The following statement was issued by LaRouche Democrat Bill Roberts (MI) part of the slate of six LaRouche Democrats running for U.S. Congress. A PDF for print distribution is available.

The creation of a twelve person “Super Congress,” to supposedly resolve a “debt ceiling crisis,” was a cowardly act of treason by the majority of the U.S. Congress. The truth of this matter must be told far and wide: what is happening is a Hitler-like coup against our government which Lyndon LaRouche and the Slate of Six LaRouche Democratic Candidates have been repeatedly warning about.

Obama and his London and Wall Street backers are now sinking the government, a move -- like the “Enabling Act” of the German Reichstag in 1933 -- required to implement waves of population-destroying austerity policies. These policies demanded by Wall Street are not possible without breaking the Constitutional authority of Congress over the power of the purse. The two week conflict of back and forth negotiations, all to avoid a “sovereign default crisis,” was concocted by Wall Street ratings agencies and the Obama administration, as a strategic act of war against the growing potential for re-implementing Glass Steagall, an act of war strategically crafted to destroy them. Glass Steagall will promptly bankrupt the enemies of the nation and force the default on them. They know this well, and do not intend to sit idly by, waiting to be forced to swallow their own toxic gambling debts.

This has nothing to do with a budget. It has nothing to do with a debt ceiling. It’s not about too little taxes or too much spending. This is a direct, pre-emptory attack on the authority of the U.S. congress to function as the representatives of the people of the United States, who are increasingly furious at the inaction of their members of Congress, and are demanding action. The channel through which that demand has been registered so far, has been the leadership of the LaRouche PAC and the Slate of Six, in organizing a citizen’s movement nationwide, to force members of Congress to fight for their future: restore Glass Steagall and impeach Obama.

The only appropriate response to this overt act of treason against the Constitution, is to realize that this fight is nothing less than a war against the enemy of civilization. If you plan on surviving, then plan on fighting that fight.

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