LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- What's Ruined the Democratic Party -
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- What's Ruined the Democratic Party -

Now there's another aspect of this, a political aspect. Why does the Democratic Party, for example, allow this to happen? Isn't the Democratic Party supposed to be for people? against those mean Republicans? How people-oriented {is} the Democratic Party?

Let's take the case of Michael Steinhardt. The founder of the Democratic Leadership Council; and sort of the den-mother of Al Gore, the guy who actually elected George Bush. What is Steinhardt? Steinhardt is a son of a key member of the organized-crime family of eyer] Lansky. What is Senator Joe Lieberman? The Steinhardt pedigree; including the old Lansky mob in the tip of Florida; remember those guys who used to work for Meyer Lansky before Castro, in Havana? (I saw them. I was down there in Havana on a consulting job before Batista was overthrown. I saw these guys, running all the gambling joints and prostitution in Havana. And they're killers.) That's what's running the operation.

What is the policy of Steinhardt and people like him, who are organized crime, the guys who went ``from rackets to riches,'' and are still racketeers? Like Bronfman, whose family interests created the wealth and political career of John McCain; also tied to the same thing.

Who are these guys tied to? They're tied, internationally, to Marc Rich. Rich is the key man, the key figure, of the Russian Mafia so-called. This is associated with almay] Kalmanowitch and all these other guys who are doing dirties against the United States.

These guys--these swine--are a controlling factor in the Democratic Party. It is their policies which have ruined the Democratic Party as a party. It is their policies which have condemned the lower 80% of family-income brackets to the kind of policies which have ruined them. Look at the homelessness in the streets. Look at Marc Rich's friends: There's your homelessness; there's the cause of it.

How did our policies change? Look at your lost industries. Look at all the other things; look at what happened to your healthcare system; all the same thing.

This is another part of that factor. No longer have the parties, in their majority--even though there are many people in the parties who object to this as I do--they will not fight Steinhardt. They will not fight what he represents. They won't fight organized crime. They won't call Joe Lieberman what he is! They won't call John McCain what he is.

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