LaRouche Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare was one of about a dozen speakers to address the third Rage Against the War Machine rally, held this time on the sidelines of the Libertarian National Convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last weekend. Other speakers included veterans Josephine Gilbeau of the Eisenhower Media Group and Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center; Scott Horton, Editorial Director of antiwar.com; and Dan McKnight, Founder of Defend the Guard.
Due to unsurprising internal chaos at the Libertarian Convention, the indoor rally started two hours late and was attended by about 200 people in person (filling the room) and live streamed on several channels. The in-person audience included anti-war activists who came in explicitly for the rally and waited through the two-hour delay, as well as Libertarian participants from the convention.
Sare opened her speech saying, “I am asking you not to rage but to think.” She developed the idea that the United States is in a revolutionary situation, both because of the awakening of conscience in the face of the genocide in Gaza and because of the economic hardship being experienced by Americans as a result of the forever war policy.
When Sare called for abolishing the Federal Reserve, the room erupted into cheers and applause, but Sare held up her finger and said, “You’re not going to like the next part. We need to establish a national bank.”
There was a startled silence when Sare said, “Everyone in this room is going to die,” probably because people were not sure if she was going to say something about an imminent threat. She developed the Leibnizian conception of “pursuit of happiness” from the Declaration of Independence and what it means for individual human beings to participate in the immortality of mankind. Throughout this section, one could have heard a pin drop.
Despite, or perhaps because of, her challenges to certain libertarian ideology, a handful of people approached Sare and Anastasia Battle to say that they were profoundly moved by Sare’s remarks, and would like to volunteer with her campaign.