Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.revisionism,talk.politics.misc Subject: Lyndon LaRouche: Fraud, Madness, and Smoke & Mirrors Summary: LaRouche & anti-Semitism, plus assorted mad babblings from his writing... Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Followup-To: talk.politics.misc Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: LaRouche Archive/File: larouche larouche.014 Last-modified: 1993/05/06 XRef: index larouche, larouche larouche.ihr From Dennis King's comprehensive "Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism," the following text makes interesting reading, particularly in light of the "EIR" interviews published regularly to alt.activism, which simply reinforce King's assertions again and again... the selected quotes following King's text should also be of interest to those following the saga of LaRouche, a convicted fraud artist who conned millions out of folks all over the United States, and found himself in prison as a result. (LaRouche, of course, blames it all on the Russians, but that's another story...) ...LaRouche continues to pursue his anti-Semitic Grand Design through front organizations, coalitions with outside groups, election campaigns, pseudo-academic conferences, and what he calls the "naming of names." His propaganda methods are far more complex than those of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. He will start by selecting a legitimate issue such as AIDS, the farm crisis, or defense spending. Giving an appearance of sincere concern, his followers often research the issue thoroughly and come up with proposals that make sense. But they always announce that an evil plot is blocking implementation of their proposals and attempt to steer the campaign in an anti-Semitic direction. Sometimes they employ obvious euphemisms - "Zionist," "usurer," "shylock," or "cabalist." Other times, they refer to "monetarists" (as in moneylender), "Venetion bankers" (as in 'The Merchant of Venice'), or "Our Crowd" (from the title of Stephen Birmingham's best-selling book about prominent New York Jews). They also use esoteric code words like "British," "Babylonian," "Whore of Babylon," and "Mesopotamian," which may puzzle the average person but strike a chord with anti-Semites of the old school. Another tactic is to highlight well-known Jewish families or individuals. The Bronfman family (Seagram's), oil tycoon Armand Hammer, philanthropist Max Fisher, or investiment banker Filix Rohatyn are either blamed for problems with which they have no co9nnection o assigned a greatly exaggerated responsibility. If an individual happens to be a mobster or some other reprehensible type, the LaRouchians will emphasize his misdeeds to the exclusion of those of this Gentile associates. (To the LaRouchians, Meyer Lansky _was _ the Mafia in his day; the Sicilians hardly counted.) LaRouche's publications also strive to hit mainstream Jews with guilt by assoication, through the use of semantic tags - e.g., "Lansky's ADL," "Lansky's Israel." The list of those to be attacked includes many non-Jews, such as Senator Moynihan of New York or former Secretary of State Alexander Haig. But the attacks usually focus on their support of Israel or their friendship with prominent Jews, and may allude to real or rumored Jewish ancestry. In a 1978 piece, LaRouche called Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger an "imp of evil," born Jewish and "a convert to Lutheranism." While Schlesinger does come from Jewish ancestry, LaRouche's statement basically reflected a traditional practice of anti-Semites - call anyone you don't like a Jew. Slyly, LaRouche added that Schlesinger's alleged Jewishness was really "irrelevant" since his "morality is neither Jewish nor Christian." LaRouche failed to explain why, if it was irrelevant, he had bothered to mention it. Through such tricks, LaRouchian propaganda blames the Jews for just about every problem facing the average American. The message is carefully tailored for different constituencies. Farmers are told that Wall Street "monetarists" are behind the agricultural crisis and the decline of the family farm. Teamsters union leaders are told that liberal Jewish foundations are behind the government's crackdown on union corruption. The AFL-CIO rank and file is told that its leaders are Zionist agents who don't really care about bread-and-butter problems. Black college students are told that Jews exploit black entertainers and that the Anti-Defamation League secretly funds the Ku Klux Klan. The public in general is told that Jews are inveterate conspirators who planned the slayings of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Jimmy Hoffa, and are trying to assassinate LaRouche. The LaRouchians weave into these charges a toned-down version of the "blood libel" - the belief, widely held in medieval Europe, that Jews kidnap Christian children and use them in ritual sacrifices. Various wealthy American and Israeli Jews are accused of pushing drugs to American youth, sexually molesting them, or teaching them immorality via rock music and Hollywood movies. LaRouchian propaganda also tries to raise doubts about the patriotism of American Jews. When a Pentagon official, Jonathan Pollard, was arrested as an Israeli spy in 1986, the LaRouchians portrayed him as typical of Jews in the U.S. government. In March 1987, 'New Solidarity' published on its front page a list of Jews in the Reagan administration, described as agents of a "subversive parallel government." These individuals, including Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle and Geneva arms negotiator Max Kampelman, were identified as Jewish via the label "JINSA operatives" (a reference to the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs). An 'Executive Intelligence Review' special report described them as "not simply 'Zionist Lobby' activists, but hardcore Mossad operatives." A LaRouchian editorial urged a general "housecleaning" to get these associates of the Israeli "mafia" out of the U.S. government "once and for all." The loyality issue has been a standard anti-Semitic tactic ever since the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely convicted of treason in 1894. But the LaRouchians add another twist (as did Hitler in 'Mein Kampf,' and Stalin in his polemics against Trotsky), claiming that the Jews are not just spies but political agents who secretly manipulate policy to weaken the nation's will to resist its enemies. LaRouchian publications also depict Israel as providing the Soviet Union with intelligence culled from a vast network of Zionists in the U.S. goverment. It is said to be the "main intermediary country which Moscow uses in stealing U.S. sensitive equipment" - the United States gives Israel high-tech weaponry, and the Israelis pass it on. Such themes go hand in hand with attempts to trivialize the crimes of the Third Reich. In 1978 LaRouche dismissed the Holocaust as mostly "mythical," while his wife, Helga, called it a "swindle." 'New Solidarity' attacked the Holocaust curriculum in New York public schools as "viciously anti-German" and as "filth," saying that any teacher who taught it should be fired. When the television movie "Holocaust" was aired in 1979, 'New Solidarity' denounced it. In the early 1980s, LaRouchian publications began to defend Nazi war criminals as innocent victims of persecution. The Justice Department's investigation of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former SS officer, was attacked as an "putrageously corrupt, KGB-modeled witchhunt." When he was seriously wounded in a 1984 pipe-bomb explosion at his New Jersey home, local LaRouchians called a press conference and accused the Anti-Defamation League and the Israeli government of compicity in the bombing. They demanded the appointment of a federal special prosecutor. When the FBI refused to take their allegations seriously, and Soobzokov died, 'New Solidarity' published a cartoon of an FBI badge dripping with blood. "Blood on Hands of FBI, ADL," the headline said. Austrian President Kurt Waldheim seems to be another innocent victim. When the World Jewish Congress produced evidence of his Nazi past in 1986, 'Executive Intelligence Review' dismissed it as a "gigantic hoax." World Jewish Congress chairmain Edgar Bronfman, EIR added, is a "Meyer Lansky-linked organized crime figure." President Reagan's 1985 trip to the graves of SS officers at Bitburg in West Germany was no policy blunder in 'New Solidarity's view, but a "courageious" action to strengthen the Western alliance. It gave the German people "a sense of pride in the historical importance of Germany's contribution to all mankind." Jewish leaders who opposed the trip such as Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, acted as anti-German "racists" and as dupes of Soviet propaganda. "There is no limit," 'Executive Intelligence Review' wrote, "to the psychotic frenzy [Jewish leaders] can be driven to by guilt and [Soviet] blackmail." Despite all this, LaRouche and his followers vehemently deny they are anti-Semitic. They say that the real anti-Semites are the Zionists, who keep the Jews in an inward-turned nationalistic frame of mind and use them on behalf of nefarious oligarchical political purposes. One of the supposed aims of the LaRouchians is to liberate the Jews from Zionism so they can lead fuller lives. (King, 136-139) The following LaRouche gems, taken from a document prepared by Chip Berlet and others (Request larouche larouche.wit for the entire collection of LaRouchian wit and wisdom), are presented here as examples in support of King's comments (above). Judaism "Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely molded by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity. In short, a self-sustaining Judaism never existed and never could exist. As for Jewish culture otherwise, it is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the Goyim." "The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach", Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., (under pen name L. Marcus), The Campaigner, December 1973 "America must be cleansed for its righteous war by the immediate elimination of the Nazi Jewish Lobby and other British agents from the councils of government, industry, and labor." "A War-winning Strategy", Editorial, New Solidarity, March 1978 Zionism "Zionism is the state of collective psychosis through which London manipulates most of international Jewry." "Zionism Is Not Judaism" Editorial, The Campaigner, December 1978 Adolf Hitler "The first, and most important fact to be recognized concerning the Hitler regime, is that Adolf Hitler was put into power in Germany on orders from London. The documentation of this matter is abundant and conclusive." "Humboldt Versus Hitler", Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., The Campaigner, August 1978 The Rockefellers "The Rockefeller designs for fascism are essentially identical with the Hitler and Mussolini forms of the past." "The Conceptual History of the Labor Committees", Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., (under pen name L. Marcus), The Campaigner, October 1974 "Nelson A. Rockefeller is a raving fascist presently pushing as rapidly as he is able to impose a fascist police-state in the U.S.A. before the 1976 elections." "The Guts Needed to Survive", Editorial, The Campaigner, August 1975 Britain "Britain has in fact two governments, the first a parliamentary charade for the edification of the credulous, the other the real monarchial government." "The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites" Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., The Campaigner, May-June 1978 "We shall end the rule of irrationalist episodic majorities, of British liberal notions of 'democracy.'" "Creating a Republican Labor Party" Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Citizens for LaRouche Policy Statement, c. 1980 Milton Friedman "Friedman's good repute among American conservatives is a result of a monstrous hoax. ... Friedman has admitted, without the slightest sign of embarrassment, that his economic doctrines are a resurrection of those of Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht....Dose Friedman himself propose to murder some tens of millions of 'useless eaters'?...It is not merely that the inner content of his economics is fascist, but that he demands the destruction of every criterion of reason that might hold us back from the horrifying final consequences of his policies." "The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman", Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and David P. Goldman, New Benjamin Franklin Publishing House (1980) "Episcopagans" "The inner hierarchy of the Episcopagan church is properly viewed not merely as something within the established Church of England, but as a coordinating agency for an array of forces with arms not only among Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern autocephalic denominations....It controls, with complicity of Venice, Libya's psychotic Colonel Khadafy, and most of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the psychological warfare and assassination arm of British intelligence, the London Tavistock Institute." "Why the Anglicans Want to Eliminate the Pope", Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Executive Intelligence Review, June 2, 1981 Israelis Can one punish sheep for being sheep? The Israelis have behaved with monstrous, worse-than-Nazi bestiality. But are not sheep bestial? Are not the Israelis behaving with the bestiality of terrified sheep, driven to homicidal psychosis by their won bestial fears? What can be done with such bestial Israelis, except to transform them from bestial sheep, to take them out of the kibbutz sheep-pens of psychosis, and employ the method of the Platonic dialogue to transform them into genuine men and women of reason?" "Despite What Israel Has Done" Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., The Campaigner, March 1978 The Jones Cult "The two official U.S. government agencies most directly responsible for the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Jones Peoples Temple cult are the U.S. Air Force Intelligence and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Until the massive British- Zionist controlling penetration of those two elements of the Pentagon's intelligence establishment is cleaned out, untold horrors will continue to proliferate in the United States." "Now, Do You Sleep With One Eye Open?", Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., Campaigner Special Report, Copyright 1978 Work Cited King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989
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