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National News Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 8, Number 48, December 15, 1981 NationalNews Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Dela­ New York .... there are thousands of ware alsa have euthanasia bills pending. leaflets in every [subway workers'] de­ Said Klenetsky, "At the Nuremberg pot.... " This refers to a leaflet issued by Libertarian politicians trials after World War II a prominent the TWU leadership using NDPC docu­ U.S. physician, Dr. Leo Alexander, tes­ mentation of connivance between Haw­ proliferate in Texas tified that widespread genocide started tin and New York's Global 2000 de-ur­ The Libertarian Party is out to launch an with small beginnings by Nazi doctors in banization networks to dump Lawe. electoral force in Texas comparable to the euthanasia movement. The concept Hawtin has been in charge of scripting Post radical environmentalist Tom Hayden's of "a life not worthy to be lived" was attacks on Lawe and the union. Coalition for Economic Democracy in applied first to the "severely and chroni­ California, with a free-market twist for cally sick." This led to the mass murder Texas. The Libertarian movement is of the mentally ill under "Action T-4" backed by Robert O. Anderson, the At­ until 1942 when the "lives not worthy to lantic Richfield chairman who runs the be lived became Jews, Poles and any Moldea outlines war Aspen Institute. opponent of the Nazi leaders," Klenet­ Their most blatant success thus far sky charged. against Reagan has been the November mayoral election Spokesmen for the NDPC scheduled Dan Moldea, the Walter Sheridan pro­ 3 in Houston, where a coalition of liberals, a press conference on Dec. outside the tege connected to the Institute for Policy homosexuals, and libertarians elected offices of Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md.) Studies, has outlined in an interview pro­ Kathy Whitmire. At the same time, the to announce the committee's national vided to EIR his scenario for the destruc­ "cowboy " version of British liberalism campaign against the Natural Death tion of the Reagan administration 4115. ran sufficiently rampant to defeat the Act, D.C. Act Mathias chairs the through the current wave of scandals Clayton water development bill and the Senate subcommittee on the District of aimed at top Reagan administration of­ Austin nuclear energy project. Columbia, and will be put on the spot to ficials. In Houston, three card-carrying Lib­ introduce a resolution of disapproval in Earlier this year Moldea had read a ertarian Party members were elected to Congress. Mathias is a supporter of the two-hour presentation at a forum spon­ 2000 the Harris County School Board, run­ Global depopulation doctrine. sored by the Institute for Policy Studies, ning on a slick free-market pledge to trim on the "organized-crime connections" of bureaucracy, which is in fact a foot in the the Reagan administration. door for their program of dismantling In the interview Moldea stated that public edu.::ation. Reagan's National Security Adviser In a post-election interview, one of Murdoch's New York Post Richard Allen was dead politically; that the three, Bill Fraser, indicated that the Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan party intends to establish a precinct-level upset about LaRouche would not last more than 60 days because machine in Texas and work actively The tabloid daily New York Post, owned of his involvement with indicted Long through the state legislature to pass their by Anglo-Australian press baron Rupert Island Teamster official Harry Gross; programs if they are stymied locally. Murdoch, on Dec. I carried a banner and that CIA Director William Casey page-three article titled "Neo-Nazis was next on the hit list for links to organ­ Smearing Lawe's Rivals in TWU." The ized crime. background to the article is that the While proclaiming with relish the im­ Post's British intelligence controllers pending destruction of the Reagan ad­ National mobilization have been disconcerted by the National ministration, Moldea sang the praises of Democratic Policy Committee's counter­ FBI Director William Webster for pro­ to stop euthanasia attack against the Post's scandalmonger­ moting the Abscam-style "sting" entrap­ Mel Klenetsky, former New York City ing attempts to wreck the Transit Work­ ment operations against politicians and Democratic mayoral candidate and a ers' Union (TWU), whose current chief, the labor movement, and bemoaned the spokesman for the National Democratic austerity opponent John Lawe, is up for "raw deal" Webster was getting in the Policy Committee (NDP C), announced re-election against a crew of news media because of his conversation this week that he will lead a national "dissidents." with Richard Allen. effort to ensure Congress vetoes the Dis­ Post author Guy Hawtin charges that Moldea said that the Reagan admin­ trict of Columbia's Natural Death Act. "neo-Nazi party workers have mounted istration was handling organized crime Congress must pass a "resolution of a massive propaganda campaign aimed with "kid gloves" and that Webster was disapproval" against the act by the end at smearing Lawe's opponents ...claim­ the only person in the administration of January to prevent it from becoming ing union reformers are backed by 'big who was interested in investigating the law. business interests' who want to destroy Hmob," 62 National EIR December 15, 1981 © 1981 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Briefly • JIMMY CARTER has formed a new political action committee which will raise money for Demo­ Moldea also said that he was to be the following way: "If we don't act now to cratic candidates and for causes "spokesperson" for the independent turn some federally held lands over to such as human rights and Mideast truckers' movement connected with Bill private hands for exploitation of natural peace. The former president said Hill in an upcoming truckers' strike sup­ resources, then within \0 to 20 years we in a letter released Dec. 2 that the posedly timed for around Christmastime. will be faced with a national energy PAC "in no way is for my own Moldea's mentor, Kennedy Justice De­ shortage crisis, such that will force the political career," but instead will partment operative Walter Sheridan, federal government to come in and de­ focus on supporting environmen­ said that it would take something like the stroy the environment of the West in tal quality, arms control and "a truckers' strike to really rev up the scan­ order to force the development of needed humane approach to fiscal respon­ dal against Reagan because of his likely energy resources. sibility." Unconfirmed reports in­ support of the Teamsters' Union against "I saw it when I was on the Federal dicate that Carter's PAC will be the independents, which could be played Power Commission during the severe named "Peanut PAC," or by Reagan's enemies as a "political con­ winters of 1976 and 1977, when a million PEAPAC for short. flict of interest." jobs were lost and real energy shortages threatened the Great Lakes and North­ • EDWIN L. DALE, Jr., the Di­ eastern states. Then, the government rector for Public Affairs of the would have done anything to get the Stockman OMB, co-authored a energy it needed." pamphlet on economic and budg­ Watt undercutting Speaking like an environmentalist at etary policy in 1976 with Donald that point, Watt then declared, "If that Lesh, the Executive Director of the resource development push? happened, then my homeland [Wyo­ U.S. Club of Rome, EIR investi­ I�erior Secretary James Watt astonished ming] would be raped by the govern­ gators learned recently. Dale is a the press corps in Houston on Nov. 24 by ment. former New York Times columnist mouthing the argument of the environ­ While Watt's promise to release fed­ who in 1971 con fessed in print tha t mentalists he allegedly opposes in de­ erally held lands for private exploitation he had no idea what to do about fense of a stand against a plan to bring is appealing to pro-growth interests, it economic policy. water from Alaska. also thwarts the ability for real economic "The environmental impact would be growth, especially in the West. This view • PROF. MEL BRADFORD of horrendous. That, combined with the as­ opposes the "dirigist" role which every­ the University of Dallas has been tronomical cost involved, means that I one who has been involved in the real endorsed by 16 Senators to head ·will not allow a single penny to be spent history of how the West was developed the U.S. National Endowment for out of my department to even study the knows the government must play. the Humanities, although he prais­ idea of transferring water from Alaska to Without water resource develop­ es "moral indifference" toward Canada," Watt stridently asserted to the ment, there is no real economic develop­ slavery and, according to column­ shocked press. ment, as the development of the West ist George Will, he likened Abra­ Watt's emphatic stand against the proves. Such development always re­ ham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler. Lin­ NAWAPA concept-revealed publicly quires strong government support. coln, claims Professor Bradford, for the first time at the Houston press Yet, Watt shrugged his shoulders and "undermined our inherited consti­ conference-contradicts interest ex­ grinned when asked what words of com­ tutional system" by replacing pressed by others close to President Rea­ fort he had for farmers in the High Plains "positive pluralism" with a "uni­ gan in reviving a study of the Alaskan who are faced with ruin if no new water formitarian" doctrine. water option. is provided. It also coheres with other views ex­ "Nothing will be done at least until • CORRECTION: In our Dec.
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