Perennial Campaigns, Hitler analogies, and Dark Ages.
In doing that round through of Larouche articles at wikipedia, I found that the org has been rather successfully shut out of their propaganda editing offensive ever since the brief flurry of an attempt post Krusty Banishment. Assuming this call for a spell check cleaning isn’t part of the Sock Puppet tree, and an attempt to crack the editing privileges open — but I assume that’s just paranoid conjecture on my part.
But I came upon this line:Â LaRouche has run for president on eight consecutive occasions, a record for any candidate, and has tied Harold Stassen’s record as a perennial candidate.
Is that right? He ties with Harold Stassen? Well then, considering Larouche’s strong aim for Immortality, there is only one thing that needs to be done. The record is in his grasp. Larouche NEEDS to run for President, just to blow Harold Stassen into the dust. Come on, everybody in the Larouche organization. That means you. Yes, you, Harley Schlanger*, I’m pointing at YOU. Lyndon Larouche NEEDS TO Be ON THE BALLOT in 2012. You don’t want to be the equivalent of this year’s Indianapolis Colts team. (And otherwise, you’re stuck with a vague rememberance of a Whale-related bumper sticker as a historical legacy.) HISTORY BECKONS!!
* Disclaimer: Actually I’m pointing at nobody in particular. That name just randomly came to me. Disregard it.
Of course, maybe there is no urgency at all here, and Larouche can wait for 2040 to make the record breaking run. This under the stewardship of the Cryogenic advances of Mister Phil Ossifur. But at that point, I’d just go ahead and exhume Harold Stassen and commence the stalement.
In the meanwhile, as we await the HISTORIC presidential bid announcement, there are a few other perenial items.
“Because Harry Reid has now made himself a duplicate of Adolf Hitler, he’s responsible for every Jew who was killed by Hitler,†LaRouche said. “Harry Reid must take personal responsibility for every Jew killed by Hitler, by allowing this thing to go through. Every Jew who was killed by Hitler, Harry Reid is responsible for now! He must resign immediately in embarrassment, in abject apology to the American people for copying exactly the Hitler policy, which is so infamous. He has made a page for himself in infamy!
Wow. That’s kicking it up a notch — one inch more explicit and ahistorical.  I guess they disagree with the statement that The Fuher has no place in the Health Care Furor.
And to go back to the whale postings:
sounds fishy to me. larouchies aren’t really known for their sense of humor.
That’s a… sense of humor, right?
As I recall, the original “Nuke the Whales” was from the old Bloom County comic strip. Might have been a parody of the LaRouche campaign. I think it was expanded from there.
On to the other perennial.
Well, the process has gone on, since last August. It’s undergone various transformations. Now, we’re reaching the point that we’re headed toward a breakdown. There’s a breakdown crisis in process in Europe, there’s a breakdown crisis in the Americas, there’s a breakdown crisis inside the United States. We can not, at this point, assume, that unless we do what I will emphasize we must do, by the middle of January — no later — unless we do that, the United States will go down, and the world will go down, into a prolonged Dark Age. So people who have these ideas about step-by-step, the usual kinematic kind of thing, we’ll do this, and then we’ll do this, and then we’ll do this — no! You won’t do that.
NOT ANOTHER 14th Century Dark Ages! We were only beginning to recover from the last Dark Age, which occured on October 12. I don’t know how many more of these Dark Ages the World Economic Infrastructure can take. These Dark Ages do appear to be shorter bursts than the one always being alluded to with these things — it is curious to note that i took the creative energy of the careers of the Great Renaissance figures to end the Dark Ages. These Dark Ages apparently are so transitory and flimsy that they’re defeated by a random weekend afternoon cable tv showing of the TMNT movie.
Or a 1999 Jack Van Impe broadcast. Nobody is all that original in forecasting disasters.
2007 flashback here with this. And this bearded guy is entreated in 2009. News is that that the call to “Repeal” the health care bill might be a Republican 2010 Congressional election rallying call — which I suppose might save the organization the headache of finding a new cause to glom onto.  (I’m not sure sliding the British into the coming 12/25 Truth Movement can be judged to get them very far — but I guess I’ll wait to see if Webster Tarpley jumps into that fray shortly.) Otherwise, we’re stuck celebrating China’s new Train.
In concluding news, the whole “Laroche Industries” mistaken identity fiasco made a year-end best (or worst) list.
December 29th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
He doesn’t tie Harold Stasson’s record, if you look on Wiki, Stasson ran a total of nine times to LaRouche’s eight, which includes his nose-bleed 76 campaign as a candidate for the U.S. Labor Party. However, if it will make you feel any better, he has the record for the most consecutive runs for the Presidency. But i don’t think he’ll run in 2012, the new strategy is to run LYM candidates in congressional races.
December 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
LaRouche didn’t even run in 2008–when he was a spring chicken of just 86. Evidently someone convinced him that he was–how shall I say this?– too old.
But, according to his recent remarks to gatherings of “leadership” groups at his house, “they want me to run the world for them”–at age 87.
So, even if he’s not running for President, he’s still running for Ruler of the World.
December 31st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
has tied Harold Stassen’s record as a perennial candidate
Wikipedia’s not always straight fact finding strikes again. But Wait A Minute. Why didn’t the Larouche Wikipedia catch this one — or were they too attached to getting in a mention of old Soviet functionaries?