Prince Charles Orders Crackdown on LaRouche in Australia

On Saturday 14 November, members of the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), the federally registered Australian political party allied with Lyndon LaRouche, were manning a booth at the annual Agricultural Show in Albany, Western Australia, to present their policies to the public, when a plain-clothed Federal Police officer, accompanied by five state police and security guards, swooped down on them. After grilling the activists, among them two 90-year-olds, in particular about the party’s “stance on Muslims”, the police served “move on” orders, demanding that they leave the city within an hour-and-a- half and cancel any activity planned for Albany or Perth during the 13-15 November visit of heir to the throne Prince Charles to Western Australia, upon pain of immediate arrest under anti-terrorism statutes.

CEC Western Australia State Secretary Jean Robinson, a frequent candidate for elected office, was instructed that if she were not 25 kilometres out of Albany by 11:15am, when Charles arrived at the airport, she would be arrested. Additionally, 93-year-old CEC supporter and Albany resident Vincenzo Zumbo, a veteran of the anti-fascist resistance in Italy in WWII, was ordered to return home and remain there until after Charles and Camilla left at 4pm. Asked why these unprecedented, draconian measures were being applied, the police responded, “What happened in Paris is a BIG deal”, referring to the ISIS attacks in Paris some hours earlier, and said that these were measures for Charles’s security while visiting Western Australia.

In response, CEC National Secretary Craig Isherwood on 16 November issued a statement accusing the police of targeting a political party that is known to be peaceful, on orders from Prince Charles. “We [the CEC] have been a national political party for 27 years and we and our policies are extremely well known in this country,” Isherwood said. “And given that the CEC is the Australian wing of the international movement led by Lyndon LaRouche—which every man and his dog knows has had sharp political disputes with Charles and his family for decades—the police knew whom they were dealing with in Albany. The order for this outrageous intervention into Australian politics therefore must have either come from or been cleared by Prince Charles himself. Everyone knows that our security agencies, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), are run by MI5 and MI6, respectively, who in turn report to the Crown. We are such a hot issue that the ‘locals’ would not have taken such an outrageous action on their own.”

In the days before this incident, the CEC attacked Charles in a widely distributed release, for his direct role in his mother’s outrageous 1975 sacking of Australia’s elected government, then led by Labor Party Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The CEC has mobilized over the past 12 months to expose Charles as the point man for the British-Saudi terrorism apparatus, as well as for his close links to the paedophile ring that has operated for decades at the highest levels of the British establishment, including the Royal Family.