From: Jackie Hulme <cadwallader@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:09 PDT
Subject: LYNDON LAROUCHE
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July 26, 1992  -  Lyndon LaRouche
 
A Brief Overview of a Strange Career
 
        In 1968 Lyndon LaRouche was a Trotskyist, and took control of a 
small faction of students protesting the Vietnam war and 
participating in the civil rights struggle. He groomed a group of 
full-time organizers and the techniques he adopted were similar to 
those employed by James Jones and other mind-control cults. He 
favored intelligent young people - a philosophical elite in the  
political vanguard. And discredited their efforts as thoroughly as 
possible by inverting completely and suddenly the entire range of his 
justifications to a neo-Fascist, and often quite strange series of 
claims and pretentions.
        The stated aim was to construct a popular movement which would 
be ready to take advantage of inevitable political instability and to 
rid American politics of the enemy within - the evil leftists, 
liberals, environmentals and Zionists.
        Although Lyndon LaRouche has been tried in court where many 
troubling documents were produced, others are missing and among them 
anything which could satisfactorily explain where the original 
funding for his electronic venture might have come. Political  
movements which cannot disclose the sources of important funding - 
and these amounts were sufficiently generous to fund a world-wide 
information-gathering network - always inspire enormous suspicion, 
particularly when it also appears - as does Mr LaRouche's 
organization - that the movement has been formed expressly to 
discredit and disorganize valid criticism.
        It seems that the effect on individual young people's personal 
lives is tragic. Following a versatile and ruthless prophet their 
reputation for probity is rapidly squandered among their peers, and 
whereas they might have had a valuable contribution to make to 
American political debate without the curious sensitivity training 
they received, when LaRouche decides it is time to change his 
political mind again, its over for them, their youth squandered and 
their diligence dismayed.
        What the LaRouche organization offers young people is access to 
equipment and a variety of interesting information. It may be that 
the entire exercise is a complex limited hangout. Individuals enter 
the movement because of naivete, vanity, closet fascist tendancies or 
- most often - a desire to trade information, which it has been 
remarked is more and more elaborately managed by mainstream editors. 
It is information management of this kind for which the LaRouche 
organization is in large part to blame, since nothing but the most 
conservative, uninspired interpretation of current events can now 
pass muster. Proof of anything is consistently beyond reach, which 
makes misrepresentation and distortion by mainstream political 
personalities a simple and almost unassailable technique.  
        LaRouche and his followers, besides having fielded thousands of 
candidates in democratic primaries in the mid-80's, had previously 
been unofficial consultants to the Reagan Administration during it's 
first term. Thus, LaRouche is able to advertise himself as a 
political prisoner, victim of revenge by those in power; he is now in 
jail for fraud, embezzlement and obstruction of justice.
        It may be that participation in the 1976 B Team experiment built 
the La Rouche organization. When young left-wing activists joined the 
original organization, they wrote up reports on their former 
colleagues - this was apparently their admission ticket. In doing so 
they seriously compromised themselves and associates, revealing many 
kinds of personal information not obtainable by any other means. 
Thus, LaRouche had an extraordinary collection of inside information 
- which was subsequently seized by the FBI and not returned. It is 
thought that this research replaced the COINTELPRO activities which 
legislation and public outcry temporarily shut down. These files  may 
have been brokered in a one-shot deal in order to raise money. It 
remains that NCLC was obliged to admit in court papers that it had 
"cooperated with the FBI and other federal and local law enforcement 
agencies" by providing information on the "terrorist activities" of 
persons associated with the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-wing 
Washington think-tank, and the Repression Information Project, a 
research collective that had published a pamphlet critical of 
LaRouche. LaRouche lived in extraordinary luxury and paid his 
assistants very poorly. Case notes reveal that they accepted rather 
squalid conditions through conviction and a desire to serve. 
        Dennis King also notes that over the years the beneficiaries of 
LaRouche's snooping and trickery (whether solicited or not) included 
Ronald Reagan during his 1980 New Hampshire primary race, Labor 
Secretary Ray Donovan, US Senator Jesse Helms, Panamanian dictator 
Manuel Noriega, New Orleans crime lord Carlos Marcello, auto magnate 
John DeLorean and the South African Bureau of State Security.
        Clearly, LaRouche is a political opportunist, with a clear plan 
of how to reach his goal, patterned on the tactics of Benito 
Mussolini. It should not be forgotten that the Nazi Brownshirts 
styled themselves "National Socialists", and young people within the 
organization at present should carefully weigh the utility of 
continued participation and the schemes which brought about the fall 
of the Weimar Republic. And the chaos and horror which resulted.
        The destruction of the American labor movement could not have 
been acomplished without the participation of Lyndon LaRouche and his 
followers. The collapse of employment, wages and benefits which 
presently afflicts the US economy has been blindly  pursued by 
America's business community, which has seized any means by which to 
achieve short term profitability. An economic war in which the forces 
supplied by LaRouche were a valuable asset. 
        Kissinger was one of LaRouche's targets, and it's a pity really, 
because Kissinger has indeed been responsible for some terrible 
decisions and some awful policy choices. Nevertheless, when LaRouche 
and his followers began to target Kissinger the overall effect which 
their persistence and strident methods produced was one where all 
criticism of Kissinger was suddenly out of bounds.
        The support which LaRouchians provided for Star Wars promotion 
seems to have been motivated in part by their absorption of ex Nazi 
war criminals, whose Hitlerian concept of total war was espoused 
enthusiastically and debated in detail. The imposture and and 
scientific impossibility of SDI have since been abundantly 
demonstrated, but as always, participation served a tactical purpose 
and achieved temporary political gains, as well as gathering further 
funding sources which the fever pitch of the end of the Cold War made 
available. Those who stood to profit from SDI winked at LaRouche's 
participation and welcomed his efforts.
        Seeking further funds to compliment the contributions and money 
raised through the sale of brochures and other means, credit card 
fraud and other forms of grand theft became a method of financing. In 
October 1986, ten LaRouchians, including four of LaRouche's top 
aides, were indicted in Boston federal court for credit-card fraud 
and obstruction of justice. Several more LaRouchaisn were 
subsequently added to the Boston indictment, and in February 1987, a 
Virginia grand jury indicted sixteen for securities fraud. In March, 
New York State indicted fifteen for securities fraud, grand larceny, 
and conspiracy, including LaRouche's closest lieutenants, Ed and 
Nancy Spannaus. At least twelve states meanwhile obtained cease-and-
desist orders against LaRouche fund-raising entities. On July 2, 
1987, LaRouche himself was indicted in Boston for obstruction of 
justice.
        I have supplied material inadvertently to the LaRouche bulletin 
board. However, most of this material is taken from the CONGRESSIONAL 
RECORD. It unfortunately contains my own commentaries as well. I am 
very embarassed - to say the least - to find my name among the 
signatories on their list. 
        I also wonder how the Institute will go about discrediting the 
work of such a diligent, painstaking and admirable person as Rep. 
Henry Gonzalez.
        I hope that this posting will be of interest to the present 
participants of The Christic Institute, and am afraid that may find 
myself obliged to discontinue use of PeaceNet as a consequence.
 
Regards,
 
J. Hulme
          

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