However, a new article from the LaRouche Youth explains the real menace facing American life today: Dick Cheney’s plot to have us play computer games.

There is some method to this madness, and it probably does have some recruiting ability on a college campus.  A handful is all that is needed, and all that is desirable for this shammy whammy.  But, going to the item of interest from the “Larouche Youth Intelligence”, um…

For all those individuals salivating about the new Halo 3 video game, ask yourself the question: what is the difference between man and beast?

NOOOOOO!!!   Kill me.

II.  It appears that “someone” has edited history and deleted the raving remarks that I noted above.The Schiller Institute (sic) site now provides a transcript:
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2007/landbridge_conf_lyn_keynote_qna.html
but it OMITS LAR’s final remarks, including his World-Delusional Ejack-adulation:

III. Because the world is demanding to read the cult’s internal daily briefings:

MORNING BRIEFING |
Tuesday, September 25, 2007|
—————————————————————+
LaRouche Says a Kick in the Testicles Is Neededb~~~~Commenting on the Herbert Hoover-like delusion expressed by some Democrats and others that the present financial crisis is not a breakdown crisis, Lyndon LaRouche said today that we have to be tough. If people in the Democratic Party continue to hold onto this incompetent opinion, we may find ourselves losing the nation and civilization. This is a breakdown crisis. It was forecast by Lyndon LaRouche and that forecast is proven to be correct beyond any doubt. Unfortunately some Congressmen have been sucked into the view that the current crisis is not a breakdown crisis, under pressure from hedge funds, among others. To the extent that they continue to hold that incompetent view, the solutions which they offer are also incompetent. Moreover, they are delaying on erecting the necessary firewall as proposed by LaRouche to protect homeowners and state and federally chartered banks.
b~~~~LaRouche emphasized that there is no room for compromise. Anyone who says this is not a breakdown crisis should be told the he or she is incompetent, and that the price for that incompetence is beyond anything they’re willing to pay. Because of such incompetence we may lose the nation. Therefore any opinion that this is not a systemic breakdown crisis is not only incompetent, but a threat to the welfare of the nation.
b~~~~This is our line, period! A kick in the testicles is needed. 

Which leads us directly to this challenge of note:

I was unaware of this latest “forecast” when, a week ago, my friendly Leesberg contact – a well-known Boomer from the old FEF, called to tell me that by October 15th, the dollar would be worth ZERO.“Zero” ($0.0) I asked. “Surely you must be joking! Why do you keep telling me these things? You/LAR are always wrong. Yet, with each new crisis, you have the same high confidence. WTF are you trying to pull off? I’ve been hearing this nonsense for 30-40 years.”

So we have two things that are dominating the “political work” of the Larouche organization at this moment.  The BAE Scandal and Halo 3.  No.  Not the BAE Scandal.  Um.  A bill that is oh-so-being prodded into various state legislators that will solve the morgage crisis, and stave off the upcoming Dark Ages brought with the destruction of the economy…

… not to be confused with the Dark Ages that are being unleashed by Halo 3.

IV.  Now available online:  http://www.archive.org/details/SexualImpotenceOf

PuertoRicanSocialistParty

Take note of the provocative question “What is Male Impotence?”

This one requires you put your computer screen on your side.  Or something. http://www.archive.org/details/WhatEveryConservativeShould

KnowAboutCommunism

… Because, you know, the world is demanding to see 30 and 40 year old Larouche propaganda.

V.  One interesting thought on why Larouche insists on referencing Jeremiah Duggan as “Jeremy”, and I either posited it or nearly did so on this blog already, but was mentioned again at FACTNet.   It may be a deliberate psychopathic slap at Mrs. Duggan, who looked Larouche up on the Internet before her son went to the “Schiller Institute” meeting, but she misspelled his name.  Or… it may be a refusal of Larouche to use the name “Jeremiah”, for one of “those reasons”…

I. This clearly traveled from this which was picked from here. Though, so far as I can tell, it doesn’t go on beyond there. Always interesting to see how things like this travel. Anyway, of note — comments:

Anyone else remember the LaRouche science mag? Is that still published? I kind of hate the fact that I know the answer to that question.

Now that is a real leader! Someone who has the guts to speak the truth. If Felix Rohatan told Nancy Peloci to lick his Nazi boots I sincerely believe she would. Nope. This guy is serious. And he manages to plug through the formula in a way I might do so, mockingly. Does he have any self-awareness. Anyways, Josh Gorenfeld provides a response, and that will have to stand. Other than that, former KGB Agent Putin is beloved by Larouche, and if he told Larouche to lick the floor…

IA. Um. James. Yes. “Al Gore is a Nazi” sang to “Dona Nobis Pacem”. Imbecilic. There is nothing to get there. Again, I defer to Josh Gorenfeld for a suggestion.

II. Because the world demands to know about the controversies surrounding Webster Tarpley within the “9/11 Truth” movement and its hodgy podgy intersection with the Peace movement. (50 long minutes…) Life is too short, and even if I did not have anything better do do, I would be more productive in spending 50 minutes staring at a white wall.

Anyway, Chip Berlet is a Stooge of the Ford Foundation, ye say? Okay. Webster Tarpley. Outside the orbit of Lyndon Larouche by now. Still thinking like him. “The Ford Foundation” is at war with the 9/11 Truthers because Cindy Sheehan has asked for her name to be dropped from a signed letter written by Webster Tarpley. Is that about the size of it?

III. I don’t think Lyndon or anyone did anything to Factnet,etc. Your friends are just demoralized because LaRouche is right, the housing bubble is bringing down the whole financial system.

Yes… Yes… Yes. Larouchies of 2007, go in a time machine and meet your cohorts of October of 1987 marching around Wall Street saying “Larouche is right” and Black Monday is bringing down the whole financial system. Whatever happened to the BAE Scandal? Oddly enough, I did see a Guardian piece about it last week — not of World Histrionics. Anyway, I think that wore thin and this story was the next opportunity to have the Larouchies on the move. Hence, the drum-beat goes on with this.

IV. From Factnet: “With the advent of this September 2007, a recent century has died, and a new millennium is born. What an ironically wonderful 85th Birthday has been delivered to me, thus.”
Now we have the briefing lead from a day or two ago, with its hebephrenic opener:
WE ARE WINNING!
GET CONGRESS TO PASS HBPA THIS MONTH!
A very, very happy Lyndon LaRouche conveyed the following message to the international organization on Tuesday: With the just-concluded Kiedrich conference of the Schiller Institute, we have resurrected the full force of our international association. The international organization is back on its feet, so let us continue to put our best foot forward.

b~~~~In concrete terms, we are turning the U.S.A. upside down with the LYM-led mobilization for the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007….
b~~~~We are, in addition to the escalating mobilization all over the United States to get Congress to pass the HBPA by a veto-proof majority, working on pinning down a date for a LaRouche webcast in Washington, D.C. for mid-October.

So proud of that first sentence, larouche moved it from this internal (internal/external) briefing to his public (external/internal) publishings. What I want to know is… did he ever acknowledge that his international — out there in Europe — organization was off of its feet and down?

Takes a bit of time to load to the correct location, but this is amusing. Also, A Tour of Loudon, and the various Housing bubbles that have popped, the most pertinent being Larouche’s.

Factnet has been down for the past several days — the posts are there, but nobody can post anything new.  All of the boards at FACTNet, which tends to suggest that the explanation that the Larouche group is causing the disruptions may well be false.  Unless it is is Larouche with the combined forces of the Scientologists.  Who knows?

Bumbling forth,  I note a few things said by the resident cult leader.  To somebody in China, apparently.  The Chinese government knows all about freedom.

For example, let’s take the case of this, right in this county, Loudoun County: This is actually Target #1, for the world collapse of the system. What was built up here was a mortgage bubble. Remember, you had a crash in the U.S. economy in October 1987, which was very much like the crash of 1929. It happened. It happened in October, I forecast it and it happened exactly as I forecast it was going to happen. 

Got that.  Loudon County.  Target #1 for the world collapse of the system.  The October 1987 stock market free-fall.  Exactly like the stock market collapse of 1929!!  I suppose Loudon County might well be a prime area for the current mortgage crisis, but citing it as “target #1” does appear a bit self-centered, the outside conspiracy against US… They are bringing us down.  In addition that focus, on what I presume to be an economically upscale area of the country, is a little amusing for an entity with one time Marxist pretensions and currently Populist pretensions — the “lower 90 percent” (or is it 80?) — over-easy loaning having effected them as well, with perhaps more devastating consequences.  But why the heck would I want to politically (or economically) a fricking cult?

Next you go to this:

Then they used what they called the Y2K bubble, computer systems. The argument was that the present computer systems were going to explode, when the year 2000 came, because of the two-digit number business. So they invested a great amount of money, poured money into developing the computer industry. In April-May of 2000, that bubble collapsed, the Y2K bubble, because the government had stopped printing money for it.

That is the stupidest explanation of the tech stock bubble of the late 1990s, and a confused inflation of the Y2K bug with the tech stock bubble.  Does he really believe that the government spending money trying to solve the Y2K bug was what was spurring the tech industry in the late 1990s?

If Larouchies are hacking into FACTNet, it’s clearly not Larouche himself, whose grasp on technology issues appears rather flaky.  (And why does he stop his attack on “Internet 2.0” with myspace anyways?)

Skip ahead to the end:

And that’s what it is…. If I were in charge of this problem, I would immediately have publications appearing in various parts of the world, which were telling various parts of the world what the reality of this thing is, and thus create an embarrassment for those in London and the United States who are creating this problem.

Why don’t you go right ahead and print it all out and do that then?

Okay.  Let’s try this.  FACTNet is down, so … open thread!!  Any new internal memo?  I mean, beside this one:

 So far, we’ve prevented a coup against a government. The relevant fundamentals of strategy are restated here, as follows.
The success of such forms of economy depends upon accepting the Christian notion of the individual person in the same way U.S. President Abraham Lincoln expressed this in doctrine and thrust of his practice.
On that basis, without requiring any additional information, I know, with certainty, that the international financial system, with its attached leading banks, is already hopelessly bankrupt. But what do you do? You set new rules. We are now verging very close to a ‘trip-wire’ triggering of a total first strike by either side. At the point that warfighting appears to be irrevocably committed for the immediate future, professional military men are given powerful arguments to the effect that politics must then be absolutely subordinated to the purpose of obtaining every marginal military advantage available.
It is that process, that approximately three decades of cultural retrogression, cultural decay, which has created the political and social preconditions for the series of shocks now threatening the continued existence of our failed civilization.
This kind of stuff.
One of the principal trigger-events for this development was the struggle for national independence by Greece.
More precisely, it exists to be discovered. Beyond that principled point of similarity, the specific principles of each, are, respectively, quite different: as different as the conscious, willful role of cognitively driven conscience, distinguishes social processes from all others.
That’s the nature of the beast.
Now, that has been destroyed, more or less effectively, by the Baby-Boomer generation’s influence. Don’t try to dissect the Baby Boomer, you may not like what you find. The problem here is a cultural problem.
In that case, we’re in for a new game, a game I like. Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa…

I had supposed a lull in the proceedings of L’Affaire Larouche, even knowing that internally somewhere in the center in Loudon and in other spots there had to be at the very least a sense of nervous jitters.  I supposed that there was nothing much that I myself, a relative naive to anything and everything, could possibly add.  The total effect comes with a somewhat generic overview item on Dennis King’s website, which has the feel to it of a place-holder in a lull between two more important items.  (Though, who am I kidding?  It’s as good an overview for a general audience not paying obnoxiously close attention as any.)

Looking it over, one week ago I came to my irreconcible conclusion, and last word, whether anybody cares or not, regarding some pesky things that bother me from a former member’s clearing the air of his involvement in the cult.  He has since added another myspace entry to tackle an assertion from a book, easily findable if you want to read it.

But, somewhere after pausing to enjoy a political commercial from 1984- that dastardly Anglo-Dutch Grain Cartel –, and then finding some  mild entertainment value to be found from some slightly off-kilter comment from “Jesus Christ” left on a blog entry here– that dastardly Anglo-Dutch Grain Cartel — I note that yesterday, the Cult Leader (the “demise” of which is coming, as Steinberg let out) sent out this note to his followers…

… To be found in the comments section (because I don’t want it to loom large on the front page of my blog, and because I can’t find frontpage to put it on a different page at this moment), his attempt at corraling the faithful from the “gossip” hounds at, I don’t know… here, there, various spots found in the sidebar over there.  Other than that, he stokes again the ego of the “Youth” against his babyt-boomers, and dredges up the apostates who have doubted him (ie: baby-boomers) over the years at various intervals, and — yep!  Another swipe at Molly Kronberg.

Earlier this year, I ran into someone from that era at the National Press Club in Washington, a reporter for a major network radio station, who quipped affectionately that in the 1980s I’d been the first person to introduce the press corps to the word, “Krasnoyarsk” (a city in the Soviet Union where work on missile defense was being done).

I had one of my worst bowel movements in Krasnoyarsk. Or, actually, just outside the city proper — Stolby, which — in order to conceptualize based on my experiences, I describe as the forestry of the Cascade Mountains leading to the rock formations of Southwest America. But that’s okay, Nick Benton probably was not referring to Krasnoyarsk anyway, as the closed area Krasnoyarsk-26, now the Uranium powered furnace for Siberia — which is secretive, so secretive that my brother can run off with a few photographs from his stint of teaching English.

As for my shaky bowels — and the horrors of that one outhouse, I am thinking it was probably some raw fish products. One probably should not obligingly eat anything their host shoves in front of them. Stick to crackers and jam with the tea, I suppose.

OKAY! Backward from there…

Moving to Washington D.C. in mid-1985 (to the present), I maintained my nominal affiliation with LaRouche’s so-called “National Committee” (NC) during that period primarily, and ironically, to keep his organization at bay with regard to me, personally, and my new wife. The affiliation provided me with just enough authority to tell LaRouche’s aggressive lieutenants to fuck off and leave us alone. This was particularly important in the case of my wife, who was debilitated by chronic fatigue syndrome, who I fiercly protected from intense pressures to fundraise out of the organization’s new national center in Leesburg. She was, as a result, spared from implication in the shady fundraising practices that eventually sent a lot of LaRouche associates to jail. While my wife and I are now divorced, she remains my closest companion to this day, now going on two decades after our disassociation from LaRouche. Also, once in Washington, I used my NC authority to mitigate severe cases of abuse against “rank and file” LaRouche associates, including one who’d come from Montreal where he’d been allocated $5 a day, along with everyone else in that LaRouche “local,” and I discovered was gluing in his dentures everyday with rubber cement. I saw to it that his dental needs were comprehensively met. Another case involved an associate suffering severe fatigue from what turned out to be acute food allergies, but only after I insisted he be let free from organizing obligations (you know, the usual 16 hours a day at an intersection, etc.) and that he receive comprehensive medical care.

In 1985, I began attending White House daily press briefings despite my refusal to use that opportunity as a platform for so-called “interventions” on behalf of LaRouche, as pro-LaRouche predecessors had done. Instead, I became respected by my colleagues in the mainstream press for my acumen and willingness to ask questions on subjects many of them were not privy to that I had gleaned through paying attention to intertnational press outlets, and so forth.[…]

All of the relevant events cited here from 1984 on are backed up by documents and other hard evidence, including eyewitness accounts from a practicing attorney, that would stand up in any court of law were issues of lies and/or defamation of my character to arise.

Sure, disassociated from Larouche. While with EIR, not the lackey of Larouche. Documented from 1984 onward. respected by the peers probably for anything that is not this, AP 1986:…

In Washington, Nicholas Benton, an aide to LaRouche, attributed the victories to “unprecedented disgust with leaders of both major parties” and “the new mood of the American people and their support for the kinds of remedies offered by Mr. LaRouche.”
Reading these posts and that odd matter has bugged me a tad, and really for no reason whatsoever — none of my g-danged business, even as I “study weird exotic growths of fungi” — but I think I will that it is something best left to acknowledge and resolve it as minor compromises one makes in everyday life, not the least when still somewhat connected with a cult.

A couple of weekends ago, Ron Paul was on the NPR quiz-show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”.  He was given a three question quiz about fringe presidential candidates, which included a question about the political career of one Lyndon Larouche, Jr.  As a whole, it was a stab in Ron Paul’s back — fringe candidate asked about fringier candidates.  I balk at the implication,  though, with ragards to Mr. Larouche — the same with the New Republic side by side profiles of Larouche as “The Crazy Who Is Not Running” with Dennis Kucinich as “The Crazy Who Is Running” — which, whatever one may say about Paul or Kucinich, they are not cult leaders.

Ron Paul finished off by saying that “Lyndon Larouche is always right.”  It is a joke I took as roughly equivalent to Homer Simpson’s line.   But apparently this was taken in Laroucheland as this weird sort of wink and nod from Paul — a semi-establishment figure sending a message to the huddled Larouchies.  Larouchepac issued a press statement on Ron Paul’s mention, and I passed by a Larouchie-written blog entry which considered it an act of communication.  It may be the case that the sentence is taken to heart as the least subtle axiom issued from out of Larouche.
As though the most libertarian elected official in Congress sees eye to eye with a sick parody of a Statist.
LL is/was always right. It is an axiom, proposed by Kepler. Remember: Lyn successfully predicted the outcome of a coin flip 594,375,820,001,1593 times in a row. What more needs to be said? 
In other news, this sad little story has been taken down:
http://ibykus.blogspot.com/2007/08/slandered-by-own-father.html

Depriving us all of one more insight into the mind of a LYM recruit, this one with the saddest of contexts.  I did not get there in time to offer up a comment.  Ah well.
And the latest EIR-ish pamphlet (as pertains to the standard lackadaisical non-solution to the Mortgage crisis)  is subtitled “The End of Our Delusion”, which… is apt.  Look for it when the LYMers do their “Rush” as the college terms begin… oh, wait.  Printing?

From the Winter 85-86 “Spartacist”, propaganda rag for a long running Trotskyite organization…

An illustrative example of a cult is the Lynn Marcus organization in the U.S., which is today a virulently reactionary outfit which seeks to function as a think tank for the far right wing of the bourgeoisie.  In the mid-60s, the Marcus group, the Labor Committee, was a leftist group active in the New Left mileu.  We ran into them a lot at Columbia University, and when they suggested a debate between our groups on Marxist economics, we agreed readily.  We sent our most highly qualified comrade, Joseph Seymour, as our debater:  the Marcusites were mortally insulted because we hadn’t sent our “leader”.  But just because someone is elected head of a party does not mean he is thereafter the ultimate fount of all knowledge and authority in every field of human endevour.  In ordinary organizations, there are dozens of comrades who have more knowledge and expertise in particular fields relevant to the Marxist movement.  But not in Marcus’ organization.  And not in Healy’s either.

I have read “The Conceputal History of the Labor Committees”, found [surely at the laroucheplanet website by now], in tandem with various news articles from 1968 concerning the Columbia University student strike.  The history of “Lynn Marcus” was that he rolled out of various Trotskyite circles into the student New Left at Columbia University, and according to him from behind the scenes lead the strike, splintered as he was within SDS between what he aptly called “Action Faction” and “Praxis Axis”.  From there, he rolled that humble beginning on… and on… and on through its metamorphoses to what we have right now — everything becoming insane in the period of 1973 to 1974 when the cult of Personality solidified.  The game I have with old news articles is to find any particular resonance in which you can say Larouche and the earliest imprints of the Labor Committee.  It is somewhat difficult to spot, even if one can plug in certain names — Tony Papert.  Out of school class sessions for an alternate education, all the rage as the students struck a blow against the Establishment in the late 1960s, somewhat craftily copied in a sick parody in today’s cult in “Larouche cadre schools”.

BTW… the Student Strikers were actually referred to as “The 68ers“… and a bit of a step down from events in French Universitys  Columbia being the largest one in the United States.  Which is the point of reference for the attack on the “68ers”, … whom “Lyn Marcus” claimed to have lead in the first place.

But the “Marcus” group was the sane group in that mileu of SDS.  In many ways.  I imagine him as one of any number of “third choices” of where one finds themselves when looking around SDS.  One is fooling yourself if one does not see that Cult of Personality being forced as Lynn Marcus holds his lectures and places himself in the middle of some historic events — and the photograph of the bow-tie wearing man holding forth at a lecturn to a full auditorium sits there.  But, at that time, the events he tossed himself into were reasonably plausible.  (Did he spark the Columbia student strikes?  Probably not him, but some of his followers played some role in that one.)  “Action Faction” devolved into The Weathermen terrorist group, for gawd’s sake, and much of the other grouping burned out on drugs.

As it were, the earliest group joined “The Labor Committees”.  Note the name.  Which is a far cry, in terms of what it is you think you are joining, from today’s “Larouche Youth Movement”.  Crucial difference in names, crucial difference in political focus.   One can at least plausibly see themselves working on the edges of Labor politics (as all Marxist organizations tend to see themselved doing), as regards to what is the final burst of members in a cult who haven’t much excuse there — the very name tells them they are working for the aggrandizement of a lunatic.

So what happened?  Any outer motives clouded out as Lyn, always a self-aggrandizement sort, weaved his way further and further into his self-importance, today making no pretense of purpose — I think the idea at the moment being that a college student learns a whole lot of new names, and Larouche’s minions float Larouche as just one more new name.  It doesn’t work too much, but for the past few years it’s worked well enough for his purposes, ie: a small group wholly committed persons joining him in his Fantasy.

I.  Yeah, why in the world would he have “some beef” with that guy?

II.  “I have seen the letter and it expresses ‘tremendous sympathy’ for Jeremiah’s family. That is the first expression of condolence from the institute since my son died.

III.  Say, whatever happened to the BAE Scandal?  Wasn’t that a “world changing event” — changing the world scene in “fundamental ways”, the supposed cause of much grief in Loudon (and the reason to offer psychiatric services)?

IV.  i am very much surprised that the kremlinologists here gathered have not yet mentioned a recent development in the larouche organization, one that may be most significant…those of you familiar with my posts may recall that i regularly monitor the audio file postings on the lym site, and over the last 2 or 3 weeks i am seeing helga promoted as never before…beginning with her august 11th appearance on the larouche show, she is represented half a dozen times: a speech before a cadre school on the 12th; an interview with jeff rense on the 13th; a speech to the ecuadoran lym on the 17th; a speech to a detroit cadre school on the 18th; and an appearance on the butch valdez show out of the phillipines on the 26th…

so what is going on here?…is lyn sick?…are we witnessing a new leader, clawing her way to the top?…or is lyn simply pre-positioning helga to be the face of the movement when the other helga, hillary clinton, takes center stage? 
The answer is blowing in the wind.

V.  Makes sense. 

I think I know, at least in parts, where Nick Benton is coming from with this, with concerns to “a Dennis King”.  I only suggest that it is not necessary for everybody to be singing “Kumbaya”, or on “the same page”.  An interesting thing for one to do is to run to the index of King’s book and go to “Benton, Nicholas” — which I have not done, though I have for “Kronberg, Kenneth”.  But keying in on this:

a Dennis King, in particular, who in his most recent posting, presents himself as the originator of the materials viz. Kronberg, etc., that he outlines in his typically brutish fashion.

and the source for this (whether or not it is Benton himself does not really concern me) makes a little more sense:

You need to know that Nick Benton’s Falls Church News Press was first out with the story of Ken’s suicide, the morning briefing that day, and the financial background.Check it out www.fcnp.com

August 5, 2007 8:11 PM

For whatever it is worth, the Washington Post obituary listed all those Larouche items without mentioning the connection to Larouche for any of the activities, which I believe was there before the FCNP.  The sourcing of Dennis King is attributable to the bear bones fact that the relevant parts of the morning briefing are at his website in its entirety.

In fact, I blame King’s one-dimensional, profoundly flawed book on LaRouche for the fact that many more former members have been intimidated against going public with their experiences in the organization. Who wants to be branded an anti-semitic fascist, even if now outside the organization? […]

I cannot sit back and watch this Dennis King continue trying to define my life from that era or this. He views ex-members as a meal ticket and his latest offering shows very little remorse or correction to his earlier, destructive work.

Then again, from a different angle the comments on his myspace page consist of:

Well Nick, I have to say that this article would make Chip Berlet proud. Shame it ruins your credibility.

AND

Being a slut has never been easy Nick. Be careful, uncle Rupert (Murdoch) is watching you!

The Murdoch reference a pure and undistilled present-day Larouchism — visa vie the current line of attack on myspace.

From parts known elsewhere:  Some of us dropped out with vague ideas of carrying out the battle to save the world on our own terms in a better way perhaps than Larouche. The trouble is, without Lyn the battle lines quickly disappear.
Where, for instance is the line dividing those for and against technological progress? Who are the ones calling for genocide in Africa as a form of population control?
How are we to come to terms with the fact that the most technologically advanced nations have the lowest birth rates? Genocide via advancement?
Most of us stayed in the org longer than we should have because we believed the mantra that “no one else is doing what we are”. It took me nearly a decade to accept the fact that what we were doing was…. nothing.

I found myself looking up a few names to old news articles, and thus I wound my way to the Student Strike at Columbia (though I don’t know that this was “Lyn’s” big burst onto the scene, and the practical start of NCLC) with regards to…

 Tony Papert, as SDS member and a spokesman for teh executive committee of the students Strike Coordinating Committee at Columbia, on both the circulation of the Rudd paper and The New Republic article, that “somebody fabricated this to make it look like a Communist Conspiracy.”

May 13, 1968 NY Times “Some Columbia Trustees Urge Study of October Plan for Sit-In”.
Or, if you want, I could say what The Sparticist had to say about “Lynn Marcus”, but I’m stuck at the mid-1980s with a random paragraph reflecting on an anecdote of a debate with Marcus’s group, and concerning firstly the down-fall of Healy and secondly a seemingly more important task of knocking around Tim Wolhforth — such is the pettiness of these Left wing polemics, it seems.

“Does anything more need be said in the matter of Ken’s suicide?”

Thus concludes that section of Larouche’s internal memo which states, for the record, that Molly Kronberg gave a donation to the George W Bush campaign. I would like to point out that this is roughly the Nth time that we’ve had a pounding at the tables with a demand of “CASE! CLOSED! QUIT LOOKING! MOVE ON!”

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, I suppose. Or creepy conjectures from megalomaniacs, as the case is here. Anyway, here in the real world you take political differences from loved ones with good humor. (Carville – Matalin?) There in Laroucheland, the donation to Bush settles it, the ENEMY OF THE MOMENT and the conspiracy that hinges out of it goes back to BLAME THE WIDOW FOR the death of her husband.

I have half a thought that maybe Molly Kronberg got stalled in Larouche’s rambling political journey sometime around the time Larouche was a Reaganite (adapting his general thrusts to the political climate of the time)? It doesn’t a whole lot matter — But therein lies an irony of his latest Clintonoid – “Right Wing Conspiracy” line, your “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” which for some unexplainable reason is now out to get Larouche has as its greatest hero the man Larouche keeps publishing the one photograph of him sitting next to (a New Hampshire 1980 candidates’ forum which I guess had the legitimate candidates and the fringe candidates all in one place).

While we stew over that — which, I suppose makes some sense to the LYMers infused at the height of a certain manichean world-view, but doesn’t make much sense to anyone else– I point to this as not a terribly good sign for the cabal in the boiler-room.

The big thing in one of the regions now is Dead LaRouche jokes. At least they are funnier than the MySpace jokes, which are stupid.

How will that halfwit Jeff Steinberg manage to exert authority when he doesn’t have a spine? That’s easy. Dead LaRouche will prop him up!

Who has a cure for the politics of male impotence? Dead LaRouche, of course. He’s always stiff.

What’s the stuffing for Dead LaRouche? Nobody knows, but it sure isn’t old copies of EIR. We gotta keep those to sell at full price during deployments.

I am picturing a lot of turned heads, making sure nobody “BIG” is witness to these shenanigans.