{"id":69335,"date":"2021-03-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=69335"},"modified":"2021-03-07T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T13:04:16","slug":"why-larouchepac-no-longer-represents-the-policies-of-lyndon-larouche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/why-larouchepac-no-longer-represents-the-policies-of-lyndon-larouche\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u201cLaRouchePAC\u201d No Longer Represents the Policies of Lyndon LaRouche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Press statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why \u201cLaRouchePAC\u201d No Longer Represents the Policies of Lyndon LaRouche\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPm5Gg-fg-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 24, 2021\u2014Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder and international leader of the international Schiller Institute and widow of the renowned American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, announced today that, through counsel, she has issued a letter to the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its Treasurer, Barbara Boyd, demanding that they \u201cimmediately cease and desist, both now and in the future\u201d from \u201cusing Mr. LaRouche\u2019s name, likeness, and potentially other confusingly similar terms.\u201d The letter states that such use \u201cis likely to cause confusion among consumers since they may believe that you [Boyd] (as an individual), LPAC, and\/or the goods and services being offered are somehow associated with, licensed by, or authorized by our Client [Helga Zepp-LaRouche].\u201d Among the remedies required are that Boyd and LPAC \u201cImmediately take all necessary actions to change the name of your political action committee, and the name of any Affiliated Entities, to one that does not include the term \u2018Lyndon,\u2019 \u2018LaRouche,\u2019 or any formative or iteration thereof, and agree to refrain from using the infringing terms now and in the future on any website, company e-mails, letter head, advertisements, or other marketing literature or correspondence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To provide the background and context for this action, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat had been since 2004 the official website of the political action committee founded by my late husband Lyndon LaRouche, the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC), has had its content taken over by a group of individuals associated with Barbara Boyd, the Treasurer of that PAC, in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. While my husband was still alive, he was responsible for the overall policy direction of the PAC. But since he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates, without my permission, have taken over the content of the website and the PAC\u2019s activities as a whole and have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche\u2019s positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy requests for the PAC to adhere to the policies of the LaRouche movement and to not associate the LaRouche name with policies that were inconsistent with our views, which started to occur within the PAC immediately after the death of Mr. LaRouche, were rebuked to such an extent that Mrs. Boyd and a group of individuals sharing her views issued a document in November 2020 proclaiming their \u2018irrevocable\u2019 independence from the leadership of the LaRouche movement, myself included, founded by my husband over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile paying lip service to some of Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s ideas, and using video footage of him, in reality the political positions of the PAC increasingly diverged from the policies of the LaRouche movement and my late husband by, for example, excluding any substantive evaluation of the international strategic situation, in favor of focusing almost entirely on internal U.S. politics, principally on issues that were in line with the policies of Donald Trump. They increasingly failed to publish articles and videos that were critical of Trump on topics on which Lyndon LaRouche had personally frequently criticized Trump, such as his praise of the Wall Street financial bubble; the anti-China policies that came to dominate his presidency; and so on. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a Jan. 26, 2021 video posted on the LPAC site under the headline \u2018Make Impeachment Drive Backfire, Build Movement to Rescue Republic,\u2019 Barbara Boyd stated: \u2018If you believe they [people] are beasts and that you can have a social credit system, which is really what we\u2019re putting into place here with the cancel culture\u2014if you behave certain ways, you get social credits for doing x, y, z, and w; if you\u2019re nasty or make stupid comments, or step out of line, you get negative credits. That\u2019s what they do in China. That\u2019s what they do in any totalitarian society.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese positions reflect the beliefs of Mrs. Boyd, not Mr. LaRouche or the LaRouche movement. I disagree fully with that characterization of China, and Lyndon LaRouche expressed beliefs to the contrary of this characterization repeatedly throughout his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the mischaracterizations of Mr. LaRouche\u2019s political positions grew, I and the vast majority of the members of the LaRouche movement, both in the United States and internationally, felt we had no other choice than to support the creation of a new organization and associated website: \u2018The LaRouche Organization\u2019 (TLO), founded in December 2020, to ensure Mr. LaRouche\u2019s name and likeness are only associated with his true policies and positions. The difference between TLO and the PAC becomes clear if, as one example, one compares the intention expressed in the TLO founding statement \u2018Who We Are,\u2019 which says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018The sole purpose of The LaRouche Organization (TLO) is the dissemination of the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche and the spread of his life\u2019s work, his analytical and scientific method of thinking, with the intention of realizing the solutions he offered to the many crises now facing mankind.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cContrast this to the February 14 \u2018marching orders\u2019 expressed on the LPAC site under the rubric \u2018Your Role in the \u201cNew Politics\u201d\u2019: \u2018Do battle for the Republican Party; force the traitors and the \u201cweak ones\u201d out, and restore it to the tradition of Abraham Lincoln.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMrs. Boyd and her associates launched a redesigned website for the PAC in February 2021, which notably excludes two pages or topics which were formerly there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFirst, the extremely rich documentation of the 40 years of organizing activities that Lyndon LaRouche and his international associates were involved in across five continents of the planet. Intentionally or not, I believe that removing that history gives the false impression that Mr. LaRouche was only concerned about matters in the U.S. This negates his passionate commitment to mankind as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecond, the new PAC website also omits the record of the role of Mr. LaRouche and his international movement in the evolution of a new paradigm around the New Silk Road. Mr. LaRouche wrote numerous economic programs for Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe beginning in the 1970s, and he spent a good portion of his life working and campaigning in and for the development of these countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMrs. Boyd and her associates have every right to establish a political action committee to express the views of Mrs. Boyd; but I believe they do a grave disservice to the late Lyndon LaRouche by misrepresenting \u2014 by commission and omission \u2014 his views by associating his name with their endeavor. For all of these reasons, we have hired legal counsel to stop all use of Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s name and likeness by the PAC and to preserve the integrity of his vast work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further information: press@LaroucheOrganization.com or (551) 209-3978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche February 24, 2021\u2014Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder and international leader of the international Schiller Institute and widow of the renowned American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, announced today that, through counsel, she has issued a letter to the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its Treasurer, Barbara Boyd, demanding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":69336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-69335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69942,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69335\/revisions\/69942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}