by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

(LPAC) A poor fellow of Italy, Paolo Raimondi, formerly a loyal associate of mine, falsified his personal history more than a little bit before a largely Russian audience at Modena, Italy. He reported, falsely, that I had kicked out the "older" people from my European association, that in order to make way for younger associates. Francois Rabelais' Panurge would have seen through Raimondi's fib immediately.

The truth is, that a few years ago, I presented serious, well-grounded charges for abuses against one misguided leading figure of our Germany association. Rather than face those charges, the person in question offered to resign. He left the association in the fashion of the sheep of Panurge. One jumped overboard, and all the other poor, woolgathering sheep who dearly loved the accused instinctively followed him. Raimondi was one of those sheep; he did not drown, but, in fact, is still bleating out there, in the waters someplace, last spotted in Modena.

The European association from which the sheep departed, still exists in vigorous good health, with the unfortunate Raimondi the only member of his association known to us as on record in that country, but therefore a leading figure of the association, well suited, therefore, to speak for himself.

It is one thing to be such a sheep; it is worse to attempt to pull the wool over other people's eyes.