Even Frederick Douglass Knew about the Middlebury Monster!

April 13, 2007 (LPAC)--The LaRouche PAC has recently uncovered a whole nest of social and political experiments being run out of Middlebury College. Felix Rohatyn, Robert Flud, Teddy Roosevelt IV, and others from the Lehman Brothers investment firm are running this operation. This Eugenics/back to nature cult is a social experiment whose precedent goes way back to the era of Civil War. Frederick Douglass, while organizing for emancipation of the slaves, went to Middlebury, Vermont to try and organize a conference to begin the process of emancipation. In his book, "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," from the second part of chapter five entitled, "One Hundred Conventions," he recounts the opposition he ran into while organizing in Middlebury, Vermont.

"Those who only know the State of Vermont as it is today can hardly understand, and must wonder that there was forty years ago need for anti-slavery effort within its borders. Our first convention was held in Middlebury, its chief seat of learning and the home of William Slade, who was for years the co-worker of John Quincy Adams in Congress; and yet in this town the opposition to our anti-slavery convention was intensely bitter and violent. The only man of note in the town whom I now remember as giving us sympathy or welcome was Mr. Edward Barber, who was a man of courage as well as ability, and did his best to make our convention a success. In advance of our arrival the college students had very industriously and mischievously placarded the town with violent aspersions of our characters and the grossest misrepresentations of our principles, measures, and objects. I was described as an escaped convict from the State prison, and the other speakers were assailed not less slanderously. Few people attended our meeting, and apparently little was accomplished by it."

We hope that former President Bill Clinton, who plans to give a commencement speech at Middlebury College later this month, will hear the message of Frederick Douglas and the study the work done by the LaRouche Youth Movement, and take appropriate action.