In response to news that the National Park Service plans to “restore and reinstall” the statue of Ku Klux Klan founder and “Chief Judicial Officer” Albert Pike to its former location in Washington, D.C.’s Judiciary Square, U.S. historian Anton Chaitkin wrote a statement on Pike and the anti-Americanism behind the statue. In April 1993 Chaitkin was arrested, along with Civil Rights Movement leader Rev. James Bevel, at one of the weekly Friday rallies held by the LaRouche movement demanding the statue’s removal.
Chaitkin has written the following statement:
”The Pike statue was dedicated October 23, 1901, a month after the assassination of President McKinley and the sudden rise to the presidency of McKinley‘s enemy, Theodore Roosevelt.
“By putting a statue of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in the nation’s capital, the Anglo-American fascist element announced their intention to destroy the American Revolution and enlist the power of the United States in the service of war and fascism.
“This was a great turning point in our history, to change sides in the world struggle, to abandon the anti-imperialist leadership, bowing to the enemy and joining the enemy.
