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Published: Tuesday, September 2, 2003
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by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The following is the keynote of Lyndon LaRouche to the annual Labor Day conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and Schiller Institute, titled "World at a Turning Point." Preceding Lyndon LaRouche were introductory remarks by moderator Nancy Spannaus in Virginia and Harley Schlanger in California. Schiller Institute Vice Chairwoman Amelia Boynton Robinson introduced Lyndon LaRouche: "If you want to be free,
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and free at last, come and go with the great man, who will tell you the truth, and make you free—and free, indeed: Lyndon LaRouche."
About seven years ago, there was an epidemic, of deregulation, which began to run like a rampage throughout the United States. The policy was to break up the energy system, the power organization of production and distribution, of electrical power, other power, which had been built up, in response to the collapse of the U.S. economy, under Coolidge and Hoover. Franklin Roosevelt led, as President, in restoring a system of regulation, which was an integral part of the economic recovery of the United States, from a Depression, where incomes had collapsed to about half of what they were in the 1920s. And, we went on, to become the greatest productive power on this planet, as a result of those and similar measures.
Then, about four years later, the impact of this deregulation, the separation of production of power from distribution; the lack of regulation of prices, led to the first panic in California, as the result of an energy crisis that summer. The following year, we had an artificial Presidency of sorts. You didn't quite know who was President. And looking back, you might say, that the Vice President was President, and the only thing that George Bush could manage was vice.
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Two highly significant events for American history occurred in the first week of September. First, on Sept. 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, which formalized the end of the American Revolutionary War. Second, on Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and killed by an assassin. Immediately sworn in to take over his office was Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, who acted to change the policies of the United States, fundamentally for the worse.
In one sense, the Treaty of Paris—signed by Great Britain, France, and the United States—was a formality. The British Army had been defeated nearly two years earlier, at Yorktown, Virginia, and had acknowledged as much. But the British Empire had by no means reconciled itself to losing its former American colonies, which, at the end of hostilities, found themselves bankrupt, at the mercy of Indian tribes, and virtually at each other's throats over issues of trade and land.
All the more reason that a recognition of American sovereignty, by treaty, was necessary. This was the accomplishment of a team, led by America's foremost citizen Benjamin Franklin, and including John Adams, who found themselves face-to-face with Britain's Lord Shelburne. Shelburne has enjoyed a totally unwarranted reputation as being "pro-American." In reality, he was simply more sophisticated than the ham-handed British Prime Ministers, preferring to wield the weapon of "free trade" against both the new United States, and France, rather than employ outright military means. He fought to have the Parliament accept the peace, in order to fight another day.
As for the Americans, the achievement of the treaty simply posed more starkly the question of how they were going to organize their economy and government, in order to procure a prosperous future for themselves, and their posterity.
In contrast, the shooting of President McKinley in 1901 marked a dramatic shift downward for the world's premier republic.
William McKinley of Ohio, a former Union military officer, was elected to the Presidency in 1896 on a platform of high wages and defiance of British free-trade doctrines. While he had been manipulated into waging the Spanish-American War, McKinley was still intent upon pursuing peace, reciprocity, and mutual industrial development with the nations of the Western Hemisphere. McKinley was no imperialist.
Not so his Vice Presidential running mate in the 1900 election. Rabid Anglophile Teddy Roosevelt had been effectively forced onto to the Republican ticket, and he was, therefore, in place at the crucial time. That time came on Sept. 6, 1901, when the anarchist Leon Czolgosz, a self-professed disciple of Emma Goldmann, shot McKinley. The President died a few days later.
As President, Teddy Roosevelt blatantly attacked and intimidated the nations of Ibero-America, broke up the U.S. alliances with Japan, Russia, and Germany, and reversed the economic policy which had been initiated by President Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt closed the American West to settlement, cancelled Lincoln's economic development measures, and turned over national financial power to the British banking cartel of Rothschild and Morgan. Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" slogan came to reflect U.S. foreign policy—as it would until Franklin Delano Roosevelt took over in 1932.
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Anton Chaitkin presents the work of a team of EIR researchers, on the two-centuries-long project to counteract the stunning success of the American Revolution and America's intervention in world affairs. This enemy totalitarian project came to be self-named, about a century ago, as "Synarchism." Not coincidentally (from the standpoint of Britain's Earl of Shelburne), the first target was France—notably the collaborators of Benjamin Franklin.
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A Presidential policy study on the subject of "Synarchism as a terrorist cult," by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "The continuation of [the] Synarchist effort from during the World War II period, is not only the continuing connection behind the fascist insurgencies of 1921-45, but is that thieving, international financier syndicate behind today's role of Vice President Cheney and his Enron, Halliburton, and similar accomplices, which orchestrated the Enron-led swindle of California. That is the syndicate which has pushed the freak-show candidacy of an 'Elmer Gantry'-like confidence man, the United States' imported Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a proposed head of state."
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