LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- Homeland Defense -
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- Homeland Defense -

Now, we have a little problem to worry, for the final point: Homeland Defense. {This is a real piece of trash.} aughter} Someone says, white trash.

Northern Virginia, for example. Now, what happened with this cockeyed thing that came out of the Administration on homeland defense. Does this contribute to our security? No, it does not. It's absolutely worthless. You have to understand what the problem is, and obviously, the incumbent Attorney General is not very long on competence. He's long on opinions, especially of the racist variety, as we know, but on competence, not.

Let's take the case of terrorism, the name terrorism. What does it mean?

Well, you have two types of terrorism. One is the terrorism which is opportunistic, which may operate in an area on a lower level. The other is a very sophisticated operation, which can be done only by powerful governments, with special agencies of powerful governments.

In the case of the U.S.-Soviet conflict, that was there. You had the Soviet apparatus, had very powerful capabilities, they were running against the United States, and others. And the United States was returning the favor.

But what's your first line of defense against terrorism? Law enforcement, local law enforcement. For example, let's take Northern Virginia. What's the major security problem in Northern Virgina? Drug gangs!

You want to organize crime? You want some cooperation in doing something funny? Try the drug gangs. What they've done is they've stripped away, in the name of homeland defense, they've stripped away that first line of defense, which is ordinary law enforcement, and law enforcement intelligence.

The second line of that is cooperation vertically, as well as horizontally, and to special state and federal agencies, which cooperate with local agencies in certain areas. If you clean up and control drugs in an area, actually control it, you're going to cut a dent in the capability of crime, as well as providing general security. Most nasty things that will happen in an area, the worst of them, will generally come through the channel of the drugs -- if not the drug pushers as such, it'll come through those dirty channels. And if you have good control over this problem in an area, you've got the first level. If you have good levels of control on the Federal, state and local agencies, intelligence, criminal intelligence, you will find that you get the map of the situation fairly clearly, and you're going to minimize the opportunity to run something dirty in that territory, or to have something happen that you won't know about -- mysterious crimes.

Now, the problem here is, the U.S. government has been completely hypocritical and dishonest on the question of drugs. We've had laws against drugs, but we've been running drug pushing! How do you think Brzezinski got the Afghanistan war going?

Afghanistan is one of the traditional areas of drug production. It's a polluted area in a sense, where local gang lords control drug production. The principal area to which the drugs are channeled, is out through Pakistan.

Now, Pakistan is a semi-destroyed country, which has not been functioning effectively since the breakup of Bangladesh and Pakistan back years ago. So Pakistan has now become a drug country; that is, the Pakistan military are essentially drug lords. They became this, largely because of the United States and Britain, which, beginning with Brzezinski, used Pakistan as a way of running what became known as the Afghanistan war of the 1980s. 1970s, 1980s. This was done by agencies, in part, of the Federal government.

In assistance of this, the United States went to various Arab countries, with the thesis that, the Soviet Union was a terrible atheistic state, and therefore, dedicated Islamic people, many of these who had been associated with British intelligence operations, should dedicate their lives to going to Pakistan, for invading Afghanistan, to conduct this war.

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