Question: [translated]  If you should have the luck to ever become President, he would like to know how you would resist, or how you would fight against the present establishment?

LaRouche: [chuckles] Well, I don't think it's a matter of luck: The question is, is the United States going to have the luck to have me as President, not whether I'm going to have the luck, or not! When I see the bunch of idiots I'm running against, as so-called rivals, I cry for the United States! And, if the United States population does not reject all such candidates, the United States has no future.

But, then the question takes on a concrete form, at that point. All right, now, what you have: you have a long term--as I said in the presentation today, you have a long-term process, starting from the history inside Europe civilization; that is, starting from ancient Greece, about 800 B.C. on. And, you have this long history; and the struggle is, as in all mankind, to free man from a condition in which some people hunt down or herd other people as animals, and in which they themselves behave like animals. Hmm? Now, of course, you had, under the Emperors, from Charlemagne until Otto III in Europe, you had a struggle against the successive evils of Byzantium and Venice. And, when Otto III became Emperor, then Venice began to suddenly increase its power, as an imperial maritime power in the Mediterranean, and beyond.

So, you had the idea of the ancient Babylon empires, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and feudalism, were based on an idea, which was called the "ultramontane principle of law." The fact is, that the assumption, that an emperor, or a system of empire, must rule the world, and nation-states could only exist as conveniences within the law prescribed by the universal law. Von der Heydte and Helga have dealt with this conception, as it goes up, into the period of the Renaissance--this change from the ultramontane system to the modern state.

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