LaRouche in Australia
I note this comment from my last post on yesterday’s Doc Hastings-related post.
Hey, post more LaRouche stuff. The rest of these posts suck.
I intend on continuing to work both the Lyndon LaRouche beat and the Doc Hastings beat, as well as various other matters that stir my interest. I did have a Lyndon LaRouche-related post two days ago, ie: regarding the use of LaRouche as a political smear. Occasionally I see an opening for LaRouche related stuff that I don’t get around to posting — I had some musings over some wikipedia back-log talking that I never got around to posting on. But, I tend to want to provide for people what they ask for me… so being for the benefit of Mr. Kite (or for the commenter found at the email address “cutoffdickcheney@yahoo.com”, an email address that possibly suggests — given LaRouche’s proclivity to skip Bush and go straight to Cheney in his political attacks, maybe a LaRouche supporter)… I bring some stuff from September 17, 2005 from the Australian:
Christensen admires how Santamaria crafted the NCC into the powerful political force that helped keep the Menzies coalition government in power for so long, while also curtailing communist influence in the trade union movement. Says Christensen, a Queensland Nationals executive member: “I believe in Judeo-Christian ethics and family values. That’s why I’m strongly attracted to core NCC principles.”
But now he’s worried. “I am very concerned about the direction in which some people are taking the organisation,” Christensen tells Inquirer. “I am worried it is being taken over by elements of the lunar Right.”
The NCC has combined faith in the basic tenets of social conservatism with intellectual rigour, impressive organisational skills and close ties with the Catholic Church to give itself serious political clout.
The problem, for this political party that has helped give the Howard Administration a majority?
Christensen outlined his concerns in a letter in April to NCC Queensland president Ross Howard about alleged ties between the NCC and the Citizens Electoral Council. The CEC is an extreme right-wing political party that operates as the Australian arm of an international organisation controlled by a convicted American fraudster and prominent anti-Semite, Lyndon LaRouche.
Christensen’s letter described the CEC as an organisation “that the NCC and every other mainstream conservative group should run 10 miles from”. But Christensen was disturbed by what he perceived as a link between the NCC and CEC sympathisers. When he raised his concerns with NCC national vice-president Pat Byrne they were dismissed, he says. Christensen then contacted the David Syme Foundation, a CEC splinter group. He was told that Pat Byrne of the NCC had undertaken an economics course with the foundation. The letter to Howard concluded: “I trust you understand the seriousness of this matter and the fact that many other mainstream conservatives like me, who are currently members of or otherwise associated with the NCC, will have no choice but to leave the organisation if it becomes a vehicle for LaRouche-inspired policies.”
The letter was referred to Santamaria’s successor as NCC national president, Peter Westmore. In a lengthy reply, Westmore denied an NCC-CEC connection. “I do not regard the CEC as anything more than cranks and parasites,” Westmore’s letter said. It denied that Byrne had undertaken a course with the David Syme Foundation.
Among other things, LaRouche maintains that the Queen and Prince Philip are the heads of an international drug-smuggling ring; that a cabal of Jewish bankers known as the Oligarchy or the Synarchists has taken over the international financial system; and that the September11 terrorist attacks in the US were inspired by the American military.
The CEC has adopted as its economics guru Lance Endersbee, a retired university professor and engineer who was befriended by Santamaria before the NCC founder’s death in 1998. Endersbee gave the keynote address at the CEC’s West Australian launch for the federal election campaign and campaigned for the CEC in Queensland. Endersbee is quoted extensively in LaRouche’s New Citizen newspaper; he was flown by LaRouche to Washington to address a conference in 2003.
So there you go. Lyndon Larouche: he’s HUGE in Australia!
February 14th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
You can read a more up to date account of the LaRouchees’ infiltration of the NCC (as of last January) here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17857166%255E2702,00.html
The LaRouchees are incredibly ubiquitous in Oz.