Subject: Re: LaRouchians as Fascists!

From: [email-masked] (Christopher Morton)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:41:45 GMT

As quoted from <[email-masked]> by NLG Civil Liberties Committee <[email-masked]>:

>  Who is Lyndon LaRouche?
> 
>    LaRouche spent his formative years in the small 
> industrial city of Lynn, Massachusetts as a 
> Quaker, and the past fifteen years forging a 
> fascist movement out of cadre originally drawn 
> from idealistic Marxist college students. His 
> name became more familiar to Americans in April 
> of 1986 when two Illinois followers of LaRouche 
> scored primary victories--garnering the official 
> Democratic Party ballot slots for Lieutenant 
> Governor and Secretary of State. In repudiating 
> the LaRouche candidates, the Democratic Party's 
> candidate for Illinois governor, Adlai Stevenson, 
> removed himself from the official ticket saying 
> he could not in good conscience run on the same 
> ticket with "neo-Nazis."

A much more interesting tale would be how they got on the ticket in the first
place.  I was living in Chicago at the time.  One lesson learned is that if
you totally disdain and alienate the Black vote, you never know where it'll
turn in reaction.  Now THAT'S an interesting story.

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From: NLG Civil Liberties Committee <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Aug 92 09:24 PDT

Re: LaRouche

I was in Chicago when the LaRouchians won the primary. There was a pollster
in Joliet who had warned prior to the vote that frustrated voters might
vote for the LaRouchians as a protest over the Democratic Party ignoring
poor and working class constitutents, which certainly included many
Black voters. The American Jewish Committee commissioned a study of the
vote patterns, but it was inconclusive.
-Chip

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Van Pelt)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 01:28:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> NLG Civil Liberties Committee <[email-masked]> writes:

Fascinating expose' on LaRouche.  Good stuff.  Seems to be from a
somewhat left-of-center slant, but (aside from a couple of very
strange uses of the word "conservative" here and there) seems
pretty on-target.  I'm lookin forward to coming installments.

I've always thought that LaRouche was living proof that there is no
significant difference between the bizarroid nutzo left and the
bizarroid nutzo right.
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Mike Van Pelt          | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
[email-masked]         | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
                       | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
                       | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry