Salt Lake City
March 25, 2010
LaRouche spokesman Harley Schlanger sandwiched an exciting town meeting between two two-hour radio appearances on the Stockwell program, with audiences demanding full explanations on how to create the kind of change in the population which can take them from rage and disappointment, following the passage of the Nazi-modeled health care bill, to impeaching Obama and implementing the LaRouche Plan.
The town meeting was attended by approximately forty-five contacts, and was addressed by Jack Stockwell, Democratic Party nominee Kesha Rogers (by phone) and Harley Schlanger. In addition to those attending at the Salt Lake City Central Library, about thirty people from fifteen states participated by phone through conference call hookup. Stockwell opened the meeting by saying that, following a death threat delivered to Schlanger, in person, at the radio station Thursday morning, by an enraged right-wing nut, he has decided it’s time to “take off the gloves.” He attacked those who slander LaRouche as either evil, or ignorant, and praised LaRouche as the one who has brought new ideas, over decades, to the battle to restore the principles of our nation. He warned that, if LaRouche’s alternative is not adopted, we face a future of chaos and violence.
Kesha Rogers then described her campaign, as an example of how we can bring powerful ideas to the population. My victory, she said, shows that people are ready to take up the challenge. The challenge we posed was not just to vote, but to take responsibility for the future — that’s what the NASA issue is about, not just the nuts and bolts of space flight, but about whether we will use our republican institutions to inspire the youth today, so that they can give their children and grandchildren a future. The audience was riveted to Kesha’s every word, as she went into how LaRouche has defined the mastery of cosmic radiation as a central feature to assuring that future.
Schlanger followed with an in-depth briefing on LaRouche’s fight, over the last five decades, to provide mankind with an opportunity for a human future. After a thorough review of the forty year transformation of the U.S., from the promise of JFK’s Moon-Mars mission, to the wreckage wrought by Greenspan, Phil Gramm, and other lackeys, on behalf of Anglo-Dutch imperial financiers, he made the case for the impeachment of Obama, and cleaning out of the gutless, unprincipled Congress, He concluded with a discussion of tragedy and immortality, and why members of the audience must take up the challenge posed by Kesha’s election, that you can no longer whine and complain, but must master principles of classical composition and scientific discovery — then you can make an immortal contribution.
There was not a single “conspiraphile” question, a seeking of the “connectos.” Instead, there was a serious effort to deal with what had been presented. Several asked about the implications of the Niall Ferguson article forecasting the end of the American “empire” (Foreign Affairs magazine): isn’t the crash inevitable, isn’t this what the oligarchy always does; others asked about how to organize people to understand physical economy, won’t it take too long to make changes; there were questions about the difference between monetary and credit systems; and, finally, one person asked, “Are there any others like Kesha?” Harley turned the question around on him — Are you ready to do what Kesha is doing?
While there were regulars there, who have been at past town meetings, there were many new contacts from recent programs, as well as people organized, by other contacts, to attend their first meeting. Many of the newer contacts took information on how to get on the weekly conference calls.
Several newer people reported that they regularly go to the LPAC website, and never miss Off-the-Cuff. Schlanger showed how to navigate the site, and what LPAC-TV specials they need to study.
[an audio file of the meeting will be posted soon.]
