Who is Lyndon LaRouche and Why is He Doing This to the Democratic Party?

LaRouche’s Followers Threaten the Basic Foundations of Our Society

t is hard to take Lyndon H. The Queen of England and a cabal articles critical of LaRouche for the LaRouche Jr. seriously, but it can of international bankers are deter- Manchester Union Leader, could never be dangerous to ignore him. That’s mined to kill LaRouche because he prove that LaRouche supporters killed I his three cats. But a dead cat appeared the hard lesson of the Illinois primary, designed a “new, gold-based monetary where a mix of demagoguery, prej- system.” on his doorstep the day after each of udice, and voter apathy demolished the The list of co-conspirators includes the articles was published. Democratic Party’s statewide ticket. By Henry Kissinger, the Rockefeller fami- In another case, reported by the winning the Democratic primary two ly, “big-time Zionist mobsters,” and Wall Street Journal, neighbors of a LaRouche followers have gotten their the ubiquitous “British agents.” It reporter who wrote articles critical of names on the ballot as candidates for embraces the International Red Cross, LaRouche received leaflets inviting lieutenant governor and secretary of and such odd bedfellows as the Ku them to “a gay coming out party” at state. Klux Klan, and B’Nai B’rith’s Anti- his house. LaRouche’s loyalists are entered in Defamation League. When Polly Girvin opposed an astonishing number of political con- But then not many people took LaRouche’s proposal to build a “sum- tests this year. According to the New Adolph Hitler seriously when he wrote mer camp” for his followers in Lou- York Times, they have 146 candidates his twisted manifesto, Mein Kampf. doun County, Va., where she lived and for the U.S. House, 14 for the U.S. The AFL-CIO started taking where the 63-year-old LaRouche has Senate, seven for governor, and more LaRouche seriously more than a a fortress estate patrolled by armed than 600 for state legislative and local decade ago when his storm troopers of guard, pamphlets appeared in the party posts in 29 states. Most are run- the self-styled U.S. Labor Party tried county calling her a drug dealer and ning as Democrats. Some are running to break up union meetings and a Soviet agent. under the banner of LaRouche’s poli- distributed obscene leaflets describing But the LaRouche movement is not tical front, the National Democratic local union leaders as “homosexuals” all theater of the absurd. Policy Committee, a name calculated or “perverts.” The innocently named National to confuse voters. That was in his ultra-left period, Democratic Party Committee, the It’s easy to laugh at the LaRouche although left and right have no con- LaRouche political front, fields can- cult, which swims in its own nightmare ventional meaning in the LaRouche didates who speak in a populist world in which conspirators and assas- political lexicon. Those who challenge political tradition of the evils of bank- sins lurk behind each bush. And it’s him are routinely described as sexual ing and the banking system, not of easy to assume that LaRouche follow- deviants and drug dealers. Personal murky assassination plots. ers pose no threat to responsible legis- harassment and threats are the In Illinois, and in scores of states lators and candidates. But a threat weapons of his followers. where “LaRouchies” are running in exists—if we sit back and let them win When columnist Mike Royko ex- Democratic primaries for offices rang- elections. posed one of the LaRouche front ing from school boards to the U.S. We need to expose LaRouche can- groups, handbills and posters appeared Senate, this year’s campaign appeal is didates and their true colors. Most of claiming he had undergone a sex an oddball mixture. LaRouche can- their political beliefs are wildly irra- change operation. His assistant found didates call for repeal of the Gramm- tional. No matter what issues they’re pinned to her apartment door a warn- Rudman deficit-reduction law, praise talking about in their campaigns, their ing, “We will kill your cat.” President Reagan’s “Star Wars” basic philosophy is dangerous, hate- New Hampshire reporter Jon strategic defense initiative, and demand ridden nonsense. Prescage, who wrote a series of three universal blood testing and the quaran-

December 1986/Construction Dimensions 35 “No matter what issues they’re talking about in their campaigns, their basic philosophy is dangerous, hate-ridden nonsense.” tining of everyone with the AIDS virus Secretary of State in Illinois, Janice A. until a cure is found. Somehow the Hart, was arrested last May on a International Monetary Fund gets disorderly conduct charge. She alleg- blamed for the spread of AIDS. edly tried to disrupt a speech by Mil- The stories are legion of the many waukee’s Roman Catholic Archbishop times LaRouche operatives have mas- Rembert Weakland at a Glencoe, Ill., queraded under false colors to gain synagogue. Her incredible explanation access to news sources and political was that the archbishop was praising leaders in this country and abroad. Adolph Hitler. Reporters for reputable newspapers The early background of LaRouche have been embarrassed and outraged was covered by the AFL-CIO News in by persons later linked to LaRouche a series of articles in 1982 by Wesley fronts who assumed their identities. McCune, director of Group Research, At airports, well-dressed LaRouche and still available in pamphlet form disciples have solicited funds for anti- under the title, “Lyndon LaRouche’s drug campaigns and for subscriptions Strange Cult.” to publications such as Fusion, a LaRouche was born to a Quaker magazine that promotes nuclear family and joined a communist splinter energy. group in the 1940s. He later aligned Some people who thought they were himself with a wing of Students for a donating to anti-drug campaigns Democratic Society to launch the Na- found themselves listed as contributors tional Caucus of Labor Committees, to one of Larouche’s presidential cam- later to become the U.S. Labor Party, paigns, unwittingly helping him to with the newspaper New Solidarity as qualify for matching federal funds. its organ. As he swung across the LaRouche’s high-priced Executive political spectrum, the tax-exempt Intelligence Review has taken in the Fusion Energy Foundation was to unwary, despite such gibberish as this become one of his principal fronts. excerpt from an economic treastise by Anti-Semitism, disguised in Russian LaRouche: style as anti-Zionism, has been a part “Ideal economies, like healthy of the LaRouche propaganda. When organisms, are negentropic processes Polish workers rallied to the banner of . . . It is the thermodynamic character- Solidarnosc, LaRouche was denounc- istic of negentropic processes, that in ing it and praising the repression of a continuous negentropic function, the Poland’s military ruler, Gen. Jaruzelski. energy-flux density increases with time. On an NBC expose of LaRouche, Energy-flux-density signifies a mea- Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) was surement consistent with kilowatts per asked why the Larouche movement square meter, of throughput.” “shouldn’t just be ignored,” since it clearly was miles removed from the nation’s political mainstream. Selective listening . . . “They drop little bits of poison into the political bloodstream,” Moynihan In political campaigns, people often replied. “Any lie that is vicious have selective hearing. A farmer enough, somebody will believe it. Any pressed for mortgage payments can slander that is cruel enough, somebody relate to an attack on the banking will half enjoy it and be tempted to system. A parent concerned about take it in. You have to fight them.” drugs hears a young person denounce After the Illinois primary, a lot of drug dealers. LaRouche followers people are saying “amen.” aren’t the first to see a world of conspiracies. Note: Reprinted with permission from Carpenter, July, 1986, published by the United The LaRouche follower who won Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of the Democratic Party nomination for America.

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