This just creeps me out.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: frank scott [mailto:frank at marin.cc.ca.us]
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:10 PM
> To: lbo-talk-digest
> Subject: [lbo-talk] larouche message...context?
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>
> he's baaack...but why?
>
> "Lyndon LaRouche ... has warned that the international
> monetary system is about to collapse and that five billion
> people will die in the ensuing chaos..."
>
> this alone can't be evidence of his wackiness, since the
> first seems unlikely at the moment, but could happen, and the
> second might follow, though this prediction is about as safe
> as the one the one that says the end of the world is
> near...someday, both may happen, so this guy may be a world
> class coo-coo, but this doesn't prove it ...
There is a reality outside the postings on LBO and outside the internet. You have become an apologist for LaRouche because you do not take the time to do research beyond what pulsates at you from the computer screen. LaRouche is a convicted crook whose minions fleeced the elderly. LaRouche is a crackpot, which can be argued due to his repeatedly dispoven announcements of apocalyptic collapse, his paranoid-sounding cliams that vast conspiracies are out to get him, and his bizarre claims about a vast global conspiracy that tracks back through McGeorge Bundy, George Bernard Shaw...all the way back to Plato.
See: http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclcmain.html
>
> "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 organization has come under
> closer scrutiny than it has for decades."
>
> why?... is the designation of this dead person as " a 22
> year old Jew" more, or less significant than his being a 22
> year old... anything else? did i miss something in the
> article? was the 22 year old carrying papers that proved the
> prediction about the collapse of the financial system as being false?
> more important, why is this guy in the news at all? are the
> anybody-but-bushies worried that he wil take votes from kerry?
>
> fs
LaRouche is getting coverage because it makes sense to provide people with information about his longstanding antisemitism and fascist demagoguery. The mention of Duggan and his being a Jew is salient because he was attracted to a LaRouche conference because of its antiwar rhetoric, figured out that the subtext was conspiracy theories about Jewish Power, complained about it at a public session, and was dead a few hours later after fleeing the conference in terror.
-Chip Berlet