Operation Fruehmenschen Resurfaces in Boston -- LaRouche: "There Is Racism In Ted Kennedy's Boston"

November 30, 2008 (LPAC) -- In response to reports of the resurfacing of the Justice Department's racist targeting of constituency leaders in Boston, Massachusetts, Lyndon LaRouche said that this must be called by its real name, which is Operation Fruhmenschen. "Use this word," he said. "We have to call it what it is. It is racism. There is racism in Ted Kennedy's Boston."

Operation Fruehmenschen was launched in the late 1950s by then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, targeting African-American elected officials with sting operations. While the racist Hoover believed such sting operations would demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of African-Americans, the policy was used by British-linked banking and financial circles in the U.S. to eliminate political leaders who would fight against austerity measures directed against their constituents. The Schiller Institute sponsored a two-day hearing, chaired by former US. Rep. Jim Mann and civil rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, which documented that this practice did not end with the death of Hoover, but continued throughout the 1990s. As LaRouche -- himself the target of a long-standing operation run through the same corrupt channels at the DOJ -- pointed out at the Mann-Chestnut hearings, that the racism of this practice was not limited to the targeting of minority elected officials, but to their constituents; because the removal of the leaders who were targeted, left their constituents without leadership to fight the Schachtian fascist economic policies directed against them.

The DOJ targets in Boston are former State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, and City Councilor Chuck Turner, both of whom were arrested, following sting operations. Both of them have engaged in collaboration with LaRouche activists in Boston, with Wilkerson recently giving support to LaRouche's Home Owner and Bank Protection Act (HBPA), which includes a moratorium on home foreclosures. Local African-American leaders have called the arrest of Turner a "KKK lynching," and have vowed to fight.

LaRouche said that the DOJ operations in Boston should be seen in the context of an escalation by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with full FBI back-up, against Congressional Democrats, such as Rep. Charles Rangel, and also in the context of the assassination threats against President-elect Obama. These threats must be taken seriously, he added, as the forces behind them, including the "Vault" crowd in Boston, with its historic connections to Anglo-Dutch imperial interests, are committed to the destruction of the U.S. as a sovereign nation. It should be remembered that the initial legal assault against LaRouche in the late 1980s was centered in Boston, run by then-U.S. Attorney William Weld, whose family has long-standing ties to those pro-British imperial networks.