This is incomplete, likely full of small errors, but...

#1: A bit of Kremlinology - style reading is required with reading Larouche. Look over his stuff in great braod brushstrokes -- either leafing through his pamphlets or magazines (Not really printed anymore -- a by-product of his current problems.)

#2: I have the word "Larouche" keyed on my bloglines accounts. The impending world economic collapse is always background noise which he has his followers warding against. But whenever this is amped up, and there's a huge cluster of articles spit out of this "Larouche feed" on financial collapses accuring left and right, fritter and fray -- it is a sign of internal crisis which he needs to corral his followers into a frenzied panic. (The same is for such things as the "BAE Scandal".)

#3: For all practical purposes, Larouche did not recruit any new members of any significant scale between the years 1974 and 1998. So we have two groups. His literature has been full of "Youth Movements" throughout history (he's particularly fond of the idea of Benjamin Franklin leading a "Revolutionary Youth Movement") and multitude strong denunciations of Baby-boomers and how they are complete failures. It is not difficult to guage the dynamic at play within his cult, and how demotions and promotions have taken place, and whos egos are being stoked. (The Baby Boomers' great failure is roughly the failure to get Larouche into power and the failure to raise the right high levels of quotas. So the Youth are the Future. Until they fail to do the same thing. This is complicated by Larouche's insistence that he is a powerful force, working behind the scenes, but don't ask me to fully explain this parlor game.)

#4: Intuitively one has to expect a shell game is taking place financially in Larouche-land. PMR was their inhouse printing company, owned and operated by long time associate (and baby boomer) Ken Kronberg. The crux of the matter at hand is how PMR was bankrupted -- which I will simply suggest as both (1) Larouche just stopped paying his bills, leaving Kronberg high and dry (2) Larouche moved funds from one pot to another pot.  At any rate, the idea has apparently been brewing for Larouche to adopt an "Internet" strategy in pumping out his literature, such that today you do not see any printed material of the "Children of Satan" variety being hawked at card table shrines.

#5: On April 11, Larouche issued an internal daily briefing memo which said that some Baby-Boomers should consider "Virtual Suicide", and then went on to blast the PMR organization. That afternoon, Ken Kronberg jumped off a bridge.

#6: A journalist for the Washington Monthly has been poking around the org, writing what by all accounts is going to be a damning article on the shell game performed with PRM and Ken Kronberg's suicide. Damning.

#7: Feeling pressure from inside his cult (particularly the "national org" in Loudon, Virginia), Larouche finally acknowledged Kronberg's death. The orbituary insulted everyone, deflecting all attention onto himself. As morale lowered, and as grumblings continued, and with Larouche fully aware that a great expose was coming around the bend, this "BAE" scandal was trumped up, and issued an internal memo which called everybody "Motherfuckers". Jeff Steinberg, an immediate associate who by all appearances is planning to corral together his own cult once Larouche passes away from various pieces of Larouche-land past and present, was in a full panic mode, and issued that statement to allieve everybody's concerns -- the surreal part being the invitation to jump on the couch and have psychiatric sessions with Gerry.

#8: Dennis King, a man who has for the past 3 decades served as the Ahab to Larouche as Moby Dick, threw some kerosine on the proceedings by posting an article to his website entitled "Larouche and the Art of Inducing Suicide". The evidence that Larouche flipped his lid upon reading it is shown in the statement he issued (I posted here: www.struat.com/election/2...ment-12704 )

#9: There really are really only 2 bloggers converged on this topic -- me and a young woman -- profession in tax law, I think -- whose concern about Larouche grew out of Star Trek Voyager actor Robert Beltran's role as Drama Instructor for LYM. A woman who has been shadowing my blog and posting at the FACTNet board did an analysis of the last memo -- the one that fingered the "Star Trek Groupie and Robert Beltran stalker" -- offered up an analysis based on where it was in that morning's briefing, and other things.  It was a message directed at the Youth Members trying to discredit what they have been encountering on the Internet, and to provide the Larouche line on Ken Kronberg and PMR.  Larouche has of late been on a tear against Myspace, suggesting more concerns about on the Internet's effect on the cult.

Meanwhile, all indications are that the Baby Boomers, in the National Org particularly, are edging their way out of the cult, and columnist (and newspaper owner) Nick Benton's piece on his experiences inside the cult have helped a great deal in that regard.  That Larouche has wrapped his arm ever so more closely around the "LYM" and is discarding the Baby-boomers can be found in relation to the word he put out against Avi Klein, which skips right over the issue of Ken Kronberg.

Soooo... Does that explain where we stand? Any further questions?