Larouche used to be ultra-leftwing; the National Caucus of Labor
Committees was one of their organs. (I remember my 70 year old
psychology professor picking up two NCLC droids and throwing them out of
the classroom. They'd crashed the class to make a lot of noise about
how *all* psychological personality testing or evaluation is a form of
repression. I'd thought they were Scientologists at the time.)
They've since moved from far-left to far-right, without ever moving
through the center, apparently by going 'round the back:
(anti-center)
Red Brigades____|____The Order
/ \
/ \
V.I. Lenin | |Juan Peron
(L) Christic Inst.\ /Ed Meese (R)
\ /
Joe Biden\_______/Barry Goldwater
|
D. Eisenhower
(Center)
They publish nutty economic theories (call them, and they'll send you
all you want). Larouche himself tries to get invited to all sorts of
important people's offices, then uses the lunchee as an example of how
respected and important a "consultant" he is considered. The Reagan
people had quite a time getting rid of him after they realized what a
figgy pudding he really was. He'd had meetings and lunches with all
kinds of cabinet officers and assistants, and getting rid of him and his
followers after that was like calling in an exterminator for a stubborn
family of roaches.
They are anti-Trilateralist, anti-British Royalty, anti-Kissinger,
anti-Pagan, anti-Jane Fonda, anti-Masonic, and they'd undoubtedly be
anti-SubG if they ever heard of us.
If you want to do this right, you should hit the morgues at your local
newspaper. Here are some recently News clippings that mention the guy.
}
} Article 411 of ba.politics:
} >From: jane@tolerant.UUCP (Jane Medefesser)
} Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
} Subject: Re: Prop 69 - AIDS
} Date: 7 Jun 88 14:40:24 GMT
} Distribution: ca
} Organization: Slobbering Systems, Inc.
}
} In article <432@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
} >On Prop 69, my first impression is that since Lyndon LaRoach is behind
} >it, I'm probably against it, as the man is a certifiable nut case.
} >But since he supports SDI, nuclear power, and the space program, he is
} >unfortunately not even reliable wrong, so I'll have to read it and make
} >up my own mind. Without the quarantine stuff I'd probably vote for it.
} >But not as it is currently written.
}
} Last night my husband and I read the "California Voter's Guide" (or
} something like that) and followed the arguments for and against prop.
} 69. The arguments in favor of prop 69 are full of misinformation, for
} example they claim that the AIDS virus lives in many bodily fluids
} including blood, sweat and tears and has been know to live up to 7 days
} outside of the body. The medical profession on the other hand claims
} that the virus is very fragile outside of the body and can't live more
} that a few minutes (or hours, but certainly not days).
}
} I suspect that the proponents of 69 are trying to create a panic which
} will cause voters to vote in ANY kind of AIDS initiative regardless of
} how stupid it appears.
}
} Furthermore, I personally feel that the medical profession has taken
} swift and responsible action with the AIDS epidemic (I have an inside
} source - my mom is a public health nurse and has several AIDS patients
} so I hear a lot about what goes on inside of the treatment circle). I
} don't feel that legislation is necessary and would in fact hamper the
} medical profession's job in trying to treat the disease.
}
}
} Article 412 of ba.politics:
} >From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
} Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
} Subject: Re: LaRouche (Was: Prop 69 - AIDS)
} Date: 7 Jun 88 21:49:21 GMT
} Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
}
} In article <4298@zodiac.UUCP> cbunjiov@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
} >I really don't know anything about Lyndon LaRouche other than that Prop. 69
} >is sponsored by his followers.
} >
} >I just want to know: Why are you so down on LaRouche?
}
} Here's a capsule summary of LaRouche's organization:
}
} Policitically the group is far right wing, although it aligns itself
} with the Democratic Party. (The LaRouche candidates almost always run on
} the Democratic ticket; LaRouche has been running for president as a
} Democrat for the past three elections.) LaRouche is fanatically
} anti-communist, pro-technology, and anti-luddite, distaining opponents
} of SDI as "flat earth thinkers."
}
} The LaRouche worldview calls for a strong national defense (SDI in
} particular) and financial and technology assistance to third-world
} countries to stem the spread of the Soviet Union. LaRouche also wants to
} see massive government in- vestment in high-tech R&D, both as a way of
} completing SDI more rapidly as a way of revitalizing the American
} economy. Practical fusion power is considered one of the most important
} elements.
}
} LaRouche is also pro-unlimited population growth, insisting that
} attempts to restrict population in third-world nations are actually
} "white-collar genocide," a way for the powerful technological nations to
} keep those little African folks in their place. Instead, the goal should
} be to improve the country's technological base, so they can feed the
} mouths they have, rather than decreasing the number of mouths.
}
} The LaRouche organization is spread over a number of diverse lobbying
} groups, notably the Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF). It produces a number
} of political and technology magazines and publications, particularly
} _Fusion_, the journal of the FEF.
}
} Whether one agrees with all the foregoing or not, it all sounds
} reasonable; certainly not the stuff of a crackpot. Read on.
}
} The "technical" journals are garbage -- a platform for every crackpot
} with a weird theory that sounds technological. They read like a
} _National_Enquirer_ of science; the very worst speculative articles in
} _Omni_ or _Analog_ are pure jems of scientific precision by comparison.
} The political issues raised are usually bogey-men, used only to
} frighten.
}
} For example, _Fusion_ made much hue and cry about an imminent collapse
} of the nation's electrical power grid. The only real evidence cited was
} a power-out- age in Northern California, which was claimed to have been
} caused by an over- loaded electrical system. The article even provided
} technical parameters of the failure, impressive to a layman but
} ludicrous to an electrical engineer. They were also charges that
} various conspiracies were responsible for prevent- ing the dangers from
} being revealed to the mainstream media.
}
} In fact, California has an *excess* of electrical capacity, and the
} outage cited was covered very well in the mainstream media. It was
} caused by a soft- ware bug in a routing station near Sacramento.
}
} Other examples, from _Fusion_, include articles claming that DDT is not
} harm- ful to birds, "proving" that beamed solar power is completely
} impractical, and a cover story on how AIDS is transmitted by mosquitos.
} It was astonishing from a using-the-facts-to-lie perspective.
}
} The organization's fundraising mechanisms consist mostly of fraud.
} Several key members have been convicted of credit-card fraud and
} extortion, making off with senior-citizen's life savings on a "loan" and
} never bothering to pay them back. LaRouche himself has been indicted on
} similar charges, and is currently being tried. The trial has been a
} "circus," according to the judge; he had to declare a mistrial in the
} first trial, because of misinformation given to the jurors by LaRouche's
} lawyers in private interviews. Now, those same lawyers are claiming that
} a second trial would violate LaRouche's right not to be tried twice for
} the same crime. Go figure.
}
} LaRouche himself is a megelomaniac paranoid. He sees a communist
} conspiracy or an assassin's bullet around every corner; he constantly
} complains of death threats he has received, but refuses to report them
} to any law enforcement organization because he believes they all (the
} FBI in particular) have been infiltrated by communists. He has
} publically accused Robert MacNamara, Walter Mondale, and Henry Kissinger
} of being "agents of Soviet influence."
}
} LaRouche and his followers present him as a terribly important and
} influen- tial politician, and all the organization's publications go to
} great lengths to prove this. Yet all the "associates" and "friends" he
} claims in the federal government, JPL, NASA, the International Monetary
} Fund, et al, deny having anything to do with him.
}
} Of course, LaRouche blames the current trial on his "political enemies,"
} who are trying to discredit him and score political points just before
} the pres- idential election. He has also claimed that the trial is an
} effort by the FBI to silence him, since he has been creating too many
} waves and revealing too much about communist influences in the US.
}
} <csg>
}
}
} Article 413 of ba.politics:
} >From: park@zhukov.ads.com (John Park)
} Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
} Subject: Re: LaRouche (Was: Prop 69 - AIDS)
} Date: 8 Jun 88 01:48:23 GMT
} Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
}
} In article <26466@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
} >The organization's fundraising mechanisms consist mostly of fraud. Several key
} >members have been convicted of credit-card fraud and extortion, making off
} >with senior-citizen's life savings on a "loan" and never bothering to pay them
} >back. LaRouche himself has been indicted on similar charges, and is currently
} >being tried. The trial has been a "circus," according to the judge; he had to
} >declare a mistrial in the first trial, because of misinformation given to the
} >jurors by LaRouche's lawyers in private interviews. Now, those same lawyers
} >are claiming that a second trial would violate LaRouche's right not to be
} >tried twice for the same crime. Go figure.
}
} My friend is the Dept. of Justice Trial Attorney who, together with the
} Asst. U.S. Attorney in Boston, is prosecuting LaRouche and others in the
} much-publicized credit-card fraud case. Actually, the case was declared
} a mistrial because it had dragged on for so long, and would have
} continued for so many more months, that two of the jurors had to bow out
} due to personal commitments that they had made close to a year in
} advance! The defense lawyers took this as a "major victory", and as you
} correctly stated, are trying to prevent a retrial on the grounds of
} double-jeopardy. I've attended a couple of the pre-trial motions
} hearings, and have been constantly kept up-to-date (best friend, so we
} chat a lot) -- it's the most ludicrous trial I've ever seen. Basically,
} they have 14-15 lawyers (almost one for each defendant) harassing the
} two overworked Federal attorneys, initiating a barrage of nuisance
} motions and attacks that have kept the two prosecutors too busy to mount
} a strong main offense.
}
} Some newspaper reports stated that in a post-trial survey, some or most
} of the jury members expressed doubts about the USDoJ case, including
} some charges by the LaRouchites of DoJ misconduct in the area of
} witholding exculpatory evidence. Not true, although the LaRouche camp
} did a pretty effective job of painting it that way. In the snippets
} that I saw, some of them were very good pontificators!
}
} As to whether good ole' Lyndon is nuts: from what I've read and been
} told, he is either certifiably psychotically paranoid, or is a very good
} actor and knows how to milk a good crazy-act for all it's worth. I tend
} to think the former. Ask him about the Pope, the Queen of England,
} Ronnie Ray-Gun and the International Drug Conspiracy sometime -- you'll
} get a good laugh out of it.
}
} John Park (park@ads.com)
Hope this helps.
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