I spent a good amount of time yesterday shifting through the stats page trying to figure out where on this LaRouche Warning Page, which focuses on events described in this Washington Post article.

I have a passing interest in Lyndon LaRouche and his followers, which minor though the quantity may be does mean I have more interest in the man than 99.9% of Americans. It’s an easy enough mass experience in city, blogged with enough frequency that I can keep track of people’s encounters with his followers, and for my purposes back in covering the Democratic Primary, he showed up on more than just his page.

If the emailer of this comment doesn’t want this published here, I’ll delete it, but…

The reason I was interested is that I frequent a martial arts forum online. We’ve recently gained a member who is one of their political flacks, claiming a 5 year association with them. He’s interested in martial arts because, and I’m paraphrasing, “people get irrational when you discuss politics with them”.

Which is all a little discomforting.

Type in “LaRouche” and “martial arts” into google, and this odd nugget pops up:

Operation Mop-up raged from May to September of 1973. LaRouche’s followers in NCLC were ordered to brutally assault rivals from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). NCLC thugs used bats, chains, and martial arts weapons in a campaign to establish “hegemony” over the American revolutionary movement. There were many injuries and some persons required hospitalization.

Which… old though that may be… is a little more discomforting.

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