LaRouche Sets Frightening Example in Campaign

The Yale Daily News ^ | January 15, 2004 | Boris Volodarsky

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"Where is LaRouche? Where is LaRouche? " a group of audience members began to chant in the middle of Joe Lieberman's speech. Lieberman froze. "I suspect he's in jail" Dean quipped. Al Sharpton appealed to the audience asking them to respect candidates' right to speak and was rewarded with a resounding round of applause. At that time I did not pay much attention to this incident. I assumed that a couple of hardcore Republicans decided to disrupt the debate and that LaRouche was some sort of a cartoon character that I was not aware of because of my Disney-deprived childhood. It turns out that LaRouche is real enough.

As Jeff Pearlman writing for Newsday put it Lyndon LaRouche is to presidential elections "what fungus is to the damp side of a rock." LaRouche ran in every single presidential election since 1976. He even ran from jail in 1992 where he was held on fraud charges. Those charges were, incidentally, the reason for Dean's comment during the Black Caucus Debate. After initially running as a third party candidate he became a Democrat and contested Democratic primaries since 1980. Although always unsuccessful, LaRouche was never entirely irrelevant and maintained his pockets of support. In 2000 for example he garnered 22 percent in the Democratic primary in Arkansas. Still, despite this sizable support, the Democratic Party and the establishment in general treats his candidacy as that of a ghost. He is never invited to debates, the media generally ignores him, the polling agencies refuse to include his name, and the Democratic Party fights to the tooth to keep him off the ballot.

Once you learn about LaRouche's views it becomes obvious why the Democratic Party has isolated LaRouche. Political Research Associates compiled a collection of LaRouche's past quotes and here is the picture that emerges: According to this self-described leading economist of the twentieth century, British monarchy secretly runs the world. Even the Nazi Germany was designed and shaped from London. London not only runs drug cartels but also imposes various methods of psychological control like Jazz and the Beatles. It also successfully uses such agents as Jews and the Episcopal Church to run its operations. Once he comes to power LaRouche promises to eliminate the principal London's agency in the United States: "the Nazi Jewish lobby." Jews in general and Zionism in particular have a special place in LaRouche's ideology. He refers to the latter as "the state of collective psychosis."

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William Grim has a good 1/12/04 exposé of Larouche in his Web site zcportal.com.

LaRouche does a lot of his conspiracy-mongering in Europe, and is involved with right-wing Euro extremists who are contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism on the continent.

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Well, Dean says that electronic voting machines are rigged to favor Republicans because the CEO's are Republican, and Bush had advance knowledge of 9/11. Clark says that a 9/11 would never happen on his watch. They oughta let LaRouche in; he'd be right at home with these kooks.

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Well, Dean says that electronic voting machines are rigged to favor Republicans because the CEO's are Republican, and, he says, Bush had advance knowledge of 9/11. Clark says that a 9/11 would never happen on his watch. They oughta let LaRouche in; he'd be right at home with these kooks.

[reg45]

LaRouche is more sane than all but one (Lieberman) of the Democrat candidates.

[Chi-townChief]

Our democrat friends know Lyndon LaRouche very well here in Illinois:

THE 1986 ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

'On March 18, 1986, the State of Illinois held its primary elections in preparation for the November state-wide general election. Stunning the state and national Democratic parties, two followers of Lyndon LaRouche won nomination for the state's second and third highest offices. LaRouche candidate Mark J. Fairchild defeated party regular George E. Sangmeister (a state senator, later a U.S. congressman, from Mokena) for lieutenant governor and LaRouche candidate Janice Hart defeated party regular Aurelia Pucinski, a Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District Board member and daughter of a powerful Chicago city alderman and Democratic committeeman, for Secretary of State. The results were nothing less than a stunning upset, creating chaos within the state Democratic party.'

http://www.prin.edu/users/els/departments/poli_sci/state/state/larouche.htm

[cabbieguy]

I would think people would be chanting "where is Fritz Hollings". After yesterdays rambling endorsement of J.F'n Kerry in which Hollings compared Vice president Cheney with being the republicans eqivelant to Jesse Jackson, I would think every newspaper and tv reporter would be all over this story like they were over Lott's endorsements of Strom's accomplishments. Well I guess I meant to say the few fair minded reporters and tv anchors.

[Paleo Conservative]

They oughta let LaRouche in; he'd be right at home with these kooks.

La Rouche probably thinks President Bush planned the 9-11 terrorist attacks!

[Paleo Conservative]

They oughta let LaRouche in; he'd be right at home with these kooks.

La Rouche probably thinks President Bush planned the 9-11 terrorist attacks!

[reg45]

1986 - that was the best slate the RATS ever had.

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Chi-townChief wrote: Our democrat friends know Lyndon LaRouche very well here in Illinois:

Remember Janice Hart on local TV saying that there were going to be tanks rolling down Michigan Avenue?

The regular Dems formed a separate political party in order to field a slate that year.

[Chi-townChief]

Yeah - that was a fun election! It's a shame LaRouche isn't running this year; he'd be a mainstream democrat now.

[RagingBull]

In 2000 for example he garnered 22 percent in the Democratic primary in Arkansas.

Sharpton, Moseley-Braun, and Kucinich don't have a prayer of getting that kind of support (not counting districts where being caught smoking crack doesn't disqualify you from being re-elected mayor), yet those clowns were invited to the democratic debates.

[Hon]

"LaRouche does a lot of his conspiracy-mongering in Europe, and is involved with right-wing Euro extremists who are contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism on the continent."

LaRouche is the person behind the story about W's grandfather, Prescott Bush "financing Hitler".

The first book to bring up this fantasy was written by two of his employees.

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Chi-townChief wrote: Yeah - that was a fun election! It's a shame LaRouche isn't running this year; he'd be a mainstream democrat now.

He's running.

The Sun-Times ran a story a couple of weeks ago about him getting $800K in federal matching funds.

[Cultural Jihad]

After initially running as a third party candidate he became a Democrat and contested Democratic primaries since 1980.

As a footnote to this particular corner of the dustbin of history, the 3rd party which featured LaRouche was his very own "U.S. Labor Party" whose platform touted the imminent collapse of the U.S. economy every other week. If the domain is still available maybe the Tancrepo Know-Nothing Brigades can grab it and continue the charade.

[Who dat?]

It's a shame LaRouche isn't running this year; he'd be a mainstream democrat now.

It’s funny you mention LaRouche… Just last week I was going into the post office and a couple of pierced/tattooed youngsters (early 20’s or so) had a table set up outside the post office doors with Lyndon LaRouche literature. This was in California.

I thought he was in jail (still) too. Ha.

But anyway, he’s wrong… we all know The Pins and The Knights of the Golden Circle are really controlling things from the shadows – and have been for a VERY long time. Ha. The Skull/Boners have been playing catch-up for over a century.

But seriously, he’s running for something. Or someone’s running him for something in northern CA.

[lilylangtree]

Interesting. I was wondering what happened to him since his name hasn't been mentioned in this election until now.

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Those mopes who disrupted the Dean rally in Iowa where he started singing The Star Spangled Banner were LaRouchies.

[Dog Gone]

If LaRouche wants coverage, he should run as a Republican.

He'd have the media all over him.

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Oh---and I forgot: according to Clark, BUSH is a DESERTER. (And they won't let LaRouche in because HE'S too wacky?)