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PRESIDENTIAL STAIEME!'lT NEWS BULLETIN NO. 30

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LEVI, BURGER IN STATE of INSURRECTION AGAINST U.S. CONSTIfUTION

NEW YORK, FEB. 16 (IPS)- U.S. LABOR PARTY PHESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LYNDON LAROUCHE RELEASED THE FOLLmnNG STATEMENT TODAY • .

'''BY niEIE? VICIOUS AND DEADLY ATTACKS ON nIE RIGHTS AND GUARANTEES'

of THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AT THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION CONVENTION OVER nnSLAST rJEEKEND, ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWARD LEVI AND CHIEF JUSTICE WARREn BURGER HAVE DECALRED THEMSELVES TO BE. IN A STATE of CRIMINAL InSURRECTION AGAINST THE CONSTITUI'IONAL G()VEmJMENT [N THE unITED STATES.

"LEVI PRESENTS ELAB()I�ATE ARGUMENTS AND RATIONALIZATIONS AS Tn WHY THE CONSTITUTION IS ILL-CONCEIVED AND OBSOLETE. BURGSR ARGUES ntAT CITIZENS HAVE FAR Too MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO SEEK REMEDIES FROM mE FEDERAL COURT. BOTH ARE ANNOUNCING niAT THEY INTEND TO SEE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND DUE PRoCESS DESTROYED IN ruE PERIOD IMMEDIA1ELY AHEAD, '

IT IS PROVEN BY THE ESCALATED HARASSMENT AGAINST LABOR PARTY ORGAN-IZING AND ELeCTION CAMPAIGNS.

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"IF THESE Ttm HEN AND OTHER INSlJPRECTIONARIES ARE NoT BROUOHT DOWN AND flEMOVED FROI,{ THE GOVERNMENT. nus COUNTRY WILL FACE A BONA- . PARTIST-TYPE P(>LICE-STATE DICTATORSHIP :'HTHIN MONTHS. nns IS THE CLEAR MeANING of THE SPEECHES MADE BEFORE THE AMERICAN BAR ASS()­CIATION, AS WELL AS CONCURRENT MOVES l'lI11HN THE U.s. CONGRESSPClRTEND-ING THE ADOPTION OF 5-1 MEASURES AND AN OFFICIAL SECRETS

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Act. THE CHURCH COMMITlEe'S COVERUP OF LEVI'S DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND DIRTY TRICKS APPARATUS SIMPLY ROUNDS OUT THE PICTURE.

uIN HIS DESPERATION TO DISCREDIT THE CONSTITUTION. LEVI RESORTS TO . A SMEAR JOB WHICH REEKS of PURE FASCIST IDSnLoGY. nfE U.s. CONSIITI.)-

TION CAME OUT OF A PSRIC>D i'IHEN n1ERE WAS BELIEF IN REASON AND IN THE IDEA of PROGRESS, LEVI tr4A qNS, aur NOr. THAT PROGRESS HAS COME TO AN END AND CYNICISM HAS REPLACED A BELIEF IN THE PERFECTIBILITY OF HUMAN NATURE, THE CONSTITUTION SH()UL� BE JUNKED AS

' HIAPPR()PRtATE TO . THE MoDERN AGE. LEVI'S ARGUMEi·1TS EXPRESS THE E X PLIC I T WORLD-VIEW of FASCISM. W!'iO�E NECESSARY END PRODlCT IS MASS GeNOCIDE AND WE CONCENTRATION CA,,\\PS OF AUSCHWITZ •

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"BURGEH'S ARGlJMENTS ARE MUCH SIMPLER' "MD To-·nm-poINTI IT IS TOO eASY FOR CITIZENS TO GET INTO THE COURTS. To REMEDY THIS SITUATfON, BURGER P�)POSES A NUMBEr? OF CHANGas. FIRST, TO END FEDERAL COU.RT

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JUR ISDI CTION OVER "DIVERSITY" CASES. CASES INVOLVING DISPUfES BetWEEN CITIZENS IN DIFFERENT STATES, WHICH .mULD KNOCK A FUtt ONE-FOURTH OF THE CURR ENT FEDERAL CI VI L CASES OUT OF FEDERAL COURTS. SECOND, TO END DIRECT APPEALS TO THE SUPREME COURT FHOM THREE-J UDGE PANELS IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS; THRE:::-JUDGE PANELS DECIDE ON CHALLENGES TO THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF EXISTING LAl�S OR PRACTICES AND APPEALS FROM THEM BY';'PASS THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS. THI RD. BURGEn PROPOSES THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL COURT OF APPEALS l�HICH VIOULD FURTHER BLOCK ACCESS TO THE SUPREME COURT. FOURTH. SURGER ADVOCATES THE CREATION OF ADDITONAL JUDGESHIPS �'4HICH I�OULD ENABLE DISTRICT FEDERAL COURTS TO BE PACKED THE SAM'E WAY NIXON AND FORD HAVE PACKED THE SUPREME COURT tl1TI1 JUDGES WHO AHE TEARING UP THE CONSTITtrrION.

CHIEF TARGET' THE LABOR PARTY

tiTHE DESTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTIm,!,\L GOVERNf�ENT AND DUE PP.OCESS HAS ONE OBJECTIVE. TO EUFoRCr: BRUTAL AUSIEH fTY POLICIES AND TO

ATIEMPT TO STOP THE ONLY ORG.\NIZ2D OPPOSITION To THOSE POLICIES IN THE U.S. TODAYI THE U.S. LABOR PAi1TY.

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"THERE ARE Ti"JO FORCES IN BATTLE IN THE U. S. TODAY' THE U. S. t.ABOR PARTY FIGHTING TO PRI::SEflVE CIVIL LIf3ERTIES AS THE NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE WORKING CLASS'S ABILITY TO FIGHT fOi? FULL EMPLOYMENT AND WORLD ECONOMIC DEVE!l()PMENI, AND THe �WULD-BE POLICE-STATE DIC-TATORS WHO ARE CONDLCTING THE HOST MASSIVE CAMPAIGN OF TERROR AND HARASSMENT AGAINST THE LABOR PARTY THAT HAS REEN CONDUCTED AGAINST ANY POLITICAL FORCE SINCE THE 1920'S. THIS HARASSMENT HAS AGAIN ESCALATED OVER TIiE PAST WEEKEND co nrc IDENT iHTH LEVI AND BURGER'S SPEECHES, NITH NEW ASSAULTS, RAPE ATIF.MPTS, AND WITH USLP CANDIDATE FOR U.S. SENATE, ALAN OGDEN, REMAINING IN JAIL IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ON TOTALLY ILLEGAL Af'.JD UNCONSTITuTIONAL CHARGES.

'''PROVING HIS CONTE'�PT FOR mE u.s. CONSTITUTION, LEVI IS CON­TINUING TO APPLY THE NOTORIOUS SMITH ACT AND MCCARREN ACT TO LABOR PARTY MEMBERS, IN SP ITE OF TIiE FACT TIIAT TH�SE ACTS WERE DECt.AR ED UNCONSTITUTIONAL LONG AGO BY AN EARLIER SUPI�EME COURT • . THE s�nTI-! ACT CONTINUES TO 8E THE FBI'S JUSTIFICATION FOR HARASSING LABOR PARTY MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS, iIlillE THE MCCA1mEN ACT PROVISIONS ARE BEtNG APPLIED BY niB JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Tr) LABOR PAf�TY MEMBERS SEEKING PERMANENT HESIDENT STATUS IN THE UNITED STATES.

uTHE LABOR PARTY WILL BE CHALLEtmrNG THESE UNCONSTITllrtoNAL ACTIONS OF LEVI'S JUSTICE DEPARTMSNT IN FEDi:iCAL COU!?TS OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. Bur TO INSURE THAT rue RIGHT of SEEKING REDRESS FROM THE COURTS REMAINS. AND THAT CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE NOT DESTr:l)YED, 11iE u.S. VmRKING CLASS MUST CONDtCT A DETEHMINED BATTLE FROM nits POI NT FORWARD TO SEE THAT THE LEV I-BURGEr? I NSURHECTION IS CRUSHED BEFORE THEY SUCCEED IN IMPOSING �AZI DICTATORIAL JUSTICE ON THE U.s. POPULAT ION. II

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