From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: James Bevel To Run For Vice President!!
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:25:14 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

                         PRESS RELEASE

   CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER TO RUN FOR VICE-PRESIDENT WITH LAROUCHE

July 29-- The presidential campaign of independent Democratic
candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. announced that the Reverend
James Bevel, civil rights activist and one of the chief
assistants to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been
drafted as LaRouche's vice-presidential running mate. 
     Bevel cited "the urgent necessity to build an independent
people's movement based on the United States Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence, before it is too late."  Bevel
quoted Dr. King: " 'We were all involved in the death of John
Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of
violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential
application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only
if we agreed with his views.' 
     "That's the situation in the country right now. Any time
that you have a government that engages in kidnapping foreign
nationals and leaders, in electrocution of innocent adults and
children, in militarily asaaulting other nations for electoral
purposes, in years-long persecution of political activists and
economic scientists, in refusing to open the files on
assassinations and character assassinations committed against its
political leaders and citizens, then you have to look for the
nation's problem in the hearts and minds of the people that
support this lawlessness by tolerating it. 
     "America has been criminalized by the way it votes. The
person who votes for the lesser of two evils, votes for evil.
It's like deciding to lynch a man instead of eating him. Either
way, you commit a crime. And not voting--that's like watching a
lynching on TV. It's a crime of omission. 
     "The people must become the government. They must ensure
that the self-evident truths of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, survive. This requires a moral economic policy, based
on the Christian idea of love, on nonviolence. LaRouche offers
America, and the world, a policy that means that you can develop
one country without having to kill people in another country.
It's an anti-slavery economic policy. The United States hasn't
had that since Reconstruction. That's what King died trying to
establish. 
      "Yet, twenty four years later, the poor are increasing in
numbers, and so are the rich. The poor are being thrown on the
scrap heap as useless eaters.  For civil rights to be meaningful
today, everyone must be entitled to not only the right to vote
but also to work productively, to be prepared for such work and
for citizenship by a decent education, and to receive adequate
health care. LaRouche and I stand for such a concept of civil
rights.
     "LaRouche needs to be released from jail to organize this
policy himself. The job of the Vice-President is to provide the
best conditions for the President to do what he has to do. If
there's one thing I know about, it's how to get righteous people
out of jail, so that they can do the job that the country and the
citizens need them to do. So, I guess that's my qualification to
run for Vice-President of the United States, at this time, in
this crisis. 
     "Otherwise, with Clinton or Bush, it will be just a matter
of time before we return to the days of the 1850 Fugitive Slave
Act, and the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Then, judges in this
country, will be turning in their black robes for white robes." 
     Reverend James Bevel was founder of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and Direct Action Coordinator for the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. during the Mississippi, Birmingham, and Selma
campaigns. 



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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com

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