Curious what based old fags think of the old "LaRouche movement"?
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Farage, who was the leader of UKIP at the time of the documentary’s release, is one of ten credited as “cast” in the film, alongside Estulin himself and Lyndon LaRouche, LaRouche’s wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and three editors of the LaRouche movement magazine, Intelligence Executive Review (IER).
LaRouche, who died at the age of 96 last year, was a convicted fraudster and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, his ideology described by journalist and researcher Chip Berlet as “fascism wrapped in an American flag”, and his conspiracy theories “laced with racial and cultural bigotry and a large dose of anti-Jewish hysteria”. The Anti-Defamation League has written that LaRouche had “a long record of advancing conspiracy theories linking the AIDS crisis, the drug epidemic and international financial crisis to prominent Jews and Jewish organizations”, and The New York Times reports that LaRouche had described Native Americans as “lower beasts”, and claimed that Jews had covertly founded the Ku Klux Klan.
The Guardian has reported that, following the 2003 death of Jeremiah Duggan, a British Jewish student who, after becoming involved with LaRouche supporters, died in mysterious circumstances in Germany, a Scotland Yard report claimed the organization seems to be “a political cult with sinister and dangerous connections”. Duggan’s death was ruled a suicide by German authorities, but members of Duggan’s family are pushing to have the case reopened.
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My opinion
I learned of LaRouche back in 2002/2003 while trying to figure out who was behind 911. I don't recall how they got my home number, but recall receiving a call one day from one of LaRouche's minions urging me to pay membership fees or something or other and I got this weird cultish vibe about it and hung up. It was sort of the same feeling I got around the same time when I subscribed to the New American magazine, a John Birch Society rag and received a call from a local rep requesting an interview for membership. I declined. Later I read somewhere that the Birch Society was a semi autonomous, yet "controlled opposition" group created by the Rockefeller's family as a honey pot to keep tabs on those who opposed them.
While LaRouche may have once had a cult following, its never been clear to me who controls them other than LaRouche, who is now dead. Never the less, their IER reports as I recall seemed well researched and cited.
Moreover, Dave at x22Report periodically used to do X22 Report Spotlight Interviews with Harley Schlanger, who is someone associated with LaRouche's organization. Schlanger always seemed to provide a lucid and interesting perspective on current events.
From wiki:
“The movement promotes a revival of classical art and a greater commitment to science; advocates the development of major economic infrastructure projects on a global scale; and calls for a reform of the world financial system to encourage investment in the physical economy and suppress financial speculation.”
I have never been a fan of democratic socialism, but I am open to have dialogue with anyone who values the Truth. As always, I try to discern the truth where I can find it without having to pay for it, either with $ or my soul.
Anyhow, that's my 2 cents…