Question: It's an honor to be here, Dr. LaRouche. And my name is Fan. I graduated from Drexel University in electrical engineering. So, I guess I can request my $50,000 refund, there.

Mr. LaRouche, I've been a reader of your articles for two years, now, and I just started going to the meetings, like a week ago. And it's been very interesting to see what's going on with the young people here--you know, the passion. And, I just wanted to mention, that growing up as a child, in Nigeria, West Africa, this idea of being a leader; what is a leader? And how do you make a leader in the community, you know: passion, and ideas, universal principles.  And, being introduced to the truth, as Jesus, growing up, made a whole lot of difference in my life, both passion-wise, and my career, and the way I move in life.

But, the question I have for you today, when you do become President of the United States of America, how you propose a game plan for the continent of Africa, to bring it up from the Dark Ages of neo-colonialism, and the brain drain we have there now--all our intellectuals are moving down to the Western world, and seeking Western modes of knowledge and all other stuff. And, also, information technology is now moving down to Africa, today. They have the wildest communication, and it's blowing out, and everybody's catching on now, with the cell phone; and with the computers, now--there's a big thing there.

So, what is going to be your game plan, based on that?

My second question is this: What is the relationship between Plato, Cusa, da Vinci--you know, all the great minds of the past--and Jesus? And what is the significance of Jesus, as he claimed to be the only begotten Son of God, of the Creator, and the way they treat him in life?

The third question is--[laughter]. The third question is: If all the engineering principles that I learned in school, all the axioms and postulates are all based on not reality, is all false, my question is: How is it possible that man has been able to make all the inventions, from wild communication to technology and computers and that stuff? That's another question altogether.

And, the last question is: When you do become the President of the United States, and ushering in this Golden Age Renaissance, do you think about the Book of Revelations [sic] as it refers to the End Times, and how everything's panning out in the world, to people dying, and everything happening--. Look, LaRouche, I'm sorry!

LaRouche: I have no truck, with what's called the concept of the Book of Revelation. That is not a book of revelation, it is the vision of St. John. And, it is his vision of the evil of that time, which was based, as he said, in the Whore of Babylon, in the tradition of Mesopotamian evil, which is the evil which afflicted the Middle East and Europe, at that time--what became Europe.

The role of Christ--I'll go backwards on this: Christ is very simple to understand, if you do it in the right way. You have two works of Bach: The Passion of St. John and the Passion of St. Matthew. Now, these two works were designed by one of the greatest artists of all time, to present Jesus.

How was it done? You had a chorus of boys, singing at Thomas School, at the same place I referred to earlier, where Bach was the master. You had an orchestra. You had soloists. And you had a congregation. And they all participated in the event, which was the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ. And, through this event, as a great artistic work, based on the New Testament, the congregation, the people, participated in a re-enactment of the experience of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.

The issue there, is precisely this question, of the simultaneity of immortality: That is, that, if Christ died for mankind, what does that mean? And, you look at the history of mankind, in Europe, in particular, since that time, and the lesson's clear: The condition of mankind, prior to Christ, insofar as we know any history, was that most men, who ruled, treated other men as hunted or herded human cattle. That, the conflict among peoples, was considered natural. People considered other peoples, as human cattle. So-called "nations," or "nationalities," or language groups, treated other people as human cattle.

For the first time, with Christ, the universality of mankind was established. The way in which this occurred, is, Christ's life was lived in the midst of a Classical Greek culture, where no Hebrew was spoken. Hebrew as a spoken language did not exist at that time. There was an Arabic language, called Aramaic, which did exist. But, educated Jews spoke, essentially, Classical Greek--as did the Apostle John, who wrote in Classical Greek; as did Paul, who wrote in Classical Greek. And, there's been much fakery in the translation, where the Classical Greek has been changed by certain editors--not authorized editors--and by various translations from the Greek.

So, the point was, that the idea of mankind, was taken on the issue posed by Plato, in particular, on the nature of the human soul, the universality of man. Christ made this actual, by his Passion and Crucifixion. The Christian Apostles, especially John and Paul, who were the most thorough in the presentation of this, conveyed this. However, it was not until the 15th Century in Europe, that this idea of man, of the universality of man, and the wrongness of treating some people as hunted or herded cattle, was understood, in the emergence of the 15th-Century Renaissance.

After that, evil men, from Venice and others of their collaborators, started religious wars, among Christians and others. You had the evil of the Spanish monarchy, in the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain--which was evil. And resulted in a process of destruction of Spain, by itself, because it became an expression of this evil. Then, the religious wars that tore Europe apart, from 1511-1648, until the Treaty of Westphalia. You had other corruption, by the Enlightenment--corruption.

But, the idea of Christianity and the idea of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, is a continuity within European civilization, which defines, for anyone who experiences it, an understanding of what that means.

Now, the question of truth, the question of knowing truth, comes from these kinds of exercises, which Plato and the Platonic dialogues describe. The paradoxes which--I've just written another paper on this subject, which I won't try to repeat here; it's a longer paper, just been out today, but you'll have it in a short period of time, on "Visualizing the Complex Domain," which deals with the problem of Satanism, and how that comes in, in society.

Well, on the question of Africa: We've done a lot of work on Africa. The condition of Africa today, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, so-called "black Africa," is: The British and Americans, and Israelis, have been committing, since the middle of the 1970s, have been committing systemic genocide throughout Africa. It didn't begin there. But, a policy, in 1974, Henry Kissinger, as National Security Advisor, wrote a memorandum, called National Security Study Memorandum 200, which said--referring to Africa, among other places, that Africa contains valuable mineral resources, and other resources which we, in the United States, need. Therefore, we must prevent Africans from using up these natural resources. We must do two things: We must prevent Africans from acquiring technology, because they will use up natural resources more rapidly, per capita. We must also reduce the African population, and destroy their ability to consume these natural resources.

So, my mission on this subject, is #1, is to eliminate the policy of genocide, which the government of the United States, and the United Kingdom, and Israel, have practiced against Africa, and are practicing to this present day. I know a lot about the inside of Africa, and about how the genocide is being run, and some of the details of who, in the United States and elsewhere, are doing it.

What they did to Nigeria, for example: They destroyed Nigeria! And they're determined to finish the job, and break it up. We're determined to deal with it--but how to deal with it? We take the genocidalists, we take them out, and we deal with them properly. Get 'em out of the picture; get 'em out of the picture! We must save Africa. But, Africa's a very poor part of the world. They do not have the physical resources to develop, adequately. All right.  Now, they must develop themselves. We must not develop them; they must develop themselves. But: We must give them the conditions under which they have a chance to develop themselves. What are those conditions? Well, if we, in the Americas and Eurasia, agree--if we're dealing with our problems and solving our problems--then, we have the resources for doing for Africa what we need. One of the first things, which I prescribed, since the middle of the 1970s, is a system of mass-infrastructure corridors, from north to south, and east to west, in Africa. I.e., from Cairo to Cape Town, on the one side; from Dakar to Djibouti on the other side. And, other trunk lines.

We must provide, with cooperation with the Africans, we must provide the extra effort, needed to build high-speed rail lines; power lines; new urban centers in places like Chad, which are now desert; water management systems on a large scale. We must turn these over to Africans, in a technology-transfer mode, and give them, through the technology-transfer mode, the ability to develop the institutions inside Africa, to do the same kind of thing, on a more extensive scale, internally.

The prospects for Africa are good. Africa has one of the largest areas of agriculture in the world. The problem is, the agriculture is poor. Diseases abound. The food rots before it's harvested. It rots after it's harvested. It doesn't get to the people. Africa is, essentially, a potentially food-exporting area of the world to Asia, the most densely populated part of the world. Southeast and East Asia, hmm?

So therefore, Africa has a perspective for development. We must give them the freedom and choice, and assistance, in programs, which will actually result in that. One of the first things we have to concentrate upon, within the infrastructure program, is to save the agriculture. We must help them save their crop; improve their crop; we must help them protect their crop, after they harvest it, so it's not rotted away and destroyed.

And we must help them in other ways, in medical ways for example. For example, our friends in Brazil: Brazil has a policy of using generic drugs, providing generic drugs for Africa. It's one of the few parts of the world, that believes in generic drugs for Africa. Africa, as we know, has a great tropical disease problem. They have an HIV problem, especially in Botswana, which is beyond belief. We don't know why. But we know the Botswana population is not the poorest part of Africa, but it has the highest rate of HIV among its educated strata. We want to know why? Is somebody poisoning the pills, or something like that?

So therefore, these are the kinds of things, that are concerns. So, if we straighten out our act, politically, with cooperation in Eurasia--which is about to happen: We're on the verge of success in cooperation in Eurasia. If we take the policy from the United States, of cooperation with Mexico, Central and South American countries, we will have a powerhouse beyond belief, on this planet, for economic development. With that power, we can fix the problem in Africa, of the part, that we should fix, and help the Africa to do the rest for themselves. [sustained applause]

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