Lyndon LaRouche, Holocaust Imagery & the Health Care Debate

ADL ^ | August 28, 2009

[Pope Pius XII]

Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a fringe political cult that defies categorization, and his supporters have contributed to the divisiveness surrounding the public debate on health care reform by producing and disseminating materials comparing President Barack Obama and other government officials to Hitler, Nazis and fascists, and by attending Congressional "town hall" meeting and other events around the country.

LaRouche's organization is built upon a cadre of loyal supporters and publications that promote his conspiratorial world views. LaRouche, 86, has a long record of advancing conspiracy theories linking the AIDS crisis, the drug epidemic and international financial crises to prominent Jews and Jewish organizations. For many years, LaRouche has employed Holocaust imagery to express his opposition to a wide range of political issues.

[Pope Pius XII]

Liberal Jews get offended so easily every time Nazi imagery is used. It's a joke.

[re_tail20]

With all due respect to the ADL, LaRouche is 88 years old now, I think, and was never much more than a minor fringe player in the real scope of things at his prime.

With the passage of time, his organization is even more of a footnote now, except to organizations like the ADL who devote their efforts to monitoring fringe organizations.

[upstanding]

Some passing thoughts on LaRouche's organization and the folks at the ADL who really need to get some real jobs...

During the previous several years I became increasingly disturbed that the DNC had moved so far into space that there was barely a difference between DNC talking points and the LaRouche pamphlets that would periodically get thrust into my hands during my commute...

I don't recall the ADL getting upset when Bush was tarred in similar terms...

Seeing the current (and spot-on) poster last week at my subway station, for the first time I had something civil to say to the LaRouche cultists... never thought that would happen.

[theFIRMbss]

>With the passage of time, his organization is even more of a footnote now

But LaRouche's style
has become adopted now
by the Left and Right.

Almost everyone
is calling names, attacking
with extreme labels,

preparing long lists
and insisting each item
is an indictment.

You could make the case
Glen Beck is a sanitized
version of LaRouche.

LaRouche is old but
a lot of young people seem
to have learned from him.

[DemonDeac]

The use of allusions to the holocaust is generally a poor political strategy. Almost always, whether used by right or left, it causes people to shut down to your message and marginalizes yourself.