Lyndon LaRouche, Jr., a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President, is a well-known defender of justice and civil rights for all. He emerged, over the course of the past thirty years to rank among the most controversial international political figures of our time. This controversy features such issues as his efforts to destroy the international drug traffic, his initiating role in forming what President Reagan announced as the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, and currently his campaign to force the resignation of Vice-President Richard Cheney. The recent demonstration of his exceptional qualifications as a long-range economic forecaster has placed him in the center of the presently erupting, global systemic crisis of the world’s economy, typified by the collapse of the US Dollar.
Mr. LaRouche is an internationally known economist and statesman. He is the architect of an emerging new economic order on the planet, modeled on the Bretton Woods System developed by former President Franklin Roosevelt at the end of WWII. In the recent years he has spoken in over twenty European, African, Asian and Middle Eastern nations on the need to reform the current free trade system and return to the policies of Roosevelt. His domestic program for the United States is modeled on the Roosevelt New Deal and is entitled a “Super TVA”. The original Tennessee Valley Authority served the state of Alabama well during the middle of the 20th Century.
Steeped in the tradition of civil rights, Mr. LaRouche has been involved in numerous battles in the United States to address the needs of the ‘forgotten men and women’. He has been a tireless foe of the right wing agenda of Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay and their ilk, and has championed the need for promoting the general welfare of all. In this regard, he has fought for the reopening of all hospitals, in the tradition of Roosevelt’s Hill-Burton approach, and has called for spending upwards of $5trillion to upgrade our national infrastructure grid. This would reopen our factories and provide millions of jobs.
In 1994, Mr. LaRouche spearheaded the fight that defeated Oliver North in his Virginia Senate bid. In 1998, he led the battle to stop the impeachment of President Clinton. In the current campaign, Mr. LaRouche and his burgeoning youth movement sparked the effort that re-elected Mayor John Street in Philadelphia, after Mayor Street was targeted by Attorney General John Ashcroft in a J. Edgar Hoover- tyle dirty tricks operation.
For his efforts over the years, Mr. LaRouche was targeted by friends of Henry Kissinger and former President Bush, and he was incarcerated in federal prison in the late 1980’s. Mr. LaRouche wears this attack as a badge of honor.
Lyndon LaRouche was born in Rochester, NH, in 1922, served in WWII, and is the Founding Editor of the Executive Intelligence Review. He is married to Helga Zepp-LaRouche, a well-known German political leader, and has one son from a previous marriage.
Mr. LaRouche is making his eighth run for the Presidency, and already is on the ballot in the Democratic Primaries in over fifteen states. His campaign has raised nearly $7million, and he recently received over $800,000 in Federal Matching Funds. Mr. LaRouche has spoken numerous times in Alabama, and was the featured speaker in the Martin Luther King celebrations several years ago in Florence, Al. In a recent statement, Mr. LaRouche said, “Our economic welfare and our freedoms are in peril, chiefly because the leadership of the Democratic Party has lately failed, so far, to mobilize those measures of reform which we should have learned to apply from the lessons of the achievements of the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. The obvious lesson to be learned is that the Democratic Party must return to the principled features of that FDR tradition today. We must, once again, rally the revival of the principles of representative government through a pivotal commitment to the defense of today’s forgotten men and women.”
His campaign can be contacted by either calling 1 800 –278-3135, or you can visit his website at: http://larouchein2004.net.
