July 22, 2004
PEN-L:
When the state Democratic Party held its annual convention last year in Sacramento, young followers of LL attempted to disrupt a public event at the Capitol building. Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun was one of the speakers. It was the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Earlier in 2003, LL’s folks came to anti-war demos in downtown Sacramento. They told me and others about their great man. He was helping the world peace movement to coalesce, etc.
Seth Sandronsky
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:34:58 -0400 From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Another Democratic Party presidential candidate
The Independent, 21 July 2004 The cult and the candidate Lyndon LaRouche is a convicted fraudster and virulent anti-Semite. Now he's campaigning for the American presidency. Terry Kirby investigates his sinister global network - and his conspiracy theories about Tony Blair
He has warned that the international monetary system is about to collapse and that five billion people will die in the ensuing chaos. The Royal Family and MI6 are, he claims, responsible for the international drugs trade. Welcome to the weird world of Lyndon LaRouche, the 81-year-old who is campaigning as an "independent Democratic candidate" for president of the United States in this November's election, for the fifth time. A millionaire who describes himself as "the world's leading economic forecaster", LaRouche is also a convicted fraudster and conspiracy theorist par excellence.
Until recently, LaRouche was virtually unknown in Britain, while in the United States he is dismissed as a crackpot, ignored by both the media and the political world. But since the death just over a year ago of the British student Jeremiah Duggan, a 22-year-old Jew found dead in mysterious circumstances in Germany after becoming involved with LaRouche supporters, his organisation has come under closer scrutiny than it has for decades.
Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, a US think tank that monitors right-wing groups, said: "In America we have treated him as a fringe eccentric, which is wrong because the truth is he recruits a lot of talented young people, like Jeremiah Duggan, and attempts to turn them into followers who will mindlessly celebrate a cause that's going nowhere."
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Earlier this summer, LaRouche accused Cheney of working with "a crowd of scoundrels" at Number 10 to run a dirty tricks operation against him through the British press in time for the Democratic convention. MEANWHILE, HE CAMPAIGNS UNDER THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN THE UNITED STATES, ATTRACTING FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EVERY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION HE OBTAINS, AND WILL BE ON THE BALLOT PAPER IN MORE THAN 30 STATES. His latest theory is that the resurgence of something called Synarchist International - which he says helped former Nazis enter western intelligence networks - was responsible for the Madrid train bombing. Says Berlet: "People in the US just tend to ignore him, but they do so at their peril. He is running a totalitarian group, a political cult."
full: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=542953
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