Not only was the series on the New Alliance Party that Ken Lawrence worked on a stellar example of investigative reporting, but when the defamation lawsuit was filed, the depositions turned into a disaster for the NAP when one of their former leaders (who had previously remained silent) used his deposition to denounce the Newmanites.
When the NAP lost the case, in typical totalitarian style, they ran a newspaper headline anouncing they had won!
-Chip
p.s. The link between the Sullivanians and the Newmantes is tenuous, there is better stuff to critique the Newmanites on, although the Newmanites and the Sullivanians both drew from the same well of psycho-sexual analysis pioneered by LaRouche.
----- Original Message ----- From: <Apsken at aol.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Populism, Southern Fried with a Newmanite, Fulaniite, PJBGlaze]
> About 15 years ago the New Alliance Party sued Charles Tisdale, publisher
of
> the Jackson Advocate (weekly newspaper serving Jackson's black community)
and
> myself for two million dollars after the paper published a series of
articles
> I wrote about the Newman cult, which was trying to build a base in
> Mississippi. We exposed Fred Newman's funding by the military at a time he
> professed to be an anti-war activist, his organization's phony left but
> racist lunacies of the sixties, their merger with Lyndon LaRouche's
National
> Caucus of Labor Committees which they continued to support politically
even
> after leaving, and their cultish authoritarianism. Although we could have
had
> the case dismissed on a summary judgment motion, we allowed and pursued
full
> discovery, tried the case on the facts, and won. NAP's Mississippi
attorney,
> confronted with my huge file of their publications, remarked to one of
their
> national leaders, "It looks like he knows more about your organization
than
> you do."
>
> Ken Lawrence
>
>
> > > >Thanks for your note and your concern. I've personally >known and
have
> > very
> > > >worked closely with Dr. Fulani and Fred Newman since the >early
1990s in
> > > >both the electoral arena and in the theatre (with Newman) >and can
> assure
> > > >you (for whatever it's worth to you) that the stuff they put >out on
> them
> > > >are complete distortions -- which include many outright lies >-- of
who
> > > they
> > > >are and what they do.