The British royal
family's policy at work - mass death in Rwanda
by Linda de Hoyos
Before April, Rwanda had an approximate population of 7.2 million.
As of
September, up to 1 million people have been killed inside Rwanda.
According
to estimates supplied by the U.S. Agency for International Development
(AID), 2,576,000 people are displaced inside Rwanda, including
1.3 million in the former French Safe Zone in the southwest corner of the
country. Another 2,223,000 people are refugees outside of Rwanda - 1,542,000
in Zaire, 210,000 in Burundi, 460,500 in Tanzania, and 10,500 in Uganda.
That is, 5,799,000 people, or 80.6% of the population, have been killed or
uprooted.
The RPF is ruling from the capital city of Kigali over an emptied country.
Water arid electricity systems are destroyed. Up to 50% of health employees
and teachers have been killed. The Ugandan shilling is now the currency of
choice. Food production is at 66% of the normal, with the country receiving
less than 75% of its aid requirement.
Rwanda has been obliterated, torn to pieces, its traumatized and emaciated
population scattered to the winds. As EIR has documented (Aug. 19, 1994),
the destruction of Rwanda is the handiwork of Ugandan dictator Yoweri
Museveni and Lady Lynda Chalker. The destruction of Rwanda begins not with
the April 6,1994 murder of President Juvenal Habyarimana, but with the
British-backed invasion of Rwanda by the top echelons of the Uganda Army in
October 1990.
According to one source in Kampala, 95% of the RPF was in the Uganda Army.
And Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), itself trained by the
British, Americans, and North Koreans since Museveni took power in 1986, is
the source of supplies and money for the RPF.
The leaders of the RPF are
identical to the top echelons of the Ugandan Army: Ugandan minister of state
for defense was the RPF's David Tinyefuza; Paul Kagame, current defense
minister of Rwanda Under the RPF, was head of intelligence and
counterintelligence in the Ugandan Army; the RPF's Chris Bunyenyezi was the
former commanding officer of the NRA's 306th Brigade, notorious for the
atrocities committed against Uganda'sTeso.
Museveni also had a hand in the Oct. 23, 1993 coup against Burundi President
Melchior Ndadaye, whose election had ended 31 years of Tutsi military rule
in Burundi. According to some sources, Museveni planned the coup in a
meeting in Entebbe which included the RPF's Paul Kagame.
Two coup
ringleaders, Major Bucokoza and Lt. Paul Kamana, were in Kampala, openly carousing with Ugandan
officers, from late October 1993 to February 1994, and, according to Burundi
sources, they are both now with the RPF. The attempted coup in Burundi
resulted in the murder of President Ndadaye, and the mass slaughter of up to
100,000 Hutus and Tutsis in fratricidal warfare.
Museveni is not acting on his own. His links to the British royal family run
through two interlinked personages: Lady Lynda Chalker, Minister of Overseas
Development and a favorite of Lady Margaret Thatcher, and Tiny Rowland,
chairman of Lonrho, who reportedly introduced Chalker to the higher echelons
of London society.
The on-the-ground British case officer for Museveni is
reportedly one William (Mike) Pike, editor of New Vision, a daily financed
by Rowland. Pike is believed to report directly to Chalker.
Chalker was the first foreigner to meet Museveni once he took power in
Kampala. Museveni and Chalker have been "very luwie-duvvie," as one British
source put it.
A British East Africa expert further complained that Lady Chalker,
"spends a lot of time, a disproportionate amount of time, in the
Horn of Africa and Uganda."
Soon after the RPF victory in Rwanda, Chalker
visited Uganda for a four-day tour hosted by Museveni, before tripping over
to Goma, Zaire, to view the refugees.
On the latter experience, Chalker told
the press,
"Of course, when one comes face to face with death... in their
hundreds, or as in Goma, in their thousands, I feel it. But I don't allow it
to affect my judgment."
Museveni, the marcher lord
On Dec. 11,1992, Africa Analysis
reported that the minutes of a meeting which took place in late 1992 at the
State House in Entebbe had reached Kenyan intelligence.
The minutes showed
that Ugandan President Museveni was prepared to give full logistical and
political support to insurgencies aimed at the governments in Rwanda, Kenya,
and Sudan. Attending the meeting were Museveni, Col. John Garang of the S
udan People' s Liberation Army, unidentified commanders of the Rwandan
Patriotic Front (Ugandan Army), and representatives of the armed wing of the
Kenya Democratic Party opposition to Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi.
The meeting points to Museveni's role as the British marcher lord in East
and Central Africa. The immediate goal for the British royal family is to
use Uganda, which was first leveled by the British-sponsored barbarian Idi
Amin (1972-79) and has now become the major British financial and political outpost
in the region, as the springboard for recolonization of the region.
The gameplan is: Destroy Rwanda and Burundi, turning the remains into satellites
of Ugandan (British) domination; destroy Kenya by overthrowing President Moi
and instigating tribal warfare; and seize mineral-rich eastern Zaire.
According to Africa Analysis,
"Museveni told the RPF commanders at the
Entebbe meeting that he would do his utmost to stall the Arusha peace talks
in order to buy time for them to build sufficient firepower to storm
Kigali."
That mission has now been accomplished.
On Kenya, Lady Chalker has worked to create a tribally based opposition to
Moi, with the armed wings of these operations supplied by Museveni.
Chalker
has repeatedly cut British aid to Kenya, and informed Moi in February 1992,
in what she called,
"very frank, straight talks," that "the only way to come
to grips with the security problem in northern Kenya is to deploy troops
under U.N. coordination."
Uganda is arming the rebels in Zaire. The British are now demanding that the
troops of the former Rwandan government move deeper into the interior of
Zaire, away from the mass of Rwandan refugees. According to an Oct. 2 report
of
U.N. Special Representative to Rwanda Shahryar Khan, this may require "an
international operation under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter - which allows
for use of force" - on Zairean soil.
Strongman behind the SPLA
Uganda is the major source of supply for John Garang's SPLA. The remaining
SPLA stronghold in Sudan is Nimuli, near the Ugandan border, which is
supplied from the Nimuli park on the border with Sudan and Kidepo Valley
park in northern Uganda.
Kidepo is also the site for SPLA training and the
SPLA headquarters. According to Ugandan sources, food, gasoline, and
supplies are stored for Garang at the Mbuya military barracks, and the
supplies are delivered by the NRA 4th Division.
Museveni has attempted to procure sophisticated weapons for Garang. In
August 1992, Museveni's private secretary, Innocent Bisangwa-Mbuguje, and
Ugandan Ambassador to the United States Stephen Kapimpina Katenta-Apuuli
were arrested in Orlando, Florida, for illegally attempting to buy 400 TOW
anti-tank missiles and 34 TOW launchers for $18 million. The weapons were
bound for the SPLA, through the border towns of Nimule or Kaya in northern
Uganda.
In spring 1994, a Nigerian commercial plane
developed engine trouble at Lanark, Cyprus, while carrying missiles
reportedly from Israel to Uganda.
MAP 6
Rwanda invasion routes
KEY TO MAP 6
The 1990 RPF/Ugandan army invasion of Rwanda was staged in the
Gorilla park of Uganda on the border of Rwanda and Zaire 1. It
proceeded through the Volcans park in Rwanda 2, directly opposite
the Gorilla park in Uganda.
The Akagera park in Rwanda 3, bordering Kenya and within a few miles
of the Ugandan border, was the other invasion route.
Although the 1990 invasion failed, the Uganda military and RPF
continued to control large areas of the Volcans park of Rwanda, and
used that park as a base for raids farther into Rwanda.
The RPF also held parts of the Virunga park in Zaire 4, which
borders both the Volcans park of Rwanda and the Gorilla park of
Uganda. Periodic efforts by the Rwandan military to flush out the
Uganda guerrillas through shelling both parks were unsuccessful, and
vehemently condemned by international conservation agencies
including the World Wildlife Fund. The WWF manages the "Gorilla
protection program" within the tri-border Virunga, Gorilla, and
Volcans parks. The WWF program was initiated just months before the
1990 Ugandan invasion.
The Uganda/RPF invasion of April 1994 came largely through the
Akagera park.
Museveni and Garang are old school buddies, both trained at Dar Es Salaam
University in Tanzania, where the curriculum had a definite Maoist bent.
Tiny Rowland is a mutual friend. Speaking on a British Broadcasting Corp.
newscast in Nairobi, Kenya in March 1993, Rowland declared that he is a
member of Garang's SPLA and had been since 1984, reported the South African
Weekly Mail.
As the Weekly Mail explained,
"Southern Sudan has an
undeveloped oil industry and Lonrho is interested in a project to bring oil
out in a pipeline leading through Kenya - where Rowland has important
interests - to Mombasa, instead of through the Red Sea port of Port Sudan as
the Khartoum government has planned."
The SPLA is advised by Dr. Mansur Khalid, a former foreign minister of
Sudan, who is now employed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
in Nairobi, Kenya.
The UNDP officer in Uganda, who is also reportedly
involved in support operations for Garang, is one Hans Farelius, a former
Protestant missionary. Farelius is reported to have moved to Kampala in 1989
from Uppsala, Sweden. In Uppsala, he aided Museveni, who came to Sweden for
retooling in 1985-86, before taking power in Entebbe.
Unlike the rest of Africa's leaders, Museveni has not come under pressure to
democratize. Says one London source: "The British are very much behind this
government. You know there is no condition at all on democratization.
The
President doesn't even pretend [to be] for this, and he is still a darling
of the West.
Chronology
Rwanda-Uganda genocide
1986: Yoweri Museveni comes to power in
Uganda, after a five-year guerrilla war. Museveni's benefactors during
the guerrilla war included Tiny Rowland, chairman of the London-Rhodesia
Corp. (Lonrho), and Moshood Abiola, the Nigeria magnate operating on
behalf of ITT.
1989: Leaders of the Ugandan Army, including the current vice president
of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, are sent to Fort Leavenworth U.S. Army Command
and Staff College.
August-September 1990: Rwandans of Uganda Army group in southwestern
Uganda are led by Ugandan Maj.-Gen. Fred Rwigyema in preparation for
invasion of Uganda.
Oct. 1,1990: Rwandan Patriotic Front section of Ugandan Army invades
Rwanda through Akagera Park. Oct. 27,1990: Cease-fire, as RPF is
repelled by French paratrooper force from the outskirts of Kigali.
1991: RPF invades again, coming through Virunga Park, seizing the town
of Ruhengeri, causing mass exodus of over 200,000 refugees. RPF then
pulls back, occupying the entire eastern portion of the Virunga Park,
from where it sends continual artillery barrages onto the Rwandan plain.
1992: As RPF incursions continue, Habyarimana government begins
organizing militias in the countryside; begins to raise military from
5,000 troops to 40,000.
February 1993: RPF invades Rwanda, taking control of a chunk of
territory in the north, killing 40,000 Hutus. Mass exodus of refugees
from the area.
June 1, 1993: Melchior Ndadaye is elected first Hutu President in
Burundi, in first national elections.
August 1993: Arusha Accords, negotiated between Habyarimana government
and RPF, under U.S. and British auspices, grant RPF 50% of commander and
officer posts in Army and 40% of the troops, and seven cabinet posts.
September 1993: U.N. sends peacekeeping force to Rwanda to oversee
implementation of Arusha Accords.
Oct. 23, 1993: Attempted coup in Burundi by Tutsidominated military.
Ndadaye is murdered, with up to 100,000 Hutus. More than 700,000 Hutus
flee Burundi. International press gives no notice.
December 1993: RPF moves 600 troops into Kigali under Arusha Accords.
January 1994: British Defense Department African strategists are
reportedly moved off their concentration on Angola and put on Rwanda.
March 1994: Another slaughter of Hutus in Burundi, up to 40,000 killed.
April 6, 1994: Plane carrying Rwandan President Habyarimana and Burundi
President Ntaryamira is brought down by three rockets, killing all on
board. Mass killings by Rwandan government troops erupt in Kigali; RPF
begins invasion from Virunga and Akegera Parks.
April 19, 1994: U.N. peacekeeping troops (2,500 Belgian forces)
withdraw.
May 1994: U.N. imposes arms embargo on Rwandan government, as mass
slaughter continues throughout the country.
June 21, 1994: France gains U.N. approval to send troops to Rwanda.
French troops set up Safe Zones, nearly clashing with RPF forces.
July 12,1994: 1 million Rwandans flee to Zaire. July 15, 1994: RPF is in
effective control of Rwanda, with exception of French Safe Zones. July
22-27,1994: Lady Lynda Chalker, British Minister of Overseas
Development, visits Uganda. July 29, 1994: President Clinton pledges
U.S. humanitarian aid operation to Rwandan refugees, to be carried out
by U.S. military. A survey taken by the group Doctors without Borders in
the first week of August shows that 80,000 people, at least, had died in
the Zaire camps since mid-July - 8% of those in camps.
Aug. 22,1994: French troops leave protected zone.
Sept. 29, 1994: Relief workers from U.N. High Commission on Refugees,
Doctors without Borders, the German Red Cross, Oxfam, Concern, Assist,
and Care Australia, and from Sweden and South Korea begin to pull out of
the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire.
West Africa - war
against Nigeria
"A confrontation is looming in Nigeria that
could exceed even the catastrophe of Rwanda," a signal editorial
published in the London Independent threatened on Aug. 29.
"There are 10 times more Nigerians than
Rwandans and many millions more in Nigeria's neighboring countries who
depend on its economy. If Nigeria explodes, the repercussions will
affect all of West Africa."
Among its "crimes," Nigeria exercises full
control over its own parks.
Nigeria also permits hunting with a license and
agriculture in its parks. More to the point, Nigeria, under Gen. Sani Abacha,
has drawn a line against the rapacious looting of the country by the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The Independent is promoting the former
cash dispenser to Uganda's Museveni, Mooshod Abiola:
"Nigeria has been ruled
by its soldiers for all but 10 years of its independent existence. The
soldiers have prevented the break-up of the country but have achieved little
else. .. . They have also become identified with the northern Muslim elite,
which might fight rather than be ruled by a southerner such as Abiola."
The Independent was speaking for Minister of Overseas Development Lady Lynda
Chalker.
In February, Chalker threatened Nigerian leaders that Britain would
never lift its sanctions against Nigeria unless it restored "democracy" (put
Abiola in power), and reduced its "enormous deficit" (bring back the IMF).
In Nigeria, the point man for the World Wide Fund for Nature is Chief Salay
L. Edu. Chief Edu and his son Aboyamo are members of the 1001 Club. The Edus
are from the Ibo tribe of southeastern Nigeria, whose attempt to secede from
Nigeria in 1967 led to the Biafran war.
In 1989, Chief Edu hosted Prince Philip in a visit to the wetland area
bordering Niger, a tour requiring a new airfield.
In 1990, Edu hosted Prince
Charles in a visit to the site, to view migrating birds from Europe. The WWF
wants to put a park in the area. Chief Edu also happens to be the point man
in Nigeria for Royal Dutch Shell, a financial moneybag for the WWF. Shell
runs 50% of Nigeria's 2 million barrels per day oil production. Through this
route, the Fund launched its provocations.
In a bid to cut off supplies of
foreign exchange, Shell organized a strike of oil workers, who demanded the
release of Abiola from jail and a government payout of $800 million in
arrears Nigeria allegedly owes Royal Dutch Shell and other foreign
companies.
"Shell is behind this strike," a
well-informed London source told EIR. "The easiest thing for them to do
is to bribe the union with a payoff
to provoke such a strike. It is entirely political. Shell and the U.K.
Foreign Office want a civilian regime which will be weak."
The Abacha
government, however, managed to settle the strike in September.
South Africa in the British crosshairs
On April 26, EIR received information of a plot
to kill South Africa's Nelson Mandela, soon to become the first black
African President of South Africa.
According to a European-based source, the
information, subsequently corroborated, was that "big, big money was coming
out of Great Britain" to arrange the assassination.
Asked who specifically
was providing the money, the source replied:
"Look for the friends of Henry
Kissinger in Britain."
The objective of such a plot, the source stated, is to,
"kill two birds with
one stone. Obviously, the murder will be blamed on the extremist Boers and
white supremacists. This would instantly cause a civil war. This would give
the pretext for the declaration of martial law."
An EIR investigation showed that the operation against Mandela was centered
in the Hollinger Corp., whose board of directors includes Lynda Chalker
booster and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, 1001
Club member Conrad Black, and Peter Lord Carrington.
Both Kissinger and
Carrington had been on the scene in South Africa to "negotiate" the
pre-election deal with Zulu Inkatha Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Although the murder did not proceed, the South African President remains in
the crosshairs of British intelligence. Without his statesmanship and his
unflinching commitment to a policy of reconciliation, it is likely that
South Africa would be drowned in a civil war.
The corroborating signal that the plot against Mandela was live, was the
terrorist car bombings in Johannesburg the week before the April 27
elections. The bombings were designed to create an environment of terror and
violence, stoking the climate for a hit on the new President. Military
intelligence sources in South Africa confirmed that the bombings were not by
the Terreblanche group but were the work of professionals.
In addition, on
April 29, the London Daily Telegraph reported that British S AS operatives
were running a good deal of the South African "extreme right-wing" terrorist
capability. Among the 32 bombing suspects held by the South African police
was one Kevin Conroy, who claimed to have served with the SAS.
He suddenly
emerged in 1993 as a leader of the AWB's Iron Guard and a right-hand man of
its leader Eugene Terreblanche.
Most of the Iron Guards, the Daily Telegraph
noted,
"had European accents which ranged from those of Ireland, through
Birmingham and London to Germany and central and eastern Europe."
Other Overt Criminal Acts
The WWF is out to
balkanize and depopulate the Americas
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The level of genocide carried out by Prince Philip's World Wide Fund for
Nature against the people of Africa is unprecedented in human history.
And to fulfill their goals of driving the world
population below 1 billion over the next several decades and restoring a new
global feudal order, the British Crown and the WWF are committed to the same
genocide against the Americas, Eurasia, and Australia.
As the following maps and charts will show, every program that the WWF
carried out against Africa since 1961 has now been set in place in the
Americas.
For the moment, the body count is smaller; but
some crucial elements of the WWF agenda are more advanced in North, Central,
and South America than anywhere else on the globe:
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Nowhere in the world has so much land
been set aside as nature preserves, animal preserves, and
anthropological reserves as in North America. The western third of
the United States is on the verge of being transformed into the
world's largest protected area, taking vast reserves of natural
resources, some of the Earth's finest farmland, and crucial water,
transportation, and communication links out of service.
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In Central and South America, the WWF
and International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have
established a precedent: "anthropological reserves." These are
human
zoos in which primitive tribes, like the
Yanomami Indians of the
Amazon rainforest, are kept in a permanent state of backwardness and
are designated as "endangered species," like the African elephants
and rhinos. Seven countries of Ibero-America have one or more
anthropological reserves. Brazil alone has 250 such "human game
preserves."
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Nowhere in the world does
drug
production and processing occur on such a large scale as in the
Americas - and much of this happens inside or adjacent to the WWF
protected areas. Areas capable of producing food have been
transformed into giant coca plantations and cocaine-processing
centers in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.
In parts of the United States, national forests in the western
states house large marijuana plantations that produce an estimated
$50 billion a year in illegal pot.
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In almost all of these drug-producing
areas, typified by the Upper Huallaga River Valley in Peru, the role
of "park ranger" has been assigned to narco-terrorist gangs like the
Shining Path, which have carried out genocide against local Indian
populations.
As in the case of the guerrilla groups that are trained
and housed in the large game preserves and national parks of Africa,
South America's narco-terrorists for decades enjoyed the patronage
and logistical support of both the WWF and Soviet bloc intelligence
agencies.
Whereas the collapse of the Soviet Union
largely brought an end to communist support for guerrilla operations
in Africa, the support by Cuba for the narco-insurgents,
eco-terrorists, and indigenous-separatist groups continues.
Similarly, throughout North America, eco-terrorist groups like,
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Earth
First!
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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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the Animal Liberation
Front
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the Rainforest Action Network,
...have been carrying out a
campaign of sabotage against industry, modern agriculture, and the
electric power grid.
MAPS 7 AND 8
KEY TO MAPS 7 AND 8
The map of North America and the Caribbean (Map 7) shows a
proposal put forward by Joel Garreau in The Nine Nations of
North America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981). Garreau,
like the WWF and other advocates of "balkanization," called for
the breakup of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into
smaller regions, defined by "common concerns."
The map of the Southwest United States and border areas of
Mexico (Map 8) shows the expansion of protected areas under the
California Desert Protection Act, which was voted up by the U.S.
Congress in October 1994. The act set aside 8 million additional
acres of land in southern California.
The map indicates the
pre-existing set-aside lands (12 million acres) and shows most
of the 67 expansion areas, many of which come out of public
lands that were managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. BLM land is often open to commercial uses such as mining,
farming, grazing and recreation; however, most of these
activities are now prohibited. Under pending proposals and
legislation, as much as 80% of the state of California could be
converted to forests, parks, and wilderness preserves by the end
of the century.
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Fulfilling a longstanding British Crown
policy, efforts States.
One of the most advanced schemes, "Cascadia,"
are under way to "balkanize" North and South America into, would
create a nature preserve encompassing parts of the Northwest of the United
States and Canada.
Large parts of autonomous zones
that would destroy the sovereignty of every nation in the Western
Hemisphere, including the United Cascadia would be off-limits to all
human beings.
Map 9
KEY TO MAP 9
North American protected
areas
1. Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation:
One of several well-known smuggling
routes for guns and drugs on the U.S.-Canada border. Wildlife
reserves and game park are also prime routes.
2. Cree Indian claims:
The Cree Indians want 1 million sq km or
two-thirds of the territory of Quebec as their homeland, if Quebec
separates from Canada. James Bay Hydro-Quebec power stations in
contested area supply substantial amount of power to all of
Northeast United States.
3. Nunavut:
On June 10,1993 Queen Elizabeth II, with help from World
Wildlife Fund officials, establishes autonomous territory for Inouit
Natives almost seven times the size of England. The WWF, the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and Indigenous Survival
International are working to replicate the process elsewhere. Under
the Nunavut Act, the territory will become an autonomous "nation"
under Crown control in 1999.
4. Cascadia:
March 1994, a campaign is launched in the Pacific
Northwest to turn millions of acres of the Cascade Mountains into an
international park. Human beings would be banned from the park,
which extends across the border between Washington and Vancouver.
Area is the epicenter of
Earth First!
terrorist activities.
5. California Desert Wilderness:
On Oct. 8, 1994 the U.S. Congress
designates an additional 8 million acres of southern California to
become wilderness areas and national parks. Total area now exceeds
20 million acres, larger than New England, and reaches the Mexican
border.
6. Southwest:
1991, Earth First! terrorists attempt to blow up power
lines leading from a nuclear power plant in Arizona, hoping to cause
a meltdown.
7. Papago Indian Reservation:
Straddles U.S.-Mexico border at Sonora
and Arizona, providing easy smuggling route of guns, drugs, and
terrorists.
8. Leclerc Botanical Gardens, Haiti:
October 1994, U.S. soldiers
break up a terrorist training camp. The Gardens, described as a
"sacred site of the native voodoo religion," are run by the New York
Botanical Garden and the Biodiversity Trust headed by Prince
Charles. The Gardens are owned by Catherine Dunham, African-American
choreographer, a self-described "voodoo priestess," and onetime
supporter of the Duvalier dictatorship who now backs Aristide.
MAP 10
Protected areas and insurgency of Mexico and Central America (inset;
Chiapas)
* See above for definitions of protected areas and sources.
KEY TO MAP 10
Mexico and Central
America protected areas
1. Chiapas, Mexico:
The staging area for the
separatist insurrection launched on Jan. 1,1994 by the Zapatista
National Liberation Army, includes two large ecological parks along
the border with Guatemala.
A longtime resident gave EIR
the following account:
A. Lagunas de Montebello
National Park. "That's where it all began. Twenty kilometers
south of the lagoons, but inside the park, there is a little
village called Tziscao. It's Zapatista, with training camps and
all. There have always been guerrillas there. It's heavy
jungle."
B. Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, 331,200 hectares. "They
found a guerrilla camp right there, and there are photographs.
Right on the border with Guatemala. On the western edge of the
reserve, about a third of the way up from south to north,
there's Segundo Valley, and the village of San Quintin. They
have an archaeological research station there, and also
guerrilla training camps. It's in the heart of the Lacandon
Jungle."
C. Agua Azul Cascades National Park. "There's a lot of conflict
in the area. The guerrillas take refuge there. The town of
Bachajon is run by the Zapatistas. They even guard the Cascades
and charge tourists to get there - they've taken over the area.
It used to be beautiful, but it's destroyed now. Some people say
that Sub-Commander Marcos of the Zapatistas was trained nearby,
just north of the archaeological zone of Palenque."
D. El Ocote Ecological Reserve. "This is outside the Zapatista
zone, but marijuana is grown there. There's a little island in
the lake formed by the Malpaso Dam, across from the village of
Apitpac. They grow it there. Also, there are a lot of
kidnappings and they hide the victims in the adjacent Las
Chimalapas reserve."
There are also more than 40,000
Guatemalan refugees in the staging area, including members of
Rigoberta Menchu's URNG guerrilla base. The cross-border area has
had intense guerrilla activity for decades. In January 1993, Menchu
led a march of thousands of refugees from Chiapas back to Guatemala;
food was airlifted along the way by C-130 transports of the British
Royal Air Force based in Belize. The same cross-border area also
involves significant drug cultivation and transshipment from South
America. Chiapas has Mexico's largest oil reserves, and produces
over half of the country's hydro power.
In May 1994, Teddy Goldsmith's magazine Ecologist endorsed the
uprising: "The revolt... was a dignified reaction to too much
development. It arose because people opted for a more dignified form
of dying."
The WWF, in partnership with the government and private groups,
coordinates "community development" programs In these parks,
including an effort to stop a proposed major highway linking Chiapas
to the center of Mexico, because it would go through the El Ocote
reserve.
TABLE 3
TABLE 4
In July, the WWF
sponsored a workshop on this subject in San Isidro, Chiapas, with
experts from the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Forestry Council,
and the British Council, the latter created under royal charter.
2. Belize:
British Commonwealth member
Belize is a center for ecological activities spreading out across
Mexico and Central America. A trinational park is planned on
Belize's common border with Guatemala and Mexico. "Also known as the
Azul Triangle, this is a vast and mostly uninhabited region, with
numerous Mayan ruins," says the IUCN. In February 1994, at the
height of the Zapatista uprising, Queen Elizabeth spent three days
visiting Belize on the royal yacht Britannia.
3. Central America:
At an Oct. 14, 1994 summit, the
seven countries of the region formed the "Central American Alliance
for Sustainable Development," to protect forests and endangered
species, and promote environmental education. The accord is widely
viewed as a breakthrough in implementation of the Eco '92 agenda.
In 1992 the U.S. National Geographic Society and Cultural Survival
launched a pilot project to map overlapping ecological zones and
Indian areas across Central America. Project adviser Bernard
Nietschmann (University of California) concluded: "States are
expansionist.... They gobble resources, and they repress peoples. ..
. [Nicaragua] is a colonial creation imposed on preexisting and
unconsenting indigenous nations."
* excluding national forests, where data for this category are
available Source: IUCN, 1992
There are four existing, and six planned, cross-border ecological
parks. The most ambitious is the projected "Path of the Panther,"
which would link up existing national parks into a continuous "green
corridor" running 2,500 km. from one end of Central America to the
other. Wildlife Conservation International and the
CaribbearvConservation Corp. are coordinating the project. The Path
of the Panther, like some existing parks, would make it impossible
to build necessary great infrastructure projects, such as a Second
Panama Canal across the isthmus, or a Pan American Railroad and
Highway connecting North America with the southern tip of South
America.
4. Miskito Coast:
The Miskito Cays Wildlife
Refuge, 502,000 hectares, was established in 1991 by Nicaragua. Its
purpose, as defined by the IUCN, is "to protect islands, reefs, sea
turtles and coastal wetlands, and the Miskito Indian culture" - in
that order. The WWF helped create an "Indian" NGO, Mikupia, to run
the reserve in which the 15,000 Miskito Indians now live; to
"restore Miskito culture;" and to provide "ecotourism" for
foreigners. Its extension into Honduras is already planned.
The Miskito Indians are a British fabrication. In the 1600s, British
pirates gave that name to the people living along the northern and
eastern coasts of what are today Honduras and Nicaragua, who were
mixed descendants of these pirates, black slaves from British
woodcutting gangs, and the semi-nomadic Indian inhabitants.
The Miskito flag is modeled on the Union Jack, and their primary
economic activity from the 1600s until today has been contraband.
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KEY TO MAP 11
South American protected areas
1. Yanomami Reserve:
In 1991 the governments of Venezuela and Brazil issued
decrees designating a contiguous cross-border area totalling 17.8 million
hectares as a protected reserve for the Yanomami, a group of at most 16,000
semi-nomadic Indians.
The Yanomami still live in a largely hunting and
gathering mode in the jungle, their life expectancy averages about 30 years,
and many practice infanticide and cannibalism. The Yanomami project is
designed to create a buffer state nearly the size of Uruguay between Brazil
and Venezuela, abrogating national sovereignty and under supranational
control.
This cross-border park is a model of what the IUCN calls Category VII
managed areas,
"National Biotic Area/Anthropological Reserves," which they
define as protected areas "allowing the way of life of societies living in
harmony with the environment to continue undisturbed by modern technology."
As of 1992, seven countries in Ibero-America had Category VII reserves:
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela. In the
case of Brazil, 250 such Indian reserves had been established as of 1994,
and another 265 await official demarcation. This amounts to 10.5% of the
national territory, set aside for about 300,000 people, or 0.2% of the total
population.
The creation of the Yanomami reserve has been a personal project of the
British royal family for nearly 25 years.
The WWF's "human" division,
Survival International, was founded in 1969 to lead the campaign. Princes
Charles and Philip deployed personally to Brazil in 1990 and 1991 to promote
the project; the WWF ran an international publicity and pressure campaign
for the park; and the Overseas Development Authority's Lady Lynda Chalker
was sent to Brazil in 1990 to ram it through.
In July 1991, Sir Walter Bodmer, president of the Human Genome Organization,
announced that the Yanomamis would be the first tribe to have their genes
frozen and archived in London's Museum of Human Genetics as the first entry
in a planned "library" of genes of "peoples in extinction."
2. Colombia:
By 1992, there were 253 Category VII "anthropological reserves"
in the country, with over 6 million hectares of Amazon territory locked up
in such areas.
3. Ecuador:
In 1989, the WWF's local branch, Fundacion Natura, demanded the
government expand its national protected areas system by creating more
indigenous "bioanthropological reserves." Mass protests by various
indigenist movements followed, and in 1992 the government demarcated an
additional 1.1 million hectares in Pastaza province as Indian territory.
In
June 1994 London's Latin America
Newsletter haWeti Ecuador's indigenous-international ecological alliance as
"the shape of things to come" throughout Ibero-America.
Fundacion Natura runs training programs for staff at the national protected
areas, manages two protected forests, and finances numerous ecological
projects. Part of their money comes from a 1988 debt-for-nature swap worth
$10 million, according to the IUCN. With international environmentalist
groups, they are deployed to shut down this country's oil industry.
In
October 1994, the UNDP proposed that Ecuador's Galapagos Islands in the
Pacific Ocean be removed entirely from national control, and placed under
international supervision in order to prevent ecological deterioration.
4. Upper Huallaga River Valley, Peru:
The premier cocaine-producing zone of
the premier cocaine-producing country in the world, this valley is dense
with ecological protected areas, including the indicated Biabo-Cordillera
Azul and Alexander von Humboldt national parks, which straddle the Huallaga
River and its drug-trafficking corridor.
It is also the main remaining locus
of the indigenist Shining Path narcoterrorists, who maintain a symbiotic
relationship with the drug traffickers.
5. Apurimac Reserved Zone, Peru:
In August 1994, Peruvian Army troops
uncovered 300 mass graves containing 1,200 corpses of butchered
Ashaninka
Indians, on the eastern bank of the Ene River, inside the 1,669,290-hectare
Apurimac Reserved Zone. The Ashaninkas had been strangled or hacked to death
after years of enslavement, by British-backed Shining Path guerrillas
operating in the park.
Beginning in 1988, the narco-terrorists had forced the uncooperative
Ashaninkas to work "from sun-up to sun-down, stripping them of their lands,
their animals, and their meager belongings, subjecting them to .. .
interminable sessions of ideological indoctrination, watched, tortured, and
assassinated on the slightest allegation of 'treason' by political
commissars," according to the Peruvian daily La Republica.
When the Ashaninkas became ill from malnutrition or poor treatment, they were simply
eliminated as "human parasites."
London has been the international logistical and propaganda base for Shining
Path since at least 1983, when the Revolutionary International Movement
(RIM) was founded there. RIM, a terrorist international which includes
Shining Path, is committed to aiding "all indigenous peoples' struggles."
In
August 1992, the British Home Office, operating through its Independent
Broadcasting Authority (IBA), produced and broadcast a "documentary"
glorifying Shining Path, which it then handed over to the narco-terrorist
group for international use in fundraising and propaganda.
To produce the
report, two IBA reporters had accompanied Shining Path on their rampages.
6. Bolivia:
This unpopulated nation is designated to become one large
"eco-tourist" camp. The Noel Kempff National Park, a wilderness area the
size of West Virginia on Bolivia's border with Brazil, is the centerpiece of
a government-private plan to bring in up to $1 billion from such "ecological
tourism" over the course of a decade.
Foreign sponsors of the park include:
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the Nature Conservancy
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Wildlife Conservation Society
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Conservation
International
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the New York Academy of Sciences
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the U.S. government's
Agency for International Development
Plans are already under way to triple
the size of the park, making it one of the largest in South America.
7. Argentina:
The Argentine branch of WWF, the Fundacion Vida Silvestre
Argentina (FVSA), is deployed to,
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block the construction of an oil pipeline
in the Cabo Virgenes area in the far south
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has proposed legislation which
designates ecological crimes
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drafted legislation which was later approved
which severely limits the use of pesticides in agriculture
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has targeted
the country's significant nuclear and aerospace industries for destruction
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South American infrastructure projects
KEY TO MAP 12
South American projects
The protected areas have become a major obstacle to the construction of
great infrastructure projects, which are the only answer to the economic
genocide ravaging I bero-America.
The same obstruction of needed infrastructure projects applies in North
America, where the large tracts of set-aside land in the western states
block necessary water projects such as Nawapa (the North American Water and
Power Alliance).
The following three projects are the most critical in South America:
1. The Pan American Railroad:
This is a proposed continental North-South
line running down from North America through Central America, cutting across
the Darien Gap into Colombia, and then running south from Bogota, Colombia,
to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, along the narrow strip of flatlands on the eastern
slope of the Andes. In Santa Cruz it would link up with existing lines
running to Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two most
important trans-Andean spurs would run from Iquitos to Chiclayo in Peru, and
from Santa Cruz to Arica, Chile.
These routes are blocked by environmental parks across Central America, such
as the proposed "Path of the Panther"; in the Darien Gap; throughout the
eastern slope of the Andes; and along both trans-Andean routes.
2. A new interoceanic canal:
The world needs a new sea-level canal capable
of handling supertankers of up to 300,000 tons deadweight. There are two
preferred routes: one cutting through Panama just west of the current canal;
another, known as the Atrato-Truando Canal, which runs through the Darien
Gap region of Colombia, taking advantage of existing rivers and lakes. They
are both blocked by existing and projected protected areas, including in the
Darien Gap and the "Path of the Panther."
3. River integration:
The single most important infrastructure project for
opening up the interior of the continent to development and population, is
the integration of the area's three great river systems; the Orinoco, the
Amazon, and the Rio de la Plata systems.
When the 10,000 km route is completed, ships could sail directly into every
country in South America, except for Chile, Sixty-eight percent of the route
is already navigable for medium-sized ships and barges; another 28% requires
relatively minor dredging, channel widening, and similar works; major
projects are required on only 4% of the route.
Of these, there are two major
canals, which must be constructed: one linking the Orinoco and the Amazon
rivers in southern Venezuela, the other connecting the Amazon and the Parani
rivers in western Brazil. Both fall in protected areas.
Other Exhibits
The royal plot to
splinter Australia
The cutting edge of the attempt to shatter the sovereignty of the Australian
nation is the "aboriginal land rights" movement, the local arm of Prince
Philip's international "indigenous peoples" apparat.
A glance at a map shows
an almost unbroken swath of territory in the center of the country running
from the continent's northern coast to its southern one, in major portions
of which one needs a permit from the local aboriginal lands council to even
set foot.
Australia's 250,000 aborigines, approximately 1.5% of the nation's
17 million population, at present hold 15% of the nation's land, and have
filed claims for another 10%.
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these massive holdings form the basis to carte out an "aboriginal nation,"
which would split Australia in half
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this has been called for by Australia's
Uniting Church Synod, the country's most influential religious body
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World
Council of Churches-tied liberation theologists
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the communist foot
soldiers of the aboriginal land rights movement
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Protected areas of Australia
Such "sovereign aboriginal republics" were
called for at the fourth and sixth conferences of
the Communist International in the 1920s and have been standard leftist
demands since then.
Added to lands set aside under various
"wilderness" or conservation guises, the total land either now or in the
near future to be taken out of circulation, not all of
which is shown on the map, comprises at least 32% of the continent.
On June 3, 1992, the High Court of Australia ruled in the case of Eddie Mabo
v. Queensland that Australia's common law recognized native title to land.
The previous legal doctrine, which went back to 1788 and which had declared
Australia terra nullus (empty land) before the British arrived, was
overturned, potentially throwing the entire continent up for grabs.
In addition to private funding by those Anglophile Australian bluebloods
typified by the boards of the Australian Conservation Foundation and WWF-Australia,
the government's Aboriginal and Torres Straights Islanders Commission (ATSIC)
pours $2.2 billion per year into "aboriginal rights," little of which
benefits aborigines.
In addition to the aboriginal-claimed land, vast chunks of Australia have
been confiscated under a myriad of "conservation," "world heritage," or
"wilderness" designations. Over 1.2 million square kilometers of
Australia's total of 7,682,427 have been so designated.
The federal
Australian Heritage Commission, like the Australian Conservation Foundation
a constituent body of the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature, reported 10,520 "conserved sites" in 1992; by the time of their
annual report for 1992-93, they had 18,000 such listings, with 1,576 more
awaiting consideration.
WWF - Send Europe back to the Dark Age
If Prince Philip and the WWF have their way, Europe in the early years of
the twenty-first century will be a throwback to the feudal era of the Black
Plague that preceded the Golden Renaissance of the fifteenth century.
In the last two years, the WWF and one of its corporate affiliates, the
Heineken Breweries of The Netherlands, have produced a series of studies
advocating the break-up of the nation-states of Europe and a four-fold
increase in the number of nature preserves, game parks, and protected areas
in continental western Europe.
The Heineken study calls for redrawing the map of Europe into 75
mini-states, with populations of 10 million people at the most. Each
mini-state would be ruled by a member of one of the existing European Royal
Houses.
Board Chairman A.H. Heineken, the sponsor of the plan, is a longtime booster
of WWF and IUCN efforts. For many years, John Loudon, the former chairman of
the board of Royal Dutch Shell and the international president of WWF from 1977 to 1981, had a seat on the Heineken board.
The plan has been embraced by Ecoropa, one of the important WWF affiliates
in Europe, founded by the late self-described "universal fascist" Denis de
Rougemont and Teddy Goldsmith.
This year, WWF and IUCN issued a study called "Parks for Life: Action for
Protected Areas in Europe," which called for quadrupling the set-aside land
in western Europe.
The scheme would shut down all pending plans for new rail
systems, water projects, and other vital East-West infrastructure projects,
because all of these interlinks would be cut off by the parks. The blueprint
is consistent with the Heineken proposal, and calls for the nation-state
system to be replaced with a new political geography based on "bio-regions."
To make sure that this re-feudalization scheme is successful, many of WWF's
wealthiest boosters, including a number of 1001 Club members, are reportedly
buying up large tracts of land in areas designated as future parks and
protected areas.
If Prince Philip and the WWF-IUCN apparatus run up against resistance to
these schemes, they have a growing Green Party movement across the continent
to turn to as goon squads.
Europe's Green movement was created as the joint
project of the WWF and the former secret police agencies of the Soviet bloc,
particularly the East German Stasi (state security service).
WWF role model is Cambodia's Pol Pot
Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia, has been extolled as the
ecological model by a key leader of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Edward
Goldsmith.
During the Khmer Rouge's brief four years in power in Cambodia,
1975-79, it is estimated that 3 million people out of a population of 7
million, were either murdered or died of starvation and exhaustion.
Writing in the London Guardian, journalist Patrick Wright noted that Teddy
Goldsmith, whose brother James Goldsmith is a business partner of financier
and LaRouche hater John Train, was pursuing a "hunter-gatherer ideal" in the
early 1970s. This led to the publication in 1972 of the "influential" book
Blueprint for Survival.
Wright reports:
"Like others who have started out on
the far side of an enlightenment rejected as rationalistic, mechanistic, and
wholly unsustainable, members of this doom-saying circle were capable of
drawing bizarre and lamentable conclusions.
They foresaw a significant role
for the police and the courts in supervising the cataclysmic changes that
were surely to come, described racial tolerance as a sign of cultural
decline, and
even got around to commending Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge as pioneers of
decentralized rural society."
Teddy Goldsmith knew his man well. Territory in Cambodia under Khmer Rouge
control in the 1990s has come under strict control of World Wide Fund for
Nature mandates, led by Pol Pot himself.
In the Jan. 31, 1991 Bangkok Post,
journalist James Pringle filed this story on the mass murderer:
"Pol Pot, the infamous leader of the Khmer Rouge, has called on Cambodians
to protect endangered species. He means, of course, Cambodia's diminishing
wildlife, though during the period of Khmer Rouge rule, the most endangered
species here was the human species."
Putting words into action, Pol Pot issued a directive calling on Cambodians
not to poach birds and animals and refrain from killing them for any reason
- presumably including for purposes of food consumption.
"One of the Khmer Rouge leader's most trusted lieutenants, Ta Mok, who is
known by Cambodians as 'The Butcher' because of his extreme cruelty, is also
now hot on ecology issues and the protection of endangered species,"
reported Pringle.
"Anyone contravening Pol Pot's 'green' directive along the northern border
of Cambodia where Ta Mok operates is brought before a jungle court and is
normally sentenced to four days' labor on constructing fencing for animal
sanctuaries."
WWF's eco-terrorist, eco-fascist legions
by Rogelio Maduro
In addition to the extensive military and terrorist apparatus set up by the
World Wildlife Fund in Africa, the WWF has directly spawned a global network
of organizations to carry out terrorist and proto-terrorist operations that
include everything from economic blockades and public demonstrations, to
terrorist violence and sabotage.
Although WWF has attempted to remain at
arms length from this eco-terrorist underground, public documents and
eyewitness accounts show that every one of the overtly "eco-terrorist"
groups that sprang up beginning in 1969 was directly bankrolled and steered
by the WWF.
There are several phases to this operation. In the first phase, 1969-71, the
WWF spawned Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to initiate "direet action"
against targets pre-selected by the WWF. During this phase, the
proto-terrorist activities did not usually involve the destruction of life
and property.
Beginning in the late 1970s, during the height of the activities of such
underground terrorist groups as the Weathermen, the Baader-Meinhof gang, and
the Red Brigades, the first generation organizations spawned splinter groups
to carry out far more violent "direct actions" that involved the destruction
of property and, in some cases, murder.
Through the WWF's enormous control
over the free world media, each of these successive escalations in
eco-terrorism was greeted with largely favorable press coverage.
The founding of Greenpeace
The most important of the international eco-terror organizations,
Greenpeace, was created by the WWF in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, a
well-known center of British Intelligence (i.e., British Crown) operations
in the Western Hemisphere.
Early Greenpeace membership was comprised of
members of the Vancouver Liberation Front, an affiliate of the Weathermen in
the United States, of Maoists, counter-culturalists, and operatives of the
Cadbury family-sponsored Quaker action movement.
The principal source of
early Greenpeace funding was the WWF, which purchased and Outfitted the
original Greenpeace "navy."
A series of more radical organizations was spawned from Greenpeace,
including the Sea Shepherd Society, Earth First! and People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals/Animal
Liberation Front.
The leadership, funding, and logistical
base of these organizations are interchangeable. Susan Pardee, for example, who is a member of the Greenpeace
office in Seattle, Washington, is also a local leader of Earth
First! and the Native Forest Network. The Seattle Earth First!
office is located within the Greenpeace office.
As a result of this WWF effort, the United States and other nations have
increasingly fallen victim to a low-intensity war being carried out by
eco-terrorists. This war is rarely reported in the press.
Acts of terrorism
take place in the United States on a daily basis, including fire-bombings of
logging mills and livestock auction buildings; the destruction of farming,
logging, mining, and fishing equipment; and the sabotage of biomedical
research facilities.
Sea Shepherd terrorism
The case of Sea Shepherd' s campaign against the whaling industry is
exemplary.
Paul Watson, a member of the Vancouver Liberation Front who was
involved in the 1973 shootout with U. S. federal agents at the Wounded Knee
Indian Reservation and who is a founding member of Greenpeace, created a
more radical splinter group in 1977 called the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society.
Watson was bankrolled from day one by WWF-U.S. activist Cleveland
Amory, head of the Fund for Animals, and by Britain's Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This money was used to purchase a British
fishing boat which was used to hunt down the Portuguese whaling vessel
Sierra.
On July 17, 1979, Sea Shepherd rammed the Sierra off the coast of Portugal.
Portuguese Coast Guard vessels captured the Sea Shepherd and were going to
hold it as security until Watson paid for the damage caused to the Sierra.
Instead of paying the $750,000 repair bill, Watson sank the Sea Shepherd in
the Portuguese port of Leixoes on Dec. 31,1979.
Shortly afterward, on Feb. 5, 1980, a team of three eco-terrorists blew up
the Sierra in Lisbon.
An unidentified woman called the Lisbon office of UPI
from Spain and stated,
"The Sea Shepherd is avenged! Make no mistake about
it; this was no accident; this was a deliberate act of sabotage! The Sierra
will kill no more whales! We did it for the Sea Shepherd!"
On April 27,
1980, the Isba I and Isba II, two of Spain's five whalers, were blown up in
the harbor of Marin, near Vigo, Spain. According to Watson, the Spanish
whaling ships were blown up by the same three unidentified eco-terrorists who
had blown up the Sierra two months earlier.
From this start, Watson's Sea Shepherd has led a terror campaign against the
fishing and whaling ships of many nations. Watson takes credit for the
sinking of several Icelandic and Norwegian whaling vessels. In addition, Sea
Shepherd has rammed dozens of vessels, cut nets, and otherwise carried out
actions defined as piracy under international law.
Despite all of his actions and one criminal
conviction in Norway, Watson is a free man, unhindered by U.S. law
enforcement agencies.
The presently closing dynastic cycle
This is the concluding section of the "presentation of the case to the
jurors"
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
To judge the criminality of the accused, the evidence which has now been
presented to you should be sufficient. To decide what course of action must
be chosen to cure this crime, we must focus now upon four additional,
interconnected facts.
For many of you, these additional facts represent a difficulty which it is
urgent that you surmount. That difficulty is that although each of those
points is a matter of historical fact, it is a fact which conflicts with
stubborn popular misconceptions. Insofar as literate people of good will
must share some of the blame for the perilous situation in which humanity is
presently situated, their ignorance or neglect of those four facts is a
contribution to the influence of those evils which have caused the present
global crisis of mankind.
The administration of justice in the case at hand
depends upon your willingness to examine the relevance of this additional
matter.
We have been mustered by the outcry from an urgent crisis, not to punish
some selected scapegoats, but to craft a judgment which focuses upon curing
the problem before us. The duty to which we have been called by circumstance
requires, first, that the jurors understand the historical setting in which
the crime has been committed: that these horrors have arisen during the
closing phase of a "dynastic cycle" in European history, a cycle of
approximately five centuries.
To understand the characteristics of the presently ongoing collapse of the
global political, monetary, and financial order, one must situate the recent
six centuries of European civilization's rise to global domination within
the longer span of similar, earlier cycles of rise and fall of formerly
dominant cultures. None of these cycles, including the present one, can be
understood without first conceptualizing the second and third facts and the
mutual interaction of those two facts.
The second fact to be taken into account is the special nature of the human
species, as the past six centuries of world history have made most plain the
differences between human and animal demographies.
Mankind is the only
species which can willfully increase its potential relative population
density, a distinct power of the individual person shown most directly and
simply by the impact of valid, axiomatic-revolutionary scientific discovery
of principles of nature upon the productive powers of labor.
As the
heritage of the Renaissance has shown, more brilliantly than in any earlier
portion of history, the nature of mankind lies in the potential
creative-mental powers of the individual person, a notion of man in
axiomatic opposition to what the modern British oligarchical tradition has
adopted as its empiricist definition of "human nature."2
Only from the standpoint of that second fact, can the significance of the
third fact, oligarchism, be understood in a practical fashion. It is the
conflict between, on the one side, the Mosaic notion of man as in the image
of God,3 and the bestial view of man, inherent in oligarchism, that the
functional characteristics of history's and pre-history's "dynastic cycles"
are rooted.
The anti-Renaissance "Enlightenment" is to be recognized as a
consistent, if modern example of the same type of oligarchism which caused
the fall of Babylon and Rome.
1. See Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., So, You Wish To Learn All About Economics?
(New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984), passim. See also The Science
of Christian Economy (Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1991), pp. 6-26,
241-256.
2. In other words, the empiricist notion of man as presented by Henry VIII's
Venetian marriage counsellor's, Francesco Zorzi'sHarmonia Mundi (1525), in
the rosicrucian dogmas of Venetian Paolo Sarpi' s english proteges, Francis
Bacon and Robert Fludd, in the writings of Bacon' s Thomas Hobbes, in the
"social contract" dogma of John Locke, and of the English "Venetian Party's"
David Hume, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and in the utilitarianism of John
Stuart Mill, et al. That anti-Christian, empiricist doctrine of "human
nature" is otherwise known as the 17th and 18th centuries' Enlightenment;
this includes not only the Venice-created, anti-Leibniz faction of Voltaire,
Maupertuis, Algarotti, Euler, et al. at Paris and Frederick the Great's
Berlin Academy, but also Immanuel Kant and the 19th-century Romantics and
positivists generally.
3. On the reading of Genesis 1:26-28, see Philo Judaeus, On The Creation, in
Philo, Vol. I, F.H. Colson and G.H. Whitaker, trans., Loeb Classical Library
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981). The working point referenced in
this way takes into account the historical fact that Philo, a contemporary
of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, and a sometime collaborator of the Apostle
Peter against the Mithraic Gnostics of Simon Magus et al., played a leading
part in resurrecting the Mosaic heritage, and reflects the view of the
Mosaic heritage found among the Christian Apostles, including John and Paul.
The fourth among these crucial historical facts to be considered, is the
notion of what the achievements of modern European civilization might be, if the impulse supplied by the Renaissance
were freed from the encumbrance of cohabitation with usury-based, venetian-style
oligarchism.
To that purpose, one might focus initially upon the
policy-changes, the "cultural-paradigm shift," which have led the planet
downward, especially during the past 30-odd years, to the present verge of a
global "New Dark Age."
The famous aphorism runs, "Don't throw out the baby
with the bath water", to rescue the accumulated achievements of the past six
centuries, out from under the collapsed rubble of the London-dominated
monetary and financial system, is precisely the image the jurors might
consider, in seeking a practicable decision of that quality which is
consistent with the curative principle of justice.
We now present a thumb-nail description of the present "dynastic cycle."
That image supplies the benchmark conception to which the relevant facts of
the matter are related thereafter.
The origin, rise, and fall of the British Empire
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The breaking economic and financial crises now gripping the entirety of this
planet reflect the close of an approximately 500-year cycle in european
history.
This cycle began in the aftermath of the temporary rout of the vast
maritime, political, and financial power of Venice, a rout caused by the
mid-14th century disintegration of what is known to today's historians as
the "the Lombard debt-bubble," a collapse which immediately plunged all of
Europe into a "New Dark Age."
The new cycle, which came to the surface
during the 15th century, has been determined by the emerging conflict
between the two leading forces within european culture during that century.
On the one side, there were the forces of the Golden Renaissance, centered
around such figures as Cardinal
Nicolaus of Cusa and the 1439-40 Council of
Florence. On the opposing side, was the reemerging power of the
Venice-centered European aristocratic and financier oligarchy.
From the time
of that council, especially following the war of the League of Cambrai
against Venice, at the beginning of the 16th century,5 all
European history
since the 15th century within Europe and globally has been dominated by the
cultural conflict between the radiated influence of the Renaissance and the
opposing, Venice-launched force of the so-called "Enlightenment."
During the very early 16th century, when the present "dynastic cycle" was
first defined, the strategic situation was as follows.
4. The following description of the current dynastic cycle is a summary of
the facts presented in Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., "How Bertrand Russell Became
an Evil Man," Fidelio, Autumn 1994.
5. 1508-10.
The intellectual power of the Renaissance was the heritage of Nicolaus
of Cusa's founding of the principles of the modern system
of nation-states and of modern science.
That influence is typified by the
titanic intellects of Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and
Raffaello
Sanzio. Through the failure to resolve the issues within Italy itself, the
modern nation-state was established first in France, by and under King Louis
XI (1461-83).
Louis XI's success fostered movements for establishing similar
forms of nation-state in England and in Spain, in which the Oratorian and
other Renaissance networks of Leonardo, Erasmus, and Raphael contributed in
important ways.
The ensuing, admittedly unstable alliance among Queen Isabella' s Spain,
Henry VII's Tudor England, and the heritage of Louis XI in France,6
formed
around the Vatican the backbone of the anti-Venice alliance, the League
of Cambrai. At the very point in that war that Venice was about to be
conquered
by the allies, its vast and evil usurious power broken forever, Venice
succeeded in corrupting some of the allies; the League of Cambrai was
dissolved.
Venice used the breathing-space it obtained so, to use corruption
once again, to break up the alliance among France, Spain, and Tudor England.
This was accomplished by Venice's use of the trollop Anne Boleyn to tease
King Henry VIII, crazed by Anne's persisting sexual harassment, into
measures which created a virtual permanent state of warfare among France,
Spain, and England, from 1527 until the British cultural subjugation of
France in the aftermath of the 1814 Congress of Vienna.
Thus, the presently closing, 500-year cycle of history began.
Admittedly, throughout the history of its existence as a political and
financial entity, Venice always attempted to take over as much as possible,
especially of payments, from any nation into which it could sink its
diplomatic and financial claws.
That consideration, and Venice's intent to
keep the European powers at each other's throats, represent the only clear
purposes behind the great influence which Venice exerted in England, from
the time of Anne Boleyn's flirtations with Henry VIII, until 1582.
A change in this relationship of Venice to London came in the aftermath of
the 1582 victory of Paolo Sarpi's radical faction (the giovani) over
Venice's traditionalists (the vecchi); Sarpi's majority faction sought to
shift the base of the Venetian oligarchy's operations from the strategically
vulnerable Venice itself, to a new Venetian maritime power in the northern
protestant countries, while the minority concentrated upon operating from
within the factions of the nominally Catholic Counter-Reformation regions,
to the south.
Sarpi's faction chose London as the future headquarters of a
"new Venice of the North."
6. For the edification of any carping critics: The differences in policy
between Louis XI's nationalism and Charles VIII's (of France) reversion to
pre-Renaissance dynastic games, need not be reviewed in the context of this
summary.
Out of a bloody transitional struggle during the last two decades of
Elizabethan England, the accession of the Sarpi (e.g., Cecil) faction's
candidate, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne as James I, was the
first formal step toward developing a London-centered "new Venice" as a
global maritime and financial power like the imperial maritime power which
Venice itself had enjoyed in the Mediterranean littoral during most of the
12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
By the late 17th and early 18th centuries, especially from the accession of
William of Orange in 1688-89, the term "Venetian Party" was freely and
widely used to describe the Liberal Party of England and the United Kingdom.
This new form of British rule was not something autochthonously developed by
the English people; it was imposed from the top down, by a combination of
trickery, treason, and bloody force.
With the defeat of the Tory opposition
to the Venetian Liberals, during the final years of Queen Anne, English
sovereignty was crushed when the Mr. Welf also known as Georg Ludwig of
Hanover, an asset of the Antonio Conti who was then Venice's chief spy,
ascended the newly established British throne as King George I.
From the 1760s rise to power by William Petty, the Second Earl of Shelburne,
the East India Company potentate placed immediately above the throne,
Venice's agents completed the intellectual retooling of the British Liberals
for the tasks of creating a worldwide British Empire.
This retooling was represented chiefly by what is known today by the somewhat misleading term,
"British 19th-century
philosophical radicalism," or, simply, "radical empiricism."
Typical
exponents of this radical Venetian dogma are:
-
political-economist Adam
Smith
-
Jeremy Bentham, founder of the British foreign intelligence service
and coordinator of the French Jacobin Terror
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Shelburne-selected historian
Edward Gibbon
-
the famous plagiarist of Venetian Giammaria Ortes's
published writing on population control, Thomas Malthus
In 1814, Britain's Venetian Party completed its immediate goal of France's
political subjugation.
It then prepared for its next imperial objectives: by
the crushing of Britain's former allies, Metterriich's Holy Alliance,
through subversion by British agent Mazzini's radical terrorists, and by
London's reliance upon the treasonous corruption of certain factions within
the United States for the reassimilation of the United States under British
domination.
Except for the United States, the combined result of the
revolutions and wars of the 19th century, and two world wars during the 20th
century was: every one of the major transatlantic competitors of British
power which had been standing proudly at the beginning of the 19th century,
was either destroyed by war and revolution, or reduced to a servile state of
political corruption, as was post-1918 France of the Third Republic.
Through
U.S.A. political factions prominently associated with Theodore Roosevelt's
or Woodrow Wilson's legacies, even the United States often played the part
of an American dog on a British geopolitical and cultural leash.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),
one of the leaders of the "Venetian
Party" in Britain,
founded the British foreign intelligence service.
As we must recognize from
the documented samplings of prominent persons and financier interests
rallied around Prince Philip's "Allgemeine SS," his World Wildlife Fund
backers, the British monarchy is not a secretion of the people of the United
Kingdom.
The current status of the Welf monarchy of Britain is that of
"Primate among Parasites" for a truly international oligarchy, an oligarchy
which knows no national loyalties, but which uses the British monarchy as
its doge, much as the great princes of the so-called Habsburg Reich coddled
or killed even members of the royal family through instruments such as the Geheimpolizei of von Kaunitz and Metternich.
Look at the physical evidence
today: Britain's imperial conquests manifestly have not been for the
interest of the British people; the conquests have ultimately unified
virtually all among the surviving royal, princely, aristocratic, and
financial nobility of Europe (and beyond) into a single international
oligarchy, a body of parasites which the currently reigning British doge
serves as Primate.
As long as credible potentially contending powers
existed, the London-centered international oligarchy did not dare suppress
entirely the institutions of nation-state and scientific progress.
They
hated those institutions, but they dared not evade them as long as
potentially credible adversaries existed, lest the reigning Welf party's
feral oligarchs themselves become materially weak strategically in the face
of then-intended prey.
It was only after the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis, about
30 years ago, when the Soviet Union signed on to
the nuclear-weapons condominium prescribed by Bertrand Russell, that the
oligarchy dared to unleash its desire to ruin, and then eradicate the
institution of the nation-state, scientific progress, and reason itself,
through such "New Age" ventures as "post-industrial," anti-science
utopianism and the rock-drug-sex counterculture.
The result of the introduction of that mass "cultural-paradigm shift" during
the past 30 years, has been to bring the entire planet to the present verge
of a collapse into large-scale economic and political disintegration.
Since
1964, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the
emergence of the ruinous Harold Wilson government in the United Kingdom,
there has been an accelerating, global collapse of the rate of
physical-economic growth in scale and productivity of output and essential
basic economic infrastructure, per capita and per square kilometer.
For the
United States itself, as measured in those physical units, negative growth
has prevailed continuously since the early 1970s, accelerating rapidly since
1982. Meanwhile, post-Thatcher Britain is a rubble-heap of formerly
industrialized ruins, where the activity of financier saprophytes is called
"privatization."
The delusion of "periods of prosperity" in North America and Europe during
the past 20 years, is premised on a combination of out-rightly faked
statistics and, more significant, the fact that the financial system, for
which the data is reported, has been de-coupled increasingly from the real
economy of production and trade.
The inevitability of the early collapse of the present global monetary and
financial system is fairly summed up in the following three paragraphs.
The present terminal sickness of the global financial system is marked by
the phenomena of highly leveraged, out-of-control markets in so-called
"derivatives." Marked by this lunatic speculation, the financial system is
operating like a vast, play-money casino, operating from dusk to dawn
according to a blending of "game theory" with those outer limits of lunacy
known as "chaos theory."
The bubble of speculation so devised hangs by the
thread of an income-stream taken from the real economy, an income-stream
which is a tiny fraction of the nominal financial income imputed to
investments in the bubble itself. In a word, the system is already bankrupt,
if any competent standards of audit-transparency were in force.
To postpone the implosive bursting of the bubble, an increase of the
original income-stream taken out of the real economy must occur.
However,
the very existence of the bubble is already contracting the real economy at
an accelerating rate. To increase the rate of income-stream from the real
economy, means to attempt to lessen this week's instability of the bubble by
measures which worsen that same instability during the immediately ensuing
weeks.
There are ominous similarities to the popping of the Lombard debt-bubble
during the middle of the 14th century. This is a system which is
axiomatically designed to self-destruct.
The destruction will occur either because sensible governments step in to
put the world's present central banking system and financial markets into
government-conducted financial bankruptcy reorganization, or, if governments
lack the political will to take those rational measures, the bubble will
burst inevitably in a manner which resembles, mathematically, a chemical,
nuclear, or thermonuclear explosion, except that this will be an implosion
defined functionally by
a reversed-leverage chain-reaction.
The reason this situation has been permitted to develop, is that the most
powerful of the ensconced political potencies of this planet, the
international oligarchy, threatens to destroy anyone, any nation which is
considered a threat to the continued growth of this financial bubble, or a
threat to the continuation of the "New Age" cultural paradigms.
Thus, the
likely course of events, is that matters will become worse until the point
is reached, as was the case after the mid-14th century debt-bubble crash,
that the oligarchy is perceived to have lost enough of its financial and
political power that remedial actions are not altogether disallowed.
So, we may view the now-ending long-cycle in its proper, axiomatic political
terms. On the one side, there is the upward impulse, the not-entropic
impulse, supplied by the principles of nation-state and investment in
fostering and employing scientific progress. On the opposing side, there is
the anti-nation-state, anti-science, and pro-usury, entropic impulse,
supplied by that international oligarchy which was formerly centered in
Venice.
As the influence of the latter has increased, at the expense of the
political power of the former, the entropic impulse within the society tends
to predominate, increasing the power of the oligarchic faction by weakening
the power of its opponent.
So1, the interaction of the opposing axioms of the two conflicting
tendencies defines the cycle.
This cycle is now emerging in its end-phase as
a prospective, imminent disintegration of that British "Venetian Party"
dynasty which has reigned nearly five centuries, from the sex-crazed Henry
VIII to the imminent fall of the House of Windsor.
Oligarchism
Until the emergence of modern Europe during the 15th century Golden
Renaissance, for as far back into history and pre-history as our knowledge
reaches, more than 90% of the households of each and all peoples subsisted
upon a more or less brutish form of rural labor.
As the case of the Delphi
cult's oligarchical Sparta illustrates the point, the prevailing state of
actual or virtual serfdom paralleled, and all too often coincided with the
evil of outright chattel slavery. Those forms of society, often described as
the "Asian model," are the paradigm for what we have identified here as
oligarchism.
Consider one typical case of an oligarchical form of society: a state
premised upon a configuration of four castes, estates, or classes. In this
type, the households in a serf-like condition are at the bottom. At the top
is a collection of ruling families, to such effect that the collective
power of this oligarchy to govern the state lies in the relatively less
mortal, corporate form of the family institution, rather than the highly
mortal individual member of that household.7
Proximate to the oligarchy as
such is a priest-caste, such as the early chaldean pagan priest-caste and
its "magician" successors, or the priesthood of the Delphi cult of
Gaia-Apollo-Python/Dionysius.
Below both of these, but above the serf-caste
and slaves, the plebeians: craftsmen, merchants, and so on.
The most influential relatively recent codification of an oligarchical form
of society is found in the notorious "socialist" Code of the pagan Roman
emperor Diocletian, the model for the modern "eugenicists" and other radical
"environmentalists."
In contrast to modern platonic culture and christianity, oligarchism, such
as that of the Darwins, Huxleys, and Harvard University's B.F. Skinner and
Herrnstein, allows no strict distinction between mankind and the beasts. The
general tendency, often enough a codified practice of rigid oligarchical
societies, is to treat the separation of the upper from lower classes as a
distinction between an inferior and superior animal species.
The oligarchical division among ruling and inferior castes is defended, often
explicitly, by the apology that these distinctions are the product of
natural, biological, genetic distinctions.8
That is the so-called "Asiatic model" of oligarchism which was transmitted
from Ishtar's Mesopotamia and Moloch's Tyre into the European forms of
oligarchism echoed by the House of Windsor today.
Plato and the Christian revolution
In known history, the first clear attempt to break with this oligarchical
system, is seen in the maritime power of those Ionian city-state republics
which certain forces in Egypt sponsored against the canaanite maritime power
of Tyre, and against the spread of
the babylonian model of empire generally.
With Solon's reforms at Athens, the contrast between
Solon's laws and Lycurgus's law for Sparta serves to the present-day as the best choice of
benchmark of reference for the difference in principle between political
good and political evil in European history to date.9
7. The Roman pagan law's notion of paterfamilias is exemplary of the nature
of this distinction. The Venetian family's fondo is an echo of the Roman law
of paterfamilias; it is the trustees of the fondo, not the biological
members of the nominal family, which exert the authority of paterfamilias.
8. The oligarchs, like the British aristocrats or U.S. self-styled
"patricians," often apply the rales of thumb borrowed from breeding of
cattle and dogs to the mating practices of their own progeny. Considering
the decadence shown by today's litters of heirs from such aristocratic and
wealthy families, one must say fairly that the intellectual qualities
ostensibly produced by such breeding-practices are scarcely awe-inspiring.
9. Friedrich Schiller, "The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon" (1790),
George Gregory, trans., Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom (Washington.
D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1988), pp. 273-305.
The chief precursor of modern science and also the modern alternative
to the oligarchical model of society, is the writings and influence of
Plato and
his Academy at Athens.
The pre-foundations of the modern european nation-state are found in the
Apostle Paul's mission to the gentiles.
Although christianity was within the
context defined by Moses worship, the Pauline mission broke from the ethnic
bounds of Roman-captivity Judaism to practice Jesus-christ's message, that
all persons are in the image of God, and thus each and all set above all
beasts, by virtue of that capacity for generating and receiving those
qualities of valid axiomatic-revolutionary discoveries of principle which
are typified by great Classical forms of works of art and by physical
scientific discovery in the tradition of Plato, Nicolaus of Cusa, Leonardo
da Vinci, Kepler, and Leibniz today.
The same principle was reemphasized
with great clarity by the Christian platonist Augustine, who is the central
figure of the organization of a western european Christianity freed of the
gnostic corruptions rampant in the eastern empire.
Although that principle was always embedded in Christian faith, it was not
efficiently incorporated in the doctrine of statecraft until the work of
Cusa and other key figures of the 1439-40 Council of Ferrara/Florence. Until
that Renaissance, western European society was governed by an imperial,
oligarchical notion of law.
Earlier christian efforts to change that were
assaulted with infuriated great force by the feudal oligarchies which saw
attempts to elevate the mental and political condition of the lower castes
as a threat to the oligarchical order. Nowhere on this planet, until that
Renaissance, did a nation-state exist, or was a society dedicated to the
general promotion of increase of the productive powers of labor through a
scientific culture.
The case of the young revolutionary United States of America is a crucial
demonstration of the introduction of that Christian principle to the
ordering of society' s secular affairs.
The Federal U.S.A. of the 1790 Census shows that, even that recently, over
90% of the population subsisted from rural occupations. However, at that
time, the literacy, the productivity, and the standard of living of the
Americans were each already more than twice the level existing in the United
Kingdom.
That American "Latin farmer," is typified by his literacy in the
political tracts of such writers as Tom Paine and Alexander Hamilton; those
are texts beyond the capacity of the relatively less literate, typical
present-day
U.S. high-school graduate, even many university graduates. The potential
basis, in morals and literacy, for a great upward transformation in the
conditions of family and national life were already visible during the late
18th century.
The benefits are traceable in the changing composition of
employment and real incomes of the U.S. workforce over the span from 1790
into the mid-1960s, until the pestilence known as the "New Age
cultural-paradigm shift" was unleashed upon our society.
This U.S. example illustrates the unprecedented achievements of the Golden Renaissance's establishment of the new norms of
nation-state and scientific and artistic development for all of the
population. We see the breaking-down of the oligarchical class-barriers
which had kept mankind morally beneath its birthright for so long.
Plato's contribution to the principles of human knowledge was indispensable
for making this possible.
In the exemplary case of his famous Parmenides
dialogue, he presents a pedagogy for demonstrating a fully intelligible
principle of human creativity lying outside and absolutely above the level
of mere deductive arguments such as those of Parmenides, the sophists, and
Aristotle.
This principle, which appears in Classical forms of poetry,
drama, music, and painting as the principle of true metaphor, enables us to
define the act of creativity as a mental object, an object not dependent
upon the mere senses, an object rendering intelligible to us those forms of
mental activity through which we are able willfully to generate, and to
assimilate valid axiomatic-revolutionary discoveries of principle respecting
universal lawfulness of the universe.
This mental object, so defined, is the object to which we must refer when we
describe the individual person as,
"in the image of God," or, the same thing,
"possessed from birth with 'a divine spark of reason'."
It is this power to receive and impart conceptions which are valid,
axiomatic-revolutionary discoveries of natural principles which has enabled
mankind to increase willfully the productive powers of labor, per capita,
per household, and per square kilometer, in such a way as to increase the
potential population-density of the human species by more than three decimal
orders of magnitude above the level possible for "primitive
hunting-and-gathering" modes.
In this and other expressions, this
creative-mental practice of the individual is the source of the
"not-entropy" of all relatively successful modes of society, as distinct
from those cultures which are inherently doomed, dead-ends.
The demonstrated superiority of the culture flowing from the Golden
Renaissance over any other culture which ever existed, expresses the power
unleashed by forms of statecraft and scientific and cultural progress
consistent with the understanding that human creativity is a fully
intelligible conception, the only empirical basis for the notion of the
person as in the living image of God the Creator,
In principle, we may look into the eyes of any child, of any parentage, and
see that mental object existing behind those eyes, so to speak. That is
seeing one's fellow-human as "in the image of God." Once we have seen that,
we could tolerate no longer a policy which degrades any household into a
state of beastly slavery or serfdom.
It must be our passion, that these
children shall be developed in their minds to receive and impart valid
conceptions of creative-mental discovery in art, in science, and in
technology of productive practice. It must be our passion, that society must
be organized to such effect that this right to live as a truly human being
ought, is a universal right, around which society as a whole must be
organized.
As Augustine shows, it is the method of Plato informed by Christianity,
which is the basis for public morality: political, economic, and otherwise.
The Christian is freed from the piggishness of racialism and class
prejudice, freed from self-degradation to the likeness of a mere beast.
Whoever has glimpsed the evil of early history, should recognize as hateful
and mass-murderous, anything like Prince Philip's proposal: to return the
world to a state of affairs in which any other view of man but as in the
image of God's creative nature were to prevail as the law among nations.
The interaction
For more than five centuries, the oligarchy has hated the Golden Renaissance
as the gods of Zeus's pagan Olympus hated playwright Aeschylus' Prometheus.
Bringing "fire," the knowledge that the
individual person's gift of creative
reason casts him in the living image of God, menaces the power of those
olympian tyrants who would be considered immortal gods by foolish men
and
women. To bring the utmost rage to the features of a true oligarch,
threaten
to educate the cognitive potentials of his serf.
In the old oligarchical model, the peasant is regarded as just an animal.
The oligarch puts the peasant in a field, in a stall, just as he keeps
"other cattle." The peasant-animal grows food, just as a cow produces meat
and milk. So many cows (or peasants), so much food, as long as the pastures
are not overcrowded!10
Just so, wild game is raised in forest preserves of
the princes and dukes: The prince's park rangers kill off the extra venison
when the game-herd becomes too numerous. So, Prince Philip uses precisely
that image to describe the methods he employs to manage the size of the
human population, worldwide.11
To understand this issue of oligarchism adequately, one
should compare experience within western Europe and the
Americas with the problems which development faces from
within the cultures of Asia.
10. What we have identified here are the philosophical assumptions underlying
the anti-Colbert Physiocratic dogma of figures such as that asset of Abbot
Antonio Conti's salon, Dr. Francois Quesnay. Except as Adam Smith extended
Quesnay's dogma respecting agricultural labor to manufacturing labor, all of
Smith's notions of morality and political-economy were either copies of the
views set forth by Quesnay by 1758, or copies of the influence of those
members of Conti's salon from which Quesnay derived his. With those modest
qualifications, Smith was a Physiocrat, and a complete oligarchist.
Quesnay's views were informed by missionaries' reports on the principles of
China's oligarchical model. In both Quesnay and Smith, and with all
Venetians of the 15th through early 19th centuries, human creativity was
flatly denied to exist at all, and excluded from consideration in respect to
efficient factors of social change. Venice' s oligarchical philosophy was,
and remains, the bestialization of mankind.
11. In an Oct. 27,1991 appearance on French national television, Prince
Philip walked the interviewer through the paces on the way in which the
prince's crowd arranged the mass-killing of excess populations of wild
animals inhabiting the "protected" areas of the Africa wild-game preserves.
Then, in response to the interviewer's obvious question, the prince replied:
"This is the same principle for man; only, for us, our protected area is the
entire Earth. The principle is really the same."
At the same time that the European oligarchy represented by the House of
Windsor does everything its tyrannical arrogance dares to venture, aided by
the
International Monetary Fund and
World Bank, in virtually crushing out of
existence any possibility of scientific and technological progress in
developing of the so-called Third World, there is also a powerful internal
resistance against progress from within the populations of the developing
sector, as in Asia.
The success of oligarchies from within these developing
nations in preventing the improvement of the quality of life of their poorer
strata, depends to a large degree on strong resistance to change from within
the ranks of those same poorer strata. Indeed, in all human history, few
tyrannies could have persisted for as long as they did, but for such
culturally determined complicity among the victims.
So, in the fight against chattel slavery within the pre-Civil War U. S. A.,
the African-American civil rights leaders adopted the expression, that
literacy matching European Classical standards is the essential difference
between the free man and the slave.
The mechanism by which the serf is motivated to defend the forms of
enslavement he suffers, is more readily understood by examining similar
forms of self-degradation commonplace among U.S. left-wingers, such as
anarcho-syndicalists or other culturally illiterate populists. The
oligarchical intelligentsia is aware of this mechanism and relies upon it as
the chief means by which the victims of oligarchism are induced to assist in
putting on one another's chains each night.
To gain insight into the
psychological origins of oligarchism, and to understand the tricks on which
the modern oligarchy has most relied to control the serfs, one must muster
insight into the self-degradation of the mind of the populists or analogous
cases among the victims.
There is a profound principle involved here, but the point is of crucial
relevance.
Insofar as the individual person's world-outlook is more or less limited to
emphasis upon an associative form of interaction between his or her emotions
and sense-objects, that person tends to share the misanthropic misconception
of "human nature" one meets in Zorzi, Sarpi, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Adam
Smith, Jeremy Bentham, et al.
For those unfortunates, the reality of one's
own existence is imagined to begin with earliest recollections of
sense-experiences, and to end when the senses go silent. Anything beyond
that he attributes to an Orphic after-life in Hades. A poor wretch like
that, if he is of an academic bent, readily accepts those disgusting 1759
utterances which Smith later resurrected for his 1776, Physiocratic dogma of
the so-called "Invisible Hand":
Nature has directed us... by original and immediate
instincts.
Hunger, thirst, the passion which unites the
two sexes, the love of pleasure, and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply
those means for their own sakes, and without any consideration of their
tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of Nature
intended to produce by them.12
12. Adam Smith, The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, (1759).
Matters are entirely different with any person who is aware of the efficient
use of his own and others' creative-mental powers.
In mathematics, for
example, our scientific knowledge of that subject-matter begins by our
replicating the discoveries of such as Pythagoras and Plato, reliving in
one's own mind, as student, their mental experience of discoveries from
thousands of years ago. It is the same with every other discovery mastered
in a similar way.
The student whose mental powers are developed in that way,
is keenly aware that the practical benefits of modern mathematics
incorporate, as presently efficient principles of work, ideas generated by
individuals now deceased many centuries, or even millennia. Such a student
recognizes that the distinction which sets mankind above the beasts is the
discovery and perpetuation of those valid ideas which are the accumulated
sum-total of human knowledge to date, all acquired and transmitted through
the agency of this mental-creative faculty.
Such a student has access to a realization that one's own, brief mortal
existence is an opportunity for a participation in all of human existence,
taking from the distant past and giving to the far distant future.
This is
the ground on which that student finds his vast moral superiority over the
populist "practical man" who knows only the fruit of his sense-experience
and blind passions.
When the oligarchs reduce a large portion of humanity to the status of
talking cattle, as they did to slaves and serfs, they not merely suppress
the human potentials of the victims. They also dehumanize them by
transforming them into "regular guys" of the reduced status to which they
are relegated.
The fate of peoples, nations, and the outcome of a personal mortal life is
determined by processes which span, ultimately, the entirety of human
existence, past and future. From the past, we inherit the accumulation of
ideas developed by others before, and the condition of man-improved (or
worsened) conditions of life. The outcome of our having lived as a person
lies with our posterity.
The crux of the matter, on both accounts, is our
self-governance by selection of those ideas which guide us to act upon the
course of history, as we encounter all humanity, all history, while it
passes through our mortal time.
The individual who lives with that awareness of ideas, and his or her
relationship to such a realm of ideas, is the truly adult human being. The
victim of oligarchical thinking is relatively infantile, or worse, morally
as well as intellectually.
The person who is morally degraded from a person of ideas, to a mere
"practical man" of "my personal experience," flees from his or her
contributing responsibility for the outcome of human history, for the
general welfare of our posterity.13
13. On this, contrast the Preamble of the U.S. Federal Constitution to
oligarchical parody found in the Constitution of the Confederate States of
America. The U.S. Constitution's intent is thus shown, by the "general
welfare clause," to be the adoption of Gottfried Leibniz's principle of
natural law, and a rejection of the immorality of Locke's oligarchical
"social contract" dogma, which Locke embedded in the colonial law of the
Carolinas. The Confederacy, like Locke, was an expression of oligarchy in
the evil tradition of Lycurgan Sparta, in contrast to the tradition of Solon
and George Washington represented by President Lincoln.
He or she flees into the virtual reality
worshipped by the fan of "soap opera."
For him or her, everything is a
matter of an empiricist' s pairwise interactions among persons in the "here
and now." The empiricist's preoccupation with his or her personal affairs,
so defined, rules him. He is too busy with such pairwise interactions in his
pitiably tiny here and now to assume moral accountability for the outcome of
his generation's having lived.
He flees from the big issues into the
microscopic realm of what he calls "my affairs," and "my personal morality."
He can tolerate any great crime against humanity with self-assured moral
self-satisfaction, as long as he is not caught in such personal offenses in
the very small as stealing or adultery.
Thus, do such immoral persons
smugly, and obscenely call themselves "Christians" while endorsing Adam
Smith's thieving, mass-murderous dogma of "free trade."
The most commonplace evil practiced by small people is smug confidence in
the moral-indifferentist practice of such small-mindedness. It is upon this
consenting wickedness in the smugly self-righteous oppressed that
oligarchical rule finds the democratic consent to the most monstrous
tyrannies. So, until now, have oligarchs fooled most of the people most of
the time, and some of the people all of the time.
So, victims of serfdom or
the like may be induced to commit treason against their own humanity.
The mechanism of the cycle
The clearest model of the way in which dynastic cycles function is the cycle
now closing. Never before has the not-entropic impulse for increase of
potential population-density even approached the vigorous growth
accomplished through the Renaissance-launched institutions of nation-state
and scientific progress.
On the opposing side, whenever technological
stagnation is imposed upon society for an extended period, the result must
be an entropic collapse in the potential population-density. It is the
interaction among the two contrary impulses, the not-entropic and entropic,
which is the cause of dynastic cycles such as this one.
From approximately 1510 until the mass-recruitment to the oligarchical
"cultural-paradigm shift" which surfaced during the 1964-68 interval,
european civilization was fairly characterized as of a dual character. The successes of that civilization,
as it spread throughout the world, were derived from the not-entropic impact
of the combined principles of the nation-state and scientific progress.
At
the same time, the civilization was being fatally corrupted, top-down, by
the entropic, oligarchical element which came to be centered in the
"Venetian Party's" British monarchy.
Then, coinciding with the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy, the oligarchy on top elected to begin the
final phase of total destruction of the not-entropic institutions of
nation-state and scientific progress. Under the impact of that latter, most
recent phase of this long cycle, the global system as a whole has been
brought to the verge of self-disintegration.
If we could resuscitate the heritage of the Renaissance, freed of the
discarded encumbrance of the Venice-fostered Enlightenment, the result would
be a unimodal, not-entropic form of cycle-free economic and related
recovery.
The leading institutional problem is replacing the incurably bankrupt
present global monetary and financial system.
The measures of
physical-economic recovery required are either well-known or readily
identified. The use of state credit to finance both governmental and private
concerns in the development of urgently needed programs of repair and
expansion of basic economic infrastructure, in the public sector, will
provide, as it has done numerous times before, the stimulant for rapid
growth of the entrepreneurial private sector in agriculture and industry.
The crux of the matter is to replace the existing monetary and financial
systems, based on privately controlled central banking systems, by the kind
of system of national banking which tradition associates with the name of
U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.
The implied life-death struggle
between private central banking systems and national banking, becomes now
the key to whether civilization as a whole recovers from this crisis, or
descends into the most menacing "New Dark Age" in history.
The oligarchy has brought about its own destruction.
The successful
indoctrination of its own ranks in the cultural paradigm causing this
present collapse, has produced, as the present generations of that
oligarchy, a stratum bereft of the capacity to recognize its own folly,
incapable of defining alternatives to the doom now threatening us all. For
some portions of that oligarchy, it is nonetheless clear, that as long as
the utter depravity represented by Prince Philip is allowed to continue to
dominate the oligarchy as a whole, the imminent doom of civilization is
assured.
So, the coming fall of the House of Windsor
is inevitable, in one
way or another.
For the rest of us, the task is simply to throw out the dirty, oligarchical
bathwater, without losing the baby in the process. The point of the exercise
is to know which is which.
The point, therefore, is not to permit oneself to
be degraded into smallness of mind.
