LaRouche
in Panama
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Manuel Solis Palma, former
President of Panama www.larouchepub.com/eirtoc/1999/eirtoc_2629.html "Balkan Reconstructin: the LaRouche Alternative to Global Catastrophe"Miguel Bush, Panamanian Congressman
EIR Press Conference.
Washington, DC June 23, 1999 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/586025/posts Clark’s
next legal client was equally surprising. In 1989 he became Lyndon Larouche’s lead attorney in Larouche’s attempt to appeal his
conviction on federal mail fraud charges. Larouche,
who began his political career in the late 1940s as a member of the
Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP), had by the late 1970s embraced the
far right, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust denial. Clark claimed that the
government was persecuting Larouche
solely to suppress his political organizing, and even went so far as to
express "amazement" at the personal "vilification"
directed at his client! A report from the left-wing watchdog group Political
Research Associates suggests that Clark’s fondness for Larouche may have been rooted in Larouche’s aggressive support for
Panamanian dictator General Manuel Noriega, who had been forcibly removed
from power by the Bush Administration. Both Larouche
and Clark participated in the movement opposed to American military
intervention in Panama. Clark even visited Panama in January 1990 as part of
an "Independent Commission of Inquiry" to examine American
"war crimes." (Not surprisingly, the Commission found America
"guilty.") |