Skull / Bones

Police say a truck driver involved in an accident that left two men dead in Calhoun County may face charges. Two men from Chicago, 48-year old John Morris and 66-year old Gary Genazzio reportedly ran out of gas on I-94 west of Albion late Monday night. Police say the two were hit by a passing dump truck as they were putting gas in their tank on the shoulder of the road. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Charges are pending against the dump truck driver, a 57-year old Jackson man. His name was not released.

A couple of Larouchie “causes” come to mind.  One was directed to a vaccine shortage which happened at the end of October of 2004 and was a political issue that the John Kerry campaign was trying to use against the Bush Administration.  Larouche, having appended himself to the cause of electing John Kerry president under his alternate fiction of sitting alongside James Carville as a force within the Democratic Party, upped the ante further and further into simple demagoguery. So I saw (as well multiple people across the country on election day eve), Larouchies with signs alerting us to “Cheney Killing Your Grandma”, attached to conspiracy theories regarding the decimition of your grandma.

The other came with the Minnesota Bridge Collapse. I remember thinking “Why have I not seen the Larouchites run through this issue?”, into their attachment on the issue of decaying infrastructure.   Sometime within a week, they did prime that pump, and the larouchepub mill threw out swill from that direction.

Consider the political point of view being proferred by Larouche Inc:  Spend-thrift measures cause death, Governments (down to us in the public) put aside the bother to spend the money to take care of some basic infrastructure.  The next matter, if you peel away and look past the “British” and Zionist source of all evil, is one of Graft and Government Corruption, which I mention here purely to parallel with the case of the accident at hand.

It seems the case that Morris and Genazzio lost their lives, running out of gas, and running out of gas because the inverted Financial Pyramid that is the Lyndon Larouche Organization did not grant them enough to cover the expenses of the bill for rising gas prices, and this was basically to fully finance the trip to Italy for Lyndon and Hegla Zepp to continue their odd little duality of quote-in-quote “World Historic Figure”/ Insigificant Lurcher into the Comfortable Shadows of Obscurity, which produced this.

I do not have the time right now to dig into the following links, and maybe I will shortly and make some semi-prescent comment or other. Beyond, “Hey Look! The Larouchies are trying to get somebody elected in Texas!” And the my previously stated comment “Um. I don’t think Clinton likes having that name attached to her… anywhere.” (That item I may well go through a list of anti-Obama rumours and try to figure out which ones have some circulation bump from the Larouche universe.) (And for the dailykos item: “Your friend is long gone. Sorry.”) So, here is a link dump.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/dc-clinton-larouche-camps-nader-obama
http://www.thetexasblue.com/larouche-etc
http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5889
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/06/02/it-must-be-june-because-the-silly-s http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/5/105553/6954
http://www.thetexasblue.com/larouche-etc-updated

Tuesday the Larouche website machinery kicked out an item declaring that they had “Won” and succesfully gotten Obama into a stalemate such that he will not be president. Curiously, that very same url was swiftly changed to a longer item about how the British were thrusting Obama on us all, setting us up for McCain. This I found a bit curious, as the “We Win” and “We have thwarted Obama” statement was no more insane or distant than anything else. As a May memo has it:

Suppose the PPP crowd grabs the Democratic Party. Every good Democrat will become a Republican. No one in his right mind will play with PPP people—fascists like Rohatyn and Soros. If they took over the Democratic Party, then people in their right mind would destroy such a Democratic Party, just as they would destroy the Nazi Party. Under those conditions, McCain would be told to do as he is told. Patriotic forces in the U.S. would act to control him, to put diapers on him. To save the nation they would mobilize to destroy the Democratic Party under the control of the PPPs (sic). We must shape the future. This is no time for business as usual.

This is an interesting turn — and not just for the mention of “PPP” even over Royatin.  Through the past decade, the Larouchies have been bouncing about college campuses and gathering a “cadre” of niave new cult members off of anger over the Bush Administration, mostly off the cusp of the Iraq War the now meaning too many things to be a truly useful word “neocons” — “Children of Satan” I, II, and was there a III? Also social security privatization — and herein lies the Larouche version of events:

On Nov. 11, 2004, we launched a defense of Social Security. There would have been no chance for anybody in the U.S. if we had not done that. We have made it this far, due to future-oriented actions based on a dynamic study of the process underway.

Back in the real world, at least for the centrist Democratic New Republic — which ran a fluff piece on Larouche last summer, and the mainline Democratic Washington Monthly — which ran a more substantial piece on Larouche last Autumn: Nancy Pelosi is credited for that. But then again, there is some inconvenient history for Democrats, but even more inconvenient (if they particularly cared to keep their story straight, which they don’t) for Larouche buried about from back to the Clinton Administration, and contradictions anyone?

Today this odd cadre of gradually aging “youth” Larouchies are, evidentally, being turned around one more time to support that same type of neo-conservative for President whom they had been fighting against for the past seven years. The wheel turns 180 degrees. Also, may I add, a Global Warmer believer. It is an item of fascination, and I suppose Larouche (or whoever is in control of that doddering enterprise) can dust off his quasi-support statements for Gerald Ford, cross that name out and replace it with McCain. I suppose he sees that there is no more reason to rhetorically ride the Clinton machine anymore and has reached that dead end, and the next chapter of fiction writing lies elsewhere.

Well. Congratulation, Youths. Prepare your next choral assignments, and… ? It’s Raining McCain?

About a month ago I was walking to my bus-stop at just after 6 in the morning.  I looked down and saw two peculiar items.  One was a torn cover for the latest Lyndon Larouche pamphlet, something entitled “Doom” or something like that.  This was evidence that, yes indeed, the merry band of Larouchites had wandered in and through the city.  The other item was a glossy page of pornography showing one silicone enhanced woman licking the butt of another silicone enhanced woman.  I gather that the two items were once in the possession of the same person, and I wonder what the person who had them did with the two items, and which one amused him the most.

I suppose the DNC meeting this weekend will have a contigency of Larouchites leaching off the Hillary Clinton backing protesters.  Where this will get them, hard to say.  Compare the Homer Simpson quote:  “Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”  WITH an item from here:  “I’m not able to truly understand what they want to do,” Irons said. “Their weird evangelism is off-putting to me.”

The story is the reoccuring story of the past 30 years, though nothing much comes of them, as with:

Irons described the behavior of LaRouchites when they come to the county meetings: “Mostly, they’re pretty quiet in meetings—then they’ll ask a non-sequitor question,” she said.

But non-sequitor to whom?  This is what they believe they are doing:

On the League of Women Voters’ website, LaRouchite candidate Ian Overton has posted a “position paper,” written by Amelia Robinson, of the Schiller Institute, one of the institutions associated with the LaRouche organization. The paper is more of a letter of advice to the six LaRouche candidates: Overton, Jon Stuart (incumbent), Ben Deniston, John Craig, Ramiro Bravo and Oyang Teng.In part, it says: “Though this is a seriously messed-up world, with Lyn’s and Helga’s [Lyndon and Helga LaRouche] wisdom and experience you can’t go wrong. You are building the foundation for bigger and better positions (be sure you keep your mind and body clean), so don’t stop keeping your eyes on the prize (President). Above all, keep your hand in the Hand (God’s) of the man who troubles the waters. To get to the top, be kind, patient, and loving, as well as truthful.”

Interesting that Helga is being shuffled into these position papers, no? 

Discuss:
One thing I want to remark on is how utterly vulgar LaRouchism is.

If any of that is true, then revenire, of course, didn’t know Ken or Molly or any of these people just listed. Wouldn’t know them if they slapped him silly (there’s a thought….)

(rest of messages in the “comments”)

I now present to you the most self-serving version of the old Lakota philosophy that decisions should be made with seven generations in mind, Lyndon Larouche talks about the importance of “grandfathers” to his “Youth”, and the generation which does not honor the grandfather.

No longer do they believe — in successive generations, no longer do they believe in immortality of the individual personality: that even after the individual is dead, their personality continues to live and have an effect on future generations. We used to be a society in which we thought grandfathers would give their lives to provide a better way of life for, not only their children, but especially their grandchildren. […]

That has been lost! We have now become, especially with the 68ers and that generation, which lost their morality almost at birth — actually, this was something done to them. Don’t blame them entirely for it; it was done to them, by their parents, and the consent of their parents, and done by teachers and so forth.

They lost that sense of immortality, they lost that sense of culture. They lost the sense of a continuity of culture. They lost a sense of what the meaning is of national cultures, of cultures of people, the importance of preserving and promoting these cultures, because that’s the way in which [… blah de freaking blah…]

Losing a sense of continuity of culture? Tibet? In the meantime, the “68″ers were either lost in terms of morality at their birth. Or done to them by teachers and with the consent of their parents. Which means we’re losing that generational schism already shown with the statements on how some things skip a generation. Or, actually… we’re supposed to blame Harry Truman, as with this quote:

You don’t like Baby Boomers? Blame Harry Truman!

And let it be done. DAMNED YE, HARRY TRUMAN!!!

Okay. But what about the current election. Well, Clinton is being brought down by the British in the form of Obama who will be brought down shortly thereafter (perhaps by assassination??? Have we learned anything from our dealing with the British back in the 60s visa vie Kennedy — Kennedy — King?) and… I don’t know how Bloomberg figures into these things anymore. But the problem with Clinton is, as discussed here…

Clinton’s continual pledge to represent the lower 80% of the U.S. population, and the unspoken fear that some of her policies seem to lean too far in the direction of the proposals put forward by Lyndon LaRouche

because

As it stands at this moment, unless Senator Hillary Clinton continues her campaign for the Democratic nomination, there is no presently visible chance that the U.S. will come out of the presently skyrocketing hyper-inflationary crisis in any form easily recognized as being, still, our constitutional republic.

This all goes back to Abraham Lincoln… (if it doesn’t go back to the Babylonians), when…

What we are facing in our nation, is what we have faced in this nation, since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and that is, a war for the survival of republican forces, uniquely, American forces, against those of the British Empire. And today, that war has come to its final stage.

Because

The post-Civil War conflict between Lincoln’s republican United States and the British Empire, which has defined world politics over the last 140 years, is coming immediately to a head in the course of the current United States presidential campaign. Can the United States and the planet, come out the winner?

But don’t fret. Yet. The Man Has The Plan.

Larouche, as head of LPAC, has committed himself to forming a new United States Presidency which will defeat this barbarism. As the most reliable long-term forecaster over recent decades, Larouche is uniquely situated to outlining the successful strategy to defeat the British.

So vote for Hillary Clinton. Or don’t, as stated:

The issue here is not the election results. The issue is not the president. Obama is not competent to be a president; he has none of the makings of competence. Many of his constituents are valuable people, who are tied to the interests of the lower 80 percent, and they should be encouraged and defended, and their rights defended.

Very nice of him to reference the Obama constituents as “valuable people”, and very civil libertarian of him to support the defense of their rights. Anyway, one more thing Larouche wants done:

In a statement released today, former Democratic Presidential candidate and the world’s leading economist declared that the Democratic Party should stop promoting former Vice-President Al Gore, now.

I don’t believe in Unilateral Withdrawal. I think the Democratic Party should be forced to quit promoting Al Gore until the Republican Party is forced to stop promoting Bob Dole. Anyway, Larouche remains magnanimous:

“Gore should be allowed to keep his party membership.”

Meanwhile, it worth noting, as posted by “realme” at factnet:

The list of delegates to the 10th Congressional District (Leesburg and environs) Democratic convention includes the following delegates and/or alternates pledged to Clinton: Nancy Spannaus, Anton Chaitkin, and Kathy Notley. I believe this local convention chooses delegates to next month’s state convention, which in turn chooses delegates to the national convention in Denver in August.

I may or may not have one further bit of news about that particular item which I will, if it is what I remembered, link to a later.

There is a “rock skipping in a pond” feeling to this.  It skims across a few major blogs, is mentioned by a few minor blogs, and then disappears into the ether.  It bears repeating, the sheer irrelevance of this man to do anything except skim a handful of college aged to line up behind him, to berate his original members, and to — at a lesser clip than able to do before– scam money out of the elderly and such.  Note, for instance, the “Finally!  He Speaks!”  — which, he has been speaking all this time, it is just that there has been no reason for anyone to notice.

Anyway, Wonkette  second or third tier Daily Kos  The Defeatists  

Comments worth pegging:

http://wonkette.com/381051/lyndon-larouche-obamas-a-monkey-working-for-british-intelligence#c5254362 

NOTE TO ALL:

YOU MUST READ THE SOURCE ARTICLE

Until you do, you have no right to speak authoritatively on the views of the eminent political scholar Lyndon LaRouche.

Or, for that matter, to utilize the phrase “staggeringly batshit insane, yet verbally functional, after a fashion.”

Or to think you know the answer to the question, “What would have happened if George W. Bush had quit after his first term as governor, moved onto Neverland Ranch with a horde of sycophantic Gonzales-esque minions who considered him the greatest genius of our age, and stayed there for thirty years?”

Oh, he doesn’t know the half of it.  Actually my thought of what else is in that particular item, in particular his fairly accurate representation of the ”Baby-boomers” in his org largely being in the organization out of habit as much as anything else, and his wistful look back to when the org did some things as opposed to now,  goes along the lines of “This is how a crypto-fascist personality cult dies.  Not with a bang, but with a whimper.”  But this thought that some people just may have taken one closer look to the link and read the rest of this item beyond the immediate Obama quote, and into the internal dynamics of the cult, gives me an inner smile.  But, for my purposes of due diligence in this anti-Larouche Activist role I have fallen into, and in suggesting that this is a far more useful item for both the handful of the niave who see some surface issues Larouche spouts and rationalize away the seemingly incoherent rest with “At least he’s doing something”, and for the purpose of the occasional treker over the card table shrine for a spell of asking the person behind the card table shrine “What in the world do you think you are doing?”, it needs to be connected to the other part of the item which “Eaglebreak” made public, perhaps even footnoted to a ridiculously nth degree (the whole purpose of this is a sort of layered item where the item is placed in its context, then if for the sake of any further argument even further into its context, and further still in context), the central part about Obama highlighted, the most central and most direct couple of sentences  highlighted and underlined, and then dashed out into the public domain, for presentation by anyone who cares to present it to a “Youth Movement”arian manning a card table on a college university in the coming months.

Anyone reading this with a hankering to wander over, perhaps with this small package in hand but if not with the words about Barack Obama and every monkey on Earth in mind, the question to ask:  When you joined, thinking you were going to battle Imperialistic Wars or thinking you were fighting to advance Science (ha!), or for Investment into Infrastructure, and for other idealistic causes, did you also think you were going to be promoting the crudest form of KKK-esque nineteenth century racism?

Trying to formulate what, precisely, to do with this item, that is about all I could come up with, and so I float it out there, and let it be caught as it is caught.

Because the scariest part of that item, particularly with the Obama quote but also with the rest of this item, is that it is Lyndon Larouche being chummy with his “Larouche Youth Movement” members, the prized figures who he is attempting to groom to replace the boomers he knows won’t linger around.  They are being prepped for this mission with the most basest of hatreds, because the ideological framework has to have them battle this “all out”.  And I do not believe they quite know what they are agreeing with here.  Which is why you should show it to them, even though in the main they should immediagely be able to rationalize it away — if nothing else simply by calling you a Fascist.

As for the “Internal item”, it does echo the items supposedly for public consumption.  Worth looking at, or skimming, because it shows Larouche — again basically with his “Youth Members”, hitting on the same points as the Internal item.  The internal is always external; the external is always internal, and nothing is terribly subtle.

Go to a college campus anywhere in the country and the LaRouchians are recruiting young progressives to their cause.  They make a seemingly good pitch to idealistic people (rebuild the industrial economy, end the war, yadda, yadda, yadda) but behind the curtain is a decidedly unprogressive agenda.  And yes they are harmless in the sense that they have zero electoral strength.  In other sense LaRouchians are very dangerous.  They encourage/force recruits to drop out of school and devote themselves full-time to the cause of LaRouche.  This cult destroys lives and in the case of Jeremiah Duggan, they occasionally end them.

Sunlight is the best disinfectent.  I hope this diary catches the eyes of a few young people who might not overwise have known what a dangerous and anti-progressive POS Lyndon LaRouche is.

The other parts of the item is important in making the card-table shriners aware that they have joined a dying cult, and in suggesting to the Kentrina Fentons of the world that this is a dying cult.

From Wayne State University’s student newspaper:

And the answer as to which students are targeted lies with Katrina Fenton. Despite being harassed for over six months, she’s not ready to say, ‘down with LaRouche’ because she feels at least they are trying. She said she is tired of the general disinterest and apathy of young people today and feels that reform is necessary with our society. Yet, she is still unsure as to what LaRouche’s group is about. She wonders what LaRouche would put in place of the current political and economic systems.

Upon seeing this, which is someone posting at “amazonsellercommunity” forum the sidebar category “Larouche Corner”, I thought I may as well go ahead and break my “one month moratorium”. Also I need to make a mental note to change a few things with that. Originally, my thought was that that last internal demonstration spit out from the organization was that this thing was heading nowhere and could wait, added with other materials of interest, where I could pick back up with some added context on what, exactly, is developing within this flailing little organization.

As interesting as this all may be, where we see Lyndon Larouche adjusting to the fact the baby boomers in his NEC appear to have just walked out of the building and so he clings mightily to the Larouche Youth Movement he is trying to prime for their role in carrying on the faith past his death (and he should be able to die happy with that delusion, I suppose), and while one can dissect all of this any way one pleases — I note that there is no printing and the website malfunctioned last month… (yes, asking about why we can’t hand out literature so much is, how do I say, darkly amusing)…

I have a gut feeling the dozen dozen Larouche Youth Members and the dozen dozen fellow travellers are being readied for their college tour. And I have a further gut feeling that the focus is less likely to be on the Mortgage Crisis and Bear Stearns — while the economy is certainly affecting them by way of lack of immediate job prospects and adding to natural anxieties and furthering the destruction to student loans, they’re not losing their homes — and more onto what I spot as a decipherable shift of focus onto the evils of Barack Obama. More or less, Lyndon Larouche has concocted a storyline whereby he can situate him with the campaign of Hillary Clinton in saving civilization.

At first I would think that such a thing as the following could wait a month, one more item of manure onto a sewage pile that extends over four decades. News flash! Lyndon Larouche is Racist! Why — that’s the end of this man’s political career — never to be elected to anything! (Like so, the comment to the Washington Monthly article: “Next month — The Washington Monthly blows the lid off the Prohibition Party!”). But then there’s the title of that thread, “If You Have Teenagers, Watch Out for this Cult”. About the only power Larouche wields is that of inducing a handful, and mindful only a handful, of youngsters to join his fantasy world. I have seen Larouchies swivel around old quotations a bit, and something fresh with a more difficult job to hide behind “code words”, and right into its original context, probably would be beneficial.

Frankly, I am a bit surprised it took Dennis King a few days to post them up to his website. Anyway… um… what it is that is wrong with Barack Obama:

I mean: Obama is a racist. I mean, with an African father–he wasn’t much of an African father, but was an African father of Kenya. He was part of a British operation, which took over Kenya, through MI5’s operation. But this guy was away from Kenya, and he married a Margaret Mead type, a woman who had a number of successive husbands, like Margaret Mead did. Went out to the poor, brown people, in Asia, and had sex with them! It was called “Coming in Samoa.” [groans, laughter]
And she wore through a number of successive husbands, and by them, had various children. And therefore, you’ll find Obama’s ancestry, if you chase his family tree, everybody’s climbing and swinging from the branches there–from all over the world! All parts of the world! This guy is the universal man. Every monkey in every tree, from every part of the world, has participated in the sexual act of producing him. And he works for organized crime–which is a branch of British intelligence.

So why are people sucked into this thing? And what’s wrong with the way we react to this phenomenon, as it affects the population in general? It’s not just Obama. Obama is a disease, but he’s not the infectious agent that caused the disease. He’s a product of the disease, not a cause of it. (April 13, 2008)

Alrighty then. I note a few things. Number one: Webster Tarpley has a new book out. I want to ask the question of why it is that past his life in the Larouche organization, and even assuming he maintains the basic ideological framework including his version of that dastardly British Empire which continues to orchestrate such things as 9/11 and perpetual economic collapses, why his line always seems to remain with Larouche’s — including its attendent contradictions and contrivancies. But whatever, the one thing you can say about Webster Tarpley: he’s not stupid enough to run through the problems with Obama’s ancestory.

Another thought: a while ago I noticed the presence of a Larouche disciple at the leading White Supremicist website forum for stormfront.com. His audience appeared to be a bit skeptical, and so he insisted they read the pamphlet “Christian Economics” which would show that Larouche had “love for the white man in spades.” If this fellow is reading this, perhaps he can profer this speech over there and garner his raising of funds or whatever.

I would sure like to know what series of editing attempts brought the following sentence into the wikipedia article on James Bevel:

James Bevel […] in order to get his ideas on education into the limelight, ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1992 on Lyndon LaRouche’s ticket.

Understand the relatively lack of imporatnce of the association with Larouche to James Bevel’s life story is shown in the AP article’s mention of his running mate status as the final paragraph, guaranteed to be cut off in just about every newspaper that picks the story up.  Whatever the back story of this association, the wikipedia sentence about “getting his ideas on education into the limelight” come across as a white-wash.  (Curious items?)

The sick joke comes with what his “ideas on education” apparently were, as evidenced in the Incest Trial.  Here are his “ideas on education”:

The woman said her family’s communal life included “meetings” and “informal classes” in which Bevel taught his philosophy of nonviolence and offered instruction on “overcoming shame and lust and guilt about sexuality.”

As a young girl, she said, “I did see my father have sex with my mom. My only thought was they looked like a cricket.”

Earlier, her mother, Helen Williams, said her former husband espoused a philosophy “that parents need to sexually orient their children.”

But, she said, when Bevel once suggested she have sex with their son, “I was shocked and repulsed by the idea.”

AND

The public defender told the jury to focus on the charge and not on other interactions Bevel had with Machado. Hoffman asked Bevel whether he had ever rubbed Machado’s chest — another allegation she has made but one that is not part of this criminal case.

“Yes, I have engaged in rubbing [her] chest in an educational context,” he said. Bevel testified that as a minister and a teacher, he has educated people, including his children, on the “science” of sex and marriage.

That “educational context” refers to Bevel’s views that sex should only be used to procreate, not in recreational, commercial or military ways. He referred to rape as “military sex.”

If Bevel’s scientific definition of marriage is carried out, each girl born should take on the roles of mother, daughter, sister and wife immediately, while each boy should take on the roles of father, son, brother and husband immediately, he said.

… Well, it is all about creating a Scientific Revolution, I suppose.

The formation of the LYM in 1999 was meant as Larouche’s survivng legacy in his quest for “Immortality”, at the expense of the baby boomers who made up his organization. For this purpose, a purge would have to be implemented sooner or later, moving his chess pieces around. Through the previous decade at least, the published propaganda rattled on — with increaing vehemence — about the problems and failures of the Baby-boomers, and hatred of the baby-boomers was to be the focal point of the ideology implanted on thenew LYM cadre of recruits.  The published hatred of the baby-boomers was a manifestation of much the same meant internally by the organization to its adherents, and specifically related to certain individuals.

Namely Kenneth Kronberg, who ran the printing operation and was loyal to a fault to Lyndon Larouche.  Getting rid of Kronberg would be to successfully dump onto his lap all financial debts incurred with PMR’s function as Larouche’s printing press — if at first at cost of operation than later at PMR’s expense, Kronberg becoming the useful scape-goat for the death of the organization’s ability to disseminate his propaganda through the printed page.  So on that fateful morning of April 11, 2007, the Daily Briefing ran off the problems of the “Baby Boomers” who if not ready to join the “real world”, should consider “virtual suiccide”, before singling out the Printing Press as the source of the organization’s troubles.  Seeing no escape, Ken Kronberg jumped off an overpass.

In the parlance of Larouchian terminology, “the real world” means working with full fervor for Larouche’s causes in conjunction with “Immortality” (his), and “virtual suicide” is the supposed worth of your life outside the organization, the promise from the man in charge that you will suffer a nervous breakdown outside his curiously crafted sense of a “comfort zone”.

Purges have happened before, and are necessary as a means of control and means of reinvention for an organization such as Larouche’s.  In a sense, the lifeblood of this type of organization is the management of the internal crises in purporting the crises outside the world.  But this was going to linger and deepen.  I cannot say how I would imagine Larouche could pull off his feat in moving his “Youth Movement” in taking over the organization from thebaby boomers, but I find it difficult to see him picturing this purge as happening in the manner it did.

The Memorial Service for Ken Kronberg proved to be a meeting ground where former and current members renewed connections.  Bridges were built, mainly bridges which could allow some members to walk out of the organization.  Over the next year, the specter of “outside projects” for a staff at the National Level not fully committed to Larouche’s project of (self) Immortality would loom and haunt the organization and his most loyal of loyalists.  Just as important, bridges of information were built that would allow the dissemination of what can be called “The Secrets of the Elites”.

In previous years, the necessary revision of history and tightening of conduits of information could be more successfully completed.  The problem for Larouche came in the form of the Internet, and a loose network of observers with varying levels of awareness of what is going on (IE: This blog and I are quite clearly trailing on that list — I not being a former or current member or long time researcher and professional expert on this topic), but at any rate apt to disseminate the contortions and non sequiturs Larouche’s organization was set to go through in their attempt to weasle around the issues.

When Lyndon Larouche’s organization finally came around to acknowledging the problems attendent with Ken Kronberg’s suicide, two things immediately floated in the air.  First, the urging of continuing the struggle for “Immortality” as Kronberg’s supposed dying legacy.  Second, Kronberg’s suicide was stated as his biggest mistake — in the ideology of the organization’s thought process means as much as anything else, that Kronberg’s suicide was Larouche’s biggest mistake — and biggest source of consternation.

Larouche was confronted with a twin set of problems, the problems specific to the two parts of his organization with the Baby Boomers and the Youth Movement. For the Baby Boomers, particularly in the National org in Leesburg, he had to simply move the baby boomers past Kronberg.  For the Youth, he had to simply innoculate them from the controversy completely, and to the extent that he needed to address it, tell a side of the story that would effectively leave it in the laps of the Baby Boomers and the Kronbergs.

To that latter end, the organization directly addressed the issue of various websites’ focus on Larouche, the “AFA funded” FACTNet board, “John Train’s salon” in Dennis King, and a “new blog by(a) Star Trek groupie and Robert Beltran stalker”. Recharged in earnest was a a full frontal assault on computer related culture — in the form of video games and myspace — as well as a demonization of the Internet tools of wikipedia and google (which had long been bugaloboos for the Larouche organization).  In the end, the measures culminated in the edict that banished the Larouche Youth Movement from visiting the Internet — and while I cannot say I  really know what the terms of this edict are, which in addition to dropping 80 daily hits from Nick Benton’s myspace site (and for all I know, this blog) served to isolate them from the fallout from the national organization, and anything not given to them by the organization.

The problem with the National org, meanwhile, was that it was full of individuals with a clear memory and level of affection toward the recently departed Kronberg.  Necessarily, the berating Ken Kronberg took prior to his suicide would have to be pushed aside.  The best Larouche could push for with Ken Kronberg — while maintained a failure to his cause, at least a loyal foot-soldier in the cause of (his) Immortality, and in that week delayed “open letter” to the widow Molly Kronberg, he threw in a clause meant to put her on warning.  Molly Kronberg was set to be, internally speaking at least, Enemy #1.  The coup de grace came when Larouche issued his “Final Word” on the subject by pointing to her couple of hundreds of dollars in donation to presidential campaign of George W Bush.  In an act of conscience which showed Larouche the uncomfortable level of dissension within the ranks, this factoid would be left off of its designated memo, forcing Larouche to issue the notice again.  The parallel tact was another act of revisionist history: change the subject completely.  So it was that the cause of the consternation and rambling within the organization was newly minted as the history - changing webcast where Larouche exposed the BAE Scandals, the historical mission and issue that the organization was now supposed to throw itself into for the Greater Good.  Anyone overly burdened and by the schism of this history changing event was instructed to a friendly chat with the resident house psychiatrist, Gerry Healy. (sic?)

Intruding into the attempt to completely change the subject was the hovering presence of Avi Klein, doing research for a piece for the liberal political magazine The Washington Monthly.  The Larouche organization did its customary act of shutting down any line of communication from them to him, and worked their way to the proper response.  Here they went to the go-to-line, which is to suggest that Avi Klein was a Mossad Agent.  After that, it was a task of placing the article into the larger context: this was a hit job for the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” to bring down the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” having been a continuation of the “Get Larouche Task Force” of the 1980s that brought Larouche, and various associates, to prison.  It was a convoluted act of rationalization which could only be believable by delievers in Larouche, and increasingly not even to them.  One line did show the mindset of the organization in assessing what they needed to protect most of all.  Jeff Steinberg wrote that what these forces fear most of all was the implication of a growing Larouche Youth Movement that would survive and thrives past Lyndon Larouche’s demise.  Their focus was in incubating the LYM.  As an aside, the word “demise” seems a bit of a Freudian slip, Steinberg seems to be thought of as more or less planning a think tank to survive the death of Larouche, one that has no room for Lyndon Larouche.

Whatever else one can say about the proported “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” outgrowth from the 1980s plot to bring down Larouche theory, it did dove-tail back to the emerging line against Molly Kronberg.  To get to that point, you had to leave aside that the Washington Monthly’s spot on the political map is roughly that of a sort of “Clintonistas in Exile”, and put aside that Kronberg was next seen lending an interview with Chip Berlet, who wrote some articles for High Times Magazine, a fact the Larouche Organization used in fund-raising from largely conservative Republicans in the 1980s.  Larouche unveiled his next line of attack against Molly Kronberg by revising the history of the court trials and the prison sentence of the 1980s.  Whereas the old storyline focused on the role of George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States and former CIA Head, in supposed railroading the crew of political prisoners, the new focus of “newly revealed information” swirled around Molly Kronberg’s acts of criminality and back-stabbing (one large part coming with Molly Kronberg’s attempt to keep Larouche from testifying in her trial).

At this point, Larouche and company were well aware of the shake-out in the org and the hollowing out at the national org, and so ran ahead of the matter as much as they could by issuing internal memos warning the faithful of the back-stabbing enemies in their midst.  This shake-out would reach a crescendo in March, when Larouche let out a bellow against the “stupid manpower shortage” he was seeing amongst his leadership, and the proliferation of “Outside Projects”.  He rolled back into his long standing attack on the baby-boomers, and in a published release on his website explain “one of the things I hate about my associates”.  Reportedly, and I have no way of confirming or denying such a statement, the NEC is now comprised of six people.  Lyndon Larouche has gotten his purge, whatever good that does him.   The prime directive of the NEC at this point has to be to direct and manage the Larouche Youth Movement, getting back to the task of making them feel as though they are World Historic Figures under Larouche’s own belief that hs is the World Historic Figure, in part by creating a sense amongst the ”Youth” of feeling superior to an the generation that joined in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  The fight for Larouche’s immortality is one of stringing them along in training them that Conflict is more powerful than Love.

It appears that the central committee of Lyndon Larouche’s has collapsed.  It is difficult for me not to connect what appear to be rather massively sized dots (splots?) with one massively thick line.

I refer to those two internal daily briefings, one for March 10 and one for March 11, where Larouche complains about man-power shortage, people taking on “outside projects”, and the specter of Benedict Arnold under-mining the cult.  And I refer to a piece his propaganda mill published and spit out for March 25 where he, again, complained about his man-power shortage and his associates (whom he hates) taking on “outside projects”, something which has been reported as far back as last summer as happening but the tension of has finally appeared to snowball into something catastrophic.  This is one set of dots.

The other set of dots is comprised of the fact that the rss feed is spitting out a dramatically reduced number of items out at me.  Also in the sudden disappearance of “Jeff Steinberg’s Weekly Political Report” for two weeks.  And, for that matter, the publication of nothing over Easter weekend.  For a year I have been watching to see what functions flicker off and darken with the Larouche organization, seeing how it matches the somewhat bold explanation of the Washington Monthly’s promotional item for the Avi Klein article stating that “Ken Kronberg’s suicide marks the death of the Lyndon Larouche Movement.”  This is one of those functions which has eroded, and let it be said that it collapsed in March of 2008.  A dark age beckons, similar to the second Dark Age interval of — whatever years that is.

I begin to wonder about revenire’s appearance to steer us toward an Italian dignitary’s reference to a “New Bretton Woods”, and the various HBPA resolutions passed by various municipal and state governments — revenire appearing, oddly enough, March 11.

We are a week away from April 11, the one year anniversary of Kenneth Kronberg’s suicide.  Larouche’s belated self-serving response was a call to continue to pursue that magical “Immortality”.  The March 25th missive shows him returning to that self-serving phrase, “One of the things I hate about my associates” being that they are no longer working for his immortality.  If you read these dots right, mortal men and women are seemingly winding their way to a mixture of mortal pursuits and an entirely different and more sound version of whatever “Immortality” can possibly be, leaving the organization to the mortal task of duct-taping up and covering up this collapse.  How?  Rearrange the deck-chairs, I suppose.  They still have a core of someone in Leesburg, right?  Something is sputtering out of their rss feed, just not a whole heck of a lot.

The thing continues.  It lives.  Kind of.  The LYM are running around, however many of them there are, isolated from outside influence somewhat in cold storage, waging theatrical presentations where they don’t quite imitate Felix Royatin because they don’t really know what he looks like, or even quite know if he is a real person, and Michael Bloomberg — who they think is running for president.  Never peddling any printed material, there.  Larouche’s hope for “Immortality” lies with them, bridged together by what infrastructure, I cannot quite say.