Question: Morning, Lyn. I am from Queretaro. It's quite an honor for me, and I'm truly excited at the opportunity to talk to you. I'd like to ask you the following. Some time ago, Bush made a statement that can be taken as a threat to the entire world, to the effect that any country that dares--this was ostensibly aimed at Iraq, but -- any country that attacks the United States, he would be willing to respond with a nuclear attack. This is a worrisome attitude for most of us. Another concern I have is that society does not make much of this. They're more interested in discussing TV programs, soap operas and other useless trash, rather than this situation which is of such great concern and which can be seen as a threat against the entire world. What do you think about this?

LaRouche: Well, first of all, Bush is not much of a president, to put it lightly. But we have to deal with this situation. You know, I can't say, well, I can't do anything until we get another president. I had a moral responsibility to do something, and I did it. What we did was to go to other institutions in the government, or influencing the government, and we tried to build an assortment of forces that could influence the decision-making process around the president. And we succeeded. Despite the ugly things he said, the president for the time being has acceded to things which are, shall we say, promising. Not reassuring entirely, but promising. And we're going to have to work from there, to deal with the next stage of the crisis, because there will be a next stage. This president may have probably learned something from this experience, or he may not have. I don't know, but that's where we stand.

So, this is typical of society. Of course it's awful. But also, you said something else, really. Think about it. What you are really talking about is the influence of the present older generation, that is, those who are in their 50s and 60s. They and the people they influence, are reacting with indifference to the reality of the present situation. That's why the youth movement is so important. As a youth movement, the conscience of the nation, you have to be in a sense like Cervantes was in the case of depicting the self-destruction of Spain by a crazy monarch typified by Phillip II, and the crazy Spanish peasant, typified by Sancho Panza. You have to have a certain sense of humor of a higher kind, about the reality of the situation. We have a stinking society. We poor fellows have to solve the problem. And the youth generation actually has the power to reach the older generation. That's how youth movements work.

But sometimes the youth movement is not adequately developed, and it only works badly or doesn't work at all. My insistence is that the youth generation must not only be dedicated to arousing the conscience of the older generation, of their parents' generation in particular, but the youth movement must develop in itself the competence of knowledge to become policy-makers of society. And that's the difference I'm trying to make with this kind of youth movement, which is to create a youth movement not only capable of provoking the adult population into sensible responses, to stop their silly indifference to reality of the type you describe, and others, but to actually be qualified to assume the responsibility of government.

If you don't like government, make yourself qualified to assume the responsibilities of government. Not like poor Sancho Panza, who couldn't resist his belly's demands long enough to govern an island. So, in order to be effective, don't be like Sancho Panza. Be able to govern, get the qualification to govern. And I think that's what we're doing. So let's have confidence in ourselves. I think that we can do the job, and have fun. I keep telling people all the time, have fun. Cognition is fun. Spiritual exercises are fun, they're the highest form of pleasure. Have fun. I think we can do the job.

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