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'CONVICT HIM OR KILL HIM!'

The Night They Came To Kill Me

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

This statement was issued by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee on March 2, 2004.

On October 6, 1986, a virtual army of more than four hundred armed personnel descended upon the town of Leesburg, Virginia, for a raid on the offices of EIR and its associates, and also deployed for another, darker mission. The premises at which I was residing at that time were surrounded by an armed force, while aircraft, armored vehicles, and other personnel waited for the order to move in shooting. Fortunately, the killing did not happen, because someone with higher authority than the Justice Department Criminal Division head William Weld, ordered the attack on me called off. The forces readied to move in on me, my wife, and a number of my associates, were pulled back in the morning.

That was the second fully documented case of a U.S. Justice Department involvement in operations aimed at my personal elimination from politics. The first was documented in an FBI internal document dated late 1973. The first was an internal U.S. operation; the second, of Oct. 6-7, 1986, was international, including the involvement of the Soviet government of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. To understand the higher level of command behind the way in which the Democratic National Committee bureaucrats have used the Party's nullification of the Voting Rights Act to attempt to exclude me from this election, we must point to the crucial features of the 1973 and 1986 attempts at my personal elimination.

This is not only my cause for complaint. The great majority of Americans are as much the intended victim as I am. They have a right to know what is being done to them in this connection. I explain.

Those events of Oct. 6-7, 1986 began in Sweden, when someone killed that nation's Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and immediately, fraudulently, assigned blame for the killing action to me. That libel was promptly adopted by my long-standing, usually lying enemies at the Washington Post, and copied by other well-known news-media cesspools. This killing occurred in the context of a massive outpouring of preparatory hate-propaganda against me, world-wide, from the government of Armand Hammer-associate Gorbachev. The issue behind the Soviet participation in the attack, was Soviet inside knowledge of my role in introducing what President Ronald Reagan had named publicly the "Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)." Gorbachev, like his former sponsor, Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, hated me on account of my international, as well as U.S. role in the development of the SDI proposal.

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THE PHASE-CHANGES OF MARCH 5: 'THERE'S A RUMBLING, — A RUMBLING, LIKE THE PRE-SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE'
On March 5, 2004, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a weekend cadre school of the Australian LaRouche Youth Movement, which was held at Anglesea.

LAROUCHE ON LOUISIANA RADIO — EYES OPEN WITH TONY BROWN, MARCH 5, 2004.

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March 8 - 14, 1783

George Washington Foils the Newburgh Plot

In March of 1783, peace negotiations were underway in Paris, and there was every indication that the Revolutionary War would soon be ended and the United States would be free to enjoy its independence. Yet, the approach of peace, which should have been the cause for deep joy, also brought a sense of increasing dread to Gen. George Washington and to the Continental Army, which was encamped at Newburgh, N.Y. For it appeared that the bankrupt Confederation government could not, and some members simply would not, fulfill a commitment to remunerate the members of the Continental Army for their years of difficult service to the cause of independence. If the army were to be disbanded before some assurance of pay was received from Congress, many felt that the state governments would refuse aid as well, and that therefore the soldiers would be justified in claiming their rights at the point of a bayonet.

Discontent had been building since the previous spring, when Col. Lewis Nicola had sent Washington a letter describing the army's plight and proposing that Washington take over the government as king. The General was aware that there was not only a military faction in operation, but also a faction in Congress which was searching about for someone to replace him if he should refuse a crown. The tensions in the army became so volatile by the fall, that Washington channelled them into a petition from the officers to Congress, that was conveyed by three officers of high rank who were to remain in Philadelphia until the issue was settled one way or another. No sooner had they arrived, when their hopes were blasted by the states of Rhode Island and Virginia, who refused to vote for an amendment to the Articles of Confederation which would have allowed Congress to collect taxes on some imports.

In January of 1783, there was a reduction in the size of the army, but those soldiers who were mustered out had to make their way home with no pay in their pockets. Washington wrote to his brother John Augustine, "The army, as usual, is without pay, and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and the patience of them is equally threadbare. It seems to be a matter of small consequence to those at a distance. In truth, if one were to hazard an opinion for them on this subject, it would be that the army, having contracted a habit of living without money, it would be injurious to it to introduce other customs."

Warnings of a Plot

In February, Washington started receiving letters warning him that a plot had developed to discredit him and replace him with another general who would lead the troops against Congress. His old friend and physician, Dr. James Craik, wrote with a dire warning after a tour of the Eastern seaboard, and convinced him that the plot was known in many locations. Joseph Jones, a delegate to Congress from Fredericksburg, Va., who was one of the trusted "confidential correspondents" who kept Washington up to date on intelligence, also warned the Commander-in-Chief of a pending military coup.

On March 12, Washington wrote back to Jones, describing the situation: "...It may be necessary it should be known to you, and to such others as you may think proper, that the temper of the Army, though very irritable on account of their long-protracted sufferings, has been apparently extremely quiet while their business was depending before Congress until four days past. In the mean time, it should seem reports have been propagated in Philadelphia that dangerous combinations were forming in the Army; and this at a time when there was not a syllable of the kind in agitation in Camp.

"It also appears, that upon the arrival of a certain Gentleman from Philadelphia in Camp, whose name, I do not, at present, incline to mention, such sentiments as these were immediately and industriously circulated. That it was universally expected the Army would not disband until they had obtained Justice. That the public creditors looked up to them for redress of their Grievances, would afford them every aid, and even join them in the Field, if necessary. That some Members of Congress wished the Measure might take effect, in order to compel the Public, particularly the delinquent States, to do justice. With many other suggestions of a Similar Nature; from whence, and a variety of other considerations it is generally believed the Scheme was not only planned, but also digested and matured in Philadelphia...

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'CONVICT HIM OR KILL HIM!'
The Night They CameTo Kill Me
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

This statement was issued by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee on March 2, 2004.
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On October 6, 1986, a virtual army of more than four hundred armed personnel descended upon the town of Leesburg, Virginia, for a raid on the offices of EIR and its associates, and also deployed for another, darker mission..."

  • Documentation:
    LaRouche's Fateful Debate With Abba Lerner

    On Dec. 2, 1971 an encounter took place at Queens College, in New York City, which shook the international financial community. Economist and political leader Lyndon LaRouche faced off in debate against the leading Keynesian economist Abba Lerner.
  • SDI and the Jailing Of Lyndon LaRouche
    by Paul Gallagher

    This speech was given on March 21, 1993, to a conference of the Schiller Institute in Northern Virginia, and was published in an April 1993 EIR White Paper on 'The Crucial Role of Lyndon LaRouche in the Current Strategic Situation.' Gallagher was the former executive director of the Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF), which had been shut down by an illegal government-forced bankruptcy in 1987.
  • FEC Figures Show LaRouche With Broadest Base of Support
    by Anita Gallagher

    Lyndon LaRouche is first among all candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination in the breadth and depth of his base of support in the population, according to the latest, February 2004 Report on fundraising which every Presidential campaign must file with the Federal Election Commission.

Economics:

'REMITTANCES' AND LABOR RECYCLING
Harvard's Fascist Policy For the Americas
by Paul Gallagher

The publication of Harvard/Trilateral Commission 'cultural warmonger' Samuel Huntington's article in Foreign Policy magazine, which calls for a Clash of Civilizations between the 'native' American population and its Hispanic immigrants ..., points to an underlying fascist economic policy in the Hemisphere, which has recently gone under the name of 'immigration facilitation and workers' remittances' in the international banking community.

Battle Lines Drawn in Argentina-IMF Showdown
by Cynthia R. Rush

There's no question that alarm bells went off on Wall Street and in the City of London, over the Feb. 27 report from Caracas, Venezuela that Argentine President Ne´stor Kirchner and Brazilian President Lula da Silva had agreed to meet March 10 in São Paulo, Brazil, to define a 'common strategy' for dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral lenders.

  • Documentation:
    Kirchner: Usurers Turned Recession to Depression

    As Lyndon LaRouche noted, just-deceased former Mexican President José López Portillo, who developed Mexico's economy in confrontation with international finance in the 1970s, would have been happy with Argentine President Néstor Kirchner's March 1 speech.

International:

Attempt To Trigger Civil War Fails in Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Someone certainly wants civil war in Iraq. The atrocities committed against Shi'ite worshippers on March 2, at holy sites in Baghdad and Kerbala, could have no other motivation than to pit Shi'ites against Sunnis.

Stop Playing Football With Korea Powderkeg, Says Russia
by Kathy Wolfe

The Six Power Talks on Korea adjourned in stalemate on Feb. 28, under Vice President Dick Cheney's continuing direction to the American delegation to make unilateral demands that North Korea simply give up all nuclear programs, including peaceful nuclear power, or else.

Legality of Iraq War Challenged in Britain
by Mark Burdman

With the end-of-March first anniversary of the launching of the Iraq war approaching, and Britain absorbed in months of intense controversy over Prime Minister Tony Blair's wildly exaggerated pre-war allegations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Blair has been fervently hoping, as his 10 Downing Street spokesmen put it, to 'draw a line' under the Iraq issue, and to 'move on' to other matters of pressing concern. But alas for Blair, this has not come to pass...

Why Afghanistan Is Becoming a Narco-State
by Ramtanu Maitra

Within a few weeks, Afghan farmers in the southern and southeastern part of the country will start harvesting poppy. If the annual wailing of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and U.S lawmakers are interpreted right, Afghanistan is going to have a bumper crop...

Palestinians Need Viable Political Solution
by Carl Osgood

Less than a month after President Bush took office, Palestinian legislator Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, then serving as a spokeswoman for Palestinian Authority president Yassir Arafat, warned an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that the violence between Israelis and Palestinians could only stop if Israel withdraws from occupying Palestinian land. Instead, the victims of the occupation were being blamed for the violence resulting from the presence of Israeli troops, the checkpoints and the illegal settlements.

Saakashvili's Roses Not Yet Wilted in U.S. Visit
by William Jones

The first visit to the United States by the newly elected President of the Republic of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, was for him, as he said, 'like coming home.' The new President, brought to power in Georgia in a U.S.-supported move against old Soviet apparatchik and Gorbachev prote´ge´ Eduard Shevardnadze, was given a royal welcome to Washington.

Conference Report:
Europe's Mission: Build A Future for 6 Billion People
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the chairwoman of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (Bu¨So) political party in Germany gave this keynote speech to the party's national convention on Jan. 25, to outline the perspectives for the party's participation in the European Parliament elections. The Bu¨So chose 86 candidates for the June 13 elections. The speech was translated from German by Alexander Hartmann.


National:

Subpoena Threats Haunt Cheney and White House
by Michele Steinberg

Vice President Dick Cheney's national security advisor Lewis 'Scooter' Libby is again in the sights of the ongoing Federal grand jury investigation into the leaking of the identity of CIA 'non-official cover' agent Valerie Plame.

LaRouche: For Fair Elections, Ban Computer Voting Now!
by Edward Spannaus

Computer voting must be totally banned for the upcoming November Presidential elections, Democratic candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche told a large audience at a campaign event in Los Angeles on February 26. What is needed is not just a protest, LaRouche said in response to a questioner. 'We have to have some action now, before the election.' This will not come from the courts, he noted, reminding his listeners of what happened to the last Presidential election at the hands of Justice Antonin Scalia and the U.S. Supreme Court.

From 'War on Terror' To 'Climate Warfare'
by Ralf Schauerhammer

Under the headline 'Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us,' the London Observer's Feb. 22 issue brought sensational news: 'Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe....The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water, and energy supplies. ...Just how the Observer obtained this 'suppressed' report, isn't nearly as mysterious as the editors make it out to be.

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