{"id":3212,"date":"2008-11-26T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/26\/new-canadian-lym-recruitment-techniques-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T02:00:47","slug":"new-canadian-lym-recruitment-techniques-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/11\/26\/new-canadian-lym-recruitment-techniques-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"New Canadian LYM Recruitment Techniques unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am mildly uncomfortably leaving my last post before the Thanksgiving Day weekend on this blog in the category of esoterica into the “Lyndon Larouche Challenge”, but those Larouchies have left me no choice.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell me if this isn’t just a little … disarming…<\/p>\n

So, I see that there’s this blogspot<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 “Larouche Club”.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears to be an attempted building block\u00c2\u00a0for a Canada “movement”.\u00c2\u00a0 Take it for what it is.\u00c2\u00a0 But run down the list in the archives.\u00c2\u00a0 A warning for anyone who\u00c2\u00a0pops in to talk\u00c2\u00a0to a card table shriner in Ottawa:
\nProspective members will be listed soon. Those who turn it down will also be listed– with the reasons for the turndown.<\/em><\/p>\n

How will this list read?\u00c2\u00a0 “Name:\u00c2\u00a0 John Doe, 879 6th Avenue.\u00c2\u00a0 Reason stated:\u00c2\u00a0 “You’re f’ing Nuts.\u00c2\u00a0 Real reason:\u00c2\u00a0 Psychological breaking at Tavistock Institute inflicted by the Cheney — Brzezinski Cabal.\u00c2\u00a0 Also addicted to his Mother’s Milk.”<\/p>\n

I guess is an interesting means of recruitment, though it strikes me as either\u00c2\u00a0approaching\u00c2\u00a0a vague status of\u00c2\u00a0quasi-criminality\u00c2\u00a0in and of itself or an item of circumstantial evidence to toss into a profile for the Jeremiah Duggan Inquest.\u00c2\u00a0 (Incidentally, I had forgotten about Alan Osler’s blog post on the topic until I looked over some things yesterday, so incidentally the last two Alan\u00c2\u00a0Osler comments found here have some hilarious lines<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 “Even though he prints pictures of the Queen of England to make his point.”<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Hilarious.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Ottawa comments\u00c2\u00a0also serve as an answer to the question posed here for the Burlington club<\/a>:
\nWhere can we find new members? What should be member be?
\n<\/em>And I’m not entirely sure what this means<\/a>, but sure… advertise away.\u00c2\u00a0 Another interesting spot for potential recruits, a favorite spot of the leader of the “Larouchian Cryonics Movement” and this random commenter, “Real Jew News<\/a>“… maybe they read it in Canada?<\/p>\n

And now I invite anyone and everyone to take the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leatherstocking Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (as from\u00c2\u00a0the wikipedia discussions here<\/a> ) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Leatherstocking being an\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 impartial observer\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 interested in maintaining balance\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not a Larouche advocate, you understand\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 right?:<\/p>\n

Here is how I would handle the problem of keeping fringe viewpoints out of the intro to this article (the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fascist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the introduction): take a sampling of how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153newspapers of record\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like the New York Times have described LaRouche over the past decade or so, and use that as a guide for how the intro should be written. (By the way, there was a big push by the anti-LaRouche team to say that LaRouche was not an economist, and I found this: [2].)<\/em><\/p>\n

What world does he live in? How, exactly, does he think a “sampling of Larouche\u00c2\u00a0descriptions” from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153newspapers of record\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153over the past decade or so\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reads? I gave it a whirl, with a few newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press news service) and heading backward from 2008, I got as far as 2003 before deciding I had had enough.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get too many straight up \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fascists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get \u00e2\u20ac\u0153economist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d either.\u00c2\u00a0 Both, I’m sure, if you were looking for them would turn up.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fringe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sort of dominated. Connected to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perenial presidential candidate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I did find one particularly artful phrase which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll mention if pressed.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll keep the listing to myself — I wish to inflict the suffering of enduring fifteen minutes of this to anyone who has such an interest in surveying this\u00c2\u00a0landscape of throw-away lines.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mental note:\u00c2\u00a0 go back and review Larouche’s history of playing around with suppositions on presidential assassinations<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a trope, rehashed, noise emitted signifying nothing.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0(edited.\u00c2\u00a0 I opted for a weasel phrase in there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am mildly uncomfortably leaving my last post before the Thanksgiving Day weekend on this blog in the category of esoterica into the “Lyndon Larouche Challenge”, but those Larouchies have left me no choice.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell me if this isn’t just a little … disarming… So, I see that there’s this blogspot.\u00c2\u00a0 “Larouche Club”.\u00c2\u00a0 It appears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}