{"id":1160,"date":"2004-04-27T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2004-04-27T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T01:42:28","slug":"rock-and-roll-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/04\/27\/rock-and-roll-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>“Hey! Come here a minute! We need to straighten out this guy’s mind.”<\/p>\n

“Yes… I understand the sentiment of Kerry and Bush being this good cop \/ bad cop routine, but that doesn’t mean that…”<\/p>\n

“See, you get it. At least, part of it.”<\/p>\n

“LaRouche’s not a out of wack. Go back to the title ‘Children of Satan’. It’s an old anti-semitic slur.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. I get it now. Wall Street Journal editorialist (name didn’t register).”<\/p>\n

“…so why name your pamphlet that?”<\/p>\n

“But none of these guys are Jewish… Cheney, Rumsfeld… well, Perle and Wolfowitz are, but…”<\/p>\n

“It came out March of last year. Everyone was confused at the start of the war, and we needed to … loosen things up a bit.”<\/p>\n

“Reaction is (face aglow with mock-shock) ‘Children of Satan’… Really?<\/i>”<\/p>\n

“But… ‘Children of Satan’… you know it’s an old anti-semitic slur.”<\/p>\n

“When? Look… it doesn’t matter, because… it’s not what we’re talking about… these guys here… They<\/i> are the Children of Satan.”<\/p>\n

“Do you know the difference between Man and Animal?”<\/p>\n

I was vaguely aware of where this was going… I’ve heard Clyde Lewis interview some LaRouche organizar named Ron Wolfe… the effect in hearing those interviews is… dinsultorary (coin a new term.) We move toward a half-baked, half parasitically land-grabbed excuse to use the term “Beast-Man”.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t terribly interested and I needed to leave shortly anyway, so I answered every “probing” question with “I give up. You tell me,” until a long-haired bearded, mildly stoned by disposition guy I used to know slightly better than I do now came up and said “Hey! Have any new conspiracies for me?”… and initiated a somewhat more interesting conversation — the LaRouchites arguing that the “Children of Satan” are inherently evil (remember: they are Beast-Men), and him arguing that they’re misguided, but not evil.<\/p>\n

They still don’t seem to understand the connotative nature of the terms “Children of Satan”, or for that matter “Beast-Man”.<\/p>\n

But I promise: I’m done with them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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