I accidentally linked this to a completely irrelevant topic the other day.  When I saw that I posted it with the words “Um, I just said that”, I had a small mini-panic slightly, before reverting it to its original link — a map of the Southeastern United States — and realized that the effect of the link was akin to announcing “I am a doughnut.”  But, here’s the interesting line I can leave you to ponder.: 

One cryonicist in 1000 is a Larouche-Christian Humanist– we’ll see my club expand to 2 at 2000

When there are 2000 cryonicists, I expect there will be one more Larouche Christian Humanist among us. This would be in statistical keeping with the current trend of 1 in 1000– represented currently by me.

It is reminscent of a quote from Larouche, which I first heard from a Pacifica Radio feature— though I would have undoubtedly picked it up from somewhere in my shaky search through this voyage, on the basis for the formation of the LYM (though, it looks like the same basis for the NCLC) — with just a thousand people, we will conquer the world.  Larouche never quite got there, and he was implicated in  a few too many deaths besides**, and didn’t restock his supply with enough rich Trust Fund cases with daddy-issues. ***  At least that has some gumption to it; Mr. Ossifur doesn’t even seem to be on the verge of taking over the world of Cryonics — he’s just searching for a second member for his sub-culture.  Many are called, few heed the call… or rather many are called, all of whom laugh the call off, none heed the call.

But, in the end, commenting on this for mockery is about like commenting for mockery on “Time Cube“.  (The problem of which is explored here.)

Back to Duggan, another odd salvo thrown on the Internet.:

Matilda: You Need Testimony from LaRouche Security
Did attorneys interview the LaRouche security team that was on duty
in Germany at the time Mr. Jeremiah Duggan was murdered?
Security knows what happened to Jeremiah and why they wanted
him dead.
I can help you to locate people in LaRouche security.
Contact me if you want me to send you a list of names and details.Best regards,
Victor G. Jackson

Relevant authorities may do with that what they can and will, if they have not already.  And to think, I waded through the transcript of the latest Larouche “web-cast”, a pointless exercise, where nothing is happening.  The man explained why solar energy couldn’t work based on his in-depth understanding of photo-synthesis.  In other Larouche pronouncement news, John Maynard Keynes and his economic theories are roads to fascism — interesting and slightly jarring assessment since, from where I sit, if you can come up with any flaccid of an economic theory Larouche is feigning, I always thought it was a sort of hyper-Keynesian — though, the “Economic Investments” being somewhat pointless.  (re: Meglev Train between Russia and Alaska, an extent project he glommed onto.)

In other pesterings around the Internet, I ran into the figure of Kassim Ahmad.  Where we learn that:

LaRouche was leader of a Quaker political movement which later became a faction of the Democrats. His ideas were and are revolutionary, threading the development of political, economic and scientific ideas carefully from sources in the Greek beginning to reach for a future humanity.  But Kassim, in the process of these flights to fulfill some emptiness in his life, lost his new friends and lieutenants, something he seemed to find difficult to explain in his book, and perhaps also to himself. Yes… the leader of a Quaker movement (His father, I guess, leaving his mainline denomination because of a difference of opinion over Adolf Hitler), and the leader of a faction of the Democratic Party.  (The function of which is basically to occasionally bug Barney Frank before Frank tells the pestering Larouchies to please leave his office.)  A search of wikipedia shows us that the Parti_Rakyat_Malaysia, or

The Malaysian People’s Party (Malay: Parti Rakyat Malaysia; PRM) is a democratic socialist political party in Malaysia. Established on November 11, 1955 as Partai Ra’ayat, it is one of the older political parties in Malaysia and traces its pedigree to the anti-colonial movements from the pre World War II period like the Kesatuan Melayu Muda.

Continue with an explanation of its origins in the Malysian anti-Imperialist Independence Movement against Great Britain, and skip forward to the introduction of Kassim Ahmad.:

In the leadership vacuum, a group of young intellectuals led by Kassim Ahmad took over the reins of the party and it underwent a radical change.  The party was renamed Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (English: Malaysian People’s Socialist Party; PSRM) and it officially adopted scientific socialism as its ideology.  Despite the reorientation of the party, the post 1969 political scenario meant that the party remained in the sidelines.  Other leaders were also arrested under the ISA like Syed Husin Ali in 1974 [17] and Kassim himself in 1976 [18].  This cost the party significant organizational cohesiveness that continued to plague it right into the next decade.  Leaders like Kampo Radjo and Syed Hussin helped keep the party intact over the next decade. 

That appears to be Kassim’s legacy to this political party, and the vantage point where Larouche can entertain his notion of leading a faction of the Democratic Party in entertaining Kassim. Beyond that, you have: splinter this, coalition with that, and splinter that, and in the end, well… it is hard to keep track of left wing Malaysian fringe parties. :

On April 17, 2005 the dissidents convened a National Congress in Johor Bahru, taking advantage of the fact that the party had yet to be de-registered by the authorities, and elected a new Executive Committee led by former PRM youth leader, Hassan Karim to resume political activities as PRM.  PRM has since contested in the 2008 general elections but has again yet to get one of their number elected into the legislature. A new coalition of Opposition parties, Pakatan Rakyat (English: People’s Pact, Pakatan), was formed after the 2008 elections but PRM has remained outside the coalition to date.

So, Kassim Ahmad failed to infect his country with “scientific socialism” (A term that should raise a red flag).  But He has a blog.  Influences?

RZ: Finally, which author/book/work of art do you count as your greater influences?

A 14. Many lives, authors and books have had great influence on me. On the literary level, Wordsworth, Keats, Shakespeare, Thomas Mann, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Yeats, T.S. Elliot, Keris Mas, Tongkat Warrant, Chairil Anwar and Pramudia. On the philosophical-intellectual level, Prophet Muhammad’s life, the writings and thoughts of of Mulla Sadra, Iqbal, Ali Shariati, Ibni Sina, Plato, Hamka, Abdullah Munshi, Malek Bennabi, Hassan Hanafi, Robert Briffault (who wrote the The Making of Humanity, a profound book) Rashad Khalifa, Saddam Hussein, our own Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and the American philosopher, economist and writer, Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.  Above all, the Quran has had a great continuing influence in the development of my thinking. I am a voracious reader. I want to read and re-read more books, but now I haven’t the time.

RZ: Rashad Khalifa? Why him? This is me being unnecessarily picky, but I thought his theories on the Quranic numerical code was said to be a fraud? Correct me if I’m wrong…

KA: Rashad’s translation of the Quran and his writings clarify for me many things that were not clear before. His call for Muslims to return to the Quran is essentially correct. I myself do not agree with him all the way, but, tell me, of a scholar or leader who is perfect! We should be grateful for a scholar or leader who has given us something good. Of his errors, we should be forgiving enough to overlook. […]

KA: […] In my case, I go to great trouble before I form a definite view on scholars and leaders, as in the case of the late Dr. Rashad Khalifa, President Saddam Hussein and Lyndon H. LaRouche. I read their biograhies and their major works before I form my views.

The wonderous and misunderstood philosophies of Saddam Hussein and Lyndon Larouche.  Wonderous.
……………………………….

A random awkwardly translated article on Jeremiah Duggan and the continued court battles.  Previously I have shied away from using the word “Murder” (a fact that I reminded of with Dennis King linking to a part of that long winded flame-war with revenire  — though I warmed over to “man-slaughter” (whether or not it fits the legal standards of Britain or Germany); now I am not so sure if I shouldn’t just use that “M” word. 

(**) My rule in posting blogs about Larouche: they will always concern itself with Jeremiah Duggan and/or Kenneth Kronberg.

(***) An observation: It looks like that Avi Klein Washington Monthly article has circulated well enouogh to become a sort of a “go-to” to quickly get a grasp of what is happening, referenced (however obliquely) as a pretty quick short-cut.

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