The policy of defensive weapons, a policy that, had it been implemented, would have prevented the present situation, which places the world on the brink of thermonuclear Armageddon, from even arising, originated with economist and statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche. That has never been generally reported to the American people up to today; it is suppressed knowledge. That “higher peace policy” was the reason for the persecution and incarceration of LaRouche and his associates and is the great secret of the past four decades of thermonuclear strategic policy, and current history. It is not fashionable, nor considered acceptable, to discuss the relationship between the foreign policy “axiom shift” of JFK in 1963, and the “axiom busting” proposal of Ronald Reagan to the Soviet Union in 1983. It “blows the circuitry” of contemporary historical mythmaking, but it is nonetheless true: LaRouche proposed it, and Reagan adopted it.
It is also true, that unless and until the truths of contemporary history are revealed, from the 1963-68 four American assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X (and other murders conducted by the “International Assassination Bureau” in Germany, Italy, etc. in the 1960s and 1970s,) to the 1983 true story of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the subsequent persecution and incarceration of Lyndon LaRouche by the United States Department of Justice (which was the precedent for those actions now being conducted against former American Presidents and private citizens), the danger of thermonuclear war, whether sought or unsought, will continue to mount by the day. It is possible to not be tragic, to not repeat the lessons of history. As Robert Kennedy’s favorite poet, Aeschylus, said:
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
