EIR Feature
Why the British Will Try To
Kill President-Elect Obama
by the Editors
On Nov. 22, 2008, American economist and statesman
Lyndon LaRouche issued his most emphatic warning to
date, on the danger of a British-authored assassination
of President-elect Barack Obama. Speaking on the oc-
casion of the 45th anniversary of the British-run assas-
sination of President John F. Kennedy, LaRouche
warned that the greatest danger of an assassination of
the President-elect would be before the scheduled Jan.
20, 2009 inauguration—while George W. Bush is still
the President, and while Dick Cheney is still in office as
his Vice President.
“The most dangerous and devastating thing that
could happen to the United States, and, by extension, to
the world as a whole, is an assassination of Barack
Obama, while George Bush is still occupying the White
House. This means that the greatest danger is the period
between today and Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama
is to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United
States,” LaRouche declared.
What the British Fear
“The opportunity to create the kind of national
emergency, from which American democracy would
never re-emerge, is too overwhelming for the British to
pass up,” LaRouche emphasized. “Look at the global
financial disintegration, which has been underway since
July 2007, precisely as I warned in my July 25, 2007
webcast. The Anglo-Dutch Liberal system of globaliza-
tion, free trade, and unfettered speculation is dead.
What the British financial oligarchy fears, under these
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current conditions, more than anything else, is an Amer-
ican revival of the policies last seen during the Presi-
dency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Their hatred of
FDR almost matches their hatred of Abraham Lincoln.
And the British, as the official record even shows, as-
sassinated President Lincoln.”
LaRouche explained, “Lincoln was just reelected to
a second term as President, and the British were horri-
fied at the prospects of what Lincoln would do. The
British-sponsored Confederacy was defeated, and they
hated everything that Lincoln represented, and every-
thing that Lincoln was now in a position to do, with an
industrially developed United States, poised to become
a continental republic, with the completion of the Trans-
Continental Railroad.”
From the earliest days of our republic, LaRouche
continued, “the British have assassinated American re-
publican leaders, beginning with the assassination of
former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, at the
hands of British East India Company traitorous agent
Aaron Burr, continuing with the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln, President William McKinley, and Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy, 45 years ago today.
“The British know that an assassination of Presi-
dent-elect Obama, while George Bush is still in power,
would tear the United States apart, and lay the basis for
the kind of lockdown of the system, that would mean
the end—after more than 200 years—of our Constitu-
tional Republic. What happened, under Bush and
Cheney, following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New
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“The most dangerous and devastating
thing that could happen to the United
States, and, by extension, to the world as
a whole, is an assassination of Barack
Obama, while George Bush is still
occupying the White House,” LaRouche
declared, at his Nov. 18 webcast.
York City and the Pentagon, gives a taste of the kind of
top-down repression that Cheney and his puppet
George W. Bush would impose, under the conditions
of chaos set off by an assassination of the President-
elect,” LaRouche stated.
“I consider it the very top national security priority
to prevent this British treason. If there is so much as an
attempt on the life of the President-elect, as the British
media has been promoting it, ever since election day,
the whole world shall know the address from which the
plot was hatched,” LaRouche concluded.
The Oligarchical Reflex
LaRouche first warned of the danger of a British-
sponsored hit against Obama back in February 2008,
when British media outlets, such as the Canadian
Ottawa Sun, began publishing blood-curdling scenar-
ios of an Obama assassination. “This is the kind of stuff
that creates confusion in the population, and that then
creates the cover for an assassination,” LaRouche
warned. In late April, LaRouche again expressed seri-
ous concern about the possibility that candidate Obama
was being set up for assassination, in the context of the
high profile being given, at that time, to his former
pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
As of late October, the highly probable threat that
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Obama could be assassinated, was a matter of utmost
concern among serious political circles in both the
Democratic and Republican parties. In a statement
issued Oct. 30, LaRouche emphasized that a bipartisan
commitment must be built to prevent such action, and
to ensure that there is no riotous disintegration and pul-
verization of the nation, should the British enemies of
the United States take such action.
Beginning at approximately the same time, the Brit-
ish press, in particular, began to be riddled with heavy
propaganda about the danger of a hit against Obama,
then projected to be the winner of the November Presi-
dential elections. Such coverage serves as a convenient
cover for a professional hit—as in the case of the Ken-
nedy assassination.
LaRouche also emphasized that the British enemies
of the United States not only are the primary force with
the motive to launch a hit against the incoming Presi-
dent, but also the only ones with the capability. A more
extensive discussion of the method by which LaRouche
has come to this conclusion, leads the package below,
followed by several crucial case studies of the British-
sponsored assassinations of American republican lead-
ers, taken from EIR’s extensive archives on this subject.
To stop this danger, the British enemy must be identi-
fied, and stopped.