This is the newest internal memo in its entirety:

INTERNAL MEMO

It should now be stated clearly for the information of the members, that Linda de Hoyos and Uwe Friesecke had been conducting operations against Ken Kronberg personally over many years–operations which significantly contributed to the conditions that led to his death.

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As Eaglebeak commented on FactNet, this is like the process the Larouchites undertook with Jeremiah Duggan’s death–creating an Alternate Universe in which Duggan’s mother was ultimately blamed for her son’s death.

Here we have LaRouche blaming (1) someone who left the organization in 2000 or thereabouts; (2) someone in Europe who left (was thrown out?) in fall 2006.

Who will he blame next?

I am pretty sure I passed this on this blog at the time, but sometime during the 2004 election cycle, I saw two Larouchites standing before a banner — something like a couple of the Mt Rushmore Presidents and Larouche with the great proclamation of “The Larouche Youth Movement”.  One of them was rather ridiculously taped up in John Kerry bumper stickers, a means of expressing an element of insincerity in his support of Kerry, the Larouchites’ current mission — a departure from previous cycles when Larouche moved straight from his Democratic primary race to an Independent general election bid.

I asked the bumper-sticker clad guy “Why is Larouche supporting John Kerry?”  His answer was, “We need to take over the Democratic Party!”  My cynical thought went along the lines of “That seems to be everyone’s thoughts” along with “And everyone is probably in a rude awakening.”

I was aware of some petty annoyances that Larouche caused at the Democratic convention — a buzzing fly that had to be swatted away.  I was also aware of the “Larouche PAC” side of the story — pumping up a few forgettable jokey comments by Terry McAuliffe.  I was not quite aware of the extent to which Larouche had imbued his followerers with the storyline that here, at this convention, the Larouchites were… taking over the Democratic Party, Larouche was becoming a major player at the side of Clinton… Kerry was considering Larouche as his secret weapon for vice presidential candidate, which — I will admit — really would have exploded the presidential race right then and there.  Anyway, at the end of the campaign, the analysis was in: everything that went right in the Kerry campaign was Larouche’s; everything that went wrong was Bob Shrum’s.

More gemane in the arena of creating an alternate universe for the Larouchites to the issue of Ken Kronberg, is this tidbit:

The LaRouche-tied New Solidarity newspaper in 1974 ran an obituary for three associates who it said had been murdered by federal agents. The three, who were still alive, had recently quit the group.

The one thing about Ken Kronberg is that we have witnessed the evolution of the org’s frantic spin control before our eyes.   I suppose we will never know what machinations brought the Larouche to publish those false obituaries in 1974, but we see what has happened in 2007.  Then again, in 1974 he did not have Uwe Friesecke to kick around as of yet.
I suppose this internal memo can be believed by a sector of Larouche’s followers, they who want to believe and must believe it.  The good news is that the Judicial process takes place in this reality and not the Fantasy Reality.  Anyway, these things are flying in the direction of the LYM and not so much the Baby boomers.  The baby-boomes in Leesburg, we are told, are edging out of the cult, making stronger connections with the outside world, and to a large extent taking some small writing assignments from Larouche for the last quick pay and habit.  I would like to think that the “Al Gore is Growing a Nazi Garden” story was written by someone slyly exiting, a half joke of preposterousness.  I doubt it, but still.  If somebody in Larouche-land would kindly offer up a follow-up story, stating that Al Gore has opted not to run for president BECAUSE of the fear of public fury over public attention at the expose about Al Gore’s 3rd Reich Gardening techniques, that would be amusing enough.
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A quick note regarding Chip Berlet’s message of:

Time to mop up the LaRouchites.

Interesting phrasology, and a reference to… “Operation Mop Up”, which was a moment that you can say without a second’s hesitation that Larouche aped Hitler and the Brownshirts, rummaging into Communist meetings in a campaign of violence to, um, “consolidate left wing hegemony”.  This “Operation Mop Up” is quite different.

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