Vote for Lyndie!!!!
Posted on 10/23/2004 9:35:00 PM PDT by SmithL
Eight-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche may be a punchline on 'The Simpsons,' but his organization -- and the effect it has on young recruits -- is dead serious
The desperation in her son's voice jolted Erica Duggan fully awake. "Mum, I'm in big trouble," Jeremiah, a 22-year-old college student, said into the phone quietly, as though trying not to be overheard.
It was nearly 4:30 a.m. in London. Erica Duggan, a retired teacher, had been awake even before the phone rang. Restless -- a mother's instinct, she would later say -- she'd gone down to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea.
It was March 27, 2003, the eighth day of the war in Iraq. Antiwar sentiment was high across Europe. Erica's idealistic son had gone to Germany to attend an antiwar protest and conference with a group called Nouvelle Solidarité. All Jeremiah told his mother about the group before he left was that its views were "extreme" and that it was affiliated with an American presidential candidate she'd never heard of, a man named Lyndon LaRouche. Now her son's phone call made it clear that something had gone wrong. "This involves Solidarity,". . .
Thirty-five minutes later, Jeremiah was dead. He lay crumpled on a roadway into town, his arms stretched out before him as if he were a boy again, reaching to catch a ball. Jeremiah's death has propelled his parents into the political orbit of Lyndon LaRouche,
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Vote for Lyndie!!!!
Very little propellant needed, I'd say.
Yikes. From the looks of things, I'd say the spirochetes have run out of places to drill on that guy. *shudder*
This guy has been running for Prez forever... many times from jail.... ya gotta admire a guy like that... ok maybe ya don't.... either way he at least adds some comic relief.
The one American made politician who is actually to the left of John Kerry. The greatest MSM deception ever was how they managed to sell the perception to America that the one guy who was so far to the radical left of the mainstream communists that they felt the need to destroy him...did so by labeling him "EXTREME RIGHT".
good grief was that a long one. the world will be a better place when he is dead and hopefully he takes farrakahn with him.
These guys are seriously off the wall. Very dangerous group of people. They are very capable of influency very impressionable young minds. They are always selling their crap in front of colleges or dorms etc. I always bump into them on purpose to solicit a response. Always enjoy doing it.
Who is this guy anyway? I've heard of him, and heard he's nuts, but that's about it. I've seen his name on the ballot. Is he a self-proclaimed commie? Or does he call himself something else?
Not a subscriber. Mind filling me in on what killed the 22 year old college student?
APf
Lyndon La Rouche isn't a "self proclaimed commie", but he and his organization are quite a bunch. They are statist to the core, but not Marxist. More fascist is my professional opinion.
I had some contact with them in the mid 1970's, and after reading some of their literature, I dropped them like a hot rock! These folks are whacko to the extreme, and can come off quite slick to someone who has only the basic "indoctrination" provided by our public school system. Very scary folk indeed...
the infowarrior
Definitely comic relief. The guy reminds me of one of R. Crumb's stranger characters in the old underground comics from the 1960s.
Jeremiah's girlfriend begged him to take a train to Paris right away. He promised he would, though in their disjointed conversation they didn't talk about where he might get money for a ticket. Not long afterward, Jeremiah placed the two desperate phone calls to his mother, both of which ended abruptly. Frantic and confused, his mother made predawn calls to law enforcement agencies in Britain, telling them that she believed her son had stumbled into a terrorist organization in Germany and needed help. It was too late. Just before 6 a.m. in Wiesbaden, the driver of a BMW saw a pedestrian run into the roadway. He swerved, he later told police, but clipped the young man with his side-view mirror, knocking him down. Jeremiah got up and ran. Minutes later, two more cars came into view, moving fast. A red Peugeot swerved. Jeremiah leapt forward, the driver later said. His arms were raised. His mouth was open. The windshield and a passenger door window of the car shattered. Jeremiah went down. The driver of a blue Golf ran him over. Jeremiah had massive head trauma and died on the road. German police quickly concluded that Jeremiah had committed suicide by leaping into traffic. . . .
The June 25 issue of LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review suggested that Jeremiah's death was not only part of a U.S.-British conspiracy to "get LaRouche," it was also linked to the failed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the suicide of British weapons expert and senior civil servant David Kelly. Though the publication doesn't explain the connection, it lists them on the same timeline as if they are part of the same unfolding anti-LaRouche plot.
I grew up in Northern VA and remember vividly that LaRouche was a complete whack job...
The only value I found in LaRouche was consolidating conspiracy theory perspectives. He had some nuances out their not always found in conventional conspiracy theories, which tended to provide collatoral information regarding some conspiracy theories.
Good intent, questionable to poor judgment, lunatic fringe and seemingly enjoyed his niche on the fringe.
One of his cellmates was disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, who later described LaRouche as amusing, erudite and convinced their cell was bugged."To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid," Bakker wrote in his autobiography, "would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak."
That is some quote. Leaky Lyndon he is.
If he thinks the government is spying on him, he needs to protect himself with a device that can be easily made with materials readily available in prison. (See this article on how to make a tin-foil-hat) http://www.johnf-ingkerry.com/ (humor)
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