Back to the fringes and, in the end, relatively apolitical
This is a pretty impressive bit of propaganda. I’m particularly struck by how often the … um… Tour bus?… with Larouche’s portrait is shown. Actually this item is right up there with the one that juxtaposes the photograph of Amelia Robinson standing next to Martin Luther King Jr with the photograph of her standing next to Larouche.
Overall this photo spread is just kind of sad. Beyond that, though, it strikes me as interesting that it even exists, that they deemed it both necessary and useful to piece such an item together, adding the #4 to their list of responses. Well, they need to get ahead of such things these days and define the horror before it is defined for you and that seeps into the walls. Besides which, this was at bottom an accident — no harm, no foul?
It hits me, though, a reason they may have taken down the “Fallen Heroes” page. Suggested here its general shoddiness being called to attention. But there’s also a somewhat interesting thought of what taking a glance at the circumstances of their lives and perhaps deaths. None of them would die as Duggan did, obviously, and in the pre-Internet age Kronberg would have been successfully scrubbed from the memory banks with vestiges of bitter recriminations coming through every once in a while. But the Accident as a possibility lingers for possibly one or two.
Meantime the Larouche Youth Movementarians enjoy the history lesson about the British being defeated by Lincoln and than Roosevelt. Robert Beltran narrates. Skip to 1:27:48 or thereabouts (I just sort of skipped about) for some … ??? … Roosevelt bashing the British. In front of Winston Churchill! That bold Roosevelt. (God, I feel my mind becoming sponge-like. Interesting retro-fitting of history, I guess.)
And This battle rages. Unresolved. Unresolvable. Mr. Ossifur will continue to beat an impossible drum.
And James Kirchick appears to have set up a “Robert Dreyfus” watch at the New Republic blog.