Communism's last stand!

Last Saturday, there was a rally - and not much of one - that took place on the Washington Mall in our nation's capitol sponsored by One Nation. About 400 radical left-wing organizations took part in this pathetic display of socialism. The scene was chaotic. The passion was absent.
The momentum has disappeared for the Communists. And that's who these people were. Communists! Most of the speakers were just a bunch of left-wing loon idiots who have boarded on the Titanic waiting for the ship to sink. There were maybe 100,000 people there at the most, compared too about 500,000 at Glenn Beck's rally on August 28th.

This rally took place on my birthday, so this was the best present I could've recieved. These atheistic morons believe that freedom is free. But freedom must come with responsibility. After the rally, there were tons of garbage left on the Washington Mall. These people didn't even have the courtesy to clean up after themselves. These are the same people who preach to us about keeping the environment clean. Yet after the Tea Party rally last year and the Glenn Beck rally, there was almost no garbage. It seems like those who believe in God and country really do want to keep this planet clean and will lead by example.

This One Nation rally reminds me of that scene from 'The Ten Commandments' when Moses brought down God's laws only to witness his people breaking the laws that God wrote. As a result, those who disobeyed God were cast into hell. And the same will happen next month on election day. These Communists were just giving themselves a lot of false chest-thumping bravado when they know they're about to get creamed. This is Communism's last stand. It's just too bad that the Communists will never know that.

G.J. LaRouche, 7 October 2010

There's a group supporting Proposal 10-1!

There's a new group supporting Proposal 10-1 in Michigan. It is called Yes On Proposal One. It is chaired by three people: Tom George, Tim Kelly, and Dennis Lennox. These people believe as I do that Michigan is broken and a Constitutional Convention is the best way (and possibly the only way) to fix the mess. They make the same cases as I do that critics of Proposal 10-1 will say it will cost too much and let in radical special interest groups to dominate the convention. I hope you feel the same way I do on this topic. Please go to www.yesonproposal1.com to learn more.

I was at a gathering sponsored by the Heritage Foundation of Southeast Michigan last night. The presentation was about how our future debts, particularly from entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) will eventually bankrupt this country. After the presentation, I talked to people about Proposal 10-1. Many people were open to the idea. Some just gave the same old critical talking points that the unions and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce are telling everybody else. I say this is a great time for Tea Party Patriots to show their true strength and dominate the convention. If the chamber, the Republicans, and the Tea Partiers combined their coalitions behind Proposal 10-1, freedom might have a better chance to succeed.

I find it absolutely amazing how this issue has recieved no national attention. Fox News has been covering the initiative to legalize medical marijuana out in California. Why the hell should any-body care about an issue that is so stupid? Proposal 10-1 in Michigan is literally 1 million times more important than getting high. I would hope that Fox News, being a fair and balanced net-work, would show the potential of this issue and how it would impact public policy in Michigan
for many years to come.

G.J. LaRouche, 6 October 2010

The Civil Rights Commission failed!

I want to alert you to a provision in the Michigan Constitution that many people overlooked, especially when it came to Proposal 2 in 2006 which banned affirmative action programs
in our colleges. Article V, Section 29 of the Michigan Constitution mandates the Civil Rights Commission. This provision was put into the 1963 Constitution and was one of the reasons why the 1961-62 Constitutional Convention took place. The Civil Rights Commission's duty is to
'investigate alleged discrimination against any person because of religion, race, color, or national origin in the enjoyment of the civil rights guaranteed by law and by this constitution, and to secure the equal protection of such civil rights without such discrimination.' (1) In 2006, former State Representative Leon Drolet and Jennifer Gratz led a grassroots movement to pass Proposal 2, which would ban affirmative action programs in our colleges that discriminated against whites because of their race. Black students were judged on an easier scale than whites,
making it more likely for them to be accepted into college.

While in high school, Jennifer Gratz applied to the University of Michigan but was turned down.
She had the grades, but didn't get in. She investigated the matter further and discovered that the university had built-in biases against whites. She teamed up with Drolet and successfully added an amendment to the Michigan Constitution that ended affirmative action programs in our colleges. I voted in favor of Proposal 2, and I'm glad it passed. But looking back, I wonder if it was worth all of the trouble.

During the 2006 campaign, millions of dollars were poured into this issue on both sides. The anti-Prop 2 people greatly outspent the pro-Prop 2 people by a wide margin. Nevertheless, the people voted for the measure 2,141,214 to 1,555,691. (2) But I was wondering why Jennifer Gratz couldn't have just filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Commission, which is already mandated in the Constitution. What's the use of having this commission when a state-sponsored institution (the University of Michigan) discriminated against whites on the basis of race? Why did Michiganders have to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures and get an amendment passed by the people when we already have a plethora of bureaucracies and laws in the books that protect the people from racial discrimination?

In addition to the Civil Rights Commission, we have the Department of Civil Rights. These people should've gotten to the bottom of Ms. Gratz's case, but they refused to act. It may be because Ms. Gratz is white and the bureaucracy could've cared less. We need some serious changes in the Michigan Constitution because government just doesn't work for the people anymore. The first thing we need to do is eliminate the Department of Education. At $15 billion a year, this department is a total waste of precious revenue. Our universities are saturated with a bunch of socialist professors and greedy union teachers. Let the local school boards control their own destiny. Allow our colleges to be sovereign governmental bodies. Then we should do away with the Civil Rights Commission and the Department of Civil Rights. Let a new Department of Justice enforce civil rights. I believe in civil rights laws, but we have to think about how the government enforces these laws!

I know people will label me as a racist, but nothing could be further from the truth. My goal in having less government is not to take everything away from the people, but to give everything back to the people. Since the 1960s, the government has destroyed blacks with welfare programs that trap them into poverty, an education system that teaches them nothing, and neighborhoods that are saturated with crime and drugs. The only way we can help blacks succeed in America is by scaling back the size and scope of government. Let's hope we can do it before it is too late.

1: Michigan Constitution, Article V, Section 29.
2: Michigan Manual, 2007-2008, Page 101.

G.J. LaRouche, 15 September 2010

Official language of Proposal 10-1!

Election day is only 49 days away. I want to give you the official language of what Proposal 10-1 (the question of a Constitutional Convention) would look like. I'm doing this so you would be clear about the ballot as you vote on November 2nd. Before I do, however, I want to tell you about an Email I received from Gene Clem, the spokesman for the Michigan Tea Party Alliance. I sent him my ideas of what a new Michigan Constitution would look like. He liked my ideas, and I thinked him for it. I hope I could inspire the MTPA to rally against the special interest groups - like the unions and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce - so regular citizens can dominate the convention.

Now here's the official ballot language of Proposal 10-1:

PROPOSAL 10-1

A PROPOSAL TO CONVENE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAFTING A GENERAL REVISION OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

Shall a convention of elected delegates be convened in 2011 to draft a general revision of the state Constitution for presentation to the state's voters for their approval or rejection?

____YES ____NO

I hope you vote YES on Proposal 10-1 because we need real and positive changes in our government.

G.J. LaRouche, 14 September 2010

The legacy of Ronald Reagan!

You know that liberal Democrats are fearing for their collective political lives by the way they continue to bash former Republican Presidents. They continue to bash George W. Bush for the current economy and Hurricane Katrina. Now they're ripping into Ronald Reagan as America prepares to celebrate his centennial birthday on February 6th, 2011. They love delivering their cheap shots to knock the Gipper down a peg or two. Even the liberal guests on Fox News get in on the action to destroy the reputation and record of the greatest President of the 20th century.

On Sean Hannity's show, Bob Beckel - the morbidly obese ex-alcoholic liberal brainless no-good blowhard - loves to give Reagan his jabbing insults every Monday on Hannity's 'Great American Panel' segment. He just loves to play the same old record that the liberals love to do. Beckel keeps talking about the unemployment rate back in 1982, which was in double digits. He also stresses Reagan's low approval rating in 1982. He and all of the other liberals want you to believe that the 1980s ended in 1982 without telling the truth about what happened between 1983 and 1989. For those of you who don't know, here's the scoop.

President Reagan cut the top marginal income tax rate from 70% to 28% while cutting taxes across the board. 20 million jobs were created in America during the 1980s, which was virtually the greatest economic boom in the country's history. Tax revenues jumped from about $500 billion in 1980 to about $1 trillion in 1990. By the end the decade, the top income earners paid a much greater percentage of the tax burden despite having their tax rates cut. Crime and drug abuse also went way down. The Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, 1989, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. As for Reagan's popularity, he won his second term for President in 1984 against Walter Mondale by a score of 525-13 in the Electoral College. Can you guess who was Mondale's campaign manager in that campaign? It was that morbidly obese ex-alcoholic liberal brainless no-good blowhard himself, Bob Beckel. He also worked for President Jimmy Carter, the other Democrat whom Reagan pounded in 1980 to become President.

The truth hurts, doesn't it Bob!

G.J. LaRouche, 26 August 2010

The difference between liberals and conservatives!

There's a huge difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals leave huge messes. Con-servatives clean up their messes. Liberals talk about the environment as if it's their religion. Conservatives simply keep the environment clean. Al Gore et al huff and puff about the environ-mental Armageddon while flying around in their gas-guzzling private jets. Conservatives clean up their messes to prevent Armageddon.

If you need proof of this, compare the aftermath of President Barack Obama's inauguration to that of the Tea Party rally on September 12th, 2009. Both took place on the Washington Mall in our nation's capital city. After Obama's inauguration, Washington looked like a nuclear waste-land. Trash was everywhere, and there were tons of it. It looked like a garbage dump. After the Tea Party rally, Washington was sparkling clean. You couldn't find a gum wrapper or a plastic cup in sight. Even the birds were courteous enough not to make their droppings along the Wash-ington Mall that day. And that's the big difference. Liberals wait for the government to do every-thing. Conservatives take it upon themselves to get the job done.

Whenever a city wins a championship in sports, all hell always breaks loose. Thousands of drunken idiots take to the streets. They climb on street signs and lamp posts. They tip over cop cars. They break windows and steal televisions. They get arrested and spend the night in jail. And the worst part is that nobody dares wave an American flag. It would be nice to see some patriotism among all of the carnage. These fools are obviously liberals. Perhaps we should pass a law requiring only Tea Party Patriots to take to the streets when our teams win.

On August 28th, Glenn Beck from Fox News will host his "Restoring Honor" rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther
King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Liberals will say that Beck is trying to hyjack King's legacy. I find that strange because many of Beck's critics want to destroy King's legacy. Say what you want about Glenn Beck. At least he won't tolerate trash of any kind at his rally.

G.J. LaRouche, 20 August 2010

Let's call for a CON-CON!

A lot has happened since Tuesday's primary in regards to my wish to have a Constitutional Convention (a CON-CON) in Michigan next year. I want to discuss the political side of this rather than the substance of a new Constitution itself. Many critics of a CON-CON have lost a lot of legitimacy with the voters, especially the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has lost a lot of credibility for three key reasons. It ran radio ads claiming that a CON-CON would cost up to $50 million, which is a false statement. A CON-CON will probably cost no more than $10 million. Of course, if Governor Jennifer Granholm were put in charge of the CON-CON, then it would cost $50 million. Thankfully, that won't happen. (Strike 1.)

The Chamber also endorsed Attorney General Mike Cox for Governor. This was a risky thing to do, especially during a primary election. Cox came in a distant third place in Tuesday's primary.
(Strike 2.) But the strangest thing is that the unions are not in favor of a CON-CON. When was the last time the Chamber ever sided with the unions on any issue? If anything else, the Chamber could demand a CON-CON so the delegation can insert a Right to Work provision in the Constitution. But it won't do that. (Strike 3!)

Rick Snyder won the Republican Party's nomination for Governor by appealing to Democrats and moderates while Pete Hoekstra, Mike Cox, and Mike Bouchard split the conservative vote.
Snyder even formed a group called Common Sense for Michigan in July to appeal to those who aren't conservative. (Source: Detroit Free Press.) He'll be going up against Democrat Virg Bernero, the Mayor of Lansing, who was dubbed 'The Angriest Mayor in America'. (Source:
Detroit Free Press.) It seems like conservatives and Tea Party people don't have very good choices in November. Perhaps the best thing freedom lovers in the Great Lakes State can do is demand a CON-CON and bring government back to within its means.

G.J. LaRouche, 5 August 2010

Reagan could've won three times!

As you know, I'm a huge admirer of President Ronald Reagan. I really miss his courage and leadership, especially with the country the way it's in right now. But yesterday a thought popped into my head that made me realize just how popular Reagan was as President. In 1980 and in 1984, he won in two of the biggest Electoral College landslides in history. Now I want to put his victories in a different context.

In 1980, Reagan beat President Jimmy Carter 489-49 in the Electoral College. In 1984, he
then crushed former Vice President Walter Mondale 525-13! Mondale won only the District of Columbia and Minnesota. This means that Reagan gathered 1,014 Electoral votes in just two elections. Now I want to spread this out just a little bit.

It takes 270 votes to be President. Reagan averaged 507 votes in his two elections. But if you divide 1,014 by three, you'd get 338. This means that Ronald Reagan would've won three land-slide elections in the Electoral College based on his vote total in only two elections. This shows you the power of Reagan's personality and popularity with the people. In the six elections since Reagan's departure, the average margin of victory has been much smaller in terms of popular votes and the Electoral College. If the Republican Party is to get back to greatness, it must bring back the 49-state landslides. This way there would be no contest regardless of how you look at the numbers.

G.J. LaRouche, 31 July 2010

Extend the Bush tax cuts!

I may not be the biggest supporter of President George W. Bush, but I thought he did the right thing by cutting taxes across the board. The problem now is that the tax cuts will expire on January 1st, 2011. What I don't understand is why he would agree to put sunset provisions on a bill that actually reduced taxes. Have you ever heard of a bill of any kind that will expire? There are thousands of laws passed annually. There are millions of pages of arcane regulations on every aspect of our lives. Since President Obama took office, we've had tax increases, bailouts,
stimulus bills, the health care bill, mounting debt, and so on. None of these bills have expiration dates. It's too bad that tax cuts are only temporary and bills that make the government rule us with an iron fist keep going strong for decades. It should be the other way around.

One example of the temporary tax cuts is the estate tax, also called the death tax. It's a tax on people's estates when they die. On July 13th, the morning of baseball's All Star Game, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack at the age of 80. The New York Yankees are worth at least $1 billion. In 2010, the estate tax went down to zero. Yet in 2011, the estate tax will go up to a staggering 55% with a $1,000,000 exemption. Had Steinbrenner died next year, his family would've paid at least $550 million to the government. Say what you want about George Steinbrenner. He wasn't a saint, but that doesn't entitle the government to wipe out the New York Yankees.

Now I know a lot of you will say that Steinbrenner was a greedy capitalist and he did some very controversial things as owner. I can't defend the man. He did pay somebody $40,000 to dig
up dirt on Dave Winfield. He fired a lot of managers and general managers and was tough on players. But I will defend his family's right to keep what they built. If the Steinbrenner family had to pay all that money to the government, hundreds of people's lives would've been severely impacted. Salaries would've been cut. Employees wouldn't be able to spend their own money to stimulate the economy. And down the line it goes. It's bad enough New York state and New York City, along with Washington, have so many other taxes in addition to the estate tax. But had Steinbrenner's death come at a different time, the Yankees would've been devastated.

There is absolutely no reason why the government should take anybody's wealth when that person dies, regardless of what that person is worth. It is not only anti-American, but also not
constitutional. Think about it. When you're dead, you don't have the right to vote, the right to speak, the right to bear arms, or the ability to do anything else. You're dead. Steve Forbes once said that there should be no taxation without respiration. We should extend the tax cuts and add to those tax cuts. It'll be the right thing to do. The original Yankee Stadium was the house that Babe Ruth built. Let's not make the death tax the tax that crushed the New York Yankees.

G.J. LaRouche, 26 July 2010

A Con-Con is relatively inexpensive!

Okay, now I'm back to the issue of a Constitution Convention in Michigan. The Michigan Chamber of Commerce claims that a CON-CON would cost up to $50 million. I believe this is absolutely false. The convention would most likely cost $10 million and it would call for many changes that Michigan needs quickly and effectively. Let me give you one specific example of the advantages of a CON-CON.

In 2006, Proposal 2 was on the ballot in Michigan that would ban the affirmative action program
in the admissions office at the University of Michigan. Although I agree with this proposal and was glad that it passed, the method upon which it had to pass was arduous at best. First of all, the supporters of the proposal, who were good friends of mine, had to collect over 300,000 valid signatures just to get it on the ballot. On the other hand, Proposal 10-1 (the CON-CON proposal)
will automatically be on the ballot, so there's no need to collect signatures. The other problem with Prop 2 was that special interests poured millions of dollars in advertising both for and against the proposal. Despite being heavily outspent, the supporters of Prop 2 were victorious because the measure passed. Even though people fear that special interests will influence a CON-CON, it's much easier for these special interests to sway the masses than they could sway 148 Constitutional Delegates.

It's also very frustrating to wait until election day to wait to vote on one more thing to add to the Michigan Constitution. And it can even be disappointing. Of the 67 Constitutional proposals that have been on the ballot since the people ratified the 1963 Constitution, only 31 passed. Thus,
the amendment process has a failure rate of over 50%. Why would the people even bother to approve a state constitution if they've had to bother voting on so many additional amendments to that same constitution? A CON-CON can bring up dozens of new ideas instantly without having to wait until election day. Half of all registered voters don't even bother to show up at the polls. A CON-CON would bring 148 dependable people who will meticulously look at every word of a new Constitution.

The costs of bringing up one proposal on the ballot - when you consider the signatures, the advertising, and everything else - would be about $5 million. And I'm being conservative. The cost of a CON-CON would be about $10 million, and it would be much more productive. Such a convention would do the work of about 100 amendments. This means that a CON-CON would do the equivalent of $500 million worth of work for $10 million. Now that is money well spent.

G.J. LaRouche, 20 July 2010

Let's stop complaining!

My goal this year is to convince enough people to vote YES on State Proposal 10-1 to call for a Constitutional Convention (a CON-CON) in Michigan next year. But it seems like the Republican Party is afraid that Marx, Lenin, and Alinsky will crawl out of their graves and dominate the convention. I want to assure people that if we elect conservatives to the convention, with me being President, ordinary people can design a Michigan Constitution that will serve the people better for many generations to come.

Lately, conservatives have been demanding that proposals be placed on the ballot to amend the Constitution. While these are noble causes, they can change everything much more efficiently with a CON-CON. The Tea Party organizers wanted to amend the Constitution to oppose the massive health care bill that President Obama signed into law. They needed at least 380,000 valid signatures to put it on the ballot this November. The organizers failed to collect even half of that amount. I told these people from the beginning that it would be better to call for a CON-CON, but they ignored me. I've been involved in politics for a long time. I knew it wouldn't work, and my instincts served me well. Prop 10-1 will be on the ballot, so no work needs to be done.

Now they want to amend the Constitution to say that we have the right to hunt and fish, to limit salaries for state workers, and to give people the option not to join a labor union in order to work. The amendment process would be very costly and frustrating. A CON-CON can deal with these issues and many more very quickly and inexpensively.

Of course, we can go too far demanding this right or that right. The system can easily be abused.
Any issue can rile up the masses for a short time, but logical minds must prevail. Let me give you an example. Let's say I wanted to amend the Constitution so that everybody would be entitled to a free pizza every Friday night. Well, who could possibly argue with that? I like pizza as much as anybody. I'm sure Mike Ilitch would capialize on that. We can just put it on the ballot by collecting the 380,000 signatures. Then the proposal will pass with 75% of the vote. Now we can all have free pizza.

But just because we can do this doesn't mean we should. Can't you see how silly this sounds after you get your mind off of melted cheese and a crunchy crust? The Michigan Constitution already has 36,000 words in it. Must we add more? My goal is to shrink the Constitution so we can shrink the government. Then we can have a better job market, more money, and the ability to buy all the pizza you want. That is how we should do it.

G.J. LaRouche, 19 July 2010

Somebody was looking out for me!

I spend most of my days at the Sterling Heights Public Library doing research on the Michigan Constitution and checking my Emails. I usually come in by 10:30 a.m. on most days. Yesterday was an exception because I had to look after my 11-year-old niece and 12-year-old nephew who are visiting here from Connecticut for a month this summer. My mom told me to look after them until my aunt could pick them up around 11. When my aunt came by at around 11:30, she told me of a very serious car accident that happened on the way there.

According to Macomb Daily staff writer Gordon Wilczynski, a man driving a white Pontiac Minivan was driving southbound on Dodge Park when a woman driving a blue Jeep Liberty ran a red light while driving westbound on Metro Parkway. The woman hit the man's minivan on the driver's side. Both vehicles ended up on the grassy island on the west side of Dodge Park. When I witnessed the aftermath of the accident myself later on, the Jeep was flipped on its side. The man was listed in critical condition while the woman was listed in serious condition. The accident occured around 10:20 a.m.

When I drive to the library every day, I take Metro Parkway westbound before I turn north on Dodge Park. I often make this drive at about the same time the accident happened. As it turned out, I arrived later than usual because I had to watch after my niece and nephew. At the time, I must admit that I was a little anxious to get to the library because I like doing my work on the Constitutional Convention. But I think God was looking out for me yesterday, and I thank Him for it.

Sometimes it's alright to be a little late because you never know what will happen from one moment to the next. I will do my best to argue why Michigan needs a CON-CON next year. Now I'm not saying that I would've been involved in that accident if I didn't have to babysit my niece and nephew, but maybe I would've witnessed it. Either way, it would've traumatized me. The moral of the story is that you never know when an inconvenience will become a blessing.

G.J. LaRouche, 14 July 2010

He betrayed his wife!

The granddaddy of environmentalists, former Vice President Al Gore, is getting a divorce from his wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage. At first I really didn't think this was such a big deal until I heard that Mr. Gore had an affair with Larry David's wife. David is known best for being the creator of 'Seinfeld'. Now Al Gore became warmly received by Hollywood upon making his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Many celebrities nearly injured themselves into a hospital kissing up to him. They showered him with an Oscar, a Nobel Prize, a Grammy, and praise unlike anything I've ever seen.

And then he gets caught having an affair with David's wife. Here is Al Gore warning us about global warming, but he sure kept himself hot under the sheets. He obviously couldn't curb his enthusiasm. He gives new meaning to 'onshore drilling'. And the Commandment 'Thou shalt not
commit adultery' is an inconvenient moral statement to Gore.

It just goes to show that these people who want to dictate how we should run every facet of our lives are just a bunch of arrogant hypocrites. I don't feel sorry for Al Gore one bit. Not for getting caught with his pants down. Not for losing the White House in 2000. He's just as big of a hoax
as global warming itself. Al Gore should give up his gas-guzzling planes and all of his gigantic properties and start living his life like the rest of us. And I hope Tipper Gore and the kids take
90% of his wealth in the divorce for being a royal pompous schmuck. Al Gore blamed President Bush for betraying America and playing on our fears after 9/11. But Al betrayed his wife and should be treated as the bloated idiot that he is.

G.J. LaRouche
18 June 2010

Counting the days!

The horrific BP oil disaster in the Golf of Mexico has been going on for about 46 days now. As the number of days get bigger, the worse everybody looks. BP looks bad for causing the catastrophe,
although an investigation should be done to determine what happened. But President Barack Obama's administration is not doing much either. Whatever happened to the position of never letting a crisis go to waste? If there's ever a great opportunity to show outstanding leadership in a tough situation, this would be it. But the federal government is slow to react in something that is getting worse by the hour. Even James Carville, the original ragin' Cajun, is begging Obama to get down there and show some leadership. I rarely ever agree with Carville, but he's on target on this one.

Five years ago during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, everybody was piling the blame on President George W. Bush. But there was plenty of blame to go around back then. Everybody had at least five days of dire warning that a huge hurricane was going to hit New Orleans. The politicians should've rounded everybody in buses and ordered them to get out of the way. And the military was there almost from the beginning rescuing people stranded on the roofs of their homes. But everybody just couldn't wait to blame it all on Bush from the start. The mainstream media is finally talking about the slow response from Washington over a month after the oil disaster, but better late than never.

But now as the days of this disaster grow, one thing came to my mind. Do you remember the Iranian hostage crisis that started in 1979 and didn't end until January 20th, 1981 when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President? That hostage crisis lasted 444 days. It was that growing number that destroyed President Jimmy Carter politically and in other ways. I think this oil disaster will hurt Obama in the same way that notorious hostage crisis weakened Carter. Obama
should take Rahm Emanuel's advice and take advantage of this crisis by doing something about it. This oil disaster is ruining America's economy, ecology, and environment. Washington needs to do something now.

G.J. LaRouche
4 June 2010

Seat belt laws and the border!

Our government just can't get its priorities straight. Now that we're heading into Memorial Day weekend, the cops are out in full force stopping anybody who isn't wearing a seat belt. The catch phrase 'Click It Or Ticket' is designed to scare us into wearing our seat belts for fear that the government will nab us with a huge fine. We should be afraid of the laws of physics, not the rule of law. We'd be crazy by not buckling up ourselves or our children for fear that a crash could kill us, but not because the police will slap us with a huge fine.

And then there's the recent border security law that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed to help its local cops enforce federal laws to guard against illegal aliens. Hispanic groups and liberal activists went nuts because they want you to think that anybody can be pulled over for any reason. But the law states that cops can't make you produce your papers unless you committed another violation. Some lawyers actually think that Arizona is violating the U.S. Constitution because it's up to only the federal government to guard the borders. But Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution states that 'Congress shall have the power to...establish a(n) uniform Rule of
Naturalization.' Naturalization means setting up uniform rules to help immigrants go on a pathway to citizenship. This is separate from border security, although the liberals will have
you believe that they mean the same thing. All 50 states have the power to protect their citizens.

Yet Article I, Section 8 also says that 'Congress shall have the power to...suppress Insurrections
and repel Invasions.' There are an estimated 12 million illegal aliens in America today. These aliens invaded our country. Granted, it was not an armed invasion, but they are syphoning off our time and money because they are taking advantage of our generosity. The costs of health care and education that these illegal aliens are taking from American taxpayers are several billions of dollars annually. Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of America thanks to drug traffickers and other criminals crossing the border daily. It's too bad Governor Brewer had to sign that bill because President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress are not doing their Constitutional duty of protecting the American people against this invasion. Let's wake up before it is too late.

I have an idea. Let's eliminate these enforcement zones on the seat belt laws because they are a complete waste of precious law enforcement resources. Then we can place this manpower on the border protecting Americans. Just a thought.

G.J. LaRouche, 27 May 2010

The 4-9-3 strategy, part 4!

Under my plan for the judicial branch, electing judges will be a much simpler process. All justices and judges are currently elected on a rotating basis within any jurisdiction. For example, there are over 60 judges in the 3rd Circuit Court in Wayne County, which means its residents must vote for over 20 of them every two years. My plan would call for all judges to be up for election or reelection at the same time during every mid-term election. This way it'll be much easier to pick the judges of your choice. I also reduced the terms for all judges to just four years so they will be held accountable to the voters more often. They will also be limited to two terms for each courtship and to only 24 years of combined experience in the courts to mandate a steady turn-over and allow new judges to serve the public.

I also require that all judges be placed on partisan ballots so you'll know exactly where they stand on the issues. Judges are practically politicians, anyway. Why should they hide in the non-partisan part of the ballot? There's no such thing as a non-partisan ballot because that is an oxy-
moron. This will also give them party support and name recognition. I also integrated the legislative and judicial districts so that the voting districts for the judges will be much smaller. This will make it much easier for voters to elect judges. Do you remember what the ballot for the city of Detroit looked like in 2006 in part two of my report? Well, this is how the new ballot would look like in Detroit in 2014 if the new Michigan Constitution adopted the 4-9-3 strategy:

1) a) Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
(Choose one for a four-year term):
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate

b) Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1st Appellate District
(Choose one for a four-year term):
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate

2) Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, 1st Appellate District, 1st Senate District
(Choose one for a four-year term):
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate

3) Judges of the Circuit Court, District 1-A
(Choose two for a four-year term):
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate

4) Judges of the District Court, 1st District
(Choose three for a four-year term)
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate
___ Republican Candidate ___ Democratic Candidate

Detroiters will have to vote for only eight judges every four years instead of over 100 of them every six years. And putting judges on partisan ballots gives voters real and clear choices. The ballots for electing judges will also be uniform throughout Michigan so all voters will have equal say in who will represent them. Now isn't this a simpler way to elect judges? There are many advantages to doing it this way. The districts are smaller so no one judge will have to hide with a huge group of other judges running in the same circuit. This is true especially in the Court of Appeals, in which each judge would have to reside in his own Senate district. Many appellate judges live in the same neighborhoods and can't relate to their constituents because they are so far removed from them. My plan requires that all 36 Appellate judges live in their unique State Senate Districts. And the four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court must live in each of the four appellate districts. I drew it up this way so that you will know who your judges are and can
contact them personally if you ever need their help. If local representation is good enough for the legislative branch, it's good enough for the judicial branch.

My system is also much simpler and reduces the number of total judges. I eliminate the four municipal courts in the Grosse Pointes because are they just self-serving cash cows that take hard-earned money away from the people. I also integrated the Probate Courts into the District Courts, which helps reduce the total number of judges in Michigan from 621 to 581. Eliminating 40 judges will cut the bureaucracy and make life easier for Michiganders.

I hope I have convinced at least some of you that having a new Michigan Constitution will make this state a much better place to live.

G.J. LaRouche, 17 May 2010

Source: Michigan Manual, 2007-2008 Edition

The 4-9-3 strategy, part 3!

Now I want to discuss how to make electing our legislators and judges easier. In the legislative branch, there are 38 State Senators and 110 State Representatives. What came to my mind was that this is nearly a 3:1 ratio. I simply reduced the numbers so that it would be official. My plan eliminates two Representatives and two Senators so that there will be 108 Representatives and 36 Senators. This will create a 3:1 ratio. But instead of apportionment boards acting indepen-dently of each other, I would place three State Representative districts in their entirety into one State Senate district.

Then I decided to go one step further by adopting the strategy of how Appellate Court districts are drawn. In the Michigan Constitution, the four Appellate Court districts are drawn along county lines to be as close in population as possible. Then I draw nine Senate districts in each Appellate district before placing three Representative districts in each Senate district. This is the 4-9-3 strategy. This system puts everything in order. Nothing is random or unpredictable.
It minimizes the chances of gerrymandering and demands that the districts be drawn to be as close in population as possible. By dividing Michigan into four quadrants first, those who draw the districts know that there is much less room for corruption.

Now how does this fit into the judicial districts? Easy. I have simply rearranged the judicial branch and its numbers so that its districts shall depend on the legislative boundaries. This is where the most profound change takes place. The Supreme Court will have only five justices instead of seven. The Chief Justice will be elected state-wide while the four Associate Justices
will be elected in their respective Appellate districts. Then each Court of Appeals will have nine judges instead of only seven. But the difference here is that all appellate judges would be elected along their Senate districts.

The Circuit and District Courts would also experience some major changes. There will be 36 Circuit Courts drawn along each Senate district. Each Circuit Court will be divided into three sections (A, B, and C) that are drawn along each Representative district. There will be two Circuit Court judges from each section. Then there will be 108 District Courts, one for each Representative district. And three judges will come from each district.

In all, there would be five Supreme Court justices, 36 Appellate Court judges, 216 Circuit Court judges, and 324 District judges for a grand total of five justices and 576 judges. This means that Michigan would have only 581 judges instead of 621, a reduction of 40 judges. In case you're wondering, my plan integrates the Probate and District Courts while abolishing the four muni-
cipal courts in the Grosse Pointes. This way there's less bureaucracy in the judicial branch.

I know this sounds like a bold agenda, and it is. But I believe in order and structure so that everything would be much easier to follow. The only way to put this plan into place is by deman-
ding a Constitutional Convention. In my next segment, I discuss how this plan would impact you personally.

G.J. LaRouche, 13 May 2010

The 4-9-3 strategy, part 2!

Now I want to delve into what the people of Detroit have to face every other year in picking their judges. There are judges from five kinds of courts that they have to elect. The justices of the Supreme Court are elected state-wide, and there are seven of them. The judges of the Court of Appeals are elected in their appellate districts, and there are seven of them. The 3rd Circuit Court represents all of Wayne County, and there are 61 judges in this particular circuit. The 36th District Court encompasses Detroit, and there are 31 judges from there. Finally, there are eight Probate Court judges from Wayne County. All of these judges are elected on a rotating basis, and they all serve six-year terms, except for Supreme Court justices who serve for eight years.

Now here's what Detroit voters had to face in the 2006 election in choosing their judges. Hold on to your seat. This will take a while. This is what their ballots looked like:

1) Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court (state-wide ballot):
Choose two for an eight-year term -
(five people on the ballot)

2) Judges of the Court of Appeals (1st District):
Choose two for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(four people on the ballot)

3) a) Judges of the Circuit Court (3rd Circuit):
Choose 19 for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(19 people on the ballot)

b) Judges of the Circuit Court (3rd Circuit):
Choose one for a six-year term - {non-incumbent position}
(two people on the ballot)

c) Judges of the Circuit Court (3rd Circuit):
Choose four for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(four people on the ballot for a partial term, until 1/1/09)

4) a) Judges of the District Court (36th District):
Choose 11 for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(11 people on the ballot)

b) Judges of the District Court (36th District):
Choose one for a six-year term - {incumbent position}
(three people on the ballot for a partial term, until 1/1/09)

c) Judges of the District Court (36th District):
Choose two for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(two people on the ballot for a partial term, until 1/1/11)

5) a) Judges of the Probate Court (Wayne County):
Choose two for a six-year term - {incumbent positions}
(two people on the ballot)

b) Judges of the Probate Court (Wayne County):
Choose one for a six-year term - {non-incumbent positions}
(two people on the ballot)

c) Judges of the Probate Court (Wayne County):
Choose one for a six-year term - {incumbent position}
(one person on the ballot for a partial term, until 1/1/09)

Now you're probably saying to yourself that you can't figure any of this out. That's okay. Nobody can figure this out. I love how they separate incumbent and non-incumbent positions. I also enjoy how they differentiate full-term and partial-term judges. (No wonder there's so much corruption in government.) In total, there were five different kinds of courts split into 11 distinct categories. Some of them were competitive, but most were not. Nobody knows anything about these judges, and most are given a free pass because of the way everything is set up. This is not representative government.

In total, the citizens of Detroit had to fill 46 vacancies, most of them with no competition, in the
judicial branch in 2006. If you stretch this out, this means that Detroiters must vote for over 100 judgeships every six years! This is way too much to ask for people to do, especially in a city that has faced more than its share of hardships. We need to change the way business is done in government.

So what is the solution? My plan, which I want implemented in the Constitutional Convention next year, will focus on how to organize the legislative and judicial branches so they will be dependent on each other. The 4-9-3 strategy will make voting for our representatives much easier. The next installment will provide the light at the end of the tunnel.

G.J. LaRouche, 12 May 2010

Source: Michigan Manual, 2007-2008

The 4-9-3 strategy, part one!

As you know, I'm in favor of State Proposal 10-1 in Michigan that would demand a Constitutional
Convention (aka a CON-CON) which would rewrite the state's Constitution next year. I know many people are scared that extreme liberals will take over the convention if one is called, but they already dominate our government already. We've been tolerating their big government agenda for a century now - complete with high taxes, bloated government, and huge deficits. I want conservatives to take advantage of this opportunity to roll back big government. One of
the most important ideas that I have is how we can change the way we elect our legislators and judges. This is something that I think too many Americans overlook, but it is something we need to examine. First, let me show you how our legislators and judges are elected.

The bicameral State Legislature is divided into a House of Representatives and a Senate. The House has 110 members elected to two-year terms who are limited to three terms. The Senate has 38 members elected to four-year terms who are limited to two terms. All legislators are elected on partisan ballots. Every ten years their districts are redrawn after each Census to adjust to the population shifts in Michigan. These districts are determined by apportionment boards that are independent of each other. I think most people know this already.

Then we come to the judicial branch, of which there are six different kinds of courts. The Su-preme Court has seven justices (one Chief Justice and six Associate Justices) who are nominated at their state conventions and elected by all of the people in Michigan. The Court of Appeals have four unique districts drawn along county lines that are equal as possible with respect to popula-
tion. Each Appellate Court has seven judges led by a chief judge. Then there are 57 Circuit Courts spread throughout the state along county lines. There are a total of 221 Circuit Court judges. There are 105 District Courts throughout the state drawn along either county or city lines. There are a total of 258 District Court judges. Then there are 78 Probate Courts spread along county lines, and there are 105 Probate Court judges. Finally, there are four municipal courts, each with one judge, in the Grosse Pointes.

All the judges are elected to six-year terms, except for the Supreme Court Justices (who have terms of eight years) and the municipal judges (who have terms of four years). All justices and judges are elected on a rotating basis, except for the municipal judges. There are no term limits on judges and they are placed on non-partisan ballots.

I know I just bored you into a coma with all of these numbers and facts. My goal was to let you know how confusing this is. In my next installment, I will show you how confusing it is to elect judges in the city of Detroit. You don't want to miss it, unless of course you're already in a coma.

G.J. LaRouche, 11 May 2010

Source: The Michigan Manual, 2007-2008 edition.

Thank you, Ernie Harwell!

On Tuesday night, Ernie Harwell, the radio voice of Detroit Tiger baseball for 42 years, passed away in his home in Novi, Michigan. At the age of 92, he peacefully died of the cancer that he had suffered with for the past several months. Even though his millions of admirers across America knew this day would come, it is sad nevertheless. Everybody will miss him dearly.

The earth is a little darker now that Ernie is gone, but heaven is just that much brighter because he will spend eternity there. The thing that I remember most about him was that he never had an enemy in the world, and I envied him for that. As a political commentator, I have an enemies list a mile long and three feet thick. If you've ever read my blog, you'll see what I mean. He saw only the good in people because he saw only the best in people.

Now that Ernie is gone, there are so many ordinary people who have a plethora of wonderful stories to tell about him. He was simply the nicest and most giving person they ever knew. Even though he was a celebrity, he never let that go to his head. He made people feel at ease when he was around. Tiger legend Al Kaline said that Ernie Harwell was about as close to perfect as a person could be. When you hear all of these stories, you may think that those telling them are engaging in hyperbole. Of course, this happens with most people when they die. But that's not the way it is for Ernie Harwell. He was the real deal and the genuine article.

Ernie may be 'looong gone,' but his soul will not 'stand there like the house by the side of the road.' His spirit is secure in heaven, where he has met both God and Jesus. 'That's two for the price of one,' as Ernie would say. Right now he is announcing baseball games in heaven, where he is having the time of his life - or should I say afterlife. He was famous for playing a game in which
he claimed to know where fans lived after he witnessed them catching foul balls. For years I was amazed how he knew where those fans lived, as if he interviewed them before the game. Then I finally realized that he didn't really know where they lived. He just played that game to make Tiger fans feel connected to each other. I can only imagine how he would play this game while announcing a baseball game from heaven. If he did, he would probably say something like this:

'And Babe Ruth is at the plate with Cy Young pitching. Here's the one-one pitch. Ruth swings and fouls it off into the stands along the third-base line. And a Jewish carpenter from Jerusalem caught that one. It's amazing how he made that grab while baring a cross over his shoulder. Somebody give that man a contract!'

Ah, only Ernie Harwell could've delivered it like that. He was simply the greatest baseball announcer in history. I may sound biased on this one because I'm a Tiger fan, but I'm right on this one. I'm sure many people would agree with me.

G.J. LaRouche
6 May 2010

Secure our borders!

It has been nearly ten years to the day when President Bill Clinton and Attorney Gereral Janet Reno ordered armed federal agents to storm a Florida house to snatch a six-year-old boy named Elian Gonzalez and sent him back to Castro's Cuba. The devastating impact of that action trau-
matized that child for life. His mother lost her life so that he could live free in America. But leave it up to the Democrats to snatch tyranny out of the jaws of liberty. Now let's think about what happened last week when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill into law that would tough-en the border between her state and Mexico. But now the crazy left has protested this new law. Let me clear a few things up so that even the radicals on the left can understand them.

This new law only enforces existing federal law. It really doesn't add anything new to the laws that are already on the books. Arizona is having a very difficult time with its border because the federal government (i.e. Congress and the President) won't do its job. These are not loving, law-abiding citizens coming to America. These are some very shady characters, including drug deal-ers and murderers. Phoenix is has become the crime capital of the country. It is second to Col-ombia in kidnapping and has a very high homicide rate. Ranchers are getting gunned down on their own property. Police officers and border patrol agents are getting shot at and killed. The people of Arizona are facing a security crisis. Arizonans have no choice but to fend for them-selves!

The thing that irks me the most is that all of the Latinos are playing the race card on this issue,
claiming that Republicans are targeting them just because of their race. Nothing could be fur-ther from the truth. The fact that they're all Latinos is beyond the control of Republicans. It's not our fault that radical terrorists are Muslim. That's just the way it is. It wasn't our fault that we had to kill Japanese soldiers after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. General George Patton had no choice but to kill Germans because Nazis were German. And General George Washington had to kill British Redcoats to gain America's independence. Americans are never prejudice because we love killing anybody who threatens freedom. Of course, times certainly have changed. Things aren't nearly as bad as they used to be. President Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without killing a single Soviet soldier. These Latinos are getting off very easy because none of them have been rounded up, shot, or killed.

And compare these protesters to the Tea Party Patriots who are revolting against a government that has raised taxes, skyrocketed the debt, and imposed socialized medicine on America. The Tea Party Patriots clean up their trash, don't get arrested, and don't throw bottled water at the police. {I find it ironic that Mexicans would throw away precious bottled water since you can't drink the water in Mexico.} If these people coming across the border were French instead of Mexican, I'd come after them twice as hard. I would never want the Corsican Mafia kidnapping or killing innocent people. We're all Americans. Let's remember that. If President Barack Obama would dedicate just 1% of the funding of his socialized medicine law to truly secure the border, we wouldn't have this problem.

As for protecting the border, I think Governor Brewer should appoint Janet Reno to head a special task force on securing the border and order her to round up every kidnapper, killer, and drug dealer in the same way that she grabbed Elian Gonzalez and sent him back to Cuba. That should solve the problem.

G.J. LaRouche, 4 May 2010

P.S. As a side note, today is my mother's birthday. I want all of you to know that she raised her
son to be a patriotic American.

Megyn Kelly sold out!

On Tuesday, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, the host of America Now, appeared on Howard Stern's radio show. I have no idea why she would do such a shameless thing. She had no business being on such a filthy, vulgar show. I don't want to know about breast size, her pubic hair, her sex life, and who she'd like to screw or kill. I can't imagine why she would even think about pulling off such a crazy stunt. Did she think Howard was going to talk about the Supreme Court? Did she think she was going to expand her audience? Did Fox News CEO Roger Ailes approve of this? There was no reason for her to be there at all.

The worst part about all of this is that Megyn Kelly sold out on Fox News. Many of the network's anchors - like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck - have their own radio shows. But she instead chose Howard Stern. Megyn should've promoted her show and Fox News with help from more legitimate programs, but she blew a golden opportunity. And she just had a baby seven months ago. She obviously isn't a very good role model for going on Howard Stern's show. Megyn did nothing to promote Fox News or her program. She just let Howard Stern exploit her for pure profit.

I used to think Megyn Kelly was a great asset for Fox News. Now she's just a toxic asset. I'll still be watching Fox News, but I think Fox News CEO Roger Ailes should give her the boot. I know I won't be watching her again any time soon.

G.J. LaRouche, 23 April 2010

God is now here!

Last month there was a mission at my Catholic church, the St. Ephrem Church in Sterling Heights. Vince Ambrosetti - a famous singer, songwriter, and motivational speaker - led a 5-day mission with his songs and positive message about the power of God and Jesus. He has written over 350 songs, and Catholics hear many of them every Sunday at church. He has also released dozens of CDs and done over 500 missions in his career. He performed at the funeral for Mother Teresa of Calcutta and for the late Pope John Paul II.

Vince has a very large Italian Catholic family. He told many funny stories about his relatives. His songs are very moving and they inspire you to sing out loud. His messages are convincing but not overly preachy. I went to his mission all five days and loved every minute of it. I won't spoil it for you too much, but there is one story in particular that grabbed my attention. It was about a devout atheist who took his young son to an atheist rally. The son was just learning to speak and read. When the father and his son went to the rally, there was a giant sign that read 'GOD IS NOWHERE'. When the father asked his son what the sign said, he looked at it for the longest time and finally quipped 'God is now here.' Then the father finally got the message that God does exist. He quickly turned around with his son and never looked back. I guess God works in mysterious ways. I later told Vince my religious joke, which is 'I'm an atheist - thank God!'

I encourage you to support Vince's mission. You can invite him over to your church or you could buy his CDs. His Website is www.parishmission.org. Please tell him that I sent you.

G.J. LaRouche, 22 April 2010

The Tea Party Express!

Last Sunday, I attended the Tea Party Express rally in Clinton Township. About 2,000 patriotic Americans were there to gather and protest big government in our lives. I had a great time as did everybody else. I talked to a few people about the initiative in Michigan calling for a consti-
tutional amendment to protect the people of this state from Obamacare. In order for this to even be on the ballot, over 380,000 signatures must be signed on the appropriate ballots and certified by the Secretary of State by July. This is quite an undertaking. There is a much easier way to achieve this goal. State Proposal 10-1, which would call for a Constitutional Convention (aka a
CON-CON), will already be on the ballot. The Tea Party people can join the effort to approve Prop 10-1 and fight for so much more than just this initiative.

We must also remember that this is a Washington problem, not a Lansing problem. The goal is to throw out the members of Congress who did this to us. Attorney General Mike Cox is already fighting the legality of socialized medicine. We already pressured Congressman Bart Stupak into an early retirement. I loved it when he said that he was going to retire anyway and that the ad campaign to remove him from office was just a waste of money on the part of the Tea Party. Nice try, Bart! Do you really think we're that stupid? It was well worth the money to kick him out. Let's do the same with the rest of the sellouts.

There is nothing wrong with America that a good electoral cleansing can't cure. Let's throw
the corrupt politicians out of office. I'll be attending the MEDEFCO (Metro Detroit Freedom
Coalition) meeting on April 15th at 7 p.m. It'll be at the Barrister Gardens in St. Clair Shores on Harper north of Nine Mile. Five gubernatorial candidates will be there along with Frank Beckman of WJR 760 AM to talk about the future of Michigan. I'd like for you to be there as I will. I'll also be talking about my strategy to demand judicial reform that should be in the Constitution. I'll share it with you after the meeting.

G.J. LaRouche
14 April 2010

Semper Fi!

On March 3rd, 2006, Marine Cpl. Matthew Snyder was killed in Iraq when his vehicle exploded. His father, Al Snyder, just wanted to bury his son in peace. But that never happened because members of the radical left-wing Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps, harrassed Mr. Snyder and the Marines during Matthew's funeral by yelling obscenities and holding signs like 'Thank God for dead soldiers.' Al Snyder sued the church for harrassment and won his case. The settlement was originally for $11 million, although it was later reduced to $5 million. Then the
4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling and forced Mr. Snyder to pay the legal fees of the church costing $16,510.80. Is there any justice in this world for a grieving father? On legal grounds, people may argue that it was totally within the right of the church to yell and harass under the 1st Amendment and that Mr. Snyder was late in filing his paperwork with the 4th Circuit. (His lawyers may have been at fault on this one.) But let's use some compassion and common sense in this case.

The left wants to make you think that the hate speech is completely covered in the 1st Amend-
ment as far as the church is concerned, but nothing can be further from the truth. Here is what the 1st amendment reads: 'Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.' Everybody knows what it says rhetorically, but people misinterpret what it doesn't say. It doesn't say that we can do or say anything we damn well please. There are rules and limitations in our society, like the Ten Commandments.

The loony members of the Westboro Baptist Church were not assembling peacefully while pro-testing the actions of government, although you could argue that they were from a certain point of view. Cpl. Snyder worked for the Marine Corps, which is part of the military and the federal government. Those church members really weren't protesting a war. They were an unruly mob who verbally terrorized a brokenhearted father who just wanted to bury his son. They yelled 'Semper fag' and other mean phrases in order to add insult to injury. Al Snyder just wanted to bury his son in peace. He never sought any trouble from anybody. The Westboro Baptist Church was aggressive, cruel, and mean. It's bad enough that Al Snyder had to bury
his son. Now he has to deal with an overturned case and legal fees. What a joke!

Some may think that there's no difference between the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church and those of the millions of Tea Party protesters objecting to the federal government's takeover of the private health care industry. But there's a world of difference between patriotic citizens who are worried about a tyrannical federal goverment taking over our lives in an unconstitu-tional manner and a man who just wanted to bury his son who died defending America. And that's the other thing that drives me up a wall here. Matthew Snyder died so that radical mem-bers of the Westboro Baptist Church can be free to say what they want. But instead of paying tribute to a fallen hero, they yelled obscenities and defamed the memory of his death. The actions of that 'church' were utterly unconscionable.

I used the Web Site http://www.unknownsoldiersblog.com/ to do research on this article. If you want to help out Al Snyder, log on to http://www.matthewsnyder.org/. Thank you and semper fi! And I do want to thank Bill O'Reilly for paying Al Snyder's legal fees. He is a patriot for doing so.

G.J. LaRouche
6 April 2010

What would Reagan do?

Today is a day that will live in infamy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered those words after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Yet today President Barack Obama signed the socialized medicine bill into law. This infamous piece of legislation will create unbelievable damage to the country
in terms of higher taxes, more government, and less freedom. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am ashamed to call myself an American. If there was ever an appropriate time to yell out 'G-D America', it's today.

But as we are on the verge of celebrating the centennial birthday of President Ronald Reagan, let's think about what he would do in this situation. Reagan would never have proposed this bill in the first place because he knew the constitutional limits of government unlike so many of our politicians today. He also would never have pushed the bill through Congress in such a haphaz-ard fashion. He wouldn't have ignored the millions of patriotic Americans in the rallies and the town hall meetings demanding less government. He never would've bribed members of the House with a worthless executive order promising that no public funds would be used for abortions. He never would've offered sweetheart deals like the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, or the tax exemptions on the Cadillac insurance plans for unions. I could
go on and on, but you get my drift.

It was so shameful watching the Democrats celebrating the destruction of freedom at the White House signing ceremony. They looked liked a bunch of rowdy football fans witnessing their team winning the Super Bowl. It looked more like a funeral with the festive atmosphere of a wedding.
It's so sad to see tyranny greeted with applause. Many Democrats are going to experience their political deaths in November, but they are marking the occasion seven months early. In a way, I'm glad that Americans could see this so they can finally wake up and see what unapologetic socialists these people really are.

Now if Reagan were President and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent him that notorious bill for him to sign, he would've done something extra special for his veto. Reagan would've burned the entire bill in a fireplace, collected the ashes in an urn, and sent the urn back to Pelosi with a note reading 'sorry, Madam Speaker. You're not the Nancy I know and love!' Now that is change we can all believe in.

G.J. LaRouche
23 March 2010

Shame on the Democrats!

The Democrats have completely sold out on the American people. Last night, the House of Representatives voted for socialized medicine 219-212. All of the Republicans and 34 Democrats voted against the bill. The bill will be sent to the Senate for final approval before President Barack Obama signs it into law. This bill will pay for health care in part by slashing $500 billion from Medicare. Of course, Medicare is a social program with tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities. (Check out www.usdebtclock.org to see this yourself.) But there was a time when the Democrats falsely accused the Republicans of doing this for political gain. Let me give you a brief history lesson on this.

When the Republicans took over the Congress in 1995, my former Congressman, David Bonior, led the charge that the Republicans were cutting Medicare by $270 billion. Of course, this was a cruel accounting trick because the Republicans were only cutting the rate of growth in the pro-gram. They were not actually cutting the program. But that didn't stop the Democrats from spreading this lie to vulnerable seniors who depend on government in their old age. I caught Bonior doing this.

In the summer of 1995, I attended a town hall meeting that included Bonior and a few local politicians talking to seniors about this lie. There were about 50 people in the room. They were all seniors with gray hair except for me. I was 26 at the time. After Bonior and company got
finished with the presentation, they went to the audience to answer questions. Now let me remind you that these seniors were most likely brought in by Bonior's people, which explained
why the crowd was very homogeneous. He wasn't expecting anybody to be the fly in the oint-ment, so I was happy to oblige. I raised my hand and Bonior acknowledged me. I told him that the Republicans were in fact raising Medicare spending, just not at the rate that the Democrats wanted to. I asked him why he would accuse the Republicans of doing something they
never did. Bonior responded by saying that the Republicans weren't keeping up with the
expenditures of the program!

He never denied my charge, but he wanted to make it sound like he was still correct. After that, senoirs got a little more agitated at Bonior. This proves that I was a Tea Party protester 14 years before it became trendy. But two things still annoy me about this. The first is that the Republicans were never going to cut Medicare back in 1995. They just wanted to make sure that Medicare would last longer. The other thing is that the Democrats will actually slash $500 billion from the program to give coverage to 32 million more Americans. This will ration care and give the government total control over who receives what kind of medical care. This has been the intention of liberals all along.

But where has the media been on this all this time? I'm just an ordinary guy. I'm not a reporter.
I'm just a concerned citizen. Anybody from the press could've been at that meeting to ask Bonior the same question I asked him. And where is the media today while the Democrats do real cuts in this exect same program? This simply represents corruption on the part of the politicians and apathy on the part of the media. Now if David Bonior tried to do the same thing today, about 1,000 people would've swarmed that meeting to demand answers that the madia won't ask. Shame on the Democrats! They'll pay a huge price in November.

G.J. LaRouche
22 March 2010

P.S. I'm back writing articles on my blog.