first,” this Bush-
although he and his campaign neither explained how, nor Robertson-North machine will consolidate a fascist strong-
themselves addressed what had to be done to reverse the eco- hold, with open animosity to the government of the United
nomic decline for the majority of Virginians. But it was too States, right next to the seat of that government.
little, too late.
On election day, a majority of Virginians literally boy- Absence of truth
cotted the polls. It was the lowest voter turnout in at least As Lyndon LaRouche has been pointing out, the most
30 years, and reflected precisely the same distrust of current dangerous element of the current political situation in the
pollster-driven politics that was expressed in the 1996 Presi- United States is the increasing abstention of Americans from
dential elections, in which less than 50% of the registered political participation. These disaffected citizens are enraged,
voters went to the polls. In Virginia’s Tidewater area, for or discouraged, about the fact that neither political party ad-
example, the turnout this year is reported to have been 43%— dresses the worsening realities of their lives, and are so obvi-
and as low as 32-24% in some predominantly African-Ameri- ously driven by concern for popularity and funds. It is these
can precincts. disaffected citizens who become cannon fodder for groups
Under these circumstances, the overwhelming majority such as the militia movement, or other kinds of gangs that can
of Virginians who went to vote, were dupes of Gilmore’s be directed against the government of the United States.
“no car tax” come-on, or members of the George Bush-Pat There is no excuse for such abstention among U.S. citi-
Robertson fascist machine in the Commonwealth. The anti- zens; the reality is, that their abstention is often responsible
American Republicans swept the top three positions in state for the evils to which they object.
government, for the first time in this century. They now con- But, that having been said, there’s no avoiding the fact that
trol the Virginia Senate, by holding the tie-breaking lieutenant the major candidates contributed to the cynicism, by literally
governor’s seat. And they are within a couple seats (including lying about the political and economic situation.
one where a recount is going on), of taking control of the The worst example was the economy. Gilmore and Beyer
House of Delegates. both claimed—and top Democrats are doing so to this day—
As I reported in the Oct. 31 EIR (see p. 72), and put out in that the Gov. George Allen administration had brought pros-
a leaflet widely circulated within the week before the election, perity to Virginia, and people were generally doing well. Gil-

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more used this lie to justify his assertion that there would be On top of that, the Republicans bragged of their resistance
plenty of money to cut taxes, without cutting services. Beyer to the Federal government, and their policy of filling up the
bought into this party line, apparently in order to avoid contra- prisons. And, while pledging to support education, Gilmore
dicting the common consensus, and being forced to offer an left no doubt that reducing taxes, i.e., services, came first.
apparently expensive, and desperately needed, program of
infrastructure construction. The Democratic failure
But, most Virginians, as well as other Americans, know Given the fact that the Democratic Party had a decent,
that they are living worse off than before, both in terms of the thinking human being as a candidate, the campaign it waged
amounts of time, or number of jobs, they have to work; how was a tragedy. Beyer had chosen “education” as his campaign
much debt they have to go into, to survive; and what the state theme, and had chaired a commission on the physical break-
of the infrastructure around them is. Ignoring that reality is down of schools, which concluded that over $8 billion in
perilous, as the Democrats have now found out. On the other investment was required to keep the roofs from leaking, so
side, the fact that Virginians would buy into a fascist program to speak. Beyer had also participated in a commission on
of prison slave-labor, and welfare cuts, on the basis of a prom- transportation, which developed plans for rails as well as
ise of the quick tax cut that will quite possibly never occur, highways. The Northern Virginia auto dealer felt compelled
shows a significant lack of sense, as well as morality. to emphasize that he was a businessman, not a lawyer, but he
The second major area where the Virginia Democrats and clearly was thinking about “rebuilding” Virginia for all.
Republicans de facto agreed to cover up the truth, was on the But, from the start, he was advised not to present any
question of corrections policy. Both Gilmore and Beyer “took economic perspective by which such rebuilding could occur.
credit” for the no-parole policy, as if this were a policy which In addition to his pollsters and advisers, the Washington Post
had anything to do with justice. They both ignored the gross knocked him for a loop, accusing him of advocating a tax
violations of basic rights in the Virginia system—all the way increase when he discussed investments in the state. Immedi-
from the incarceration of the LaRouche political prisoners, to ately, Beyer committed himself to a “no-tax” pledge.
the medical murder of prisoners for cost-cutting reasons, to This tied his hands. He should have been talking about
executions of individuals with claims to innocence, to the taxing speculation, investing in schools and rails and power
policy of replacing free labor with cheap prison slave labor. plants, increasing wages in this pitifully low-wage state, and
Obviously, political pollsters nowadays will insist that rebuilding water infrastructure. Instead, he talked about lim-
advocacy for prisoners is a “loser.” But within large sections ited tax cuts, including his own version of reducing the car
of the black and labor communities, it is well-known that the tax, and cheaper improvements, like raising teachers’ salaries.
so-called wheels of justice are grinding people to death, and As the campaign went on, his “brain trust” advised him
promise to do worse in the future. If a political leader had the to concentrate more and more on the suburban vote, even the
guts to tell the truth, and confront the shallow prejudices of upper-class white women’s vote! This led to a concentration
the electorate, while championing the economic and political on both the environmentalist issues, and, more disastrously,
rights of all, people would be shocked—and could be the issue of abortion rights. Beyer does not support the femi-
changed. nist, “gay-rights” agenda, but he found himself surrounded
by those trappings, even when he was quite appropriately
The Gilmore pitch attacking Pat Robertson for his attempts to destroy public edu-
It should be emphasized that the Republican, Gilmore cation.
pitch to the voters had absolutely nothing to do with the Re- Meanwhile, the traditional Democratic Party constituen-
publican tradition of Abraham Lincoln. Gilmore’s campaign cies found themselves without effective ammunition against
was a tool of the national and statewide Republican machines. the Gilmore crew, and saw their ranks eroded by support for
He received at least $2 million of his total $10 million cam- the one economic issue on the agenda, the elimination of the
paign chest from the national Republican campaign commit- car tax. Many ultimately chose to vote their pocketbook—
tees, and hefty support from national, as well as local, Repub- because the Democratic Party had never informed them of
lican celebrities. He was given a limited pitch to convey to the fascist nature of Gilmore’s program, and because the
the electorate: “no car tax” and “4,000 more teachers.” And, Democratic ticket never offered a sound alternative.
he avoided all occasions where he might be distracted into In the wake of the disaster, some Democratic Party leaders
other matters. are being quoted as saying that they will go along with Gil-
Most indicative of the level of Gilmore’s appeal to the more’s anti-tax program, to “regain popularity.” This is
voters was one of his last television ads. It featured a series of equally disastrous, coming as it does within the context of
Virginia couples, chosen to look like the average working the global financial explosion that entered a new phase in
family. One after another, they said their piece: “I hate that October, and of Gilmore’s program for vastly expanding
car tax!” This is politics? Sure, it’s the politics of reaction prison labor and service cuts. The solution lies in the decision
and hate. to tell the truth, on the economy and the justice system.

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Interview: Thomas J. Gumbleton

The United States could end

the blockade of Iraq today
Thomas J. Gumbleton is the Roman Catholic Auxiliary to give the first 30% for the rebuilding of Kuwait. Iraq has
Bishop of Detroit, Michigan. He discussed his ten-day fact- been assessed $60 billion of reparations. To me, that’s incredi-
finding mission to Iraq in an interview with Nina Ogden on ble. Kuwait was not damaged to that extent by the war, and if
Oct. 13. Kuwait needs $60 billion, then Iraq needs hundreds of billions
of dollars. But at any rate, they get only 53% of what they sell.
EIR: You recently travelled to Iraq with the seventh “Voices And we also discovered, because we were investigating
in the Wilderness” delegation. what we were told by the doctors, that they weren’t getting
Bishop Gumbleton: Yes, we left the U.S. on Sept. 1, arrived medical or surgical supplies. So, we went to the UN to find
in Amman, Jordan on Sept. 2, and in Iraq on Sept. 3, and what’s holding it up; it’s been a year and a half since that
returned on Sept. 12. We saw the effects of the UN blockade, embargo was supposedly lightened, since the restrictions
which are very, very harsh. The result of the blockade has were lessened. And the UN tells us that the procedures are so
been to cut down on food supplies dramatically, and medical complex that it’s impossible to get contracts approved—and
supplies even more dramatically. And, of course, with the all the food or any medicine that they buy has to be done by
blockade in place, it’s been impossible for the country to contract with importers, and they can’t get them approved.
rebuild itself: So, even if the food and medicine were getting In the time that we were there, there were fifty-something
in—which they are not—people would continue to become contracts that were turned down, and in this case it was the
ill, unnecessarily, because of being unable to get good drink- U.S. that was turning them down. There’s what they call the
ing water. Remember that the blockade has been in since “661 Committee,” a UN committee based on Resolution 661,
before the war even started. So, by the time the war was over, which is the one that imposed the embargo. That committee
their infrastructure was totally destroyed, and they did not is made up of representatives of the 15 governments on the
have the resources to hardly begin to do anything. Security Council, and it has to approve every single contract
for the purchase of any food or medicine, according to the
EIR: In 1991, the Schiller Institute’s Committee to Save the UN. And so, it takes a terrible amount of time to approve all
Iraqi Children sent a fact-finding delegation to Iraq. The de- these contracts, and many of them don’t get approved for one
struction to life and health was devastating then, and the dele- reason or another; and the United States, at any time, has
gation called for an end to the blockade. Imagine, six years a veto.
later—
Bishop Gumbleton: You see children dying, especially. In EIR: What you brought up, about this embargo being in
the short time between delegations, just a couple of months, place since the war, is important to remember.
kids you had visited are now dead, when you go back the next Bishop Gumbleton: It started four days after the war. It was
time. And not only kids, but adults, too. That’s because there Aug. 6, 1990, when the embargo went into place. The war
is not the medicine to treat illnesses that are treatable. started on Aug. 2. It’s been [in effect] since that time. Now
let me say, when I say the war, I mean the invasion of Kuwait.
EIR: There was supposed to be a slight relaxation of the The U.S.—I mean, the UN, did not go to war against Iraq
embargo to allow Iraq to sell a small amount of oil. until January 1991. So, the embargo has been in place since
Bishop Gumbleton: That’s UN Resolution 986, which was six months before that.
passed by the United Nations in April 1996. It allows for Iraq
to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months. However, that EIR: I thought we should review for our readers what did
has done next to no good. Some food has gotten in because happen at that time, because of all the propaganda, all the
of it, but you have to understand that Iraq only receives 53% demonizing of Saddam Hussein. People may not remember
of the money that is earned with the sale of this oil. They have what was going on at that time—how the stratagy was an oil-

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We have to end that blockade. It’s unjust. It’s war against the population,
against the people of Iraq; and there’s no way that could ever be morally
justified—even if you believe in war. The war against the population is
immoral, and that’s what’s going on.

shock war, and how much that has affected, not only Iraq, but East. President Bush is an intelligent man and he is not
also many developing nations, given the manipulation of the going to declare an economic war against Iraq.”
price of oil. Bishop Gumbleton: Oh, right.
Bishop Gumbleton: I also think the U.S. government, at that
time, wanted to provoke the war so it could deploy troops on EIR: I was just reminded that in the course of organizing
a permanent basis in the Middle East. We hadn’t had that for our conference to stop the genocide in the Great Lakes
before. We had what we called a rapid deployment force, region of Africa, a few months ago, we called the State
where we could transport troops and military [equipment]. Department and asked to speak to the person heading up
the East Africa desk. It was April Glaspie!
EIR: But this brought about the out-of-area deployments. Bishop Gumbleton: Oh, no!
Bishop Gumbleton: Right. We didn’t have any place in
Saudi Arabia where we could keep troops on a permenant EIR: We reached the East Africa desk, and April Glaspie
basis. But with the war, Saudi Arabia was persuaded to called us back as the head of that department. April Glas-
allow us to establish bases there, and airfields and so on. pie—we were more worried about the threat of war in Africa
And so now, we have military presence where we did not than ever.
have it before. And, we couldn’t get that without the threat Bishop Gumbleton: Oh, God!
of a war.
Before the war started, Iraq and Kuwait were in dispute EIR: Remember: First we saw George Bush’s madness in
over oil problems. For several years previous to that time, Panama, and then the madness of Desert Storm. Thatcher
Kuwait was overproducing, and that was lowering the price was trying to stop the potential for development after the
of oil. That was hurting the Iraqi economy tremendously. fall of the Berlin Wall—the kind of “prosper thy neighbor”
Kuwait was doing what they call slant drilling, and actually policy discussed by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir bin
extracting oil from Iraqi fields. Saddam Hussein was trying Mohamad, in his speech at the IMF meeting in Hongkong.
to stop this through negotiations, and Kuwait refused to Iraqi officials met recently with Malaysian and Indonesian
negotiate. They were at a stalemate; and that’s when, in July officials to discuss plans for development. Also, China and
1990, in the visit of April Glaspie, our ambassador, with Iraq have finalized oil contracts. This is very important,
President Hussein, he brought up this problem and indicated when put in the context of building a New Silk Road. What
that he was getting nowhere, and that it might lead to war. other reason for the continuing torture of the people of Iraq
And that’s when she said that the U.S. has no position on can there be, but the geopolitical manipulations which would
Arab-Arab border disputes. That was like saying, “If you stop real development in the region?
have to go to war, just go to war.” Bishop Gumbleton: Absolutely. That’s very clear. To me
it is, anyway. People are used, like Bush used the “Contras.”
EIR: Here’s the exact quote; I saw it this morning as I was In Africa, one side is armed against the other side. People
preparing for our discussion: “We have no opinion on Arab- suffer, as a result of this, in devastating ways. I find that
Arab conflicts like your border dispute with Kuwait.” very evil.
Bishop Gumbleton: That’s right. And she denied it at the
time, or rather in March of the following year, when she EIR: What plans to you have for alleviating the situation
was testifying. But then, the exact memo was published. in Iraq?
She did say it. And so it was clearly a provocation, sort of Bishop Gumbleton: Voices in the Wilderness will continue
like a green light. to try to raise money to get medicine and food over there.
We’ll keep doing the best we can. Although the money we
EIR: She also said, “Not only do I want to say that President can raise doesn’t make a lot of difference, it does at least
Bush wants better relations with Iraq, but that he also wants show support for the people there, and they’re very grateful
an Iraqi contribution to peace and prosperity in the Middle for it.

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 But then, we’re trying to take every step we can, to make being able to have international commerce again. And so,
the public more aware of what’s going on, which is a way of they are pleading to end this. And that was the plea from
ending the blockade—that is the ultimate goal. We have to everyone. The doctors in the hospitals were just outraged that
end that blockade. It’s unjust. It’s war against the population, they had to do surgery without anesthesia. It’s very distressing
against the people of Iraq; and there’s no way that could ever to see people so hindered who are trying to do good work.
be morally justified—even if you believe in war. The war
against the population is immoral, and that’s what’s going on. EIR: The people must have admirable morale to keep func-
So, we’re trying to stop this war. tioning under these circumstances.
Bishop Gumbleton: That’s right. It takes a lot of courage.
EIR: I understand that you are presenting a resolution to the But they’re suffering terribly, and becoming poorer and
Bishops Conference meeting in November. poorer. Parents will sell anything they have, even their houses,
Bishop Gumbleton: Well, I’m hoping to. I’ve asked them in order to try to get medicine for their children. But, they buy
to consider it. Now, whether they’ll put it on the agenda or the medicine that has been left over from before, or perhaps
not, I don’t know. It emphasizes that the Catholic Bishops, has been smuggled in through some kind of black market—
speaking as moral teachers of the Catholic Church, would ask but then the doctors say, “We have no idea whether this medi-
for an end to the blockade, based on our moral teaching: that cine has been stored properly, whether it’s going to work or
it is totally unjustified—and could never be justified. There not. It may be useless.” And yet, the people pay everything
are times, within what is called “just war theory,” when you they have to purchase medicine, not even knowing if it’s
can use war in order to try to bring peace. I believe the only any good.
way you can try to overcome injustice is through nonviolent
efforts; but, within the Catholic theology of just war, there EIR: And this is a country that is not monarchical, and that
are definitely limits on how you may wage that war. stresses education for its people. Especially compared to
One of those limits is, that it can never be counter-popula- Kuwait.
tion warfare, and to me this is clearly counter-population war- Bishop Gumbleton: Correct. It was simply much more
fare. When the UN reports that over 4,500 children are dying open, as far as, for example, rights of women, and women
every month, that’s war against the people! And over a million being able to enter into professions and become—well, like
people have died since the military struggle has ended—and the head of the oncology department at one of the hospitals
again: That is counter-population warfare. we visited was a woman doctor. There, it’s very ordinary for
You may remember that Pope John Paul II spoke out quite women to be in all the professions; and again, there’s freedom
strongly to try to stop the war from occurring. He pleaded for churches to function, and that’s not typical for other coun-
for negotiations to get at the root problems. But that’s never tries in the Middle East. So, it’s certainly much more of an
been done. open society, in that sense. And the educational system was
rather good throughout the country, as well as public health.
EIR: When you were in Iraq, what kind of institutions did Kuwait, by comparison, was alright for the Kuwaitis. But,
you visit? for the majority of people who live in that country, who are
Bishop Gumbleton: Mainly hospitals. We went to Catholic not allowed to become citizens, the situation was very, very
hospitals, and also state-run hospitals. We visited churches. poor: They have no rights whatsoever. They could be de-
We also visited the orphanage of the Missionaries of Charity, ported at any moment, and many of them were, as soon as the
Mother Teresa’s sisters. We went there and saw the work war started.
they’re doing with the kids that have been abandoned—many
with very serious physical defects: without arms or legs and EIR: What would you like our readers to do?
so on, deformed physically. We talked with as many of the Bishop Gumbleton: I would like them to become angry
people in the streets and the neighborhoods that we could, about the situation. I would like them to express their outrage
and visited the shelter that had been bombed during the war; to President Clinton, to Secretary [of State Madeleine] Al-
we saw the effects of that bombing. I spoke to a number of bright, and to their Representatives in the House and the Sen-
the Catholic Church leaders there. ate. If the United States said it was willing to back away
I think it’s important to point out to people that Christian from the blockade, the UN Security Council, I’m sure, would
churches are allowed to function very publicly in Iraq, con- remove it.
trary to what happens in some other Middle Eastern countries.
In Iraq, the Christian churches and Catholic churches are EIR: It looked like there would be progress last year in that
opened and functioning in a very public way. I met with many direction.
Catholic leaders, and discussed with them the situation, and Bishop Gumbleton: The United Kingdom and the U.S. up-
all of them expressed the same plea: to end the embargo, to hold the blockade, so we have to get to our government. We
stop this blockade. They can’t recover as a people without could end it today, if our government decided to.

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Interview: Helen Prejean

Catholic activist discusses

fight vs. capital punishment
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., the internationally acclaimed Pope about the death penalty, to share these experiences. I
author of Dead Man Walking, spoke with Nina Ogden and was waiting, and this was the moment.
Marianna Wertz on Oct. 30. The interview was held in north- She brought the letter and he read the letter. She gave it
ern Virginia, where the Louisiana-based Catholic nun spoke to Monsignor Gabriel Caccia, who is under the Secretary of
at George Mason University that evening on the death pen- State at the Vatican. When Lori went to the Vatican, she went
alty. Sister Helen had just returned from speaking tours in into his office and he said, I understand you have a letter for
Northern Ireland, Italy, and Japan. me. The Italian newspapers had picked up on that, because
We publish excerpts of that interview here; additional they know me through Dead Man Walking, and they knew
excerpts were published in the Nov. 10 New Federalist news- that she was bringing the letter. So it got advanced heralding.
paper. The interview began with a discussion of her speaking Anyway, he asked her for the letter as soon as she walked in,
tours. In Northern Ireland, she was invited by Don Mullen, a and he gave it to the Pope to read.
Catholic leader, to talk about her life and missionary work The Pope, in Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), still
with the social gospels in the context of the hundredth anni- had the words, even though he was pushing the death penalty
versary of the death of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, known as the to the edge, still had the words, “the death penalty should be
Little Flower, a saint whose life is dear to Sister Helen, whose rare if not non-existent,” and can only be used in “cases of
middle name is Teresa, after the Little Flower. (St. Thérèse’s absolute necessity.” He kept that in there. Then, in the 1992
first test of the efficacy of prayer, as recounted in her autobiog- version of the Catechism, in Section 2266, that deals with the
raphy, Story of a Soul, was for a man sentenced to death.) In death penalty, it had the statement that, “in cases of extreme
Italy, Sister Helen was invited by Tom Cahill, author of How gravity,” the death penalty can be used.I was able, in this
the Irish Saved Civilization, to speak to the Community of St. letter, to quote the district attorney of New Orleans, who was
Egidio, of which he is a member. In Japan, where the death actually using the Pope’s words to confirm what he was doing.
penalty is still law, she was invited by Amnesty International He said he’s for the death penalty, and he said he can’t get
and the Jesuits, to speak about human rights and the path of enough death penalties. They’re rare, if not non-existent. He
forgiveness and reconciliation that stems from Christ’s didn’t give the reason, but the main reason he can’t get enough
teachings. of them is, that over 50% of the people of New Orleans are
black, and if you get too many black people on the jury, you
EIR: There is the notion of the seamless garment, that the can’t get a death penalty. He didn’t go into that. He quotes
right to life extends from conception to death. The issue of this Catholic paper supporting it. Up to this point, Catholics
capital punishment has to be seen as a passionate commitment have been able to stand in this tradition.
to the right to life, as does economic justice, as do all of
these questions. EIR: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who supports
Sister Helen: In my letter to the Pope [see Documenta- the death penalty, is a Catholic.
tion]—I don’t know if you read the article in The Tablet, Sister Helen: And Clarence Thomas. Both of them. And
where I talked about the Latin version of the Catechism and they both attend eucharist regularly. So I was able to show
the change that came out in dialogue with the Pope around him, and I said, your words are being used in a culture of
Joseph O’Dell [the Virginia death-row inmate who was exe- death. As long as those words are kept in the teaching, they
cuted in July of this year and whose execution became a cause will be quoted.
célèbre in Italy]. The Pope, as you know, got very interested The letter was delivered on Jan. 22. On Jan. 29, I heard
in Joseph O’Dell. Joseph O’Dell’s wife, Lori, visited Italy in that Cardinal [Josef] Ratzinger made a statement that in the
January [before he was executed], and she brought a letter to teaching on the death penalty, there’d been a substantive de-
the Pope from me. I’d been wanting to write a letter to the velopment. Of course, I don’t know what that means. I also

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don’t know what it’s connected to. Somebody sent me an Then he also said, just because there’s popular support for
Italian article, but I couldn’t translate the Italian. So, I’m the death penalty, that does not make it good. That’s a first.
waiting. Then, in April, Cardinal Pio Laghi, in Toronto, That’s because of the church. It cut off the faucet. Scalia
speaking to the educators, prepared them for this change that and those people can say they’re for the death penalty, they
was coming. He said, in Section 2266, the words are going to can quote their interpretation of the Constitution, but they
be removed about “in cases of extreme gravity.” Then, I knew. can’t stand on their faith anymore. That’s a very signifi-
Then, the Pope, in announcing the Latin version on Sept. cant development.
8, said there has been a lot of interest of people in the Cate-
chism. There’s been a lot of dialogue. EIR: That’s very important, because Scalia had been at a
The impact of this is already beginning to be felt. The meeting in Rome and said that what is right doesn’t matter,
Red Mass here [in Washington], for the Supreme Court all that matters is majority opinion. Even on things that I am
justices, whoever presided at the Mass spoke out against the against, he said, like abortion, if it’s majority opinion, I have
death penalty for the first time. All the Supreme Court jus- to go with majority opinion. A member of the audience
tices and [Attorney General] Janet Reno were sitting there. jumped up, who was from Germany, and said that’s the argu-

whenever governments around the world punish criminals

by killing them, they claim to act out of “absolute neces-
Why the use of the death sity.” By way of contrast, one of the first acts of the consti-
tutional court of South Africa was unconditionally to for-
penalty should be ended bid state executions. The leaders of South Africa
understand all too well that, when governments are given
Extracts from Sister Helen’s letter to Pope John Paul II. the right to execute their citizens, invariably the deepest
prejudices of the society exert full sway in the punishment
Dear Holy Father, of those considered the “dangerous criminal element.”. . .
. . . I have already accompanied three men to their How can any government, vulnerable to undue influ-
deaths in Louisiana’s electric chair and I have “seen with ence of the rich and powerful and subject to every kind of
my eyes and touched with my hands” the suffering face of prejudice, have the purity and integrity to select certain of
Christ in these “least of these” as they went to their deaths. its citizens for punishment by death? Even in a so-called
I have seen the death penalty close up and have no doubt developed country such as the United States, for example,
that it is the practice of torture. What all of the men I have we are discovering how much the status of the victim plays
accompanied have said when at last they died was: “I am a part in the decision to seek death as a punishment.
so tired.” Conscious human beings anticipate death and The vast majority of people on death row in the United
die a thousand times before they die, no matter what the States—85%—are chosen for death because they killed
“humane” method of death may be, even lethal injection, white people; whereas, when people of color are killed
which is supposed to just “put you to sleep.”. . . (fully 50% of all homicides), not only is the death penalty
The death penalty is very much a poor person’s issue seldom sought, but often there is not even vigorous prose-
(99% of the 3,200 souls on death row in the United States cution of such cases. A society and its government would
are poor), and I have found that, as a general rule, those have to care equally about the life of all of its members to
involved with justice for poor people readily oppose the be entrusted with the death penalty, and we know that on
death penalty, whereas those separated from poor people this earth no society can make that claim. . . .
and their struggles readily support it. They are more prone “I just pray that God holds up my legs,” each of the
to see poor people as the “enemy” and to be willing to condemned said to me as they were about to walk to their
inflict harsh punishments to “control” them. . . . deaths, and from the depths of my soul, from Christ burn-
Your words on the death penalty in Evangelium Vitae ing within me, I found myself saying to them: “Look at
have come as a fresh breeze. Your strong words on behalf me. Look at my face. I will be the face of Christ for you.”
of life, even of violent offenders, encourage church leaders In such an instance, the gospel of Jesus is very distilled:
to be more courageous in voicing gospel values in opposi- life, not death; mercy and compassion, not vengeance.
tion to the death penalty, and hopefully these words will Surely, Holy Father, it is not the will of Christ for us ever
make their way into classrooms and pulpits. . . . to sanction governments to torture and kill in such a fashion
As Amnesty International has amply documented, even those guilty of terrible crimes.

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ment that was used to justify Hitler. We’ve really made a I gave them as a model what they do in the diocese of
point of going after Scalia on this. In fact, you can say, it was Lafayette, Louisiana. It’s being copied by other dioceses. It’s
his vote that sent Joseph O’Dell to his execution. a simple way to begin. Once a year in Advent, the bishop in
Sister Helen: Oh, absolutely. Lafayette says a Mass for all victims of violence. The commu-
nity gathers around them, praying for healing. Then after-
EIR: And that’s why Mother Teresa had us deliver this tape wards, there’s a reception, and out of that support groups
to Scalia.1 Then, it was a couple of months later that the change begin to be formed.
in the Catechism was made. What if, in every diocese, that happened? And then, in
On another subject, the Texas bishops last week issued a every parish, once a year? The parish community could gather
statement, I’ll quote to you from it: “As religious leaders, we its people together, the victims of violence. Many, many peo-
are deeply concerned that the State of Texas is usurping the ple suffer violence. After this talk last night at Holy Cross
sovereign dominion of God over human life by employing Parish, on Long Island, people who come up to get their book
capital punishment for heinous crimes.” I believe this is the signed, it’s almost like confession; they tell me things about
most forthright statement which the bishops have made on their life, and at least four people in that congregation had had
the issue. somebody murdered. A lot of times it’s domestic violence,
Sister Helen: Could be. I’d have to look at their other words. ex-husbands.
So, what this conference is about, is to take the death
EIR: It was in response to the record number of executions penalty, take the statements, then move it, start moving it to
in the state. the pews. Special attention needs to be given to priests first.
Sister Helen: Let me tell you where I think the ways need to They really need to be briefed, informed, so that they can be
be plowed. It is significant now that in the official teaching of leaders in this whole thing. Because to preach from the pulpit
the Church, people can’t quote it. That’s an important step. in this death penalty issue, is a very scary thing. In the sense
Now, this is what changes hearts on the death penalty. Be- that people say, what about the murder victims? Then the
cause a change in Catechism won’t change anything. What’s collection goes down.
going to change hearts is the preaching of the Gospel and
coming to people about the death penalty. EIR: And the majority is for the death penalty.
Do you know about the conference that’s going to happen, Sister Helen: So, what this conference is coming out with,
the 14th to 16th of November, the gathering of all religious is that people will go out into the grass roots, and they will
leaders of the United States in Washington, D.C., envisioning have as their goal to have 50 groups, and to use as the tools
a world without violence? It’s to take the death penalty and showing the movie first, Dead Man Walking, which can bring
to bring it to people in the pews. people into a visceral experience. Then, a reading of the book,
What the bishops have not done, they’ve made state- and then guided discussion through it, with people coming
ments, but they haven’t taken any initiative, the priests out on the other end with one decision: “I am for the abolition
haven’t preached about this. So, they gathered together all of the death penalty”—at which time, they sign the petition
the diocesan leaders yesterday in one of these meetings [on for the moratorium of the death penalty worldwide; “I still
Long Island]. Priests were there, diocesan people for Justice need to think about this issue”; or, “I’m definitely for the death
and Peace, sisters, all kinds of folks. I was saying that for penalty.” But, it brings people to decision; it brings them
the Church, as we approach this, there are two arms to to commitment.
the cross. The death-row inmate and abolition of the death
penalty; and the real need for the Church to also reach out EIR: Did you see the book being used for that when you
to victims of violent crime. wrote it?
Sister Helen: I didn’t think another book needed to be writ-
1. Sister Helen first met the Schiller Institute in July of this year, when the ten! But a book is a cloister. It’s a private place. You’re not
Institute was involved in opposing the pending execution of Joseph O’Dell. in debate. You don’t have to defend your position. And you
Mother Teresa, shortly before her death, had made a tape-recorded statement, can go back and read page 48 three times if you want to, go
appealing to Gov. George Allen of Virginia and Justice Scalia to spare the
life of Joseph O’Dell, which she gave to Nina Ogden for delivery to Scalia at your own pace. It has a great capacity to change people,
and Allen. In the statement, Mother Teresa said, “Let us not take away his because they get information, and they identify with the peo-
life. Let us bring hope into his life, and into all our lives. Jesus, who loves ple they’re reading about. They’re using their own imagina-
each one of us, tenderly, with mercy and compassion, works miracles of tions. It’s not like TV, which doesn’t make you apply it. This
forgiveness. To you, dear Joseph, I say, trust in God’s tender love for you, and involves you. People cry. People change. Hardly anybody has
accept whatever God gives, and give whatever God takes with a big smile.”
Following O’Dell’s execution, the Schiller Institute organized a prayer vigil seen the movie or read the book and come out unscathed. So,
at Norfolk airport, as Sister Helen and Lori O’Dell boarded a plane for Italy, that’s what this conference is about. To unleash in the grass
to accompany Joseph O’Dell’s body to its final resting place in Palermo. roots religious humanity.

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William Faulkner: the ‘Great American
Novelist,’ with pure British aroma
by Stanley Ezrol

This fall, many media outlets commemorated the hundredth Professionals are, of course, aware of Faulkner’s degener-
anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- and two-time Pulitzer acy, but this doesn’t seem to cool their enthusiasm. After all,
Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner. Although not many didn’t William James, the founder of Harvard’s Psychology
people read Faulkner’s output, 25 Hollywood movies have Department, agree with German philosopher Friedrich Nietz-
been made, based on his novels, stories, or screenplays, and sche, that drunken irrationalism is the source of all creativity?
more has been written about him, and his writing, than about Doesn’t the fact that so many 19th- and 20th-century au-
any English-language author other than William Shake- thors—Baudelaire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,
speare. He has been promoted globally as a representative of Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas,
American culture by a CIA front organization, the Congress Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, not to mention
for Cultural Freedom1, and by the U.S. State Department. the beatnik and hippie crop—were drunks or drug fiends,
People who aren’t literary professionals, who’ve read his prove the point?
work, may be shocked by this. His novels, to the non-profes- In fact, great writers were not always drunks. William
sional, seem, on the surface, to be the rambling record of the Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Friedrich Schiller, and James
impressions—both sensual and cognitive—of a stumbling Fenimore Cooper, for instance, have no record of drunken-
drunk. Take this example from his 1931 novel, The Hamlet. ness. A case was made against Edgar Allan Poe on this issue,
This is from Book I, titled, “Flem”: but has been proven false. Even if drunkenness were a require-
ment for great literary talent, why would the United States
“All right,” Ratliff said. “So they went up the road, government officially parade such achievement around the
leaving Miz Snopes and the widow wrastling at the world, as part of its Cold War against communism?
cookstove and them two gals standing there now hold-
ing a wire rat-trap and a chamber pot, and went up to Britain’s Ku Klux Klan revival
Major de Spain’s and walked up the private road where If we put aside, for the moment, the question of Faulkner’s
that pile of fresh horse manure was and the nigger Ab literary talent, and investigate, instead, the development of
stepped in it on deliberate purpose. . . .” his literary career and reputation, the mystery disappears im-
mediately, and another one emerges. Faulkner was merely
Learning about the man who wrote these fantasias, one of the more prominent lumps in the Nazi-Communist
strengthens the first impression. By all accounts, Faulkner counterculture of the 1920s and ’30s, which included him and
was a drunken, philandering lout. In the last years of his life, the other 20th-century drunks and dope fiends mentioned. His
he decided he was a horsey gentleman, and, on three occasions career was closely tied to a circle of Anglophile, pro-Ku Klux
in his last three years, was seriously injured upon falling off Klan, environmentalist “poets” known as the Fugitives, after
his horse, while riding in fox hunts under the influence of their 1920s poetry magazine, or the Agrarians, after the politi-
bourbon. Earlier, he had sustained severe burns during a liter- cal movement they launched in 1930 with the publication of
ary meeting at New York’s Algonquin Hotel, because he was their manifesto, I’ll Take My Stand, for a “Southern way of
so drunk, he didn’t realize he was leaning against a hot ra- life against what may be called the American . . . way . . .
diator. Agrarian versus Industrial.”2

2. John Crowe Ransom, et al., I’ll Take My Stand (Baton Rouge and London:
1. Allen Tate and Donald Davidson, The Literary Correspondence of Donald Louisiana State University Press, 1983), p. xxxvii. See Stanley Ezrol, “Van-
Davidson and Allen Tate (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974), pp. derbilt University and the Night Writers of the Ku Klux Klan,” The New
363-364. Michael Warner, “Origins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Federalist, Oct. 7, 1996, p. 7, for more on the Agrarians. For details on
1949-50,” in CIA: Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 38, No. 5 (available from the Faulkner’s life, see Joseph Leo Blotner, Faulkner: A Biography (New York:
CIA’s World Wide Web Page, www.odci.gov). Random House, 1974).

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 The Agrarians who promoted Faulkner were created,
directed, and controlled by the British Empire, to undermine
the Promethean tradition of the United States, as the nation
founded to bring the blessings of liberty and of the fruits of
creative discovery to the entire world, and replace it with a
hodge-podge of irrational regional and ethnic movements.
In this, the Agrarians were one phase of the history of British
cultural warfare against the United States, which included the
pre-Civil War Transcendentalists of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Emerson’s protégés, including William James and William
Dean Howells, and their “star” author, Mark Twain.5
Of the handful at the core of the Fugitive/Agrarian group,
John Crowe Ransom, William Yandell Elliott, Bill Frierson,
Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks were Rhodes
Scholars; Andrew Nelson Lytle studied at Oxford; Stark
Young was a lifelong intimate of top British cultural warrior
Julian Huxley, and a leader of British spymaster H.G.
Wells’s New Republic group; Allen Tate became an intimate
of the gang of 20th-century American authors—including
T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzger-
ald, all patronized by the British literary establishment, and
William James’s student, Gertrude Stein—who renounced
William Faulkner, whose career was closely tied to a circle of America to live abroad, and, in the case of Ezra Pound, to
Anglophile, pro-Ku Klux Klan, environmentalist “poets” known as
the Fugitives, and later as the Agrarians. This movement was
work as an anti-American propagandist for Mussolini during
created by the British Empire to destroy the United States as a the Second World War. William Yandell Elliott, Young,
nation-state republic. and Tate developed contacts for the Fugitives with the British
literary establishment. Elliott, of course, went on to an illus-
trious career as head of Harvard University’s Government
Faulkner’s first publishing contract, with Horace Live- Department, became a member of Dwight Eisenhower’s
right, was obtained through the intervention of another native National Security Council, and launched the foreign policy
of Oxford, Mississippi, Agrarian Stark Young. Young intro- careers of Sir Henry Kissinger and McGeorge Bundy. Faulk-
duced Faulkner to bookseller Elizabeth Prall, sister of ner had his own Anglophile credentials. During the First
Young’s paramour, David, and later wife of Nietzschean au- World War, though an American citizen, he travelled to
thor Sherwood Anderson. Anderson, a supporter of 1932 Canada and enlisted in the British Royal Air Force.
Communist Presidential candidate William Z. Foster, and How did it happen that British favor was so concentrated
Young, a pro-slavery, pro-Confederacy reactionary, who was upon this small circle of Nashville-based associates? It turns
given the equivalent of a knighthood by Benito Mussolini in out that they were the second- and third-generation descen-
19313, were close literary friends and associates. In later dants of the circles who founded the Ku Klux Klan, to
years, Faulkner’s editor at Random House was Albert Er- continue Britain’s “Civil War” against the United States
skine, whose career had been launched by the Agrarians, through irregular means, after the military defeat of the
when he served as the editorial assistant for two of the most Confederacy. Ransom was the greatnephew of James R.
prominent figures of the group: Robert Penn Warren and Crowe, a leader of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in Tennessee,
Cleanth Brooks, on their Southern Review magazine at Loui- and one of the inner circle of Masons, along with Sovereign
siana State University. Faulkner’s 1952 tour for the Congress Grand Commander Albert Pike and Nathan Bedford Forrest,
of Cultural Freedom included Agrarian Allen Tate, and would who founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1867. Ransom’s mother,
have included Robert Penn Warren, had his employer, Yale Ella, had fond memories of evenings spent by the fireside
University, permitted him to go. Brooks later became one of with the other Crowe women, sewing sheets together for
the leading cataloguers and promoters of Faulkner’s product.4 Klan rallies. Stark Young’s father and Cleanth Brooks’
3. Stark Young, A Life in the Arts, Letters 1900-1962 (Baton Rouge and
London: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), pp. 352-360 on Italian Brooks’s William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country literarily sorted
Knighthood and 1931 “mission” as a paid agent of Mussolini’s government; out and catalogued the contents of Faulkner’s vomit, which contained a
p. 1,155 on launching Faulkner’s career; see index for Sherwood Anderson. chaotic mess of the “history” of said region.
4. Mark Royden Winchell, Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism 5. Stephanie and Stanley Ezrol, “Was Mark Twain a Satanic Pedophile?”
(Charlottsville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1996), p. 310. The New Federalist, Jan. 12, 1990.

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 of St. Elizabeth’s insane asylum. In 1949, Tate and Warren
were amongst the Library of Congress panel that awarded
British mold infests the first Bollingen Prize to this traitor, Ezra Pound. In the
1950s, the same circle agitated to have Pound released
U.S. official culture from St. Elizabeth’s, so he could retire to his beloved
Venice.
One indication of how successfully the British have rotted Later, John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren
American creative capacities over the last two generations, served in the same Library of Congress post. When Warren
is the extent to which the Fugitives/Agrarians have been was given the position, it was embellished, for the first
promoted as the official exemplars of “American” culture time, with the title, “Poet Laureate of the United States.”
by the U.S. government: • Tate, Faulkner, and others of their circle were re-
• During the Second World War, Allen Tate was po- peatedly sent on international tours, either by State Depart-
etry consultant to the Library of Congress. From this posi- ment programs, or fronts like the Congress for Cultural
tion, he arranged Mellon family financing of the Bollingen Freedom.
Prize in Poetry, to be awarded by the library. He and the • Tate was considered for an appointment as cultural
Agrarians successfully agitated to rescind the treason attaché to Paris—presumably he qualified through his ex-
charges that had been brought against Mussolini propagan- perience with Gertrude Stein’s dope and alcohol salon
dist Ezra Pound, and, rather, maintain him in a suite of there in the 1920s and ’30s.
rooms—which became an active literary salon and Ku • Cleanth Brooks served a term as cultural attaché at
Klux Klan organizing center—in the director’s mansion the U.S. embassy in London in the 1960s.

grandfather fought in Forrest’s “Critter Company,” during he viewed as “myth making” to manipulate culture on behalf
the Civil War. One of William Yandell Elliott’s forebears of his cause. In 1930, at the same time he was coordinating
was an ostensibly anti-slavery Republican, who nonetheless the release of I’ll Take My Stand, he published God Without
belonged to the same Masonic Lodge in Murfreesboro, Ten- Thunder: An Unorthodox Defense of Orthodoxy, which
nessee as James D. Richardson, who, as a Congressman in serves as a non-publicized guidebook for today’s “religious
1898, caused Federal land in the nation’s capital to be set right.” The book is an attack on Platonic Christianity, which
aside, for a monument to Klan founder Pike. Walter L. he rightly understood as the foundation of Western Civiliza-
Fleming, the dean of Vanderbilt University from 1917 to tion. In it he wrote, “Perhaps the most critical moment in
1930, to whom I’ll Take My Stand was dedicated, was the our history . . . was . . . the moment when the Roman Church
author of the 1905 classic, The Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, sanctioned the doctrine of Filioque. In that moment Occiden-
Growth, and Disbandment, which, along with Thomas Dix- talism emerged as a definitive historical polity which was to
on’s The Klansmen and the Hollywood movie Birth of a glorify the rational principle and deny the irrational princi-
Nation based on it, promoted the re-founding and growth ple”6 (emphasis in original). He explains that he understands
of the Klan in the 20th century. One of Fleming’s key sources the Filioque—the idea that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the
was Ransom’s great-uncle, James R. Crowe. Young, Lytle, Son, as well as from the Father—to be the Christian continua-
Frank Lawrence Owsley, and Ransom all claimed connec- tion of Plato’s “Logos,” the understanding that creativity is
tions to the McGehee family—one of the wealthiest and the dominant feature of the Universe, and is what man shares
largest slave-holding families in the South, which claimed with God. Throughout, he refers to Platonic Ideas—concepts
descent from the British Stuart royalty. Robert Penn War- of things not perceived by the senses, such as scientific princi-
ren’s father worked as a clerk for the McGehee retail chain ples—as “fictions.” In I’ll Take My Stand, he makes it clear
in Kentucky. that the main political target of his ire is the United States,
accusing it of “wag[ing] an unrelenting war on nature.”7 The
Cultural warfare against Platonism book is a call to turn all religions to fundamentalism in order
and the United States to crush civilization. In a letter to his friend, the Agrarian
To understand why this British cultural warfare unit Allen Tate, he was more blunt than in his published work:
would contract for Faulkner’s writing—a drunken man’s de-
scription of his impressions of his own vomit—it is sufficient 6. John Crowe Ransom, God Without Thunder (Hamden, Conn: Archon
to examine Agrarian leader John Crowe Ransom’s descrip- Books, 1965, reproduction of Harcourt Brace 1930 edition), p. 305.
tion of the purpose of literature and religion, both of which 7. Ransom, op. cit., p. 7.

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 The New Testament has been a failure and a backset as inhibited aspiration toward innocence which, if it could
a religious myth . . . it’s hurt us. . . . So many myth- only be free, would like to respect and know the object
systems . . . have contained myths . . . of Giants, or as it might of its own accord reveal itself.
earth-born super-men (in Nietzsche’s myth), who were Science gratifies a rational practical impulse and
not Gods but only demi-Gods, yet [thought] they were exhibits the minimum of perception. Art gratifies a
Gods. . . . Prometheus, for example. . . . Satan is the perceptual impulse and exhibits the minimum of
Hebrew Prometheus and so conceived is Milton’s Par- reason.9
adise Lost. . . . He is Lucifer the Spirit of the Renais-
sance. . . . But then Jesus is Lucifer again. . . .8 Isn’t this what Faulkner’s fiction does? You may set out
to read, to exercise the higher capabilities of your intellect,
In Ransom’s “literary” criticism, he held the same view but, instead, you are immersed in Faulkner’s puke. You
as in his religious appeal: Literature should remove “reason” “respect and know the object as it might of its own accord
from man, and return him to the state of “innocence”—pure reveal itself.” Just as Crowe Ransom specified, the mind is
sensuality, which he shares with animals. In The World’s used against itself, to return itself to the level of a sensuous
Body, he appealed to man to “recant” the belief in Platonic beast. This, of course, is exactly the state of mind that Britain
ideas. This is how he put it: requires of Americans: total absorption in the muck that
surrounds them, including the muck produced in their own
The aesthetic moment appears as a curious moment minds. The mystery that remains is: Why would any Ameri-
of suspension: between the Platonism in us, which is can find anything to like in this attack against the mission
militant, always sciencing and devouring, and a starved of the United States—the creative powers of themselves and
their posterity?
8. Thomas Daniel Young, Gentleman in a Dustcoat: A Biography of John
Crowe Ransom (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), pp.
190-191. 9. Ibid., pp. 175, 312.

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Congressional Closeup by Carl Osgood

C ampaign finance
reform debate scheduled
the spirit of the Balanced Budget Act.
He said that the projects Clinton ve-
porters were trying to ramrod the bill
through with as little debate as possi-
On Oct. 30, Senate Majority Leader toed did not meet the criteria for use ble. Carol Mosely-Braun (D-Ill.)
Trent Lott (R-Miss.) announced an of the line-item veto, that the projects pointed out that there haven’t even
agreement with Senate Democrats in were all supported by the Pentagon, been any committee hearings on the
which the McCain-Feingold cam- and that construction could begin on bill. “As far as I know,” she said,
paign finance reform bill will be all of them during fiscal year 1998. “there is no precedent for bringing a
brought up for debate again on March Others who spoke in favor of House-passed tax bill to the Senate
6, 1998. Democrats, in turn, agreed to the disapproval bill, including Dirk floor without any committee consider-
let the Senate proceed in regular order, Kempthorne (R-Id.) and Pete Domen- ation whatsoever.”
ending the logjam that had held up sev- ici (R-N.M.), defended specific proj- The House passed a procedural
eral bills, including the Transportation ects cancelled in their states. Both motion by a vote of 214-198 on the
reauthorization bill and the fast track Domenici and Kempthorne are sup- same day, to bring to the floor two
trade legislation. porters of the line-item veto. more bills on education: One would
Meanwhile, House Democrats are Dale Bumpers (R-Ark.) got to the establish a voucher system, and the
also trying to force floor action on nub of the matter, saying, “A lot of other would expand the charter
campaign finance reform. There are people who got a lot of political benefit schools program. The GOP-controlled
now 187 signatures, including six Re- for their support of the line-item veto rule for debate on the voucher bill will
publicans, on a discharge petition filed are now complaining.” Those people not allow for any amendments, a pro-
on Oct. 24 by Scott Baesler (D-Ky.). aren’t saying it was a mistake, but vision the Democrats objected to
The petition would free up six bills for rather, “they say that the trouble is that strenuously.
consideration that have been bottled the President has abused his author-
up by the GOP. House Speaker Newt ity.” Bumpers said he “was not sur-
Gingrich (R-Ga.) indicated, on NBC’s prised” at their protests. “This is pre-
Meet the Press on Nov. 2, that there
would probably be a vote in the House
cisely what we told them they could
expect if they passed the line-item
veto. It is a bad idea and plainly uncon-
H arkin forces debate
on Fed nominees
on campaign finance reform in March
or April. stitutional in the way that it transfers Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), perhaps the
the power of the purse [from Con- Senate’s strongest critic of Federal Re-
gress] to the President.” serve Board Chairman Alan Green-
span, forced debate on two Fed nomi-

L ine-item vetoes
overridden by Senate
nations on Oct. 30. Harkin’s purpose
was not to contest the nominees (they

On Oct. 30, the Senate voted 69-30 to Education bills were both approved by voice vote), but
rather to expose the fact that “their eco-
override President Clinton’s use of the get bogged down nomic philosophy and their positions
line-item veto on 38 projects in the On Oct. 31, the Senate fell four votes on what the Fed ought to be doing are
Military Construction Appropriations short of breaking a filibuster against a just too much in line with the present
bill. The Line Item Veto Act requires bill that would, in effect, create IRA- thinking at the Fed,” a fact which is
that both Houses vote up disapproval like education savings accounts. The “going to cost us dearly in the years
bills that would go to the President, in bill, passed by the House on Oct. 23, ahead.”
this case presumably to be vetoed and is also facing a possible veto threat Harkin repeated arguments he had
then overridden in the regular way. from the Clinton administration. made in June 1996, when he forced
The disapproval bill was co-spon- Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.), one of the debate on the renomination of Green-
sored by Ted Stevens (R-Ak.) and bill’s chief sponsors, claimed the ac- span as Fed chairman, especially his
Robert Byrd (R-W.V.), a staunch op- counts created by the bill would be- attack on non-accelerating inflation-
ponent of the line-item veto on Consti- come “a tool that empowers parents to ary rate of unemployment (NAIRU), a
tutional grounds. Stevens argued that deal with particular or peculiar defi- concept that argues that unemploy-
Clinton’s use of the line-item veto vio- ciencies of the child.” ment cannot go down below a certain
lated both the Line Item Veto Act and Opponents complained that sup- percentage of the labor force without

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triggering runaway inflation. Harkin . . . And I’m not going to have hearings South Pars oil field in Iran. D’Amato is
called this an “arcane” notion that has just for the sake of having hearings.” targetting Export-Import Bank credits
resulted in “unduly high interest Majority Leader Trent Lott (R- for Gazprom in particular.
rates.” He pointed out that only the top Miss.) and other GOP leaders have In his opening statement,
20% of income earners benefit from signalled their displeasure with the D’Amato claimed that if Gazprom re-
high interest rates. “If you have way the hearings have gone, which led ceives ExIm Bank credits, “then we
money,” he said, “you like high inter- Thompson to say: “I can count. The are contributing to a growing Iranian
est rates.” But people in the low- to likelihood of getting 60 votes [to con- menace,” because Iran’s oil profits al-
middle-income brackets suffer with tinue the investigation] is pretty re- legedly go to finance terrorism. Join-
higher rates, because costs of borrow- mote.” The Senate probe cost $2.6 mil- ing with D’Amato was Foreign Opera-
ing for a new car, a new home, or a lion, and the committee held 32 days tions Appropriations Subcommittee
college education have increased sub- of hearings. Chairman Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.),
stantially under Greenspan’s interest Thompson justified his initial fo- whose subcommittee oversees ExIm
rate policy. cus on alleged influence-buying by the Bank funding. McConnell said he
Harkin reported that on the day Chinese government, even though his viewed Russian-Iranian cooperation,
that the Dow Jones average lost 554 committee came up with little evi- in the oil business and on nuclear tech-
points, he was called by someone in dence to substantiate the charge. He nology, as a threat to U.S. national se-
the Clinton administration who com- read quotes from an Oct. 19 Los curity interests, and he is putting pres-
plained that “the fact of my holding Angeles Times article, “Money Trail sure the ExIm Bank to take these
up these two nominees sent the wrong in Probe of China Funds Turns Cold,” factors into consideration when con-
signals to the financial markets. I said to explain how the committee was sidering which projects to support.
what about the signals we are sending thwarted in its effort to prove that there The witnesses from the Clinton ad-
to working families? What about those was a Chinese government plot to in- ministration, ExIm Bank President
people out there working hard with fluence the 1996 U.S. elections. James Harmon, Director of the Trea-
maybe two jobs, or maybe three jobs, What Thompson danced around, is sury Department Office of Foreign
with the husband and wife trying to what most observers are saying about Assets Control Richard Newcomb,
make ends meet, trying to borrow the hearings: that they backfired on the and William Ramsay, Assistant Secre-
money for a home or a car? We are not Republicans, because for every in- tary of State for Energy Resources and
sending them any signals,” except that stance of alleged wrongdoing by Dem- Economic Sanctions, were noncom-
they are going to pay more for credit. ocrats, the Democrats on the commit- mittal on what the oil deal means, but
tee were able to present evidence of the all assured the committee that they
same activities having been conducted would adhere to the law after such a
by Republicans. determination had been made. Har-

Thompson ends mon noted that the ExIm Bank cannot

“take into consideration foreign policy
campaign finance hearings
In an implicit acknowledgment that D’Amato targets goals of the government in making its
decisions on what exports to support,”
the hearings into 1996 campaign fi- Gazprom-Iran deals because, by law, only the President
nancing have failed, Fred Thompson Senate Banking Committee Chairman and the secretary of state can make for-
(R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Al D’Amato (R-N.Y.), at a hearing on eign policy decisions.
Governmental Affairs Committee, an- Oct. 30, demanded that the Clinton ad- Harmon remained firm on that
nounced at a press conference on Oct. ministration impose sanctions—un- point under questioning from Sam
31 that he is suspending his commit- der the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act Brownback (R-Kan.), an ally of
tee’s public hearings, and admitted passed in July 1996 shortly after TWA D’Amato. Brownback said, “I hope
that he does not have the votes in the Flight 800 exploded off the coast of the [ExIm Bank’s] board [of directors]
Senate to extend his probe beyond a Long Island—against the Russian will review this as well, because it
Dec. 31 cutoff date. “We have re- Gazprom natural gas company, the seems to me that on its face, as circum-
cessed the hearings,” he said. “We do French Total oil company, and the Ma- stances present this, that your own le-
not have the caliber of witnesses and laysian Petronas oil firm, because they gal counsel would say this is an ille-
information [which we would like]. signed a $2 billion deal to develop the gal transaction.”

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National News

launched to sequester five areas of the United faces the likelihood of 40,000 more health-
States as “the most threatened eco-regions.” care layoffs, in the next few years, which he
The WWF press release boasts that the “new said would collapse the Philadelphia econ-
Soros legalized dope study divides U.S. and Canada into 116 re- omy. He called on the state government to
gions cross state and national boundaries.” repeal Gov. Tom Ridge’s Act 35, which cut
washes out in Washington The special $10 million fund is aimed at the over 200,000 people off from state medical
Washington State voters gave a resounding Florida Everglades, the Klamath Siskiyou assistance, and his “Health Choices” plan,
defeat to George Soros and his drug legaliz- forest ofOregon and NorthernCalifornia, the which forces the remaining medical assis-
ing campaign on Nov. 4, voting down the Chihuahuan Desert covering parts of Texas, tance recipients into HMOs.
medical marijuana initiative by a margin of New Mexico, and Mexico, the Bering Sea,
60-40%. Soros and his two partners who and Southeastern U.S. rivers and streams in
funded the Arizona and California initiatives Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
last year, put more than $1.5 million into Another report due around March 1998,
Washington State’s Initiative 685. will draw the WWF’s new map for Mexico. Reviewers pan Gere’s
Although opponents had only $100,000 A third volume, now being worked on, will
to throw against Soros’s billions, they mus- be entirely devoted to North America’s fresh anti-China ‘Red Corner’
tered high-profile national, bipartisan oppo- water. While paying lip service to the anti-China
sition. A week before the election, on Oct. Very revealing were the remarks of Jan- “message” of Richard Gere’s film “Red Cor-
28, Clinton drug policy adviser Gen. Barry ine Ferreti of Canada, who is the director of ner,” reviewers embarrassingly note that the
McCaffrey (ret.) joined William Bennett, the CEC, which was set up under the North film, which was timed to release as President
who had served in the drug policy post under American Free Trade Agreement. “CEC Jiang Zemin arrived in the United States to
George Bush, at a press conference denoun- supported the work of the WWF and its meet with President Clinton, “does, in fact,
cing the Soros operation. Polls at the time, [Mexican] partner Canabio, to do this assess- indict a system of oppression that crushes the
showed the initiative with a 6% lead, as ment of terrestrial eco-regions of North liberty and the spontaneity out of all it rules.
Soros and his friends flooded the airwaves America.” Included in her vision is the estab- Unfortunately, it isn’t the Chinese political
with ads, depicting cancer patients as vic- lishment of a supranational “network . . . of system, it’s the American star system.”
tims of drug laws. protected areas which represent key eco- “The star is Richard Gere,” said the Oct.
McCaffrey said, “What we are looking regions throughout North America,” which 31 Washington Post. “Good intentions be
at in this proposition is the quasi-legalization would cross borders under the guise of need- damned. What fills the movie is the poison
of Schedule I drugs—heroin, PCP, LSD, as ing“to protectthe expanseof habitatrequired vapor of vanity.” The review calls the movie
well as marijuana—under the guise of medi- to support migratory species.” “a trivialized melodrama which can never
cal compassion.” Rep. Adam Smith (D- find room to accommodate both the heat of its
Wash.) said that the measure would “legal- anger toward China and the radiances of its
ize drug abuse in our state.” Republican Sen- star’s self-regard.” Moreover, the Post re-
ator Slade Gorton attacked the out of state veals, the early screenplay set the action in
funding for the initiative, saying that “the Unions protest hospital Russia—not China.
state of Washington is being used as an ex- TVfilmcriticGene Siskelalsogave“Red
periment by millionaires and billionaires.” cuts in Philadelphia Corner” his “thumbs down,” saying that the
Over 1,000 hospital workers organized by long, moralizing lectures that Gere’s charac-
District Council 1199C of the American terdeliverstothe Chinesejudge,wouldnever
Federation of State, County and Municipal be allowed in a U.S. courtroom, much less
Employees demonstrated outside Philadel- within the Hollywood’s tinsel dictatorship.
WWF flaunts blueprint phia’s Hahnemann Hospital on Oct. 28, to
protest 1,200 layoffs announced by the hos-
to break up United States pital’s new owner, the Pittsburgh-based con-
Prince Philip’s World Wide Fund for Nature glomerate, Allegheny Health, Education
(WWF) announced the release of its joint re- and Research Foundation. Allegheny also Starr’s new way to keep
port on “North American Conservation As- shut down Mt. Sinai Hospital on Oct. 15,
sessment,” with the Environmental Protec- eliminating 500 jobs and 255 hospital beds Susan McDougal in jail
tion Agency and NAFTA’s Commission for there. Allegheny officials cited reductions in Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has
Environmental Cooperation (CEC), at a payments from health maintenance organi- cooked up a new stratagem for keeping Su-
Washington, D.C. press conference on Oct. zations and government care cutbacks as a san McDougal in jail for contempt: On Oct.
28. The report details carving up North major reason for its problems. 31, Starr filed a motion seeking to extend
America into 116 distinct “bio-regions,” and District 1199C President Henry Nicho- the life of his Little Rock grand jury by an
is the basis for a $10 million campaign being las told protesters that greater Philadelphia additional six months. The grand jury was

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 Briefly
NEW JERSEY Gov. Christie Todd
Whitman was blasted by her Demo-
cratic opponent on Oct. 29, for having
gambled the $2.8 billion state’s pen-
scheduled to expire on Nov. 7, and has al- plice, Geoffrey Fieger, rushed to Oregon on sion funds in the stock market. “The
ready had one six-month extension beyond election day, to hold a press conference, governor has held the taxpayers of the
the normal 18 months. where he demanded that patients should state of New Jersey ransom to the mar-
The effect of extending the grand jury have the right to commit “suicide” at any ket,” said James McGreevey, who lost
still further, would be to allow Starr to keep point, rather than wait until they are declared by a narrow margin on Nov. 4.
McDougal in jail another six months, in an to be “terminally ill,” with only six months
effort to force her to testify. McDougal has to live. (In fact, demonstrable pathology has THE FEDERAL JUDGE presid-
said repeatedly that Starr wants her to lie to never been a deterrent to Kevorkian’s dis- ing over Paula Jones’s sexual harass-
the grand jury, and that she refuses to coop- patching of some of his clients.) ment suit against President Clinton,
erate with him in any way. The opposition to Measure 16 was ex- issued a gag order on Oct. 31, pre-
Starr’s move is purely vindictive, since tremely weak, rarely disputing euthanasia it- venting any public disclosure of pro-
McDougal has already been convicted, but self, much less the fact that the law allows ceedings in the case, as well as sealing
cannot serve her sentence until she is no physicians to do to patients, what the post- all documents concerning pre-trial
longer being held for contempt. If Starr war Military Tribunal at Nuremberg de- discovery. The order applies to Jones,
wanted further Whitewater indictments, he clared to be a “crime against humanity,” and Clinton, and state trooper Danny Fer-
can always convene a new grand jury and for which it tried and hanged Nazi doctors. guson, as well as their attorneys.
have the old testimony read to it (most fa- Only the LaRouche movement, in fact, has
mously done in the LaRouche case in Boston stressed how Americans are departing from MASSACHUSETTS’ House of
in 1986). But disbanding the existing grand this moral principle. Representatives on Nov. 5 defeated a
jury would mean that McDougal would have bill to reintroduce the death penalty.
to be released, which is why Starr wants to The bill had earlier passed the House,
keep it sitting as long as possible. but one legislator who had earlier
voted for the bill, switched his vote,
Stink-tankers: ‘U.S. saying he couldn’t live with the idea
of killing an innocent person. The bill
should starve N. Koreans’ would have made Massachusetts,
Oregonians uphold In an editorial page commentary for the Nov. which last executed a man in 1947,
2 Washington Post, William Taylor, senior the 39th state to have the death pen-
Nazi euthanasia laws vice president for international security af- alty. The bill was hyped by the parents
On Nov. 4, Oregonians voted 60%-40% to fairs at Georgetown University’s Center for of a 10-year-old boy, who was the
retain the first law in the nation that makes Strategic and International Studies, and victim of a rape-murder.
the Nazi crime of euthanasia legal. Ballot Glen Baek, a CSIS researcher, propose that
Measure 51 called for repealing the 1994 the United States refuse to ship food to North AMERICAN JEWISH organiza-
voter referendum, which became the Oregon Korea—which is suffering a devastating tions are heatedly debating cutting
Death with Dignity Act, that allows doctors famine after two years of flooding, and now their contributions to Israel, after
to prescribe lethal medications for termi- drought—although they acknowledge that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
nally ill patients to allow them to commit this will cause starvation. Taylor and Baek launched an effort to make Israel’s
suicide. A permanent injunction had sty- state, “The media have inundated the public Orthodox Chief Rabbinate the sole
mied the law, but was lifted after the vote. . . . citing estimates that 5 million of North interpreter of Jewish law in Israel.
It is already reported that the Oregon Korea’s 24 million citizens are in danger of The Reform Movement of the U.S.
health plan, which denies such basic items starvation.” met in Dallas (there are 1.5 million
as hearings aids to the state’s poor, and does What has been overlooked, the think- Reform Jews in this country) to dis-
not cover the medical needs of vulnerable, tankers say, is that in North Korea, there are cuss whether to end all fundraising
disabled patients, will cover so-called “as- “appalling human rights violations,” and for all Israeli causes. The issue could
sisted suicide” for them. that “conventional ‘negative’ measures such destroy what support Netanyahu has
Although the suicide law specifically as opposing loans from international finan- among U.S. Jewish organizations, fa-
prohibits the use of lethal injections, it is now cial institutions . . . are inapplicable.” How- cilitating his ouster.
revealed that a new “interpretation” of the ever, they say, “there is leverage in ‘doing
law may allow doctors to give “suicide nothing’ either to help or harm North Korea. STROBE TALBOTT, deputy sec-
drugs” through an existing intravenous For example, without further food aid, an retary of state, left on Oct. 31 for a
line—the method used by unemployed pa- unknown number of North Koreans would seven-nation tour of Asia. Between
thologist Jack Kevorkian. There are sugges- probably starve. But, with food aid, the dic- Nov. 2-13, he met with officials in
tions that the law even may allow a lethal tatorship in Pyongyang survives longer.” New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia,
“inhalant”—again, a treatment favored by Cutting off food, the authors say, is nec- Laos, China, Japan, and South Korea.
Kevorkian. Dr. Death’s lawyer and accom- essary “to promote human rights.”

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 Editorial

Yes, let’s outlaw George Soros

In an interview with the BBC on Nov. 1, megaspecula- tears were shed around the world, when Soros lost $2
tor George Soros was asked whether the world should billion on Black Monday, Oct. 27, as 10% of the funds
be protected from people like himself. He replied that managed by his Quantum Fund investment group were
“the market,” while imperfect, in that it allows the wiped out, and five other hedge funds controlled by
wealth of entire nations to be wiped out overnight, him lost a total of $1 billion. In one day, the Soros
is still essential, and so, therefore, is George Soros. funds lost almost half of the money they had made so
“Outlawing me would do more damage than it would far this year, according to one newspaper report.
do good,” he leered. Soros came under attack from an unexpected quar-
Here is a man who is utterly without moral scru- ter, when Simone Weil, an Auschwitz survivor and
ples, but who was praised, on ABC-TV’s “Nightline” former French government official, who was visiting
on Nov. 5, as a “saint,” a “most generous philanthro- in Argentina on Oct. 31, accused him of being respon-
pist,” “the most important philanthropist since An- sible for the current financial earthquake, according to
drew Carnegie.” the newspaper Ambito Financiero on Nov. 3. Will she,
Here is a man who described himself, on that same like Malaysia’s Mahathir, be accused of being “anti-
“Nightline” broadcast, in the following revolting im- Semitic”? The president of Soros’s operations in Ar-
age: “Well, you might look at me as a kind of a gigantic gentina felt compelled to retort that Weil’s statement
digestive tract, taking money in one end and pushing “doesn’t correspond totally with reality,” and that his
it out the other.” boss was “a man dedicated to philanthropic works.”
Here is a man who boasts that he got his start in Yes, Soros is under attack, and is vulnerable. But
“business” in Hungary, working for the Nazis to help from the standpoint of the British oligarchy that con-
them loot the assets of fellow Jews who were being trols him, he is expendable. He is being used, as
sent to the gas ovens. LaRouche has said, as a gravedigger, a guided missile,
Here is a man who wiped out 30% of Malaysia’s aimed against various parts of the world. His job is to
national wealth, in exchange rate terms, in a matter of wipe out sovereign nation-states, and to neutralize any
months, as Malaysia’s Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir potential opponents of Britain’s new empire. Once he
Mohamad has charged. has fulfilled his mission, the British will be happy to
And, what does Soros say about it? ABC’s Ted get rid of him.
Koppel asked him, “If you could have profited by de- Therefore, what must be done is to destroy not only
stroying Malaysia’s currency, would you have shrunk Soros’s power, but also that of his backers. That means,
from that?” supporting the current efforts of Malaysia and the
Soros answered, “Not necessarily, because that Group of 15 to defend their nations and their currencies
would have been an unintended consequence of my against speculative assault. It means adopting
action. And it’s not my job as a participant to calculate LaRouche’s program for saving the productive econ-
the consequences. This is what a market is. That’s the omy, while letting the fictitious assets of derivatives,
nature of a market. So I’m a participant in the market.” stocks, and inflated real estate values go through the
“Apolitical, amoral?” asked Koppel. floor. It means convening a New Bretton Woods Con-
“That’s exactly right,” Soros replied. ference, to reorganize the world financial and mone-
Soros is gaining increasing infamy—thanks, in tary system so as to promote high-technology develop-
large part, to the efforts of Lyndon LaRouche and EIR ment and infrastucture.
to expose his activities and British sponsorship. Few And, yes, it means outlawing George Soros.

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