"I can't believe this," Anton interjected. "Our country wouldn't reject such a great chance to live in peace and prosper by it."

      "It did so, Anton. That's history. The rejection was probably in response to western oligarchic coercion. Many powerful people in the world wanted to keep the East/West isolation alive. They profit from it. And they definitely don't want peace. They are actively escalating the tensions. They would love to see our two nations to be destroyed that stand in the way of their world-empire dreams. They were, and still are, hoping that we would destroy one-another, after which they would rule over what is left. They are scared to death of the potential for an economic renaissance that LaRouche offered, that a serious Soviet and American cooperation would invariably create. The private financial world-empire wouldn't have a hope then to continue their looting of the world. They wouldn't be able to stand against a rapidly unfolding renaissance sweeping across the entire planet. The empire can only thrive in a world of weak and poor people, impotent people that they can press into slavery-like servitude. That is why they hate scientific and technological progress. They fear it. The fear it, because any profound commitment in this sphere of humanist progress would lead to global economic development and a new renaissance that would likely never end. They fear that kind of progressive development and fight it anywhere in the world for this reason. It runs totally against the grain of their imperial looting objectives. The renaissance that would have resulted from Mr. LaRouche's proposal would have shut all the empires down. That is why the SDI project was torn down from within and subsequently failed, Anton. The SDI that you had rightfully feared was a perversion. The original SDI had never been implemented. It hadn't been allowed to be implemented. Nor was the Soviet Union allowed to accept the American offer of the original SDI proposal. What LaRouche had proposed, and America had offered the Soviets, would have run in every aspect against the world-imperial interests. For this reason, the man LaRouche is now locked up in jail. The Soviets wanted him killed. They were taught to fear his idea. President Regan had intervened to prevent the killing, but he didn't have the power to override the forces that tried to silence him. And so he remains in jail."

      "What then did you shut down in Venice? We had celebrated your success in shutting the SDI project down, Peter. People have celebrated your achievement all over the world."

      I looked away in shame. "I have helped to shut down nothing more than the perversion of a grand idea, Anton. As I said, the SDI was never implemented. It was turned upside down and turned into a tool for creating more tensions. It had to be shut down. But that shouldn't be taken as a cause for celebration. The people of the world should have cried. The SDI idea was designed to uplift and protect the world. I should not have shut it down, I should have fought to resurrect the project as it had been envisioned. It was a crime to shut it down. I should have exposed the perversion and inspired the whole world to implemented the original idea. I was put on the world stage to scrap the idea. I should have used the opportunity to do something great. Unfortunately, we missed that boat."

      "Maybe you are lucky you missed the boat," Anton interjected. "You might be sharing LaRouche's cell by now or have a cell of your own in the graveyard."

      "Actually we all missed the boat. We missed the opportunity a long time ago. Mankind should have latched onto the idea and carried it forward. So, the grand opportunity was missed long before Venice. What we did in Venice was nothing more than an emergency response to the Soviet Union's insane attack on America with a nuclear cruise missile that had been launched from a fishing trawler. By some freak coincidence a few friends and I saw the missile being launched right off the shore of our coastal monitoring station in North Carolina. We saw the cruise missile coming towards us. We observed it from our balcony after dinner. Luckily, we were able to alert a few people that were eventually able to shoot it down. But before it was shot down, Anton, this thing had come within a few miles of Washington DC.. In the shadow of this near hit on our capital, the president decided that we had to give something to the Soviet Union to ease the strategic pressure we had created by building this missile shield all by ourselves."

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