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I.\u00c2\u00a0 Historical purview of sorts…
\nEugene Genovese\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 From Pat Buchanan, The Greatest Comeback<\/a>, 2014, memoir on his relationship with Richard Nixon during his “Wilderness Years”.\u00c2\u00a0 Regarding Eugene Genovese, figure in a political fight over academic freedom over comments “I am a Marxist and a socialist.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory in Vietnam.\u00c2\u00a0 I welcome it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And Genovese?\u00c2\u00a0 The Marxist socialist of 1965 repudiated his ideology, went South to teach, wrote Roll Jordan Roll:\u00c2\u00a0 The World the Slaves Made, a new interpretation of slavery as a paternalistic institution.\u00c2\u00a0 It won the 1975 Bancroft Prize.\u00c2\u00a0 Genovese then helped to form the Historical Society to battle the “totalitarian assault” of political correctness.\u00c2\u00a0 He then rejected capitalism, embraced traditionalism, converted to Catholicism, became an opponent of abortion, was remarried in the church, aruged for teaching religion in public schools, and became a Buchanan backer in the 1990s.\u00c2\u00a0 “I never gave a damn what people thought of me.\u00c2\u00a0 And I still don’t.” he told the Neward Star-Ledger.\u00c2\u00a0 Gene Geovese died in 2012.\u00c2\u00a0 Courageous man.<\/em><\/p>\n

From Ronald Radosh, Commies:\u00c2\u00a0 A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left, 2001, 118 – 119<\/p>\n

Allis’s experience with radical feminism, occurring at the same time as I was beginning to harbor doubts about my ideological commitments, brought us together.\u00c2\u00a0 We seemed to find shrill and almost pathologically crazy behavior wherever we looked on the let.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of our friends seemed to be going off the deep end politically.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of them ended up in the extreme, cult-like radical organization founded by Lyndon Larouche, who then called himself Lynn Marcus and claimed to be developing a new revolutionary working-class organization.\u00c2\u00a0 Larouche was full of conspiracy theories, stories of KGB – CIA plots to kidnap and brainwash him, and of secret plots to wage nuclear war, which only he and his cadre could stop.<\/p>\n

Even the usually sober Gene Genovese gathered an academic committee of intellectuals in defense of Larouche<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When I challenged him, he responded that “we have a responsibility to come to the aid of serious working-class movements when they ask for our help.”\u00c2\u00a0 Others of our friends actually joined his group, advocating a fight against a Rockefeller dominated world conspiracy which, in conjunction with the Queen of England, was supposedly going to take over the universe via the International Drug Trade.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my friends from the Faculty group, a brilliant young scientist who had traveled to Cuba and had taken part in the Chile protests with me, informed me that he had joined Larouche and then he began regular efforts to recruit me.\u00c2\u00a0 Once he phoned me late at night, sounding hysterical.\u00c2\u00a0 “We have information that guided missiles will be falling on America tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Only concerted action by the Larouche Vanguard can stop it.”\u00c2\u00a0 He offered to give me exclusive access to the Larouche War Room, where he promised I would find the highest technological wizardy tied in to secret reports coming from all over the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Wen I declined to get dressed and meet him, he said “You’ll regret this when you look out the window and see the missiles.”\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually he became editor of one of Larouche’s journals, Fusion Power, which attempted to influence the scientific community.<\/p>\n

And, of course, a lot of good this did to him.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 That’s Larouchian gratitude for you!<\/p>\n

Dame Mead is in fact a priestess of the evil, pagan goddess Isis, a priestess of the Whore of Babylon. <\/em>
\nProfessor Noam Chomsky, former associate of the Rand Corporation and heir of the late high priest of Isis, Bertrand Russell, is a familiar of the cult of which Margaret Mead is a Dame and priestess. So are Professor Warren Sussman, Professor Eugene Genovese, and Professor William Appleman Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, AIM sticks to that lin<\/a>e…<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Yakunin also associates with the U.S.-based political cult headed by Lyndon LaRouche, the aging convicted felon who began his career as a Marxist, and cultivates ties with Russia and China. The LaRouche group claims to have the ear of Yakunin, and one article reports that LaRouche and his wife were speakers at the seventh annual Rhodes Forum in 2009.<\/em>
\nIn a 1976 lecture, titled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Only Communists Know,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d LaRouche declared his desire to bring into being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a new Marxist international\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He has not veered off that course.
\n<\/em>Russia’s government (Buchanan likes that it refocuses the government to the Russian Orthodox Church) is Conservative, not that i matters… <\/em>Putin’s American defenders come from the right and the left.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

II.\u00c2\u00a0 Dating Sites.\u00c2\u00a0 Not welcome.<\/a><\/p>\n

but when I say I’m middle of the road I mean that no party best represents my views. I guess I’m all over the map. In a perfect world, Ms. Generic Perfect Match will have her views stretch from Center left to Center right. No Moonbats, Wingnuts, or LaRouchies please.<\/em><\/p>\n

But… but..<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The federal bank only prints money for Cronies. While Larouche prints money for Moon Bats.<\/em><\/p>\n

How about JFK Conspiracy Theoris<\/a>ts?<\/p>\n

III. Dateline <\/a>Ebola<\/p>\n

Jerry Belsky, a Lyndon LaRouche supporter on hand, blames the president.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supporting this, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obviously an expression of nurses saying this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about wages, their own benefits, there talking about the fact they are not prepared to deal with not only Ebola, but any deadly disease because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have enough people to deal with existing patients,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Belsky told TheDCNF.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is part of an economic breakdown and a deliberate policy, which includes ObamaCare\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Belsky explains, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a deliberate take down of our public health system that has been taking place over years\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. They have been shutting down hospitals, they have been firing doctors and cutting medical care, you need to massively expand it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\nBelsky called on the government to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ramp up your health system in the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and adopt \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an emergency war policy to stop Ebola in Africa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But nothing has been done by the White House,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he concluded. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to require Obama being forced out of office like Richard Nixon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

At least we’re at the point where we move it from fears in the US.<\/p>\n

Like so, Elmwood Park<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are trying to mobilize the population to put pressure on their congressmen to do something,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/em>
\nShe says American citizens think they are safe, but the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy and the Ebola virus are signs of things to come.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in a great oasis right now and Americans have to grow up,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything to look forward to right now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Dateline Beach Channel Drive, Don’t Go Back to Rockawa<\/a>y.<\/p>\n

A couple of men from out of town set up a stand outside the Post Office on Beach Channel Drive on Tuesday. They were handing out flyers calling for the impeachment of President Obama and for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153firing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Speaker John Boehner. The stand and posters and pamphlets come via Lyndon Larouche.<\/em>
\nStill it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your right to use free speech as well. The two men, loud and brash, were suddenly tongue-tied when asked how much they were getting paid. They were asked if they believed what they were pushing or were just making a buck. They looked like they wanted to plead the Fifth Amendment instead of using the First.<\/em>
\nIn any case, whether they were paid or not, whether or not they believed what they were saying, this is America, and they had the right to wave their signs and offer pamphlets with their point of view.<\/em>
\nOh, we exercised our right to do some quick research. Funny, nowhere did the material available at the stand mention Larouche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conviction and jail term for mail fraud and tax evasion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dateline har<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No surprise there. When LaRouche croaks, they’re going to have to find another nut to latch on to.<\/em>
\nstill have the letter to the Editor that I wrote to the paper in my very conservative town. I was 22 or so and they set up shop in front of our Post Office. I was appalled and tried to shame people with facts as I saw many giving money to his campaign. He was running for POTUS of course. He’s a true wack job.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brisbane\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the LaRouche presence in Brisbane was disturbing and, as stated above, surprising. Upon seeing the LaRouche propaganda cart, one Brisbane resident said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still alive?!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A reasonable reaction to an extreme fringe political movement which has barely gotten nor deserved any legitimate press in years\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em><\/p>\n

While the man signed the donation paperwork (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you take Visa?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), the LaRouche lady looked at the camera and suspiciously asked her colleague \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who is this?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A concerned citizen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, without a trace of guile nor irony.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing changes. The B&W photos are a nice touch, if the modern cars were not in the background, this could be 1975, or 1985, or 1995, or 2005\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..<\/em><\/p>\n

I am glad you like the photos. Personally, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have that sense of history when it comes to the LaRouche movement, or whatever the hell he calls it. I vaguely recall my Republican dad mentioning him dismissively when I was in college in the early to mid \u00e2\u20ac\u212280s. But I moved to Japan after that, and then to California in the late \u00e2\u20ac\u212280s, where I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really recall hearing much about LaRouche until after the turn of the century. By then I knew enough about him to know I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know any more. I have never been hugely political.<\/em><\/p>\n

These assholes just came off like someone spilled a large bowl of Skittles and cocaine on the sidewalk and expected someone else to clean up the mess.<\/em><\/p>\n

IV. The Whacking of the Larouche Democrats.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting the the plan of one contingency of Larouchies (having trouble finding i in quickly in my archives here) to go to all 435 districts, which would be interesting, didn’t happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, not that I can tell.<\/p>\n

So… what Larouche Democrats were on the ballot on Election day in November?\u00c2\u00a0 Just Terry Burke Dotson<\/a>, running for the fighting 7th district in Massachusetts’s House of Representatives.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting enough, she does have the background of military service<\/a> that mainstream (real) Democrats are always trying to find to recruit for office.\u00c2\u00a0 The Larouche Organization, meanwhile, chose to ignore her.<\/p>\n

The lines of debate in the big election contest.
\nPoint:\u00c2\u00a0 “It is important for voters to know that while my opponent is a registered Democrat, she is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat,” Mr. Frost said. “My opponent is focusing on federal issues. She is clearly confused as to what race she is running for. Die-hard Democrats should know this. Maybe this is the year you vote the person, not the party.” <\/em>
\nMr. Frost said he believes in a two-party system, but is not afraid to cross party lines to do what needs to be done for his district. He has even picked up endorsements from local Democrats, such as Millbury Selectman William Borowski.<\/em>
\nCounterpoint:\u00c2\u00a0 “Federal issues have to be handed up and accomplished first. That opens the door for so many other things,” Ms. Burke Dotson said<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hm<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Frost did nothing extra to help Millbury get its Citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Petition for a Resolution Urging our Congressmen to Pass Glass-Steagall, that I sponsored, thru the State House. For over four months, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t return my phone calls, emails, or answer my handwritten notes that I left for him four times, when I visited his locked office in the roof of the State House on the 5th floor.<\/strong> It died…unopposed…but not recommended…in the Financial Services Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

The people speak!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Frost… 9,358 votes… 74 percent\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Terry Burke Dotson… 3,250 votes… 26 percent of the vote.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike with Rachel Brown, the Larouche organization does not blame this on the “Boston Vault”.<\/p>\n

A reference the 1986 Illinois debacle as resulting in terrible choice<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

… hm<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a serious cash co<\/a>w.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike<\/a> —<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This public funding program would necessarily be open to any candidates who can meet its minimal requirements,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Von Spakovsky explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That includes fringe candidates and even felons. Case in point: The presidential funding program has bankrolled Lyndon LaRouche to the tune of millions of dollars \u00e2\u20ac\u201d $ 1.5 million in 2008 alone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Is Larouche on the verge of a major political comeback?\u00c2\u00a0 He just might get tons of votes if we pass mandatory voting, because<\/a>…
\n(And yes, you could still write in your own gag candidate of choice, be it Grumpy Cat, Homer Simpson or Lyndon Larouche.)
\n<\/em>Does anyone even remember that guy?
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Calling out Democrats and liberals crying against an “Impeachment” canard<\/a>…
\nThe National Memo video is even shoddier than the MoJo List.<\/em> […]\u00c2\u00a0 It even drops a reference to Rachel Brown, a Lyndon LaRouche cultist<\/a> who has never threatened to darken the doors of Congress.
\n<\/em>Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they have some New Hampshire Ayn Rand followers they can get to<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

V.\u00c2\u00a0 History’s Mysteries… Eccentric though his views were, Frank Zappa didn’t buy Larouche<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Called his outfit a credit card fraud operation.
\nOdd person for the Larouche to hang their hat on… what with his political relevance in the 1980s being to take on the “Parent’s Music Resource Center”, the religious right aspect of it then being courted about by Don Phou and the like.
\nFactnet discussion here<\/a>, weary about the link due to the coming closing of factnet.<\/p>\n

Then there’s<\/a>… You ****in’ amateur.” \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u201dThomas Vaccaro, Danny’s brother, in<\/i>Danny Casolaro Died for You
\nI spent about two hours going over the Danny Casolaro case with Timeline Theatre the other night. Guided by Casolaro’s playwriting cousin Dominic Orlando, director Nick Bowling<\/a>, and six skilled actors<\/em>, […] George H. W. Bush’s name came up. So did Lyndon LaRouche’s. Most important, I was apprised of how Casolaro thought all these tidbits tied together in a grand conspiracy\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u201da kind of Unified Crime Theory he referred to as the “Octopus.”<\/em>
\nTo be honest, I didn’t understand all of it. But then it seems probable that Casolaro didn’t either..<\/em><\/p>\n

VI.\u00c2\u00a0 Michael Weinstein<\/a>… from hero to goat in the gay community.<\/p>\n

VII.\u00c2\u00a0 Hm?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 And I will not comment on the sense of humor of those who, on a decidedly ill-conceived website, have dared to compare readers of the Koran who reject the murderous interpretation made of it by the followers of Al-Baghdadi to wearers of prosthetic limbs attempting to distance themselves (sic) from Oscar Pistorius, Martians dissociating themselves from Jacques Cheminade (head of the Lyndon LaRouche movement in France), or women severing themselves from reality TV star Nabilla Benattia….<\/em><\/p>\n

VIII.\u00c2\u00a0 Jerremiah<\/a> Duggan<\/a> articles<\/a> raise the ire of Michael Hodgekiss.<\/p>\n

IX.\u00c2\u00a0 If you say so<\/a>…
\nRecently we heard on the national news that China has announced that they had a Silk Road Train. In China, Ms. LaRouche is known as the “Silk Road Lady.” She has been working with the concept of Cardinal Cusa’s “The Benefit of the Other” for nearly 30 years. […]<\/em>
\nMr. LaRouche has spent the last 40 years going around the world advocating the “The Benefit of the Other.” He has been able to convince nearly half of the World’s population to join the BRICS Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa}.<\/em>
\nAsk anyone you know from China what they know Ms. Larouche as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I.\u00c2\u00a0 Historical purview of sorts… Eugene Genovese\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 From Pat Buchanan, The Greatest Comeback, 2014, memoir on his relationship with Richard Nixon during his “Wilderness Years”.\u00c2\u00a0 Regarding Eugene Genovese, figure in a political fight over academic freedom over comments “I am a Marxist and a socialist.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore I do not fear or regret the impending Viet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14414,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}