Population 650, apparently. Proof positive of… something.
A blast from the past, newly relevant for the Sensation of the Day: Harry Potter.
Both “Pokémon” and “Harry Potter” are fresh examples of epidemic forms of mental disease akin to the “Flagellant” cult which rampaged during Europe’s Fourteenth Century “New Dark Age,” and to the “witchcraft cults” which spread during Europe’s Seventeenth Century, as a by-product of the Venice-directed, Habsburg-led horror of religious warfare over the 1511-1648 interval.
I wonder if Larouche consigned Don Phau to write up the anti-Harry Potter material?
Speaking of Pokemon — One of the World’s Stupidest Fatwas:
Denouncing the lovable Japanese cartoon characters as having “possessed the minds†of Saudi youngsters, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority banned Pokémon video games and cards in the spring of 2001. Not only do Saudi scholars believe that Pokémon encourages gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, but it is apparently a front for Israel as well. The fatwa’s authors claimed that Pokémon games include, “the Star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel’s national emblem.†Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates joined in, condemning the games for promoting evolution, “a Jewish-Darwinist theory that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles,†but didn’t ban them outright. Even the Catholic Church in Mexico got into the act, calling Pokémon video games “demonic.â€
Wait. What am I insinuating here?
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Some impossible – to – guage and standard buffoonish .
A Brutish Idiot Who Can’t CountJuly 12, 2007 (EIRNS)–This release was issued today by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC). July 12 (LPAC)— Echoing the line from known circles in Britain, the New Republic has published a piece of garbage by one Conor Clarke. By making itself available as the neo-con outlet in the U.S. for the garbage spillover from London, the New Republic has only succeeded in making known what a piece of garbage it itself has become. Lyndon LaRouche issued the following comment today: “This visiting lunatic who lurks in the orbit of the Washington Post, Conor Clarke, appears to be operating as a card-carrying Guardian of the Cheneyite ‘New Republic.’ His count of the population of the town of Leesburg suggests that had he ever actually visited Loudoun County within the recent quarter- century, it was by Ouija Board, or, perhaps, ‘LSD Express.’ Considering the Guardian’s track-record in the Cheney-Blair gang’s Jeremy Duggan hoax, one might estimate from his own recent scribblings, that poor wretched Conor’s personal morals are even lower than his minuscule IQ.”
I cannot make heads or tails of this insinuation. The town of Round Hill has a 2000 census report of 500 people, and today it is evidentally up to 650. A difference of 150, a drop in the bucket compared to the cows that Conor Clarke reports overwhelm the human population — because he really needs to set a bucolic scene and that is the shorthand way to do so. Round Hill is close enough to Leesburg that one commonly just lumps it in (anyone who grew up 45 miles from the nearest small media market and 3 hours from the nearest major media market knows the sensation of (1) national news reporting events — by which I mean stupdifying things such as the sighting of the Virgin Mary on a sign-post — as coming from the small media market, (2) describing the location of the town in relation to proximate places, and getting further outlier and further off base as the other person fails to recognize anything). Besides which he distinctly referenced Round Hill. The New Republic piece’s online presence is now behind a firewall where I would have to pay to see how he gets around to referencing Leesburg — but it strikes me as not mattering a whole lot.
Larouche appears to be pretending like the interview for Conor Clarke (that resulted in a banal fluff piece he can contort into “SLANDER” for the benefit of his followers) never happened, that Clarke created it out of whole cloth. I… guess(?) I don’t know. I have read enough material through Larouche’s past 40 years to see that he oftentimes leaves these dangling insinuations, where I can’t for the life or me figure out what the insinuation is — or how it connects to what he later explicates. The proof in the pudding is that he misstates the population — kind of — and locates Larouche’s estate into Leesburg — maybe.
I wait with less than baited breath a response to my query of what the hell he is talking about from a Larouchie at FACTNet who seems to think this is a “GOTCHA!”
The more appropriate title of the LPAC press release should be, “I’m a Brutish Idiot Who Can’t Read.” The New Republic article says that the town of Round Hill, Virginia [not Leesburg] has a population of 500. Guess what? So does the City of Round Tree: http://www.city-data.com/city/Round-Hill-Virginia.html.
Well, it makes sense to somebody — the cloistered unit of LYMers — I guess, as I quickly google to see what the hell a “Round Tree” is — with no success, and make sure to note that every goddamned Larouche-given location for his estate posts “Round Hill”. The next article, coming in a month or so — anticipated to the degree that such articles can be anticipated — should get an even more entertaining press release, tying up the Baby-boomers, synarchists, Jeremiah Duggan*, Dick Cheney, and on and on.
Much more material is coming out of his world of make-believe out of the Larouche rss feeds, (blah blah blah — Baby Boomer Democrats stop the LYM and Democratic Youth — um? together at last? – from issuing an impeachment resolution somewhere or other… blah blah blah — will deliver to John Edwards shortly.) But really? In the world of fantasy, I hear that JK Rowling writes better stories. No hang up over out-of-date almanacs. An item from “the other side” of that story: Hm, am I wearing something that says “Potential LaRouche Cultist Recruit”? Why are they here? Does the world really need more looneytoons in it? And so it goes…
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*or, as LL insists on calling him, Jeremy Duggan.
July 21st, 2007 at 4:45 am
LaRouche characteristically seizes on something of tertiary or even less significance in a statement, book, or question; then misrepresents it totally; then knocks down the strawman he has created; then turns to his audience with a self-satisfied, narcissistic, demonic glint in his eye, and declares himself the victor.
Ths is one sick dude. It is to be hoped that some day a writer can capture that reality.
What’s really eating him in terms of Conor Clarke can be seen in the reference in LaRouche’s “rebuttal” to the Guardian and the “Cheney-Blair Jeremy Duggan hoax.”
First: Note that the man who is obsessed with the correct number of cows or people in Round Hill can’t even get Jeremiah Duggan’s first name right. Apparently it’s not enough to cause his death, but then he has to kill him again by refusing to know his name!
Second: What hoax? Isn’t Jeremiah Duggan dead? Didn’t he attend a LaRouche conference in Wiesbaden? Didn’t he call from there to his mother in a state of terror? Didn’t the phone go dead?
What is missing from most articles about LaRouche is a sufficient reflection of his sheer malevolence.
July 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am
Sometimes things are simply unclear, and I falsely marked the poster who stated “A Brutish Idiot Who Can’t Read” as a Larouchie. The problem is that — we are dealing with self-assured statements that do not make sense — and sometimes sarcastic parody ends up sounding a little too much like the real thing.
Then there’s this:
I note that in the version posted on the LPAC website the mice have corrected LaRouche’s initial mis-use of “Leesburg” to “Round Hill”.
THAT makes sense in terms of how Larouche operates.
I note that the New Republic article is fully available via google news. I also note that the comments section veers toward a discussion of the Bloom County comic strip’s use of Larouche as a punchline, and reminisces of said.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
The thing about LaRouche is that for years he has made all sorts of mistakes, commonplace and bizarre, and the mice have tried to correct them.
Sometimes when he was obviously wrong and they didn’t want to get into a huge battle, they changed his mistakes seretly.
Eventually, some of the mice stopped caring, and figured let him look as dumb as he is. They were tired of saying This is wrong, This is wrong, This is wrong, all the time, and then getting eviscerated by some crazed NEC member who was afraid to tell LHL he was wrong and couldn’t contemplate just changing it.
Then the mice, many of them, took a real delight in leaving all LHL’s mistakes and delusions and gaffes and insanities IN his articles. But alas, most of the people who read those articles didn’t recognize the mistakes….
The thing is, LaRouche desperately needs editing, so he needs the little cadre of loyal mice to change Leesburg to Round Hill (maybe he doesn’t remember where he lives?), but most of the smart mice have left, so he doesn’t have anyone sharp enough to save him from himself (that is, conceal his real malignance of soul) by changing Jeremy to Jeremiah.
There was a time when a sharp mouse or two might have done that, but no more. So now the world gets to see even more clearly, not that it wasn’t totally obvious before, what an incredibly mean-spirited fellow LHL is, with his refusal to bother to get the name right of Jeremiah Duggan, who was by all accounts a lovely person who deserved better than dying on the streets of Wiesbaden and being attacked posthumously by this frightful old man who is so greedy for life for himself and so contemptuous of the right to life of others.