April 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—Many thoughtful Americans, such as those making plans to participate in the Schiller Institute international conference on May 24-25, will have pondered the following irony about the United States of 2025.
The President of the United States who, at the eleventh hour, yanked this country off a trajectory heading towards a species-annihilating nuclear war with Russia—remember: a Pentagon document said there was a 50-50 chance that nuclear weapons would be used if the U.S. gave Ukraine long-range missiles to strike Russia, which the Biden administration did—is the same President who also tolerates the ongoing genocide in Gaza; who proposes to “support” the dollar with crypto-currency funny-money; and who signed an Executive Order his first day in office to “restore the death penalty,” noting that “capital punishment continues to enjoy broad popular support.”
How to make sense of that? What is happening in the United States?
Perhaps you are looking in the wrong place for answers. Perhaps the following short statement by Lyndon LaRouche dated July 30, 1990, will give you some insight into what is actually going on, and therefore where to look for answers. Perhaps it will also make you uncomfortable.
“Virginia 10th C.D. candidate for the U.S. Congress Lyndon LaRouche released the following statement on July 30. It is circulating as a campaign leaflet with a large picture of a dog on it.
“At a time that civilized nations have turned with disgust against the barbaric practice known as capital punishment, the death penalty, the United States is going full tilt, toward barbarism.
“You and I know, that most of the politicians, who are supporting the death penalty, are doing so out of pure political opportunism. They don’t care how many lives, even innocent ones, they have to fry on Death Row in order to get a few more votes for themselves, and a few more favors for the cronies they hope to bring into office with them. But you also know, that the reason that these corrupt politicians do that, is because, in large part, the public is so desperate, over the worsening financial situation, so desperate, over the effects of the continued and growing drug traffic, that they’re willing to resort to absolutely desperate measures, to take out their anger on someone. They’re even willing to go as far as to lynch people, and have no hesitation, therefore, in supporting the death penalty.
“But, when we look at that dog’s face, looking up at us, and we can imagine the dog saying to us, asking us (perhaps your own dog), ‘Why do you support the death penalty? Are you hungry?’ you recognize that a beast would kill only for food, or for defense, and so forth. And, even the beasts would be shocked at what we do in the name of the death penalty, in the name of law.
“That is bestiality.”
Such bestiality is not the natural condition of Man, nor is it the concept on which the United States was founded.
To combat that bestiality in and among our fellow citizens, who are being driven crazy by a collapsing global system, the world is in desperate need of a cultural renaissance, a reawakening of that which makes us distinctly human. That is why the upcoming Schiller Institute conference is titled “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”
