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Lyndon LaRouche made the following opening remarks to a town meeting on the National Commission against the New Violence in New York City April 8, broadcast live by satellite over the Internet. Participating in a panel at Columbia University were Jeff Steinberg, the co-author of Dope, Inc., and Counterintelligence Director of EIR; Minister Charles Quinn Mohammad, the former head of the Nation of Islam in Jackson, Mississippi; Sister Esther Mohammad, who is the former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi; Dr. Kildare Clarke, the assistant medical director of King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York; Matthew Fogg, chief inspector deputy, U.S. Marshal, and founder of the Congress against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement; and also Rep. Harold James of Pennsylvania, and former head of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus. The discussion was moderated by Dennis Speed, the Northeast Coordinator of LaRouche's Presidential campaign. Well, I've heard from my wife, who is on post in Germany, that during the past three days, the leading German tabloid, one of the largest circulation newsprint publications in the world, Bildzeitung, has been featuring a story about a boy of about 15 years of age, who asked his parents, in Spain, to assist him in purchasing a Samurai sword. The parents refused, suspecting that there was something awry with this request. And, shortly thereafter, the boy beheaded both hisparents. This is exemplary of what's going on. Now, I think that, as people know from what I've said about these matters earlier, that I know essentially what the source of the problem is, but there's much that remains to be investigated, before any final judgment on the problem can be stated. That is, I know what has caused the problem; I know how it is developed; I've studied this matter over a period of some decades, knowing the people who have set this into motion, how it was set into motion. But we don't know always what the effects are. It's like a man who--you know the man is a crazy, he drove a car into a restaurant, but you have to investigate the effects, and the side effects, of that action, even knowing that the man willfully did that. And the same thing here. People have set into motion something which has fostered a radiating explosion of what we call the New Violence. Typical of this New Violence are two things. One is the separation of children, the estrangement of children, from their parents. Now, many of us know the factors which were involved in causing this. We have a breakdown over the past three decades or so, of the quality of education in the United States. We have at the same time a dependency among the lower 80% of income brackets inparticular, of more incomes per household. The result is, we've produced the phenomenon of latchkey children, more and more, at all levels in society. If parents have a child who is not a latchkey child, the children with whom that child is associated during the day, are usually latchkey children. We have a crisis in housing, as in parts of New York City, of overcrowding, at great cost. We have this around the country. These conditions are hellholes for children. The schools have become hellholes for children. Now, you feed into this estrangement, of the child from the parent, the sense of abandonment of the child, and you start at the age of 3 to 5 years of age, and you condition this child in certain ways to certain circumstances, and you have an explosion of what used to be called alienation of the children from parents, and society. As a result of this, we have the things, such as what happened in Spain. This child, with a boy decapitating his parents, Samurai-style, to see what it would {feel} like to do it, according to the story in Bildzeitung. You see the Nintendo-type violence at Littleton, which is famous around the nation. You see similar incidents. A child who had never used a gun before, because they had practiced through an Nintendo game, going out at the age of 6, and making skillful headshots the first time he used a gun, in killing people (see interview, pages 6-7). Thank you. |
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