It appears that on March 9, 2010 Gordon Allen Pross made it as official as these things can be made.  Which is to say, he put up his customary website.

Gordon Allen Pross.  Will be running for the Republican nomination.  For United States Senate.

He’s run for the House or the Senate every election season since 1998.  He was the Democratic nominee for the fourth Congressional District in 1998, which naturally just served to remind the Democrats to get a goddamned candidate from then on out.

And apparently, in 2007, he made a bid for the Presidency, to honor the memory of Tim Russert?

Honestly, I didn’t notice he was running.  Which is unfortunate.  Because if I had noticed, I’d surely have left a blog post noting it, and thus the percentage of the “100% Censorship” would have been lowered to… I guess the 99.999% level?  I guess I didn’t notice it because of all that censorship?

Really, I’m pretty sure he could have gotten his name on the New Hampshire ballot with a little effort.  I’m pretty sure if he sent a letter to some small town newspapers in his area, the papers would have published his letter — gotta fill the space next to the Bridge Column somehow.  Otherwise, we’re back to the parable: if a bear pisses in the woods, and nobody’s there to see it — ???

Just to be sure, he has his sites on Patty Murray, as you can see with his utilization of 2 “Don’t Tread on Me” snake images and a picture of Abraham Lincoln, as he runs with a mix of William Jennings Bryan flair with a “GOLD~SILVER~STANDARD“ and something about Axe Tax, almost but not quite set up in a “Cross”.

I may have finally soured on this type of political run.  I once thought of them as a decent enough diversion for our democratic system — everyone gets to the starting line — this will sort away.  But it occurs to me that Serious Times call for a grim item of utmost Seriousness.   If I was once inclined to vaguely encourage this type of thing, I am now inclined to vaguely discourage them.  Sure, this thing doesn’t occupy all that much space, but — ???

And with Gordon Allen Pross, I once again keep coming back to the question:  What does this man think he’s doing?

Thinking about the Politics of Your Bama, Read this Hill Staffer letter.

Obama preempts the other side’s most resonant arguments, which forces them to come up with more and more extreme claims in order to differentiate themselves. In the end, he occupies the reasonable middle ground and his opponents are Palinized. It doesn’t always work — on the national security/gitmo/Miranda stuff, for example, it turns out the utter extreme positions the right is left with given the centrist ground Obama has staked out turns out to be fairly popular. But even there, the Administration has had reasonable success pushing back on the Miranda nonsense and, because they effectively occupy the tough, pragmatic middle ground, they routinely get cover from non-crazy Republican national security voices, which has helped blunt the force of these issues. (I understand that the term “middle ground” is very slippery and dangerous here, but I basically use it to mean policies that, before the great crazy of 2009 had broad consensus support from large portions of both parties and the Broder/Friedman/Brooks axis.)

At the same time, the policy is a tailored, measured version of what the Republicans have urged — so, yes, the headline is, ‘Obama Allows New Offshore Drilling/Presses For Energy Independence,’ but at the same time, California/Oregon/Washington where opposition is strongest isn’t included, and there are environmentally-friendly changes to Alaska leasing policy announced at the same time. And again, as we’ve seen before, Republicans are sort of forced to twist and parse, and even to oppose things they have long supported, just because the Administration hasn’t gone far enough.

Or, in another words: Triangulation, once again.

Understand, I do believe this rating scheme to have been a useful exercise, an item which forces a confrontation on the historical expectations of the President.  At the moment, I’ll go ahead and say — move Zachory Taylor to the third level, move Ulysses Grant to the second level (this article ‘s arguments have momentarily fazed me), move William McKinley to the fourth level, and move Rutherford Hayes to the third level.  Not that I’m losing sleep with this — come back to me in a week and I’ll restore them all back and, I don’t know — move Martin Van Buren?

Now drop Obama into this game, and …  The effect is always strange.  Maybe I can drop Taylor out with the same force that I don’t mention Garfield or W. H. Harrison and make a spectacular announcement? 

So I had that giant “Er… No” once when Obama gave this Health Care speech where he evoked the Presidents Roosevelt (as in Ted) on down with respect to Health Care — “I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”  He corralled the last few liberal dissenters in the House by promising that he would not be the last President to take up Health Care.  This surrounds that area of David Frum — . The DNA of this bill traces back to what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts, and it traces back before that to the Republican alternative to Clinton Care back in 1993 and 1994.  — While insisting he would not have voted for it due to what the Heck is wrong with it.  This is to say that in 1993-1994, the Republicans as a whole and as a group had the political need to come up with public proposals, as opposed to 2009-2010, when they would go with a straight face with the “America.  Best Health Care in the World.  America.”

Off-shore drilling is not all that puzzling.  It may be a flip flop, but it’s a flip flop already made.  He campaigned for this in the 2008 presidential general election.  Is this a compromise with himself before — what?  Securing Lindsey Graham in Climate Change bill?

After a while, these matters poke into a bit of a feeling of being “punked”.  See this recent blog conversation between The Prospect’s Tim Fernholz and The Atlantic’s Mark Ambinder and back.  While Mark Ambinder side-steps the standard aniums against Mark Halperin, the breezy comment, the part Fernholz high-lighted.:

it’s high-reward, low-risk; environmentalists will complain, but then again, environmentalists complain.  Aside from the substance, which is beyond our ken, the politics of this move is easy:

Everyone is always complaining.  But I know we’ll be somewhere when we can see the comment “Talk Radio hosts / Tea Party Protesters will complain, but then again, Talk Radio hosts / Tea Party Protesters always complain.”  Even better if we insert Financial Lobbyists, etc. as the subject.

I suppose the revised theory of Triangulation works that the shouts of “Marxist” will exhaust itself out, even as it hits up against the general Theory and Laws of Mid Term elections.

The “Recall Sam Adams” Recall is in full force today.  I’ve seen a few people with clip-boards and the question about Recalling Sam Adams. 

My opinion on the first Repeal went along the lines of “Tepidly, yes”.  Or, I’m not going to wring my hand and believe we’ve reached a nadir of local political intregity if it does not succeed. 

My thought on the second Recall is that we see a slippery slope toward a weird “Permanent Recall” culture.  Imagine a massive well-moneyed organism parking themselves in as a permanent political fixture, running one unsuccessful recall after another toward a mediocre mayor.  We’ve only got to come to the end of this second Recall effort to seemingly just wait for the brief legal lag time respite into the crazy third Recall Effort.  I suppose if my initial opinion for a Recall were stronger, then the threat of this “Permanent Recall Culture” would fade from view.

Actually, I have an additional thought on this second Recall.

With less than three weeks to go and fewer than half the needed signatures, the struggling campaign to recall Portland Mayor Sam Adams rallied Thursday at City Hall for petitions and donations.

The recall campaign has until April 20 to submit 32,183 valid signatures from Portland residents. Chief petitioner Avel Gordly said the campaign has “well over” 10,000 signatures. Chief organizer Teresa McGuire put the number between 12,000 and 15,000.

“It’s going to be tough, but we can get there,” Gordly said. “We still have time to get there.”

The first recall attempt failed in October, dogged by lack of money and professional help.

This second effort, launched in January, was supposed to have a bevy of financial backers who could pay for professional signature gatherers.

For the most part, that hasn’t happened, although Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle has given $17,500 to the overall $44,000 raised. That has allowed the campaign to hire workers from a temp agency.

It appears to be doing good work in that regard.  It’s putting people to work — some quick money that’d tide from one corner to the next.  I suppose it’s “make work” – irrelevant in what it’ll end up producing — but maybe when this third Recall comes along, even if you’re more fatigued by the idea of recalling Sam Adams — and you’re hurting for money —

— Hell!  Sign up right now!

This is not your Father’s Milita.

For reasons that I can not ascertain, the myspace video for Hutaree of their backyard training was set to ’80s goth-metal band Sisters Of Mercy.  It begs a question asked on their forum:  Who exactly are you looking for out in the forest? You do realize the weapons you are using would be no match against Big Foot. That is who you were looking for, wasn’t it?
THIS is the video on their website when they became famous.  Them running out in the woods dramatically, with a song from an 80s Goth Metal Song playing.

As we can expect, various videos from the group have been disseminated, until the most puerile one showed up… and well, to describe the Artsy little film… you do not want to view it.

But Sickles, who in those videos identified himself as a member of the Ohio Militia, may also have a lighter side. The accused plotter looks to have starred in a deeply Not Safe For Work movie, filled with cursing, mock violence, pot jokes, and sound effects conveying flatulence. Sickles appears entirely naked but for a mask of President George W. Bush that obscures some, but not all, of his genitalia.

In the film, Sickles’s chubby, tattooed character finds himself attacked by an enormous creature which appears to be half man, half duck. “Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet,” Sickles exclaims at one particularly dramatic moment.

Interestingly, a quick google search through the blogosphere sees the (as we stick these things in a one-dimensional paradigm) “Right” gleefully jumping at these revelations.

No.  Seriously.  Bush!  On the Guy’s Genitalia!  It’s a political statement from a group that includes a registered Democrat!
I thought they were Christian Extremists.  From the Far Right.  The Narrative has been destroyed!
I mean, putting Bush on your genitilia in a film is something that Liberals would do!  (No, seriously.  I saw this on a blog.  “Sounds like Nation readers“.)
…I think  any political allegory is lost with the arrival of the Duck.  Unless someone can explain to me what the Duck represents.

Meanwhile, the weird movement of the day that popped up — I suppose this ruins the narrative for them?

Guardians of the free Republics looked to Gandhi, King, and Mandela.  The Guardians of the free Republic’s stated desire was to peacefully and nonviolently ‘restore’ America to a pre-1933 form of government. But why would 50 governors step down at their request? In the wings, the group insinuated, waited the military.

Mandela!  Gandhi!

Both groups have probably burned the UN Flag. 

Something I don’t understand about The Guardians of the Free Republic.  What does this mean?

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But I’m not all that concerned about them.  I’ll wait until they adopt a British hardcore band of one type or another for use in youtube videos.

Meanwhile, the “open” part of the Hutree forum apparently was put down, and is back up.  You don’t want to see it.  Everyone must have been inspired by the “Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet” piece, such that it’s just a bunch of your typrical genitilia images that come from dark corners of the Internet.

Different dark corners then those from political fringe groups set for fantastical officer shootings.

Wait.  False Flag!  False Flag!  False Flag!

Yesterday, Page A12 and A13 of the New York Times were full of stories revolving the US Census Count.  One on the difficulty of counting the vote in the Rural South, another on the difficulty of counting in urban immigrant populated New York City neighborhoods, and another on the complete and utter ease of counting in the sparsely populated Prarie Belt.  I have this image of Alex Jones waving these pages about and ranting, focusing on this oh so thick Government Propaganda, sarcasm reigning when he gets to this.:

When it did, Kyle and his mother, Laura, filled it out together, then mailed it back almost immediately. “That’s just what you do,” Ms. Yoder, a nurse, said with a shrug. “You get it done. It’s not even a question.”

AND

“One important thing to remember is to always offer them the freebies,” Mr. Choi said before the volunteers headed out on Monday night, their bags stacked with can openers and pens bearing the 2010 census logo.

“Yes.  Trinkets.  Just like the White Man gave to the Native Indians when they arrived, as they started the long process of destroying their way of life and culture.”

The Anti-Census sentiment is represented in Congress by the likes of Michele Bachman, shuffling it as a Great March toward Socialism — and, naturally, Ron Paul.  An emerging theory coming from this anti-census sentiment is that, egged on by Bachman to the slice of populace that represents her national constituency, this will translate into decreased congressional representation for broad stretches of this “Real America” — which, come to think of it, might just simply balance off the problems the Census has in getting to various pockets of poor immigrant and minority (Democratic leaning) Americans.

I remember around about 1995 or 1996, the Census was a topic of political debate, and Bob Dole was on a Meet the Press type show holding forth against debated changes in Census counting.  Statisticians were universally arguing for various statistical sampling to round the numbers around, saying it would give a more accurate number in better reflecting some of the hard to reach pockets.  Raw partisan concerns would not abide this.  But it is interesting to note Bob Dole’s statements against this, coming out in the oh-so-common sense mid-west smash the egghead bean counters approach.  “What a Census is is just getting everyone to poke their head out, and you count them.”  I suppose the logistical details are lost in this approach, though it does slide Bob Dole away from the Bachman / Jones Black Helicopter concerns and into the “Everyone in North Dakota’s filling out the forms” line.

It is curious to note this weird item (is there any other kind?) from Larouche.  I won’t suggest to read the whole thing, but I will say read what you want — and I will just clip this.

There could be no reasonable objection to stating that the so-called “health bill” just rammed through by President Barack Obama, is a carbon copy of the original form of what became notorious as the wartime practice of genocide by Adolf Hitler. Indeed, the very essence of the argument put forward by President Obama is a treasonous attack on the great principle of the Preamble of the U.S. Federal Constitution.The essence of the matter is that President Barack Obama, just like Adolf Hitler, has shown himself incapable of distinguishing between a human being and a roasted goose for someone’s dinner.As for the culpable members of the U.S. Congress who made themselves complicit in this Hitler-like crime against humanity, in the main, they acted not as men or women, but as barnyard chickens, hoping that they were not next on the table.
So, like the children who fall victims of sodomy, they are denied their humanity in the same disregard for the distinction of human being from barnyard beast. All of this goes to show, that the great defect of U.S. morality today, is the people who are supporting Obama, are like the men who practice sodomy on children, like President Obama, lacking a clear understanding of the difference between man and a beast misused for their entertainment.

He goes on to align his org with the Vatican’s line regarding it’s pedophile scandal — Media Diversion — and here I will note that I was prepped for this because Howie G is always is a day or so ahead of LPAC in pushing the Larouchian line.  And there we take the cue from the ultra-conservative Catholic Doctrine on sex, followed by the suggestion of some “insider” connection, and in the footnotes a number of historical figures pop up for no other reason than — just because.

The new Obama Follower Sex Fixation (and there is more here) appears to have seeped into the cult’s followers — as evidenced by this:

A female co-worker of mine was leaving the post office, located at 2772 Roosevelt St., when the demonstrator, one of two 20-something white males, asked her to sign the petition. She refused and kept walking. The man, wearing a white shirt, hat and sunglasses, yelled that she “just wanted to see Obama naked.” […]

Tangentially, this line of argument <supporters of ex-convict and alleged cult leader and anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche—has many Jewish leaders, but when pressed to name any of them or provide evidence that Jews support LaRouche, he refused. >  misses the mark on Larouche’s anti-semitism.  If I want to give “European” any credence for his “KKKNAZIBLEH” statements, it comes from around there — it should be noted though, that instead of answering with your “Jeff Steinberg” (He count as any type of “Leader”?), they made the “Go Back to your wacky Facebook” pitch.  (Your Facebook and your Sex?) A similar effect can be seen in  this youtube video of a deployment where the Larouche member just keeps repeating the word “bitch”.

So, a few months ago, “Rachel Holmes” left the comment here that “chewing gum and Hitler.  Perfectly describes what holds LaRouche World together.”   This is not wholly true.  The third component is a juvenile sexual distortion.

For See the last posts from “European” at factnet, where he made this weird and curious statement.
Beside that, J. Duggan got attracted to the organization because of the anti-nazi campaigns it had at the time,

There is no “Anti-Nazi” campaign.  There never has been.  Jeremiah Duggan was drawn into what he thought was an anti-war conference in what he thought was an anti-war movement.  He was ever-so-briefly peddling, or with people who were peddling, something called “Children of Satan”, what turned out to be a four parter.  Unfortunately, he would make an appearance in Part 3 — subtitled (ahem): “The Sexual Congress for Cultural Fascism”, wherein his life is settled into (from here):

That publication contends that Jeremiah was mentally ill and points out that German authorities continue to stand by their finding of suicide. It portrays Jeremiah’s grieving mother as a dupe who has been pressured into joining the worldwide conspiracy to get LaRouche: “The objective of the media smear campaign, linking LaRouche-affiliated organizations to the Duggan suicide, is to build pressure in several Continental European countries, and eventually launch a major disruption of the LaRouche campaign . . . to assure that if there is a John Kerry Presidency, LaRouche will be nowhere near the premises.”

Other than that, the pamphlets place pictures of Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz next to your picture of Adolf Hitler.  Skip to today and the next step in the evolution of that technique is simply to merge a Hitler mustache onto your Barack Obama and Harry Reid.  As for that “Sexual Congress” thing, we have come full circle with their latest iteration of the question “Do you know the difference between man and the animals?”

The person in the pseudonym “European” related his meetings with Jeremiah Duggan on factnet.  I do not believe I read them at the time, but reading them now I am left in the great “Huh?” with these posts.

1) Something made him have this world outlook. I would try to find out what he did BEFORE he met the organization, in Paris! What was his life REALLY back then? (Usually relatives dont know everything about what once children are up to.) His worldview was when I spoke to him very similar to those that have suicidial pacts, or people that experience things that make them suicidial. He COULD have been on drugs!

 
I at least have some reference points for where one can conjecture “suicidal”.  For “Suicide Pact”, I really have not the foggiest reference point — outside of, perhaps, the hysterical 1980s anti-Heavy Metal campaigns aped in the Larouche org by Don Phau (for appeals to Christian Conservatives, I suppose?) and currently all the rage in the Islamic World.  This is a bizarre conjecture, made stranger by his denial.

Suicide pact! Ridiculous! An insult against me!

Back to his “When I met Jeremiah Duggan” posts:
I noticed something very soon after we started do discuss. Duggan was psychologically very unstable. He had a very pessimistic and negative view of life when I spoke to him. The thing he was opposing with the organization that evening was that the organization believed it could create peace in the middle east. He said that man was evil, the world was evil and God was in fact Satan that torments all people. Life is evil and just a pain!
This is weird.  Parody is redundant with the organization, so it doesn’t look like a parody of the cult’s double thinking on who’s in with us and who’s out against us, and the mind power tricks that come from them, so much as a straight-ahead duplication.  The futher give-away is the reference to drugs.  There is a “Through the Looking Glass” feel to this report, along the lines of my last post’s side by side placement of an LPAC release on a deployment in Detroit next to a Detroit News report on seemingly the same deployment.

I admit European is more difficult to explain than “Revenire” — who hasn’t posted here in a while, but notably his initial thrusts here revolved on Jeremiah Duggan — on whom I had comparatively not focused much attention.  Or the Larouche Wikipedia Team, whose most fervent dream is to delete the entry on Jeremiah Duggan, but would settle for some dilution down to the German Report and removal of reference of Duggan on the other Larouche pages.  For that matter, the figure of Alan Osler, who can find it himself to make an issue of being able to — in the year 2008 — to ably mistype Larouche’s name and find information on Larouche where Erica Duggan in 2003 couldn’t.  (The logical line of implication with that one would be that Alan Osler wanted to say Duggan was lying about mistyping Larouche’s name?) The problem is I’ve known the identity of “European”.

I can say very little with any certainty on Jeremiah Duggan.  Read the details here.  He attended what he thought was an anti-war conference.  He realized that it was something entirely different.  He made a desperate call to his mom, and was then run over in traffic by a truck.  For seven years, Erica Duggan has had to make sense of the final “Get Me Out of Here” call, and the Larouche organization has been publishing nonsense putting the news story in the framework of British and geopolitical plots.

Yesterday, British Channel 4 broadcast a documentary tracking her efforts.  It is available here.  We also see further news stories here, here, here, here and here.
The Guardian’s tv capsule of the program doesn’t do it justice.  Jeremiah Duggan had been travelling around Europe when he made a panicked phone call to his mother back in London. Less than an hour later he was hit by several cars near Frankfurt having apparently run into the road., 
The tv capsule for The Mirror is a little off..
Seven years later Erica is still trying to find out what led her handsome, clever and caring son to travel to Germany with a group of anti-war protesters. 
But then again, the final sentence for that Guardian capsule looks accurate.:

Both families want justice for their children in the same way the rest of us want to breathe in and out.

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Special additional note:

“Er,” I said. “Um, so, who are you guys..?”

“We’re supporters of Lyndon LaRouche. We just got a representative elected in Texas…! Did you know that Obama’s conspiring to shut down NASA?” he demanded.
No you didn’t.  Kesha Rogers was not elected to the House of Representatives.  Sorry, try again.

Little boy.  Context seems to suggest he was six years of age.  He is walking alongside his mother.

“What about an Age Power?  It’d turn everyone into a six year old!”
After that sort of deliberate pause in order to think of best way to humor him, mom says “That would be interesting.”

My thought on that scenario would be that it would turn into a Dystopian Horror, which would have to be untangled with a certain percentage of the six year olds having to become “Wise Beyond Their Years” to take up in a real hurry to pick up Societal Leadership Roles — I suppose you can call this vaguely Randian fable.  There will likely be a somber feeling to this feat, a real sense of Innocence Loss.

I don’t think that is where the six year old boy is going with his story, though.  At least, I hope not.