LaRouche supporters unfurl Confederate flag at Dean event in NH

[IndianaGreen]

According to NBC News, upon seeing the Confederate flag, Dean broke into an a cappella rendition of the Stars Spangled Banner and was quickly joined by the audience.

[Sly Kal]

1. Larouche supporters here on DU

Do we have any and why do they think about this action by their peers?

[Hoppin_Mad]

15. There was one recentlly but he got banned

I have no idea why. He was posting one night when I was reading the board. The guy ( or girl ) wasn't breaking any rules that I could see. Just suggesting that we check out his nutty candidate. Then poof ! All his posts were gone.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

19. I'm Pretty Sure There's a Zero Tolerance Policy Here at DU for LaRouche

Supporters. But I'm not sure about that.

DTH

[ShaneGR]

18. Here's a link to information on Larouche

Other than the whole cult thing and the felony record for stealing campaign "loans".... he's great!

http://www.rickross.com/groups/larouche.html

[youngred]

2. nice response by Dean

and yes, LaRouche supporters are assholic freaks. I can't stand the way they act around my campus

[John_H]

22. Is Larouche the one-percenter candidateof choice these days?

The people down the street who had Nader signs up in 2000 have swapped them for Larouche signs, and at the burger joint near my office (and a college campus) the Nader fliers of 2000 have been replaced with Larouche fliers.

I guess you have to keep upping the wack job ante if you want to be truly anti-establishment these days.

[Democrats unite]

3. I have to as a really stupid question here...

Who the hell is LaRouche?

[incapsulated]

4. Just be happy you don't know n/t

[Joe the Revelator]

6. A crazy, delusional cult leader who likes to pretend he's a democrat

can i please apply that term to Larouche? I don't think theres a better term to describe him

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. They think he's some sort of "God" and knows all....

n/t

[Kathleen04]

8. Perennial candidate..

More info:

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BZZ86768

[IndianaGreen]

10. Lyndon LaRouche is a Fascist and a cult

From Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort

by Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons
New York: Guilford Press, 2000.

The LaRouchite Secret Elite Synthesis

The Lyndon LaRouche network, an offshoot of the radical student movement that metamorphosed into a fascist organization in the early 1970s, developed an idiosyncratic doctrine and approach quite different from other far-right groups.

Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a “humanist” elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions....

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/synthesis.html

LaRouche Exposed
by Matthew Robinson
PCC Courier Online


Each semester, hundreds of students pass by a table set up in front of the D building in the quad, where supporters of Lyndon LaRouche try to interest students in their political agenda. For those who stop and agree to go to an off-campus meeting, they often find themselves entangled in a worldwide cult.

Philip Mullendore, chief of campus police, reported that they get complaints on regular basis from students about La Rouche recruits harassing them in the quad. Others complain of repeated phone calls, urging them to attend a meeting. Many students who attend those meetings end up dropping out of school and devoting their lives to LaRouche.

"We have documented several incidents of aggressive tactics by this group and we monitor them very closely," said Mullendore.

The mother of an 18-year-old student who was lured into the cult complained to campus police that the LaRouche group had taken over her son's life.

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclcmain.html

[ShaneGR]

5. Question, aren't all the LaRouche people paid to act that way?

What exactly is their goal? Because in DC they have booths up attacking Dick Cheney.

[goodhue]

7. LaRouche folks are annoying

although that sounds worth seeing

[Monte Carlo]

9. Good luck with that campaign, Lyndon.

Do you think you'll win?

[Clark Can WIN]

12. Those wacky kids eom

[youngred]

23. be fair

they're not all kids, there's plenty of adults

[incapsulated]

13. I nearly got into a fist fight

with these crazy fucks outside the DMV once.

Are they still playing their game of not telling you who they are straight up? Never fooled me.

I can't believe that he is still around. He's been "running" since I started voting, and that's becoming quite a few years, now. :)

[DoveTurnedHawk]

14. Great Response by Dean, and LaRouche Is NUTS

OMG, they were out in FORCE at the California Democratic Convention, chanting and singing, protesting how their candidate had been shut out, ad nauseum. They were mostly young, mostly scruffy, and OUTRAGEOUSLY fanatical. I almost got into a fight with three of them.

:puke:

DTH

[La_Serpiente]

16. are you fricking seroius?

I don't want to meet his supporters any day soon.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

17. Dude, There Were DOZENS of Them

Well over 50, at their sit-in protest outside of the California Young Dems caucus on Friday night.

Oh, and their literature that they pass out? It's entitled, "Children of Satan II."

:puke:

DTH

[robsul82]

26. I remember going to the DMV like a month ago...

...as if that weren't unpleasant enough, I got static from about a dozen LaRouche people going in AND out. I was accused of being a Freemason, you know. :)

Later.

RJS

[knight_of_the_star]

31. They sound charming

The kind of folks that I would remember to have my sledge on my belt if I ever have the pleasure of meeting them.

[Blue-Jay]

20. I'd vote for LaRouche.

But only if he could get the queen to hook me up, if ya know what I mean.

[ronnykmarshall]

34. LOL!

I gotcha! Damn! Ol' Queenie's got some good shit.

[Clark4Prez]

21. Good for Dean!

LaRouche people make some of the other cults look normal by comparison.

Although they did defend Clinton during the impeachment hearings, they said that it was the Queen of England's fault on account of the fact that she's a drug dealer (no, really!).

I would say that it's Rush's fault on account of the fact that he's a drug user.

[funky_bug]

24. Now that's a soundbyte that needs to be aired

Anyone know how to contact the various media and issue a challenge?

[NashVegas]

25. There's One Video We'll NEVER See

Just like we'll never see the footage of last Saturday's cluster fuck.

[bigtree]

27. Shades of Imelda Marcos

The other side of Yeeehaa! Scary.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. LaRouche is about as much a Democrat as Bush is like Lincoln.

His followers have that same intelligent look as is usually associated with dead fish.

[deminflorida]

29. Ask and you shall receive....

wait until you get to South Carolina, they'll be there probably in droves....Freepers bent on de-railing the campaign.

Dean brought this on himself as well.

[Le Taz Hot]

30. LaRouche Supporters were ALL over the CA Convention

and pissing EVERYONE off! Talk about commandos!

Anyway, I've been meaning to write a full report about the convention but I thought I'd wait until after the SOTU mele' is finished.

[genius]

32. Good for them. They seem to understand Dean.

Personally I was shocked by Dean's comments about the Confederate flag and I don't want Dean representing the Democratic Party. I also would not support David Dukes for the nomination.

[ronnykmarshall]

33. Good for Dean!

LaRouche is a scum. You GO Dr. Dean!