Friday Symposium: The LaRouche Case and the American System of Injustice

The drive to silence Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas goes as far back to the early 1970s. In 1982, as LaRouche’s activities and policy initiatives began to seriously threaten those of Henry A. Kissinger, Kissinger sent a letter directly to FBI Director William Webster demanding action be taken against LaRouche. In what came to be known as the LaRouche case, an unprecedented collaboration of private bankers and organizations, along with major news media outlets, directly coordinated with corrupt government law enforcement and intelligence agencies to establish a modus operandi for silencing political opponents in the United States.

An initial trial against LaRouche, et.al. in Boston in 1988 ended in a mistrial after the presiding judge ordered a search of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush’s files after a document had been discovered in which Oliver North and other such spooks of the so-called “Iran-Contra” apparatus had been ordered to target LaRouche on behalf of the “Get LaRouche” task force. It was only in the intelligence community’s “rocket docket” kangaroo court in Northern Virginia that LaRouche was later able to be railroaded to 15 years in prison. Several of LaRouche’s associates were also sentenced to lengthy prison terms, most notably Michael Billington, a top fundraiser, who received an unbelievable 77 year jail sentence for “securities fraud,” which was interpreted as taking political loans without a stock broker’s license, obviously completely ridiculous.

It's no accident that a key member of the "Get LaRouche" task force was none other than Robert Mueller, who went on to become the Special Counsel legal hatchet man in the fraudulent "Russia Gate" investigation of President Trump. But there have been dozens upon dozens of other individuals also deemed as political "threats" to the current War Party establishment in the United States who have suffered the same fate, most without the means to fend off such overwhelming attacks on them.

Former political prisoner Mike Billington will join this discussion centered on a review of Lyndon LaRouche's comments to a Washington, DC audience 3 days after being released from federal prison where he had served five years on fraudulent charges.