Summarize Lyndon LaRouche for me...

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In a paragraph or two.

I was on the subway this morning headed home from work. There was a small group of clean-cut, well dressed teens sitting next to me (out of town poly-sci class trip).

Sitting across from them were a couple of older females (by older I mean early twenties). I think the women were clued in about the teens because of the handouts and booklets the kids were carrying (some American politics symposium at Harvard University).

To make a long story short, the women were giving the teens a spiel on LaRouche... gave one of the kids a book of his, some literature, an e-mail address and website, etc.

So, what's LaRouches story? My understanding has always been that he's a screwball/loose cannon.

I can Google all I want and go to his website, but I'd rather not have to read through pages and pages of his writings and opinions (hence my request for a brief summary).

BTW... this is the website they advised the kids to visit.

http://www.wlym.com

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[democracyindanger]

1. believes the queen of england

is a drug kingpin.

that's all you really need to know.

[lenidog]

20. That

sums it up pretty well.:wtf:

[Mirwib]

22. Two paragraphs about Lyndon LaRouche

Paragraph #1: He is an idiot.

Paragraph #2: He is a big idiot.

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Nut. Job.

[Dr.Phool]

14. Worse than nut-job

Runs a cult. I had some bad experiences with his political moonies back in the early '70s, when he ran a communist outfit called the US Labor Party (not to be confused with todays labor party).

Then he became a right-wing loon. Keeps his followers with cult mind control techniques. Did time in federal pen for fraud and tax evasion.

[indigobusiness]

3. Makes a lot of sense...

until he doesn't.

[soothsayer]

23. Indeed! That's what's so interesting. Just enuff truth sprinkled in

there to make you go hmmmmmm..... (until you go Run for your lives!)

[Kellanved]

4. Antisemitic cult-leading nut job.

eom

[420inTN]

5. One word: Nutjub

[Skink]

His supporters heckled Lieberman...

Even they knew Lieb was bad news.

[Skink]

6. His supporters heckled Lieberman...

Even they knew Lieb was bad news.

[Philostopher]

7. He often runs as a Democrat, especially ...

if he can find an uncontested Republican. This gives him a place on ballots and may well entitle him to campaign funding, for all I know. He was running for some state office when I lived in Illinois back in 1984-1985, I remember asking someone about him then and getting a real education.

He subscribes to -- and if he can't find one, makes up -- various conspiracy theories, largely about royalty. I think he's just rebranded Robert Anton Wilson's 'Illuminatus Trilogy' as a political philosophy, frankly. He may very well sincerely believe that the world is being run by a shadowy man living in a submarine.

I'm quite sure he's comfortable with the concept of 'fnords' -- I think he is one, though I'm not sure he knows it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

(wikipedia entry on fnords, for those who aren't familiar with the Illuminati)

[indigobusiness]

8. LaRouche - UN Must Declare Bush And Cheney Insane

LaRouche - UN Must Declare
Bush And Cheney Insane
By Jeffrey Steinberg
Executive Intelligence Review
www.larouchepub.com/eiw
10-4-2

The recent behavior of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney--specifically, the formulations presented by the two, in draft resolutions before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations Security Council, on the pending pre-emptive war on Iraq--manifest clinical insanity. This judgment was stated urgently on Oct. 3 by Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who challenged any other explanation for what the President and the Vice President are doing. Bush and Cheney are launching a war of aggression in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and in violation of post-World War II codes of international law, including the Nuremberg precedents, the London Charter of 1945, and the United Nations Charter.

The type of pre-emptive invasion of Iraq being advocated by Bush and Cheney is precisely the kind of war crime, for which 12 defendants were convicted at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945. The principles of law, recognized in the judgments of that first Nuremberg Tribunal, were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950. This is the cornerstone of the post-World War II order, centered around relations among sovereign nation-states.

Could a President of the United States, LaRouche asked, who was not insane, proceed with such reckless abandon, to violate these principles of law which have been the foundation of the post-war international order? Never! He concluded that the United Nations Security Council must recognize this reality. It should suspend the current debate over the insane formulations included in the Anglo-American draft resolution--which carries the implied threat to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and any number of Iraqi scientists and engineers--in a sick replay of the Jacobin Terror in 1790s France. The Security Council should instead declare that the President and Vice President of the United States, by virtue of their actions before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations, have demonstrated that they are mad, and proceed from that standpoint, hoping that the insanity is temporary, and that such bold actions by the Security Council might serve as a shock of reality bringing the President and Vice President back to their senses.

- The Courage of A Wartime Decision-Maker - This harsh but honest assessment coming from Lyndon LaRouche, is of special significance. Unless leading policy-makers in the United States and around the world are willing to face up to the reality, that the President and Vice President of the United States, by their actions, are judged insane, no adequate mobilization to avoid impending war can be accomplished. There are few statesmen alive today who demonstrate the courage of a wartime decision-maker; to state the truth, because nothing short of the truth can secure victory--in this case, a war-avoidance victory over the Bush and Cheney insanity, and the neo-conservative and Christian Zionist looney-bin dominating U.S. foreign policy and national security deliberations.

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http://www.google.com/search?as_q=LaRouche&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=rense.com&safe=images

[NoPasaran]

9. Batshit crazy

A leftwing whacko from the 60s (when he used the alias Lynn Marcus) who transformed himself into a rightwing whacko as the fortunes of the New Left declined. Spent a few years in the federal pen for fraud where I believe his cellmate was the defrocked televangelist Jim Bakker of PTL fame.

[AlCzervik]

10. Crazy ass mofo and his followers are worse

one of my former co-workers was a Larochie and she was fing nuts.

[impeach the gop]

11. Big Time Nut

n/t

[Tweed]

12. Nutcase n/t

[JVS]

13. Intercontinental superhighway by bridge over bering straight!

and bridges through the east Indies through New Guinea to Australia.

The roadtrip possibilities would be awesome!

[LoZoccolo]

15. He's kind of like a political cult leader...

...and the organization works kind-of like the way Scientology does from what I gather in that it makes a lot of money selling overpriced publications to its followers. If you look at the prices on some of the publications, they can be pretty steep, and one of the ones that I was handed a year and a half ago by a LaRouche supporter had an ad for a book on the back of it that was like $75!

I wonder if the people who give things out for free have to pay for them themselves. That would be pretty sad.

What's funny is they spent all this energy protesting him being excluded from the primary debates, but he is not allowed to be the presidential nominee because the Democratic Party won't let you be their candidate if you're not registered to vote in your state. The reason he's not registered to vote in his state (Virginia) is because he was convicted of a felony - but he could regain the franchise if he moved to a state where someone convicted of a felony can vote. So because he won't move, he's excluded from the debates, and yet his followers still protest his exclusion and disrupt the actual debates.

[neweurope]

16. His organization is considered to be very dangerous. Brain washing.

At least in Germany we think he's dangerous. Ultra-right.

[pocoloco]

17. He's my kind of guy

but then I'm pocoloco. His website does have some pretty good info on the history of the neocons,PNAC, and the U.of Chicago/Strass connection!

[WilliamPitt]

18. Fascist anti-Semitic douchebag

[lenidog]

19. Where does one start to describe the insanity

that was Lyndon Larouche.

[ajacobson]

21. Old school hustler

[DinahMoeHum]

24. I call him "Lyndon LaDouche".

'nuff said.

:evilgrin:

[name not needed]

25. Fucking nuts.