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Sometimes, “being reasonable” is the most revolutionary thing an individual, and certainly a population or nation, can do. An epidemic of Reason breaking out among the people of the United States, in the 250th year of the nation’s birth, would be most welcome by the rest of the world.
It is, for example, entirely unreasonable to allow section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act to be passed by a Congress that, in so doing, renders itself powerless in the very matters of war and peace, for which it, as representatives of the American people—not monied lobbies—and no other branch of government, or unelected civil service, or permanent bureaucracy, must be held accountable, according to the Constitution of the United States. That is, it is not within the powers of the Congress, by its passing what should be called the “Jonathan Pollard U.S.-Israel War Technology Cooperation Initiative” to arbitrarily abdicate, to decide to not be the Congress, to repudiate the powers of that body. That would require a deliberate alteration of the Constitution of the United States. A passage of House Section 219 (and its counterpart, Senate Section 1217) would be treason against the nation, and the world.
Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare, former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and now several others have pointed this out. Now, the most reasonable among the American people—as well as those outside of the United States who realize the danger such an action poses to the world— must take unified action, by any and all appropriate means, to reverse this course.
It is essential that the people be reasonable, since the Trump Presidential Administration is not. Helga Zepp-LaRouche yesterday reported, “Now, obviously, the NATO summit, which just concluded in Ankara, was fraught with absurdities as well. I think the most ridiculous statement coming out of the summit was by Trump, who said that there was so much love in the air in this meeting. Now, how you can have love in the presence of all of these warmongers is very difficult to imagine, but he claims that this was happening. And obviously he’s very happy, because he got these stupid Germans, namely Pistorius and Merz, to buy the Tomahawk cruise missile for at least $1.2 billion, plus a couple of millions. While before, Biden had basically promised that these Tomahawk missiles would be put there in Germany for nothing, because it’s obviously in the very interest of whoever is the war faction in the United States, and totally contrary to the interest of Germany, which is being made a prime target for such a medium-range, nuclear-capable first-strike missile, which heightens the security problems of Germany. But now instead, Germany is paying for it.
“But, if you think about it, in the previous design, it was part of a multi-domain operation concept, to which belonged satellites, intelligence, electronic warfighting, cyber capabilities, data fusion, aiming, and far-reaching precision strikes, were all part of one coherent package. And the Tomahawk was the top of the spear. Now, Germany is buying the top without the spear, having all the costs, and it’s completely insane. So, it’s naturally clear that Trump is happy to sell that, but it just shows you the insanity.”
“O judgement!! thou art fled to Brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.” Would that Shakespeare’s admonition in Mark Antony’s Act Three speech in Julius Caesar might enlighten those that should wonder how the mass assassination policies of the Israeli regime and the American government carried out in Iran actually resulted in the largest assembly ever recorded in human history—over 40 million people in Iran. Millions of those people believed they were possibly walking to their deaths, and assembled nonetheless.
“The awful Shadow of some unseen Power floats, though unseen, among us.” Members of the Epstein class deny that power exists. That power, and the Power of Reason, by the way, are actually identical. In the document “Quo Vadis, Humanitas?” issued by the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, the authors state that “The purpose of this document is not only to offer a discernment capable of weighing the anthropological consequences of techno-scientific discoveries and the corresponding ethical choices of people and societies today…. The theoretical-practical nature of theology encompasses the proclamation of faith (kerygma) and education in a vision of humanity, in dialogue with scientific progress, in which everything that is good can be integrated.” Such “heavy ideas” have always been the province of the Executive Intelligence Review, and its founder and “chief intelligence officer,” the late economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche. In 1983, he observed:
“In popular jargon, and unfortunately, also amongst some elements of our political intelligence community, there is an obsession with the modern American habit of demanding that reality and ideas come in popularly advertised brand-name packages, with contents explained in the same simplistic terms as a typical ‘Madison Avenue’ advertising slogan.… The sort of person who insists that his facts should come in popularly advertised brand-labeled packages should not expose himself to the mental anguish he will suffer in confronting even the simple day-to-day truths of routine counterintelligence work. On this level, the world is very complicated; in this realm, there are few allies, and almost no one operates openly under the brand label of the one, two, or three interests he ultimately serves.”
Once, in a conversation about challenging people to change the world through organizing others to think about “heavy ideas,” LaRouche referred to the often-stated complaint about his “long policy papers” and “complicated” presentations. He proposed, “The way to respond to that, is to pose this question: ‘Maybe you are too uncomplicated to survive?’” Executive Intelligence Review was created to qualify any thinking person to discover and adopt solutions, to “know what to do,” including how to create a New Security and Development Architecture, as is discussed by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her Ten Principles for a New Security And Development Architecture.
A Council of Reason is immediately needed. It must be assembled from citizens, particularly young citizens from around the world, and those that believe in the world-historic importance of the international revolution of 250 years ago, summarized in the American Declaration of Independence. That began a process which Indonesia’s Sukharno called, at the First Summit of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, “the first successful anti-colonial revolution in history.” It is not enough to, as India is presently doing, close down places like the “Jaipur Polo Ground, where King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, had played,” and other symbols of British colonial rule. It is Winston Churchill’s “empire of the mind” that must be defeated by the power of Reason, and a Council of Reason that knows, and acts upon “what is to be done.”
