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Thread ID: 18284 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2005-05-18
2005-05-18 01:13 | User Profile
Dont know much about the man, but this article seems believable [url]http://www.larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2005/3219adl.html[/url]
2005-05-18 02:15 | User Profile
Mr. LaRouche is a very unusual figure in American politics, a Left-leaning conspiracy theorist. He is a socialist of a kind. He used to be the head of a group called the US Labor Party and then went over to the Democratic Party, where his group runs candidates in Democratic primaries. Lyndon frequently runs for president and did some jail time for alleged financial misdeeds. His group has a kind of cultic aura about it. His followers have a kind of glassy eyed stare. He has a tendancy to blame the Queen of England for all sorts criminal conspiracies.
I guess the best way to describe LaRouche is that he is the result of a fiendish genetic experiment where the DNA of a John Bircher is crossed with that of a Michael Harrington type Social Democrat.
2005-05-18 02:25 | User Profile
He is as well a vociferous anti-racist.
2005-05-18 03:09 | User Profile
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an [color=#0000ff]American[/color] political activist who leads political organizations in the United States and other countries. He is a [color=#0000ff]perennial candidate[/color] for [color=#0000ff]President of the United States[/color], having set a record for most consecutive attempts at the office by running eight times. LaRouche has run for the [color=#0000ff]Democratic[/color] nomination for [color=#0000ff]President[/color] in every election year since [color=#0000ff]1980[/color], even in [color=#0000ff]1992[/color] while he was in [color=#0000ff]prison[/color]. However, he and his followers have never gained significant electoral support. Although he has no formal qualifications, he has written extensively on economic, scientific, political, and cultural topics, and is noted as a theorist of conspiracies.
He is frequently described as an extremist or a [color=#0000ff]cult[/color] leader, and is accused of being a [color=#0000ff]fascist[/color] and [color=#0000ff]anti-Semite[/color]. He denies these charges. He is regarded by his followers as a brilliant and unfairly persecuted individual.
In [color=#0000ff]1988[/color] LaRouche was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for conspiracy, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_fraud"][color=#0000ff]mail fraud[/color][/url], and tax code violations. He continued his political activities from behind bars. He was released in 1994 on parole after having served five years.
As of 2003, he lists his formal position as a director and contributing editor of the Executive Intelligence Review News Service, a core part of the LaRouche movement.
more here: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche[/url]
2005-05-18 10:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CornCod]His group has a kind of cultic aura about it. His followers have a kind of glassy eyed stare.
I've heard some pretty weird stuff about all kinds of oddball sexual ritualism, for lack of a better term, that LaRouchites have to engage in order to prove their fitness, including male homosexuality by men who have no desire to engage in such practices. That stuff is fairly characteristic of ultra-fringe and wrong-headed religious cults, but rather rare, one supposes, among supposedly intellectual political movements ostensibly intending to achieve electoral success (and they've had a little; they got their candidates nominated for Lt. Gov and Atty. Gen. of Illinois back in '86, for example). Weird.
[QUOTE=CornCod]He has a tendancy to blame the Queen of England for all sorts criminal conspiracies.
My understanding is that he regards most of the last 500 years or so of history as a ludicrous farce, and believes everything relevant that occurs within the world is part of a power struggle between the British Royal Family and the Vatican. For example, he believes that in the Cold War, the USA/NATO was a Vatican proxy, while the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact actually served British interests (as did, and does, the Peoples Republic of China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, etc.; Communism wasn't a front for the Jews, but rather John Bull - LaRouche is a Jew himself, interestingly enough).
2005-05-20 04:23 | User Profile
JoseyWales,
Mr. LaRouche is odd man. He was raised a Quaker in the Northeast US and was Field Medic during World War II. He was active in the SDS and other Marxists groups in the 1960's and at one time called himself an ââ¬ÅAmerican Lenin.ââ¬Â In the 1970's he started calling himself a ââ¬ÅConservative Democrat.ââ¬Â And started being perennial candidate for President of the United States. I was given a LaRouche leaflet by a dread-locked Afro a while back. As Bardamu said he is anti-racist and has worked with C.O.R.E. a radical ââ¬ÅBlack Powerââ¬Â group. He is anti-zionist, but has large numbers of jews working in his group. LaRouche is basically more a Marxist than anything else.
2005-05-20 06:44 | User Profile
There's nothing unusual about leftist conspiracy theories; leftists love conspiracy theories. The mainstream media just likes to pretend that only the "paranoid fringe" of the right-wing believes in conspiracy theories.
As to LaRouche, he's not a Jew and he's anti-Zionist, and he seems to believe in some kind of American nationalism rather than globalism, but that's about the best you can say for him and his political "cult" (for wont of a better word to describe it). Otherwise, it's a pretty typical anti-racialist, generally leftist group.
The LaRouchies, from time to time, have some interesting things to say, but whenever I think WN is a hopeless case, I look at the LaRouchies and realize things could be a lot worse.
2005-05-20 13:15 | User Profile
[font=Arial]The Ugly Truth about the ADL[/font] [font=Arial][url="http://www.truthinstitute.org/TEI_Book_AnalysisUTA.htm"][color=#0000ff]www.truthinstitute.org/ TEI_Book_AnalysisUTA.htm[/color][/url] [/font][font=Arial]Editors of the Executive Intelligence Review 152 pages, ISBN: 0-943235-07-3 Copyright 1992 5th printing, 1994 Published by Executive Intelligence Review [/font][font=Arial][/font] [font=Arial]Executive Intelligence Review [url="http://www.larouchepub.com/"]http://www.larouchepub.com/[/url][/font]
[font=Arial][/font] [font=Arial]The ADL, George Bush, and the Christian Right[/font] [url="http://www.larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2005/3219adl.html"]http://www.larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2005/3219adl.html[/url]
2005-05-21 16:38 | User Profile
I've always harbored a belief that Lyndon LaRouche operates as a colossal parody of the political fringes. It's all a big joke that Lyndon's in on, but many of the followers aren't. I mean, the "radical right" or the "racist right" or whatever you want to call us may not enjoy widespread power in the United States, but there's at least a basic understanding of where we stand on most issues, and the beliefs are mostly consistent (even more consistent that 'mainstream' conservatism and liberalism). With LaRouche, nobody gets it.
2005-05-22 03:20 | User Profile
grep14w,
Stalinist might be a good word for LaRouche. [QUOTE]LaRouche, he's not a Jew and he's anti-Zionist, and he seems to believe in some kind of American nationalism rather than globalism, but that's about the best you can say for him and his political "cult" (for wont of a better word to describe it). Otherwise, it's a pretty typical anti-racialist, generally leftist group.[/QUOTE]
Very True. [QUOTE]The LaRouchies, from time to time, have some interesting things to say, but whenever I think WN is a hopeless case, I look at the LaRouchies and realize things could be a lot worse.[/QUOTE]
I have read that LaRouche played with the idea of infiltrating Right wing groups in the 1970's. He supposedly had some of his men join the Ku Klux Klan and played with the idea of ââ¬ÅRacialism.ââ¬Â But soon lost interest in the idea and cut his ties. The was an article written by a Leftist ant-ââ¬Åhateââ¬Â type so I have so idea if there is any truth in it.
2005-05-23 12:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=grep14w]As to LaRouche, he's not a Jew and he's anti-Zionist, and he seems to believe in some kind of American nationalism rather than globalism, but that's about the best you can say for him and his political "cult" (for wont of a better word to describe it). Otherwise, it's a pretty typical anti-racialist, generally leftist group.[/QUOTE]
I recall reading the LaRouchites share a trait with the neo-cons, wherein they consider it perfectly acceptable for enlightened souls like themselves to hold Blacks (and Arabs, in the case of the neo-cons) in contempt, but anyone else who criticizes them is a fascist gangster, or whatnot, due to their being in less than utter, groveling thrall to the Multiculturalist Lie.
2005-05-23 16:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Albion Quote:
In 1988 LaRouche was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for conspiracy, mail fraud, and tax code violations[/QUOTE]
Back in the mid 80's I was contacted by a high preasure LaRouchie trying to sell something, newsletter, newspaper, whatever.
"Mr. Smith, what I need you to do right now is get out your credit card and give me that number so you can get the next years worth of The Paranoid Weekly".
When I told him that I did not have a credit card he said "You sound like the type that doesn't" & hung up. Never heard from the ding-a-lings again.