LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- Degeneration Since 1964 -
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- Degeneration Since 1964 -

In 1964, the United States began making a number of concrete changes--cultural changes and policy changes which led into this disintegration. It started in the United States with the official launching of the U.S. war in Indochina. That was crucial. That had psychological effects on the U.S. population; it had psychological and other effects on the world. At the same time, we had a dangerous idiot put in charge of the United Kingdom; the first Harold Wilson administration in the United Kingdom. And he destroyed the shambles of the British agricultural and industrial economy, and destroyed the people in it, too, as a result of the process.

We then--especially in 1971--began to spread some of the effects of what we had done here, into the rest of the world. And we destroyed Western Europe. We destroyed the Americas. We were especially hard on sub-Saharan African, so-called Black Africa; and we've been increasingly murderous. What we're conducting there is genocide; plain, intentional genocide, as I shall indicate.

In the United States itself, we transformed this society, which had once been the world's leading producer nation--that is, the greatest rate of production of wealth per capita and per square kilometer, on the planet; the greatest power on the planet--we turned it from a producer society into a consumer society. We changed the values with the rock-drug-sex youth counterculture. We did everything else to destroy, to say industrial society was bad, consumerism is good.

And how did we do that? We did it the same way the Roman Empire did, actually before it became an empire, while it was in the process of becoming an empire at the end of the Second Punic War. Rome, which had relied, up to that point, largely upon the production of people in Italy, for its wealth and for its armies, suddenly changed; and changed at an accelerating rate. Until, in the course of the civil wars and so forth in Rome, it established itself as the first Roman Empire under Augustus. The Roman Empire in that form, as a consumer society, extended slave occupation in Italy, and sustained the Italian population by looting subjected countries; and maintained its power by conducting what Brzezinski has proposed--together with Bernard Lewis and Sam Huntington--as his war against Islam, his Clash of Civilizations war. The Romans ran what was called a {limes} policy; a clash of civilizations policy of running perpetual genocidal wars against nations on the borders of the Roman Empire--which is what Brzezinski is pushing today; what Sam Huntington is pushing today; what Bernard Lewis, of the British Arab Bureau, is advising Kissinger and Brzezinski and Huntington to do.

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