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The Rose Garden Games
Sunday, June 30, 2002
Soon, jokers might predict, that, perhaps, President George W. Bush, Jr. will make another Rose Garden speech, in which he attempts to use the issue of the onrushing collapse of the world economy in an attempt to distract public attention from the disastrous failure of his government's Middle East policies.
Especially since Bush's tragic June 24th address, some among us, both Democrats and Republicans, have expressed the suspicion, that the President is the helpless pinball in some nightmarish game, in which the flippers, are, on the one side, his own most lunatic advisers, and, on the other side, his even more rug-chewing adversaries grouped around Senators McCain and Lieberman.
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Where does he go from here?
In the Sunday morning, June 30th internal briefing for our staff, Gerry Rose summed up the week's aftermath of Bush's speech in quotes from our staff briefing lead of Wednesday, June 26th:
"In a lengthy discussion of the substance of the Bush speech, and realities in the Middle East, Lyndon LaRouche said he is extremely pessimistic about the Bush 'folly' surrounding the whole Rose Garden speech of June 25th. If President Bush had not been ready to tell Sharon to halt his attacks now, it were better that the White House had done nothing, because the Bush Rose Garden speech has uncorked a scenario which Bush cannot control."
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July 1-July 7, 1776
It was July 1 when the Congress took up the issue of Independence once again. On the floor was Virginian Richard Henry Lee's motion, which read as follows:
"...That these United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
What ensued was a passionate debate between two major figures, a debate officially unrecorded, as all the deliberations of this Congress and the Constitutional Convention were. Opposing the resolution was Pennsylvania delegate John Dickinson, who led off the debate. He argued that the colonies were unprepared to survive the consequences of declaring independence, and compared such action "to brav[ing] the storm in a skiff made of paper." Rising to speak for the resolution was Massachusetts delegate John Adams, whose hour-long presentation was reported by many other delegates to have demonstrated "not only the justice, but the expediency of the measure." After Adams, the discussion continued, lasting a total of nine hours.
But when a preliminary vote was taken, the outcome appeared very much in doubt. Nine delegations voted in favor, providing a majority, but four withheld support. Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted no, while New York abstained, and Delaware had no delegates on hand to vote. A motion to postpone consideration until the next day was entertained, and approved.
Clearly, lack of support from two of the largest colonies—Pennsylvania and New York—would not set the new nation off on the right foot.
But, by the time the vote was called on July 2, the situation had changed. Most importantly, two of the Declaration's opponents in Pennsylvania—most notably, John Dickinson—stayed away, permitting the pro-independence voters to gain a majority. Secondly, Delaware's Caesar Rodney arrived, after an all-night ride, to cast his vote for independence. South Carolina decided to join in to make it unanimous, while New York continued to abstain, on the basis that the delegates had no specific instructions from back home.
On July 2, the American colonies declared independence.
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Chirac's Landslide, Or Premature Burial?
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Ashcroft Eroding U.S. Constitutional Rights
Under the guise of freeing FBI agents from 'bureaucratic' restrictions and structures which 'had hindered them from doing their jobs effectively,' Attorney General John Ashcroft announced, on May 30, a sweeping revision of the Attorney General's Guidelines governing FBI investigations.
Supreme Court Reverses Itself
As it nears the end of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued two major decisions scaling back the use of the death penalty, which continue its trend of reversing the atrocious death-penalty rulings which were dictated a decade ago, when Chief Justice Williamm Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia commanded a solid majority on the nation's highest court.
Warner Again Says, Revise 'Posse Comitatus'
Even though the military is distancing itself from the Department of Justice's drive to 'drag the military across the Rubicon,' or, in this case, the Potomac, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, again raised the issue—as he had, last October—of revising the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, the statute that outlaws use of the military in executing the laws of the United States.
Gore Vidal Attacks LaRouche Over Sept. 11
It was inevitable that, as the official 'bin Laden did it' coverup story of what happened on Sept. 11 became increasingly challenged, the Anglo-American financial oligarchy would adopt extreme measures of 'damage control' and deflection.
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