Saturday, July 09, 2005

Lyndon LaRouche Lunatic At Large

I'm posting this because it made me laugh. I almost feel guilty about it, because it is sad that Lyndon LaRouche and his followers are not locked up and tranquilized. Then, they could be doing something constructive like weaving baskets or playing with hand puppets instead of this idiocy.
Cue the calliope music!


JULY 6 —"We are going for an early, emergency impeachment," said Lyndon LaRouche in discussion on the evening of July 3. "We don't have time to wait. We can't have Bush and Cheney sitting in the White House when the system blows, which could be a matter of weeks. That would be hell for the human race. We have to blow their cover, and get these guys out now—while we can."

The immediate basis for the impeachment is the obstruction of justice and coverup carried out by the White House in the case of the leak of Valerie Plame, LaRouche said. The exposure of Karl Rove's involvement in the leaking, and the contempt-of-court proceedings against reporters Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, have brought this situation to a head, but the basics were known long ago. The White House, with Dick Cheney in the lead, acted with clear intent to have the information against Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson, leaked, in order to "punish" Wilson for exposing the lies of Cheney about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. And once Robert Novak leaked the information, the White House, led by Dick Cheney, acted to cover up and obstruct justice in the search to unearth and prosecute the guilty parties.

The Plame case is not the only flagrant example of misconduct by Vice President Cheney that would legitimately lead to his impeachment, LaRouche added. As EIR has previously exposed, Cheney has not only committed a fraud against the President and the nation with his lies on Iraq, but also demonstrated notorious corruption in permitting the multi-billion-dollar ripoffs by his former company Halliburton. The evidence is overwhelming.

As for President Bush, LaRouche added, he may not realize what lies he has told, but he should be removed from office on the grounds of incompetence, as indicated by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

The need for moving toward impeachment of Cheney now is crucial for two reasons, LaRouche emphasized. First, it is now crystal clear, including to leading circles in the U.S. establishment, that the world financial system is headed for a spectacular blowout, either around the collapse of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds, the real estate bubble, or other huge corporate failures. When the blowout comes, the U.S. Senate, if it has not done so beforehand, will have to move aggressively to implement the kinds of protective bankruptcy reorganization measures which LaRouche has outlined, in order to "save the people, not the banks." But this cannot happen if Cheney and Bush are in place to block the necessary action. Thus, they must be confronted with impeachment charges now.

The second reason that Cheney must be impeached now, LaRouche added, is that the United States cannot afford to have him in a position to take over the government officially, once Bush were removed from office. Faced with his decline in popularity, and the reverses in the Congress and Iraq, Bush is quite obviously on the edge of a psychological breakdown, so the time is short. Cheney has to be removed first, just as Agnew had to be removed before President Nixon, back in the early 1970s.

Speaking to a private seminar in Berlin, Germany on June 28, LaRouche made the following argument as to why the impeachment is required now:

"And therefore, if the world is to be saved, these two creatures [Bush and Cheney-ed.] must be kept under control and removed from office—not four years or three years from now, but in the immediate future.

"Because we must, immediately, in the near term, have a decision, by the United States proffered to its partners internationally, which essentially prevents a sudden chain-reaction collapse of the world monetary system into, not a depression, but general breakdown-crisis, a general breakdown-crisis of the type which was discussed theoretically, as a theoretical proposition, at the end of the 19th Century, and the beginning of the 20th; which has never happened before, in modern history, but is about to happen now, under present conditions.

"I continue: Unfortunately, the present U.S. Bush Administration would prevent the needed action, even with its dying breath. Fortunately, the present Bush Administration is already a ruined, lame-duck administration, a Presidency whose deep psychological problems and brutish bunglings, have already brought it into the liability of possibly early impeachment, or retirement to avoid that impeachment. For example, one story that was told to us, is, there might be a plane ride. And on the plane ride, somebody might be sitting next to Cheney. And when they got off the plane, Cheney would go someplace nearby and submit his resignation from office.

"We're in that kind of area, in which, either forced impeachment, impeachment proceedings, or resignations—induced resignations—are maybe the crucial factor in history."

3 comments:

loboinok said...

The left are working hard to get some impeachment going on. It is ridiculous, but they are giving it all they've got.

Stacy said...

Well, it will keep them busy while the grown-ups get their work done.

Anonymous said...

Who the hell is Larouche, and why are his disciples hounding me? I was on my way to a meeting this afternoon when I was accosted on the sidewalk by a short, sweaty man wearing a plackard on his chest stating that Cheney is about to nuke Iran. His fellow zealouts then came over and stuffed pamphlets and books into my arms, screaming bloody murder about Cheney being the pawn of Satan, and that Larouche is god.

Further more, when I asked them about their sources [stating that Cheney intends to attack Iran with nuclear weapons], they couldn't give me a straight answer except that it was published in their little pamphlet. So I figured, ok let's see...

Here's what the pamphlet had to say, and I quote:

"LaRouche based this assessment on a series of factors, reported to him over the recent days, beginning with the qualified report, from a forumer U.S. intelligence official, published in the American Conservative magazine, that Dick Cheney ordered the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to prepare contingency plans for a conventional and tactical nuclear strike against hundreds of targets in Iran, in the event of a "new 9/11-style attack" on the United States."

First of all, I copied that directly from the pamphlet - run on sentence and everything. Second, when I pointed out that the pamphlet stated that this plan was a contingency based on an unprovoked attack on US territory, the LaRouche supporters first became dumbfounded.. then mad. I told them that every modernized, western country today has a contingency plan they will follow in the event they are attacked, either by terrorists or by conventional warfare. Yes, even New Zealand has one. I finally told them that I'll read their material, and I'd call my friend over in the State Department, and another close buddy of mine who I used to serve with, who is now working a desk at the Pentagon. I said I'd have to check this for myself. When they heard that, they really started frothing at the mouth. Did they expect me to believe everything they had to say because some guy LaRouche published it?

They then started to counter-argue by stating mostly unsubstantiated claims that Cheney secretly idolizes Hitler, that the Bush administration secretly has no care for humanity, blah blah blah. I told them that I didn't have time to listen to this crap, but before I could leave they gave me a book entitled: Children of Satan, of course by LaRouche.

I think I'll read it later just to amuse myself. Then I'll use it over the weekend to start the barbecue.