post truncated a week later
Apparently stung by the net effect of sparodic blogs reporting, in combination of mock and irritation, meetings with Larouche card-table deployments, LPAC has stuck this report — a distillation of some scattered comments into something of a rallying call. It is… funny, in that moribud way all of these things tend to be funny.
Generation that Fought the Nazis: LaRouche Is Right on Obama!
July 1, 2009 (LPAC)—Lyndon LaRouche’s webcast call to arms on fighting Barack Obama’s Nazi policy on medical treatment, profoundly touched the souls of his generation—those who fought in World War II, or lived through it. But many boomers and younger people were protective of Obamamania, and fearful of what their “friends” and peers will think about calling Obama’s plan “Nazi.”
Among the older people, whether it was those who attended the Washington-area meeting where LaRouche spoke, the regional meetings, or watched it on the web, or learned about it in the field, there was a powerful response. At a literature table in the New Jersey region, an older woman was at our literature table, getting briefed on the LPAC fight, and looking at our signs on Obama and Hitler. She looked over the LPAC literature, and exclaimed, “You’re right, his policy is Nazi.” Then she pulled up her shirtsleeve to reveal the numbers tattooed on her arm, put there when she was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland at the age of 9.
At the Washington, DC-area event, an Italian-American man from Philadelphia, said, “Lyn has to win. I know, I lived under Mussolini. Lyn is right.” Two men in their 80s had the same response. One, at a field site in Los Angeles said, referring to Obama and the Administration, “I’m 80 years old. They’re out to kill me!” Another World War II veteran, attending the New Jersey office showing of the webcast, said, “I’m in trouble … I’m over 80 … they want to be rid of people like me.” In Chicago, a 79-year-old man, who had retreated into religion from politics, listened by phone to Lyn’s webcast, and later said, “That speech should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country! What he said about the British is absolutely true! In fact, everything he said is true! He’s the smartest man in the world!!”
Hm. Frankly, they could play the “Current events remind person alive during WW2 of Nazi Germany” game since at least Nixon, probably before. A note to the family of the elderly persons referenced in this item: it may be time to take over some of their financial decisions.
Granted, if one cares one probably has read these things, but I draw your attention to the factnet posts of Hylozoic Hedgehog under the “Old Mole Files” and the “New Mole Files”. I gather part of the purpose here is carrying on an argument against Dennis King (“quit lying” about “Larouche’s ideological orientation”), such as I’m left with the belief that it promised more than it delivered on that score.
I assume this was the purpose of putting in bold type and adding a paranthetical “emphasis added” to the phrase in Larouche’s stated purpose of finding “Leninist Boomers”. Of course, a secondary purpose is to put the context of the org as being a forty year history of yanking a small cadre of “Leninist Boomers” around in various fashions, which I guess would argue for the cult orientation over any ideological consideration.
To review how the “left” and “right” strait-jacket is reconciled, here are two quotations from Tim Wohlforth in his memoir The Prophet’s Children:
“In fact it is quite remarkable how the ‘new’ Larouche organizes his followers in a Leninist cadre fashion, drives them with a vision of the historic tasks and the necessity of their actions and successfully reaches layers of society with “transitionl” slogans that appeal to economic needs or old prejudices.”
“The Larouchites began mouthing anti-Semitic phraseology, promoting the nuclear program and arms industry, advocating a Star Wars defense, and baiting gay people. The old Trotskyite, a member of my own small organization, had emerged as a Fascist!”
I hesitate to say Wohlforth over-stepped his bounds in referring to various mainstream causes of the 1980s into the realm of “fascist”, though the “gay baiting” in particular may have the “matters of degree” on a one dimensional “left / right” spectrum. The “anti-semitic phraseology” is what remains constant. Also I wonder what “layers of society” he refers to here — surely the elderly people in the LPAC release and the similar credit fraud victims of the 1980s, and the college aged recruits, and a larger number I guess anyone who’s quoted a single line from Leon Strauss in the past eight years and talked and blamed Hitler on Prescott Bush over the past two decades.
As for the Nazis? Well, we can move further afield from King, who — cavalier about posting a photograph of the man’s arms out-stretched though he may be (ironically transforming Larouche into an ordinary politician). I have no opinion on Plato and his “Golden Souls”, except that Plato’s Republic has served as the rationalization for a number of despots. I have no opinion on Nazi Space swirls, except to point to nazi courtship. And I’m hard pressed to figure out what else the org’s effect, outside its orbit of spending membership’s lives [Jeremiah Duggan the extreme example], has been besides stirring these conspiratorial items into public discourse.
Across the spectrum of what it means for Larouche to be defined as a nazi: On the far edge you have European’s “researchers” and “reporters” who insist to him that they know they all read Mein Kampf and sit before portraits of Hitler. An edge inward and you have this admitted tin-foil hat wearer’s conspiracy theory that the org was financed by fleeing Nazis’ Gold and there we have Dave Emory’s program which sticks him in as part of that “Underground Reich” (though, Emory would also hold forth about Prescott Bush on that score.) At the opposite end, “European” had denied any existence of anti-semitism until recently.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
“Hylozoic Hedgehog” has never said he thinks I’m lying; he merely disagrees with me while suggesting that I’m enslaved to dialectical materialism. The person who says I’m lying is “Boris Maglev,” who seems to forget about all the time I took to edit and footnote his extraordinary
Factnet posting about intellectual subversion inside the LaR org so it could reach the wider audience it deserved. But I prefer him to “Poe,” who says I’m a “dog” (mild compared to what LaRouche calls me).
As to LaRouche’s Nazi space swirls (actually his four-crooked-armed plasmoid glowing with light), you can view it at http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/images/plasmoid1.jpg or as an illustration to my satiric explication of the swirling armies in LaRouche’s head at http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/larouche-warlord1.htm
Regarding the unnamed Scandinavian LaRouche watcher whom blogger “European” said believes the LaRouchians sit around reading Mein Kampf, this may have its origins in a story in my book about Paul Goldstein’s brother-in-law storming around the LaRouche national office on W. 58 St. in Manhattan waving a copy of Mein Kampf as evidence that LaRouche had gone anti-Semitic, and saying LaRouche was getting it from Mein Kampf. HH and Boris M know this story is true–they were probably there. But it actually proves the opposite of what the unnamed LaRouche watcher said: if other LaRouchians had read Mein Kampf and spotted the comparisons to LaRouche, more of them would have left pronto. Ergo, most of them didn’t, and don’t, read Mein Kampf. Indeed, many of them don’t even read LaRouche.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Correction noted. I’ve blurred the two: “Consciously Lying” and “still trapped by the Progressive Labor Party” — which, I gather, the former comes with the latter but the latter does not necessitate the former.