LaRouche supporters disrupt Democrats

[monobrau]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/27/elec04.prez.democrats.larouche/index.html

"Followers of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche interrupted a campaign event for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on Monday before being drowned out by Dean supporters and removed from the room with the assistance of comedian Al Franken."

"Franken, a comedian and self-described liberal well-known for his attacks on the Bush administration and conservative-leaning media, helped carry out one of the disrupters. In the process, Franken's glasses were knocked off his face and broke in two."

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I'm posting this in response to the ridiculous NY Post article that is making the rounds. The Post article makes Franken out to be a bully, while 3 other stories I've read describe the actions of the LaRouche people as disruptions.

[youngred]

1. Second time in a week

after they unfurled the Confederate Flag at the Dean rally.

LaRouche is a freak and a loser.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Why the hell are the LarRouche people hounding Dean?

Rhetorical question. I'm actually not that curious about how their minds work.

[Tinoire]

3. Read this & then you'll understand

Aug. 3, 2003 (EIRNS)—Presidential candidate Howard Dean styles himself as the representative of the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," and rakes in money from attacks by the right- wing Democratic Leadership Council—the same DLC which Dean himself praised as, "At the beginning ... very good." Dr. Dean also describes himself as "a fan of the HMOs." He admits he was a strong supporter of NAFTA in 1995—although you would never guess it from his response to the "free trade" question on the AFL-CIO's website candidate questionnaire. Dr. Dean was the leading proponent of electricity deregulation in Vermont—the same policy which bankrupted California—and Dean, unlike others who have wised up, is still all for deregulation. The documentation below shows he's good at lying about these positions. He wants energy independence from oil-producing nations—by increasing wind and solar power to 15% of the U.S. energy capacity by 2010, and conservation.

It is no surprise when Dean explains that Jimmy Carter is his role model. One-term President Carter destroyed what productive capacity remained in the U.S. economy with deregulation, anti-nuclear hysteria, and 20% interest rates. The other President whom Dean cites most frequently is Harry Truman, the small man who wrecked the great Franklin Roosevelt's post-war vision for winning the peace, ending colonialism, and economic development for all nations.

Where does Howard Dean stand on the life and death question of the day, dumping Vice-President Dick Cheney? Dean has failed to call for Vice-President Cheney's resignation, despite the clear, published evidence that it was Cheney who demanded intelligence be shaped to launch a war on Iraq. And now Dean, falsely portrayed as the only candidate to oppose that war, is already giving credence to the next wars being planned by the same Cheney cabal of Leo Strauss followers. Dean told The Forward, "The United States has to ... take a much harder line on Iran and Saudi Arabia because they're funding terrorism," He has spoken of "the very real nuclear threats emerging in North Korea and Iran." In fact, it is Cheney and his cabal who are the threats, and the solution is to force them out now.

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Consumers should not be allowed to sue HMOs, but be limited to arbitration, Dean believes. For doctors who object to far-away lay supervisors telling them how to treat patients, Dean advocates behavior modification: "Send a check to those who meet the practice profile and demonstrate appropriate pharmaceutical prescribing habits that are cost-effective; those whose practices are not as cost-effective and up-to-date in terms of their methodology don't get a check."

Dean has boasted that 95.8% of all Vermont children had medical insurance when he left office. Sounds impressive, but, in fact, the first survey taken after Dean assumed office (by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1993) found that 93.2% were already insured, with an error rate of plus-or-minus 1%.

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http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2003/030803howard_dean.html

or this where he dissects all the candidates on the Threat of Police-State, Rule by 'Emergency' Decree


http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3104where_stand_4.html

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. That's where the press is

[Democat]

4. Al Franken the tough guy?

I thought Republicans liked a man who wasn't afraid of confrontation?

Now that it's a Democrat, it's suddenly a bad thing?

Another right wing hypocrisy.

[lastknowngood]

5. and always Dean never the bush lights

why don't these assholes go disrupt Lieberman where they belong.

[Nancy Waterman]

6. I have to say I enjoy the LaRouche adverts lately

where he calls Ashcroft and Cheney Nazis.

[MarkTwain]

7. A First Person Account....

... TALKING POINTS MEMO, By Josh Marshall. He's been in NH these last few weeks reporting on the primary. He blogs as follows :

"Yesterday, the day before the primary, my friend Kenny and I hit a final few events and went to a couple of headquarters to get spun once more before the voting starts. First it was a Dean Town Hall meeting at the Palace Theater in downtown Manchester -- this is the one where Al Franken helped take out a LaRouche protestor and, in the doing, got his glasses broken.

(Don't this place provide some decent street theater!)

This was actually a coordinated LaRouchie attack, with shouts, escalating into heckles and then blowing right through to blizzards of four-letter-words. It also seemed to show up some weaknesses in the Dean security detail. We were up on the theater's upper level and had one of the hecklers come down to the ledge, arms looping this way and that, screaming about Cheney, screaming at Dean, mostly just screaming.

He was the second string protestor or rather the second wave, after the first guy got tossed. Security at these sorts of events tends to be a 'C'mon, c'mon, you've really got to leave now sort of affair.' But as he was working up into full-froth a crew-cut three-hundred-poundish all-together not nice looking guy stomped out, extended his arm, grabbed the dude by the scruff of his neck, said a couple unpleasant things, and then proceeded to shake the guy around like a friggin' rag doll, all the while making clear that he really shouldn't have made such a scene.

Kenny and I looked at each other, thinking, "Sheesh, they're literally going to throw that guy out into the street." But a few moments later, as I'm watching Dean, scribbling in my notebook and comtemplating the fate of the LaRouchie in the hands of Dean's Rock'em, Sock'em Robot, suddenly I hear ... "Aga b'dada, yada! yada, Cheney Cheney #$%#@&, Dean Cheney, Beast Man! allooooooo, yiiiiiiigraaaaaahhhhh. Yada! Dean, who the $#@% do you think you ..."

He was back.

How did he get back in?

No idea.

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_01_25.html#002495

[David__77]

9. "Beast man"

That's one of their lines for Cheney and other neo-cons. While I do not support their politics, it is quite proper to target and rally against neoconservatism as the main enemy.

[David__77]

8. I don't know why they're disrupting Dean...

Their proclaimed target is neo-conservatism and the DLC--clearly, though Dean is no left-winger, he is not a neo-con and supported by the DLC. Interestingly though, the LaRouche group was pretty "supportive" of Clinton, especially during the impeachment struggle.

[AngryAmish]

11. Why disrupt Dean?

laRouche calls himself a Democrat. He feels aggreived because he has been left out of the debates. Many times he is actually on the ballot. What a bunch of freaks.