July 27, 2007 (LPAC)–In response to an article written by London’s Dennis King entitled “Lyndon LaRouche and the Art of Inducing Suicide,” Lyndon LaRouche asked: “Is Dennis King planning suicide?” LaRouche continued: “Dennis would do almost anything, even suicide, just to get attention from those influentials who have become bored by news of his continued existence.

“After all, it is not as if the poor schnook were a member of the human species, but possibly a distant relative of Al Gore by way of a common opossum ancestor.”

LaRouche said that he is not going to pay any attention to his suicide. He is not going to encourage him or stop him. He won’t waste his efforts to stop him. It is a hopeless cause. He is morally already dead. He is an empty carcass without a soul. His soul, if there ever was one, has long since departed. LaRouche also said that he is not going to send flowers to the funeral. The flowers wouldn’t appreciate it. He wouldn’t even think of sending flowers to the funeral of someone whose soul has long since departed.

From that day forward, the LaRouche org income began to collapse, the point where for several years it has been running at perhaps 25%, perhaps 10%, of what it was in its heyday.

The collapse of the income led to the unraveling of the whole loan mess, and the appearance of two LaRouche nuts as the apparent Lt. Governor and Secretary of State nominees of the Illinois Democratic Party galvanized people into action. Seven months after the March 1986 primary win, and the spotlight shining, there came the October 1986 Federal raid on LaRouche’s HQ in Leesburg, the arrest of LaRouche aides, indictments, and then trials. By the end of 1988, LaRouche had been convicted of various felonies and was on his way to the Big House.

So you could say that as a potential political force, LaRouche was finished. However–and this is why he still matters–he can still destroy the lives of his followers, of these wide-eyed, downy-cheeked, ignorant “yutes,” and of the gray-faced, hollow-eyed, emotionally exhausted wrecks of the Baby Boomers who are still dragging around various offices raising the $$.

The thing to remember is that nothing has EVER worked in the LaRouche movement. Its whole history is that of people dropping out, individually and in huge bunches (the Bavarians, Detroit, Italian org, Latin American org, European org). LaRouche makes the fact that everything always fails–is the Pike statue still standing in DC, folks?–part of his drawing card; he lives on another plane of reality where all the obvious defeats, failures, collapses of initiatives, are really victories.

The zombie image is about right.