to get a full understanding. Here is a sample of NONLaRouche hits from a google search on LaRouche Jews:
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk960628/iaussie.htmAustralian Jews call for probe of country's LaRouche groups
JEREMY JONES
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
SYDNEY -- Australia's Jewish community this week called on the government to explore the local arm of jailed American extremist Lyndon LaRouche's cult after national TV broadcast evidence of the group's anti-Jewish activities.
The Monday broadcast included testimonies by former LaRouchites who said the group, known here as the Citizens' Electoral Councils, was engaged in a "war" against Australian Jews.
LaRouche, who has served five years in prison for mail fraud and tax evasion, champions an ideology that combines anti-Semitism and bizarre conspiracy theories, such as a claim that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worked for the Soviet KGB and that Britain's Queen Elizabeth heads a drug-pushing ring.
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On Monday's television program, the ex-Australian LaRouchites said local tactics included secretly tape-recording meetings and private telephone calls; plant-ing inaccurate information concerning Jewish business and community leaders with lawmakers, whose comments in Parliament are protected from defamation law; and inflaming other minority groups' hostility toward Jews.
Key targets were brothers Isi Leibler, chairman of the governing board of the World Jewish Congress, and Mark Leibler, federal president of the United Israel Appeal and past president of the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(much more)
Another item:
http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc2.htmlLYNDON LAROUCHE:
Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag
by Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman
3/10/89
A Political Research Associates Briefing Paper
In Three Parts
Part Two
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The Paranoid Style
LaRouche's parlaying of personal and political conspiracy theories into a multi-million dollar financial empire is unique, but paranoid political movments occur cyclically in American history. In his widely-quoted essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," professor Richard Hofstadter argues that in times of economic, social or political crisis, small conspiracy-minded groups suddenly gain a mass following. The anti-Catholic hysteria of the 1800's, the anti-immmigrant movement which led to the Palmer Raids in 1919, the Red Scare of the 1950's and other societal convulsions, are examples, wrote Hofstadter.
Such movements rise and fall periodically, according to Hofstadter, appealing to people fearful about the world political and economic situation, and longing for simple solutions to complex problems. The use of scapegoats is common among these movements. The findings of two academics who studied a LaRouche campaign contributor list (available from the Federal Election Commission) lend support to the thesis that LaRouche appeals to a paranoid constituency. In a 1986 press release, "Who Controls Us: A Profile of Lyndon LaRouche's Campaign Contributors," John C. Green and James L. Guth of Furman University
identify LaRouche as "a new celebrity on the extreme right."
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Not everyone shares the view. When Henry Kissinger was told of how LaRouche operatives met with high Reagan Administration officials in the early 1980's, he told the <New Republic>, "If this is true, it would be outrageous, stupid, and nearly unforgivable." Dennis King, co-author of the <New Republic> article which examined LaRouche's influence in scientific and intelligence circles, says during the first Reagan term LaRouche aides managed to gain "access to an alarming array of influential persons in government, law enforcement, scientific research and private industry." These ties form the basis of the LaRouche "CIA defense" against the charges he conspired to obstruct justice. LaRouche claims he believed his security aide Roy Frankhauser, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and government law enforcement informant, was a covert conduit to the CIA.
John Rees, an ultra-conservative whose <Information Digest> newsletter reports on political extremes on the left and right, says he "believes the <New Republic> story that LaRouche staffers had access to a lot of people." But he points out, "If you have all the electronic resources and information-gathering staff that LaRouche posesses you are bound to come up with occasional gems, that's what most people were interested in, not the LaRouche philosophy." Both King and Rees feel the Reagan Administration consciously began distancing itself from contacts with the LaRouche network following the <New Republic> and NBC stories.
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Racism and Anti-Jewish Rhetoric
LaRouche has many connections to the racist political right in this country. Richard Lobenthal, Midwest Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, observes that LaRouche security advisor Roy Frankhauser "has been identified as present with other white supremacists at meetings held at the farm of Pastor Bob Miles in Michigan." Leaders of the notoriously racist and anti-Semitic Aryan Nations have attended the same meetings. "Frankhauser's background and connections are myriad, he is obviously a LaRouchite, he is a professed racist and anti-Semite and was a close associate of neo-Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell," says Lobenthal. LaRouche not only works in coalitions with bigots, he has also propounded ideas which are widely perceived to represent outright racism.
LaRouche, for instance, offended the Hispanic community in a November, 1973 essay (published in both English and Spanish) titled "The Male Impotence of the Puerto-Rican Socialist Party." An internal memo by LaRouche asked
"Can we imagine anything more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?" He described the majority of the Chinese people as "approximating the lower animal species" by manifesting a "paranoid personality. . . .a parallel general form of fundamental distinction from actual human personalities." LaRouche's use of hysterical Jewish conspiracy theories for ulterior political motives has lead him to be branded an anti-Semite by several major Jewish groups.
One ADL spokesperson, Irwin Suall, was once sued for defamation by LaRouche for calling him a "small time Hitler." The jury ruled against LaRouche.
According to LaRouche, only a million and a half Jews perished in the concentration camps, and they died primarily from overwork, disease, and starvation. This denial of the Holocaust is coupled with pronouncements saying there is nothing left of Jewish culture except what couldn't be sold to Gentiles, or claiming British Jews brought Hitler into power.
Ya... he's not racist, he's not anti-semitic at all.....
He is using contemporary issues and repackaging them to new unsuspecting followers. Be careful not to be taken in.
Funny your assumption about me. I, too, am very critical of Sharon. I was also very critical of Netanyaho (sp). I mourned the loss of Rabin - who had in the early nineties shifted his position and became much more committed to finding a peaceful solution before being felled by a bullet by a fanatic on his own side.
My criticisms of LaRouche are related, directly, to LaRouche.
When you bring to the table respectable news items - that are NOT from LaRouche - then I will be open to discuss it. But I will have to pretend, of course, that when I worked around the hill in the mid-eighties that I didn't regularly see his minions protesting on the sidewalk before the HOUSE Office buildings the active quarantine of all AIDS/HIV victims to be sent to a desert Island. Actually it was so disgusting that would be next to impossible to erase from my memory.
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