What's with La Rouche followers?

[DireStrike]

Any good sites dissecting this movement? Comments?

Some of their people came up to me today. Seemed oddly like Jehova's witnesses. Little info, high focus on recruiting. Not "check out our website" but "can I call you?" and "what are you doing tonight?" Am I assisting a political movement, or going out on a date? 0_0

What do they stand for?

[KurtNYC]

1. When I see their tables set up on the sidewalk I just sing:

LaRouche, La Rouche, LaRouche is on fire!
We don't got no water let the MF burn...

[xultar]

2. I saw a great one by searching Yahoo! voter suppression...

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3145ohio_fraud.html

[imenja]

3. website

http://www.larouchepac.com/
I've wondered what they are up to as well, so I googled a website.
My memory isn't good enough to remember, but it seems to me there was something nefarious involving Larouche. Others must remember more.

[Trajan]

4. LaRouche is a demogogue ....

Some of his ideas are right on, (specifically those that deal with the amorality, the criminality, or the stupidity of the BFEE) ...

But some of his ideas are whacked out, and his followers somewhat cultish ....

[Vincardog]

5. here are some links

Lyndon LaRouche PAC
P.O. BOX 6157
LEESBURG, VA 20178
800-929-7566

www.larouchepac.com

THE GREAT CRASH OF 2004-2005 IS HERE!
http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/writings_files/2004/041128_crash.htm
As the U.S. dollar heads for $1.40 to the Euro, former Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has issued a statement on the impossibility of avoiding a short-term crash of the dollar and the international monetary system based on the dollar. This unavoidable crisis shows that LaRouche was right to say "President George W. Bush might soon have very painful reasons to wish he had not been elected."

LaRouche's statement reviews his almost 50 year record as a long range economic forecaster. He understood that the "post-industrial society" changes in Europe and the Americas, begun in the 1960s, would inevitably lead to the systemic crisis we see today under the axioms of globalization and the floating exchange rate system.
The campaign has not ended. LaRouche has commissioned LaRouche PAC to print his statement as a mass leaflet, in a run of 1 million copies. Use this leaflet to saturate the nation and activate the Democratic Party behind LaRouche's physical economy solutions. We have now posted a PDF-formatted version of the statement, which you can use to print and copy for distribution, at <http://www.larouchepac.com/pdf_files/041129_crash.pdf> . "There is no other option available to those who know, like the Schiller characters of the Ruetli oath, that they 'can not take it with you.' "

New Postings on the Website:
Slave-Labor Drive Behind Bush Immigration Policy Fight (PDF)
<http://www.larouchepac.com/pdf_files/eir/2004/57-61_46_eco.pdf>
Cheney Helps Destroy Union Pacific and the U.S. Rail Grid (PDF)
<http://www.larouchepac.com/pdf_files/eir/2004/69-70_46_ecorr.pdf>

[imenja]

6. another cite criticizing him as a fascist

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclcmain.html

I'm not vouching for it's accuracy. I just found it on the web.

[Dr.Phool]

7. These are the equivalent of political Jehovah Witnesses

Or Moonies. If you're approached, RUN. They are known to use Moonie-type mind control techniques.

Back in the late 60's Larouche was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, the vanguard of the youth protest movement.

He later became a Communist, and broke a faction away from SDS to form the US Labor Party (Not to be confused with today's Labor Party).

He later became a right wing conspiracy nut, accusing Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth of being global drug dealers. In his later incarnation he became a Democrat, ran for president, and did time for tax evasion, I believe.

This is all from memory, and I have no idea what he's up to now, but I remember a brief exposure to the US Labor Party back in the 70's gave me the creeps. All these brainwashed people walking around.

[Quetzal]

8. Apparently, Larouche wanted to pass an amendment in California

that would have caused great harm to those suffering from AIDS.

Political outsider and frequent presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche offered an answer. His supporters, calling themselves the Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee (PANIC) quickly gathered the signatures necessary to put an initiative on the November 1986 ballot.

Panic, indeed, proved to be a useful commodity during signature gathering. The idea of rampant AIDS spread by homosexuals was enough to incite the religious right of southern California to throw their support behind the measure. Gloom-and-doom predictions from the Centers for Disease Control of AIDS spreading through the heterosexual population didn't help much either.

LaRouche's plan, Proposition 64, was simple enough. It would have required doctors to report the names of any infected persons, or persons believed to be infected, to a central agency. People with AIDS would be immediately fired from any job in which they would come in contact with a large number of people -- jobs like teaching, food handling, or holding public office.

But the most controversial aspect of Proposition 64 was something LaRouche still has trouble shaking: It would have added AIDS to a short list of highly communicable diseases and allowed for quarantines of AIDS patients and suspected AIDS patients.

Proposition 64 got lots of support from southern California conservatives, like former U.S. Rep. William E. Dannemeyer from Fullerton and former state senator John Doolittle from Citrus Heights.

Bruce B. Decker, a California philanthropist and AIDS activist who died of the disease in 1995, headed the opposition against Proposition 64. A majority of politicians and health officials came out against the measure, including then governor George Deukmejian.

Early polls showed strong public support for Proposition 64. But once the opposition movement was able to re-characterize the debate as being about civil rights, public support dropped off significantly.

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/prop22/runkleb.html

*Note: the text from the website is not copyrighted.

[SmokingJacket]

9. Just read another thread about cults. This sounds like one! nt

[troubleinwinter]

10. Crackpot nutcase kook, in my book....

"Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. is frequently dismissed as a crank or political extremist with no further explanation of his views or the phenomenon he represents. In a democracy based on informed consent, to not understand the nature of the LaRouche phenomenon is a dangerously naive rejection of the lessons of history--because Lyndon LaRouche represents the most recent incarnation of the unique twentieth-century phenomenon known as totalitarian fascism. LaRouche is hardly the first proponent of these views, and he is unlikely to be the last. Therefore there is a deadly serious reason to study the rise and fall of Lyndon LaRouche, the man who brought us fascism wrapped in an American flag.

Sexism and homophobia became central themes of the organization's theories. A September 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal Campaigner charged that "Concretely, all across the U.S.A., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives. . . ." The problem with making the revolution, LaRouche apparently had concluded, was that women are castrating bitches. One former member left in disgust when she was told women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of female sexual organs near the anus which caused women to confuse sex with excretion.

....The LaRouche network's printed materials are full of ethnocentric, racist, and anti-Jewish rhetoric, but that doesn't necessarily make it Nazi. Where is LaRouche's theory of a master race? In fact, LaRouche himself has repeatedly enunciated just such a theory..."

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html

[frylock]

11. a rather unsettling article was published in the wapo last october..

pretty long (5 pages) piece pretty much inferring that they are quite cultish. Well worth the read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html

[Hatalles]

12. Site on La Rouche

Here ya go...

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/index.html

[Historic NY]

13. Very strange people.....indeed.