On September 5, civil rights veteran Amelia Robinson introduced independent vice presidential candidate, Reverend James Bevel, to the International Caucus of Labor Committees conference, outlining his early years with the civil rights movement, and characterizing him as ``fearless.'' ``I greet your decision to run for vice president,'' she continued, ``with grateful appreciation and a greater love for the step you have recently taken, to be the armor-bearer of our leader, Lyndon H. LaRouche, who never tires of fighting. You did not do this on your own, but by a greater spirit within that made you hear that still, small voice. Our God, Who never makes a mistake, saw your good works and called you from among many. ``This is not a small responsibility. You are capable and that is why you have been chosen. You have a great army behind you, and many more are witnessing the handwriting on the wall and are joining us. In the front of the battle you will find them. ``So march on through the storm, the darkness, and over the mountain, for there is a greater reward. The storm of injustice will cease. The darkness will be overcome by bravery and understanding. The mountain of prejudice will become a hill, and where there is hatred it will vanish, and love for all human beings will take its place. ``Look over your shoulder. There is a multitude of followers no man can count. I give you my friend, James Bevel.'' We continue here with excerpts from the Reverend Bevel's speech to the conference, which began in the last issue of {New Federalist.} - * * * - You might say, ``Well, why don't you have a problem with Lyndon LaRouche?!'' Lyndon LaRouche is the first white man I walked up on who could scientifically define marriage. And when I walked up on his wife, she could do it, too. You cannot define marriage scientifically if you haven't solved the problem of hate for your enemy and lust for your sister. Because that's how I develop the system here [in this pamphlet]. Church, government, business, clinic, home, and school, we got these outside, so when the meeting is over everybody can pick up one. This is the system he talked about. I've got it right here, so you can see it. Economics: ``the study and application of the principles and means by which a people produce the material pre-conditions for their own continued existence.'' How do you see to it that everybody is economically independent and institutionally sovereign? You can't have pimps and whores doing that. You've got to be people of God. You've got to be brothers and sisters in Christ. You can't fool me about that. You can't tell me that you was married, that your folks were married and they owned slaves. Men who are married would never own a slave. You can't fool me about that! You can't claim that Bush and Mrs. Bush's marriage [is real]--he went and killed all the folk in Iraq, and killed the folk in Panama--that's a pimp and a whore relationship. You can't fool me about that! Men and their wives don't do what pimps and whores do. Men and their wives love folk. Men and their wives work for everybody else to be husband and wife. Men and their wives work for the freedom of all people. And I know that. What Is Marriage? You come around, telling me you hate somebody. You don't love anybody when you hate anybody. I know that. You tell me you hate somebody. You hate the Russians, then, you hate the Vietnamese, then. Now you're looking for somebody else to hate! And Bush can come up and say, ``Saddam didn't use the right toilet. Let's go kill him!'' ``Yes, sir!'' you say. Because you have not worked out this problem of lust. This is a serious problem, because if you have not worked that out, you and a woman cannot democratically run a church. You and a woman can't democratically run a government. You and a woman can't democratically run a business, a clinic, a home, and a school. And if you can't democratically run all those institutions with a sister, it's because the lust in you makes you read into her your further false definition of females. When she goes along with that, she reads her first false definition of a man into you. A political sex arrangement with a license on it, does not constitute a marriage. What is marriage? It's when a brother and a sister are both in Christ. When folks are dedicated to doing God's will, and God put them together to manifest his will collectively on earth, that's marriage. Now why am I taking all the time to say this? Because I want to bother you and upset you? No. We are in a war and we have to take the nation back and unholy folk can't take this nation back. You can't play family in the public and live like a pig in private. This war demands that we be gold through and through, that we got to be 100 percent right going and 100 percent right coming. That when the enemy catch us, we got to be gold. They claim that we be mud, but if they put us in the furnace and we are gold and nothing but gold, the scientists got to say, ``Well it is gold.'' So we can't come up with no duplicitous games. We've got to be able to tell the young boys and girls the difference between being man and wife and playboys and playgirls. You got to know that. So I'm dealing with two issues here: On the army and the organizers. You got to get violence out and you got to get lust out, because we've got to take the nation back. Now if you ain't willing to work on that, and that's how LaRouche came about knowing this definition, and you say, ``How do you know?'' Because I worked on the definition. I didn't even know anything about LaRouche. Didn't even know a man had that much courage. I just said, ``I'll probably live and die and go on off somewhere where men like me die and go and live. But I found a man who had addressed that question of violence and lust. And Dennis was in the meeting with me. I walked up on Helga and I said, ``You understand why I trust your husband, right?'' She said, ``No.'' I said, ``Because he has addressed the problem of violence and lust.'' And you know what she looked to me and said? ``That's true.'' And that is true. That's how he got the definition. Now what am I saying? It is not enough for you to be around a wise and intelligent man, parroting what he says. It's important that you take the principle and apply it to yourself so you manifest, so you manifest fruit from the principle. See, he don't need us quoting what he said, he needs us manifesting what he said. You understand? So we don't need Bush. You know the story, you probably read the book on Spartacus, where the Romans got Spartacus down by the lake or the ocean rather. They were beating up on him and the slave army that Spartacus led; and he finally told his soldiers, ``Wait. Let's don't fight.'' And the Roman generals came out, and they had three armies. One came up the left flank, the right flank, and one was hitting them straight from the head. So Spartacus said, ``Well listen. Since the Romans are asking that I surrender. Why don't I just surrender and all you guys go on off? They'll take me and you guys can go organize later.'' So Spartacus got up and surrendered himself. The Roman generals came out and said, ``We just want Spartacus! Just give us Spartacus!'' And Spartacus got up. Put his hands up and said, ``I'm Spartacus.'' And he walked toward the generals to surrender himself and somebody else stood up behind him and said, ``I'm Spartacus!'' And somebody else stood up stood up and said, ``I'm Spartacus.'' And somebody else stood up and said, ``I'm Spartacus!'' And all the army of men began to stand up and say, ``I'm Spartacus.'' It is not disgraceful that Lyndon LaRouche is in jail, it is disgraceful that more of us are not in jail for the same reason. I used to ask the question and used to get mad about it. I said, ``I don't like the Declaration of Independence.'' Talking to my brother Dick. He said, ``Why?'' I said, ``There was no black folks at the meeting.'' He said, ``Because they wouldn't get up and go to the meeting.'' And what am I saying? I'm saying that the position of economics that Lyndon LaRouche holds to be true, based on his relationship with God, and based on his relationship with his brothers, and based on his relationship with his sisters, all of us here ought to hold that definion to be true. Not only should we hear him saying that, understanding that it's true, the purity in our lives should prove it to us. That that is right. That everybody must be economically independent and institutionally sovereign. We will end slavery and prostitution on our planet and we will not tolerate it. Join the Army So I am challenging all of you to become the army. To join the army, the holy army. Let's not go back. There ain't nothing to go back to. Let's go forward.... We'll have meetings and I'll pray that after our formal sessions that everybody who came to this conference and is not a full-time worker in the LaRouche movement, I want you to meet with me after the session, because you should not go away not being a full-time organizer. Let's talk about what we got to organize and show you how many organizers we need. We need organizers! We must put before every voter our platform and program and the way in which they can participate in constitutional work for self, neighbor, the nation, and the world. We need volunteers to work on the campaign for at least eight years. Why? Because we have to guarantee our children that we will have a constitutional government in this nation. I want you all to hear me good. Some of you guys got the technology and as long as you get enough beer and cars and cigarettes and tickets to go to movies and ball games, you're pretty cool! I cannot live under a system of slavery. I can't do it! I can't live that way. I can't talk with people but about two things: how to be economically independent as a free citizen and a just nation. I have nothing else to talk about with people. What would I be talking about? What would it be?! I am serious about that! How do I be an economically independent citizen in a free just nation?! I don't have nothing to talk about with males or females, blacks or whites, east or west; what would I be talking about?! I'm not going to talk about robbing folk and I'm not going to talk about selling my labor to anybody. Because I was created in the image and likeness of God. My theology gives me that right and my nation gives me the right to exercise that dominion under the law, so should why should I talk about something less than man to anybody? I'm saying that you should not go away from this conference back to where you came from. You ought to join the army so we can go forward. Challenge the Death Penalty Just let me list the things we got to do. So we got to go the voters. And the newspapers have slammed the door in our face, but we have folk who are dedicated, we still can get to the voters. We must challenge the death penalty until that satanic ritual is no longer practiced in this nation. On September 15, they plan to kill a man down in Richmond named Leroy [Willie Leroy Jones--executed on September 15--ed.]. The same September 15 when they killed four little black girls in Birmingham. I'd like for you to go down there with me. Let's talk to this woman [Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry]. You know they go around talking about praying for the guy being killed, why don't we pray for the woman who is doing the killing? She seems to have more problems than the guy she is killing. Why don't we go down there and pray for [Virginia Governor Douglas] Wilder? He needs redeeming! They killed four girls in a church in Birmingham in '65 on September the 15th, and that same Ku Klux Klan attitude has now become officially part of the American government. Are we going to sit around the house drinking beer, eating sausage, telling jokes while the state claims that a man's right is a privilege and not a right. Are we going to play crazy like it isn't going on?! Let me tell you what happened to me when I was counselor A negro came in, his wife sent him in because he was an alchoholic. He started drinking three years earlier. She didn't know what caused him to be an alchoholic. So I started counseling with this man and getting back into his history. I found out that he lived in a neighborhood where there was a gang leader that everybody was afraid of. So one night this gang leader broke into his house. He was lying in bed, and he looked up and he saw the gang leader; but being scared of the gang leader, he played sleep. The gang leader came into the house and took his money out of his pocket, and he still played sleep. The gang leader raped his wife, and he still played sleep. The gang leader went into the next bedroom and raped his daughter, and he still played sleep. His daughter and wife got up and went to the bathroom. They was talking, and his wife was saying ``Maybe we should call the police.'' The daughter said, ``Mom, let's go and tell daddy.'' Meantime, he walks to the bathroom door to find out what they've been talking about, so when he knew they were leaving the bathroom, he ran and got back into bed and played sleep again. So subsequently he started drinking. Well, if I was like that I wouldn't want to be sober either. What am I saying? What am I saying? The men in the world today are just like that negro. Folk are killing people and we're playing sleep! Folks took prayer out of schools and started killing children in the electric chair and we're playing sleep! Folks have desecrated marriage and claim that homosexuality is the law that should govern relationships, and we play sleep. Most of us are just like that drunk. See the robbers and the killers, see the Constitution going down, see the men taking away the law and we sit around playing sleep! I'm saying we cannot afford to do that, because that's death and that's slavery. So we've got to stop the death penalty. Open the Files We need to get the files on every assassinated and incarcerated political leader in this nation. They're going to kill our President, they're going to kill our attorney general and Senator Kennedy?! They're going to kill our prophets. They're going to put our leader--LaRouche--in jail, and tell us that we can't see the files until after our grandchildren are born and we're dead. And we're just going to go home and watch television and eat sausages and drink beer? Argh! Don't you understand why it's hard for me not to cuss now? So we need folks to work on that. We got to put pickets in front of the President's house and say, ``give us our files!'' Word got to go out on that. We need to get the Federal Reserve constitutionalized and put under Congress! That's got to be organized. If the boys who are selling drugs and shooting folks with guns, knew that the Federal Reserve were properly administered under the law, would put money back into the cities to redevelop the infrastructure so they could be employed and learning scientists, do you think they would stop selling drugs and start picketing? I think they would. We've got to organize people. So we can't go back, we've got to save our nation. We need our cadre schools open, recruiting and educating people on a full-time basis. We need volunteers for that. We need precinct councils set up in every precinct where there's violence and poverty. We need volunteers for that. We need parents organized to put prayer and education into the public schools. We need field organizers to get out the literature. We need the phone teams doubled. We need volunteers for general administration. That's not a talking thing, this is a work thing. These things have got to be done if we're going to save the nation. We can't afford to be civilians in a time of war. I'm serious. We cannot afford to be civilians in a time of war. You'd look like a fool walking around, talking about what class you're in. You're in a foolish class, if you ain't in war fighting for freedom. So my brothers and sisters, I must leave you and give you a break and leave you alone. But we have to make decisions. What are we doing, what are we talking about in this campaign? The battle is joined. Our commander-in-chief is in jail. But what are the issues? Good versus evil, right versus wrong, life versus death, freedom versus slavery, economic development versus the death penalty, light versus darkness, government of, for, and by the people versus the Confederate oligarchy, justice versus injustice, peace versus war. You've got to decide. [James Russell] Lowell was right. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. Truth from falsehood. You've got to decide! When the future looks back into your life and they're going to say a great war went on and LaRouche was the commander-in-chief and he was locked up. Your grandchildren are going to go out and look down at your grave and say, ``Granddaddy, what side were you on?'' Let me tell you something, the reason I work hard is not because of what might happen to me in life. I work hard because life is short and death is so long. Because once you turn in for the night, you can't change nothing no more. I know Judas is laying up somewhere in Hell wishing he could change his facts and his history, but he can't. I know, what's that boy's name--Samson--wished he could change the facts, but he can't! And a great battle is going on. And God has sent in our midst a great America, Lyndon LaRouche, who has the courage to fight, even by himself, and the children and nature and everybody asks you, ``What side are you on? What side are you?'' I tell you, I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to say ``Bevel, you don't have to sit on the sidelines. You can join the battle.'' I ask you to join us, because this is a noble man. That which ye stand for will be established. So if you don't help it doesn't make any difference. It's going to established anyway. Because it's right. It's right for all people. It's right because the children of the future are going to hear the music and wake up! It's right! One of things that I feel real bad about, Hosea [Williams, in audience], when I walk around and see guys our age, who ducked and ran when we were fighting, all said, ``I knew Dr. King. I knew Dr. King.'' I hope you don't have to lie like that in the future. I hope that you don't have to lie like that. I hope that you can say, ``No, No. I was in the ringside. I was in the war with LaRouche. We fought together. He was in jail and I got the information out to the people. I organized people. I picketed against the death penalty. We put Bush out of the White House on the question of the files. We got Congress to put in the Federal Reserve under the law. We fought together.'' I hope you don't have to lie like most black men I see have to lie about King. So it is my prayer, brothers and sisters, that this day you make up in your mind to join the army. And I will not get out of the army. And I will stay in the war until every battle is won. God bless you and God keep you.