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His is a self-declaration - but his views have never had anything to do with the national party, nor has he ever had any democratic voter following.
He is also convicted felon - I believe related to credit card fraud related to those duped into donating to his "campaigns."
Throughout the eighties (and beyond) he advocated for sending all AIDS and HIV patients to an Island for exile/permanent quarentine. He was so serious about this that he worked towards getting state level ballot initiatives to this effect - to create state laws to enforce quarentines.
To include him in debates would require including any person who is a self-declared candidate into the debates (sort of like the California recall election).
He has been "running" for president as a "self-declared" democrat since the 1970s. I first saw one of his paid tv ads in 1983. His organization has been considered a cult since long before then. He has never had a following beyond his bizzare cult group.
Why should the democratic party give legitmacy to a man whose views are at odds with the party, who is a convicted felon (who scammed/cheated donors to his "political campaign"), and who is so homophibic as to advocate seriously discriminatory legislation?
It would make a joke out of the democratic party primaries.
Or is that your desire - to legitamize the rightwing attempts on talk radio/tv - of marginalization of serious candidates by tying the party to an authoritarian/totalitarian convicted criminal?
Some La Rouche beliefs:
There, all over the planet, you find the ancient legends and accounts of "gods" from another world who interbred with humanity to create a hybrid network of bloodlines. The Old Testament, for example, talks about the "Sons of God" who interbred with the daughters of men to create the hybrid race, the Nefilim. Before it was translated into English, that passage read "the sons of the gods", plural. But the Bible accounts are only one of so many that describe the same theme.
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The ancient accounts tell us that these hybrid bloodlines, the fusion of the genes of selected humans with those of the "gods", were put into the positions of ruling royal power, especially in the ancient Near and Middle East, in advanced cultures like Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt. But it happened elsewhere, also, as you will find, for example, in the amazing information provided on this site by the African Zulu shaman, Credo Mutwa, and in the incredible Credo videos, Reptilian Agenda, parts one and two. He tells the same story from the black African tradition that I have uncovered elsewhere in the world.
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These bloodlines later became the royal and aristocratic families of Europe and, thanks to the "Great" British Empire and the other European empires, they were exported to the Americas, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and right across into the Far East, where they connected with other reptilian hybrid bloodlines, like those, most obviously, in China, where the symbolism of the dragon is the very basis of their culture.
These reptilian-human hybrid lines became the political and economic rulers of these lands occupied by the European empires and they continue to rule these countries to this day. The United States of America has been home to hundreds of millions of people since 1776. What's more, these people came from an amazingly diverse genetic pool. And yet, wait for this, the 42 who have become Presidents of the United States are all related!!! Thirty-Three of them alone go back to Charlemagne, one of the most famous monarchs of what we call France. He just happens to be a major figure in the story of these bloodlines and their expansion out of Britain, France, Germany, and elsewhere.
http://www.davidicke.com/icke/temp/reptconn.htmlI almost decided not to post this, as there are enough conspiracy theories floating around here as it is; but one more can't hurt, especially since it claims Bush is a reptile. A poke around some of his websites reveals that he, like some of our very own DUers, believes in the all-powerful Illuminati as well. Small world.