LaRouche Addresses Private Washington Seminar

March 17—Lyndon LaRouche made the following opening remarks to a private gathering of diplomats in Washington, D.C. Tuesday. An MP3 recording of the event is available.

The issue, of course, is really, internationally, economy. And presently, despite all wishful thinking, under the present system, the entire economic system of the planet is about to crash. The crash will be centered in the trans-Atlantic community, of course, but the point is, Asia—those parts of Asia which are moving in a positive direction— are going to have great difficulty in trying to operate in a world in which the transatlantic side has collapsed.

Frankly, and this is absolutely frank—unless we get rid of this President, very soon, in the United States, there's no chance that the world's going to make it. Because if this President continues to be President, the U.S. is going to crash, and when the U.S. crashes, Europe will crash, the entire Atlantic region will crash, and that will bring down entirely the market upon which Asian countries, and others, depend for marginal support for stability.

So, therefore, it's obvious, as I emphasized to people in the United States just recently, and abroad, that this President has to go. That's not your responsibility; that's ours. We will do the best we can.

And he is very unpopular with the American people. Over 60 percent of the population does not like him. A large number, probably a majority, wish he would go away immediately. Some members of the Congress are frightened, and therefore some politicians are frightened, of the power of the British, and the President. And the President is essentially a puppet of the British. And therefore, they're afraid to throw him out. But sometimes in these processes, as in history, history has its own way of helping people to do the right thing, to get rid of bad governments.

I think this is one of the occasions. Because the anger building up in the U.S. population, against this Presidency and this Congress,— if you want to be out of politics in the United States today, be presently a member of the Congress. They're the most unpopular species we have presently. It's not that they're all bad—they're not all bad people; they're just a little bit cowardly. And they get intimidated by the kind of pressures that come upon them.

Most of the American people, frankly, hate this presidency. But they don't hate the President so much, because they don't consider him an American. The ones they hate are the ones whom they believed were their trusted friends in the Congress, who, they believe, have betrayed them. So, they don't believe the President has betrayed them; he's just doing bad things. But because they support this President, they hate the President, and they hate the present government.

So, there is a process underway, which, despite the cowards in our ranks, there is a movement to get rid of this current presidency. And it will happen. The question is, when it will happen. It can happen within weeks from now. It can happen around the issue of trying to push through this Nazi-like health care policy, which the president is fanatically committed to.

MP3 recording of the event is available.

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