Could someone look up baby-boomer for me?
I’m guessing that the prima facie evidence that I know nothing about Lyndon Larouche is that I have not donated $2000 to any of his campaigns and am not standing with box-cards hawking his literature on street corners or on college campuses.
This is in in reference to Brian. I believe in free will, and I believe we can hand that free will to anyone or anything we want to to whatever degree we want to do so. (Is Mike Gravel a better successor to FDR? I don’t know. He couldn’t be worse.)
My response to “dcreporter”, and I am tempted to give out the name of the publication — actually in a sly manner where I invert the words of the publication and toss in a few participles, was essentially a deferal. In terms of rummaging through old EIR publications, there is something I would do if I could stomache these things: collegate and trace the history of Larouche’s use of the word “baby-boomer”. Googling “larouchepub” and “baby boomer”, and what seems to predominate are a bulk of interviews held between two people discussing the greatness of Lyndon Larouche. (Larouche’s publications are odd in that way.) For some reason the word “baby boomer” is not highlighted, as per the regular google functions, and I am not willing to wade through this crap to be able to sort through the use of the word “baby boomer” as a pejorative. (The earliest appearance using this minimal technique is 1995.)
A few years ago, after Larouchites succeeded in aggrivating the campus of Portland State Unviersity (a tactical guerilla operation beyond the typical setting up of a card table), and made enough of a nuisance of themselves, the school newspaper ran the article “Who Is Lyndon Larouche?” In retrospect, I do not believe the article was particularly insightful, even with a bit more meat on it than I’ve come to find out is usual for these things. It seemed to be dragged down by explanation of the nature of Larouche’s opposition to the wars in Iraq. (1991 and 2003).  What is weird is that I think there should be just be one form item written, easy to be used by any college whenever it seems necessary with a handful of bullet point items on the history of Larouche. Out of the student forment of SDS at Columbia University, lead a group of self-described Trotskyites, lead a campaign of violence against Communists with billy-clubs and machettes in “Operation Mop Up”, any number of items can be plugged in from there to te 1986 and 1988 California ballot measures that would have quarantained AIDs patients, prisioned for fraud and served 5 years of a — 15 year?– sentence, and now we can touch upon Jermiah Duggan, if we want to. Badda bing badda boom, write it someone, let it out to fair use, and don’t think too hard when the topic of Larouche comes up on campus. (The vast majority of students and everyone sees a charlatan operation intuitively anyways. point oh oh oh oh one percent notwithtanding.)