Talk:Lyndon LaRouche/research


 * Talk:Views of Lyndon LaRouche/sources

Other materials

 * Lynch, Pat, & Brian Ross, Mark Nyknanen, "First Camera", NBC Jan. 30, 1984. Video documentary

Trial-related
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General
Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery, "U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy," New York Times, October 7, 1979, and "One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on His Erratic Path," ''New York Times, October 8, 1979

Gregory F. Rose, "The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC," National Review, March 30, 1979

Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right January 14, 1985

Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman, 1989, Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag, Political Research Associates. online version.

Chip Berlet, “Ever Hear of Lyndon LaRouche? He May be Keeping Tabs on You,” Des Moines Register, 9/23/81, syndicated by Pacific News Service.

Chip Berlet. “Lyndon LaRouche and the U.S. Labor Party: Cult Fanaticism and the Politics of Paranoia,” Chicago Reader, 3/7/1980. Who Are the American Family Foundation: Mind-Controllers Targetting LaRouche? April 19, 2002

He's a Bad Guy, But We Can't Say Why Schiller Institute Website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Beback (talk • contribs) 11:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

"Far left"

 * Today such rhetoric is limited to right-wing isolationists like Pat Buchanan and left-wing extremists like Lyndon LaRouche, but in the 19th century Britain-baiting—or “twisting the lion’s tail”—was a hardy perennial of the American political scene.
 * A Special Relationship in Jeopardy by Eric Edelman July - August 2010 issue: The American Interest


 * . Of course, not one of the people there had ever actually attended one of these events or knew that the Lyndon LaRouchians are from the far left, disrupting the meetings to discredit the tea party movement.
 * Liberals profile populists before checking the facts By Mary Grabar Atlanta Journal-Constitution Opinion 8:12 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, 2010

"Far right"

 * The court was told that Mr Duggan, from north London, had attended a youth event organised by the far-Right, "cult like LaRouche group before his death.''
 * Fascist cult may have killed Jewish student Murray Wardrop. The Daily Telegraph. London (UK): May 21, 2010. pg. 19


 * Admittedly, the "magazine" was from the LaRouche Political Action Committee, an arm of Lyndon LaRouche, the perennial presidential candidate who is so far right that he's left, or vice-versa. But he has been joined in the Nazi analogy not only by a playful Rush Limbaugh, but also South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint and others. 
 * Lamar High grad laid down Nazi law CASEY: LaRouche, Rush like analogy Rick Casey. Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Aug 14, 2009. pg. 1


 * Hilary Bernstein, Pacific Northwest community director of the Anti-Defamation League, a national civil rights organization, worries that the language first propagated by LaRouche backers, who espouse a far-right political point of view, is now entering the mainstream debate. "What used to be so fringe is making its way into talk radio, blogs, YouTube and other news sources that people see as legitimate," she said.
 * Obama-as-Hitler poster provokes incident Lynn Thompson. McClatchy - Tribune News Service. Washington: Sep 17, 2009.


 * Supporters hope a fresh inquest will finally force German police to reinvestigate why a British Jew died in mysterious circumstances after spending five days with a far-right political cult led by a convicted fraudster who is known for his virulent anti-Semitic views.
 * Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult Jerome Taylor. The Independent. London (UK): Feb 27, 2010. pg. 12

"Bizarre"

 * ''Precisely why members of the Republican Party should contribute funds to a campaign as bizarre as LaRouche's is a question which deservesa n answer.
 * Rose 1979


 * By the Presidential election of 1976, the unique blend of political cunning and psychopathology that characterizes the U.S.L.P. was in full flower. In August of that year it published its major campaign document, a 129-page polemic, Carter and the Party of International Terrorism. In all the literature of weird outpourings by political prophets and conspiralogists, it would be difficult to find its equal, The thesis of this bizarre document is that forces mobilized by the Rockefeller family seized control of the Democratic Party in 1968 with the aid of “storm troopers” and “fascists” led by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-liberal think tank.
 * Donner and Rothenberg, 1980


 * was left without a raison d'etre. While some leftists withdrew or temporarily stepped back, LaRouche retained his passion. Without a reality to nourish that passion, however, it began to move in bizarre directions, like a missile that has lost its guidance system. In this respect, LaRouche's trajectory was similar to that of Haight- Ashbury rebel minister Jim Jones, who established a neo-fascist cult in Guyana after flower power wilted.
 * Judis 1989


 * Not a single New Hampshire political official contacted by The Globe believes there is any foundation to the LaRouche campaign's fears the candidate will be assassinated. The allegation, most politicians say, is a bizarre attempt by the campaign to attract attention and to make it appear that others are ganging up on LaRouche.
 * FRINGE CANDIDATE OR A THREAT?; ; THE LYNDON LAROUCHE CAMPAIGN Charles Kenney Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Feb 17, 1980. pg. 1


 * ''Mr. LaRouche does seem to have more detractors than supporters. "The use . . . of anti-Jewish hate propaganda, the injection of anti-Semitic poison into the American political bloodstream, adds an extra and insidious dimension to the bizarre conspiracy theories and political hallucinations of the LaRouchites," the Anti-Defamation League said in 1979.
 * Oddball tycoon wins some battles JOHN KING. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Jan 26, 1984. pg. P.8


 * "This type of outrageous charge - without substantive evidence - is commonplace in the LaRouche organization and extremist groups in general," said William V. Moore, chairman of political science at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. [..] The LaRouche group believes its bizarre accusations help it attract attention - something the group desperately wants, Moore said from Charleston.
 * LaRouche Article Contains Falsehoods Extremist Group Targets Wadman " Robert Dorr. Omaha World - Herald [Omaha, Neb.] 28 Oct. 1990,1b


 * The LaRouche organization, which uses bizarre conspiracy theories to frighten gullible people and solicit funds, published a story in 1980 alleging that Henry Kissinger had tried to make a secret deal with Iran.
 * Congress Gets a Way Out; Crazy Rumor Shot Down Omaha World - Herald [Omaha, Neb.] 8 Nov. 1991, 20


 * [Burt Siegel, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council] said LaRouche and Farrakhan share other commonalities, as well. "Both have a paranoid vision of American society," Siegel said. "Both are demagogues. They both strongly believe in conspiracy theories - bizarre conspiracy theories."
 * Dubious Distinction: Group with ties to Farrakhan, LaRouche will pay tribute to Rabin on July 7 Feldman, Steve. Jewish Exponent. Philadelphia: Jul 4, 1996. Vol. 200, Iss. 1; pg. 1


 * LaRouche's public addresses revealed a bizarre philosophy-a mixture of paranoia, racism, and right-wing ideology.
 * Black fundamentalism Manning Marable. Dissent. New York: Spring 1998. Vol. 45, Iss. 2; pg. 69, 8 pgs


 * It's still hard to categorize his beliefs because most are bizarre if not outright nuts.
 * Royko FEBRUARY 2, 1989


 * While gaining few votes in previous campaigns, LaRouche directs a large political operation including dozens of organizations and corporations, and espouses a philosophy that appears conservative in some ways but is based on global conspiracy theories that are best described as bizarre.
 * CONSERVATIVE OILMAN PAYS RENT FOR LAROUCHE ESTATE The Associated Press. Sun Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale: May 3, 1986. pg. 6.A


 * Most news accounts use shorthand in describing LaRouche as "a political extremist." Frequently cited are his bizarre charges that the queen of Britain is a drug-trafficker and that former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is a Soviet "agent of influence" intent on controlling the world. LaRouche brushes off charges that his movement is anti-Semitic by saying that it is anti-Zionist.
 * Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader THOMAS J. BRAZAITIS, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio: Jul 5, 1991.

"Extremist"

 * And, more recently, following the 1986 Democratic Party primary victories of Illinois LaRouche candidates Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, the AAM, Inc. chapter in that state issued a statement saying: "The AAM cautions all farmers to be wary ofpolitical recruiters for extremist groups... illinois farmers who are reeling from the financial and emotional affects of the ongoing ag. depression are targets for the recruiting efforts of the LaRouche Cult and other extremist groups. AAM urges farmers approached by political organizers promoting extremist political philosophy to report the incident to their farm organization."
 * Prairiefire, TO: Key Farm & Rural Contacts FROM: Daniel Levitas, Research Director; Rev. David L. Ostendorf, Director RE: Lyndon LaRouche "Food for Peace" Campaign DATE: November 1. 1988


 * ''Today [LaRouche] is notorious as a right-wing extremist and is serving a fifteen-year jail sentence for fraud and conspiracy. [..] Yet LaRouche's ideological fantasies-based on the notion that he and his cadre were the core of a Neoplatonio humanism which over the centuries had been locked in battle with the forces of oligarchy once headquartered in Babylon-are far less significant than the issue of how such an extremist could go as far as he did.
 * KLEHR 1989


 * Since he first organized a group of college students in the 1968 Columbia University strike, Mr. LaRouche, now 62 years old, has led organizations that in the 1970's veered from the extreme left to the extreme right of American politics.
 * CBS SELLS TIME TO FRINGE CANDIDATE FOR TALK KERR, PETER. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 22, 1984. pg. A.23


 * The followers of right-wing extremist LaRouche pulled off a stunning upset:...
 * 'LAROUCHIES' FORCE STATE TO TAKE NOTICE; R Bruce Dold and Wes Smith Ray Gibson and Kurt Greenbaum contributed to this report. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.: Mar 23, 1986. pg. 1


 * The chief prosecutor for Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp said Monday the state has included two groups tied to political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche in a "widening" investigation into possibly fraudulent gathering of signatures for Proposition 64.
 * 2 Groups Cited in Probe of Suspect Prop. 64 Petitions; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 30, 1986. pg. 3


 * The latest issue of New Solidarity, a newspaper that is the most widely read of several publications that espouse LaRouche's extremist political views, included the slur in a story about gay activists who picketed LaRouche's Los Angeles headquarters to protest the initiative.
 * Paper Tied to LaRouche Attacks Gay Movement; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 6, 1986. pg. 21


 * [Former top Noriega political adviser and aide, Jose I. Blandon] also said that Noriega has ties to the organization of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. Blandon said the general had paid money to the LaRouche group for assistance. But he said the LaRouche group views the money as donations, not payments in exchange for its support.
 * Wide Panamanian Corruption Is Alleged by Former Consul; Noriega Aide Calls Charges `Ridiculous' Bob Woodward, Joe Pichirallo. The Washington Post Washington, D.C.: Feb 2, 1988. pg. a.01


 * In Washington, Reagan set today's developments in motion when he was asked by a representative of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. whether he thought Dukakis should make public his medical records.
 * Dukakis Acts To Kill Rumor; Doctor Says Nominee In `Excellent Health' Edward Walsh. The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext). Washington, D.C.: Aug 4, 1988. pg. a.01


 * LaRouche, 68, is a political extremist who has run for president four times.
 * LaRouche Article Contains Falsehoods Extremist Group Targets Wadman " Robert Dorr. Omaha World - Herald [Omaha, Neb.] 28 Oct. 1990,1b


 * [LaRouche] has run for president eight times -- a record -- and is widely seen as a fringe Democratic candidate with extreme, sometimes incomprehensible, views.
 * Democrat on the dark side Peter Morton, Washington Bureau Chief. National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Jun 16, 2005. pg. FP.8


 * Many in the audience were stunned: they immediately recognized LaRouche as a leader of fascist extremism in the United States and a defender of the former apartheid regime of South Africa. [..] Within a few short years, the LaRouche group mutated from the left to the ultra-right, embracing a fascist agenda of extreme anticommunism, racism, and antiSemitism.
 * Black fundamentalism Manning Marable. Dissent. New York: Spring 1998. Vol. 45, Iss. 2; pg. 69, 8 pgs


 * Two Australian politicians, claiming they were duped, have apologized to Jewish groups here after signing petitions connected to U.S. extremist Lyndon LaRouche.
 * Australian politicians apologize after signing extremist petition. Jewish Telegraphic Agency [New York] 27 Jun 2001,23. Jones, Jeremy. " Ethnic NewsWatch


 * LaRouche, 80, is widely viewed as a racist extremist with ties to far-right organizations including the Ku Klux Klan.
 * DEMOCRAT-TIE CLAIM ASSAILED ; LAROUCHE FOLLOWER ADMONISHED : [City Edition]. Richmond Times - Dispatch [serial online]. September 14, 2002:B-2.


 * Lyndon LaRouche Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, is suing NBC-TV for $60 million for calling his race a "campaign of hate" and his followers "extremists in three-piece suits."
 * LAROUCHE FILES A $60M SUIT AGAINST NBC Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Feb 16, 1984. pg. 1 Copyright Boston Globe Newspaper Feb 16, 1984


 * ''Those in the administration who have met with LaRouche or his representatives carefully insist that they do not endorse his bigotry and other extremist positions.
 * A merchant of political hate; Stephen Green. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jan 19, 1985. pg. B.10 Op-Ed


 * "LaRouche represents the kook fringe of American politics," said party spokesman Terry Michael. "He and a handful of supporters have been attempting for years to gain respectability by falsely portraying themselves as affiliated with the national Democratic Party. The Democratic Party abhors their extremism and their outrageous activity."
 * Rightist LaRouche started out as a a Marxist; Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 4


 * Such flagrant extremism has come to be expected of the followers of LaRouche, an arch-conservative, anticommunist who has long warned of an international conspiracy involving the Rockefellers, the Ford Foundation, labor unions, Israeli intelligence and Queen Elizabeth II. The LaRouche organization, often described as anti-Semitic, has been known for its unconventional views on a grab-bag of issues including the International Monetary Fund, drugs and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), for which they propose mandatory testing of the entire population.
 * LAROUCHE ELEMENT IS AN EXTREME CASE Patrick Reardon and Kurt Greenbaum. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 1 Copyright Chicago Tribune Co. Mar 20, 1986


 * LaRouche was known for his conspiracy theories and was widely referred to as a "political extremist" even before he served five years in prison on a conspiracy and fraud conviction.
 * Corte's name turns up on appeal for LaRouche Bruce Davidson, Political Editor. San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio, Tex.: Jul 9, 1995. pg. 1


 * Most news accounts use shorthand in describing LaRouche as "a political extremist." Frequently cited are his bizarre charges that the queen of Britain is a drug-trafficker and that former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is a Soviet "agent of influence" intent on controlling the world. LaRouche brushes off charges that his movement is anti-Semitic by saying that it is anti-Zionist.
 * Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader THOMAS J. BRAZAITIS, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio: Jul 5, 1991.


 * Today such rhetoric is limited to right-wing isolationists like Pat Buchanan and left-wing extremists like Lyndon LaRouche, but in the 19th century Britain-baiting—or “twisting the lion’s tail”—was a hardy perennial of the American political scene.
 * A Special Relationship in Jeopardy by Eric Edelman July - August 2010 issue: The American Interest

Difficult to categorize

 * He has run for president eight times -- a record -- and is widely seen as a fringe Democratic candidate with extreme, sometimes incomprehensible, views.
 * Democrat on the dark side Peter Morton, Washington Bureau Chief. National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Jun 16, 2005. pg. FP.8


 * A former Marxist often identified now with the ultraright, LaRouche is, in fact, hard to categorize but is rejected by both mainstream political poles.
 * LAROUCHE EVOKES FEAR IN VA. TOWN WITH THE CANDIDATE CAME GUNS AND HIS BODYGUARDS Rex Springston. Richmond Times - Dispatch. Richmond, Va.: Apr 4, 1986. pg. 1


 * ...LaRouche, whose politics have worried Democrats and puzzled pundits partly because they are not easily categorized.
 * LAROUCHE IS NO CELEBRITY IN HIS HOMETOWN John Ellement, Globe Staff. Boston Globe Boston, Mass.: Apr 13, 1986. pg. 46


 * "He is emphatically not a conservative," says [John] Rees, "he is a totalitarian extremist with a cult of personality to rival Joseph Stalin's." Rees concedes that LaRouche's politics are distorted and strange, saying "he is difficult to categorize--in a sense LaRouche is a remedial Fascist. At least Mussolini could make the trains run on time. I doubt LaRouche is capable of doing that." Rees claims that "when LaRouche was rejected by the totalitarian left, he simply tried the other side of the totalitarian spectrum."
 * Berlet 1989


 * But for a variety of reasons, one of which was that you can't make a very good buck being a Stalinist, LaRouche and his top people switched political gears and became sort of a hodgepodge right-wing cult. It's still hard to categorize his beliefs because most are bizarre if not outright nuts.
 * Royko FEBRUARY 2, 1989


 * For 20 years, LaRouche has zig-zagged across the political horizon, from the far left to the far right to a complex position described by some observers as the "Twilight Zone."
 * Indictment says LaRouche wanted to smear official to block probe Houston Chronicle Houston, Tex.] 17 Dec. 1986, 14.


 * The party has several positions and activities which can be politely described as imaginative.
 * Labor Party Tactics (editorial) THE POST-STANDARD. Syracuse, N.Y. Monday, Oct 18, 1976


 * ...LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate who lives on an estate near Leesburg and espouses an unorthodox political philosophy laced with apocalyptic predictions and allegations of worldwide conspiracy.
 * 16 Associates Of LaRouche Are Indicted John F. Harris The Washington Post February 18, 1987:a01


 * Yet despite the unorthodox political philosophy, which generally includes convoluted conspiracy theories, LaRouche candidates have consistently garnered electoral support at the polls.
 * LaRouche trial: Sure to be a spellbinder SUSAN LEVINE Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Providence Journal. Providence, R.I.: Oct 20, 1987. pg. A-16


 * LaRouche, 66, has run for President in the last three elections as a Democrat or an independent candidate espousing unorthodox conspiracy theories on world issues.
 * LaRouche Gets 15 Years for Cheating His Backers, IRS 6 Aides Also Get Prison Terms, Fines; Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.: Jan 27, 1989. pg. 1


 * The unorthodox four-time presidential candidate said he expects to be killed if U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. imprisons him.
 * LAROUCHE TO REPORT FOR FRAUD SENTENCING United Press International. Richmond Times - Dispatch. Richmond, Va.: Jan 27, 1989. pg. 15


 * LaRouche, 66, has run for president in the last three elections as a Democrat or an independent candidate espousing unorthodox conspiracy theories on world issues.
 * LaRouche given 15-year sentence/2 associates fined, receive jail term Houston Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext). Houston, Tex.: Jan 27, 1989. pg. 4


 * The avalanche of publicity that followed not only doomed the LaRouche candidates in the general election, but set back the movement as a whole by giving LaRouche's unorthodox views wide exposure.
 * Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader THOMAS J. BRAZAITIS, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio: Jul 5, 1991


 * At his trial, Federal prosecutors depicted Mr. LaRouche as little more than a swindler, but both at the trial and afterward, Mr. LaRouche portrayed himself as the victim of a concerted Government effort to prevent him from warning the country about an array of threats and from voicing his unorthodox political views.
 * LAROUCHE GRANTED PAROLE AFTER SERVING 5 YEARS DAVID JOHNSTON, New York Times, Dec 2, 1993


 * Ideologically, they are hard to define, but all apparently see the world through a lens of interlocking conspiracies featuring a corrupt international financial system.
 * A Very Long Long Shot Senate Candidate Nancy Spannaus, A Larouche Disciple, Doubts She'll Win. ALEC KLEIN, STAFF WRITER. Virginian - Pilot. Norfolk, Va.: May 31, 1994. pg. A.1


 * LaRouche's followers also defy the traditional left-vs.-right political paradigm, since they consider themselves Democrats, and while they oppose Obama's health care ideas, they want a single-payer system.
 * Hitlercomparisondrawscomments JEFF OVERLEY. Orange County Register. Santa Ana, Calif.: Aug 25, 2009.

"Conspiracy theorist"
Chip Berlet. 2005. “Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium.” Paper presented at the conference: Reconsidering “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”: 100 Years After the Forgery, The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University, October 30-31, 2005.

Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

"Anti-semite"
Benjamin, Caren. (1994). “LaRouche, Nation of Islam Team Up.” Washington Jewish Week, April 21.

Magida, Arthur J. (1994). “Evil Twins: LaRouche and Farrakhan operatives offered—with no proof.” Baltimore Jewish Times, April 22, online archive.

Hearst, Ernest, Chip Berlet, and Jack Porter. “Neo-Nazism.” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 15. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 74-82. 22 vols. Thomson Gale.

Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

C. Berlet, “ZOG Ate My Brains” New Internationalist (London), 2004, no.372,, special issue on Judeophobia, online version

Quotations

 * Oct 7, 1979 "U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy,"  Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery, New York Times, October 7, 1979
 * ''...he has turned that organization and its political arm, the U.S. Labor Party, away from Marxism to the extreme right and--despite the presence of many Jewish members--to anti-Semitism. [..] Members who have recently left the party say its full-time membership has been shrinking since its turn to the right and anti-Semitism about three years ago. These sources say the membership core of the party reached a high of 2,500 in 1975, compared with about 1,000 now. Despite the turn towards anti-Semitism, there are still many Jewish members of the group, including high-ranking members of its intelligence and security sections. Among the statements that appear in party publications or in articles written by Mr. LaRouche are such as, "Zionists circles funded the ffounding and continuation of the American Nazi Party" and "Israel is ruled from London as a zombie-nation." The party's newspaper printed that "only" a million Jews died in the Holocaust.


 * Jan 2, 1980 Nuclear Group Raises Funds For Right-Wing Party In U.S. Ross Laver. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Jan 2, 1980. pg. P.5
 * Members of a U. S.-based pro-nuclear organization are raising money in Canada for a right-wing political party that among other things preaches anti-Semitism and considers Metro Toronto a key target for recruiting. [...] Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., the party's founder, has written that he is the target of an assassination plot led by such conspirators as the Queen, the Rothschilds and B'nai B'rith, a Jewish service organization. [...] The most frequent targets of USLP attacks are Jewish and Zionist groups. In his 1978 mayoral campaign, Mr. Sanders wrote that NALP members had been barred from political meetings by Zionist and Chinese drugpeddling allies (who) are freaked out about losing their $100-billion-a-year drug revenues. The NALP platform in Metro Toronto included promises to: Gather . . . evidence to arrest the Bronfman family . . . (which is) the single most important 'Godfather' of organized crime in North America. They are known to be complicit in funding anti-Semitic or outright Nazi organizations, dope-running and murder. Investigate the potential criminal connections of the Bronfmans to the suspicious . . . Murray Koffler (and) Phil Givens . . . . Investigate B'nai B'rith-ADL (Anti-Defamation League) . . . .Since that organization has long-standing connections to the Bronfmans and British Secret Service, its involvement in drugs is highly probable.


 * Feb 17, 1980 FRINGE CANDIDATE OR A THREAT?; ; THE LYNDON LAROUCHE CAMPAIGN Charles Kenney Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Feb 17, 1980. pg. 1
 * Late last year, the New York Times published a series of articles stating that members of the US Labor Party, which LaRouche founded, have "initiated gang assaults at rivals' meetings, taken courses in the use of knives and rifles at an anti-terrorist school and produced private intelligence reports on antiapartheid groups in the United States for the Bureau of State Security of South Africa." The Times series also branded LaRouche as an anti-Semite. LaRouche has denied the Times' charges and says he has filed a $100- million libel suit against the newspaper. Laura Cohen, LaRouche's campaign press secretary, called the Times stories "ugly crap." She said the series was intended "to set up a credible climate for an assassination hit."


 * April 14, 1983 Radicals Ride on Legitimate Issues By MlLT COPULOS Heritage Features Syndicate— PAGE FOUR—THE TITUSVILLE HERALD, Titutville, Pa., Thursday,
 * What most people don't realize is that these fresh-looking young people are really members of the U.S. Labor Party (USLP), a virulently anti-Semitic outgrowth of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).


 * Jan 26, 1984 UNITED STATES Oddball tycoon wins some battles JOHN KING. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Jan 26, 1984. pg. P.8
 * Former members of Mr. LaRouche's now-defunct U.S. Labor Party have said the party initiated gang assaults on rivals' meetings in the late seventies and trained some members in terrorist and guerrilla warfare. Mr. LaRouche does seem to have more detractors than supporters. "The use . . . of anti-Jewish hate propaganda, the injection of anti-Semitic poison into the American political bloodstream, adds an extra and insidious dimension to the bizarre conspiracy theories and political hallucinations of the LaRouchites," the Anti-Defamation League said in 1979


 * Jan 19, 1985 A merchant of political hate; Stephen Green. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jan 19, 1985. pg. B.10 OP ED COLUMN
 * In the rolling hills of the capital's Virginia suburbs, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. follows a lifestyle than seems more suitable for a retired country gentleman than a merchant of political hate. The wooded grounds of his Loudon County estate, his associates' bookstore in nearby Leesburg, and the concerts sponored by his Schiller Institute all serve to give the impresssion of a genteel intellectual engaged in the pursuit of classical culture. But the brick manor house, the music of Brahms, the expensive books on art, and the German poetry readings all mask a chilling political movement designed to appeal to bigotry and hate. LaRouche's newspaper, New Solidarity, is drenched with anti- semitism. It claims a cabal of Jews controls organized crime and that the B'nai B'rith "resurrrects the tradition of the Jews who demanded the crucifixion of Jesus Christ." LaRouche, 62, who twice has run for president, denounces Walter F. Mondale as a "conscious agent of Soviet influence." LaRouche's diatribes against Henry Kissinger are infamous. His associates accuse Kissenger of murder and homosexuality. Moreover, LaRouche has links with elements of the Klu Klux Klan and Willis Carto's notorious Liberty Lobby. Nevertheless, LaRouche has achieved frightening political success. [..] White House officials are reluctant to discuss LaRouche. They insist that the administration ought to talk to those who may have helpful information. Perhaps. But that is no excuse for the administration's abject failure to condemn Lyndon LaRouche and his politics of hate.


 * Mar 20, 1986 Rightist LaRouche started out as a a Marxist; Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 4
 * Berlet said LaRouche's original target was former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, who was alleged to be part of an international conspiracy - along with Jews and Queen Elizabeth II - to destroy society through drug addiction, population control and international terrorism. [..] "Economically," said Berlet, "his political philosophy resembles Italian fascism - rapid industrial growth and full employment through state coercion. "Culturally, it resembles the worst aspects of Nazi Germany - anti-Semitism and the celebration of all things Aryan and northern European."


 * Mar 20, 1986 LAROUCHE ELEMENT IS AN EXTREME CASE Patrick Reardon and Kurt Greenbaum. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 1
 * The LaRouche organization, often described as anti-Semitic, has been known for its unconventional views on a grab-bag of issues including the International Monetary Fund, drugs and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), for which they propose mandatory testing of the entire population.


 * Mar 20, 1986 FROM THE LEFT TO FAR RIGHT New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. A.18
 * But then Mr. LaRouche returned from a trip to West Germany with a new vision, and turned his party to the extreme right and to anti-Semitism.


 * Mar 21, 1986 It's Stupefying Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 21, 1986. pg. 4
 * ''For years LaRouche advocates have accosted travelers with their anti-Semitic tracts in airport terminals, accused Henry A. Kissinger and Walter F. Mondale of being Soviet agents and promoted a laser defense against the Soviets long before Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars." A recent LaRouche newspaper editorial is headlined, "Put George Shultz on Trial for Treason."


 * Mar 23, 1986 LaRouche goes after critics; William Hines. Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Mar 23, 1986. pg. 63
 * LaRouche's invective-laden essays are replete with references to Jewish individuals and organizations, alleging complicity of these people and groups in terrorism, drug trafficking and other crimes. These have prompted critics to suggest that anti-Semitism is part of La-Rouche's bizarre and changeable political agenda.


 * Mar 23, 1986 3-time fringe presidential hopeful LaRouche remains an enigma Robert Estill. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Mar 23, 1986. pg. A.15
 * ''But LaRouche has been as welcome among national organized labor leaders here as strike-breakers at a picket line. LaRouche's 1980 presidential campaign was denounced by Al Barkan of the AFL-CIO as "anti-labor, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and anti-minorities." [..] Jews also are a favored target. The Anti Defamation League (ADL) quotes LaRouche as writing that prominent Jewish families were instrumental in bringing Adolph Hitler to power, that the holocaust was a "hoax" produced by "the Zionist demagogue" and that the ADL is "Britain's Zionist gestapo." LaRouche's message also is spread by a variety of publications produced by his associates. The publications include the "New Solidarity" newspaper and "Executive Intelligence Review" magazine which frequently focuses on security and terrorism. Contributions to the political committee and subscriptions to the publications, also hawked at airports, bring in part of the revenue, but the full extent and source of LaRouche's funds are murky. Irwin Suall of the ADL said the LaRouche organization would be "laughable" except that they "have vast sums of money at their disposal." Suall said the extent and source of the funds is a "big mystery" and the "$64 million dollar question, literally and figuratively." [..] NDPC spokesman Nicholas Benton, who is also Washington bureau chief for the Executive Intelligence Review magazine, said LaRouche could be characterized as a "guiding influence," but that his personal involvement varies from organization to organization. "What you are referring to is a series of entities which are independent of each other, which obviously have a certain common purpose in so far as Mr. LaRouche had a hand in and an influence with regard to the creation of a number of organizations," Benton said. "But they operate and exist as separate organizations with separate goals and separate functions." That contention is disputed by Suall, whose comment that LaRouche was a "small-time Hitler" was considered by the jury in LaRouche's unsuccessful libel suit against NBC. Suall also rejected LaRouche's contention that he is anti- Zionist but not anti-Semitic. "I would characterize them as a political cult with a long record of engaging in dirty tricks, smear tactics, anti-Semitism and extremism," Suall said. "We have long been familiar with anti-Semitism that couches itself as anti-Zionism. And there is no question in our minds that is the case with LaRouche and his organization." He said LaRouche comments about Jewish control of the international banking system and the accusation that B'nai B'rith was responsible for the founding of the Ku Klux Klan is "not anti- Zionist, it's anti-Semitic."''


 * Mar 24, 1986 Kooks right out of the Twilight Zone :[1,2,3,4,5,6 Edition]." LIONEL VAN DEERLIN (represented a San Diego County district in Congress for 18 years.) " The Tribune (San Diego) 24 March1986 B-7. OP ED COLUMN
 * ''"I refuse to be identified with advocates of violence, bigotry and anti-Semitism," [Adlai Stevenson III] explains.


 * Mar 30, 1986 Title: DEMOCRATS SCRUTINIZE LAROUCHE BLOC ROBIN TONER, Special to the New York Times
 * [A Program for America -The LaRouche Democratic Campaign] also says that after Mr. LaRouche began an expose of the "drug lobby," "certain leading Jewish members of the drug lobby activated their friends and lawyers in the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith, and the campaign to tar LaRouche as an anti-Semite was on."


 * Mar 30, 1986 U.S. extremist grows as political force William Lowther Special to The Star. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Mar 30, 1986. pg. B.1
 * Analysts are very confused about LaRouche politics because they appear to change with the weather. They are consistent only in their extremism: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan says LaRouche is a "fascist" and an "anti-Semite."


 * APRIL 2,1986 LaRouche forces suddenly front and center in 1986 elections The Christian Science Monitor A-8 THE FREDERICK POST, FREDERICK, MD., WEDNESDAY, »
 * The news media have trouble placing him. He's been called everything from an "arch conservative" to a "far leftist." Opponents hurl inflammatory charges at him: "anti-Semite," "conspiracy monger," "oddball," "brown shirt" [..] Another LaRouche aide scoffs at the anti- Semite charge: "Half of us in the organization are Jewish," she says.


 * Apr 3, 1986 HOW NEW YORKERS DEFEATED LAROUCHE :[Op-Ed]. New York Times (Late Edition (east Coast)) [serial online]. Stanley E. Micels and Franz S. Leichter, Stanley E. Michels is a City Council member and Franz S. Lechter is a state senator.. April 3, 1986:A.27.
 * The startling victory in the Illinois Democratic primary of candidates associated with Lyndon LaRouche's neo-Nazi organization has generated the question, How could it have happened? [..] It was apparent to all who listened and read carefully that the real agenda was an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-minority ideology designed to gain influence and ultimately political power for Mr. LaRouche. [..] Using findings of the B'nai B'rith Anti Defamation League, A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the writer Dennis King, an expert on Mr. LaRouche -that the LaRouche group is extremist and anti-Semitic - we challenged LaRouche candidates at meetings, outside subway stations and on the streets. With the support of District Council 37 (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em-ployees) and the United Federation of Teachers, which otherwise were backing opposing slates, we flooded the community with leaflets, held numerous public meetings and sent volunteers door-to-door. Parents groups, fraternal organizations and block associations organized. Priests, rabbis and Protestant ministers supported this effort. On election day, almost 15,000 turned out - some voters in wheelchairs and with walkers.


 * Apr 4, 1986 LAROUCHE EVOKES FEAR IN VA. TOWN WITH THE CANDIDATE CAME GUNS AND HIS BODYGUARDS Rex Springston. Richmond Times - Dispatch. Richmond, Va.: Apr 4, 1986. pg. 1
 * The Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith calls the LaRouche network an anti-Semitic "political cult."


 * Apr 4, 1986 LAROUCHE SAVORS FAME THAT MAY RUIN HIM The following article is based on reporting by Robin Toner and Joel Brinkley and was written by Miss Toner; Special to The New York Times, Friday Apr 4, 1986 Sec: A National Desk p: 1
 * Mr. LaRouche also persistently warns of Soviet plans for world domination, in sometimes apocalyptic terms. And he has been accused of anti-Semitism, but in the interview he denied that allegation. What he opposes, he said, is religious Zionism.''


 * Apr 6, 1986 LOOKING AT THE WORLD AS LYNDON LAROUCHE SEES IT; HIS ENEMIES LIST AN ECLECTIC MIX Thomas Oliphant, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Apr 6, 1986. pg. 24
 * LaRouche and his followers talk about their enemies all the time, including Queen Elizabeth, US Attorney William Weld of Boston and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. They can even connect them. After years of keeping up with his activity and words, the league concluded that LaRouche, because of his comments on the holocaust, a Jewish role in the crucifixtion, his opposition to Zionism, and his assertions that Jews were prominent in Hitler's rise, is a classic anti-Semitic cult leader. Mel Klenetsky -- a longtime associate and the only man alive to have run against New York's Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson -- has an answer to the league's charge. "Mr. LaRouche is opposed to every kind of holocaust," Klenetsky said last week. LaRouche, Rochester, N.H.'s native son, may have questioned whether it was really 6 million Jews who were murdered by Hitler, but Klenetsky can explain that. "He has made the point in certain writings that there were two phases to what happened. The first was straight genocide, but the second grew out of the use of slave labor and Mr. LaRouche made this distinction because people are pushing slave labor today in places like Cambodia, Iran, and the marijuana- growing regions of northern Mexico." In a conversation in the back of a bookstore in this historic Virginia town that is the embarassed home of the 64-year-old LaRouche and his network, Klenetsky said the Anti-Defamation League has a guy on its board who is in a law firm that just so happens to represent Robert Vesco. Vesco may be just a fugitive bigtime swindler to some, but the LaRouche people have got him fingered as organized crime all the way, and Klenetsky says the Anti-Defamation League is simply upset because "we have pulled the mask off international drug-running and exposed the Meyer Lansky wing of organized crime." Far from the inspirational foe of racism that the rest of the world knows it to be, the Anti-Defamation League is a collection of "apologists" for this Meyer Lansky wing of organized crime, Klenetsky insists. And he points, as witness, to those ties connecting that guy on its board to the law firm that represents Robert Vesco, "the heir apparent to Lansky, who happens to be in Havana right now helping Castro get into the drugs and weapons business."


 * Apr 9, 1986 LaRouche Brands Enemies as Drug Pushers, Insane; Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 9, 1986. pg. 2
 * The often contentious press session ended with LaRouche, who has been called "a wacko" and an "anti-Semite" by some critics, such as the AFL-CIO and the Anti-Defamation League, cutting off an NBC reporter who asked about his finances.


 * Apr 10, 1986 LaRouche: Nebraska, Iowa Giving Me Little Support; David C. Beeder. Omaha World - Herald. Omaha, Neb.: Apr 10, 1986. pg. 1
 * LaRouche, who characterized his enemies as drug pushers, homosexuals, insane and pro-Soviet, said he was unable to elaborate on the identity of the group opposing his political movement in Nebraska and Iowa. [..] He denied that his political movement was neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic, and described such accusations as "lies that originated with the drug lobby." [..] He blames much of the world's ills on conspiracies by bankers, communists and Zionists.


 * Apr 10, 1986 CANDIDATE LOGUE'S WIFE REPORTS PHONE THREAT; DAVID M. ERDMAN, The Morning Call. Morning Call. Allentown, Pa.: Apr 10, 1986. pg. B.01
 * Logue, a follower of ultra-rightist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., spoke Tuesday at the Allentown Jednota Home before members of the Lehigh Democratic Club, where he was questioned by Democratic committeeman Ted Fine, who charged that some of LaRouche's statements are anti- Semitic. [..] Fred Henderson of Upper Darby, a state-wide campaign co- coordinator for LaRouche candidates, reacted to the threat, saying that "whether people support us or not, everyone should denounce these kind of tactics and this kind of intimidation." Henderson said LaRouche candidates believe that Hitler was a "racialist and a genocidalist" but he said they also maintain that it was economic policies of the period that led to Nazi crimes, that it was not the work of Hitler alone. [..] Henderson said, "Those who scream the loudest about Lyndon LaRouche being a racist don't lift a finger to talk about the kind of holocaust that is going on in Africa and elsewhere today because of the same kind of economic policies existing today . . . it is precisely thesesame kind of economic policies that were the basis of the Nazi era and that Mr. LaRouche has spent 15 years trying to fight."


 * Apr 15, 1986 LaRouchies appeal to poor, Jesse says Jerome Idaszak. Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Apr 15, 1986. pg. 34
 * The rise of candidates loyal to Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. in Illinois and elsewhere is cause for serious concern because it appeals to people who are suffering economically and are searching for scapegoats, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said yesterday. "All of us stand to suffer with the rise of LaRouchism," Jackson said after a breakfast meeting with reporters. "When teachers and farmers and meatcutters start losing their jobs, they start reaching out for scapegoats. And that's where your classic racism, fascism and anti-Semitism come from."


 * Apr 17, 1986 LaRouche Is No Joke ALICE TRAVIS. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 17, 1986. pg. 7 Op Ed Desk
 * LaRouche's anti-Semitism, racism, distortion and fear tactics have no place on the American political scene.


 * APRIL 17. 1986 My fringe encounter: Waiting for Lyndon LaRouche to call Tom Tiede THE FREDERICK POST, FREDERICK, MD. Op-Ed
 * ''Some years ago,when I lived on the suburban apron of New York City, I received an anguished call from the "wife of a longtime friend. She said the big boob had left home the week before, permanently, she feared, to devote his life to an obscure political group he had joined. What group? I asked. The National Caucus of Labor Committees, she replied. [..] I talked with my friend the other afternoon, and he says he quit the LaRouche group a few years later. He says the NCLC was refurbished as the National Labor Party, before it became an "adjunct" to the Democratic Party, and LaRouche adopted a whole new litany of outrageous prides and prejudices. My friend says LaRouche became known as anti-Semitic, for one thing, and fixed with the notion of breathtaking world conspiracies.


 * Apr 21, 1986 Sudden exposure; Lyndon LaRouche explains it all. Time v127.(April 21, 1986): pp32(1).
 * LaRouche evaded straight answers with accusations and complicated conspiracy theories. When an NBC reporter asked him to explain the finances that support his organization and his heavily guarded 170-acre estate near Leesburg, LaRouche shot back, I can't talk to a drug pusher like you. What about his reputation for anti-Semitism? That, he explained, resulted from his linking of Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians and a former President of Colombia who was a close friend of former President Jimmy Carter's. Clear?


 * APRIL 24, 1986 Stevenson sues for independent bid Associated Press THE FREDERICK POST, FREDERICK, MD.,  B-7
 * ''The former U.S. senator [Stevenson] said he finds the views of LaRouche supporters "abhorrent, racist anti-Semitic, anti- Democratic and irrational," Benjamin said.


 * Apr 29, 1986 In Spotlight After Illinois Victories LaRouche: Cult Figure or Serious Political Leader? PAUL HOUSTON. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 29, 1986. pg. 1
 * Now, however, with large numbers of his candidates identified on primary ballots across the nation including 24 in California-LaRouche's record is under intense scrutiny. It is a record, critics charge, that includes conducting anti-Semitic smears, harassing his opponents and fraudulent fund-raising. [..] The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith quotes LaRouche as defining Zionism as "the state of collective psychosis through which London manipulates most of the international Jewry" and as labeling the ADL as "Britain's Zionist Gestapo." The ADL's interpretation of these remarks as "anti-Semitic" was confirmed by a New York judge in a libel suit brought against the group by LaRouche. [..] "This is an outrage," said Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. "These anti-Semites, these people whose real platform is in my view anti-American, have no place in American politics." [..] The Anti Defamation League, in a 1982 report soon to be updated, also said that "the LaRouche operation has been characterized since 1978 by continuous emanations of anti-Semitism. Its publications single out prominent Jews, Jewish families and Jewish organizations for special abuse. "He has written," the ADL said of LaRouche, "that prominent Jewish families were instrumental in bringing Hitler to power and that 'the "Holocaust" thesis' is one of the 'hoaxes' produced by 'the Zionist demagogue.'" LaRouche, who contends that he is anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic, once sued the ADL over such charges. A New York state Supreme Court justice dismissed the suit, ruling that the facts in the case "reasonably give rise" to the ADL's characterization of the LaRouche group. A New York free-lance journalist, Dennis King, who has written extensively on LaRouche, has documented verbal attacks on blacks, Chinese, Britons and Jews. Citing articles authored by LaRouche, King wrote: "The LaRouchians, carrying their doctrine to wilder limits even than traditional Hitlerism, claim that the 'British' have evolved through moral depravity and inbreeding into a separate species outside the human race ('the Zionist-British organism'). [..] But when queried recently on CBS-TV's "Nightwatch" about some of his previous comments, LaRouche asserted that they were taken out of context. "I have been fighting anti-Semitism and any other kind of racism all my life," he said.


 * May 8, 1986 Few LaRouche Followers Win in 4 Primaries PAUL HOUSTON. Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, Calif.: May 8, 1986. pg. 21
 * LaRouche, whom critics accuse of anti-Semitism-and who considers Henry A. Kissinger a Soviet agent and Queen Elizabeth a drug trafficker-had boasted that Illinois signaled growing support for his own presidential campaign and for other candidates he backs. [..]In Ohio, the LaRouche Senate candidate, Don Scott, was trounced by Democratic Sen. John Glenn. Twelve House candidates also lost, but two won unopposed. "This shows that Democrats don't support anti-Semites and kooks," state Democratic Chairman Jim Ruvolo said.


 * May 10, 1986 LAROUCHE ACCUSED OF SPREADING BIGOTRY The Associated Press. Sun Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale: May 10, 1986. pg. 9.A
 * WASHINGTON -- An official of the B'nai B'rith told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday that political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and his organization are spreading "anti-Semitic bigotry." Irwin J. Suall, director of fact-finding for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, likened LaRouche's organizations to hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi organizations. "We've noticed they've once again begun to spew their anti- Semitic bigotry," Suall said of the LaRouche organization. "I think it's clear this organization is an anti-Semitic organization and is part of the general gutter-level movement that promotes bigotry in the United States," Suall testified. He appeared as part of a panel that presented a briefing on LaRouche activities requested by the commission's staff and its chairman, Clarence Pendleton. A spokeswoman for LaRouche at his headquarters in Leesburg, Va., Dana Scanlon, said in a prepared statement: "The LaRouche campaign is filing a complaint with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for having shown bias in allowing this hearing to take place without having contacted spokesmen for Mr. LaRouche or his associates. "As for Mr. LaRouche, he has been fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry all his life." The civil rights commission, after hearing from Suall and two other people who have done research into the LaRouche groups, voted unanimously to direct its staff to report back in two months on what, if any, aspects of the LaRouche activities were within the commission's jurisdiction.


 * May 22, 1986 LaRouche politics labeled `bigotry' B'nai B'rith report cites camouflaged extremism' Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: May 22, 1986. pg. 56
 * ''NEW YORK (AP) The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, a frequent target of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.'s political movement, responded yesterday with a report that brands the LaRouche organization a camouflaged cult of "erratic, bigotry-laced extremism." ADL national chairman Kenneth Bialkin told a press conference his organization usually does not closely scrutinize a fringe group like LaRouche's because it would not want to give the group publicity. But the LaRouche movement's recent political success in Illinois was attributable to public ignorance, he said. "We think we're helping to sink them by exposing them," he explained. LaRouche candidates for lieutenant governor and secretary of state won the Democratic primary in Illinois. Hidden tendencies In its report, the ADL said LaRouche's group often hides anti-Semitic and extremist tendencies behind popular causes and such legitimate-sounding fronts as the National Anti-Drug Coalition. It cited statements by LaRouche and his publications as manifestations of anti-Semitism, including the singling out of prominent Jews, Jewish families and Jewish organizations for abuse; charging that prominent Jewish families were instrumental in bringing Hitler to power, and charging that the Holocaust was a hoax. The report also accuses LaRouche's group of "skulduggery" in gaining loans and contributions, and using "dirty tricks, or worse," including harassment and threats. In Leesburg, Va., where LaRouche has his headquarters, LaRouche followers have "engaged in a general pattern of intimidation against critics," the ADL said. The LaRouche threat "derives from the movement's thriving on secrecy, deception, disruption, fear and hostile confrontations, and its peculiar brand of erratic, bigotry-laced extremism, cunningly camouflaged by the outward respectability of front groups and business suits," the report said. `Wild distortions' Donna Scanlon, LaRouche spokeswoman, called the allegations "wild distortions and lies." She went on to accuse Bialkin of being an associate of fugitive financier Robert Vesco; she said the ADL was "intimately associated" with the network of Sikh terrorists who killed Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, and she referred to charges that the ADL was tied to "gangsters and organized crime." ADL spokeswoman Lynne Ianniello said the LaRouche charges are "totally false." The report was the ADL's third on the LaRouche movement since 1979. LaRouche's group has responded by charging that the ADL controls "a number of neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic organizations." LaRouche also has complained to the Federal Election Commission that the ADL has improperly opposed him, an announced candidate for president in 1988, and LaRouche candidates without registering as a political committee.''

JULY 1, 1986 5 LoRouche supporters file for Montgomery committee By SONIA BOIN Montgomery County Bureau THE FREDERICK POST, FREDERICK, MD., TUESDAY, JULY 1,1986 A-7
 * ''The entry of the Montgomery County residents into the central committee race drew a warning from Eighth Congressional District candidate Leon G. Billings that "this is the old classic Marxist 'burrow from within.' They start at the very lowest levels and by the time people realize they're there, it's too Billings, [..] "I have watched the LaRouche people disrupt press conferences and intimidate legitimate candidates for several years," Billings said. "They appeal to people's prejudices. They play on fear. Their agenda is not really ultra-right or ultra-left. It is anti-Semitic, fearmongering and hostile to personal freedom and democracy."


 * August 10, 1986 RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE RISING IN POLITICAL PROCESS, GROUP SAYS." Ed Briggs " Richmond Times - Dispatch, August 10, 1986,
 * The report of People for the American Way says that Lyndon LaRouche, while not imposing religious tests on candidates, has injected anti-Semitic, anti- Catholic and anti-World Council of Churches rhetoric into his campaign.


 * Oct 7, 1986 Five LaRouche Groups, Aides Charged in Fraud; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times  Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 7, 1986. pg. 1
 * Critics in the United States say he heads an anti-Semitic hate group that resembles a cult.


 * Oct 14, 1986 Authorities See Pattern of Threats, Plots Dark Side of LaRouche Empire Surfaces; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 14, 1986. pg. 1
 * ''The charges brought by the government reflect what some groups who watch LaRouche have long believed. They say he is more than a benign spouter of fanciful conspiracy tales-the Queen of England pushes drugs, AIDS is caused by the banks-and backer of odd, hopeless candidates who sell books and magazines at airports. "A small-time Hitler," the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said of LaRouche two years ago. LaRouche sued for libel, but a jury sided with the prominent Jewish organization, which considers LaRouche a leading anti-Semite. "Considering how bizarre and extreme the LaRouche cult is, this crackdown comes as no surprise to the Anti-Defamation League," Irwin Suall, director of fact-finding for the ADL, said after the indictment. "They have the capacity to do an awful lot of damage if they want to." In court documents and published reports, defectors describe an organization that kills the pets of critics, persuades female members to get abortions and strictly controls the lives of members. At the same time, until journalists began reporting the connection, LaRouche and his followers used to meet regularly with Administration officials who valued their wealth of intelligence about world events.


 * Oct 17, 1986 LaRouche Wrote of Using AIDS to Win Presidency KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 17, 1986. pg. 3
 * LaRouche, who is regarded by Jewish groups as anti-Semitic, also has a long history of attacks on gays.
 * Oct 21, 1986 LaRouche in Canada: life on the fringe MARGOT GIBB-CLARK, GEOFFREY YORK. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: Oct 21, 1986. pg. A.7
 * Anti-Semitism is another accusation frequently levelled at Mr. LaRouche, and prompted the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League to conduct a study. The league collected quotations from LaRouche newspapers and magazines such as: If you say, 'As a Jew I must be concerned primarily with what is good for Jews,' you are already on the pathway to becoming a Nazi." In 1979, Mr. LaRouche sued the league for libel, but the case was dismissed. Last year, after similar monitoring of the PCC began, Mr. Gervais turned up at the Montreal office of B'nai B'rith's League for Human Rights and, according to regional director Arthur Hiess, dropped a raw liver on a secretary's desk: "He said, 'Here is your pound of flesh.' " Back in Ottawa, Mr. Chalifoux told a passer-by at the airport that the party isn't being given a fair shake by the news media. He referred to Power Corp., a Montreal- based conglomerate that does have media interests but is not, as he suggested, controlled by a well-known Jewish family. Mr. Guay dismisses the charge outright, saying that Mr. LaRouche doesn't have a molecule of extremism or anti-Semitism in his body." But right-wing groups have been known to play on anti-Semitic feelings with specific goals in mind, says Conrad Winn, co-author of a book on the Toronto trial of Nazi propagandist Ernst Zundel. These groups want power but their leaders don't have the normal credentials to get it, or they don't want to get it by normal means," he says. "If you want to undermine people's confidence in our democracy, you tell them things aren't the way they appear, that there is a secret cabal running things in its own interests. In a Christian society, Jews are often the target because of centuries of accumulated theologically inspired hatred." Mr. Guay, who says he is not a party member, disagrees. ''People mistake intonation for fascism. It is not because someone speaks loudly that they are fascist."
 * Our mistake Gerard Guay, a Hull, Que., lawyer for The Committee for The Commonwealth of Canada in legal proceedings over freedom of expression on airport property, initiated a petition by the Committee Against Transport Canada and did not, as stated in an article yesterday, defend the committee. Comments by Mr. Guay denying anti- Semitism or extremism by Lyndon H. Larouche Jr., or the committee, were made in his role as a lawyer who represents the committee as a client and not in response to views set out in the article. (Thursday, October 23, 1986, Page A2)


 * Oct 27, 1986 Informers Crucial to the Case Against LaRouche San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco, Calif.: Oct 27, 1986. pg. 22
 * Emerson and three other informers cited by the government worked for LaRouche's security squad, and each has freely admitted giving the group false intelligence about topics ranging from supposed plots against LaRouche to the Middle East situation. Besides Emerson, other government witnesses against the LaRouche group include: -- Roy Frankhouser, a longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frankhouser, 47, of Reading, Pa., is a convicted dealer in stolen dynamite who worked for LaRouche for seven years as an intelligence expert. He told the FBI that he concocted wild stories from made-up CIA contacts to impress LaRouche. -- Forrest Lee Fick, 34, another former Klansman from Reading, said he also made up stories for LaRouche's followers about intelligence contacts so he could keep his $1000-a-week security job with them. Until last year, Fick published a magazine filled with anti-Semitic essays referring to the glories of mystical Teutonic rites, according to Irwin Suall, head of the fact-finding division of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. -- Mordecai Levy, 26, leader of a militant Jewish organization who was expelled from the Jewish Defense League because its members believed that he was uncontrollable. Levy worked with LaRouche for four years, but Levy says he did so to gather information about LaRouche's alleged anti-Semitism. Levy's group, the Jewish Defense Organization, recently circulated leaflets declaring LaRouche one of the "enemies of the Jewish people," and it has issued oblique warnings against LaRouche. "I wouldn't cry if he got hurt," Levy said in an interview. [..] Emerson, Frankhouser, Fick and Levy worked for LaRouche's so-called security-intelligence staff, which guards LaRouche, investigates the group's critics and carries out the group's most sensitive assignments.


 * Mar 29, 1987 Rightist radicals weave 'spider web' in Canada; Olivia Ward Toronto Star. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Mar 29, 1987. pg. A.14
 * ''MONTREAL - Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., the Trotskyite-turned-right- wing extremist, has reportedly fled the United States - but his supporters are actively at work in Quebec and other parts of Canada, police and human rights groups say. Arthur Hiess of the B'nai Brith human rights league's Quebec division can attest to the group's zeal. Two years ago, LaRouche's top representative in Canada "dumped three pounds of raw liver on my desk and shouted 'Here's your pound of flesh!' " Hiess recalls. "The message was pretty clear. And the group is well established in this province." [..] In the United States, federal authorities investigating violent incidents perpetrated by American extremist groups say such organizations have ideological links - "violent anti-Semitism, rabid anti-Communism, revisionist Christianity and beliefs that taxation is illegal and currency is debased by an amorphous conspiracy of Jews, bankers, Communists, their dupes and corrupt government officials."  [..] Occasionally, extremists go further than peddling tracts, as when the leader of LaRouche's Canadian wing, Gilles Gervais, head of the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada (PCC), dumped liver on Hiess' desk. The same tactic was used by U.S. LaRouche followers on one of their prime targets, Henry Kissinger. However, argues Margaret Greenspan, who staffs the LaRouche group's Dorval airport table, the media has been unfair in its coverage. "We've had a bad press," she contends. "They refer to us as extremists. Actually, our ideas are reasonable and scientific. We have the very best brains working with us." [..] Party for the Commonwealth of Canada: Based in Montreal, it has a few supporters in Ontario. Members tout a wide range of ideas originated by Lyndon LaRouche. The PCC has been criticized for attempting to mislead voters by using initials similar to the Progressive Conservatives. It runs large slates of candidates in elections.


 * May 24, 1987 LaRouche defense reads like spy novel JOHN MINTZ. Houston Chronicle Houston, Tex.: May 24, 1987. pg. 20
 * The attorneys who represent the group come from throughout the country and have a range of backgrounds. Odin Anderson, a Boston lawyer who has represented the group for years, is a former Cambridge, Mass., prosecutor. Mayer Morganroth of Detroit has represented embattled automobile entrepreneur John DeLorean. John Flannery of Leesburg, who represents the group against a similar state indictment, is a former Democratic congressional candidate. It can be a lonely existence, some of the attorneys said, because LaRouche is so controversial. They said some legal colleagues who are Jewish, concerned about allegations that the LaRouche group is anti-Semitic, have expressed displeasure about their taking the case. Some clients have threatened to leave if they do not quit representing LaRouche, some of the lawyers said.


 * Sep 20, 1987 Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche John Mintz. The Washington Post Washington, D.C.: Sep 20, 1987. pg. c.01
 * By the mid-1970s LaRouche was talking less about revolution and more about the conspiracies arrayed against him, from the Rockefellers to the Queen of England to Jewish bankers. Soon the group entered into alliances with far-right groups that shared his conspiratorial view of the world, including some anti-Semites and neo-Nazis.


 * Sep 22, 1987 Jury Selection Begins in LaRouche Fraud Case; Lawyers Say Trial, Which Could Last 3 Months, Promises to Be One of the Strangest; John Mintz. The Washington Post Washington, D.C.: Sep 22, 1987. pg. a.14
 * Another potentially troublesome prosecution witness is Mordecai Levy, a leader of a militant Jewish organization. Levy infiltrated the LaRouche group for years because he believed that it was anti-Semitic, but friends say he sometimes seemed to swing his allegiance to LaRouche.


 * Oct 25, 1987 LaRouchies back - new name, home Lynn Sweet. Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Oct 25, 1987. pg. 18
 * The Anti-Defamation League and other LaRouche critics have long contended that the organization is anti-Semitic. LaRouche spokesmen, including Jewish members, have denied that accusation.


 * Aug 7, 1988 LaRouche gets exposure again NENE FOXHALL. Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex.: Aug 7, 1988. pg. 1
 * That is mild stuff compared with LaRouche's calling Henry Kissinger a British agent and traitor; Queen Elizabeth a drug pusher; Averill Harriman a Nazi and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith "a group of self-hating anti-Semites with Jewish names."


 * Dec 10, 1988 LaRouche Drive to Recruit Farmers Told; ERIC HARRISON. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Dec 10, 1988. pg. 30
 * Political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has launched a major new campaign to recruit financially distressed farmers to his organization, a coalition of farm advocacy groups and religious organizations charged Friday. A LaRouche organization called Food for Peace has held as many as 25 recruitment meetings in mostly rural areas across the country since Labor Day in order to "prey upon a constituency of unsuspecting and financially distressed farm and rural people," representatives from 22 organizations charged. The coalition includes the National Council of Churches, the American Jewish Committee and Prairiefire Rural Action. The groups denounced LaRouche's views as racist and anti-Semitic and said his stands on agricultural issues were simplistic, divisive and potentially dangerous for the country.


 * April 30, 1989 The strange ascent of Lyndon LaRouche, a native American fascist :[2 STAR Edition]. DAVID E. SCHOB Houston Chronicle [serial online]. April 30, 1989:19
 * ''In the 1960s he grew enamored of European fascism and began spouting anti-Semitism. By the early 1970s his National Caucus of Labor Committees had recruited 600 hard-core members in 25 cities. Severing former leftwing ties, they moved to the right. Reaching out to the Ku Klux Klan, LaRouche declared the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust a hoax.


 * June 4, 1989 An American Hitler // A frightening look at Lyndon LaRouche and America's receptiveness to right-wing extremism Series: Books :[CITY Edition]. MARTIN DYCKMAN St. Petersburg Times [serial online]. June 4, 1989:6D
 * ''Or to put the question another way, why hasn't despotism happened here? The possibility is not that far-fetched, considering how much Franklin Roosevelt feared Huey Long, how so few people dared to oppose Joseph McCarthy, and how so blatant a fascist and anti-Semite as Lyndon LaRouche managed to acquire a mantle of political respectability before committing the common frauds that got him sent to prison. [..] LaRouche's fervid anti-Semitism, which is closely tied to Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby and made him a natural ally of the Ku Klux Klan, echoes all the wearisome superstitions about an international Jewish conspiracy bent on world domination. In the LaRouche version, it is based in Great Britain.


 * Jun 11, 1989 LAROUCHE'S LEGACY Down, but not out, `New American Fascist' keeps plan alive, writer says Mary Gillespie. Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Jun 11, 1989. pg. 41
 * King's fascination with the man who began as a far-left Trotskyist and ended up a fascist started more than a decade ago, when he first observed LaRouche's power for himself. "I had friends I'd known around Columbia University in 1968 who had joined LaRouche when he was part of the New Left," recalls King. "Several of these friends were Jewish, and when LaRouche moved into anti- Semitism in the middle 1970s, I was thoroughly puzzled as to why these people, who I remembered as being level-headed, intelligent and emotionally stable, stayed with him. I had to know what this was about." And so he began looking into LaRouche's growing organization - and was increasingly amazed at what he found. "In 1977, I went to LaRouche's offices in lower Manhattan," King says. "They had 3 1/2 floors of a factory building that must have carried an astronomical rent; they had computers in there - which, in 1977, was a big deal - and Teletype machines and banks of WATS line phones. They had well over 100 people in there working full-time on intelligence-gathering tasks. LaRouche had set up his own parallel CIA. "I wondered where the money was coming from; it was obvious that this was taking millions of dollars a year, and they weren't making that kind of cash by going out and selling their little radical paper on street corners." `What was this guy up to? I began looking into his ideology. I went to a man who was a longtime leader of the Conservative Party in New York; he had made quite a study of anti-Semitism and with him I had one of the most eye-opening afternoons of my life. He kept pulling down books by anti-Semitic writers from his shelves and showing me exactly where LaRouche had picked up various ideas. It was then that I realized this stuff was far more virulent than it appears on the surface."


 * June 21, 1989 Tenant Chief: Saint or Sinner Slain leader stirred full range of emotions :[CITY Edition]. Newsday (Combined Editions) [serial online]. June 21, 1989:03. This story was reported by Mitch Gelman, Alison
 * Kellner, who also represents the Manhattan Democratic Party, said that he began working with Bailey only in the past year. "Before that, I wouldn't touch him," said Kellner, explaining that Bailey's "organizing tactics were properly accused of being anti-Semitic. In recent years, though, he stopped attacking groups of people and directed his attention against individual targets, which were the landlords." Other tenant activists remained skeptical. "Bruce wasn't content to fight landlords," said Michael McKee, director of the New York State Tenant and Neighborhood Coalition, which expelled Bailey's group in 1976. "He made a number of scurrilous attacks on other tenant leaders. I personally objected to him because he was very anti-Semitic and anti-gay." [..] Dennis King, who worked closely with Bailey as an organizer in the mid-1970s, said, "The whole history of Bruce's political involvement was one fight after another." King, the author of a recent biography of right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche, describes Bailey in the book as an informant for LaRouche. According to King, Bailey's actions were often motivated by spite. "He had squabbles with enemies and squabbles with friends he would turn into enemies." 


 * May 24, 1990 Lyndon LaRouche Leaves Prison to Testify for Fund-Raiser Alison Howard. The Washington Post Washington, D.C.: May 24, 1990. pg. a.42
 * Alternately playing professor and preacher, he said the charges against him and his colleagues originated not with aggrieved lenders but with the Anti-Defamation League, which fed information to the media and to local, state and federal law-enforcement agencies. LaRouche said the ADL is out to destroy his organization, wrongly perceiving it as antisemitic. He cited a document written after victories by two LaRouche candidates in 1986 Illinois primaries, called "Portrait of a Political Extremist." "The red-dye trace of the ADL's influence is {the repetition of} `political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche' as if it were something on my birth certificate," he fumed. On cross-examination, Senior Assistant Attorney General John B. Russell Jr. accused LaRouche of engaging in "the same sort of campaign to destroy the ADL." "They accuse me of being a wild conspiracy theorist," LaRouche replied. "The ADL is involved in a wilder conspiracy than even we have . . . . To me and my friends, that is good gallows humor," he said.


 * February 19, 1991 In a Tide of Japanese Books on Jews, an Anti-Semitic Current STEVEN R. WEISMAN, New York Times (Late Edition (east Coast)) [serial online]. February 19, 1991:A.11.
 * ''One new book published in December, "Counterattack of Hitler," is a best seller at many book stores and has sold 30,000 copies. It denies the existence of the Holocaust and asserts that a Jewish conspiracy is being thwarted by Germany, Arabs and other groups. Another new book, "Confessions of the Jews," by Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg, two American followers of the political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, says the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish group, engages in organized crime and drug-trafficking. The book has sold only 5,000 copies but is a best-seller in those bookstores carrying it. Author of Anti-Semitic Books The author of the first book and the translator of the second is Masami Uno, an Osaka man whose books denouncing Jews have long sold well and are widely available. His book, "If You Understand Jews, You Can See the Whole World," has sold 540,000 copies since it was published in 1986.


 * May 7, 1991 LaRouche group's fund raising questioned Martin C. Evans. The Sun. Baltimore, Md.: May 7, 1991. pg. 1.D
 * LaRouche candidates -- in 1986 the organization claimed more than 800 candidates on primary ballots across the county -- are often accused of combining elements of racism, anti-Semitism, radical industrial policy and vitriolic attacks on public figures.


 * Jul 5, 1991 Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader THOMAS J. BRAZAITIS, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio: Jul 5, 1991
 * LaRouche brushes off charges that his movement is anti-Semitic by saying that it is anti-Zionist.


 * June 1992 Friendly Fascists. Chip Berlet, The Progressive [serial online]. June 1992;56:16.
 * ''Jon Hillson, an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party, was flabbergasted when he saw students taking seriously the antigovernment theories peddled by Lyndon LaRouche devotees who showed up in the Cleveland area at college meetings organized to protest the Gulf war. [..] Hillson recalled that LaRouche followers had physically assaulted socialists in the 1970s, and urged the students to disavow any collaboration with the LaRouchians "because of their past ties to government agencies" and "their homophobic, racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic agenda." [..] In a 1978 editorial, LaRouche's New Solidarity proclaimed that "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."


 * August 5, 1993 ANTISEMITISM' LEFT ON DOORSTEPS TEANECK BLANKETED WITH BOOKS By MICHAEL MARKOWITZ, Staff Writer " The Record, August 5, 1993,
 * Copies of a book characterizing the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as "one of the most pernicious agencies working to destroy the United States" have been left at homes throughout Teaneck in the past week as part of a campaign by a local supporter of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche. [Jeffrey Maas] said he believes [Matt Guice]'s campaign on behalf of LaRouche is clearly intended to stir antisemitic sentiment by spreading "bizarre" allegations about the ADL and siding with the so-called Holocaust revisionists who argue that Hitler killed far fewer than 6 million Jews.


 * Sep 2, 1994 Nation of Islam Official Assails Jewish Group; ADL Accused of Conspiring Against Blacks Laurie Goodstein. The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext). Washington, D.C.: Sep 2, 1994. pg. a.03
 * A Nation of Islam spokesman joined with supporters of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche in a forum at the Vista Hotel last night in which they blamed the Jewish Anti-Defamation League for a host of crimes and conspiracies against African Americans. [...] LaRouche is a perennial presidential candidate who was paroled earlier this year after serving five years of a 15-year sentence for fraudulent fund-raising and tax evasion. The Nation of Islam and the Lyndon LaRouche group share resentment of the ADL, which has issued several reports painting both groups as antisemitic personality cults. Leaders of the Nation of Islam have stirred controversy in the past by making antisemitic remarks, even as Farrakhan has insisted his group is not antisemitic or racist. The Schiller Institute, a LaRouche organization, paid for the rental of the room at the Vista last night. Last night was not the first occasion that followers of LaRouche have joined forces with the Nation of Islam. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the two groups have held at least two similar joint meetings at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia in the last two years.


 * Dec 10 1994 MPs admit they were duped by U.S. man jailed for fraud Eight signed petition asking for exoneration of prisoner. KIRK MAKIN The Globe and Mail [serial online]. 10 DecemberA.11.
 * A fixture of the extreme right in the United States who embraces bizarre conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism has received support from an unlikely source - eight Canadian MPs. The eight members of Parliament were listed as signatories on a petition published in the Washington Post last month decrying the imprisonment of Lyndon LaRouche, long-time leader of a political movement with cultish overtones. [..] Irving Abella, national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said the MPs were unacceptably ignorant or naive. "There are tens of thousands of Americans sitting in jail for crimes," he said. "Why these MPs would sign a petition for him boggles the mind. "This is a particularly evil, insidious and dysfunctional organization," he said. "They are Holocaust deniers and they believe in a Jewish conspiracy to control the world. They are quite berserk." The LaRouche organization includes a complex of corporations, publications, political campaign offices and socalled institutes. It has strong ties with Holocaust revisionists, neo-Nazi groups and other characters of the far right.


 * Dec 17, 1994 We're not racist, LaRouche group says CAMPBELL CLARK. The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Dec 17, 1994. pg. A.3
 * Supporters of American right-winger Lyndon LaRouche called a news conference in Longueuil yesterday to say they are not racist or anti-Semitic - as they passed out books that suggest links between Jewish groups and organized crime. The Canadian Jewish Congress said yesterday that LaRouche's supporters are using the controversy surrounding Greenfield Park Mayor Marc Duclos to disseminate anti-Semitic propaganda. [..] At yesterday's news conference, LaRouche supporters distributed copies of a book that claims B'nai Brith and its Anti-Defamation League are part of an international conspiracy linked to organized crime. Yesterday, Duclos, who was not at the conference, repeated his assertion that he had never read anything anti- Semitic in LaRouche literature and was only interested in LaRouche's ideas on economics. "If he has read the publications to which he has subscribed and seen nothing anti-Semitic or racist in them, then it's certainly cause for concern," said Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Quebec region of the Canadian Jewish Congress. [..] Duclos said he would no longer speak to Dr. Alain Gauthier, the man he had invited to teach municipal employees about LaRouche's ideas. At the news conference, Gauthier, a South Shore doctor, said yesterday he believed some of the LaRouche group's claims about the Anti-Defamation League, but is not anti-Semitic.


 * Jan 22, 1995 Nostalgic for simple absolutes; Many fall prey to LaRouche's paranoid certainties The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jan 22, 1995. pg. B.2 EDITORIAL
 * They are also extremely active in and around Montreal. One of Mr. LaRouche's "Exploratory Committees" functions in 19 American cities and one in Canada: ours. Montreal is also home to one of his many companies, Caucus Distributors. LaRouche's disciples have been unusually active of late in handing out propaganda at Metro stations and distributing it door-to-door. A year ago, they sent a book, The Ugly Truth About the Defamation League, to selected homes in the Town of Mount Royal; the mayor, Vera Danyluk, deplored its anti-Semitism but said that its circulation could not be stopped. [..] Even more worrying is the involvement of Marc Duclos, the recently elected mayor of Greenfield Park, with LaRouche groups. He attended a LaRouche conference in Washington; he subscribes to a key LaRouche publication; he has taken part in seminars of the racist Schiller Institute. Asked by a Gazette reporter if the Holocaust was exaggerated, he replied, "Maybe some, it depends on the figures." In December, Mr. Duclos promised to meet officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress; he has not yet done so. It is high time he did. 


 * Jan 30, 1995 I'm not anti-Semite, Larouche says The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jan 30, 1995. pg. B.2
 * In reply to your Jan. 22 editorial, I think it sufficient that I make but two crucial points. First, since I am not an anti-Semite, as some have suggested, reporting of the assertion that I am anti-Semitic tarnishes the publication, such as your own. Second, it is the central feature of my world view that the supersession of feudalism by the form of commonwealth espoused by Nicholas Cusa, France's Louis XI, Jean Bodin, Gottfried Leibniz and the preamble to the U.S. constitution typifies the 2 1/2 millennia conflict between the advocates of such republican reforms and those opposing, oligarchical institutions that have ruled and soiled most of this planet for virtually all human history to date. I believe, with Moses and the Christian apostles, that the individual person is made in the living image of God. I believe, together with Plato and Philo of Alexandria, that this quality of being in the image of God, setting mankind apart from and above the beasts, is intelligibly expressed by those creative powers of reason encountered as acts of valid discovery of principle in science, or similar discoveries in the classical art forms; it is a quality of creative reason correlate with what Christianity knows by the Greek agape and Latin caritas.
 * LYNDON H. LAROUCHE, Jr. Washington, D.C.


 * Feb 8, 1995 Duclos won't denounce racist group; But Greenfield Park mayor says he severed all ties with LaRouche LYNN MOORE. The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Feb 8, 1995. pg. A.3
 * Greenfield Park Mayor Marc Duclos yesterday steadfastly refused to denounce American right-wing ideologue Lyndon LaRouche or his anti-Semitic beliefs. "It is not for me to judge people," Duclos told reporters after a two-hour meeting with executive members of the Canadian Jewish Congress. [...] "Certainly we feel that a person in a public position should be prepared to denounce somebody else who is a known racist and known anti-Semitic," Manuel Shacter, the congress's Quebec region chairman, told reporters. Rabbi Reuben Poupko, another congress official, said: "We believe it is through the silence of good people that evil is allowed to flourish. Good people, especially political leadership, need to have the moral fibre to denounce racism and anti-Semitism." Despite the standoff, congress executive director Jack Jedwab said there was "a modicum of progress" made during the meeting. Duclos agreed to meet again with congress members and conceded during the meeting that the congress is not an organized-crime network, as recently described in a LaRouche publication. [...] Yesterday's meeting was their first face-to-face encounter since Duclos's support of the LaRouche organization became public in mid- December. It was disclosed in the media that Duclos had attended seminars in Montreal given by the Schiller Institute - a propaganda front for LaRouche - and he subscribed to a LaRouche publication, the Executive Intelligence Review. Duclos also had met LaRouche at a Washington conference shortly after the conspiracy theorist was released from prison on mail-fraud convictions. Duclos, 35, claimed he was unaware of LaRouche's well-documented statements against Jews, aboriginals and homosexuals, among  others.


 * Jan 22, 1995 Nostalgic for simple absolutes; Many fall prey to LaRouche's paranoid certainties The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Jan 22, 1995. pg. B.2 EDITORIAL
 * They are also extremely active in and around Montreal. One of Mr. LaRouche's "Exploratory Committees" functions in 19 American cities and one in Canada: ours. Montreal is also home to one of his many companies, Caucus Distributors. LaRouche's disciples have been unusually active of late in handing out propaganda at Metro stations and distributing it door-to-door. A year ago, they sent a book, The Ugly Truth About the Defamation League, to selected homes in the Town of Mount Royal; the mayor, Vera Danyluk, deplored its anti-Semitism but said that its circulation could not be stopped. [..] Even more worrying is the involvement of Marc Duclos, the recently elected mayor of Greenfield Park, with LaRouche groups. He attended a LaRouche conference in Washington; he subscribes to a key LaRouche publication; he has taken part in seminars of the racist Schiller Institute. Asked by a Gazette reporter if the Holocaust was exaggerated, he replied, "Maybe some, it depends on the figures." In December, Mr. Duclos promised to meet officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress; he has not yet done so. It is high time he did. 


 * Mar 18, 1996 LaRouchites settle in defamation case Jones, Jeremy. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. New York: Mar 18, 1996. pg. 12
 * ''The U.S.-based Lyndon LaRouche group has agreed to settle a defamation case initiated by a prominent member of the Melbourne Jewish community. As part of the settlement, the extremist organization will pay legal costs and publish an apology to Michael Danby. In 1993, the local LaRouchite group Citizens Electoral Council published a series of allegations against Danby, who at the time was the editor of the Australia/Israel Review. Danby also has been heavily involved with the Australian Labor Party. In a document called "Is the Anti-Defamation Commission Spying on You?" the council made what were apparently false claims about Danby's activities in the Jewish and political communities. Last month, two Australian federal parliamentarians joined Jewish community groups in a call for the government to investigate the activities of the Australian followers of LaRouche. LaRouche's ideology combines anti-Semitism and bizarre conspiracy theories, such as the claim that Queen Elizabeth heads a drug-pushing ring and that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was in the employ of the Soviet KGB.


 * Jul 4, 1996 Dubious Distinction: Group with ties to Farrakhan, LaRouche will pay tribute to Rabin on July 7 Feldman, Steve. Jewish Exponent. Philadelphia: Jul 4, 1996. Vol. 200, Iss. 1; pg. 1
 * A group with ties to political extremist Lyndon LaRouche's organization and Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam will honor slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin here Sunday, July 7. [...] Barry Morrison, Anti-Defamation League regional director, said the cooperation between the LaRouche organization and Farrakhan "represents a marriage of a demagogue [Farrakhan] with a criminal [LaRouche]. Both are known for their highly anti-Semitic views... Working together, there could be no good outcome for Jews." Other events planned during the convention, which concludes Sunday, include separate addresses by LaRouche, Farrakhan and ousted NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis... [...] A spokesman said nobody from the Israeli government plans to be at the ceremony or to accept the honor - DICC's Twelve Point Award. [...] DICC is not the first instance in which the LaRouche and Farrakhan camps have collaborated. According to the Anti-Defamation League, they have cooperated with one another since the late 1980s. Common ground A common theme among the organizations and their followers have been frequent attacks against the Jewish community and Israel. ADL's Morrison described this week's DICC effort as "a tool of the LaRouche political cult to promote its agenda in the African American community." While Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements have been widely reported - the Nation of Islam leader has called Judaism "a gutter religion" and earlier this year said Jews were "wicked deceivers of the American people" - LaRouche's anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist views have been out of the public eye in recent years. ADL reported the 73-year-old LaRouche, who was jailed from 1989 to 1994 on charges of defrauding senior citizens of $30 million, "blames prominent Jews and Jewish families, organizations and businesses for organized crime and drug trafficking" and believes there is "an international Jewish conspiracy." ADL has been a frequent target for LaRouche. In a recent statement, LaRouche blasted Israel for bombing Lebanon when, according to LaRouche, terrorism against the Jewish state is being directed from London. [...] Duane Quimina, assistant director of DICC, said his organization is not anti-Semitic and that he personally was not aware of any anti-Semitic views on the part of LaRouche or Farrakhan. Brooks added, "It's not to say we understand or agree with what's being put forward." He suggested that people can here LaRouche and Farrakhan and "make their own judgment."


 * October 18, 1996 Milton radio ads assailed Pearson Stefanie L. Milton radio ads assailed. Jewish News of Greater Phoenix [serial online]. October 18, 1996:7.
 * Maria Elena Milton, Democratic nominee for the Dist. 4 congressional seat, last week began airing an ad on talk radio stations that urges voters not to "let the philosophy of Gingrich Republican hadegg push your parents into the gas ovens of managed health care." [..] Milton, who beat physician Stuart Turnansky in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, is a follower of Lyndon LaRouche, whom she describes as "the world's leading economist." [..] Among LaRouche's comments on Jews and Israel are his assertions in a Dec. 8, 1978, interview with New Solidarity that "You cannot be a Zionist and also a Jew" and describing Zionism as a "state of collective psychosis." In an earlier interview that year, he said "The Zionist lobby is a major power within the three TV networks, and especially NBC, which televised `Roots' and `Holocaust' to build racial tension." [..] Milton said the criticism is not valid. "Why is the media howling? Because I have thrown a wrench into the works of the biggest heist in history, the piratization of Social Security. That's why -- not any ridiculous, so-called attack on Jewish people," she said. Milton said that "Nazi philosophy" was based on the same principle as managed care: that  "some lives aren't worth living." Asked whether it's appropriate to draw an analogy between Medicare cuts and lining up people and shooting them, she said, "It doesn't diminish anything." She also said that she is "part Jewish." Regarding LaRouche's assertions on Jews and Israel, she said, "As someone who has Jewish blood running through her veins, I wouldn't associate with an anti-Semite." Milton said that many Jews are LaRouche supporters. "I've gone to (LaRouchite) conferences full of Jewish people. Names like Steinberg, Kromberg, names like that ... people wearing yarmulkes, rabbis. Are they no longer Jewish because they like the economic policies of LaRouche?" Turnansky told Jewish News that while he is "committed to the Democratic party," he thinks "a Democrat could not consciously vote for or support the Democratic candidate" in the fourth district.


 * Spring 1998 Black fundamentalism Manning Marable. Dissent. New York: Spring 1998. Vol. 45, Iss. 2; pg. 69, 8 pgs
 * ''AN EVALUATION of Farrakhan's relationship with racist extremist Lyndon LaRouche requires some background information. From 1949 until his expulsion in 1966, LaRouche was an activist in the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization. At the height of the mobilization against the Vietnam War, LaRouche established his own radical sect, the National Caucus of Labor Committees. Within a few short years, the LaRouche group mutated from the left to the ultra-right, embracing a fascist agenda of extreme anticommunism, racism, and antiSemitism. In 1973 the La Rouchites initiated "Operation Mop Up," a series of violent assaults against members of the U.S. Communist Party Armed with clubs, pipes, and other weapons, LaRouche's cult tried to disrupt public meetings and physically intimidate radical activists. Much of LaRouche's violence and hatred focused on the black movement. In 1977 he declared that African Americans who fight for equal rights are obsessed with "zoological specifications of microconstituencies' self interests" and "distinctions which would be proper to the classification of varieties of monkeys and baboons." In these same years, LaRouche courted leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and white fascism. In 1974 his front organization, the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC), collaborated with racist groups in Boston to support an anti-busing candidate for Congress. The following year, the NDPC initiated a legal defense campaign on behalf of Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. LaRouche later provided intelligence information on the U.S. anti-apartheid movement to the apartheid regime in South Africa. [..] In any case, by the mid-1980s LaRouche had concluded that his organization had to develop allies within the African-American community The first significant step toward this goal was a rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in January 1985. LaRouche front organizations sponsored the event, which was theoretically held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday At least five thousand African Americans attended the rally, which also featured banners in support of President Reagan's Star Wars nuclear weapons scheme: "I Have a Dream, and Build the Beam." Quietly LaRouche began to recruit dozens of African Americans into his organization and to develop close relationships with others who might benefit from his financial contributions. In the latter category was Congress of Racial Equality leader Roy Innis, who first met LaRouche in the early 1980s. In October 1984 Innis testified as a "character witness" for LaRouche in a slander suit against NBC. Innis claimed in the trial that LaRouche was neither a racist nor an anti-Semite and that "the composition of his organization indicates to me that he's not a racist." LaRouche's prize recruit, however, was the Reverend James Bevel, the former aide to King. The mainstream leadership of the black community was not fooled by LaRouche's new tactics. In the Atlanta Voice of April 12-18, 1986, the A. Philip Randolph Institute declared: "LaRouche appeals to fear, hatred and ignorance. He seeks to exploit and exacerbate the anxieties and frustrations of Americans by offering an array of scapegoats and enemiesJews, Zionists, international bankers, blacks, labor unions-much the way Hitler did in Germany" In 1985 African-American leader Julian Bond accused LaRouche of "using the elderly and the politically unsophisticated to promote his brand of right-wing totalitarianism, his alliance with Nazis and the Klan, his support for the white supremacists in South Africa, and for President Reagan's `Star Wars' Program." One of LaRouche's sharpest and most perceptive black critics was the Reverend Benjamin Chavis, at that time executive director of the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice. In a nationally syndicated column, in August 1986, Chavis sharply denounced "LaRouche and his band of fanatics" for attempting "to win black recruits." LaRouche's front organizations have played upon "the black community's fear of the growing drug problem and the AIDS epidemic. They have gotten black recruits with their strong anti-drug line and their suggestion that all AIDS victims be quarantined." Chavis warned African Americans that the "LaRouche organization is clearly racist, works closely with the Klan, and is a supporter of the South African government as well. . . . It is trying, through its many tentacles, to infiltrate the black community." [..] In September 1, 1994, the Schiller Institute organized and paid for a public forum in Washington. It featured Dr. Muhammad, who accused the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith of "engineering" Chavis's removal.


 * Jun 27 2001 Australian politicians apologize after signing extremist petition. Jewish Telegraphic Agency [New York] 27 Jun 2001,23. Jones, Jeremy. " Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW
 * ''Two Australian politicians, claiming they were duped, have apologized to Jewish groups here after signing petitions connected to U.S. extremist Lyndon LaRouche. [..] These petitions were not overtly anti-Semitic. But LaRouche, who has served a prison term 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.


 * June 9, 2003 Thinking Things Over: Joining LaRouche in the Fever Swamps By Robert L. Bartley Thinking Things Over: Joining LaRouche in the Fever Swamps. Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) [serial online]. June 9, 2003:A.19
 * As one of the few people who ran with both neo-conservatives and the Wohlstetter circle, let me testify that they did not appear at each other's conferences or dinner tables. But prominent members of each are Jewish. This is what the recent conspiracy charges are ultimately about. Sometimes it is overt anti-Semitism; with "Children of Satan," Mr. LaRouche has chosen an Aryan-nation phrase for Jews (descendants of Cain, who was the result of Satan seducing Eve, in this perfervid theology). At other times, often in the hands of accusers who are Jewish themselves, it is a charge of secret  loyalties. The Jews, or Israel, or the Likud have conspired to take over American foreign policy. This is the ugly accusation an alert reader should suspect in encountering the word "Straussian," or these days even "neo-conservative" in the context of the Iraq debate. Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle find their Jewish heritage a point of attack. But George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are gentiles. Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell don't look Jewish to me, but they also helped draft the basic statement of the Bush Doctrine, the September 2002 "National Security Policy of the United States."


 * May 30, 2004 Defectors tricked us with WMD lies, David Rose The Observer [serial online]. May 30, 2004:23.
 * All the stories about it appear to share a single source, Karen Kwiatkowski, a now- retired lieutenant colonel who worked in the Pentagon - but not in the OSP - on North Africa. [..] Meanwhile, her story first surfaced - with her name concealed - in a dubious outlet: the Executive Intelligence Review, a  virulently antisemitic magazine run by conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.


 * Oct 24, 2004 No Joke; Eight-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche may be a punchline on 'The Simpsons,' but his organization -- and the effect it has on young recruits -- is dead serious; April Witt. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Oct 24, 2004. pg. W.12
 * ''[Erica Duggan] could have found the Anti-Defamation League Web site, which charges that LaRouche is anti-Semitic and has ties to radical right Islamic groups. She might have stumbled across a LaRouche campaign press release, which lambastes its critics. "They say things like LaRouche is a leader of a cult or that he is anti-Semitic, or some other vile epithet," the release says. "Don't be fooled by these rumors and lies." They originate from Gestapo-style "thought police," and the families of the financial oligarchy who "exert control over politics in the U.S., through the top-down management of 'approved' popular beliefs, and religions, just as the oligarchy of the Roman Empire administered political control through the approved pantheon of pagan gods." [..] In 1977, LaRouche married a much younger German woman, Helga Zepp, a key organizer for his operations in Europe. Their relationship, his second marriage, had a profound impact on LaRouche organizations in the United States, Kacprzak recalls. "We basically became a German organization," he says. "We'd have classes in German. They'd be teaching German language. We'd be reading German poetry." [..] It is an irony not lost on Erica that LaRouche, veteran weaver of conspiracy theories involving the British and Zionists, is being pursued by a Jewish mother from Britain.


 * Supporters hope a fresh inquest will finally force German police to reinvestigate why a British Jew died in mysterious circumstances after spending five days with a far-right political cult led by a convicted fraudster who is known for his virulent anti-Semitic views.
 * Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult Jerome Taylor. The Independent. London (UK): Feb 27, 2010. pg. 12

"Political cult/cult leader"
Chip Berlet. “Lyndon LaRouche and the U.S. Labor Party: Cult Fanaticism and the Politics of Paranoia,” Chicago Reader, 3/7/1980.

King, Dennis. (1989). Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday.

Quotations

 * Supporters hope a fresh inquest will finally force German police to reinvestigate why a British Jew died in mysterious circumstances after spending five days with a far-right political cult led by a convicted fraudster who is known for his virulent anti-Semitic views.
 * Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult Jerome Taylor. The Independent. London (UK): Feb 27, 2010. pg. 12

"Fascist/Neo-fascist"
King, Dennis. (1982). Nazis Without Swastikas: The Lyndon LaRouche Cult and Its War on American Labor. New York: League for Industrial Democracy.

King, Dennis. (1989). Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday.

Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

Fascism By Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman ISBN 0415290201,

The Party By Barry Sheppard ISBN 1876646500

Race in the Global Era By Clarence Lusane ISBN 0896085732.

Quotations

 * It's clearly a neo-fascist organization," said Mike Fellner, a staff member of the underground newspaper Take Over. "I don't care what their espoused rhetoric is, their actions toward the left show that they're fascist." Fellner said many leftists believe that NCLC is itself a "police front organization" designed to divide the left and discredit the documented information on the CIA. But to Fellner, it matters little whether or not they are in fact agents. "Even if they aren't police agents, they act like police agents."
 * Local Group Hasn't Won Masses Yet. The Capital Times, Feb. 25, 1974.


 * CHARLOTTE- Stan Ezrol, a local member of the U.S. Labor Party, was led from the auditorium where Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond] spoke after Ezrol rushed toward the platform. The incident occurred during a questioning session after Bond's speech. Bond called the Labor Party "a group of leftwing fascists," and Ezrol headed for the stage. A security guard grabbed Ezrol and ushered him out of the building.
 * Bond Says Ethnic Remark Was Racist -AP High Point Enterprise. Tuesday, April 27, 1976 5A


 * We of the press should be chary of offering them print or air time. There is no reason to be too delicate about it: Every day we decide whose voices to relay. A duplicitous violence prone group with fascistic proclivities should not be presented to the public unless there is reason to present it in those terms.
 * NCLC: A Domestic Political Menace. Stephen Rosenfeld Washington Post September 24, 1976


 * The anti-LaRouche coalition is circulating fliers that describe the LaRouche group and its nine candidates as "the new fascist cult."


 *  My favorite place for Being Saved, Joining a Cause or Hearing the Other Side is in front of the Gemco store near DeSoto. This time it was the Lyndon LaRouche hustle. LaRouche, for those who missed 1984, has run for president four times. He has alternately been labeled a neo-fascist and a Soviet agent. He calls himself a great American and raises millions. Two dollars of it came from me. I gave it to a sincere young woman who insisted that absolutely the only way to prevent annihilation is to build more missiles, stop Henry Kissinger and love Lyndon LaRouche.


 * ''"I know no such thing as nasty as running against a fascist sect," Mr. [Daniel Patrick Moynihan] said. "When they go after your family and you and violence is threatened and not very far from real, you have an experience."


 * Tim Fuller, executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, said the LaRouche followers don't belong on the Democratic ballot."I don't think that fascists are Democrats, and I'm certainly opposed to the policies that Lyndon LaRouche and his followers espouse," Fuller said.


 * LaRouche's movement is an odd species of homegrown fascism, complete with a fascination with violence and a penchant for harassment of critics. Over the last decade, his various groups have spent millions of dollars spreading his message.
 * THE GAME'S UP FOR LAROUCHE. :[FINAL EDITION, C]." Stephen Chapman " Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext), March 30, 1986,


 * John LoCicero, a principal political strategist in the 1981 New York mayoral primary, has recently been quoted as saying that "we didn't challenge anyone's signatures" because "it's not part of the democratic process." That is a perfectly honorable statement but calamitously wrong. The democratic process is not abetted by admitting neo-fascists to the Democratic Party. Let them have their own party if they like, but keep them out of ours.


 * It is a great mistake to associate earnest and idealistic conservative men and women with the power-hungry Lyndon LaRouche. The anti-USSR stance of LaRouche is deceptive and his domestic program is downright liberal-socialist. LaRouchites cannot be put on anyone's political spectrum, I believe. I do not know what label the media can properly give them, but the term "fascist" applies best.
 * Sean Adams, President, the Conservative Council, of Northwestern University


 * At a press conference at the party's headquarters, 3455 S. Michigan Ave., Diane Roling, the Socialist Workers candidate for governor, said: "Our platform is totally the opposite of the LaRouches. The people who voted for them did not know what they stand for. They're fascists and they espouse a doctrine of anti-Semitism."


 *  Candidates for governor are required to submit 2,000 nominating signatures. They must collect at least 1,000 of those signatures in 10 counties, submitting at least 100 signatures from each county. Scott submitted 2,476 signatures. It's Mickey Mouse. It's harassment, Scott's attorney, Jeffrey L. Pettit, said of the signature challenge in a prepared statement. They're not far right, they're a fascist cult, Pettit said of the LaRouche Democrats.


 * LaRouche said descriptions of him as a neo-fascist and anti-Semetic "originate with the drug lobby or the Soviet operation — which is sometimes the same thing."
 * LaRouche alleges conspiracy from Moscow to White House. Associated Press FREDERICK POST, FREDERICK, MD., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1986, D-8


 * ''The rise of candidates loyal to Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. in Illinois and elsewhere is cause for serious concern because it appeals to people who are suffering economically and are searching for scapegoats, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said yesterday. "All of us stand to suffer with the rise of LaRouchism," Jackson said after a breakfast meeting with reporters. "When teachers and farmers and meatcutters start losing their jobs, they start reaching out for scapegoats. And that's where your classic racism, fascism and anti-Semitism come from."
 * LaRouchies appeal to poor, Jesse says. Jerome Idaszak. Chicago Sun - Times. Chicago, Ill.: Apr 15, 1986. pg. 34


 * But that doesn't have the third parties singing the praises of LaRouche followers. "Their whole purpose is to confuse people as to what third parties are, make people think those parties are the lunatic fringe," said Scott Dombeck, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for attorney general. "They represent a fascist threat," said Ted Pearson, executive secretary of the Illinois district of the Communist Party.


 * Radical mother figure and journalist Clara Fraser got to know Lyndon LaRouche in their Socialist Workers Party days. She has written a memoir for the Freedom Socialist newspaper, out this week. I attribute his ideological flip-flop into neo-fascism to his hysteria over the rise of the mass women's movement, said Fraser.


 * In a forthcoming article in The New Republic, the New York Democrat concludes that philosophical extremists are endangering both political parties: Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. on the Democratic side with his neo-fascist Jew-baiting conspiratorial ideas and David A. Stockman on the Republican side with his ideas, at least until he left Government, of encouraging large Federal deficits to force spending cuts


 * The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, not sure whether it should get involved in politics, said yesterday it will monitor the activities of political radical Lyndon LaRouche to determine if any action is warranted. The eight-member commission was briefed by well-known authors who have studied LaRouche and was told his political movement is anti-Semitic and parallels the fascism movement in Germany and Italy before World War II. [..] The panel of critics painted a picture of a small core of militant followers of LaRouche at the farthest, totalitarian extremes of the political spectrum. "Although the hard core of LaRouche followers has rarely exceeded 800 at any given time, the group is worthy of attention because of its militancy in attacking real and imagined opponents . . . and its international operations and connections," said John Reese, publisher of Information Digest, a newsletter that covers the political fringes.


 * First, the Democrats. The neo-fascist, Jew-baiting, conspiratorial ideas of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. pose an extraordinary danger to the Democratic Party. LaRouche candidates have won the Illinois primary victories for lieutenant governor and secretary of state and are virtually unopposed in Democratic congressional campaigns across the country. This latest phase in the LaRouche movement began in New York City in 1981, when a LaRouche candidate entered the Democratic primary contest for mayor and was treated as a legitimate aspirant to the party's nomination. This gave LaRouche a previously unimaginable legitimacy. The level of political literacy among the New York Democratic leaders was so low that no one understood who the LaRouchies were. When the LaRouche candidate was challenged by another "insurgent" for non-adherence to the principles of the Democratic Party, a state judge ruled that such a charge had to come from a party official - which did not happen. In 1982, a LaRouche candidate announced he would challenge me in the Democratic senatorial primary. We fought him from Day One. A group of high-minded New Yorkers had formed what Hodding Carter calls a "Fair Play for LaRouche Committee." This outfit suggested that my campaign manager, Tim Russert, had engaged in unfair campaign practices when he called the LaRouche movement "anti-Semitic." Our battle may have seemed quixotic to the political classes. They are rarely comfortable with ideological battle - but we declared that ideas matter to us, and I think the voters responded that ideas matter to them as well. We won handily.


 * Resolutions denouncing the LaRouche organization were passed at at least two Democratic conventions, in District 13 and District 15. The District 13 resolution hit the LaRouche organization efforts to infiltrate and usurp control of the Democratic Party, while the District 15 resolution attacked LaRouche and his mindless followers, alleging they are racist, anti-Semitic, fascist and bigoted.


 * Rep. Stephen Solarz (D., N.Y.) said the goal of the LaRouche candidates is not to win elections but to "undermine the Democratic Party" and "pave the way for the destruction of the two-party system." [..] The congressman compared LaRouche to Adolf Hitler, who, he said, also was considered a crackpot before his meteoric rise to the chancellorship of Germany. "I don't think anything like that could happen in America, but I don't want to take a chance," he said. He said Stevenson was in "the front line" in the fight against "the home-grown fascism of Lyndon LaRouche."


 * Praising the determination of a small group of protesters, about 500 candle-carrying marchers last night celebrated the one-year anniversary of the AIDS/ARC vigil at San Francisco's United Nations Plaza. [..] Pat Norman, a candidate for the Board of Supervisors, drew loud applause by calling LaRouche an "idiot," a "fascist," and a "Nazi."


 * People who invited attention to themselves, in any way, from the organization received harassing phone calls, at the least. Sometimes "they" arrived unannounced; few residents felt brave enough to slam their front doors shut. Once inside "they" launched insistent arguments, seeking converts to their oxymoronic blend of paranoiac fascism and pseudo-Christian theology. Most of all, according to my Loudoun friends, the uninvited LaRouche delegations came after money. Generally, they would not leave until a donation had been tendered. Men and women were forced to pay a bribe to enjoy the ease of their own homes. 
 * Leesburg's LaRouche nightmare. Roy Meachum The Frederick Post, FREDERICK, MD. OCTOBER 15, 1986 A-6


 * Afterwards, the Democratic Party, the Anti-Defamation League and the AFL-CIO conducted public education campaigns about LaRouche, who has been denounced as an anti-Semite and a fascist.


 *  For 20 years, LaRouche has zig-zagged across the political horizon, from the far left to the far right to a complex position described by some observers as the Twilight Zone. Denounced as an anti-Semite and a fascist, LaRouche, 64, has accused a bevy of public figures - from the queen of England to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - of being drug dealers, Soviet agents or homosexuals.


 * Although LaRouche is only one of 13 defendants, the case inevitably will focus on him. He is an enigmatic individual, whose political views started in the 1960s with Marxism but in the 1970s veered toward the right and, say most of his detractors, toward fascism.


 * Political Research Associates, a Boston-based private, non-profit institute, published a report on the New Alliance Party in 1987. In "Clouds Blur the Rainbow," writer Chip Berlet criticized Newman for his connection with Lyndon LaRouche in the early 1970s. In 1973, LaRouche was the leader of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, a New York Marxist political group. Newman has acknowledged that he worked with LaRouche. However, the alliance ended when LaRouche developed his own "neo-fascist" brand of politics, Berlet said.


 * Followers believe that only LaRouche can now save Western civilization through an iron-fisted policy that parallels those of fascist and authoritarian regimes.
 * LAROUCHE GROUP CALLED ADEPT AT SMEAR TACTICS. Jonathan Kaufman, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Aug 5, 1988. pg. 6


 * Having one's mental health questioned by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche is like being called ugly by a slug. Until President Reagan's tasteless attempt at humor Wednesday, only the crackpots surrounding LaRouche - whose paranoid fantasies have long since made him a slightly scary joke on the fascist fringe of American politics - had raised the question of Michael Dukakis' mental or physical well-being. 


 * He dismissed as lies charges by groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the AFL-CIO that he is an anti-Semite and a fascist. 


 * "With Dannemeyer and LaRouche, you have one crazy running against another," said Bob Hattoy, regional director of Campaign '88, a Democratic activist group running party campaigns throughout California. Hattoy said the LaRouche movement is "thinly veiled fascism. I think that's what it's all about. I think it's racist, nationalist, watered-down but still frightening fascism."


 * But Lenora B. Fulani's goal as the New Alliance Party presidential candidate is not the White House. It is the defeat of Michael Dukakis. [..] There have been suggestions that she is one of those "Lyndon Larouche" types, that she's connected to a cult headed by her campaign manager, and a lot of other unpleasantries, too-all which she denies. [..] She says she has never met Larouche and describes him as a "fascist" who wants another rich white man in the White House. And if her campaign were a cult, she says, she would be the leader, not her campaign manager.


 * A onetime aide to William P. Clark, the former national security adviser, testified today that he recalled meeting with Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. or his supporters on numerous occasions in 1982 and 1983 to discuss issues they considered to be of national importance. The witness, Richard C. Morris, formerly a special assistant to Mr. Clark, described his contacts with the LaRouche organization on the 13th day of the trial of the political theorist and six other defendants in Federal District Court here on charges of fraud and conspiracy involving loans to Mr. LaRouche and his organization. [..] Mr. Morris testified that more than once, beginning in mid-1982, he was asked by three different United States intelligence officials to cease his contact with supporters of Mr. LaRouche, whom they variously described as a fascist, a communist and a socialist.


 * CLASSICAL European fascism of the 1930s variety found neither a deep wellspring nor a significant following in American political life, except perhaps for the short-lived German-American Bund, which campaigned on the eve of Pearl Harbor against American assistance to nations resisting German and Italian aggression. Yet in a chilling echo from the past, America has experienced during the 1970s and 1980s the revival of a movement best summed up in the words of its own leader, Lyndon H. LaRouche: "It is not necessary to call oneself a fascist. It is simply necessary to be one!"
 * In the 1960s he grew enamored of European fascism and began spouting anti-Semitism. By the early 1970s his National Caucus of Labor Committees had recruited 600 hard-core members in 25 cities. Severing former leftwing ties, they moved to the right. Reaching out to the Ku Klux Klan, LaRouche declared the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust a hoax.
 * The strange ascent of Lyndon LaRouche, a native American fascist. :[2 STAR Edition]. DAVID E. SCHOB Houston Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext) [serial online]. April 30, 1989:19


 * ''Or to put the question another way, why hasn't despotism happened here? The possibility is not that far-fetched, considering how much Franklin Roosevelt feared Huey Long, how so few people dared to oppose Joseph McCarthy, and how so blatant a fascist and anti-Semite as Lyndon LaRouche managed to acquire a mantle of political respectability before committing the common frauds that got him sent to prison. ... The LaRouchian fantasy that Queen Elizabeth presides over the world narcotics trade derives from the rantings of British fascists in the 1930s and is shared today by the Ku Klux Klan.
 * An American Hitler // A frightening look at Lyndon LaRouche and America's receptiveness to right-wing extremism. Series: Books :[CITY Edition]. MARTIN DYCKMAN St. Petersburg Times [serial online]. June 4, 1989:6D.


 * No, it's the followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., whom critics have called an anti-Semitic, neo-fascist cult leader. LaRouchite Donald T. Hadley is back, running again for the Democratic nomination in the Fifth Congressional District, and he's scaring the hell out of the mainstream Democrats.[..] But Hadley gets more animated when he speaks about the candidate Lord recruited to run in the primary, West Chester lawyer Samuel C. Stretton. He said Stretton was not "a serious candidate" because his only reason for running was to attack the LaRouchites. [..] "Although laughable," Stretton said, "one should also realize that his LaRouchian views are fascist in nature and the LaRouchian philosophy has strong anti-Semitic undertones. There is nothing funny or acceptable about this man's run for Congress and any of his followers."


 * Roberto Pena Pena, a Tijuana engineer whose name appears on the ad, attended the press conference to accuse the group of misrepresenting itself when he was asked to sign his name and donate $107. He said a representative of the group told him he was ordering a magazine subscription and that he was not told of the advertisement, which he characterized as "fascist."
 * Hard-line Baja group's AIDS views condemned. Ernesto Portillo Jr.. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Aug 11, 1990. pg. B.1


 * ''Leonard Zeskind, who monitors hate groups for the Atlanta-based Center for Democratic Renewal, raised similar concerns: "The LaRouchies are climbing all over Ramsey Clark's coalition. They're poisoning the well, destroying good will. It shows lack of principle on the part of people running the show. Don't make alliances with fascism."


 * This denunciation of Bush, when linked with the command that Americans "must recognize their past mistakes and support LaRouche," is an appropriate reminder that LaRouche's organization has close ties with Saddam Hussein's fascist Baath Party and that it coordinates some domestic political efforts with Louis Farrakhan's so-called Nation of Islam.


 * Earlier this year, for example, Holocaust-denier David Irving was scheduled to speak at the Croatian Cultural Centre, but was turned away at the last minute after intervention by the Vancouver Multicultural Society. Speakers from the Schiller Institute, a front group for American neo-fascist Lyndon Larouche, have regularly been given a platform at the centre. [..] Crnkovic believes the same thing is happening in Croatia today. The current Croatian government, he said, is so desperate for international support it would welcome recognition from "even the worst regime in the world." In Crnkovic's mind this includes such institutions as the neo-fascist Schiller Institute.


 * These groups are accurately called neo-fascist because of their reliance on authoritarian solutions,demagoguery, scapegoating, and xenophobia. Other peddlers of paranoia on the Far Right include the Populist Party and the followers of Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a minor socialist theorist in the 1960s, switched tracks in the mid-1970s and began embracing fascist themes, pulling along 1,000 followers, some of whom were ordered to engage in physical assaults against political rivals.
 * Friendly Fascists. Chip Berlet, The Progressive [serial online]. June 1992;56:16.


 * The Jewish anti-defamation league regards LaRouche's organization as an anti-Semitic cult with a conspiracy-haunted ideology. Author Dennis King says he is an ideologue in the classic European fascist mold. 


 * And the neo-fascists are beginning to form an international movement. Mr. Zhirinovsky attends the conventions of the German People's Union and refers to this crowd of Bavarian fanatics as his German "partner." Louis J. Freeh, the new FBI director, goes to Germany to look into connections with American neo-Nazis, like Gary Lauck of Nebraska, the so-called Farm Belt Fuhrer. The Ku Klux Klan and the Lyndon LaRouche gang are busy in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
 * Fascism's Lengthening Shadow. By Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Wall Street Journal (Europe) [serial online]. December 28, 1993:PAGE 6.


 * Nancy Drew Sheehan, a mainstream Democrat running for state treasurer, held a Statehouse press conference Tuesday to tell voters she's not a LaRouche candidate. Sheehan's only opponent is Beaudette. "I am the real Democratic candidate for state treasurer," she said. "He is not a real Democrat." Sheehan said the LaRouche movement is racist, fascist and anti-Semetic. 


 * Wray's brother Dan, a former leader of the B.C. Ku Klux Klan, spoke at a Vancouver public meeting in April 1989 on behalf of the white culture group Canada First. The meeting was co-sponsored by the anti-abortion Life Gazette and supporters of American neo-fascist Lyndon Larouche at east Vancouver's Croatian Cultural Centre.


 * In addition, he has pursued his political interface with neo-fascist charlatan Lyndon LaRouche, who has cozied up to the Nation of Islam and Minister Farrakhan to secure an outlet for his destructive agenda in the Black community.
 * Black Empowerment: Farrakhan, Sharpton And Black Misleadership. Fulani, Lenora. New Pittsburgh Courier. (City Edition). Pittsburgh, Pa.: Jul 27, 1996. Vol. 87, Iss. 60; pg. A-7


 * Rev. Bevel's teaching is incompatible with Elijah Muhammad's. James Bevel is an integrationist. His doctrine weakens and softens the attitude of the Black nation. He ran for vice president with a Zvil-Fascist White man named Lyndon LaRouche. He tried to introduce Mr. LaRouche before the Black political convention an Mr. LaRouche was properly booed off stage.
 * Rev. Bevel Attacks Black Nationalists!. Shabazz, Malik Zulu. Afro - American Red Star. Washington, D.C.: Jun 7, 1997. Vol. 105, Iss. 43; pg. A5


 * Nevertheless, when the National African American Leadership Summit called for a national political convention at St. Louis in September 1996, at least three thousand representatives gathered to participate. On the convention's final day, the Reverend James Bevel, one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s former lieutenants and a recent convert to political conservatism, was given the podium. Bevel proudly introduced "the man of the hour," Lyndon LaRouche. Many in the audience were stunned: they immediately recognized LaRouche as a leader of fascist extremism in the United States and a defender of the former apartheid regime of South Africa. Instantly the crowd turned against Bevel and LaRouche, booing them off the stage. A fistfight erupted between several black nationalists and some of LaRouche's supporters, which was broken up by Farrakhan's security force. Throughout the country, perplexed African-American activists asked themselves why a white supremacist would be permitted to address a black political convention. Only Farrakhan could have given permission for LaRouche to speak. What seems at first to be a curious paradox was no puzzle at all. There were significant elements in their respective ideologies that brought Farrakhan and LaRouche into agreement.
 * AN EVALUATION of Farrakhan's relationship with racist extremist Lyndon LaRouche requires some background information. From 1949 until his expulsion in 1966, LaRouche was an activist in the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization. At the height of the mobilization against the Vietnam War, LaRouche established his own radical sect, the National Caucus of Labor Committees. Within a few short years, the LaRouche group mutated from the left to the ultra-right, embracing a fascist agenda of extreme anticommunism, racism, and antiSemitism. In 1973 the La Rouchites initiated "Operation Mop Up," a series of violent assaults against members of the U.S. Communist Party Armed with clubs, pipes, and other weapons, LaRouche's cult tried to disrupt public meetings and physically intimidate radical activists. Much of LaRouche's violence and hatred focused on the black movement. In 1977 he declared that African Americans who fight for equal rights are obsessed with "zoological specifications of microconstituencies' self interests" and "distinctions which would be proper to the classification of varieties of monkeys and baboons." In these same years, LaRouche courted leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and white fascism. In 1974 his front organization, the National Democratic Policy Committee (NDPC), collaborated with racist groups in Boston to support an anti-busing candidate for Congress. The following year, the NDPC initiated a legal defense campaign on behalf of Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. LaRouche later provided intelligence information on the U.S. anti-apartheid movement to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
 * Black fundamentalism. Manning Marable. Dissent. New York: Spring 1998. Vol. 45, Iss. 2; pg. 69, 8 pgs


 *  THE SNP's almost ignored contest for the deputy leadership took a bizarre turn yesterday when Mr Peter Kearney, regarded as the outsider in the race, appeared to endorse the views of notorious American political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Mr Kearney granted an interview to a magazine, the Executive Intelligence Review, published by LaRouche, a former convict who has been accused of being a fascist and conman with wildly eccentric views. Mr Kearney has since placed the contents on his website.


 *  The brilliant student thought he was attending an anti-Gulf War rally but the institute, named after Germany's equivalent of Shakespeare, is far from the civilised seat of learning its title suggests. It is the German front for the bizarre political cult run by American demagogue Lyndon LaRouche, whose worldwide organisation which boasts its own intelligence and security unit disguises its fascist ideology as maverick conservatism and which is accused of both anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. Jeremiah Duggan cannot have known this, for he was Jewish, the grandson of refugees from Hitler's Holocaust. Distressed by the anti- Semitic rhetoric he encountered at the institute that weekend, he stood up and proclaimed his faith. Four days later he was dead.


 * ''Even though he furiously accuses all manner of people of being Nazis, his own brand of politics both employs standard elements of fascism and revisions that may initially throw some people off track.
 * Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium by Helen Gilbert, Red Letter Press, 2003


 *  According to American writers Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, the LaRouche organisation is a fascist movement whose pronouncements have worrying echoes of Nazi ideology. The Iraq war, LaRouchites believe, was concocted by a group of Jewish bankers with immense political influence over the U.S. administration.


 * He has been accused of being a cult leader, fascist and anti-Semite -- all of which he and those around him vehemently deny.
 * Democrat on the dark side. Peter Morton, Washington Bureau Chief. National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Jun 16, 2005. pg. FP.8


 *  But half an hour before his death he had phoned his mother twice to say he was "under too much pressure" and "in deep trouble" and at an inquest in November 2003, a British coroner rejected the suicide theory and said Mr Duggan had been in a "state of terror". The student had travelled to Weisbaden for an antiwar conference linked to fascist conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, who ran the Schiller Institute. But it became clear at the conference that there was an anti- Semitic undercurrent to the institute's antiwar rhetoric.


 * Berlet says: "The LaRouche network combines totalitarian forms of social control, fascist political ideology and dualistic apocalyptic style, which encourages followers to fear that time is running out and they must act immediately to stave off some cataclysmic event."


 * Lawyers for Mrs Duggan described the LaRouche group as "a cult-like organisation which Mrs Duggan now knows espouses a fascist and anti-Semitic ideology and is headed by Lyndon LaRouche, a convicted fraudster".
 * Fascist cult may have killed Jewish student Murray Wardrop. The Daily Telegraph. London (UK): May 21, 2010. pg. 19

"Fraudster"
King, Dennis. (1989). Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday.

"Homophobe"
Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

Data collection abuses
Chip Berlet, “Ever Hear of Lyndon LaRouche? He May be Keeping Tabs on You,” Des Moines Register, 9/23/81, syndicated by Pacific News Service.

"Crackpot" or "Lunatic"

 * The discussion, hosted by Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton, ... [..] "The one thing Democrats and Republicans and Libertarians and Peace and Freedom all agree with is that Lyndon LaRouche is a nut case."
 * More than 300 people attend health care forum COURTNEY PERKES. Orange County Register. Santa Ana, Calif.: Aug 23, 2009.

AIDS
Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life, by Christopher P. Toumey, Llewellyn Publications (July 1996) ISBN 0813522854

Environment and climate change,
Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement Andrew Rowell, Routledge. 1996 ISBN 0415128277

Indictment and conviction
"Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, who faces a conspiracy charge, claimed Wednesday that the National Security Council (NSC) helped fabricate a case against him because he opposes aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.

LaRouche said the case was constructed to undermine his 1988 presidential campaign but actually may have helped him earn name recognition.

``The National Security Council ... was running an operation against us - an operation which in part led to the indictment against me,`` LaRouche said.

[..]

At a news conference, LaRouche accused the Contras of smuggling drugs. He said former NSC aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and his colleagues often solicited funds to help the Contras from the same people who were being asked to contribute to the LaRouche presidential campaign.

``They were trying to raise money from people who were in touch with supporters of LaRouche, and the LaRouche supporters told them not to give money because (the Contras) were drug runners,`` LaRouche spokeswoman Dana Scanlon said.

``There's pretty direct knowledge that this led to some pretty angry reactions from the people who were involved with Col. North's fund-raising operations.`` [..]"

- LaRouche claims security council behind indictment; [CITY Edition] St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jul 9, 1987. pg. 7.A

LaRouche and Iraq
"Last month, at an antiwar conference in Chicago held by the LaRouche organization, a featured speaker was the editor of Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam whose leader, Farrakhan, has been condemned for anti-Semitic comments, including his reference to Judaism as a "dirty" religion. The same conference featured an address by the Iraqi cultural affairs attache.

Many activists question the judgment of Ramsey Clark, former US attorney general, who heads the Coalition to Stop US Intervention in

the Middle East. The coalition, which sponsored a rally in Washington Saturday, has not condemned Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and has opposed economic sanctions against Iraq.

A second major peace group, The National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East, which is headed by veteran organizer Leslie Cagan, includes more traditional progressive antiwar groups, many that can be traced to the days of the Vietnam War. The campaign, in contrast to Clark's coalition, has condemned the Iraqi invasion and has not taken a position on economic sanctions. The campaign's Washington rally is scheduled for next Saturday.

According to a number of organizers, several right-wing groups became associated with Clark's coalition through their alliances with the LaRouche group. Clark is representing LaRouche in an appeal from his recent conviction for loan fraud.

Clark could not be reached on Friday. A spokesman for the national LaRouche group did not return a phone call.

But a spokesman for Clark's coalition, Paul Wilcox, said the LaRouche group has no formal relationship to the coalition. He added, however, that the coalition "is open to any and all people who want to be active against the war. We don't exclude anyone."

Clark was quoted recently as saying he felt the US government had "demonized" both Saddam Hussein and LaRouche. [..] Jon Hillson, a coordinator of a Cleveland peace group, said in a recent interview: "The LaRouche people are a big problem. They are anti-Semitic, home-grown facists. They use traditional epithets, like Zionist bankers, media overlords, to deride Jews."

Another organizer, noting that the appearance of right-wing organizations in the peace movement is confounding many mainstream activists, said: "The big challenge with groups like LaRouche is how to handle them without polarizing the peace movement. That discussion has already begun among a number of groups."

Lois Levine, a St. Louis peace activist, said, "I tell people that it is legitimate to criticize Israeli policy, just as we can criticize the policy of any government. But when people talk of Israel as intrinsically evil or illegitimate, that is anti-Semitic.""

- Peace activists express concern about anti-Semites in movement Ross Gelbspan, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Jan 22, 1991.

"The biggest push is coming from supporters of the ultra-right wing Lyndon LaRouche, who built a shadowy financial empire to support his presidential ambitions and in 1989 earned a 15-year prison sentence for tax evasion and mail fraud conspiracy.

Since November, LaRouche supporters have popped up with literature at anti-war rallies all over the country.

In Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, investigative reporter Dennis King chronicled La-Rouche's move from Marxist revolutionary to a right-wing anti-Semite. LaRouche's support of Star Wars was a ploy to gain respectability within the Reagan administration. LaRouche's organization, which still draws substantial profits from computer services, has shifted emphasis in trying to forge alliances with blacks."

- Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement; [CITY Edition] JASON BERRY. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Feb 24, 1991. pg. 8.D


 * At a Jan. 19 anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., LaRouchies chanted "George Bush, you can't hide, the new world order is genocide," while handing out literature bannered with this headline: "U.S. citizens must recognize their past mistakes and support LaRouche." This denunciation of Bush, when linked with the command that Americans "must recognize their past mistakes and support LaRouche," is an appropriate reminder that LaRouche's organization has close ties with Saddam Hussein's fascist Baath Party and that it coordinates some domestic political efforts with Louis Farrakhan's so-called Nation of Islam.
 * Cacophony rises from anti-war protests demonstrations craig donegan San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio, Tex.: Mar 3, 1991. pg. 03.M

"But nothing could match the conspiracy theories of American fringe politician and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who believes all evil emanates from planet earth's super-Svengali Henry Kissinger - the chief executor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Proving that not even the most deft Middle Eastern propagandist can outdo an antisemitic political Neanderthal, he blamed the UN-conspiracy and the war against Saddam Hussein on - are you ready for this - "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel," whose annexation program of the West Bank is "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the Hollinger Corporation, which has taken over The Jerusalem Post for that purpose."

So now you know how Saddam's army was defeated: inflamed by the Kissinger-dictated Jerusalem Post, Israeli pilots in American planes painted with Iraqi insignia bombed the daylights out of the Iraqi army and brought it to its knees. Crafty, those Jews!"

- FANTASIES David Bar-Illan. Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem: Mar 29, 1991. pg. 08

"A newly formed group that fears "a tragedy of apocalyptic proportions" among the civilian population of Iraq yesterday called for an immediate end to international trade sanctions against that country in conjunction with the airlifting of food and medicine for its children.

The Committee to Save the Children in Iraq, in news conferences here and in other parts of the United States yesterday, said it intends to "mobilize the political will" of the country in order to allow Iraq to sell its oil.

[..]

The withholding of aid and restrictions on Iraq's ability to export oil will mean death to thousands of children from disease and malnutrition, said David Kilber, a representative of the Schiller Institute, at a news conference in front of the Federal Building downtown.

Kilber called the Bush Administration policy "deliberate, unneeded, unexcusable genocide. Whether you like Hussein or not, innocent civilians are dying."

The Schiller Institute is associated with Lyndon LaRouche, a political extremist currently imprisoned for mail and tax fraud.

An institute spokesman, however, said the committee is composed of intellectuals, religious leaders, human rights activists, trade unionists and others who feel that Iraq's civilian population faces devastation unless the country quickly rebuilds its economic base."

- Group urges end to Iraq sanctions; [5,6,1,4 Edition] Ed Jahn. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 13, 1991. pg. B.8.5.6

"addam Hussein needn't sit up nights brooding over his lack of friends. He has just found one strange enough to compensate for all the ordinary folk who would as soon wrestle with a rabid raccoon as come within spitting distance of him.

I am speaking of Lyndon LaRouche, the nutty professor of American extremism, mastermind of a wide-ranging covert intelligence network, sometime U.S. presidential candidate, and now, supporter of "starving Iraqi children."

In New York last month, street corners near the United Nations were commandeered by smiling young men in yuppie clothing sitting at makeshift desks neatly adorned with books on international relations.

They greeted passersby with, "You don't look like somebody who was happy that we went to war in the gulf."

Those who paused long enough to bat an eyelash were drawn into a discussion of cruel American-instigated sanctions, aimed particularly at the starving children, and at the need to give up the Iraqi embargo by tomorrow morning at the latest.

The smiling young men were working for the Schiller Institute, a literary-sounding organization that in fact sprang from the pocket of LaRouche. Its interest in Iraq is obscure, but no doubt fits into the mind-boggling geopolitic of its devotees.

And, oddly enough, within a week of the street-corner offensive, the U.N. General Assembly was pelted with papers and its debate interrupted by 15 anonymous people shouting slogans about starving Iraqi children."

- Starving kids pawns in scuffle over Iraq; [HO2 Edition] Olivia Ward TORONTO STAR. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Oct 14, 1991. pg. A.11


 * Lyndon LaRouche's organization, one of the most bizarre sects of the extreme Right and originally Trotskyite in inspiration, has been very active in Germany, has established a branch in Moscow, has coopereated with the Islamists in Sudan and other Arab and North African countries, and has made itself the spokesman of Saddam Hussein and Hamas, the extremist Muslim fundamentalist group. The net result of these and similar activities, however, has been very nearly nil. 
 * Fascism: Past, Present, Future By Walter Laqueur p.143


 *  Lyndon Larouche's operation was "originally Trotskyite in inspiration." It has been active in Germany, has established a branch in Moscow, has cooperated with Islamists in Sudan and elsewhere, and speaks on behalf of Saddam Hussein and Hamas.
 * Fascism: Past, Present, Future (book review) Richard F Hamilton. Society. Piscataway: Nov/Dec 1997. Vol. 35, Iss. 1; pg. 103, 2 pgs


 * Some far right groups, including the Liberty Lobby, the John Birch Society, followers of Lyndon LaRouche and independent rightists known for paranoid conspiracy theories (which on some occasions happened to parallel more thoughtful left critiques) joined in with anti-war efforts, and were at times allowed into coalition efforts by those unaware of their anti-Semitic and far right ideologies. The LaRouche Movement had actually developed close ties with Iraq's Ba'ath party, with which it shares an essentially fascist ideology.9 These alliances harmed the credibility of the peace movement.
 * The American peace movement and the Middle East Stephen Zunes. Arab Studies Quarterly. Belmont: Winter 1998. Vol. 20, Iss. 1; pg. 29, 23 pgs

"Ego-stripping" and brainwashing
"Like many cult leaders, LaRouche has developed a highly effective arsenal of mind-control techniques based on his self-proclaimed "groundbreaking" psychological discoveries. Those who question his reported assassination plots are diagnosed as "paranoid." Politicial doubts are ascribed to a "mother complex," homosexuality or sexual impotence. Dependence is enforced not only in group therapy sessions, during which LaRouche explains the worthlessness of each member without the organization but also in private, one-on-one sessions. "The people who were the leaders and movers and shakers were all psychologically crushed, broken almost physically sometimes," says an ex-member. "They were locked in a room and ego-stripped for days." Another member recalls that the most brilliant members of the organization were "psychologicaly castrated" and then "assigned for rehabilitation to write reports, and locally, to sell newspapers.""

- Donner, Frank, and Randall Rothenberg (August 16-23, 1980). "The Strange Odyssey of Lyndon LaRouche", The Nation, pp. 142-147.

"As for the Latino community, again, LaRouche demonstrated elemental racism in a 1973 essay of his own called "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party." In this extended polemic, LaRouche attacked the PSP with racial stereotypes: "...the political life of the PSP is the principle of the sexual impotence of the 'Machismo' extended into the domain of political commedia ... all Latin politics is permeated with the same pathetic, self-defeating quality." The cult boss then analyzes "the psychological truth which every Latin [emphasis added] can recognize in his own personal thoughts as the essence of 'Machismo' as sexual impotence." LaRouche .doesn't neglect Latin women, referring to their "frigidity, their sadistic semi-bestiality, and selfbestialization as potential 'mothers.' " He ridicules Puerto Rican popular culture as "garbage," a "poor imitation culture of whatever refuse decaying Spanish heritage or Yanqui imports have discarded into the streets." Island independence is "a degrading mythos," and Latin music is "psychopathological.""

- The Racist Roots of Mad Melvin, Joe Conason, Village Voice, 9/28/82.

"As an example, there is an article about LaRouche in this week's issue of Newsweek magazine, which will be read by millions.

The article digs into LaRouche's past and pinpoints a period of his life when former followers say he underwent a severe personality change. And why.

It seems that sometime in the 1960s, he and his first wife split. This was after LaRouche had been a Marxist, a Socialist and a follower of various left-wing philosophies.

It's not clear exactly where on the political spectrum he was wandering at that time. But after his wife left him, he began living with one of his female followers.

Apparently his magnetism was lost on her because eventually she went away with another man.

Ah, the pain of rejection. That, according to Newsweek, is when LaRouche became even more unhinged, brooding in his apartment while surrounded by canned goods and bodyguards.

After that, he became even more extreme and began playing "ego- stripping" head games with members of his cult, whose heads weren't screwed on too securely to begin with.

So it appears that the trauma of being dumped by a girlfriend may have sent LaRouche lurching into his present political dream world. Until recently, though, few knew or cared."

- LIGHT OF PUBLICITY LAROUCHE'S RUIN; [SPORTS FINAL, C Edition] Mike Royko. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Apr 2, 1986. pg. 3

"Carl Mingo," who left the national office staff in 1984, described a "militarized" atmosphere in the fundraising office. "There'd be a roll call in the morning. You were given these gargantuan quotas, and you were expected to work from 9 a.m. until you met the quota, even if that was 11 or 12 at night." Mr. Mingo said that the openly acknowledged policy was to "get loans at any cost and not pay them back -- unless the victim was politically important or threatened to sue." He described intense psychological pressures to meet the quotas: "If you didn't, you'd be an object of ridicule, or they wouldn't give you a day off, or your relationship with your spouse would become the subject of an all-night ego-stripping session.""

- King, Dennis, and Patricia Lynch (May 27, 1986). "The Empire of Lyndon LaRouche", Wall Street Journal, pg. 1

"In documents from the early days of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, LaRouche talks about the wideranging role he plays in members' lives.

He warned members in 1973 that devotion to him would involve some stress. "In respect of the mental processes, absolutely nothing is secret; there is merely blindness. . . . In Germany I am Der Abscheulicher (the abominable one); I shall soon be regarded similarly here," he said The beginnings of his U.S. movement in place, LaRouche wrote in a confidential message to organizers in 1973, titled, "The Politics of Male Impotence," that he had set up a European base "on the premise that our growing importance in the world would close borders to me very soon."

He also predicted seizure of world power within the decade-through curing the sexual impotence of his followers.

"The principal source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . . If you are sexually impotent-as most of our members inevitably are-then you are impotent as political organizers," he wrote. Sexual performance and motherhood were common themes in LaRouche's early essays.

"All Germany is a heaving mass of sexual impotence," he writes. Latin machismo "is nothing but the fear of homosexuality, of male impotence in the extreme." Blacks have a special problem, he said: "Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the black ghetto mother?"

In a 1981 memo, wired "highest priority" to all points, LaRouche declared that democratic rule of the group was unacceptable.

"I do not wish to hear, ever again, that I must wait until our legal council (sic) has assessed the wisdom of one of my decisions or that some members personal sensitivities must be taken into account. . ..

"I promise you that I shall function, unrestrained, as a commanding general of a combat organization. Anyone who opposes my orders will, in the moral sense, be shot on the spot for insubordination."

His single-minded view has not always proven popular to followers. Two long-time members of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, Donald and Alice Roth, protested to the National Executive Committee in 1981 about LaRouche spreading the claim that Hitler oversaw the extermination of far fewer Jews than commonly believed.

"That . . . was the sign of a mind which has become dangerously ill. . ., " the Roths said in a resignation letter. But by all accounts, the members feel great affection for LaRouche, who was born a Quaker in New Hampshire."

- Authorities See Pattern of Threats, Plots Dark Side of LaRouche Empire Surfaces; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 14, 1986. pg. 1

"During the same period, LaRouche also propounded ideas which were 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." As early as the spring of 1973 LaRouche had begun to articulate a psychosexual theory of political organizing and began descending into a paranoid style of historical analysis that stressed not Marxist dialectical materialism and class analysis, but macabre conspiracy theories and a subjective egocentric analysis. LaRouche warned of a global plot by the CIA/KGB to kidnap and program his membership to assassinate him. His homophobia became a central theme of the organization's conspiracy theories. He said women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of sexual organs near the anus which caused them to confuse sex with excretion.

A September, 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal  charged that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives...." Writing in an August, 1973 memo, LaRouche propounded the startling and sexist psychological theory that "the principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother." LaRouche claimed only he could cure the political and sexual impotence of his followers. NCLC members were forced into what was called psychological therapy and "deprogramming" but were what former members call "brainwashing" and "egostripping" sessions. The NCLC rapidly became totalitarian in style, with a peculiar obsession with sexuality and homophobia used as a weapon against internal dissent." To the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me," LaRouche told his followers in August, 1973, "I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexualimpotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem.""

- Clouds Blur the Rainbow, Chip Berlet, 1987 by Political Research Associates

"In 1973, LaRouche started writing long essays on the interrelation of political and sexual impotence. He also began the lengthy and belittling sessions of his followers that are said to continue even today. "He took an ideology and overlaid it with psychological conditioning," Berlet said.

Such sessions, according to the government's trial brief in the LaRouche case, are now even a part of his organizations' fund-raising tactics. The indictment describes relentless fund-raising quotas that individuals were required to meet and the consequences if they did not:

"Those having failed were accused of disloyalty and told to stay at the chapter all night to catch up. They were ridiculed in front of other members. . . . They were taunted publicly that their sex life had obviously failed and would continue to do so if their fund-raising did not improve. They were berated as homosexuals, lesbians, drunks or prostitutes, all in front of their peers.""

- LAROUCHE TRIAL TO OPEN TOMORROW Susan Levine. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa.: Oct 19, 1987. pg. A.9

"What happened to cause this dramatic shift? Some say it was a dramatic incident in LaRouche's personal life. In 1972 LaRouche's common-law wife, Carol Schnitzer, left him for a young member of the London NCLC chapter named Christopher White, whom she eventually married. For LaRouche, it was a crushing blow. His first wife Janice had similarly walked out on him a decade earlier, taking with her the couple's young son. This personal event apparently triggered LaRouche's political metamorphosis. LaRouche went into seclusion in Europe, and defectors tell of his suffering a possible nervous breakdown. In the spring of 1973, he returned. His previous conspiratorial inclinations had now grown into a bizarre tapestry weaving together classical conspiracy theories of the 19th century and post-Marxian economics. He began articulating a `psycho-sexual' theory of political organizing.

Sexism and homophobia became central themes of the organization's theories. A September 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal Campaigner charged that "Concretely, all across the U.S.A., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives. . . ." The problem with making the revolution, LaRouche apparently had concluded, was that women are castrating bitches. One former member left in disgust when she was told women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of female sexual organs near the anus which caused women to confuse sex with excretion.

In an August 16, 1973 internal memo, "The Politics of Male Impotence," LaRouche told his followers:

"The principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . .to the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me, I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexual-- impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem. . . . I am going to make you organizers--by taking your bedrooms away from you until you make the step to being effective organizers. What I shall do is to expose to you the cruel fact of your sexual impotence, male and female. . . .I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee. I shall not pull you back from fleeing, but rather destroy the place to which you would attempt to flee."

In a cruel sense, LaRouche was true to his twisted words, those members who challenge the increasingly macabre political and social theories expounded by their leader were confronted by loyalists as politically and sexually inadequate traitors to the cause. LaRouche also developed a fevered, comprehensive paranoid fantasy about the importance of his role in history--and a militant, new-found resolve to act upon it, wiping out all opposition to his leadership of the U.S. revolutionary movement. The result was Operation Mop-Up. Lyndon LaRouche took his sexual identity crisis into the streets."

- Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag, by Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman March 10th, 1989, Political Research Associates

"According to court records, the LaRouche organization used heavy-handed tactics to raise money. Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Wertz, who was in charge of raising money, set high goals for fund-raisers. Mr. LaRouche was said to have blamed inadequacies of his fund-raisers on sexual impotence."

- Appeals Court Upholds Convictions of LaRouche and Four Others. New York Times January 23, 1990:A.21.

"LaRouche and Wertz set high fundraising goals for the organization, for each office, and for each individual fundraiser. LaRouche was said to have blamed the fundraisers' inadequacy on "sexual impotence." Wertz and regional fundraising supervisors reacted angrily to fundraising shortfalls and the individual fundraisers, when failing to meet established quotas, became hysterical, distraught, and depressed."

- 896 F.2d 815 UNITED STATES v. Lyndon H. LAROUCHE, No. 89-5518. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied Feb. 16, 1990.

"It was around that time that [ Fred Newman ] fell under the spell of another, more powerful ideologue working at the intersection of psychology and politics: Lyndon LaRouche. Though once a figure respected on the left, by the early '70s LaRouche had descended into a gothic world of conspiracy theories, a place where the CIA was brainwashing his security guards to kill him and where only he had the power to end "your political-and sexual-impotence." To maintain total command over the hundreds of disciples he sent out onto the streets to assault rival political parties with lead pipes and brass knuckles, he forced them into psychological therapy sessions, called "deprogramming."

In 1974, when most of the left was quite literally running from LaRouche, Newman led nearly 40 of his followers into an official alliance with LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees. For several weeks, the two groups held joint forums and political meetings. It is unclear how much the Newmanites participated in the LaRoucheans' more militant activities. But, according to Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, which has tracked both groups, Newman used the interaction as an apprenticeship, a way to learn how to control a mass organization. It was then, Berlet says, that Newman mastered "ego-stripping group-therapy sessions"to discipline his rank and file. He also developed his ideology, a crude form of Marxism, which contended that the United States was ruled by a handful of moneyed elites-- most notably the Jews, whom Newman decried, despite his upbringing, as "dirty," "self-righteous dehumanize[s]," and "the storm troopers of decadent capitalism."

IT DIDN'T TAKE long, however, before apprentice and mentor fell into a fierce rivalry. "There was room for only one charismatic leader," says Berlet. And, after just a few months, Newman walked out with most of his original followers forming his own breakaway faction: the International Workers Party (IWP).

Operating through Leninist-style cadres and explicitly committed to a workers' revolution, the IWP adopted LaRouchean elements such as a cult of personality. But at its core was Newman's evolving theory of "social therapy," which many say encourages the patient to reject almost everything he has been taught by society and cede to the therapist enormous power over every facet ofhis life: hisjob, his friends, his family, even his sexual partners. Though many participants speak effusively of its success-"Fred saved my life," enthused one-early on there were reports of abuse. Several former IWP members said that, as part of their salvation, they were persuaded to hand over all their assets. IWP members told a local New York reporter, Dennis King, that Newman broke up at least two marriages because the relationships were too "bourgeois"-an allegation Newman denies. Others have said Newman encouraged them to participate in what he called "friendosexuality" a practice that Newman cheerfully recommends in his book Let's Develop.

Ironically, it was the LaRoucheans who first circulated documents stating that the Newmanites were too bizarre. One 30-cent leaflet complained indignantly of the IWP's "totally destructive social relations" and "methods of brainwashing. " Newman, in turn, charged that LaRouche's members were even worse-"mindfucked not brainwashed." ("[A]n organization based on ... mindfucking cannot lead the class;" he wrote. "It will destroy itself.")"

- Coming soon to a presidential campaign near you David Grann. The New Republic. Washington: Dec 13, 1999. Vol. 221, Iss. 24; pg. 20, 6 pgs

"The LaRouchian cult-style ego-stripping mind-control techniques involve recruits being probed for sexual peccadilloes, especially their sexual relationship with their mother.xv The "Witch Mother" or her surrogate is blamed for a recruit's neuroses and is hunted down for exorcism: by a recruit denouncing the "Witch Mother", recruiting his wife to the cause, or leaving his wife and family, he will be declared "unblocked", "potent" and a "beautiful" person.xvi There have been several documented cases of recruits severing ties with their families as a result of the ego-stripping sessions.xvii National Secretary Craig Isherwood also apparently uses the techniques to unmask "threats" from within the CEC and then devises strategies to counter them, thereby promoting himself as the organisation's "dragon slayer".xviii"

- 2001 Anti-Defamation Commission (Australia) briefing paper

"At this time, LaRouche still identified himself as a Marxist, and he blamed all the problems of the Left on women. In one lengthy 1973 article he described it thus: Capitalist ideology within the individual is primarily matrilocal and matrilineal… Mother’s magic, perpetuated as fantasy through the dependency of Ego-identity on the internalized voice of the superstitious mother-image, is the basis for the hostility to “theory” among workers, the bitter invective against Marxist “elites”…and the general hostility to revolutionary socialism generally. “Who do you think you are to imagine you can go against the system?” mother’s voice warns.20 In this treatise, LaRouche also says that witches are real in the sense of being the subconscious image children have of their sadistic and dominating mothers, making them apt symbols of the feminist movement: The witch image is the associated quality of the female Ego otherwise identified with female sexual impotence and its correlated forms of social impotence generally. Hence, the clinical significance of the acronym, WITCH, for the cited radical feminist group. Such variety of “radical feminism,” as distinct from its sane bitter factional opponent, Women’s Liberation efforts, is essentially an outbreak of the most pathetic, most sadistic form of lesbianism. The method of indoctrination used by groups such as WITCH, so-called “consciousnessraising sessions”…represented the…most efficient means for turning a merely intensely neurotic young woman into a virtual psychotic. …A woman reduced to this psychotic state, must tend to become a prostitute, or a lesbian, or both.21 (WITCH, the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, was a New York City group founded on Halloween 1968 by feminist author Robin Morgan and others. It conducted theatrical feminist actions such as putting a “hex” on Wall Street to oppose the Vietnam War and capitalist war profiteers.) In 1973, LaRouche also published an extensive psychosexual diatribe against the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Women were to blame, LaRouche said, for the supposed impotence and emasculation of men in Latin culture: The oppressor is the mother-image, an internalized monster within the mind of the child, a monster based not on the existent woman, the mother, but the mother’s bourgeois- family relationship to her husband and children… The woman who is banalized and otherwise degraded by capitalist culture is stripped of every possible power over society except the role of the female sadist. Until she is confronted with her real oppression—her banality—and her real oppressor—her internalized mother image, and unless she is also offered a real alternative, human role in society, she will cling with rage and terror to the one power—female sadism—bourgeois society offers her.22 Since these glory days, LaRouche gives the impression of having pulled himself together on the woman issue, at least publicly. Many of his supporters and leading cadre are women. Searching LaRouche’s websites for the term “women,” “feminism,” and “abortion” turned up only a few times where he revealed himself."

- Lyndon Larouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium, by Helen Gilbert 2003 ISBN 0932323219

""I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU ORGANIZERS -- by taking your bedrooms away from you. . . What I shall do is expose to you the cruel act of your sexual impotence. . . I will take away from you all hope that you can flee the terrors of politics to the safety of 'personal life.' I shall do this by showing to you that your frightened personal sexual life contains for you such terrors as the outside world could never offer you. I will thus destroy your rabbit-holes, mental as well as physical. I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee."

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During this period, LaRouche wrote about psychological techniques for transforming recruits into faithful organizers. In one treatise, "Beyond Psychoanalysis," he wrote that organizers should strip recruits of their egos and reduce them to a state called "little me," in order to rebuild their personalities around a new socialist identity. LaRouche opined in another manifesto, "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party," that "Sexual impotency is generally the causal root of Left political impotency." To become politically potent, he said, leftists must confront their sexual problems, such as their fear of and desire for their sadistic mothers.

For three decades, LaRouche and his followers have accused enemies, including American, Soviet and British intelligence agencies, of sending brainwashed zombies to assassinate him. In December 1973, a 26-year-old British LaRouche associate named Christopher White claimed that he had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche. LaRouche activists announced that they'd been forced to put White through a grueling "de-programming," and offered recordings of the sessions to a New York Times reporter as proof.

"There are sounds of weeping, and vomiting on the tapes, and Mr. White complains of being deprived of sleep, food and cigarettes," the resulting Times story says. "At one point someone says 'raise the voltage,' but (LaRouche) says this was associated with the bright lights used in the questioning rather than an electric shock."

"During the intensive questioning on one day, Mr. White complains of a terrible pain in his arm," the story says, adding that LaRouche can be heard telling him: "That's not real. That's in the program."

Soon afterward, the Times reported, another LaRouche follower, Alice Weitzman, wrote a desperate note claiming that she was being held prisoner, folded her plea for help into a paper airplane, and sailed it out the window of her New York City apartment. According to the Times, when police arrived, they found several LaRouche followers who said they were "staying" with Weitzman because she had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche.

Brainwashing hysteria quickly spread through the LaRouche organization, Kacprzak says. He attended LaRouche meetings in the United States where there were "people writhing on the floor saying, 'I've been brainwashed, somebody de-program me!' "

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The group's leaders, Winstead says, "were constantly asking us if we would die for these ideas." At one retreat of about 100 young people, a LaRouche organizer asked for a show of hands. "Most of the group raised their hands," Winstead says. "I think I did. The thing is, they frame it along the lines of Martin Luther King's [notion that] a man who hasn't found anything to die for isn't fit to live."

Visits home were frowned upon, he says. Parents were derided as "brainwashed baby boomers" or agents of the worldwide conspiracy against LaRouche.

LaRouche followers were expected to work six days a week, he says, beginning at 8 a.m., when a few dozen activists would gather at the office to sing -- typically old slave spirituals. Then they'd listen via speakerphone to an organization leader give a news briefing highlighting events that, Winstead says, "support their view that the world is crumbling basically and the economy is collapsing."

By 9 a.m., older members, some of whom had followed LaRouche for decades, were working the phones to raise money. Younger recruits loaded card tables and literature into cars, then fanned out to troll for new members. Everyone was given a daily quota of money to raise, Winstead recalls. If they hadn't made quota by late afternoon, they'd stake out intersections with long red lights and work the left-turn lane. "There's a horrible war," Winstead would tell anyone who'd roll down the window. "Lyndon LaRouche is going to stop it. Here's the paper; make a donation."

By 5:30 p.m., Winstead and his colleagues returned to the field office for another news briefing before dinner. Then they'd launch a new round of work: telephoning potential recruits. "That generally goes on until 10 at night," he says. "If it's not done, then you are pretty much in trouble."

Winstead was pretty much in trouble. He turned out to be not much of a true believer after all. He thought meetings where members professed that they were unworthy to follow LaRouche were like parodies of tent revivals. He wondered why, for all their talk of saving the world, LaRouche activists didn't seem to accomplish much other than raising money and recruiting new members.

He was stunned, at first, to find out what happened when he asked questions or complained. "Maybe you are too [expletive] busy [masturbating] thinking about your mother to go out and organize," he recalls one of the leaders barking at him. "How much money did you raise today?"

"I'm caught off-guard, like, what the hell just happened?" Winstead recalls. "The yelling goes on for maybe five or 10 minutes while I'm furiously backpedaling."

Eventually, he became accustomed to the humiliating insults and tirades. "They call it making somebody a self-conscious organizer," he says. "It is about getting somebody to break down and cry, just to have an emotional collapse. Once you do that, then people are malleable."

LaRouche declined to discuss how members of his youth movement are treated, characterizing a series of questions about those practices as "simply garbage."

According to Winstead, attacking someone for having "mother issues," being homosexual or sexually perverse seemed to be a common strategy for controlling members in the office where he worked. Leaders directed the group to gang up on colleagues for minor infractions, a phenomenon Winstead calls "wolf-packing." It was effective, he says.

Once he witnessed organizers surround and berate a woman, he says. The sobbing woman tried to leave, but one organizer wrestled her back into a chair, Winstead says. She didn't resist again, he says.

Another time, Winstead says, a member having second thoughts about the group asked him for a ride to the bus station so he could visit relatives. Winstead obliged, infuriating movement leaders. "That whole week I just got pounded [by] everyone in the organization. It was comments like . . . 'Mike, you've been driving people away from this movement! You are an agent, aren't you?' "

One day a member of LaRouche's inner circle of advisers was giving a lecture when he touched upon a favorite topic in the movement -- brainwashing. He mentioned a 1957 book on the subject, Battle for the Mind. Curious, Winstead tracked down the book at a library.

"Various types of belief can be implanted in people, after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger or excitement," the author, William Sargant, wrote. "Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgment and heightened suggestibility."

Chinese communists "spread their gospel," the author noted, through psychological conditioning: inventing enemies, isolating trainees in special locations, keeping them exhausted by performing demeaning tasks and learning difficult new terminology, using informers to keep people tense and uncertain, and forcing them to sever ties with family and friends, even encouraging their recruits, as Hitler had, to denounce their parents.

Winstead felt ill, he says. "I sat there and I read exactly what I had been going through for the last six months," he says. "It definitely had worked on me quite a bit, more than I'd like to admit to myself then or now."

Now Winstead wanted out. He was scared, he says.

That night Winstead returned to the house he shared with LaRouche organizers. Before he went to bed, he piled furniture in front of his bedroom door. Next to the bed he placed a chef's knife, just in case he had to defend himself.

He repeated that ritual for several nights, he says, while he compiled an "intelligence report" outlining what he'd read about brainwashing techniques. The day he left the LaRouche Youth Movement, he says, he stuffed the memo into the mailboxes of other members, packed up his car, drove to his mother's house and hid."

- Witt, April (2004). No Joke, The Washington Post, October 24, 2004.

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Barry, Daniel J., and Kenneth A. Cook. (1994). How the Biodiversity Treaty Went Down: The Intersecting Worlds of “Wise Use” and Lyndon LaRouche. Washington, DC: Environmental Working Group.