This is a pretty impressive bit of propaganda.  I’m particularly struck by how often the … um… Tour bus?… with Larouche’s portrait is shown.  Actually this item is right up there with the one that juxtaposes the photograph of Amelia Robinson standing next to Martin Luther King Jr with the photograph of her standing next to Larouche.

Overall this photo spread is just kind of sad.  Beyond that, though, it strikes me as interesting that it even exists, that they deemed it both necessary and useful to piece such an item together, adding the #4 to their list of responses.  Well, they need to get ahead of such things these days and define the horror before it is defined for you and that seeps into the walls.  Besides which, this was at bottom an accident — no harm, no foul?

It hits me, though, a reason they may have taken down the “Fallen Heroes” page.  Suggested here its general shoddiness being called to attention.  But there’s also a somewhat interesting thought of what taking a glance at the circumstances of their lives and perhaps deaths.  None of them would die as Duggan did, obviously, and in the pre-Internet age Kronberg would have been successfully scrubbed from the memory banks with vestiges of bitter recriminations coming through every once in a while.  But the Accident as a possibility lingers for possibly one or two.

Meantime the Larouche Youth Movementarians enjoy the history lesson about the British being defeated by Lincoln and than Roosevelt.  Robert Beltran narrates.  Skip to 1:27:48 or thereabouts (I just sort of skipped about) for some … ??? … Roosevelt bashing the British.  In front of Winston Churchill!  That bold Roosevelt.  (God, I feel my mind becoming sponge-like.  Interesting retro-fitting of history, I guess.)

And This battle rages.  Unresolved.  Unresolvable.  Mr. Ossifur will continue to beat an impossible drum.

And James Kirchick appears to have set up a “Robert Dreyfus” watch at the New Republic blog.

Gary Genazzio’s pen-work in EIR and such was a major thumb in the eye of the British Empire.  (Make that “Brutish Empire”).  Thus states the official line for the official obituary of the Lyndon Larouche organ at the Schiller Institute.  (And really, God bless poor Fredrich Schiller for getting dragged into this crap.)   The obituary was penned by Mr. and Mrs. Pechenuks — and by some odd happenstance and only slightly arbitrary a tangeant, I already posted the electoral history for Gerald Pechenuk.  As you see, it garnered a further explication on Gerlad Pechenuk, and a supposition that Gerald Pechenuk = revenire, something I have no thought about one way or another.

I gather that a write up on Genazzio’s death isn’t such an automatic thing — has John Morris been eulogized? — and I gather further that we have a bit of a template for the line when Larouche himself bites the dust.  Also we may have arrived at a point where obituaries come for these mid-level functionaries to serve the purpose of preparation and wind through the themes of Immortality Larouche needs…

… as, um, Mr. Ossifur continues his pursuit of cryonics to plan the cryogenic freezing for later re-animation?

Science and Technology:  Differences between Serious and Meandering. 

Winstar… according to the Larouchies — passed onto the Youth in the battle against the Baby Boomers — is something to the effect of:

Newtonian book-keeping and flim-flammery?

At any rate, it is part and parcel, from this vantage point, to the story of the fall of PMR as the internal (to the cult / organization) faults of the Baby Boomers.  Actually its Bankruptcy strikes me, for Larouche’s purpose, as a cautionary tale of “going out on your own” and leaving the Bosom of the Larouche Cult and its various abuses.  The secret curse is that Larouche is beyond the realm of compensation, balance books, and profit margins and further in a field where if he ever gets called to task for breaking the law, it is conceptualized as an Oligarchic Plot against him.

Here’s a recounting of the story of Winstar.  Make of it what you must — a corporation which (ahem) developed an advanced telecom that developed line-of-sight millimeter-wave terrestrial links using digital radios in the 38 Gigahertz band.  And was a corporate entity designed to be bought out by a bigger corporate entity.  And then was sort of lost in the dot com bubble burst –(you know… that rough and wild economic system the nation and world runs off of where new sectors of the economy grow and than contract and sort out?).

At bottom, a truer quest in the realm of applied science than our dear Cryonics – fan and friend, Phil Ossifuer (and various aliases along those lines) and his congregation of blogs and banishments from Cryonic themed message boards — banned because they have no interest in hearing about a g-damned cult leader.  Mind you, Futurenauts, you need not fear Larouche.  The thing has been comical.  My favorite item was Rick Potvin’s rants against Arthur C Clarke when the “Futurenauts” paid their respect to that great Science Fiction author.  But the thing is puzzling me.  Is there a 21st Century Science and Technology selection on the topic of Cryonics?  Perhaps Cryonics is the proposed solution to Larouche’s impending crisis of his Immortality — cue the show Futurama and the collection of famous heads.

I suppose the answer is simply that it falls into a cluster of “fringe” topics for “Phil Ossifur” — not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the fringe — a lot of good ideas float there and come from there.  I was listening to former Larouchie and current Mars Society head Robert Zubrin on George Noory (fringe on fringe), and after a spell I’m convinced Zubrin should be elected president over Obama and McCain.  (Zubrin, I think, wants us to go to Mars and beyond, and left Larouche-land when he realized that the cult was not terribly serious in their stated ideas on the subject, and used those ideas as a money generator and cult- bait and switch.  Which is he has something of a fringe position and realized that the only way to get it out of the fringe was to start his own advocacy think tank and make it real.)  I’m not entirely sure he’s right about Ethanol (I’ve always thought it was a boondoggle, and depressingly a political potent one) — but maybe he’s right… what do I know?

… Incidentally, here we see the Larouchies preying on the currently political desperate, so you know?  The Cryonics enthusiasts need not feel too bad.

I’ve thought I would surely simply run out of steam and reach an end of rope with regards to posting blog entries about Lyndon Larouche’s cult. At this point I’ve tended to think of this as a sort of “Lyndon Larouche Death Watch”, which is I’m idly viewing — in that “rare species of exotic floral” kind of way — emenitions from Leesburg and various locales to see how the thing comports itself right now. The problem is, almost by design, the cult has been moribund since the late 1980s — if you look away there’s nothing much there — and the man himself for all I know will live for another twenty years, spinning even more dementia-inducings.

But the phrase “Death Watch” has taken on an ever more sinister presence. Since I started paying attention, paying attention on one level or other, I count four deaths which — perhaps removed by a few degrees — can be directly attributed to the mechinitions of the cult. The latest are Gary Genazzio and John Morris. (Not yet added to “Legacy” guestbook one can put up reminisces found here, and one memory added to Morris‘s, which I can’t find right this minute.) A google search dredges up some nonsene electoral activity — receiving a fraction of a percent for Larouche delegates to the 2000 Democratic Convention. A college newspaper gives us this item about John Morris stumping for one of those Larouche causes. An odd wikipedia arguement relating to whether an EIR article could be used as a source provides the defense with “Too bad that a fine writer like John Morris is associated with the cultist Larouche but “.

Or, in the case of Gary Genazzio, apparently his career, however far it came along and I don’t have a firm grasp, drawing comic books for Stan Lee at Marvel Comics.

Meanwhile, the Larouchian response spit out from Leesburg is as follows:

#1: A quick mention from Jeffry Steinberg in the Daily Briefing.

#2: Lyndon Larouche makes a mean joke, as follows: “Civilization can not be saved. I admit, it’s in tattered condition, but we still want to say that. It’s like an old car, it’s the only one you got; you got to repair it [laughter]. You guys know that! Sometimes you drive a car that already died! [laughter]”
#3: The deletion of a page which had “Honored the Fallen”, or some of them, of Larouche workers after discussion at FACTNet about its woeful inadequacies, birth dates not bothered to be researched to fill in and pictures missing and such.

So… A bigger Douche than you think. AND. (I’m not sure how he even came to that first pre-blogging this assessment without sticking quotation marks around “economist”, but… HEY!)

With interest, I note this new link, and wait to see if it gives anything new. I thought for a second I saw the New Republic piece from last summer, which if I had I would have had to deduct some points against that new site, but looking over it again I’m happy to say I seem to had been wrong.

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.