- This statement was released on August 31, 2005 by the
LaRouche PAC political action committee.
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- The sheer horror of that human catastrophe which was
set in the process of creation by the continuing ugly negligence of the
Bush-Cheney cabal during the weeks before, during, and since the passing
of the natural catastrophe of Katrina's "American Tsunami," has
already unleashed a political-after-shock, far greater in human and material
consequences than the events of September 11, 2001. The aftershocks of
what are already the inevitable horrors to be met in the days just ahead,
will be measured chiefly in humanitarian, physical and political-psychological
consequences, which, combined, will have the greatest significance for
the future of the current government of the U.S.A., and have ominous implications
for governments also world-wide.
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- On August 2nd, the general warning had been issued, that
we must expect major storms to hit the Southern coasts of the U.S. during
the immediate period ahead. That warning should have activated an order
from the President of the U.S.A. to the relevant National Guard, FEMA,
and other institutions: Develop an immediately operational plan of precautionary,
preventive, and emergency action, to deal with all of the obvious contingencies
represented by a probable "Camille-like" event. We now see, clearly,
that those urgently needed emergency preparations did not occur.
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- This great human catastrophe has occurred, chiefly, because
the Bush-Cheney adminstration chose, willfully, to allow a clear warning
of a mere natural catastrophe, to be transformed into the present, vast
human catastrophe. The President unfortunately, was on what appears to
have been a permanent vacation; the Vice-President, unfortunately, was
not.
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- The typical procedure would have been for the President
of the U.S.A., on Aug. 2, 2005, or during the morning briefing on the morning
after that, to put a relevant four-star or three-star general in charge,
under a Presidential order, of an emergency task force of augmented Corps
of Engineers and National Guard forces, in cooperation with FEMA, to craft
an immediate war-plan for the worst-case expectation of one or more "Camille"-like
events from Florida west along the Caribbean coast for the months of August
and September.
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- Notably, the use of National Guard blackhawk helicopters
- then absent in Iraq - would have been a routinely included point of included
emphasis for such contingency. The fact that the Cheney-Rumsfeld operations
had stripped the relevant states along the Caribbean coast of much of this
needed capability, would have been among immediate points for emergency
corrective action at that time: as of August 2-3.
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- There is nothing new in the strategic thinking of European
civilization for challenges of that type. Plato, in his Timaeus, made precisely
the distinction and relationships between great natural and man-made catastrophes.
The negligence of the Bush-Cheney Executive from Aug. 2, 2005 on, is the
point of immediate guilt of that administration in our obligation now,
to distinguish between the murderous effects of a natural catastrophe,
and the mass-murderous consequences of a man-made catastrophe created by
the negligence of the incumbent Presidency.
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- As a result of that negligence, unless what are presently
unlikely, miraculous rescue measures intervene, far more than 100,000 American
lives are presently in immediate jeopardy, from combined direct and indirect
effects in progress during the days immediately ahead. So far, the current
theatrical posturing by the Bush-Cheney Administration, while sharks swim
among the floating corpses in the streets of New Orleans, will do very
little to deal with the immediate human catastrophe now in progress in
the immediately stricken areas. The rescue teams which should have been
deployed in readiness on the days before Katrina struck, were concentrated
chiefly in National Guard units deployed, together with their helicopter-rescue
capabilities, in Iraq.
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- However, the culpability of the vacationing mind of President
Bush and the overactive propensities of the Vice-President Cheney who has
taken over the job of replacement for the perpetually vacationing mind
of the President, is only the relatively more recent contribution to the
vast human economic and other catastrophes now suppurating northward from
the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Right now, a section
of the United States, with direct effects on millions of our people, is
being destroyed.
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- Beyond the sheer horror of what could have been prevented,
even during the time available to President George W. Bush, Jr., since
Katrina left the tip of Florida, there have been decades of negligence
by the U.S. government and many others, negligence driven largely by a
cultural paradigm-shift of the U.S.A., a turning away from the world's
leading physical economy, to our present condition as a nation of virtual
slave-labor shacks and vast gambling enterprises, where an essential part
of the world's once-greatest agro-industrial power once dwelt. Over several
decades of shift, since approximately 1967-68, from a production-oriented
to a so-called "services" economy, we have allowed the destruction
of the quality of productive employment and community life which had been
our national standard of reference for the application of our constitutional
principle of promotion of the general welfare of the people of the U.S.A.
and their posterity.
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- In our zeal for ever cheaper labor, and lower taxation,
we have been destroying the industries, farms, and basic economic infrastructure
of the U.S.A., continuously, over a period of about thirty years. In that
process, as we see in the Third World-like conditions developed proximate
to the gambling paradises of Louisiana and other once-proud states, we
have accumulated the pattern of negligence which permitted a "Camille"-like
natural event to reduce an entire region of the the U.S. along the Caribbean
coast, into a spectacle like that produced by the way in which a deadly
Tsunami hit the coastal regions of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
and India. These changes of the past three-odd decades, combined with a
degree of negligence of the Bush-Cheney regime tantamount to gross, impeachable
negligence; this negligence has produced a margin of effects which promise,
at least, to be worse than those of September 11, 2001.
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- The natural catastrophe, as Plato said, was beyond man's
present power to prevent; the greater catastrophe was created by the unnatural
conduct of the leadership represented by the President and his ostensible
manager, the Vice-President.
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- Meanwhile, In Europe
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- When we compare these recent days events here in the
U.S.A. with the usual situation of kindred forms of catastrophes in Asia,
we are confronted with our recollection of the advantage which modern European
civilization came to enjoy, relative to Asia, for example, as a result
of the basing of the modern form of sovereign nation-state republic on
the principle of the supreme law of the common good. This is the principle
of promotion of the general welfare for ourselves and our posterity, in
the supreme law of our republic, the Preamble of our Federal Constitution.
This same principle is pervasive, usually with less authority, but present
nonetheless, especially since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, throughout
the good nations of modern Europe.
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- This principle of natural law is otherwise known as the
Christian principle of the common good, as the supreme principle of natural
law to which all governments and peoples should be obedient. This principle
has been the secret of all those economic and related achievements in promotion
of the improvement of the conditions of life and freedom of peoples of
European civilization, and elsewhere where admiration for the same principle
is shared, as among Jews and Moslems as for Christians.
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- At the present time, what claims to be the higher law
of individual greed, sometimes called "shareholder value," has
systemically subverted our Federal Constitution, replacing U.S. law with
the Lockean doctrine of law set forth in the Preamble of the constitution
of that slaveholders' conspiracy known as Confederate States of America.
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- At the present moment, as in political campaigns in Germany
and other parts of Europe, as here in the U.S.A. itself, that great moral
principle, on which all of the great achievements of modern European civilization
in human rights and prosperity have depended, is in grave danger. The law
of the jungle, as we witness in the worst cases of states in Asia and Africa,
and as the same law of the jungle is amok in Central and South America,
is afoot. It was that same predatory instinct, the law of the social-economic
jungle, which had been the heart and soul of the Bush-Cheney Administration,
even before Bush's 2005 effort to rape the Social Security system premised
on the Christian principle of the general welfare--the Bush policy which
has been the true spiritual inspiration of the catastrophic negligence
which the Bush-Cheney team has inflicted, the human catastrophe heaped
upon the routine natural catastrophe of Katrina.
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- On this moral issue, as reflected in the horrible negligence
of the Bush-Cheney team, the entirety of humanity is placed in jeopardy,
as the greatest financial crisis in modern history is now about to descend
upon, not only the U.S.A., but the world as a whole.
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