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{{short description|Political movement promoting Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas}} | |||
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The '''LaRouche movement''' is an international political and cultural network that promotes ] and ]. It has included scores of organizations and companies around the world. Their activities include campaigning, private intelligence gathering, and publishing numerous periodicals, pamphlets, books, and online content. It characterizes itself as a Platonist Whig movement which favors re-industrialization and classical culture, and which opposes what it sees as the genocidal conspiracies of Aristotelian oligarchies such as the British Empire. Outsiders characterize it as a fringe movement and it has been criticized from across the political spectrum. | |||
] (1922–2019), the namesake and founder of the movement]] | |||
The '''LaRouche movement''' is a political and cultural network promoting the late ] and ]. It has included many organizations and companies around the world, which campaign, gather information and publish books and periodicals. LaRouche-aligned organizations include the ], the ], the ] and, formerly, the ]. The LaRouche movement has been called "]-like" by '']''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Severo |first=Richard |date=2019-02-13 |title=Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-dead.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214141656/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-dead.html |archive-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref> | |||
The movement had its origins in radical leftist student politics of the 1960s, but is now generally seen as a right-wing, fascist or unclassifiable group. It is known for its unusual theories and its confrontational behavior. In the 1970s members allegedly engaged in street violence. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of candidates, some with only limited knowledge of LaRouche or the movement, ran as ] on the LaRouche platform.<ref name=King132-133>King 1989, pp. 132–133.</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|last=Toner|first=Robin|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/04/us/larouche-savors-fame-that-may-ruin-him.html?scp=1&sq=LaRouche%20Savors%20Fame%20That%20May%20Ruin%20Him&st=cse |title=LaRouche savors fame that may ruin him|date=April 4, 1986 |page=A1}}</ref><ref name="Bennett1988">{{cite book|last=Bennett|first=David Harry|title=The party of fear: from nativist movements to the New Right in American history|year=1988|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=9780807817728|page=362}}</ref> None were elected to significant public office. | |||
The movement originated within the ] leftist ] of the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of candidates ran in state ] primaries in the United States on the 'LaRouche platform', while Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly campaigned for ]. From the mid-1970s, the LaRouche network would adopt viewpoints and stances of the ].{{refn|<ref name="King132-133" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name="Bennett1988" /><ref name="King1984" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Doubek |first=James |date=2019-02-14 |title=Conspiracy Theorist And Frequent Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche Dies At 96 |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694626800/conspiracy-theorist-and-frequent-presidential-candidate-lyndon-larouche-dies-at- |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1989-08-01 |title=Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, by Dennis King |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/harvey-klehr/lyndon-larouche-and-the-new-american-fascism-by-dennis-king/ |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=Commentary Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>}} During its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, the LaRouche movement developed a private intelligence agency and contacts with foreign governments.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mintz|first=John|date=1985|title=Some Officials Find Intelligence Network 'Useful'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou1.htm|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.washingtonpost.com|archive-date=August 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224001/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jindia|first=Shilpa|title=Here's an insane story about Roger Stone, Lyndon LaRouche, Vladimir Putin, and the Queen of England|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/lyndon-larouche-roger-stone-russia-robert-mueller/|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184653/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/lyndon-larouche-roger-stone-russia-robert-mueller/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="King1984" /> In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates ] on fraud charges related to fundraising. The movement called the prosecutions politically motivated.{{cn|date=November 2023}} | |||
In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates were convicted on fraud charges related to fund-raising, prosecutions which the movement alleged were politically motivated and which were followed by a decline in the group's influence which lasted for several years. The movement was rejuvenated in the 2000s by the creation of a youth cadre, the ], and by their prominent opposition to the Bush/Cheney administration and the Obama health care reform plan. | |||
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LaRouche's widow, ], heads political and cultural groups in Germany connected with her late husband's movement. There are also parties in France, Sweden and other European countries and branches or affiliates in Australia, Canada, the Philippines and several Latin American countries. Members engage in political organizing, fund-raising, cultural events, research and writing and {{clarification|text=internal meetings|reason=Internal meetings aren't anything unusual. Why is this mentioned here? Are they special in some way?|date=August 2024}}.{{cn|date=November 2023}} | ||
On February 24, 2021, Zepp-LaRouche denounced the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its treasurer, Barbara Boyd, for going "in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. ... ince he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates ... have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche's positions." and has stated that LPAC and Boyd do not represent the LaRouche movement. She has taken legal action against LPAC to "immediately cease and desist, both now and in the future" from "using Mr. LaRouche's name, likeness, and potentially other confusingly similar terms."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/03/07/why-larouchepac-no-longer-represents-the-policies-of-lyndon-larouche/|title=Why "LaRouchePAC" No Longer Represents the Policies of Lyndon LaRouche |access-date=March 11, 2021|archive-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307134301/https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/03/07/why-larouchepac-no-longer-represents-the-policies-of-lyndon-larouche/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
==Political organizations== | |||
In 1986, LaRouche testified that there is "no such thing as a LaRouche organization". A spokesman said LaRouche was like the "guiding light" of a variety of "separate organizations".<ref>{{Cite news|title=3-time fringe presidential hopeful LaRouche remains an enigma|first=Robert |last=Estill|work=The San Diego Union|date=March 23, 1986 |page=A.15}}</ref> | |||
==Main goals of the Lyndon LaRouche movement== | |||
LaRouche-affiliated political parties have nominated many hundreds of candidates for national and regional offices in the ], ], ], ], ], ] and ], for almost thirty years. In countries outside the U.S., the LaRouche movement maintains its own minor parties, and they have had no significant electoral success to date. In the U.S., however, they are active in the ], and individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought party office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts. | |||
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{{Main|Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement}} | |||
* Restoration of Glass-Steagall. Since 2007, the movement has actively campaigned to restore the ], to separate commercial banking from speculative investment banking, protecting the former and not bailing out the latter.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lindo, Bill|url=http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=8402|title=Behind the scenes in the Obama administration|work=Amandala Online|date=March 31, 2009|access-date=December 2, 2013|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528151555/https://amandala.com.bz/news/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Paine, Laura|url=http://www.patriotledger.com/your_vote/election-1/x128165993/Frank-meets-LaRouche-candidate-Brown-in-only-primary-debate|title=Frank meets LaRouche candidate Brown in only primary debate|work=Patriot-Ledger|date=February 8, 2010|access-date=December 2, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203083630/http://www.patriotledger.com/your_vote/election-1/x128165993/Frank-meets-LaRouche-candidate-Brown-in-only-primary-debate|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* New Bretton Woods. Advocates the abandonment of ]s and the return to ]-style fixed rates, with gold, or an equivalent, used as under the gold-reserve system. This is not to be confused with the ], which LaRouche did not support. | |||
* American System. Espouses the "American System" of infrastructure projects, a "regulated banking system" and tariffs. Named for the historical ] of ], but owing more to the ideas of the expansive ].{{clarify|date=March 2024}} | |||
* ]. Lectures and writes on behalf of a "Eurasian land-bridge", a massive high-speed ] railway project to span continents and re-invigorate industry and commerce. | |||
* ]. Argues in favor of what they call "Verdi tuning" in classical music, in which A=432 Hz, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to ]. | |||
* ]. Recommends ], on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification. | |||
* ]. Supported ] for use against ]s, and claims credit as the first to propose this to ]. LaRouche did not support rocket-based defensive systems such as ]s. | |||
* ]. The LaRouche movement proclaimed an interest in fusion energy and "beam weapons"{{snd}}while some scientists such as ] praised the movement, it was generally seen as a front for LaRouche's political aims. According to ''Fusion'', two members of the FEF went to the ] to attend a conference on "laser interaction" in December 1978.<ref name="King1984" /> | |||
==Political organizations== | |||
===International=== | |||
LaRouche-affiliated political parties have nominated many hundreds of candidates for national and regional offices in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia and France, for almost thirty years. In countries outside the U.S., the LaRouche movement maintains its own minor parties, and they have had no significant electoral success to date. In the U.S., individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought ] office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts, and been nominated for state and federal office as Democrats, although the party leadership has periodically voiced its disapproval.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1998076,00.html|title=Texas Dems Grapple With Their Own Alvin Greene|author=Hilary Hylton|date=June 20, 2010|magazine=Time|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425160209/http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1998076,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/10/us/supporter-of-larouche-wins-democratic-post-in-houston.html|title=Supporter of LaRouche Wins Democratic Post in Houston|work=The New York Times|date=March 10, 1988|quote=Local Democratic leaders here spent the day trying to explain how a supporter of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., the extremist politician, was elected Tuesday as chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party|access-date=February 10, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314083920/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/10/us/supporter-of-larouche-wins-democratic-post-in-houston.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The ] and the ] (ICLC) are international organizations that mobilize on behalf of the LaRouche Movement. Schiller Institute conferences have been held across the world. The ICLC is affiliated to political parties in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], the ], and several South American countries. Lyndon LaRouche, who is based in ], ], and his wife, ], based in ], Germany, regularly attend these international conferences and have met foreign politicians, bureaucrats, and academics. | |||
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{{See|Lyndon LaRouche U.S. Presidential campaigns}} | |||
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LaRouche himself has been a candidate for ] eight times, running in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004. The first was with his own party, the ]. In the next seven campaigns he campaigned for the ] nomination. In support of those efforts he has created campaign committees and a ], and has attempted to gain entrance to ]es, debates, and ] for himself and supporters. He was a successful ] in 2004 by some measures, and received federal ]. ''See ].'' | |||
LaRouche ran for U.S. president eight times, in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004. The first was with the ]. In the next seven campaigns he ran for the ] nomination. He received federal ] in 2004. | |||
In 1986 the LaRouche movement placed its ] initiative, ], on the ] ballot, which lost by a 4-1 margin. It was re-introduced in 1988 and lost again by the same margin. Federal and state officials raided movement offices in 1986. In the ensuing trials, leaders of the movement received prison terms for conspiracy to commit fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion. See ]. | |||
LaRouche candidates who ran in various Democratic primaries, generally sought ] voters.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Griffin |first1=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kne26UnE1wQC&pg=PA145 |title=Fascism: Post-war fascisms |last2=Feldman |first2=Matthew |date=2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0415290203 |pages=144–145 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
The LaRouche movement attracted media attention in the context of the ], when movement members ] and ] won the Democratic Primary elections for the offices of ] and ] respectively. Until the day after the primary, major media outlets were reporting that ], Fairchild's primary opponent, was running unopposed. More than two decades later, Fairchild asked, "how is it possible that the major media, with all of their access to information, could possibly be mistaken in that way?"<ref name="saukvalley2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/11/02/news/state/293146607163817.txt |title=SaukValley.com Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls |publisher=Saukvalley.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716011342/http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/11/02/news/state/293146607163817.txt |url-status=live }}</ref> Democratic gubernatorial candidate ] was favored to win this election, having lost the previous election by a narrow margin. He refused to run on the same slate with Hart and Fairchild, forming the ] and running with Jane Spirgel as the Secretary of State nominee. Hart and Spirgel's opponent, Republican incumbent ], won the election with 1.574 million votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thompson Wins Back Respect|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/11/06/thompson-wins-back-respect/|access-date=May 7, 2012|newspaper=]|date=November 6, 1986|author=Steve Neal|author2=Daniel Egler|archive-date=August 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808172244/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-11-06/news/8603230664_1_james-thompson-illinois-national-pundits|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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After that primary Senator ] (D-NY) accused his own party of pursuing a policy of ignoring the "infiltration by the neo-Nazi elements of Lyndon H. LaRouche", and said that too often, especially in the media, "the LaRouchites" are "dismissed as kooks". "In an age of ideology, in an age of totalitarianism, it will not suffice for a political party to be indifferent to and ignorant about such a movement", said Moynihan.{{Excessive citations inline|date=August 2024}}<ref name="politicalresearch.org">{{cite news|author=Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman|url=http://www.politicalresearch.org/1989/03/10/fascism-wrapped-in-the-american-flag/|title=Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag|publisher=Political Research Associates|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425160210/http://www.politicalresearch.org/1989/03/10/fascism-wrapped-in-the-american-flag/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>See also, {{cite book|author=Dennis King|title=Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism|pages=373–375}}</ref> Moynihan had faced a primary challenge in 1982 from Mel Klenetsky, an associate of LaRouche.<ref>{{cite news |author = Frank Lynn |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/20/nyregion/klenetsky-opposes-moynihan-with-unusual-list-of-charges.html |title = Klenetsky Opposes Moynihan with Usual List of Charges |newspaper = The New York Times |date = September 20, 1982 |access-date = February 10, 2017 |archive-date = March 14, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170314055540/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/20/nyregion/klenetsky-opposes-moynihan-with-unusual-list-of-charges.html |url-status = live }}</ref> | ||
In 1986, the LaRouche movement worked to place an AIDS initiative, ], on the California ballot, which lost by a 4–1 margin. It was re-introduced in 1988 and lost again by the same margin.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
In 1988, Claude Jones won the chairmanship of the ] Democratic Party in ], only to be stripped of his authority by the county executive committee before he could take office.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rangel |first=Jesus |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/democratic_party/index.html?query=LAROUCHE,%20LYNDON%20HERMYLE%20JR&field=per&match=exact |title=Democratic Party News - The New York Times - Narrowed by 'LAROUCHE, LYNDON HERMYLE JR' |publisher=Topics.nytimes.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> He was removed from office by the state party chairman a few months later, in February 1989, because of Jones's alleged opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate, ], in favor of LaRouche.<ref>{{Cite news|title=LaRouchite loses slot over anti-Dukakis stance|first=CLAY|last=ROBISON|work=Houston Chronicle|date=February 4, 1989|page=21}}</ref> | |||
Federal and state officials raided movement offices in 1986. In the ], some leaders of the movement received prison terms for conspiracy to commit fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
The LaRouche movement is reported by multiple sources, including journalists ] and ], to have had close ties to the Iraqi ] of ].<ref name=Berry>{{Cite news|title=Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement|first=JASON |last=BERRY|work=St. Petersburg Times|date=February 24, 1991|page=8.D}}</ref><ref name=Johnson208/> It was a leading opponent of the ] against Iraq in 1991 and the subsequent ] in 1992.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Cacophony rises from anti-war protests|first=Craig|last=Donegan|work=San Antonio Express-News|location=San Antonio, Tex.|date=March 3, 1991|page=03.M}}</ref> Supporters formed the "Committee to Save the Children in Iraq".<ref name="Jahn B.8.5.6">{{Cite news|title=Group urges end to Iraq sanctions|first=Ed|last=Jahn|work=The San Diego Union|date=June 13, 1991|page=B.8.5.6}}</ref> LaRouche blamed the sanctions and war on "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel" whose policies were "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the Hollinger Corporation, which has taken over The Jerusalem Post for that purpose."<ref>{{Cite news|title=FANTASIES|first=David |last=Bar-Illan|work=]|date=March 29, 1991|page=08|authorlink=David Bar-Illan}}</ref> Left-wing anti-war groups were divided over the LaRouche movement's involvement.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Peace activists express concern about anti-Semites in movement|first=Ross|last=Gelbspan|work=]|date=January 22, 1991}}</ref> | |||
In 1988, Claude Jones won the chairmanship of the ] Democratic Party in ], and was stripped of his authority by the county executive committee before he could take office.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/nyregion/another-assemblyman-ruled-off-primary-ballot.html |title=Houston Democrats Strip Chairman of Power |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 17, 1988 |access-date=2014-06-23 |archive-date=March 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314054349/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/nyregion/another-assemblyman-ruled-off-primary-ballot.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was removed from office by the state party chairman a few months later, in February 1989, because of Jones's alleged opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate, ], in favor of LaRouche.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouchite loses slot over anti-Dukakis stance |first=Clay|last=Robison|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=February 4, 1989|page=21}}</ref> | |||
In 2000, the Democratic nominee in Wyoming for the Senate, Mel Logan, was a LaRouche follower;<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE4D91E39F93BA35752C1A9669C8B63 |title=THE 2000 ELECTIONS: WEST|work=] |date=2000-11-08 |accessdate=2008-10-23}}</ref> the Republican incumbent, ], won in a 76%-23% landslide. In 2001, a "national citizen-candidates' movement" was created, advancing candidates for a number of elective offices across the country. | |||
The LaRouche movement opposed the ] against Iraq in 1991 and the ] in 1991.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cacophony rises from anti-war protests|first=Craig|last=Donegan|newspaper=San Antonio Express-News|location=San Antonio, Texas|date=March 3, 1991|page=03.M}}</ref> Supporters formed the "Committee to Save the Children in Iraq".<ref name="Jahn B.8.5.6">{{cite news|title=Group urges end to Iraq sanctions|first=Ed|last=Jahn |newspaper=The San Diego Union|date=June 13, 1991|page=B.8.5.6}}</ref> LaRouche blamed the sanctions and war on "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel" whose policies were "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the ], which has taken over '']'' for that purpose."<ref>{{cite news|title=Fantasies |first=David |last=Bar-Illan|work=]|date=March 29, 1991|page=08|author-link=David Bar-Illan}}</ref> Left-wing anti-war groups were divided over the LaRouche movement's involvement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Peace activists express concern about anti-Semites in movement|first=Ross|last=Gelbspan|work=Boston Globe|date=January 22, 1991}}</ref> | |||
In 2006, LaRouche Youth Movement activist and Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee member Cody Jones was honored as "Democrat of the Year" for the 43rd Assembly District of California, by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/otherartic_files/2006/060626_cody_jones.htm |title=LYM Member Cody Jones Honored at L.A. County Democratic Party Awards Dinner | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> At the April 2007 California State Democratic Convention, LYM activist Quincy O'Neal was elected vice-chairman of the California State Democratic Black Caucus,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/27/quincy.shtml |title=LaRouche Youth Movement Wins a California Democratic Leadership Post | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> and Wynneal Innocentes was elected corresponding secretary of the Filipino Caucus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/28/wyneal.shtml |title=Older Generation Steps Aside to Allow the Youth to Take Political Leadership | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> | |||
In the ], the Democratic Senatorial nominee, Mel Logan, was a LaRouche follower;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE4D91E39F93BA35752C1A9669C8B63 |title=The 2000 Elections: West|work=The New York Times |date=November 8, 2000 |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528152141/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/us/the-2000-elections-west-086398.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the Republican incumbent, ], won in a 76–23% landslide. In 2001, a "national citizen-candidates' movement" was created, advancing candidates for a number of elective offices across the country. | |||
In November 2007, Mark Fairchild returned to Illinois to promote legislation authored by LaRouche, called the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007, that would establish a moratorium on home ]s and establish a new federal agency to oversee all federal and state banks. He also promoted LaRouche's plan to build a high-speed railroad to connect Russia and the United States, including a tunnel under the ].<ref name="saukvalley2007"/><ref name="sj-r1"> The State Journal-Register, November 02 2007, archived on January 25, 2008 from </ref> | |||
In 2006, LaRouche Youth Movement activist and Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee member Cody Jones was honored as "Democrat of the Year" for the 43rd Assembly District of California, by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/otherartic_files/2006/060626_cody_jones.htm |title=LYM Member Cody Jones Honored at L.A. County Democratic Party Awards Dinner | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112063307/http://larouchepac.com/pages/otherartic_files/2006/060626_cody_jones.htm |archive-date=November 12, 2007}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2011}} At the April 2007 California State Democratic Convention, LYM activist Quincy O'Neal was elected vice-chairman of the California State Democratic Black Caucus,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/27/quincy.shtml |title=LaRouche Youth Movement Wins a California Democratic Leadership Post | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430074257/http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/27/quincy.shtml |archive-date=April 30, 2007}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2011}} and Wynneal Innocentes was elected corresponding secretary of the Filipino Caucus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/28/wyneal.shtml |title=Older Generation Steps Aside to Allow the Youth to Take Political Leadership | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620200241/http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/04/28/wyneal.shtml |archive-date=June 20, 2009}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2011}} | |||
In 2009, the LaRouche movement printed pamphlets showing President ] and Hitler laughing together, and posters of Obama wearing a Hitler-style mustache.<ref>Schultz 2009.</ref> In Seattle, police have been called twice in response to people threatening to tear the posters apart, or to assault the LaRouche supporters holding them.<ref>McNerthney, Casey. , ''Seattle Post Intelligencer'', July 14, 2009.</ref> At one widely reported event, Congressman ] referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense."<ref>, CNN, August 19, 2009; </ref> | |||
In November 2007, Mark Fairchild returned to Illinois to promote legislation authored by LaRouche, called the "Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007", establishing a moratorium on home ]s and establishing a new federal agency to oversee all federal and state banks. He also promoted LaRouche's plan to build a high-speed railroad to connect Russia and the United States, including a ].<ref name="saukvalley2007"/><ref name="sj-r1"> ''The State Journal-Register'', November 2, 2007, archived on January 25, 2008 from </ref> | |||
In March 2010, LaRouche Youth leader ] won the Democratic congressional primary in Houston, Texas' 22nd District.<ref>, Galveston County Daily News, March 3, 2010</ref> The following day, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party stated that "La Rouche members are not Democrats. I guarantee her campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff."<ref>, Houston Press, March 2, 2010.</ref> | |||
In 2009, a volunteer table in Mattituck, New York had a picture of ] and "a picture of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with Frankenstein-style bolts in her head."<ref>Schultz, Erin, " {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218141859/http://www2.timesreview.com/ST/Stories/T071609_Obama_ES|date=February 18, 2012}}", '']'', 23 July 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2012</ref> In July 2011, Seattle police were called by a LaRouche volunteer displaying "Obama with a Hitler-style mustache" picture at her stand, regarding a LaRouche opponent allegedly telling her "Look at me again and I'm going to punch your face." In another case, in June 2011, "the same officer was called to investigate an incident in which a man threatened to rip down several political signs displayed by LaRouche supporters." Police investigated the incident as malicious harassment{{snd}}the state's hate-crime law.<ref>McNerthney, Casey. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201043524/http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/173712.asp |date=February 1, 2011 }}, ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', July 14, 2009.</ref> At one widely reported event, Congressman ] referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense."<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901172319/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/frank.heath.care/index.html |date=September 1, 2009 }}, CNN, August 19, 2009; </ref> | |||
====Alleged violence and harassment==== | |||
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In March 2010, LaRouche Youth leader ] won the Democratic congressional primary in Houston, Texas' 22nd District.<ref>, ''Galveston County Daily News'', March 3, 2010</ref> The following day, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party stated that "La Rouche members are not Democrats. I guarantee her campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff."<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319232622/http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/03/democrat_impeach_obama.php |date=March 19, 2012 }}, ''Houston Press'', March 2, 2010.</ref> In June 2012, Rogers won the Democratic congressional primary for a second time.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605034831/http://www.texastribune.org/election-2012/scoreboard/#tab-us-house |date=June 5, 2012 }}, ''Texas Tribune''</ref> In March 2014, Rogers received 22% of the vote in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary, placing her into a runoff election with David M. Alameel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-03-04/march-4-election-results/ |title=March 4 Election Results |work=Austin Chronicle |access-date=2014-03-19 |archive-date=March 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309084411/http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2014-03-04/march-4-election-results/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
{{rquote|right|A "violence-oriented organization of 'revolutionary socialists' with a membership of nearly 1,000 located in chapters in some 50 cities ... involved in fights, beatings, using drugs, kidnappings, brainwashings, and at least one shooting. They are reported to be armed, to have received defensive training such as karate, and to attend cadre schools and training schools to learn military tactics..."|FBI Director ]'s 1976 testimony about the LaRouche movement.<ref>Rosenfeld (1976)</ref>}} | |||
===International=== | |||
The LaRouche movement members have had a reputation for engaging in violence, harassment, and heckling since the 1970s.<ref>Springston (1986)</ref><ref name="Hume 1986">Hume (1986)</ref><ref>THE GAME'S UP FOR LAROUCHE; Stephen Chapman. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 30, 1986. pg. 3</ref><ref>SCOTT KRAFT, LARRY GREEN. Two LaRouche Illinois Victories Stun Democrats. Los Angeles Times March 20, 1986:1.</ref> LaRouche has repeatedly repudiated violence while his followers have reportedly been charged with possession of weapons and explosives along with a numbers of violent crimes including kidnapping and assault.<ref>"THE LAROUCHE NETWORK " Milton R. Copulos Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation, July 19, 1984</ref> However there have been few, if any, convictions on these charges.<ref name="Blum & Montgomery 1979">Blum & Montgomery (1979)</ref> | |||
The ] and the ] (ICLC) are international organizations associated {{clarification|text=by some|reason=Are there people who don't associate them with the movement???|date=August 2024}} with the LaRouche Movement. Schiller Institute conferences have been held across the world. The ICLC is affiliated to political parties in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Mexico, the Philippines, and several South American countries.{{cn|date=August 2024}} Lyndon LaRouche, who was based in ], United States, and his wife, ], based in ], Germany, regularly attended these international conferences and met foreign politicians, bureaucrats, and academics.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
According to London-based SciDev.Net, the LaRouche movement has "attracted suspicion for circulating conspiracy theories and advocating for grand infrastructure projects." The movement supports the ] project to divert water from the ] to replenish ].<ref>"Three major canal schemes criticised over use of science" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425160209/https://www.scidev.net/global/water/news/three-major-canal-schemes-criticised-over-science.html|date=April 25, 2019}}, SciDev.Net, April 22, 2015</ref> | |||
The harassing of individuals and organizations is reportedly systematic and strategic.<ref name="Blum & Montgomery 1979">Blum & Montgomery (1979); Capreshet (1976); and Markham (1986)</ref> Some of the targets are prominent individuals, while others are common citizens speaking out against the movement. The group itself refers to these methods as "psywar techniques," and defends them as necessary to shake people up; ] has written that, believing the general population to be hopelessly indoctrinated by the mass media, they "fight back with words that stick in one's mind like shards of glass." He quotes movement member Paul Goldstein saying: "We're not very nice, so we're hated. Why be nice? It's a cruel world. We're in a war and the human race is up for grabs."<ref>Johnson, George (1983). Architects of fear : conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics. Los Angeles; Boston: J.P. Tarcher ; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0874772753 : 9780874772753.), pp. 191–192.</ref> | |||
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The ] (NALP) nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. Its candidates only had 297 votes nationwide in 1979.{{cn|date=August 2024}} LaRouche himself offered a draft constitution for the commonwealth of Canada in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comiterepubliquecanada.ca/English/ConstitutionEn.htm|title=Draft Constitution for the Republic of Canada by Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.|date=May 4, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040504065819/http://comiterepubliquecanada.ca/English/ConstitutionEn.htm|archive-date=May 4, 2004}}</ref> The NALP later became the ] and that ran candidates in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections. Those were more successful, gaining as many as 7,502 votes in 1993, but no seats. The ] nominated candidates for provincial elections in the 1980s under various party titles. The LaRouche affiliate now operates as the ''Committee for the Republic of Canada.''<ref></ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} | |||
In the 1960s and 1970s, LaRouche were accused of fomenting violence at anti-war rallies with a small band of followers.<ref name="Roderick 14 October 1986">Raid Stirs Reports of LaRouche's Dark Side; Kevin Roderick, Los Angeles Times. San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco, Calif.: Oct 14, 1986.</ref><ref>Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, by R. Brian Ferguson. Women of the forest By Yolanda Murphy Columbia University Press, 2004 p xv ISBN 0-231-13233-6, 9780231132336</ref> According to LaRouche's autobiography, it was in 1969 that violent altercations began between his members and ] groups. He wrote that ]'s faction began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University. "Other organized physical attacks against my friends would follow, inside the United States and abroad," he wrote. "Communist Party goon-squad attacks began in Chicago, in summer 1972, and continued sporadically up to the concerted assault launched during March 1973. During 1972, there was also a goon-attack on associates of mine by the ]."<ref>LaRouche 1987, p. 117.</ref> | |||
====Europe==== | |||
According to the '']'' and the '']'' the ] (NCLC), an organization founded and controlled by LaRouche, became embroiled in the early 1970s in conflicts with other leftist groups, culminating in "Operation Mop-Up" which consisted of a series of physical attacks on members of rival left wing groups.<ref>Nat Hentoff, Of Thugs and Liars, the Village Voice, 1/24/74, p. 8; Paul L. Montgomery, "How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery," New York Times, 1/20/74, p. 1; James C. Hyatt, "A Communist Group Uses Fists and Epithets To Battle U.S. Unions," Wall Street Journal, 10/7/75; "An Introduction to NCLC: "The Word is Beware," Liberation New Service, #599, 3/23/74; Charles M. Young, "Mind Control, Political Violence & Sexual Warfare: Inside the NCLC," Crawdaddy, June 1976, p. 48-56; Chronology of Labor Committee Attacks, issued by New York Committee to Stop Terrorist Attacks, 1973; Articles and photographs in the Daily World, the Militant, Workers Power, the Fifth Estate, the Boston Phoenix, and the Drummer.</ref> | |||
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The LaRouche Movement has a major center in Germany. The {{lang|de|]}} (BüSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) political party is headed by ], LaRouche's widow. It has nominated candidates for elective office and publishes the ''{{lang|de|Neue Solidarität}}'' newspaper.{{cn|date=August 2024}} Zepp-LaRouche is also the head of the German-based ]. <!-- Die Europäische Arbeiterpartei --> In 1986, Zepp-LaRouche formed the "Patriots for Germany" party, and announced that it would run a full slate of 100 candidates. The party received 0.2 percent of the 4 million votes and "failed to elect any candidates to the parliament".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1986_245831|title=Narrow state election victory gives boost to Kohl coalition|work=]|date=June 16, 1986|access-date=January 30, 2008|archive-date=January 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114071838/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1986_245831|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
''Solidarité et progrès'' (Solidarity and Progress), headed by ], is the LaRouche party in France. The party was previously known as ''Parti ouvrier européen'' (European Workers' Party) and ''Fédération pour une nouvelle solidarité'' (Federation for a New Solidarity). Its newspaper is ''Nouvelle Solidarité''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/ |title=Solidarité &; Progrès – Actualité |publisher=Solidariteetprogres.org |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511224753/http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} Cheminade ran for ] in ], ] and ], finishing last each time. The French LaRouche Youth Movement is headed by Élodie Viennot. Viennot supported the candidacy of Daniel Buchmann for the position of mayor of Berlin.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
During "Operation Mop-Up," LaRouche's ''New Solidarity'' reported NCLC confrontations with members of the Communist Party and Socialist Workers Party. One incident took place April 23, 1973 at a debate featuring Labor Committee mayoral candidate ].<ref name=autogenerated3>"Look at This: Communist Party Needs 'Trotskyist' Goons!," ''New Solidarity'', Vol. IV, No. 4, April 30 May 4, 1973 (Published Weekly by the National Caucus of Labor Committees), pp. 1, 4-5.</ref> The meeting erupted in a brawl, with chairs flying. Six people were treated for injuries at a local hospital. In Buffalo, two NCLC organizers were arrested and charged with 2nd degree felonious assault after an attack that left one person with a broken leg and another with a broken arm.<ref name="autogenerated3"/> | |||
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Sweden has an office of the Schiller Institute (Schillerinstitutet)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nysol.se/ |title=LaRoucherörelsen i Sverige |website=Nysol.se |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122022519/http://www.nysol.se/ |archive-date=January 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2024}} and the political party ] (EAP). | |||
In November 1973, the FBI issued an internal memorandum that was later released under the ]. Jeffrey Steinberg, the NCLC "director of counterintelligence",<ref name="FiveLaRouche">"Five LaRouche Groups, Aides Charged in Fraud". KEVIN RODERICK, ']'' October 7, 1986, pg. 1</ref> described it as the "] memo", which he says showed "that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA."<ref>Steinberg, Jeffrey; </ref> LaRouche wrote in 1998: | |||
<blockquote>The U.S. Communist Party was committed to putting the Labor Committees out of existence physically... Local law enforcement was curiously uncooperative, as they had been during prior physical attacks on myself and my friends. We knew that a 'fix' was in somewhere, probably from the FBI... We were left to our own resources. Tired of the beatings, we decided we had better prepare to defend ourselves if necessary.<ref>LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Power of Reason: 1988,'' p. 138</ref></blockquote> | |||
Dennis King writes that LaRouche halted the operation when police arrested several of his followers on assault charges, and after the groups under attack formed joint defense teams.<ref>King 1989, pp. 23–24.</ref> | |||
In Denmark, four candidates for parliament on the LaRouche platform (Tom Gillesberg, Feride Istogu Gillesberg and Hans Schultz)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitut.dk/ |title=Schiller Instituttet i Danmark |publisher=Schillerinstitut.dk |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011054136/http://schillerinstitut.dk/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} received 197 votes in the ] (at least 32,000 votes are needed for a local mandate). The Danish LaRouche Movement (Schiller Instituttet)'s first newspaper distributed 50,000 copies around Copenhagen and ].<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109233029/http://www.sive.dk/kampagneaviser.htm |date=November 9, 2007 }} Schiller Instituttes Venner webpage</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} | |||
=====Organizing and training===== | |||
In the mid-1973 the movement formed a Revolutionary Youth Movement to organize street gangs in New York City and other eastern cities.<ref name=Rose/><ref>Blum (1974)</ref> In September 1973 ten members of the NCLC were arrested for causing a melee at a Newark City Council meeting that involved 100 demonstrators, reported to be the third incident that week.<ref>"Newark Police Arrest Ten in Council Chamber Fight", Richard Phalon, September 6, 1973 The New York Times</ref> The NCLC reportedly trained some members in terrorist and guerilla warfare.<ref name=Anderson1978>Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, January 30, 1978, Chillicothe Constitution Tribune</ref> Topics included weapons handling, explosives and demolition, close order drills, small unit tactics, and military history.<ref name=Anderson1978/> The ] later used a training camp operated by ] in ], where some members took a six-day "anti-terrorist" course.<ref>"U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy," Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery, New York Times, October 7, 1979</ref> LaRouche denied that the training sessions took place.<ref name="Blum 1979b">"One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on Its Erratic Path", Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery, October 8, 1979, New York Times, Metropolitan Report, Page B1</ref> | |||
The {{lang|it|Movimento Solidarietà{{snd}}Associazione di LaRouche in Italia}} (MSA) is an Italian political party headed by Paolo Raimondi that supports the LaRouche platform.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
Larry Cooper, a ] police captain hired by LaRouche as a security consultant in 1977,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Cop suspended for cloak-and-dagger job|author=UPI|work=THE STARS AND STRIPES|date=August 7, 1977|page=5}}</ref> said in an NBC broadcast interview that LaRouche had proposed the assassination of ], ], ], and ].<ref>"NBC upheld in appeals decision on LaRouche case. " Broadcasting. 110 (Jan 20, 1986): 234(2). . Gale.</ref><ref name=King/> The FBI was concerned that the movement might try to take power by force.<ref>McAllister 1977</ref> General ] said members of the movement implied in discussions with him that the military might help "lead the country out of its problems", a view which he rejected.<ref name="Blum 1979b"/> | |||
Ortrun Cramer of the Schiller Institute became a delegate of the Austrian ] in the 1990s, but there is no sign of ongoing relationship.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ispac-italy.org/ngoprof.php?Org_ID=105 |title=Non-governmental, Individual Experts, Academic, Scientific, Research and Professional Organizations |access-date=July 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041214011804/http://www.ispac-italy.org/ngoprof.php?Org_ID=105 |archive-date=December 14, 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2024}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_programs_2000.html |title=LaRouche Connection Master List 1995–present |publisher=Larouchepub.com |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=August 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804164245/http://www.larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_programs_2000.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} | |||
=====Labor unions===== | |||
In 1974 and 1975, the NCLC targeted the ] (UAW), ] (UFW), and other trade unionists. They declared open war and dubbed their campaign "Operation Mop Up Woodcock", a reference to their violent anti-communist campaign of 1973 and to UAW president ].<ref>"Inside Labor Front", Victor Riesel, THE MORNING HERALD PAGE 4-UNIONTOWN, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1974</ref> The movement staged demonstrations that turned violent. They issued pamphlets attacking the leadership as corrupt and perverted. The UAW said that members had received dozens of calls a day accusing their relatives of homosexuality,<ref>Business Week. "The U.S. Labor Party's radical crusade". October 2, 1978.</ref> reportedly at the direction of NCLC "security staff".<ref name="Rose 1979">Rose (1979)</ref> Leaflets called an Ohio local president a "Woodcocksucker".<ref name="Rose 1979"/> The leadership of the ] was also attacked.<ref name="Rose 1979"/> During the same period, the LaRouche movement was closely associated with the ] union which was in a jurisdictional dispute with the UFW. | |||
], leader of the ], has stated multiple times that she supports LaRouche's ideals.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
=====1980 New Hampshire presidential primary===== | |||
LaRouche put substantial effort into his first Democratic Primary, held February 1980 in ]. Reporters, campaign workers, and party officials received calls from people impersonating reporters or ADL staff members who asked questions including about what "bad news" they had heard about LaRouche.<ref>Rosenfeld (1980a)</ref> Return calls reportedly showed that the purported callers were impostors.<ref name=AP1980/> LaRouche said that when a newspaper is "running a dirty operation against us", then they are an "open target" for impersonation.<ref name=AP1980>AP (1980)</ref> The U.S. Attorney reported that he had received "at least a dozen" complaints about harassing calls from LaRouche supporters, and police also reported complaints about LaRouche workers hassling residents who refused campaign literature.<ref name=AP1980/> Governor ] and State Attorney General Thomas Rath both received harassing phone calls "day and night".<ref name=AP1980b>AP (1980b)</ref> A photocopied list titled "New Hampshire Target List" was found in a hotel room vacated by a LaRouche campaign worker. The list said, "these are the criminals to burn" and included Galen, Rath, the Secetrary of State, mayors, and city clerks.<ref name=AP1980b/> LaRouche spokesman Ted Andromidas said "We did choose to target those people for political pressure hopefully to prevent them from carrying out the kind of fraud that occurred in Tuesday's election..."<ref>Boston Globe (1980)</ref> A New Hampshire journalist, Jon Prestage, did a three-part series on LaRouche. Following a tense interview with LaRouche, who was accompanied by armed guards, Prestage was threatened if he used the interview. When he reported the incident, he found one of his cats dead on his doorstep the following morning, and another dead cat on each of the subsequent days that the series ran.<ref>Mintz (1985)</ref> | |||
== Controversy == | |||
=====Leesburg, Virginia===== | |||
The LaRouche movement has been accused of violence, harassment, and heckling since the 1970s.<ref>Springston (1986)</ref><ref name="Hume 1986">{{cite news|title=LaRouche Group, Long on the Political Fringe Gets Mainstream Scrutiny After Illinois Primary|author=Ellen Hume|work=The Wall Street Journal|edition=Eastern|location=New York|date=Mar 28, 1986|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Game's IUp for LaRouche |author=Stephen Chapman|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Mar 30, 1986|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Scott Kraft, Larry Green. Two LaRouche Illinois Victories Stun Democrats|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 20, 1986|page=1}}</ref> | |||
In the mid-1980s LaRouche moved his headquarters from New York City to ]. The movement invested in real estate, opened offices, started a newspaper, bought a radio station, and opened a bookstore. Hundreds of followers settled in the area. The newspaper, ''The Loudoun County News'', ran advertisements for local merchants without their authorization to give the impression of community support, and claimed harassment when challenged.<ref name=Wald>Man who calls Queen a pusher worries town; By MATTHEW WALD. The Gazette. Montreal, Que.: Apr 14, 1986. pg. A.1.FRO)</ref> Residents, including Agnes Harrison and Leesburg Mayor Robert Sevila, reported that armed guards quickly appeared and pointed guns at people who stopped along the road outside LaRouche's estate.<ref name=Gettlin>"LAROUCHE KEEPS TINY VIRGINIA TOWN BUZZING \ Extremist set up quarters in '83 :" ROBERT GETTLIN The Sunday Patriot - News. Harrisburg, Pa. 1986 Nov 2 pg. D.1</ref> Local critics reported receiving threatening phone calls.<ref name=Wald/><ref>"Indictment says LaRouche wanted to smear official to block probe" Houston Chronicle 17 Dec. 1986, p. 14</ref> LaRouche followers handed out leaflets in front of a church which said that five local residents had "allied themselves knowingly with persons and organizations which are part of the international drug lobby."<ref name=Wald/> | |||
=== 1960s and Operation Mop-Up === | |||
A Leesburg businessman who told a reporter about rumors of injuries to animals, including a horse who was poisoned and a dog who had been skinned, was sued for $2 million, and when the suit was dismissed by a district judge the LaRouche movement appealed it to the Virginia Supreme Court.<ref name="Gettlin" /> The Leesburg Garden Club was singled out for attention. LaRouche called it a "nest of Soviet fellow travellers," whose members were "cacking busybodies in this Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves."<ref name="Gettlin"/> Warren J. Hammerman, chairman of the ], said "Because the drug-running threat is Soviet-backed and the Garden Club is fighting LaRouche on drugs, they are serving as Soviet agents."<ref name="Gettlin"/> | |||
In the 1960s and 1970s, LaRouche was accused of fomenting violence at anti-war rallies with a small band of followers.<ref name="Roderick October 14, 1986">{{cite news|title=Raid Stirs Reports of LaRouche's Dark Side|author=Kevin Roderick|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Oct 14, 1986}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition by R. Brian Ferguson|title=Women of the forest|author=Yolanda Murphy|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=2004|page=xv|isbn=978-0231132336}}</ref> According to LaRouche's autobiography, it was in 1969 that violent altercations began between his members and ] groups. He wrote that a faction of ] which later became the ] began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University, and there were later attacks by the ], and the ].<ref>{{cite book|last=LaRouche|first=Lyndon |year=1987|title=The Power of Reason: An Autobiography|url=https://archive.org/details/powerofreason19800laro|url-access=registration|publisher=Executive Intelligence Review|isbn= 978-0943235004|page=}}</ref> These conflicts culminated in "Operation Mop-Up", a series of physical attacks by LaRouche's ] (NCLC) on rival left-wing groups.<ref>{{cite news|author=Nat Hentoff|title=Of Thugs and Liars|work=The Village Voice|date=January 24, 1974|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Paul L. Montgomery|title=How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery|work=The New York Times|date=January 20, 1974|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=James C. Hyatt|title=A Communist Group Uses Fists and Epithets To Battle U.S. Unions|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=October 7, 1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=An Introduction to NCLC: "The Word is Beware|work=Liberation New Service|number=599|date=March 23, 1974}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Charles M. Young|title=Mind Control, Political Violence & Sexual Warfare: Inside the NCLC|work=Crawdaddy|date=June 1976|pages=48–56}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Chronology of Labor Committee Attacks|publisher=New York Committee to Stop Terrorist Attacks|year=1973|location=Articles and photographs in the Daily World, the Militant, Workers Power, the Fifth Estate, the Boston Phoenix, and the Drummer}}</ref> LaRouche's ''New Solidarity'' reported NCLC confrontations with members of the Communist Party and Socialist Workers Party, including an April 23, 1973 incident at a debate featuring Labor Committee mayoral candidate ] that erupted in a brawl, with chairs flying.<ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite news|title=Look at This: Communist Party Needs 'Trotskyist' Goons!|work=New Solidarity|volume=IV|number=4|date=April 30 – May 4, 1973|publisher=National Caucus of Labor Committees|pages=1, 4–5}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} Six people were treated for injuries at a local hospital.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
In the mid-1973 the movement formed a "Revolutionary Youth Movement" to recruit and politicize members of street gangs in New York City and other eastern cities.<ref name=Rose/><ref>"Marx & the Outlaws Recruiting in the ghetto" Howard Blum, ''The Village Voice'', New York, June 6, 1974</ref><ref>King 1989, pp. 33–34.</ref> The NCLC allegedly trained some members in terrorist and guerrilla warfare.<ref name=Rose/><ref name="Blum & Montgomery 1979">Blum & Montgomery (1979)</ref><ref name=Anderson1978>{{cite news|author=] and ]|date=January 30, 1978|work=Chillicothe Constitution Tribune}}</ref> Topics included weapons handling, explosives and demolition, close order drills, small unit tactics, and military history.<ref name=Anderson1978/> | |||
=====Harassment of officials===== | |||
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The LaRouche movement is reported to have harassed and threatened various federal agents from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, in some cases reportedly directed by the security unit run by Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg.<ref name="Roderick October 14, 1986">Roderick (October 14, 1986)</ref> Two young followers, Abi Steinberg and Andrea Konviser, told of calling FBI agents in the middle of the night to tell them dirty jokes in 1974,<ref>"Marxist organizers move into L. Bucks" ED McCONVILLE, "BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES" NOVEMBER 11.1974, p. 5</ref> and such calls were reported again in 1978.<ref>No title. Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, Jan 30, 1978, Chillicothe Constitution Tribune</ref> According to courtroom testimony by FBI agent Richard Egan, Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg, the heads of LaRouche's security unit, boasted of placing harassing phone calls all through the night to the the general counsel of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) when the FEC was investigating LaRouche's political contributions.<ref name="Roderick October 14, 1986"/> | |||
=== The USLP vs. the FBI === | |||
During the grand jury hearings followers picketed the courthouse, chanted "Weld is a fag",<ref>U.S. Investigating Fraud Allegations, Tax Law Violations against LaRouche, THE POST-STANDARD/Saturdayx April 19, 1986/PAGE A-9</ref> distributed leaflets accusing Weld of involvement in drug dealing, and advocated his public hanging.<ref name="December 1986, p. 14">"Indictment says LaRouche wanted to smear official to block probe" Houston Chronicle 17 December 1986, p. 14</ref> A federal indictment of three LaRouche followers reported that according to an allegation made by multiple-convict ], who served as a security consultant to Lyndon LaRouche and a government informant, LaRouche had once said that Weld "does not deserve to live. He should get a bullet between the eyes." A spokesman for the movement "denied LaRouche had ever made such a statement."<ref name="bullet"></ref> | |||
] letter recommended that the FBI provide anonymous aid to a background investigation by the ].]] | |||
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In November 1973, the FBI issued an internal memorandum, later released under the ]. Jeffrey Steinberg, the NCLC "director of counterintelligence",<ref name="FiveLaRouche">{{cite news|title=Five LaRouche Groups, Aides Charged in Fraud|author=Kevin Roderick |work=]|date=October 7, 1986|page=1}}</ref> described it as the "] memo", which he says showed "that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA."<ref>{{cite news|author=Steinberg, Jeffrey|url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/health/dc_js_on_kkkatie.html|title=The Washington Post's and KKK-Katie Graham's 25-Year War Against LaRouche|access-date=October 25, 2009|archive-date=February 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222094052/http://www.schillerinstitute.org/health/dc_js_on_kkkatie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> LaRouche wrote in 1998: | |||
The ] sent a team of ten people, headed by ], to ], to pursue the ] in 1990. Among the charges investigated by the grand jury was that the Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman and other men had sex with a 15-year old woman at a party held by the bank's owner. The LaRouche groups insisted there was a coverup. They distributed copies of the Schiller Institute's ''New Federalist'' newspaper that contained accusations about leading Omaha citizens, especially Wadman. They went door-to-door in Wadman's neighborhood telling residents that their neighbor was a child molester. When Wadman took a job with the police department in ], LaRouche followers went there to demand that he be fired, and after he left there they followed him to a third city to make accusations.<ref>LaRouche Article Contains Falsehoods Extremist Group Targets Wadman; Robert Dorr. Omaha World - Herald. | |||
{{blockquote|The U.S. Communist Party was committed to putting the Labor Committees out of existence physically... Local law enforcement was curiously uncooperative, as they had been during prior physical attacks on myself and my friends. We knew that a 'fix' was in somewhere, probably from the FBI... We were left to our own resources. Tired of the beatings, we decided we had better prepare to defend ourselves if necessary.<ref>{{cite book|author=LaRouche, Lyndon|title=The Power of Reason 1988|page=138}}</ref>}} | |||
Omaha, Neb.: Oct 28, 1990. pg. 1.b</ref> According experts quoted by the Omaha World - Herald, LaRouche's motive for involvement was to justify phone solicitations raising money to combat child abuse in Nebraska.<ref>Chronology of the Franklin Hoax Casey Set Sex-Abuse Rumors in Motion; Omaha World - Herald. Omaha, Neb.: July 21, 1991. pg. 6.A</ref> | |||
The FBI was allegedly concerned that the movement might try to take power by force.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ogden Hopes To Be Spoiler in Va. Race|first=Bill |last=McAllister|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 16, 1977 |page=A8}}</ref> FBI Director Clarence Kelly testified in 1976 about the LaRouche movement:<ref>{{cite news|title=NCLC: 'A Domestic Political Menace'|author=Stephen S. Rosenfeld|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 24, 1976|page=A15}}</ref> | |||
=====Harassment of politicians===== | |||
In the 1970s, ] was a central figure in the conspiracy theories espoused by LaRouche. An FBI file described the LaRouche movement as "clandestinely oriented group of political schizophrenics who have a paranoid preoccupation with Nelson Rockefeller and the CIA."<ref>Valentine (1977)</ref> Rockefeller's nomination for U.S. Vice President was strongly opposed by the LaRouche movement, and its members heckled his appearances. Federal authorities were reported to be concerned that the movement's hatred of Rockefeller would turn violent.<ref>"Hate mongers are own worst enemies" TOM TIEDE, Great Bend Tribune, September 8 1974, p. 4</ref> | |||
{{blockquote|A "violence-oriented organization of 'revolutionary socialists' with a membership of nearly 1,000 located in chapters in some 50 cities ... involved in fights, beatings, using drugs, kidnappings, brainwashings, and at least one shooting. They are reported to be armed, to have received defensive training such as karate, and to attend cadre schools and training schools to learn military tactics..."}} | |||
A special target of LaRouche's attention is ]. LaRouche called Kissinger a "faggot", a "British agent", a "Soviet agent of influence", a "traitor", a "Nazi", and a "murderer", and linked him to the murder of ].<ref name=Johnson>Johnson (1983)</ref><ref name=King>King (1989)</ref> His followers heckled and disrupted Kissinger's appearances. The same year a member of LaRouche's ], Ellen Kaplan, shouted "Is it true that you sleep with young boys at the Carlyle Hotel?" at Kissinger on an airport terminal while he and his wife, Nancy, were on their way to a heart operation. In response, Nancy Kissinger grabbed the woman by the throat. Kaplan pressed charges and the case went to trial.<ref name=Johnson/> In 1986 Janice Hart held a press conference to say that Kissinger was part of the international "drug mafia". Asked whether Jews were behind drug trafficking Hart replied, "That's totally nonsense. I don't consider Henry Kissinger a Jew. I consider Henry Kissinger a homosexual."<ref>'LAROUCHIES' FORCE STATE TO TAKE NOTICE; R Bruce Dold and Wes Smith Ray Gibson and Kurt Greenbaum contributed to this report. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: March 23, 1986. pg. 1</ref> | |||
=== Association with Roy Frankhouser and Mitch WerBell === | |||
A LaRouche organization distributed almost-pornographic posters of Illinois politician ], and called other female politicians "prostitutes" and their husbands "pimps", according to ].<ref name="Royko July 25, 1986">Royko (July 25, 1986)</ref> In 1986, two LaRouche candidates, ] and Mark Fairchild, won surprise victories in the Democratic primaries for two statewide positions in Illinois, Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor. Campaign appearances by democratic gubernatorial candidate ], who refused to share the ticket with them and shifted instead to the "Solidarity Party" formed for the purpose, were interrupted by a trio of singers that included Fairchild and Chicago Mayoral candidate Sheila Jones.<ref>LAROUCHE SERENADE WOEFUL FOR ADLAI; Mitchell Locin and Don Terry. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.: Apr 2, 1986. pg. 7</ref> Illinois Attorney General ]'s home was visited late at night by a group of LaRouche followers who chanted, sang, and used a bullhorn "to exorcise the demons out of Neil Hartigan's soul".<ref>Locin (1986)</ref> Hart and an associate were charged with disorderly conduct when they handed a piece of raw liver to the Roman Catholic Archbishop ] of Milwaukee who was addressing a synagogue in ], saying that it represented the "pound of flesh extracted by Hitler" during the Holocaust.<ref>Dold & Smith (1986)</ref> Before the primaries a group of LaRouche supporters reportedly stormed the campaign offices of Hart's opponent and demanded that a worker "take an AIDS test".<ref name="Royko July 25, 1986"/> | |||
In the later 1970s, the U.S. Labor Party came into contact with ], a felon and government informant who had infiltrated a variety of groups. The LaRouche organization believed Frankhouser was a federal agent assigned to infiltrate right-wing and left-wing groups, and that he had evidence that these groups were being manipulated or controlled by the FBI and other agencies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1975/eirv02n32-19750723/eirv02n32-19750723_009-leaa_gestapo_operations_in_readi.pdf|title=EIR, July 17, 1975|access-date=April 16, 2012|archive-date=April 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401213323/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1975/eirv02n32-19750723/eirv02n32-19750723_009-leaa_gestapo_operations_in_readi.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Busing Plot: CIA Plans Fall Race Riots, Organizes Both Sides|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1974/eirv01n10-19740708/eirv01n10-19740708_016-the_busing_plot_cia_plans_fall_r.pdf|publisher=EIR|date=July 8, 1974|access-date=April 16, 2012|archive-date=April 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401213339/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1974/eirv01n10-19740708/eirv01n10-19740708_016-the_busing_plot_cia_plans_fall_r.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Frankhouser introduced LaRouche to ], a former ] operative, paramilitary trainer, and arms dealer. Some members allegedly took a six-day "anti-terrorist" course at a training camp operated by WerBell in Powder Springs, Georgia.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy|author=Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery|work=The New York Times|date=October 7, 1979}}</ref> In 1979, LaRouche denied that the training sessions took place.<ref name="Blum 1979b">{{cite news|title=One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on Its Erratic Path|author=Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery|date=October 8, 1979|work=The New York Times|at=Metropolitan Report, page B1}}</ref> WerBell introduced LaRouche to covert operations specialist General ], who later said that members of the movement implied in discussions with him that the military might help "lead the country out of its problems", a view which he rejected.<ref name="Blum 1979b"/> WerBell also introduced LaRouche to Larry Cooper, a ] police captain. Cooper, Frankhouser and an associate of Frankhouser named Forrest Lee Fick later made allegations about LaRouche. Cooper said in an NBC broadcast interview in 1984 that LaRouche had proposed the assassination of ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite news|title=NBC upheld in appeals decision on LaRouche case|work=Broadcasting|issue=110|date=Jan 20, 1986|page=234(2)|publisher=Gale}}</ref><ref name=King/><ref>{{cite news|title=Cop suspended for cloak-and-dagger job|agency=United Press International|work=The Stars and Striped|date=August 7, 1977|page=5}}</ref><ref name="bullet">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-10-mn-5225-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122030030/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-10/news/mn-5225_1_larouche-organizations|url-status=live|title=Card Tricks – Time|website=] |date=November 2, 2007|archive-date=January 22, 2012|access-date=July 21, 2021}}</ref> In 1984, LaRouche said that he had employed WerBell as a security consultant, but that the allegations coming from Werbell's circle were fabrications that originated with operatives of the FBI and other agencies.<ref>{{cite news|title=NBC 'assassination plot' a total lie|url=https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1984/eirv11n11-19840320/eirv11n11-19840320_056-nbc_assassination_plot_a_total_l.pdf|publisher=EIR|date=March 20, 1984|access-date=April 16, 2012|archive-date=April 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401213055/https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1984/eirv11n11-19840320/eirv11n11-19840320_056-nbc_assassination_plot_a_total_l.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
=== Labor unions === | |||
In 1984 a reporter for a LaRouche publication buttonholed President ] as he was leaving a ] press conference, demanding to know why LaRouche was not receiving ] protection. As a result, future press conferences in the ] were arranged with the door behind the president so he can leave without passing through the reporters.<ref>"New Set for Reagan Allows Quick News Session Exit. " Wall Street Journal 5 Apr. 1984, Eastern edition: p. 1.</ref> In 1992, a follower shook hands with President ] at a campaign visit to a shopping center. The follower would not let go, demanding to know, "When are you going to let LaRouche out of jail?" The Secret Service had to intervene.<ref>"LAROUCHE BACKER CONFRONTS BUSH." AP, Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) Feb 13, 1992 pA11</ref> | |||
In 1974 and 1975, the NCLC allegedly targeted the ] (UAW), ] (UFW), and other trade unionists. They dubbed their campaign "Operation Mop Up Woodcock", a reference to their anti-communist campaign of 1973 and to UAW president ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Inside Labor Front|author=Victor Riesel|work=The Morning Herald|page=4|location=Uniontown, Pennsylvania|date=February 1, 1974}}</ref> The movement staged demonstrations that allegedly{{whom|date=August 2024}} turned violent. They issued pamphlets attacking the leadership as corrupt and perverted. The UAW said that members had received dozens of calls a day accusing their relatives of homosexuality,<ref>Business Week. "The U.S. Labor Party's radical crusade". October 2, 1978.</ref> reportedly at the direction of NCLC "security staff".<ref name="Rose 1979">{{cite news|title=U.S. Labor Party: The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC|first=Gregory F.|last=Rose|work=National Review |date=March 30, 1979 |pages=409–413}}</ref> Leaflets called an Ohio local president a "Woodcocksucker".<ref name="Rose 1979" /> The leadership of the ] was also attacked.<ref name="Rose 1979" /> During the same period, the LaRouche movement was closely associated with the ] union which was in a jurisdictional dispute with the UFW.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
=== 1980 New Hampshire presidential primary === | |||
During the 1988 presidential campaign, LaRouche activists spread a rumor that the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Governor ], had received professional treatment for two episodes of mental despression. Media sources did not report the rumor initially to avoid validating it.<ref name=Walsh>Walsh (1988)</ref> However at a press conference a reporter for a LaRouche publication, ], asked President Reagan whether Dukakis should release his medical records. Reagan replied "Look, I'm not going to pick on an invalid." Within an hour after the press conference Reagan apologized for the joke.<ref name=Walsh/> The question received wide publicity, and was later analyzed as an example of how journalists should handle rumors.<ref>Houston & Rosenstiel (1988)</ref> Republican candidate Vice President George H.W. Bush's aides got involved in sustaining the story, and Dukakis was obliged to deny having had depression. To avoid the negative backlash on his own campaign, Bush made a statement urging Congress to pass the ], which he signed upon gaining office and which became one of his proudest legacies.<ref>Colker (2005)</ref> | |||
LaRouche put substantial effort into his first Democratic Primary, held February 1980 in ]. Reporters, campaign workers, and party officials received calls from people impersonating reporters or ADL staff members, inquiring what "bad news" they had heard about LaRouche.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bogus Callers Arouse Suspicion in N.H. Campaign|first=Megan |last=Rosenfeld |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 2, 1980|page=A4}}</ref> LaRouche acknowledged that his campaign workers used impersonation to collect information on political opponents.<ref name=SpokesmanReview/> Governor ], State Attorney General Thomas Rath and other officials received harassing phone calls.<ref name=SpokesmanReview>{{cite news|date=March 1, 1980|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dedPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5767,194765|title=Calls harass civic officials|work=Spokesman Review|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=April 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425105827/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dedPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5767,194765&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Their names appeared on a photocopied "New Hampshire Target List" acquired by the ], found in a LaRouche campaign worker's hotel room; the list stated, "these are the criminals to burn{{snd}}we want calls coming in to these fellows day and night".<ref name=SpokesmanReview/> LaRouche spokesman Ted Andromidas said, "We did choose to target those people for political pressure hopefully to prevent them from carrying out the kind of fraud that occurred in Tuesday's election."<ref>{{cite news|title=Fringe Candidate or a Threat? The Lyndon LaRouche Campaign |first=Charles |last=Kenney |work=Boston Globe |date=February 17, 1980|page=1}}</ref> New Hampshire journalist Jon Prestage said he was threatened after a tense interview with LaRouche and his associates, and found several of his cats dead after he published an account of the meeting.<ref name=Mintz14Jan85>{{cite news|author=Mintz, John|date=January 14, 1985|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm|title=Critics of LaRouche Group Hassled, Ex-Associates Say|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 2, 2017|archive-date=December 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226011947/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TourishWohlforth2000">{{cite book|author1=Dennis Tourish|author2=Tim Wohlforth|title=On the edge: political cults right and left|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXcsNRUuHEUC&pg=PA77|access-date=September 21, 2011|year=2000|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0765606396|page=77|archive-date=April 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423010338/https://books.google.com/books?id=xXcsNRUuHEUC&pg=PA77|url-status=live}}</ref> A LaRouche associate denied responsibility for the dead cats.<ref name=Mintz14Jan85/> | |||
=== Political opponents === | |||
At a 2003 Democratic primary debate repeatedly interrupted by hecklers, ] quoted ], "no one's been elected since 1972 that Lyndon LaRouche and his people have not protested".<ref>DEMOCRATS CLASH IN DEBATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AIM AT BUSH BUT DISAGREE ON IRAQ, ISRAEL; ANNE E. KORNBLUT AND GLEN JOHNSON, BOSTON GLOBE. Pittsburgh Post - Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pa.: September 10, 2003. pg. A.8</ref> The first reported incidence of heckling by LaRouche followers was at the Watergate hearings in 1973. Since then, LaRouche followers have interrupted events featuring ],<ref name="ReferenceA">"Public Accountability Called Crime Weapon" PAGE TWELVE - THE TITUSVILLE HERALD, Titusville, Pa.,Wednesday, May 12, 1976</ref> ],<ref></ref> ],<ref>"Bond Says Ethnic Remark Was Racist" CHARLOTTE (AP), High Point Enterprise. Tuesday, April 27, 1976 5A</ref> ],<ref>"Kooks right out of the Twilight Zone" LIONEL VAN DEERLIN. The Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: March 24, 1986. pg. B.7</ref> ],<ref>"U.S., Soviets Plan First Afghan Talks in 3 Years", NORMAN KEMPSTER, Los Angeles Times May 29, 1985</ref> ],<ref>"Protests greet Bush at Midwestern stops;" CRAGG HINES. Houston Chronicle October 17, 1990. pg. 2</ref> ],<ref>"Bush appears before NAACP for 1st time of his presidency" G. Robert Hillman. Knight Ridder Tribune News Service. Washington: July 20, 2006. pg. 1</ref> ],<ref>Carter: "Labor Party Tactics", editorial, October 18, 1976 THE POST-STANDARD. Syracuse, N.Y.</ref> ],<ref>Clark Shifts His Trail Talk To Match New Landscape Edward Wyatt. New York Times. January 22, 2004. pg. A.23</ref> ],<ref>"Revised Predictions by David Tell", The Weekly Standard., 27 January 2004 1:30:00 PM</ref> ],<ref>"THE NATION; THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE; Twists and Turns in New Hampshire;" Eric Slater and Matea Gold. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: January 21, 2004. pg. A.1</ref> ],<ref>"Kerrey Tries to Win Over N.H. Hecklers;" Paul Goodsell. Omaha World - Herald. February 17, 1992. pg. 5</ref> ],<ref>Next debate to give hopefuls a `real' town hall; Anne Gearan Associated Press. Journal - Gazette. Ft. Wayne, Ind.: October 5, 2004. pg. 5.A</ref> ],<ref></ref> ],<ref>"Lyndon LaRouche has got America's attention now!" By John Dillin, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. March 27, 1986 edition</ref> ],<ref>"Last Call's Early For Joe As Hecklers Crash Party" Elizabeth Hamilton. Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. Washington: November 3, 2006. pg. 1</ref> Sir ],<ref name="ReferenceA"/> ],<ref>"Briefs from the campaign trail" Anne Dawson. The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ont.: December 3, 2005. pg. A.5</ref> ],<ref>"LAROUCHE SAVORS FAME THAT MAY RUIN HIM" Robin Toner and Joel Brinkley, New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). April 4, 1986. pg. A.1</ref> ],<ref></ref> ],<ref>"HECKLERS TALK 'TRASH' WHILE NORTH SERMONIZES" KERRY DOUGHERTY, Virginian - Pilot. Norfolk, Va.: October 30, 1994. pg. A.4</ref> ],<ref>"PEROT ATTACKS CLINTON ETHICS IN UB TALK;" ROBERT J. McCARTHY - News Political Reporter. Buffalo News. Buffalo, N.Y.: November 1, 1996. pg. A.1</ref> ],<ref>"On Social Security, a Political Appeal to the Young Draws the Attention of Their Elders", ROBIN TONER February 23, 2005, New York Times</ref> ],<ref>"The Americas: Lyndon LaRouche's Latin American Connection" By Sergio Sarmiento. Wall Street Journal. New York, N.Y.: September 1, 1989. pg. 1</ref> ],<ref> DAVID S. HILZENRATH, the Harvard Crimson, June 6, 1985</ref> and ].<ref>"Pair Shouts At Woodcock" Mike Dorgan, The Capital Times, MADISON, WIS., Tuesday, September 10, 1974 , p. 21</ref> LaRouche followers have disrupted political debates,<ref>"Go ahead and laugh but they're running", DAN MacDONALD, Syracuse Herald American July 7, 1974</ref><ref>WORD WAR CONTINUES, DEBATE UNLIKELY; Robert Davis and John Kass. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.: Feb 5, 1987. pg. 1</ref><ref>Lieberman, Dean Take Off Gloves as Foreign Policy Dominates Democratic Debate David Lightman. Knight Ridder TribuneBusiness News. Washington: Sep 10, 2003. pg. 1</ref> college classes,<ref>"Activist group trespasses on BU property" Christa Majoras, The Daily Free Press, Boston University, January 31, 2007</ref> meetings of a ] development study group and of ] supporters on university campuses,<ref>If the United Nations Gives Up, Urgent Work Won't Be Done; Flora Lewis. International Herald Tribune. Paris: Jul 29, 1994. pg. 4</ref><ref>"Students clash over ideology at on-campus event" By Anthony Pesce & Julia Erlandson, Daily Bruin, UCLA, Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:48 p.m. Published: Friday, October 27, 2006 </ref><ref>"Lyndon LaDouche: Followers of crackpot felon accuse Weekly of being Cheneys tool" Will Swaim, published: November 23, 2006 </ref> and even a Columbus Day parade in New York City.<ref>"Columbus March Brings Out the Candidates" By MAURICE CARROLL October 12, 1976 The New York Times</ref> | |||
According to courtroom testimony by FBI agent Richard Egan, Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg, the heads of LaRouche's security unit, boasted of placing harassing phone calls all through the night to the general counsel of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) when the FEC was investigating LaRouche's political contributions.<ref name="Roderick October 14, 1986"/> | |||
During the grand jury hearings followers picketed the courthouse, chanted "] is a fag",<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. Investigating Fraud Allegations, Tax Law Violations against LaRouche|work=The Post-Standard |date=April 19, 1986|page=A-9}}</ref> distributed leaflets accusing U.S. Attorney William Weld of involvement in drug dealing, and "sang a jingle advocating that he be hanged in public".<ref name="December 1986, p. 14"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709122401/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_428954/indictment-says-larouche-wanted-to-smear-official.html |date=July 9, 2012 }}, ''Houston Chronicle'' December 17, 1986, p. 14</ref> | |||
=====Harassment of journalists===== | |||
] writes that Boston's '']'' decided to write an article about the LaRouche movement as a result of the violence in 1973. One reporter who attended a NCLC meeting was thrown against a wall. LaRouche called Klein "a liar and a degenerate", and Klein's family began receiving threatening calls.<ref name=Hume1980>"LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label" ELLEN HUME Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 1980; pg. A20</ref> Journalist Charles Fager says that his article on LaRouche for the paper was spiked because of legal and physical threats.<ref>Lynch (1984)</ref> | |||
The ] sent a team of ten people, headed by ], to ], to pursue the ] in 1990. Among the charges investigated by the grand jury was that the Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman and other men had sex with a 15-year-old girl at a party held by the bank's owner. The LaRouche groups insisted there was a cover-up. They distributed copies of the Schiller Institute's ''New Federalist'' newspaper and went door-to-door in Wadman's neighborhood, telling residents he was a child molester. When Wadman took a job with the police department in ], LaRouche followers went there to demand he be fired, and after he left there followed him to a third city to make accusations.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Article Contains Falsehoods Extremist Group Targets Wadman|edition=Sunrise|author=Robert Dorr|work=Omaha World–Herald|date=Oct 28, 1990|page=1.b}}</ref> | |||
'']'' columnist ] wrote several times of being harassed by the LaRouche movement, which he had covered since at least 1979. He once traced to the LaRouche movement leaflets which claimed that he had undergone a sex-change operation.<ref>DIFFERENT KIND OF 'DEMOCRAT' ULTRA-RIGHT-WING CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR HAS SOME RADICAL IDEAS FOR PENNSYLVANIA DEBBIE M PRICE. Philadelphia Daily News. Philadelphia, Pa.: April 14, 1986. pg. 4</ref> (He wrote that it did not bother him as he had evidence to the contrary.)<ref name=Royko>2 WINNERS FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE; Mike Royko. Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.: Mar 20, 1986. pg. 3</ref> Royko wrote that, after writing about a LaRouche front group called "]", his assistant found a note attached to her apartment door that had a bullseye and a threat to kill her cat.<ref name=Royko/> LaRouche followers denied the allegation.<ref>Associated Press (February 4, 1989)</ref> In 1986, LaRouche followers picketed Royko's newspaper offices calling him a "degenerate drug pusher" and demanding that he take an AIDS test.<ref>Royko (7/25/86)</ref> When LaRouche was imprisoned in 1989, Royko wrote a column to inform LaRouche's fellow inmates about the history of cat killing and suggested that "any cat-lovers among them do whatever they feel is appropriate." LaRouche sought an injunction to prevent the column, which the suit said used "fighting words", from being printed in the paper near his jail but his request was rejected by the Circuit Court. | |||
In the 1970s, ] was a central figure in the movement's theories. An FBI file described them as a "clandestinely oriented group of political schizophrenics who have a paranoid preoccupation with Nelson Rockefeller and the CIA."<ref>{{cite news|title=When Left Reaches Right|first=Paul |last=Valentine|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 16, 1977 |page=A1}}</ref> The movement strongly opposed Rockefeller's nomination for U.S. vice president and heckled his appearances. Federal authorities were reportedly concerned that the situation might turn violent.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hate mongers are own worst enemies|author=Tom Tiede |work=Great Bend Tribune|date=September 8, 1974|page=4}}</ref> | |||
Dennis King began covering LaRouche in the 1970s, publishing a twelve-part series in a weekly Manhattan newspaper, ''Our Town'', and later writing or cowriting articles about LaRouche in '']'', '']'', '']'', and other periodicals, culminating in a full length biography published in 1989. King describes numerous instances of harassment and threats. Leaflets accusing King, a news paper publisher, and the newspaper's lawyer of being criminals, homosexuals, or drug pushers. One leaflet included King's home address and phone number. He says that in 1980 he received a phone call threatening him with rape and murder, one of an estimated 500 abusive or hang-up calls he received by 1985.<ref name=Mintz1985/> In 1984 a LaRouche newspaper, ''New Solidarity'', published an article titled "Will Dennis King Come out of the Closet?", copies of which were distributed in his apartment building.<ref name=Mintz1985/> His family also received calls that included threats to murder King.<ref name=Mintz1985/> Jeffrey Steinberg denied the movement had harassed King. LaRouche said that King had been "monitored" since 1979, "We have watched this little scoundrel because he is a major security threat to my life."<ref name=Mintz1985/> | |||
One target of LaRouche's attention has been ]. LaRouche allegedly has called Kissinger a "faggot", a "traitor", a British or Soviet agent and a "Nazi", and has linked him to the ] of ].<ref name=King>King (1989)</ref><ref name=Johnson>{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=George|year=1983|title=Architects of fear: conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics.|publisher=J.P. Tarcher|isbn=978-0874772753|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/architectsoffear00john}}</ref> His followers heckled and disrupted Kissinger's appearances. In 1982, a member of LaRouche's ], Ellen Kaplan, asked Kissinger at an airport terminal if it were true that he slept with young boys; Kissinger and his wife, Nancy, were on their way to a heart operation. In response, Nancy Kissinger grabbed the woman by the throat. Kaplan pressed charges and the case went to trial.<ref name=Johnson/>{{Update span|reason=Since the trial is mentioned (which indicates that it is notable), the outcome should also be mentioned.|?=yes|date=August 2024}} In 1986, ] held a press conference to say that Kissinger was part of the international "drug mafia". Asked whether Jews were behind drug trafficking Hart replied, "That's totally nonsense. I don't consider Henry Kissinger a Jew. I consider Henry Kissinger a homosexual."<ref>{{cite news|title='LaRouchies' Force State to Take Notice |author=R Bruce Dold and Wes Smith Ray Gibson and Kurt Greenbaum contributed to this report|work=Chicago Tribune|date=March 23, 1986|page=1}}</ref> | |||
In 1984, Patricia Lynch was a co-produceer of an NBC news piece and a TV documentary on LaRouche. She was then impersonated by LaRouche followers who interfered with her reporting.<ref name=King/> LaRouche sued Lynch and NBC for libel, and NBC countersued. During the trial followers picketed the NBC's offices with signs that said "Lynch Pat Lynch", and the NBC switchboard received a death threat.<ref name=Mintz1985/> A LaRouche spokesman said they had no knowledge of the death threat.<ref name=Mintz1985/> In later years LaRouche accused NBC or its reporters of various charges. At a press conference in 1986 he refused to take questions from the NBC reporter, saying "How could I talk to a drug pusher like you."<ref name=Toner>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. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Apr 4, 1986. pg. A.1</ref> In addition to charge of drug dealing, LaRouche publications also accused NBC of plotting his assassination. | |||
A LaRouche organization sold posters of Illinois politician ] described by ] as "border(ing) on the pornographic."<ref name="Royko Byrne">{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/03/20/2-winners-from-the-twilight-zone/ |work=Chicago Tribune |first=Mike |last=Royko |title=2 Winners From The Twilight Zone |date=March 20, 1986 |access-date=May 7, 2012 |archive-date=August 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808193526/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-03-20/news/8601210124_1_aurelia-pucinski-lyndon-larouche-vote |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1986, two LaRouche candidates, Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild, won in the Democratic primaries for two statewide positions in Illinois, Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor.<!--This was already mentioned in a previous section.--> Campaign appearances by Democratic gubernatorial candidate ], who refused to share the ticket with them and shifted instead to the "Solidarity Party" formed for the purpose, were interrupted by a trio of singers that included Fairchild and Chicago Mayoral candidate Sheila Jones.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Serenade Woeful for Adlai |author=Mitchell Locin and Don Terry|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Apr 2, 1986|page=7}}</ref> Illinois Attorney General ]'s home was visited late at night by a group of LaRouche followers who chanted, sang, and used a bullhorn "to exorcise the demons out of Neil Hartigan's soul".<ref>{{cite news|title=The LaRouche Carolers Stop By The Hartigans' |first= Mitchell |last=Locin|work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 10, 1986|page=1}}</ref> Before the primaries a group of LaRouche supporters reportedly stormed the campaign offices of Hart's opponent and demanded that a worker "take an AIDS test".<ref name="Royko July 25, 1986">{{cite news|title=LaRouchities Test Positive for Fleece |first=Mike |last=Royko|work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 25, 1986|page=3}}</ref> | |||
The state editor of the ''Centre Daily Times'' in ] reported that a LaRouche TV crew led by Stanley Ezrol talked their way into his house in 1985 implying they were with NBC, then accused him of harassing LaRouche and interrogated him about why he had written what they alleged were negative stories about LaRouche. At the end of the interview" Ezrol asked "Have you ever feared for your personal safety?", which the editor found to be "chilling".<ref>Lynch (1985)</ref> Another LaRouche group, including ], forced their way into the office of ''The Des Moines Register'''s editor in 1987, then harangued him over his papers's coverage of LaRouche and demanded that certain editorials be retracted because the paper's "economic policies stink".<ref>"LaRouche Fund Raiser Is Arrested in Des Moines" Omaha World - Herald. Omaha, Neb.: May 29, 1987. pg. 1</ref> | |||
In 1984, a reporter for a LaRouche publication buttonholed President ] as he was leaving a ] press conference, demanding to know why LaRouche was not receiving ] protection. As a result, future press conferences in the ] were arranged with the door behind the president so he can leave without passing through the reporters.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Set for Reagan Allows Quick News Session Exit|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=5 Apr 1984|edition=Eastern|page= 1}}</ref> In 1992, a follower shook hands with President ] at a campaign visit to a shopping center. The follower would not let go, demanding to know, "When are you going to let LaRouche out of jail?" The Secret Service had to intervene.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Backer Confronts Bush |agency=Associated Press|work=Albany Times Union|date=Feb 13, 1992|page=A11}}</ref> | |||
=====Public altercations===== | |||
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From the 1970s to the 2000s, LaRouche followers have staffed card tables in airports and in front of post offices, state offices, college quads, and grocery stores. The tables have typically carried posters with topical slogans. LaRouche followers have been noted for using a confrontational style of interactions. In the mid-1980s the movement was collecting signatures for an ] in California, and there were many complaints about the behavior of the signature gatherers. When a Catholic priest refused to sign, a young LaRouche follower accused him of being homosexual. Another signature gatherer shouted "You are going to get AIDS!" to a woman who would not sign.<ref>LaRouche is linked to petition , Initiative proposal would quarantine AIDS patients; Don Davis. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: May 23, 1986. pg. A.3</ref> There was an altercation between a member of the public and a LaRouche follower allegedly standing beside a poster that said, "Kill the faggots. Kill Elizabeth Taylor", which resulted in battery charges.<ref>Olnick, Philip (SEPTEMBER 2. 1987). "Woman who works with AIDS victims found not guilty of battery". THE FREDERICK POST. (FREDERICK. MD).</ref> | |||
During the 1988 presidential campaign, LaRouche activists spread a rumor that the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Governor ], had received professional treatment for two episodes of mental depression. Media sources did not report the rumor initially to avoid validating it.<ref name="Walsh">{{cite news|title=Dukakis Acts To Kill Rumor; Doctor Says Nominee In 'Excellent Health' |first=Edward |last=Walsh |newspaper = The Washington Post |date=August 4, 1988 |page=a.01 }}</ref> However, at a press conference a reporter for a LaRouche publication, ], asked President Reagan whether Dukakis should release his medical records. Reagan replied "Look, I'm not going to pick on an invalid." Within an hour after the press conference Reagan apologized for the joke.<ref name="Walsh" /> The question received wide publicity, and was later analyzed as an example of how journalists should handle rumors.<ref>{{cite news|title=Political Weapons Rumor Mill: The Media Try to Cope |first1=Paul |last1=Houston |first2=Thomas B. |last2=Rosenstiel R |newspaper = Los Angeles Times |date=August 5, 1988 |page=1 }}</ref> Republican candidate Vice President George H. W. Bush's aides got involved in sustaining the story, and Dukakis was obliged to deny having had depression. To avoid the negative backlash on his own campaign, Bush made a statement urging Congress to pass the ], which he signed upon gaining office and which became one of his proudest legacies.<ref>Co{{cite book|title=The disability pendulum: the first decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act |url=https://archive.org/details/disabilitypendul0000colk |url-access=registration |first=Ruth |last=Colker |publisher=NYU Press|year=2005 |isbn=978-0814716458 |page=}}</ref> | |||
In 1986, the New York state elections board received dozens of complaints about people collecting signatures on nomination petitions, including allegations of misrepresentation and abusive language used towards those who would not sign.<ref>"LAROUCHE BACKERS ACCUSED OF 'BULLYING'" AP, Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 8, 1986 pB11</ref> | |||
At a 2003 Democratic primary debate repeatedly interrupted by hecklers, ] quoted ], "no one's been elected since 1972 that Lyndon LaRouche and his people have not protested".<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats Clash in Debate Presidential Candidates Aim at Bush But Disagree on Iraq, Israel|edition=Region |author=Anne E. Kornblut and Glen Johnson |agency=Boston Globe|work=Pittsburgh Post–Gazette|date=September 10, 2003|page=A.8}}</ref> The first reported incidence of heckling by LaRouche followers was at the Watergate hearings in 1973. Since then, LaRouche followers have repeatedly disrupted speaking events and debates featuring a large variety of speakers.{{NoteTag|Examples include: ],<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news |title=Public Accountability Called Crime Weapon|at=Page Twelve |work=The Titusville Herald |location=Titusville, PA |date=May 12, 1976}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/stories/2006/oct/27/students-clash-over-ideology-a/|title="Students clash over ideology at on-campus event" By Anthony Pesce & Julia Erlandson, Daily Bruin, UCLA, Updated: Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:48 p.m. Published: Friday, October 27, 2006|access-date=June 25, 2021|archive-date=July 8, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708115556/http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/stories/2006/oct/27/students-clash-over-ideology-a/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> ],<ref>"Bond Says Ethnic Remark Was Racist" Charlotte (AP), High Point Enterprise. Tuesday, April 27, 1976. 5A.</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news |title = Kooks right out of the Twilight Zone |author=Lionel van Deerlin |newspaper=The Tribune |location=San Diego |date=March 24, 1986|page=B.7}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news |title = U.S., Soviets Plan First Afghan Talks in 3 Years |author=Norman Kempster |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 29, 1985}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Protests greet Bush at Midwestern stops|author=Cragg Hines |newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=October 17, 1990|page=2}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Bush appears before NAACP for 1st time of his presidency|author=G. Robert Hillman|agency=]|location=Washington|date=July 20, 2006|page=1}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Carter: "Labor Party Tactics", editorial|date=October 18, 1976|work=The Post-Standard |location=Syracuse, NY}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Clark Shifts His Trail Talk To Match New Landscape|author=Edward Wyatt|work=The New York Times|date=January 22, 2004|page=A.23}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Revised Predictions by David Tell|work=The Weekly Standard|date=January 27, 2004}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=The Nation; The Race to the White House; Twists and Turns in New Hampshire|author=Eric Slater and Matea Gold|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 21, 2004|page=A.1}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Kerrey Tries to Win Over N.H. Hecklers|author=Paul Goodsell|work=Omaha World–Herald|date=February 17, 1992|page=5}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Next debate to give hopefuls a 'real' town hall|author=Anne Gearan|agency=Associated Press|work=Journal–Gazette|location=Ft. Wayne, Indiana|date=October 5, 2004|page=5.A}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=237274|title=Free Speech on Center Stage, Nationally|date=September 29, 1984|author=Peter J. Howe |work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=October 20, 2009|archive-date=February 16, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216192851/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=237274|url-status=live}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Lyndon LaRouche has got America's attention now!|author=John Dillin|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=March 27, 1986}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Last Call's Early For Joe As Hecklers Crash Party|author=Elizabeth Hamilton|agency=Knight Ridder Tribune Business News|location=Washington|date=November 3, 2006|page=1}}</ref> Sir ],<ref name="ReferenceA"/> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Briefs from the campaign trail|author=Anne Dawson|work=Ottawa Citizen|date=December 3, 2005|page=A.5}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Savors Fame That May Ruin Him |author=Robin Toner and Joel Brinkley|newspaper=The New York Times|edition=Late (East Coast))|date=April 4, 1986|page=A.1}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503650|title=Nader Defends Decision To Run|date=October 5, 2004|author=Michael M. Grynbaum |work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=January 3, 2010|archive-date=February 15, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215104354/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503650|url-status=live}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Hecklers Talk 'Trash' While North Sermonizes |author=Kerry Dougherty |newspaper=Virginian–Pilot|location= Norfolk, Virginia|date=October 30, 1994|page=A.4}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news |title=Perot Attacks Clinton Ethics in US Talk |author=Robert J. McCarthy |newspaper=Buffalo News|location=Buffalo, NY |date=November 1, 1996|page=A.1 }}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|title=On Social Security, a Political Appeal to the Young Draws the Attention of Their Elders|author=Robin Toner |date=February 23, 2005|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/6/6/paul-a-volcker-americas-money-man/|title=Paul A. Volcker: America's Money Man|author=David S. Hilzenrath |work=The Harvard Crimson|date=June 6, 1985|access-date=May 1, 2011|archive-date=October 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006082830/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/6/6/paul-a-volcker-americas-money-man/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Pair Shouts At Woodcock|author=Mike Dorgan|newspaper=The Capital Times|location=Madison, Wis.|date=September 10, 1974 |page=21 }}</ref>}} | |||
=== Conflict with journalists === | |||
In the 1980s, journalists including ] and ] from Boston's alternative weekly, '']'', and '']'' columnist ] alleged harassment and intimidation by LaRouche groups.<ref name=Hume1980>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Trying to Lose Splinter Label|author=Ellen Hume |work=Los Angeles Times|date=Feb 16, 1980|page=A20}}</ref><ref name=Lynch/> After Royko wrote about a LaRouche organization, Royko said that leaflets appeared, alleging he had had a sex-change operation.<ref name=laroucheslate>{{cite news|url=http://articles.philly.com/1986-04-14/news/26076339_1_larouche-slate-larouche-candidates-national-democratic-policy-committee/2|title=Different Kind of 'Democrat' Ultra-Right-Wing Candidate for Governor Has Some Radical Ideas for Pennsylvania |author=Debbie M Price |work=Philadelphia Daily News|date=April 14, 1986|page=4|access-date=January 28, 2012|archive-date=January 31, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131050151/http://articles.philly.com/1986-04-14/news/26076339_1_larouche-slate-larouche-candidates-national-democratic-policy-committee/2|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also said his assistant found a note with a bullseye and a threat to kill her cat on her door;<ref name=Royko>{{cite news|title=2 Winners From the Twilight Zone |author=Mike Royko|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Mar 20, 1986|page=3}}</ref> Also according to Royko, LaRouche supporters picketed the newspaper offices, calling Royko a "degenerate drug pusher" and demanding he take an AIDS test.<ref name="Royko July 25, 1986"/> LaRouche supporters denied such charges, saying they were part of a campaign against them by the "drug lobby."<ref name=laroucheslate/> | |||
In 1984, Patricia Lynch co-produced an NBC news piece and a TV documentary on LaRouche. She was then impersonated by LaRouche followers who interfered with her reporting.<ref name=King/> LaRouche sued Lynch and NBC for libel, and NBC countersued. During the trial followers picketed the NBC's offices with signs that said "Lynch Pat Lynch", and the NBC switchboard received a death threat.<ref name=Mintz1985/> A LaRouche spokesman said they had no knowledge of the death threat.<ref name=Mintz1985/> An editor of the ''Centre Daily Times'' in ] reported that a LaRouche TV crew led by Stanley Ezrol talked their way into his house in 1985 implying they were with NBC, then accused him of harassing LaRouche and producing unduly negative coverage. At the end of the interview, Ezrol allegedly asked, "Have you ever feared for your personal safety?", which the editor found to be "chilling".<ref name=Lynch>{{cite news|title=ls Lyndon LaRouche using your name?: How the LaRouchians masquerade as journalists to gain information|author=Patricia Lynch|work=Columbia Journalism Review |issue=March/April 1985|pages=42–46}}</ref> Another LaRouche group, including ], forced their way into the office of ''The Des Moines Register''{{'}}s editor in 1987, haranguing him over his paper's coverage of LaRouche and demanding that certain editorials be retracted.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Fund Raiser Is Arrested in Des Moines|work=Omaha World–Herald|date=May 29, 1987|page=1}}</ref> | |||
Dennis King began covering LaRouche in the 1970s, publishing a twelve-part series in a weekly Manhattan newspaper, ''Our Town'', and later writing or cowriting articles about LaRouche in '']'', '']'', '']'', and other periodicals, culminating in a full-length biography published in 1989. King alleges numerous instances of anonymous harassment and threats. Leaflets appeared from the NCLC accusing King, a newspaper publisher, and ], the newspaper's lawyer, of being criminals, homosexuals, or drug pushers. One leaflet included King's home address and phone number.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lyndonlarouchewatch.org/fascism26.htm|title=Chapter 26, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism|website=www.lyndonlarouchewatch.org|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=February 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211223906/https://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/fascism26.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2012}} In 1984, a LaRouche newspaper, ''New Solidarity'', published an article titled "Will Dennis King Come out of the Closet?", copies of which were distributed in his apartment building.<ref name=Mintz1985/> Jeffrey Steinberg denied the movement had harassed King. LaRouche said that King had been "monitored" since 1979, "We have watched this little scoundrel because he is a major security threat to my life."<ref name=Mintz1985/> | |||
=== Public altercations === | |||
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From the 1970s to the 2000s, LaRouche followers have staffed tables in airports and other public areas. The tables have carried posters with topical slogans. LaRouche followers have been alleged to use a confrontational style of interaction. In 1986, the New York state elections board received dozens of complaints about people collecting signatures on nomination petitions, including allegations of misrepresentation and abusive language used towards those who would not sign.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Backers Accused of 'Bullying' |agency=Associated Press|work=Albany Times Union|location=Albany, New York|date=July 8, 1986|page=B11}}</ref> | |||
In the mid-80s, the ], ], received complaints from the public about harassment by people gathering signatures to qualify the "]" for the state ballot. She warned initiative sponsors that permission to circulate the petitions could be revoked unless the "offensive activities" stopped.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche is linked to petition, Initiative proposal would quarantine AIDS patients|author=Don Davis|work=The San Diego Union|date=May 23, 1986|page=A.3}}</ref> An altercation in 1987 between a LaRouche activist and an AIDS worker resulted in battery charges filed against the latter, who was outraged by the content of some of the material on display; she was found not guilty.<ref>{{cite news|author=Olnick, Philip|date=September 2, 1987|url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=10022495|title=Woman who works with AIDS victims found not guilty of battery|work=The Frederick Post|location=Frederick, MD|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528152146/https://newspaperarchive.com/frederick-news-post-sep-02-1987-p-12/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In 2009, LaRouche followers who were protesting ]'s healthcare reform proposal stood outside a ] grocery store in ] wearing ]s, bringing some shoppers to tears. Followers called those who disagreed "bitches" and "Hitler lovers".<ref name=Banicki>Banicki (2009)</ref> Some arguments grew heated and on several occasions police were called to remove the LaRouche followers. Store managers reported that they had received numerous complaints from shoppers, and got an injunction barring LaRouche followers from demonstrating in front of their stores.<ref name=Banicki/> ], owner of two grocery chains in Southern California, also sought injunctive relief.<ref>Bronstad (2009)</ref> In ], a 70-year old man from ] grew irate at the comparisons of Obama and Hitler. He grabbed fliers and tussled with LaRouche supporters, resulting in assault charges against him.<ref>Thompson (2009)</ref> | |||
In California in 2009, several grocery chains sought restraining orders, damages and injunctions against LaRouche PAC activists displaying materials related to Obama's health care plan in front of their stores, citing customer complaints.<ref name=Banicki>Banicki, Elizabeth (September 4, 2009). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319024037/http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/09/04/Trader_Joe_s_Wants_LaRouche_PAC_Barred.htm |date=March 19, 2012 }}, Courthouse News Service</ref><ref name=BanickiDec>Banicki, Elizabeth (September 4, 2009). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319024042/http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/12/07/LaRouche_PAC_Is_a_Nuisance_Store_Says.htm |date=March 19, 2012 }}, Courthouse News Service</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202433325049&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1|title=LaRouche PAC Enjoined From Politicking Outside California Grocery Stores|author=Amanda Bronstad|work=The National Law Journal|date=August 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607234720/http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202433325049&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1|archive-date=June 7, 2011}}</ref> In ], a 70-year-old man from Armenia, grew irate at what he viewed as comparisons of Obama to Hitler. He grabbed fliers and tussled with LaRouche supporters, resulting in assault charges against him.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009882084_gasparian16m.html|title=Hitler poster provokes Edmonds incident|author=Lynn Thompson|date=September 17, 2009|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-date=June 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604102748/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009882084_gasparian16m.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Update span|reason=Outcome? |date=August 2024}} | |||
===Canada=== | |||
The ] (NALP) nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. Its candidates only had 297 votes nationwide in 1979. LaRouche himself offered a draft constitution for the commonwealth of Canada in 1981.<ref></ref> The NALP later became the ] and that ran candidates in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections. Those were more successful, gaining as many as 7,502 votes in 1993, but no seats. The ] nominated candidates for provincial elections in the 1980s under various party titles. The LaRouche affiliate now operates as the ''Committee for the Republic of Canada.''<ref></ref> | |||
===Latin America=== | ===Latin America=== | ||
Brazil's ] (Prona) was described as a "LaRouche friend" and one of its members has been quoted in the ''Executive Intelligence Review'' as saying "We associate ourselves with the wave of ideas which flow from Mr. LaRouche's prodigious mind".<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Friend Elected By Record Vote In Brazil|first= Gretchen |last= Small |work= Executive Intelligence Review |date= October 13, 2002}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} Prona gained six seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.flag.de/FOTW/flags/br-pol2.html#prona |title= Other Brazilian Political Parties |publisher= Flag |location= Germany |access-date= 2008-11-23 |archive-date= November 24, 2005 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051124075259/http://www.flag.de/FOTW/flags/br-pol2.html#prona |url-status= live }}</ref> After gaining two seats in the 2006 election, the party merged with the larger ] forming the ]. However, there is no independent evidence that Prona or its leaders recognized LaRouche as an influence on their policies, and it has been described as being part of the right-wing Catholic ] political tradition.{{Citation needed|date= June 2008}} | |||
|work=Executive Intelligence Review|date=October 13, 2002 }}</ref> PRONA gained six seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flag.de/FOTW/flags/br-pol2.html#prona |title=Other Brazilian Political Parties |publisher=Flag.de |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> However there is no independent evidence that the PRONA or its leaders recognize LaRouche as an influence on their policies, and it has been described as being part of the right-wing Catholic ] political tradition.{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}} | |||
The ] (MSIA) has been described as an offshoot of LaRouche's Labor Party in Mexico. During peace talks to resolve the ], the Mexican Labor Party and the |
The ] (MSIA) has been described{{by whom|date=August 2024}} as an offshoot of LaRouche's Labor Party in Mexico. During peace talks to resolve the ], the Mexican Labor Party and the MSIA attacked the peace process and one of the leading negotiators, Bishop ], whom it accused of fomenting the violence and of being controlled by foreigners. Posters caricaturing Ruiz as a rattlesnake appeared across the country.<ref>{{Citation |title= LaRouche is Behind Attacks on Ruiz |last1= Coleman |first1= William 'Bill' |first2= Patricia 'Patty' |last2= Coleman |newspaper= ] |date= June 3, 1994}}.</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1= Coleman |first1= William 'Bill' |first2= Patricia 'Patty' |last2= Coleman |title= Threats target Jesuits, Ruiz as Mexican fight for power moves to polls |journal= National Catholic Reporter |date= August 26, 1994 |volume= 9 |issue= 1}}.</ref> | ||
The movement strongly opposes perceived manifestations of ], including the ], the ], etc., and are advocates of the ]. | The movement<!--i.e. MSIA?--> strongly opposes perceived manifestations of ], including the ], the ], etc., and are advocates of the ].{{cn|date=August 2024}} | ||
===Australia=== | ===Australia=== | ||
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LaRouche supporters gained control of the formerly far-right ] (CEC) in the mid-1990s. The CEC publishes an irregular newspaper, ''The New Citizen''. ] and his spouse Noelene Isherwood are the leaders of the party. |
LaRouche supporters gained control of the formerly far-right ] (CEC) in the mid-1990s. The CEC publishes an irregular newspaper, ''The New Citizen''. ] and his spouse Noelene Isherwood are the leaders of the party. | ||
In 2000, former ] MP ] established the ], a LaRouchite political party formed as a joint venture of the CEC and the Municipal Employees Union of Western Australia. In a speech to its inaugural conference, Bennett predicted an imminent global financial collapse and described Lyndon LaRouche as the "world's leading economist", and attributing the ] to a conspiracy by the "global ]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2000/eirv27n19-20000512/eirv27n19-20000512_047-new_leadership_for_a_time_of_cri.pdf|title=New Leadership for a Time of Crisis: Australia's Curtin Labor Alliance|work=]|volume=27|number=19|date=12 May 2000|access-date=18 April 2024|first=Allen|last=Douglas|pages=47–48}}</ref> | |||
The CEC is particularly concerned with ] economics and development ideas for Australia. It has been critical of ]'s ownership of an Australian zinc mine and believes that she exerts control over Australian politics through the use of ]. It has been in an antagonistic relationship with the ]'s Anti-Defamation Commission, which has been critical of the CEC for perceived anti-semitism. It has asserted that the ] is a descendant of the ] and other purported fascists such as Sir ] and Sir ]. The CEC also claims to be fighting for "real" Labor policies (from the 1930-40s republican leanings of the ]). | |||
The CEC opposed politician ] and the ]. For the ], it nominated people for ninety-five seats, collected millions of dollars in contributions, and earned 34,177 votes.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} The CEC is concerned with ] economics and development ideas for Australia. It has been critical of ]'s ownership of an Australian zinc mine and believes that she exerted control over Australian politics through the use of ]. It has been in an antagonistic relationship with the ]'s Anti-Defamation Commission, which has been critical of the CEC for perceived anti-semitism. It has asserted that the ] is a descendant of the ] and other purported fascists such as Sir ] and Sir ]. The CEC also says it is fighting for "real" Labor policies (from the 1930–40s republican leanings of the ]). | |||
===Europe=== | ===Europe=== | ||
In Germany, the leader of the Green Party, ], reported receiving harassing phone calls that she attributed to BüSo supporters. Her speeches were picketed and disrupted by LaRouche followers for years.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Stirs in Germany |author=James M. Markham |work=The New York Times|date=June 30, 1986}}</ref> | |||
], a Jewish student from the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement in 2003, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, after he ran down a busy road and was hit by several cars. The German police said it appeared to be suicide. A British court ruled out suicide and decided that Duggan had died while "in a state of terror."<ref name=Witt>, By April Witt, ''Washington Post'' Sunday, October 24, 2004; Page W12</ref> Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him; a spokesman for the German public prosecution service said the mother simply cannot accept that her son committed suicide.<ref name=Degen>Degen, Wolfgang, , ''Wiesbadener Kurier'', 19 April 2007 (German); .</ref> The High Court in London ordered a second inquest in May 2010, which was opened and adjourned.<ref>, BBC News, May 20, 2010.</ref> | |||
Solidarité et Progrès, headed by ], is the LaRouche party in ]. Its newspaper is ''Nouvelle Solidarité''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.solidariteetprogres.org/ |title=Solidarité & Progrès - Actualité |publisher=Solidariteetprogres.org |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html |title=No Joke (washingtonpost.com) |publisher=Washingtonpost.com |date= October 24, 2004|accessdate=2008-11-23 | first=April | last=Witt}}</ref> The French LaRouche Youth Movement is headed by Elodie Viennot. Viennot supported the candidacy of Daniel Buchmann for the position of mayor of Berlin. | |||
], a student from the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement in 2003, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, after he ran down a busy road and was hit by several cars. The German police said it appeared to be suicide. A British court ruled that Duggan had died while "in a state of terror."<ref name="Witt">, By April Witt, ''The Washington Post'' Sunday, October 24, 2004; Page W12</ref> Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him. The German public prosecution service said her son committed suicide.<ref name=Degen>Degen, Wolfgang, , ''Wiesbadener Kurier'', April 19, 2007 (German); .</ref> The High Court in London ordered a second inquest in May 2010, which was opened and adjourned.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523045903/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8694448.stm |date=May 23, 2010 }}, BBC News, May 20, 2010.</ref> In 2015, a British coroner rejected the suicide verdict and found that Duggan's body bore unexplained injuries which indicated an "altercation at some stage before his death."<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703071242/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-32828147 |date=July 3, 2017 }}, BBC News, 20 May 2015</ref> | |||
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Sweden has an office of the Schiller Institute: Schillerinstitutet/EAP in Sweden,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nysol.se/ |title=LaRoucherörelsen i Sverige |publisher=Nysol.se |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> and the political party ] (EAP). The former leader of the EAP, ] (replaced by ] in 2007) started out as a member of the ] (SSU), and was assigned to investigate (some would say ]) the EAP and the left-posturing ELC. During this time, he was recruited to EAP and had his membership in SSU revoked. Following the ] on February 28, 1986, the Swedish branch of the EAP came under scrutiny as literature published by the party was found in the apartment of the initial suspect, ]. Also, the attacks against ] run by the LaRouche movement since the beginning of the 1970s made the party a target for investigation. Within weeks of the assassination, ] television in the U.S. broadcast a story alleging that LaRouche was somehow responsible.<ref name=brainwash></ref> Later, the suspect was released. | |||
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In ], four candidates for parliament on the LaRouche platform (Tom Gillesberg, Feride Istogu Gillesberg, Hans Schultz and Janus Kramer Møller)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.schillerinstitut.dk/ |title=Schiller Instituttet i Danmark |publisher=Schillerinstitut.dk |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> won 197 votes in the ] (at least 32,000 votes are needed for a local mandate). The Danish LaRouche Movement (Schiller Instituttet) have recently published their first newspaper, distributing 50,000 around Copenhagen and ].<ref> Schiller Instituttes Venner webpage</ref> | |||
In Sweden, the former leader of the ] (EAP), ], started as a member of the ] (SSU), and was assigned to investigate the EAP and the ELC. After joining the EAP, he had his membership in SSU revoked. Following the ] on February 28, 1986, the Swedish branch of the EAP came under scrutiny as literature published by the party was found in the apartment of the initial suspect, ]. Soon after the assassination, ] television in the U.S. speculated{{cn|date=August 2024}} that LaRouche was somehow responsible.<ref name=brainwash>{{Cite web|url=https://larouchepub.com/exon/exon_toc.html|title=Has Your Neighbor Been Brainwashed About Lyndon LaRouche?|website=larouchepub.com|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=September 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916092832/https://larouchepub.com/exon/exon_toc.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} Later, the suspect was released. No connection with LaRouche was shown.{{cn|date=August 2024}} | |||
Polish newspapers{{which|date=August 2024}} have reported that ], leader of the populist ] party, was trained at the Schiller Institute and has received funding from LaRouche, though both Lepper and LaRouche deny the connection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/poland.htm |title=Antisemitism and Racism |publisher=Tau.ac.il |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404043228/http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/poland.htm |archive-date=April 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2001/011228poland_lies.html |title=LaRouche Committee Denounces Polish Press Lies |publisher=Larouchepub.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=December 14, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041214131939/http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2001/011228poland_lies.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
The Movimento Solidarietà - Associazione di LaRouche in Italia (MSA) is an ] political party headed by Paolo Raimondi that supports the LaRouche platform. | |||
In February 2008, the LaRouche movement in Europe began a campaign to prevent the ratification of the ], which, according to the U.S.-based LaRouche Political Action Committee, "empowers a supranational financial elite to take over the right of taxation and war making, and even restore the death penalty, abolished in most nations of Western Europe."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/italian-senator-exposes-secret-plan-fascism-europe.html |title=Italian Senator Exposes Secret Plan for Fascism in Europe | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109211214/http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/italian-senator-exposes-secret-plan-fascism-europe.html |archive-date=November 9, 2008}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} LaRouche press releases suggest that the treaty has an underlying fascist agenda, based on the "]" ideas of Sir ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/lisbon-treaty-based-program-british-fascist-oswald-mosley.html |title=Lisbon Treaty Based on Program of British Fascist Oswald Mosley | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908023438/http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/lisbon-treaty-based-program-british-fascist-oswald-mosley.html |archive-date=September 8, 2008}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=August 2024}} | |||
Ortrun Cramer of the Schiller Institute became a delegate of the ]n ] in the 1990s, but there is no sign of ongoing relationship.<ref></ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_programs_2000.html |title=LaRouche Connection Master List 1995-present |publisher=Larouchepub.com |date= |accessdate=2008-10-23}}</ref> | |||
===Asia, Middle East and Africa=== | |||
Polish newspapers have reported that ], who leads the populist ] party, was trained at the Schiller Institute and has received funding from LaRouche, though both Lepper and LaRouche deny the connection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/poland.htm |title=Antisemitism And Racism |publisher=Tau.ac.il |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2001/011228poland_lies.html |title=LaRouche Committee Denounces Polish Press Lies |publisher=Larouchepub.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> | |||
The Philippines LaRouche Society calls for fixed ]s, US/Philippine withdrawal from Iraq, denunciation of former US Vice President ], and withdrawal of U.S. ]s <!-- make a short article about role of military advisors in intl politics --> from ]. In 2008 it also issued calls for the freezing of foreign debt payments, the operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, and the immediate implementation of a national food production program.<ref>{{cite news|title=Group lists bold steps for RP to survive financial crisis|last=Flores|first=Karen|work=ABS-CBN News|date=October 25, 2008|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/10/25/08/group-lists-bold-steps-rp-survive-financial-crisis|access-date=December 3, 2008|archive-date=June 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614100458/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/10/25/08/group-lists-bold-steps-rp-survive-financial-crisis|url-status=live}}</ref> It has an office in ], operates a radio show and says on its website, "Lyndon LaRouche is our civilization's last chance at world peace and development. May God help us." On the matter of internal politics, LaRouche operative ] wrote in 2004, "The Philippines Catholic Church, too, is divided at the top over the crisis. The Church under Sin]], who is now retired, had given its full support to the 'people's power' charade for the overthrow of ] and ], but other voices are heard today."<ref>{{cite news |title=Philippines Elections Show No Solution Ahead |last=Billington |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Billington (activist) |work=Executive Information Review |date=June 4, 2004 |page=54 |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31/eirv31n22.pdf |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-date=December 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042353/http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31/eirv31n22.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Later that year, he wrote: | |||
{{blockquote|The U.S.-orchestrated coup which overthrew the government of Philippines' President ] in 1986 was a classic case study of what ] describes in his recent book, '']'', as the post-World War II preferred method of imposing colonial control under another name. In the Philippines case, ] performed the roles of both the economic hit man, destroying and taking full control of the Philippine economy, and the coup-master, deposing the Philippine President in favor of an ] puppet{{snd}}while calling the operation 'people power.'<ref name="philippines">{{cite news|title=Shultz and the 'Hit Men' Destroyed the Philippines|last=Billington|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Billington (activist)|work=Executive Information Review|date=December 24, 2004|page=54|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html|access-date=December 3, 2008|archive-date=November 12, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112045044/http://larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}} | |||
In February 2008, the LaRouche movement throughout Europe began a campaign to prevent the ratification of the ], which according to the U.S.-based LaRouche Political Action Committee "empowers a supranational financial elite to take over the right of taxation and war making, and even restore the death penalty, abolished in most nations of Western Europe."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/italian-senator-exposes-secret-plan-fascism-europe.html |title=Italian Senator Exposes Secret Plan for Fascism in Europe | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> LaRouche press releases suggest that the treaty has an underlying fascist agenda, based on the ideas of Sir ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/19/lisbon-treaty-based-program-british-fascist-oswald-mosley.html |title=Lisbon Treaty Based on Program of British Fascist Oswald Mosley | LaRouche Political Action Committee |publisher=Larouchepac.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> | |||
According to Billington, representatives of LaRouche's '']'' and ] had met with Marcos in 1985, at which time LaRouche was warning that Marcos would be the target of a coup, inspired by ] and ]s in the Reagan administration, because of Marcos' opposition to the policies of the ].<ref name=philippines/> In 1986, LaRouche asserted that Marcos was ousted because he hadn't listened to LaRouche's advice: "he was opposed to me and he fell as a result."<ref name=HC1986>{{cite news|title=LaRouche says upset wins give right mandate|work=Houston Chronicle|date=April 10, 1986|page=3}}</ref> | |||
===Asia, Middle East, and Africa=== | |||
The ] LaRouche Society calls for fixed ]s, US/Philippine withdrawal from Iraq, denunciation of former US Vice President ], and withdrawal of U.S. ]s <!-- make a short article about role of military advisors in intl politics --> from ]. In 2008 it also issued calls for the freezing of foreign debt payments, the operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, and the immediate implementation of a national food production program.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Group lists bold steps for RP to survive financial crisis | |||
|last=Flores|first=Karen|work=ABS-CBN News |date=October 25, 2008|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/10/25/08/group-lists-bold-steps-rp-survive-financial-crisis}}</ref> It has an office in ], operates a radio show and says on its website, "Lyndon LaRouche is our civilization's last chance at world peace and development. May God help us." On the matter of internal politics, LaRouche operative ] wrote in 2004, "The Philippines Catholic Church, too, is divided at the top over the crisis. The Church under ], who is now retired, had given its full support to the 'people's power' charade for the overthrow of ] and ], but other voices are heard today."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Philippines Elections Show No Solution Ahead| last=Billington| first=Michael| authorlink=Michael Billington (activist)| work=Executive Information Review | date=June 4, 2004| page=54| url=http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31/eirv31n22.pdf|format=PDF}}</ref> Later that year, he wrote that | |||
<blockquote>The U.S.-orchestrated coup which overthrew the government of Philippines' President ] in 1986 was a classic case study of what ] describes in his recent book, '']'', as the post-World War II preferred method of imposing colonial control under another name. In the Philippines case, ] performed the roles of both the economic hit man, destroying and taking full control of the Philippine economy, and the coup-master, deposing the Philippine President in favor of an ] puppet—while calling the operation 'people power.'<ref name=philippines>{{Cite news|title=Shultz and the 'Hit Men' Destroyed the Philippines|last=Billington|first=Michael|authorlink=Michael Billington (activist)|work=Executive Information Review |date=December 24, 2004| page=54| url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
According to Billington, representatives of LaRouche's ] and ] had met with Marcos in 1985, at which time LaRouche was warning that Marcos would be the target of a coup, inspired by ] and ]s in the Reagan administration, because of Marcos' opposition to the policies of the ].<ref name=philippines/> In 1986, LaRouche asserted that Marcos was ousted because he hadn't listened to LaRouche's advice: "he was opposed to me and he fell as a result."<ref name=HC1986>LaRouche says upset wins give right mandate; Houston Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext). Houston, Tex.: April 10, 1986. pg. 3</ref> | |||
The LaRouche movement is reported to have had close ties to the ] of |
The LaRouche movement is reported to have had close ties to the ] of Iraq.<ref name=Johnson208>{{cite book |publisher= J.P. Tarcher; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin |isbn= 978-0874772753 |last= Johnson |first= George |title= Architects of fear: conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics |location= Los Angeles; Boston |year= 1983 |page=208 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/architectsoffear00john/page/208 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The American peace movement and the Middle East |first=Stephen |last=Zunes |journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |date=Winter 1998 |volume= 20|issue= 1 |page=29|quote=The LaRouche Movement had actually developed close ties with Iraq's Ba'ath party, with which it shares an essentially fascist ideology}}</ref><ref name=Berry>{{cite news|title=Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement|first=Jason |last=Berry |work=St. Petersburg Times|date=February 24, 1991|page=8.D}}</ref> In 1997, the LaRouche movement, and the Schiller Institute in particular, were reported to have campaigned aggressively in support of the ] government in Sudan. They organized trips to Sudan for state legislators, which according to '']'' was part of a campaign directed at African Americans.<ref>{{cite news|title=End Africa's Longest War|author=Harry Johnston and Ted Dagne|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=May 6, 1997}}</ref> | ||
The ] (LaRouchePAC) has been vocal in its support for the construction of the ] across the ] of Thailand.<ref>{{cite news|title=Major Breakthrough on Kra Canal Potential|url=https://larouchepac.com/20170117/major-breakthrough-kra-canal-potential|website=LaRouchePAC|publisher=Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918064521/https://larouchepac.com/20170117/major-breakthrough-kra-canal-potential|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kra Canal Conference a Great Success|url=https://larouchepac.com/20170912/kra-canal-conference-great-success|website=LaRouchePAC|publisher=Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee|access-date=18 September 2017|archive-date=September 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918064300/https://larouchepac.com/20170912/kra-canal-conference-great-success|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The LaRouche movement, and the Schiller Institute in particular, were reported in 1997 to have campaigned aggressively in support of the ] government in ]. They organized trips to Sudan for state legislators, which according to the '']'' was part of a campaign directed at African Americans.<ref>"End Africa's Longest War" Harry Johnston and Ted Dagne The Christian Science Monitor, May 06, 1997</ref> | |||
==Periodicals and news agencies== | ==Periodicals and news agencies== | ||
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===Executive Intelligence Review=== | ===Executive Intelligence Review=== | ||
{{Main|Executive Intelligence Review}} | {{Main|Executive Intelligence Review}} | ||
The LaRouche movement maintains its own press service, ''Executive Intelligence Review''. |
The LaRouche movement maintains its own press service, ''Executive Intelligence Review''. According to its masthead, ''EIR'' maintains international bureaus in ], Berlin, ], Lima, Melbourne, ], New Delhi, Paris, and ], in addition to various cities in the U.S. | ||
According to its masthead, ''EIR'' maintains international bureaus in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ], in addition to various cities in the U.S. ''EIR'' staffers have provided testimony to various congressional committees,<ref> Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, January 23, 2007</ref> and an archive of ''EIR'' is maintained by the British Library of Political and Economic Science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/ExecIntellRev/ExecIntellRev.html |title=The collection of Executive Intelligence Review held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science |publisher=Library-2.lse.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-08-29}}</ref> | |||
In 1996, ''EIR'' published the list of ] agents provided by former MI-6 officer ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.namebase.org/sources/cQ.html |title=Executive Intelligence Review. List of MI6 Agents. 1999-05-14 |publisher=Namebase.org |date= |accessdate=2010-08-29}}</ref> | |||
One element of EIR was the Biological Holocaust Task Force, formed in 1973<ref>Toumey, Christopher P. ''Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life'', 1996, Rutgers University Press</ref> to study and anticipate the effects of IMF ] on the populations of the ], particularly in ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3030undp_rpt_nineties.html |title=A Needless Decade of Despair: Developing Nations Are Dying |publisher=Larouchepub.com |date=2003-08-01 |accessdate=2010-08-29}}</ref> It was headed by Dr. John Grauerholz.<ref>"Surprising number of voters undecided on Prop. 64", Gerry Braun. ''The San Diego Union''. San Diego, Calif.: September 24, 1986. pg. A.3</ref> | |||
The president of EIR News Service is Linda de Hoyos.<ref>BvDEP - MINT GLOBAL. Company report on EIR NEWS SERVICE, INC. Retrieved January 26, 2008.</ref> | |||
===Broadcast=== | ===Broadcast=== | ||
In 1986, the LaRouche movement |
In 1986, the LaRouche movement bought ], a low-powered AM radio station that covered western Maryland, northern Virginia, and parts of West Virginia.<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche contends Bush 'only rival' for race in '88|work=Houston Chronicle|date=April 27, 1986|page=14}}</ref> It was sold in 1991.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Voice for Local Talent At Small Radio Station|author=Paul Hodge|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 3, 1992|page=v.01}}</ref> | ||
In 1991, the LaRouche movement began producing ''The LaRouche Connection'', a ] |
In 1991, the LaRouche movement began producing ''The LaRouche Connection'', a ] cable TV program. Within ten months it was being carried in six states. Dana Scanlon, the producer, said that "We've done shows on the JFK assassination, the 'October Surprise' and shows on economic and cultural affairs".<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Supporters Take Message to Cable; Show Airing on Public Access Channels|author=Stephen Turnham|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 27, 1992|page=v.01}}</ref> | ||
===Internet=== | ===Internet=== | ||
In January 2001, LaRouche began holding regular ]s every 1–2 months. These were public meetings, broadcast in video, where LaRouche gave a speech, followed by 1–2 hours of Q and A over the internet.<ref> |
In January 2001, LaRouche began holding regular ]s every 1–2 months. These were public meetings, broadcast in video, where LaRouche gave a speech, followed by 1–2 hours of Q and A over the internet. The last occurred on December 18, 2003.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183244/http://www.schillerinstitute.org/lar_related/lar_list_since091101.html |date=October 9, 2009 }} 2002, 2003</ref> | ||
===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
*''The New Federalist'' |
* ''The New Federalist'' (U.S.), weekly newspaper | ||
**New Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS) | ** New Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS) | ||
**NSIPS Speakers Bureau | ** NSIPS Speakers Bureau | ||
**''Nouvelle Solidarité'', French news agency | ** ''Nouvelle Solidarité'', French news agency | ||
**''Neue Solidarität'', published by Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität in German | ** ''Neue Solidarität'', published by Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität in German | ||
*''Fidelio'', a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft", published quarterly by Schiller Institute | * ''Fidelio'', a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft", published quarterly by Schiller Institute | ||
*'']'' |
* '']'', a quarterly magazine covering scientific topics | ||
*''ΔΥΝΑΜΙΣ'' (Dynamis), the "Journal of the LaRouche Riemann method of physical economics"<ref name=Dynamis>McLemee, Scott. , '']'', July 11, 2007; </ref> | * ''ΔΥΝΑΜΙΣ'' (Dynamis), the "Journal of the LaRouche Riemann method of physical economics"<ref name=Dynamis>McLemee, Scott. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417133920/http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee132 |date=April 17, 2011 }}, '']'', July 11, 2007; {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609111218/http://wlym.com/~seattle/dynamis/index.html |date=June 9, 2011 }}</ref> | ||
===Books and pamphlets=== | ===Books and pamphlets=== | ||
*LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Power of Reason'' (1980) (autobiography) | * LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Power of Reason'' (1980) (autobiography) | ||
*LaRouche, Lyndon, ''There Are No Limits to Growth'' (1983) | * LaRouche, Lyndon, ''There Are No Limits to Growth'' (1983) | ||
*LaRouche, Lyndon, ''So, You Wish To Learn All About Economics'' |
* LaRouche, Lyndon, ''So, You Wish To Learn All About Economics'' (1984) | ||
*LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Power of Reason 1988'' |
* LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Power of Reason 1988'' (1988) | ||
*LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Science of Christian Economy'' (1991) | * LaRouche, Lyndon, ''The Science of Christian Economy'' (1991) | ||
===Defunct periodicals=== | ===Defunct periodicals=== | ||
*''New Solidarity'' | * ''New Solidarity'' | ||
*'']'' | * '']'' | ||
*'']'' | * '']'' | ||
*''The Loudon County News'' | * ''The Loudon County News'' | ||
*''Investigative Leads '' | * ''Investigative Leads '' | ||
*''War on Drugs '' | * ''War on Drugs '' | ||
*''The Young Scientist'' | * ''The Young Scientist'' | ||
*''Campaigner Magazine '' | * ''Campaigner Magazine '' | ||
*''American Labor Beacon'' | * ''American Labor Beacon'' | ||
*''Middle East Insider'' | * ''Middle East Insider'' | ||
==Cultural, economic, and scientific initiatives== | |||
{{main|Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement}} | |||
*'''New Bretton Woods'''. Advocates the abandonment of ]s and the return to ]-style fixed rates, with gold, or an equivalent, used as under the gold-reserve system. This is not to be confused with the ], which LaRouche does not support. | |||
*'''American System'''. Espouses a new "American System" of federalized ] projects and ]s and regulation. Named for the historical ] of ], but owing more to the ideas of the expansive ]. | |||
*''']'''. Lectures and writes on behalf of a "Eurasian land-bridge", a massive high-speed ] railway project to span continents and re-invigorate industry and commerce. | |||
*'''Verdi tuning'''. Argues in favor of the "Verdi tuning" in ], in which A=432 Hz, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to A=440 Hz. | |||
*'''] ]'''. Recommends ], on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification. | |||
*'''] epidemic'''. Demands identification and isolation of ] carriers, in light of the virus's swift adaptability, which he argues could mutate into a lethal, possibly airborne ], and proposes use of directed energy beams for cure. | |||
*''']'''. Supported ] for use against ]s, and claims credit as the first to propose this to ]. LaRouche does not support rocket-based defensive systems such as ]s. | |||
==Lawsuits== | ==Lawsuits== | ||
In 1979, the ] (ADL) was sued by the ], the ], and several individuals including Konstandinos Kalimtgis, Jeffrey Steinberg, and ], who claimed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, and assault on account of the ADL's accusations of anti-Semitism.<ref>{{cite court |litigants |
In 1979, the ] (ADL) was sued by the ], the ], and several individuals including Konstandinos Kalimtgis, Jeffrey Steinberg, and ], who claimed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, and assault on account of the ADL's accusations of anti-Semitism.<ref>{{cite court |litigants= U.S. Labor Party, National Caucus of Labor Committees, Konstandinos Kalimtgis, Jeffrey Steinberg, David Goldman, Freda Hilty, Karen Jenkins, Ernest Schapiro, and Patrick Ruckert, Plaintiffs, against Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, Defendant. |vol= 11470/79 |reporter= |opinion= |pinpoint= |court= New York Supreme Court |date= October 17, 1980 }}</ref> A ] judge ruled that it was "]" to describe them as ].<ref>ADL Facts, "The LaRouche Network: A Political Cult", Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Civil Rights Division, Spring 1982, Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 9.</ref><ref>U.S. Labor Party et al. v. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, No. 79-11470 (N.Y. App. Div., 1980)</ref> | ||
''United States v. Kokinda'' was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990. The case concerned the First Amendment rights of LaRouche movement members on Post Office property. The Deputy Solicitor General arguing the government's case was future Supreme Court Chief Justice ].<ref>{{ |
''United States v. Kokinda'' was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990. The case concerned the First Amendment rights of LaRouche movement members on Post Office property. The Deputy Solicitor General arguing the government's case was future Supreme Court Chief Justice ].<ref>{{cite news |page= 4a |agency= Associated Press |title= Postal Service pleads to stamp out its beggars |work= Wilmington Morning Star |access-date= 2009-10-19 |date= February 27, 1990 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1367&dat=19900227&id=-dAVAAAAIBAJ&pg=4164,5307076 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120712200519/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1367&dat=19900227&id=-dAVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JhQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4164,5307076 |url-status= dead |archive-date= July 12, 2012}}</ref> The Court confirmed the convictions of Marsha Kokinda and Kevin Pearl, volunteers for the ], finding that the Postal Service's regulation of solicitors was reasonable.<ref>{{cite web|title=United States v. Kokinda, 497 U.S. 720 (1990)|work=The Oyez Project|url=https://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1989/1989_88_2031|access-date=October 19, 2009|archive-date=July 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720064727/http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1989/1989_88_2031|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
==Characterizations== | ==Characterizations== | ||
According to a biography produced by the LaRouche-affiliated ], the movement is based on a commitment to "a just new world economic order |
According to a biography produced by the LaRouche-affiliated ], the movement is based on a commitment to "a just new world economic order", specifically "the urgency of affording what have been sometimes termed 'Third World nations,' their full rights to perfect national sovereignty, and to access to the improvement of their educational systems and economies through employment of the most advanced science and technology."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/biographys/meet_larouche.html |title=Biography of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr,. Economist, Statesman, Political Leader, Universal Thinker |publisher=Schillerinstitute.org |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804055556/http://schillerinstitute.org/biographys/meet_larouche.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
The LaRouche movement has attracted devoted followers and developed some specific and elaborate policy initiatives, but has also been referred to variously as ], ], anti-Semitic, a ], a ], and a criminal enterprise.<ref>*Mintz, John. , ''The Washington Post'', January 14, 1985.*Robert L. Bartley, ''The Wall Street Journal'', June 9, 2003.</ref><ref name=Klein>Avi Klein. , ''The Washington Monthly'', November 2007</ref> In 1984, LaRouche's research staff was described by Norman Bailey, a former senior staffer of the ], as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world".<ref name="washingtonpost.com">, ''The Washington Post'', January 15, 1985</ref> The ] calls it "one of the strangest political groups in American history", and '']'' calls it a "vast and bizarre vanity press".<ref name="Klein"/> | |||
The LaRouche movement is seen as a fringe ].<ref>{{cite book|title=American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others|first1=JOHN |last1=GEORGE |first2=LAIRD |last2=WILCOX|publisher=Prometheus Books|location=Amherst, NY|year=1996|isbn=978-1573920582}}</ref> | |||
The LaRouche movement has often been considered a ] political movement.<ref name=King132-133>King 1989, pp. 132–133.</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Toner |first=Robin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/04/us/larouche-savors-fame-that-may-ruin-him.html |title=LaRouche savors fame that may ruin him |date=April 4, 1986 |page=A1 |access-date=February 10, 2017 |archive-date=March 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314084721/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/04/us/larouche-savors-fame-that-may-ruin-him.html?scp=1&sq=LaRouche%20Savors%20Fame%20That%20May%20Ruin%20Him&st=cse |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bennett1988">{{cite book |last=Bennett|first=David Harry|title=The party of fear: from nativist movements to the New Right in American history |year=1988|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0807817728|page=362}}</ref><ref name="King1984">{{Cite magazine|last1=King|first1=Dennis|last2=Radosh|first2=Ronald|date=19 November 1984|title=The LaRouche Connection|magazine=]}}</ref> The LaRouche movement has attracted devoted followers and developed some specific and elaborate policy initiatives but has also been referred to variously as formerly ] in its beginnings during the 1960s, and since the 1970s as an ], ], a ], a ], and a criminal enterprise, reflecting LaRouche's shift from a left-wing Marxist to a right-wing ] and ].<ref>{{cite news|author=Mintz, John|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm|title=Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 14, 1985|access-date=September 2, 2017|archive-date=May 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514001206/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Robert L. Bartley|title=N/A|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=June 9, 2003}}</ref><ref name=Klein>{{cite news|author=Avi Klein|url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0711.klein.html|title=Publish and Perish|work=The Washington Monthly|date=November 2007|access-date=October 26, 2007|archive-date=June 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605165602/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0711.klein.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1984, LaRouche's research staff was described by Norman Bailey, a former senior staffer of the ], as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world".<ref name="washingtonpost.com"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224001/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou1.htm |date=August 4, 2011 }}, ''The Washington Post'', January 15, 1985</ref> ] called it "one of the strangest political groups in American history", and '']'' called it a "vast and bizarre vanity press".<ref name="Klein"/> The LaRouche movement is also seen by some as a fringe political cult.<ref>{{cite book|title=American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others|first1=John |last1=George |first2=Laird |last2=Wilcox |publisher=Prometheus Books|location=Amherst, NY |year=1996|isbn=978-1573920582}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kilgore|first=Ed|date=2019-02-13|title=Political Cult Leader Lyndon LaRouche Dies at 96|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/political-cult-leader-lyndon-larouche-dies-at-96.html|access-date=2021-09-18|website=Intelligencer|language=en-us|archive-date=March 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328042317/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/political-cult-leader-lyndon-larouche-dies-at-96.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Journalist and ] activist ]<ref>{{Cite web| url = http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/2817 | title = Western Goals Foundation}}</ref> wrote in his ''Information Digest'' that the movement has "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party", and that LaRouche is given "blind obedience" by his followers.<ref name="ODYSSEY"/> He has also called the movement a "]".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag|first1=Chip |last1=Berlet |first2=Joel |last2=Bellman|date=March 10, 1989|publisher=Political Research Associates}}</ref> In rebuttal, LaRouche called the accusations of being a cult figure "garbage", and denied having control over any of the groups affiliated with him.<ref name="ODYSSEY"> John Mintz Washington Post January 14, 1985.</ref> | |||
], a government informant resident in the United States who was active in the ] and the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://militarist-monitor.org/western_goals_foundation/|title=Western Goals Foundation|date=January 2, 1989|website=Militarist Monitor|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201204105029/https://militarist-monitor.org/western_goals_foundation/|url-status=live}}</ref> wrote in his ''Information Digest'' that the movement has "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party", and that LaRouche is given "blind obedience" by his followers.<ref name="ODYSSEY" /> He has also called the movement a "]".<ref>{{cite journal |title = Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag |first1=Chip |last1=Berlet |first2=Joel |last2=Bellman |date=March 10, 1989 |url=https://politicalresearch.org/1989/03/10/fascism-wrapped-american-flag|journal=Political Research Associates|access-date=November 24, 2023 }}</ref> In rebuttal, LaRouche called the accusations of being a cult figure "garbage", and denied having control over any of the groups affiliated with him.<ref name="ODYSSEY">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm |title=Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right |author=John Mintz |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 14, 1985 |access-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514001206/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> According to longtime critics ] and Matthew N. Lyons: | |||
According to longtime critics ] and Matthew N. Lyons: | |||
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{{blockquote|Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a 'humanist' elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207135000/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/synthesis.html |date=February 7, 2005 }} Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons, ''Right-Wing Populism in America'', p. 273.</ref>}} | ||
In the summer of 2009, LaRouche followers came under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for comparing |
In the summer of 2009, LaRouche followers came under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for comparing the then United States president ] to ]. Media figures as politically diverse as ] and ] criticized the comparison.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826152332/http://www.larouchepac.com/node/11503 |date=August 26, 2009 }} 2009 LaRouche Political Action Committee</ref> | ||
==Organizations== | ==Organizations== | ||
===Current organizations=== | ===Current organizations=== | ||
] | ] | ||
*''Executive Intelligence Review'' Press Service |
* ''Executive Intelligence Review'' Press Service (U.S.), a hub of the LaRouche movement | ||
*] |
* ] (U.S.) | ||
*] |
* ] (international) | ||
*LaRouche Political Action Committee |
* ] (U.S.) | ||
*] |
* ] (international, based in Germany and U.S.) | ||
*] (Germany) | * ] (Germany) | ||
*] |
* ] (international, especially Canada, Australia, and others) | ||
*] |
* ] formerly Citizens Electoral Council | ||
*Philippine LaRouche Society | * Philippine LaRouche Society | ||
*] |
* ] (Sweden) | ||
*Comités Laborales de Nuevo León (Mexico) | * Comités Laborales de Nuevo León (Mexico) | ||
* Solidarité et progrès (France) | |||
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===United States businesses=== | ||
*PMR Printing, Virginia | * PMR Printing, Virginia | ||
*World Composition Services, Inc. (a.k.a. WorldComp) (Ken Kronberg, former president) | * World Composition Services, Inc. (a.k.a. WorldComp) (Ken Kronberg, former president) | ||
*New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, Inc., ] | * New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, Inc., ] | ||
*American System Publications Inc., |
* American System Publications Inc., Los Angeles (Maureen Calney, president) | ||
*Eastern States Distributors Incorporated, |
* Eastern States Distributors Incorporated, Pittsburgh (Starr Valenti, president) | ||
*South East Literature |
* South East Literature (South East Political Literature Sales & Distribution, Inc.) ] | ||
*Southwest Literature Distribution, |
* Southwest Literature Distribution, Houston, Texas (Daniel Leach, president) | ||
*Midwest Circulation Corp., |
* Midwest Circulation Corp., Chicago | ||
*Hamilton System Distributors, Inc., ] | * Hamilton System Distributors, Inc., ] | ||
===Defunct organizations=== | ===Defunct organizations=== | ||
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*African Civil Rights Movement<ref> |
* African Civil Rights Movement<ref>{{cite news|title=Renewal Team Forum Focuses on Drug Policy Panelists' Views on Legalization Differ Sharply|author=Constance Neyer |work=Hartford Courant|date=September 22, 2000|page=B.1}}</ref> | ||
*Campaigner Publications, Inc. | * Campaigner Publications, Inc. | ||
*Caucus Distributors, Inc. | * Caucus Distributors, Inc. | ||
*Citizens Fact Finding Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations of Children in Nebraska | * Citizens Fact Finding Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations of Children in Nebraska | ||
*Citizens for Chicago | * Citizens for Chicago | ||
*Club of Life | * Club of Life | ||
*Committee Against Genocide | * Committee Against Genocide | ||
*Committee for a Fair Election (CFE) | * Committee for a Fair Election (CFE) | ||
*Committee for a New Africa Policy | * Committee for a New Africa Policy | ||
*Committee to Save the Children in Iraq<ref name="Jahn B.8.5.6"/> | * Committee to Save the Children in Iraq<ref name="Jahn B.8.5.6"/> | ||
*Computron Technologies | * Computron Technologies | ||
*Computype (unrelated to other companies of same name) | * Computype (unrelated to other companies of same name) | ||
*Constitutional Defense Fund | * Constitutional Defense Fund | ||
*] (Germany) | * ] (Germany) | ||
*FDR PAC | * FDR PAC | ||
*Food For Peace Movement<ref> |
* Food For Peace Movement<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Still Opposing Governor; Glendening ToutsFirst-Term Record|author=Charles Babington|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 12, 1998|page=MD.04}}</ref> | ||
*] | * ] | ||
*Hamilton Distribution Systems Inc. | * Hamilton Distribution Systems Inc. | ||
*Human Rights Fund | * Human Rights Fund | ||
*Humanist Academy | * Humanist Academy | ||
*Independent Democrats for LaRouche | * Independent Democrats for LaRouche | ||
*International Workingman's Association | * International Workingman's Association | ||
*John Marshall Distributors | * John Marshall Distributors | ||
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*Labor Organizers Defense Fund | * Labor Organizers Defense Fund | ||
*Lafayette Academy for the Arts and Sciences | * Lafayette Academy for the Arts and Sciences | ||
* The LaRouche Campaign (TLC) | |||
*LaRouche for President campaign committees | |||
* LaRouche for President campaign committees | |||
**1992 - Democrats for Economic Recovery{{ndash}} LaRouche in '92 | |||
** 1992 – Democrats for Economic Recovery{{snd}}LaRouche in '92 | |||
**1996 - The Committee to Reverse the Accelerating Global Economic and Strategic Crisis: A LaRouche Exploratory Committee<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fec.gov/pages/larouche.htm |title=larouche |publisher=Fec.gov |date= |accessdate=2008-11-23}}</ref> | |||
** |
** 1996 – The Committee to Reverse the Accelerating Global Economic and Strategic Crisis: A LaRouche Exploratory Committee<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fec.gov/pages/larouche.htm |title=larouche |publisher=Fec.gov |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118042249/http://www.fec.gov/pages/larouche.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
** 2000 – LaRouche's Committee for a New Bretton Woods<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation_CCA_L.shtml#larouche_92_1_3 |title=FEC Litigation – Court Case Abstracts – L |publisher=Fec.gov |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201140224/http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation_CCA_L.shtml#larouche_92_1_3 |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
**2004 - LaRouche in 2004 | |||
** 2004 – LaRouche in 2004 | |||
*Leesburg Security Fund | |||
* Leesburg Security Fund | |||
*Los Angeles Labor Committee | |||
* Los Angeles Labor Committee | |||
*National Anti-Drug Coalition | |||
*National Labor Committee to Defend Harrison Williams | * National Anti-Drug Coalition | ||
* National Labor Committee to Defend Harrison Williams | |||
*National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization (NUWRO) | * National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization (NUWRO) | ||
*New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company | * New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company | ||
*] (Canada) | * ] (Canada) | ||
* |
* Parti ouvrier européen (France) | ||
*] | * ] | ||
* ] | |||
*PANIC ] | |||
*PANIC ] | * PANIC ] | ||
* PANIC ] | |||
*Revolutionary Youth Movement | |||
* Revolutionary Youth Movement | |||
*The LaRouche Campaign (TLC) | |||
*] | * ] | ||
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==People== | ==People== | ||
===Members=== | ===Members=== | ||
According to '']'', LaRouche has told his followers that they are "golden souls", a term from '']'' of ].<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche's Conviction May Change Organization |first=Caryle |last=Murphy|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 18, 1988|page=b.03}}</ref> In his 1979 autobiography he contrasted the "golden souls" to "the poor donkeys, the poor sheep, whose consciousness is dominated by the infantile world-outlook of individual sensuous life".<ref name=Mintz1987>{{cite news|title=Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche|first=John|last=Mintz|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 20, 1987|page=c.01}}</ref> According to Dennis King, LaRouche believed that cadres "must be intellectually of a superior breed{{snd}}a philosophical elite as well as a political vanguard".<ref name=King/> In 1986, LaRouche said during an interview, "What I represent is a growing movement. The movement is becoming stronger all the time..."<ref>{{cite news|title=Despite Defeats, LaRouche Warns That His Movement Isn't Dead Yet|first=Kevin |last=Roderick |work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 8, 1986|page=OC_A8}}</ref> | |||
Members of the LaRouche movement are variously known as "LaRouchies",<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche probers detail 9 'bilkings' Affidavits leading to raid on Va. HQ charge illegal fund methods |first=William |last=Hines|work=Chicago Sun - Times|date=October 12, 1986|page=24}}</ref> "LaRouchians",<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrat on the dark side |first=Peter |last=Morton|work=National Post|location=Don Mills, Ont.|date=June 16, 2005|page=FP.8}}</ref> "LaRouchites",<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Article Contains Falsehoods Extremist Group Targets Wadman |first=Robert |last=Dorr|work=Omaha World - Herald |date=October 28, 1990|page=1b}}</ref> or "LaRouchers".<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche candidates in Minnesota say voters are beginning to respond |first=Gregor W. |last=Pinney|work=Minneapolis Star and Tribune|date=July 7, 1986|page=01.A1}}</ref> The LaRouche Political Action Committee website refers to "members" and "volunteers".<ref>http://www.larouchepac.com/</ref> | |||
During the criminal trials of the late 1980s, LaRouche called upon his followers to be martyrs, saying that their "honorable deeds shall be legendary in the tales told to future generations". Senior members refused plea agreements that involved guilty pleas as those would have been black marks on the movement.<ref>{{cite news |title=Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader |first=Thomas J. |last=Brazaitis |newspaper = The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |date=July 5, 1991 }}</ref> | |||
According to the ''Washington Post'', LaRouche has told his followers that they are "golden souls", a term from '']'' of ].<ref>{{Cite news|title=LaRouche's Conviction May Change Organization| first=Caryle |last=Murphy|work=The Washington Post|date=December 18, 1988|page=b.03}}</ref> In his 1979 autobiography he contrasted the "golden souls" to "the poor donkeys, the poor sheep, whose consciousness is dominated by the infantile world-outlook of individual sensuous life".<ref name=Mintz1987>{{Cite news|title=Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche|first=John|last=Mintz|work=The Washington Post|date=September 20, 1987|page=c.01}}</ref> According to Dennis King, LaRouche believed that cadres "must be intellectually of a superior breed—a philosophical elite as well as a political vanguard".<ref name=King/> In 1986, LaRouche said during an interview, "What I represent is a growing movement. The movement is becoming stronger all the time..."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Despite Defeats, LaRouche Warns That His Movement Isn't Dead Yet|first=KEVIN |last=RODERICK|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 8, 1986|page=OC_A8}}</ref> | |||
Former members report that life within the LaRouche movement is highly regulated. A former member of the security staff wrote in 1979 that members could be expelled for masturbating or using marijuana. Members who failed to achieve their fundraising quotas or otherwise showed signs as disloyal behavior were subjected to "ego stripping" sessions.<ref name=Rose>{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Gregory F|title=The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC|work=The National Review|date=March 30, 1979}}</ref> Members, even spouses, were encouraged to inform on each other, according to an ex-member.<ref name="Mintz9/20/87">{{cite news|last=Mintz|first=John|title=Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 20, 1987|page=c01}}</ref> Although LaRouche was officially opposed to abortion, a former member testified that women were encouraged to have abortions because "you can't have children during a revolution."<ref name="Hume 1986"/> Another source said some group leaders coerced members into having abortions.<ref name="Mintz9/20/87"/> ], writing in '']'', stated that LaRouche followers worked 16-hour days for little wages.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Making of a Madman|author=John Judis |date=May 29, 1989|magazine=The New Republic |pages=35–39}}</ref> | |||
During the criminal trials of the late 1980s, LaRouche called upon his followers to be martyrs, saying that their "honorable deeds shall be legendary in the tales told to future generations". Senior members refused plea agreements that involved guilty pleas as those would have been black marks on the movement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Convicted LaRouche aide won't renounce his leader |first=THOMAS J. |last=BRAZAITIS|work=The Plain Dealer|location=Cleveland, Ohio|date=July 5, 1991}}</ref> | |||
Former members have reported receiving harassing calls or indirect death threats.<ref name=Rose/><ref name=Mintz1985>{{cite news|title=Critics of LaRouche Group Hassled, Ex-Associates Say|first=John|last=Mintz|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 14, 1985|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm|access-date=September 2, 2017|archive-date=December 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226011947/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> They say they have been called traitors. ''New Solidarity'' ran obituaries for three living former members.<ref name=Mintz1985/> Internal memos have reportedly contained a variety of dismissive terms for ex-followers.<ref name=Mintz1985/> One former member said that becoming a follower of LaRouche is "like entering the Bizarro World of the Superman comic books" which makes sense so long as one remains inside the movement.<ref name=Witt/> | |||
Former members report that life within the LaRouche movement is highly regulated. A former member of the security staff wrote in 1979 that members could be expelled for masturbating or using marijuana. Members who failed to achieve their fundraising quotas or otherwise showed signs as disloyal behavior were subjected to "ego stripping" sessions.<ref name=Rose>{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Gregory F|title=The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC|work=The National Review|date=March 30, 1979}}</ref> Members, even spouses, were encouraged to inform on each other, according to an ex-member.<ref name="Mintz9/20/87">{{cite news|last=Mintz|first=John|title=Inside the Weird World of Lyndon LaRouche|work=The Washington Post |date=September 20, 1987|page=c01}}</ref> Although LaRouche was officially opposed to abortion, a former member testified that women were encouraged to have abortions because "you can't have children during a revolution."<ref name="Hume 1986"/> Another source said some group leaders coerced members into having abortions.<ref name="Mintz9/20/87"/> ], writing in '']'', stated that LaRouche followers worked 16-hour days for little wages.<ref>Judis (1989)</ref> | |||
E. Newbold Smith, who married a du Pont, was indicted along with four associates for planning to have his son, Lewis du Pont Smith, and daughter-in-law abducted and "]" after they joined the LaRouche movement and donated $212,000 of Lewis's approximately $10 million inheritance to a LaRouche publishing arm. The incident resulted in serious legal repercussions but no criminal convictions for those indicted, including private investigator ]. E. Newbold Smith also successfully had his son declared "incompetent" to manage his financial affairs in order to block him from possibly turning over his inheritance to the LaRouche organization.<ref>{{cite magazine |url= http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/orth199304 |title= Blueblood War |first= Maureen |last= Orth |date= December 2008 |magazine= Vanity Fair |access-date= 2010-03-10 |archive-date= February 28, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100228171046/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/orth199304 |url-status= live }}</ref> | |||
Former members have reported receiving harassing calls or indirect death threats.<ref name=Rose/><ref name=Mintz1985>{{cite news|title=Critics of LaRouche Group Hassled, Ex-Associates Say|first=John |last=Mintz |work=Washington Post |date=January 14, 1985|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou4.htm}}</ref> They say they have been called traitors. ''New Solidarity'' ran obituaries for three living former members.<ref name=Mintz1985/> Internal memos have reportedly contained a variety of dismissive terms for ex-followers.<ref name=Mintz1985/> One former member said that becoming a follower of LaRouche is "like entering the Bizarro World of the Superman comic books" which makes sense so long as one remains inside the movement.<ref name=Witt/> | |||
], who had been a leading member of the movement, committed suicide in 2007, reportedly because of financial issues concerning the movement.<ref name=Klein/> His widow, Marielle (Molly) Kronberg, had also been a longtime member. She gave an interview to ] in 2007 in which she made critical comments about the LaRouche movement. She was quoted as saying, "I'm worried that the organization may be in danger of becoming a killing machine."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Kronberg.html|title=The death of Kenneth Kronberg|year=2007|publisher=Political Research Associates|access-date=April 19, 2011|archive-date=May 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515044506/http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Kronberg.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004 and 2005, Kronberg made contributions of $1,501 to the ] and the election campaign of ],<ref name=Klein/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?older=yes&zip=20175|title=Fundrace 2008|work=HuffPost|access-date=April 19, 2011|archive-date=July 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154204/http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?older=yes&zip=20175|url-status=live}}</ref> despite the LaRouche movement's opposition to the Bush administration. According to journalist Avi Klein, LaRouche felt that this "foreshadowed her treachery to the movement."<ref name=Klein/> Kronberg had been a member of the movement's governing National Committee since 1982 and was convicted of fraud during the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=3 LaRouche Workers are Convicted of Fraud |agency=United Press International|work=Richmond Times–Dispatch|location=Richmond, Virginia|date=September 1, 1989|page=A-2|quote=Three people who worked for political extremist Lyndon LaRouche were convicted yesterday of bilking New Yorkers out of about $30 million to raise money for his organizations...Robert Primack, 41, of Palisades Park, N.J., and Marielle Kronberg, 41, and Lynne Speed, 37, both of Leesburg, Va., were convicted of one count each of scheming to defraud and Primack was convicted also of fifth-degree conspiracy}}</ref> | |||
In 1992, the father of Lewis du Pont Smith, an adult member of the ] who had joined the LaRouche movement, was indicted along with four associates for planning to have his son and daughter-in-law abducted and "]". The incident resulted in serious legal repercussions but no criminal convictions for those indicted, including private investigator ]. The father also successfully had his son declared "incompetent" to manage his financial affairs in order to block him from possibly turning over his inheritance to the LaRouche organization.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/orth199304 | title = Blueblood War | first = Maureen | last = Orth | month = December | year = 2008 | work = Vanity Fair | accessdate = 2010-03-10}}</ref> | |||
], who had been a leading member of the movement, committed suicide in 2007, reportedly because of financial issues concerning the movement.<ref name=Klein/> His widow, Marielle (Molly) Kronberg, had also been a longtime member. She gave an interview to ] in 2007 in which she made critical comments about the LaRouche movement. She was quoted as saying, "I'm worried that the organization may be in danger of becoming a killing machine."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Kronberg.html |title=The death of Kenneth Kronberg|year=2007|publisher=Political Research Associates|accessdate=April 19, 2011}}</ref> In 2004 and 2005, Kronberg made contributions of $1,501 to the ] and the election campaign of ],<ref name=Klein/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?older=yes&zip=20175 |title=Fundrace 2008|work=The Huffington Post|accessdate=April 19, 2011}}</ref> despite the LaRouche movement's opposition to the Bush administration. According to journalist Avi Klein, LaRouche felt that this "foreshadowed her treachery to the movement."<ref name=Klein/> Kronberg had been a member of the movement's governing National Committee since 1982 and was convicted of fraud during the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=3 LAROUCHE WORKERS ARE CONVICTED OF FRAUD|agency=United Press International|work=Richmond Times - Dispatch|location=Richmond, Va.|date=September 1, 1989|page=A-2|quote=Three people who worked for political extremist Lyndon LaRouche were convicted yesterday of bilking New Yorkers out of about $30 million to raise money for his organizations...Robert Primack, 41, of Palisades Park, N.J., and Marielle Kronberg, 41, and Lynne Speed, 37, both of Leesburg, Va., were convicted of one count each of scheming to defraud and Primack was convicted also of fifth-degree conspiracy.}}</ref> | |||
===Associates and managers=== | ===Associates and managers=== | ||
*], |
* ], widow, head of ] and ]<ref name="nbwcall">{{cite web |url=http://www.bueso.de/seiten/weltweit/nbwcall.htm |title=Ad-Hoc Committee for a New Bretton Woods agreement |publisher=Bueso.de |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050527083024/http://www.bueso.de/seiten/weltweit/nbwcall.htm |archive-date=May 27, 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
*], SI vice chairwoman | * ], SI vice chairwoman | ||
*], fundraiser (convicted of ])<ref>{{ |
* ], fundraiser (convicted of ])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/exon/exon_mob_jan_2001.html |title=Schiller InstituteInterview with Mike Billington- American political prisoner |publisher=Schiller Institute |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=February 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222080826/http://www.schillerinstitute.org/exon/exon_mob_jan_2001.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="exon2">{{cite web |url=http://www.larouchepub.com/exon/exon2.html |title=The Summary of Relevant Evidence on The Record Demonstrating Innocence of LaRouche, et al. |publisher=Larouchepub.com |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=November 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114022718/http://www.larouchepub.com/exon/exon2.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="wp_1988"/> | ||
*William Wertz, chief fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2" |
* William Wertz, chief fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2"/><ref name="wp_1988">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou6.htm |title=The Cult Controversy |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 30, 1999 |access-date=2008-10-23 |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922210725/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/larou6.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
*Edward W. Spannaus, legal adviser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2" |
* Edward W. Spannaus, legal adviser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2"/><ref name="wp_1988"/> | ||
*Dennis Small, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2" |
* Dennis Small, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2"/><ref name="wp_1988"/> | ||
*Paul Greenberg, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2" |
* Paul Greenberg, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2"/><ref name="wp_1988"/> | ||
*Joyce Rubinstein, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2" |
* Joyce Rubinstein, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)<ref name="exon2"/><ref name="wp_1988"/> | ||
*Paul Gallagher |
* Paul Gallagher<ref name="exon2"/> | ||
*Anita Gallagher, born Anita Gretz |
* Anita Gallagher, born Anita Gretz (1947– )<ref name="exon2"/> | ||
*Laurence Hecht<ref name="exon2" |
* Laurence Hecht<ref name="exon2"/> | ||
*Donald Phau<ref name="exon2" |
* Donald Phau<ref name="exon2"/> | ||
*Robert Primack (deceased)<ref name="clarkletter">{{ |
* Robert Primack (deceased)<ref name="clarkletter">{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/exon/ramseyclark_ltr_95.html |title=Schiller Institute-Ramsey Clark Letter to Reno about LaRouche Case |publisher=Schillerinstitute.org |access-date=2010-08-29 |archive-date=September 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903191647/http://www.schillerinstitute.org/exon/ramseyclark_ltr_95.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1209420.html|title=LaRouche Aides Guilty|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022200752/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1209420.html|archive-date=October 22, 2012|via=HighBeam Research}}</ref> | ||
*], leader of ], the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.<ref name="nbwcall" /> | * ], leader of ], the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.<ref name="nbwcall" /> | ||
*Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for the East Coast,<ref name="021124larshow">{{ |
* Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for the East Coast,<ref name="021124larshow">{{cite web |url=http://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2004/labor_day/war_plan_nov_pt1.html |title=Schiller Institute Conference War Plan For November |website=Schillerinstitute.org |access-date=2010-08-29 |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724193029/http://schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2004/labor_day/war_plan_nov_pt1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> chairwoman of the LaRouche campaign (1988)<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314112214/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/12/us/contributors-say-larouche-misled-them-on-donations.html |date=March 14, 2017 }}, AP, January 12, 1988</ref> | ||
*], editor and cofounder of ''Fidelio'' (deceased; suicide) |
* ], editor and cofounder of ''Fidelio'' (deceased; suicide) | ||
===Political candidates=== | ===Political candidates=== | ||
{{ |
{{Mainlist|U.S. Labor Party#USLP candidates}} | ||
*Mel Logan |
* Mel Logan, Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in ] in 2000<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE4D91E39F93BA35752C1A9669C8B63 |title=The 2000 Elections: West |work=The New York Times |date=November 8, 2000 |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528152141/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/us/the-2000-elections-west-086398.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
*] |
* ], ran for ] Secretary of State in 1986, won ] nomination | ||
*Mark J. Fairchild |
* Mark J. Fairchild, ran for ] in 1986, won Democratic Party nomination | ||
*] |
* ], vice presidential ], 1992 | ||
* |
* Craig Isherwood, head of Australian ] | ||
* ], former ] federal MP, chairman and candidate of the ]<ref>{{cite book|title=Realising Democracy: Electoral Law in Australia|author1=Orr, G.|author2=Mercurio, B.|author3=Williams, G.|date=2003|publisher=Federation Press|isbn=9781862874817|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0K4FbD-B6kC|page=165|accessdate=2015-04-04}}</ref> | |||
*] - French politician | |||
* ], French politician | |||
*Nancy Spannaus - ran for ] in ], 2002 | |||
* |
* Nancy Spannaus, ran for ] in ], 2002 | ||
* Eliott Greenspan, ran for ] in 2001 | |||
*Ron Bettag - ran for ] of ] (announced his candidacy with press release datelined "Germany". Most local issue: "Washington D.C. General Hospital now under KKK-Katie Graham siege")<ref>{{Cite web|date= May 22, 2001 |url=http://www.larouchespeaks.net/Map/bettag_release_052201.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040311095425/http://www.larouchespeaks.net/Map/bettag_release_052201.html|archivedate=2004-03-11|title=LaRouche Democrat Ron Bettag Drafted As Candidate For Mayor Of Chicago; Joins Presidential Candidate LaRouche & John Paul II In Global Fight For The General Welfare|publisher= FDR-PAC |accessdate=July 26, 2010}}</ref> | |||
* Ron Bettag, ran for mayor of Chicago, Illinois (announced his candidacy with press release datelined "Germany". Most local issue: "Washington, D.C. General Hospital now under KKK-Katie Graham siege")<ref>{{cite web|date= May 22, 2001 |url=http://www.larouchespeaks.net/Map/bettag_release_052201.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040311095425/http://www.larouchespeaks.net/Map/bettag_release_052201.html|archive-date=March 11, 2004|title=LaRouche Democrat Ron Bettag Drafted As Candidate For Mayor Of Chicago; Joins Presidential Candidate LaRouche & John Paul II In Global Fight For The General Welfare|publisher= FDR-PAC |access-date=July 26, 2010}}</ref> | |||
*William Ferguson - ran for U.S. Congress in ] in 2001 | |||
* William Ferguson, ran for U.S. Congress in ] in 2001 | |||
* ], Democratic candidate for Congress in 2010 and 2012 in 22nd Texas district | |||
* ], candidate for US Senate in New Jersey in 2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=EIR Volume 47, Number 29, July 17, 2020 |url=https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2020/eirv47n29-20200717/index.html |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=larouchepub.com}}</ref> | |||
* Diane Sare, candidate for U.S. Senate in New York in 2022 and 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate Candidate Diane Sare Fraudulently Excluded From Debate |url=https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4942-u_s_senate_candidate_diane_sar.html |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=larouchepub.com}}</ref> | |||
* ], Republican nominee for ]' 14th district in 2022 and suspect in attempted murder plot of several New Mexico politicians<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reichbach |first=Matthew |date=2023-01-18 |title=Solomon Peña's social media shows his ties to far-right politics |url=https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/01/18/solomon-penas-social-media-shows-his-ties-to-far-right-politics/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=NM Political Report |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
===Researchers, writers |
===Researchers, writers and spokespersons=== | ||
*Jeffrey Steinberg, Director of ], ''EIR''<ref name="FiveLaRouche" |
* Jeffrey Steinberg, Director of ], ''EIR''<ref name="FiveLaRouche"/><ref name=EIR31>{{cite journal|title=unk|volume=31|issue=17|date=April 30, 2004|journal=Executive Intelligence Review|page=1}}</ref> | ||
*Allen Salisbury, author of ''The ] and the American System''<ref>{{cite news|title=Brunswick station wants to increase its listening area|first= |
* Allen Salisbury, author of ''The ] and the American System''<ref>{{cite news|title=Brunswick station wants to increase its listening area|first=Sonia |last=Boin|pages=A1, A9|work=The Frederick Post|date=April 12, 1986|location=Frederick, Maryland}}</ref> | ||
*Anton Chaitkin, co-author of ''The Unauthorized Biography of ]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge Convicts Two Protesters Of Pike Statue| |
* Anton Chaitkin, co-author of ''The Unauthorized Biography of ]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge Convicts Two Protesters Of Pike Statue|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 20, 1993|page=C.05}}</ref> | ||
*Jonathan Tennenbaum<ref>{{cite news|title=The lost boy|first=Terry |last=Kirby|work=The Independent|location=London (UK)|date=August 28, 2003|page=2.3}}</ref> | * Jonathan Tennenbaum<ref>{{cite news|title=The lost boy|first=Terry |last=Kirby|work=The Independent |location=London (UK)|date=August 28, 2003|page=2.3}}</ref> | ||
*Harley Schlanger, U.S. West Coast Spokesman<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche's candidates fail to gain a single victory in contested races|work=Houston Chronicle |date=May 4, 1986|page=36}}</ref> | * Harley Schlanger, U.S. West Coast Spokesman<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche's candidates fail to gain a single victory in contested races|work=Houston Chronicle |date=May 4, 1986|page=36}}</ref> | ||
*Marsha Freeman, writer<ref name=EIR31/> | * Marsha Freeman, writer<ref name=EIR31/> | ||
*Richard Freeman, senior economics staff, ''EIR''<ref>{{cite news|title= |
* Richard Freeman, senior economics staff, ''EIR''<ref>{{cite news|title=LaRouche Soliciting Said to Continue |first=Bill |last=McKelway|work=Richmond Times–Dispatch|location=Richmond, Virginia|date=February 19, 1987|page=A-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Formulan teoria del desierto para reactivacion economica|first=Jesus Jeronimo |last=Garcia|work=Palabra|location=Saltillo, Mexico|date=September 30, 2004|page=4|language=es}}</ref> | ||
*John Hoefle, banking columnist, |
* John Hoefle, banking columnist, ''EIR''<ref name=EIR36>{{cite journal|title=unk|volume=36 |issue=22|date=June 5, 2009 |journal=Executive Intelligence Review|page=1}}</ref> | ||
*Marcia Merry-Baker<ref name=EIR31/> | * Marcia Merry-Baker<ref name=EIR31/> | ||
*Tony Papert<ref name=EIR31/><ref>{{cite news|title=How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery; Progression to Violence | * Tony Papert<ref name=EIR31/><ref>{{cite news |title=How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery; Progression to Violence |first=Paul L. |last=Montgomery |date=January 20, 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/how-a-radicalleft-group-moved-toward-savagery-progression-to.html |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723184239/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/how-a-radicalleft-group-moved-toward-savagery-progression-to.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
* Kathy Wolfe, economist, ''EIR'' (former member)<ref>{{cite news |title = Dispute Puts Symphony Off Key in Loudoun; LaRouche Follower Ousted; Boycott Follows |first=Robert |last=O'Harrow Jr. |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 20, 1991 |page=c.01 }}</ref> | |||
|first=PAUL L. |last=MONTGOMERY|date=January 20, 1974|work=New York Times|page=1|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E17FB385F107A93C2AB178AD85F408785F9}}</ref> | |||
*Kathy Wolfe, economist, ''EIR'' (former member)<ref>{{cite news|title=Dispute Puts Symphony Off Key in Loudoun;LaRouche Follower Ousted; Boycott Follows|first=Robert |last=O'Harrow Jr.|work=The Washington Post |date=April 20, 1991|page=c.01}}</ref> | |||
===Former associates=== | ===Former associates=== | ||
*], aide to LaRouche, Washington D.C. bureau chief, and White House Correspondent for ''Executive Intelligence Review'' |
* ], aide to LaRouche, Washington, D.C. bureau chief, and White House Correspondent for ''Executive Intelligence Review'' | ||
*Ortrum Cramer, a member of the management of the Schiller Institute<ref name="respekt">{{ |
* Ortrum Cramer, a member of the management of the Schiller Institute<ref name="respekt">{{cite web |url = http://www.respekt.dgb.de/article/articleprint/1336/-1/57/ |title = Britische Familie verlangt weitere Untersuchung: Der Tod von Jeremiah Duggan in Wiesbaden: respekt.dgb.de |website = Respekt.dgb.de |author = Vom |date = May 11, 2003 |access-date = 2008-10-23 |archive-date = December 14, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061214200340/http://www.respekt.dgb.de/article/articleprint/1336/-1/57/ |url-status = live }}</ref> | ||
*], co-author of ''Hostage to Khomeini'' | * ], co-author of ''Hostage to Khomeini'' | ||
*], author of ''A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order'' | * ], author of ''A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order'' | ||
*], security consultant (deceased) | * ], security consultant (deceased) | ||
*], a.k.a. Spengler, co-author of ''The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman''<ref> |
* ], a.k.a. Spengler, co-author of ''The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives|title=Confessions of a Coward|website=First Things|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=September 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903113235/https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War against the U.S.''<ref>{{cite book|title=Dope, Inc.: Britain's opium war against the U.S. (Book, 1978)|oclc=4492671 |date= 2007 |isbn=978-0918388087|first1=Konstandinos|last1=Kalimtgis|publisher=New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company }}</ref> | ||
*], former contributor and editor of ''Executive Information Review'' (deceased)<ref> '']'' August 7, 2002</ref> | * ], former contributor and editor of ''Executive Information Review'' (deceased)<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013100515/http://slate.com/?id=2069119 |date=October 13, 2007 }} '']'' August 7, 2002</ref> | ||
* ], co-author of ''The Unauthorized Biography of ]'', former president of the Schiller Institute in the U.S. | |||
*], Venezuelan politician<ref>{{es}}, '']'', 13 July 2010, </ref><ref>{{es}}, ''Aporrea'', July 14, 2010 , Mariana Mendoza</ref> | |||
*], co-author of ''The Unauthorized Biography of ]'', former president of the Schiller Institute in the U.S. | |||
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Political movement promoting Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas
The LaRouche movement is a political and cultural network promoting the late Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. It has included many organizations and companies around the world, which campaign, gather information and publish books and periodicals. LaRouche-aligned organizations include the National Caucus of Labor Committees, the Schiller Institute, the Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement and, formerly, the U.S. Labor Party. The LaRouche movement has been called "cult-like" by The New York Times.
The movement originated within the radical leftist student politics of the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of candidates ran in state Democratic primaries in the United States on the 'LaRouche platform', while Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly campaigned for presidential nomination. From the mid-1970s, the LaRouche network would adopt viewpoints and stances of the far-right. During its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, the LaRouche movement developed a private intelligence agency and contacts with foreign governments. In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates were convicted on fraud charges related to fundraising. The movement called the prosecutions politically motivated.
LaRouche's widow, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, heads political and cultural groups in Germany connected with her late husband's movement. There are also parties in France, Sweden and other European countries and branches or affiliates in Australia, Canada, the Philippines and several Latin American countries. Members engage in political organizing, fund-raising, cultural events, research and writing and internal meetings.
On February 24, 2021, Zepp-LaRouche denounced the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its treasurer, Barbara Boyd, for going "in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. ... ince he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates ... have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche's positions." and has stated that LPAC and Boyd do not represent the LaRouche movement. She has taken legal action against LPAC to "immediately cease and desist, both now and in the future" from "using Mr. LaRouche's name, likeness, and potentially other confusingly similar terms."
Main goals of the Lyndon LaRouche movement
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- Restoration of Glass-Steagall. Since 2007, the movement has actively campaigned to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, to separate commercial banking from speculative investment banking, protecting the former and not bailing out the latter.
- New Bretton Woods. Advocates the abandonment of floating exchange rates and the return to Bretton Woods-style fixed rates, with gold, or an equivalent, used as under the gold-reserve system. This is not to be confused with the gold standard, which LaRouche did not support.
- American System. Espouses the "American System" of infrastructure projects, a "regulated banking system" and tariffs. Named for the historical American System of Henry Clay, but owing more to the ideas of the expansive American School.
- Eurasian Land Bridge. Lectures and writes on behalf of a "Eurasian land-bridge", a massive high-speed maglev railway project to span continents and re-invigorate industry and commerce.
- Scientific pitch. Argues in favor of what they call "Verdi tuning" in classical music, in which A=432 Hz, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to A=440 Hz.
- Mars colonization. Recommends colonization of the planet Mars, on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification.
- Strategic Defense Initiative. Supported directed beam weapons for use against ICBMs, and claims credit as the first to propose this to Ronald Reagan. LaRouche did not support rocket-based defensive systems such as anti-ballistic missiles.
- Fusion Energy Foundation. The LaRouche movement proclaimed an interest in fusion energy and "beam weapons" – while some scientists such as John Clarke praised the movement, it was generally seen as a front for LaRouche's political aims. According to Fusion, two members of the FEF went to the Soviet Union to attend a conference on "laser interaction" in December 1978.
Political organizations
LaRouche-affiliated political parties have nominated many hundreds of candidates for national and regional offices in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia and France, for almost thirty years. In countries outside the U.S., the LaRouche movement maintains its own minor parties, and they have had no significant electoral success to date. In the U.S., individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought Democratic Party office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts, and been nominated for state and federal office as Democrats, although the party leadership has periodically voiced its disapproval.
United States
Political activities
Further information: Lyndon LaRouche U.S. Presidential campaignsLaRouche ran for U.S. president eight times, in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004. The first was with the U.S. Labor Party. In the next seven campaigns he ran for the Democratic Party nomination. He received federal matching funds in 2004. LaRouche candidates who ran in various Democratic primaries, generally sought George Wallace voters.
The LaRouche movement attracted media attention in the context of the 1986 Illinois gubernatorial election, when movement members Janice Hart and Mark J. Fairchild won the Democratic Primary elections for the offices of Illinois Secretary of State and Illinois Lieutenant Governor respectively. Until the day after the primary, major media outlets were reporting that George Sangmeister, Fairchild's primary opponent, was running unopposed. More than two decades later, Fairchild asked, "how is it possible that the major media, with all of their access to information, could possibly be mistaken in that way?" Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III was favored to win this election, having lost the previous election by a narrow margin. He refused to run on the same slate with Hart and Fairchild, forming the Solidarity Party and running with Jane Spirgel as the Secretary of State nominee. Hart and Spirgel's opponent, Republican incumbent James R. Thompson, won the election with 1.574 million votes.
After that primary Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) accused his own party of pursuing a policy of ignoring the "infiltration by the neo-Nazi elements of Lyndon H. LaRouche", and said that too often, especially in the media, "the LaRouchites" are "dismissed as kooks". "In an age of ideology, in an age of totalitarianism, it will not suffice for a political party to be indifferent to and ignorant about such a movement", said Moynihan. Moynihan had faced a primary challenge in 1982 from Mel Klenetsky, an associate of LaRouche.
In 1986, the LaRouche movement worked to place an AIDS initiative, Proposition 64, on the California ballot, which lost by a 4–1 margin. It was re-introduced in 1988 and lost again by the same margin.
Federal and state officials raided movement offices in 1986. In the ensuing trials, some leaders of the movement received prison terms for conspiracy to commit fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion.
In 1988, Claude Jones won the chairmanship of the Harris County Democratic Party in Houston, and was stripped of his authority by the county executive committee before he could take office. He was removed from office by the state party chairman a few months later, in February 1989, because of Jones's alleged opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, in favor of LaRouche.
The LaRouche movement opposed the UN sanctions against Iraq in 1991 and the Gulf War in 1991. Supporters formed the "Committee to Save the Children in Iraq". LaRouche blamed the sanctions and war on "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel" whose policies were "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the Hollinger Corporation, which has taken over The Jerusalem Post for that purpose." Left-wing anti-war groups were divided over the LaRouche movement's involvement.
In the United States Senate election in Wyoming, 2000, the Democratic Senatorial nominee, Mel Logan, was a LaRouche follower; the Republican incumbent, Craig Thomas, won in a 76–23% landslide. In 2001, a "national citizen-candidates' movement" was created, advancing candidates for a number of elective offices across the country.
In 2006, LaRouche Youth Movement activist and Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee member Cody Jones was honored as "Democrat of the Year" for the 43rd Assembly District of California, by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. At the April 2007 California State Democratic Convention, LYM activist Quincy O'Neal was elected vice-chairman of the California State Democratic Black Caucus, and Wynneal Innocentes was elected corresponding secretary of the Filipino Caucus.
In November 2007, Mark Fairchild returned to Illinois to promote legislation authored by LaRouche, called the "Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007", establishing a moratorium on home foreclosures and establishing a new federal agency to oversee all federal and state banks. He also promoted LaRouche's plan to build a high-speed railroad to connect Russia and the United States, including a tunnel under the Bering Strait.
In 2009, a volunteer table in Mattituck, New York had a picture of Obama with a "drawn-in Hitler moustache" and "a picture of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with Frankenstein-style bolts in her head." In July 2011, Seattle police were called by a LaRouche volunteer displaying "Obama with a Hitler-style mustache" picture at her stand, regarding a LaRouche opponent allegedly telling her "Look at me again and I'm going to punch your face." In another case, in June 2011, "the same officer was called to investigate an incident in which a man threatened to rip down several political signs displayed by LaRouche supporters." Police investigated the incident as malicious harassment – the state's hate-crime law. At one widely reported event, Congressman Barney Frank referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense."
In March 2010, LaRouche Youth leader Kesha Rogers won the Democratic congressional primary in Houston, Texas' 22nd District. The following day, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party stated that "La Rouche members are not Democrats. I guarantee her campaign will not receive a single dollar from anyone on our staff." In June 2012, Rogers won the Democratic congressional primary for a second time. In March 2014, Rogers received 22% of the vote in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary, placing her into a runoff election with David M. Alameel.
International
The Schiller Institute and the International Caucus of Labor Committees (ICLC) are international organizations associated by some with the LaRouche Movement. Schiller Institute conferences have been held across the world. The ICLC is affiliated to political parties in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Mexico, the Philippines, and several South American countries. Lyndon LaRouche, who was based in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and his wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, based in Wiesbaden, Germany, regularly attended these international conferences and met foreign politicians, bureaucrats, and academics.
According to London-based SciDev.Net, the LaRouche movement has "attracted suspicion for circulating conspiracy theories and advocating for grand infrastructure projects." The movement supports the Transaqua project to divert water from the Congo River to replenish Lake Chad.
Canada
The North American Labour Party (NALP) nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. Its candidates only had 297 votes nationwide in 1979. LaRouche himself offered a draft constitution for the commonwealth of Canada in 1981. The NALP later became the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada and that ran candidates in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections. Those were more successful, gaining as many as 7,502 votes in 1993, but no seats. The Parti pour la république du Canada (Québec) nominated candidates for provincial elections in the 1980s under various party titles. The LaRouche affiliate now operates as the Committee for the Republic of Canada.
Europe
The LaRouche Movement has a major center in Germany. The Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) political party is headed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, LaRouche's widow. It has nominated candidates for elective office and publishes the Neue Solidarität newspaper. Zepp-LaRouche is also the head of the German-based Schiller Institute. In 1986, Zepp-LaRouche formed the "Patriots for Germany" party, and announced that it would run a full slate of 100 candidates. The party received 0.2 percent of the 4 million votes and "failed to elect any candidates to the parliament".
Solidarité et progrès (Solidarity and Progress), headed by Jacques Cheminade, is the LaRouche party in France. The party was previously known as Parti ouvrier européen (European Workers' Party) and Fédération pour une nouvelle solidarité (Federation for a New Solidarity). Its newspaper is Nouvelle Solidarité. Cheminade ran for President of France in 1995, 2012 and 2017, finishing last each time. The French LaRouche Youth Movement is headed by Élodie Viennot. Viennot supported the candidacy of Daniel Buchmann for the position of mayor of Berlin.
Sweden has an office of the Schiller Institute (Schillerinstitutet) and the political party European Worker's Party (EAP).
In Denmark, four candidates for parliament on the LaRouche platform (Tom Gillesberg, Feride Istogu Gillesberg and Hans Schultz) received 197 votes in the 2007 election (at least 32,000 votes are needed for a local mandate). The Danish LaRouche Movement (Schiller Instituttet)'s first newspaper distributed 50,000 copies around Copenhagen and Aarhus.
The Movimento Solidarietà – Associazione di LaRouche in Italia (MSA) is an Italian political party headed by Paolo Raimondi that supports the LaRouche platform.
Ortrun Cramer of the Schiller Institute became a delegate of the Austrian International Progress Organization in the 1990s, but there is no sign of ongoing relationship.
Nataliya Vitrenko, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, has stated multiple times that she supports LaRouche's ideals.
Controversy
The LaRouche movement has been accused of violence, harassment, and heckling since the 1970s.
1960s and Operation Mop-Up
In the 1960s and 1970s, LaRouche was accused of fomenting violence at anti-war rallies with a small band of followers. According to LaRouche's autobiography, it was in 1969 that violent altercations began between his members and New Left groups. He wrote that a faction of Students for a Democratic Society which later became the Weathermen began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University, and there were later attacks by the Communist Party, and the SWP. These conflicts culminated in "Operation Mop-Up", a series of physical attacks by LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) on rival left-wing groups. LaRouche's New Solidarity reported NCLC confrontations with members of the Communist Party and Socialist Workers Party, including an April 23, 1973 incident at a debate featuring Labor Committee mayoral candidate Tony Chaitkin that erupted in a brawl, with chairs flying. Six people were treated for injuries at a local hospital.
In the mid-1973 the movement formed a "Revolutionary Youth Movement" to recruit and politicize members of street gangs in New York City and other eastern cities. The NCLC allegedly trained some members in terrorist and guerrilla warfare. Topics included weapons handling, explosives and demolition, close order drills, small unit tactics, and military history.
The USLP vs. the FBI
In November 1973, the FBI issued an internal memorandum, later released under the Freedom of Information Act. Jeffrey Steinberg, the NCLC "director of counterintelligence", described it as the "COINTELPRO memo", which he says showed "that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA." LaRouche wrote in 1998:
The U.S. Communist Party was committed to putting the Labor Committees out of existence physically... Local law enforcement was curiously uncooperative, as they had been during prior physical attacks on myself and my friends. We knew that a 'fix' was in somewhere, probably from the FBI... We were left to our own resources. Tired of the beatings, we decided we had better prepare to defend ourselves if necessary.
The FBI was allegedly concerned that the movement might try to take power by force. FBI Director Clarence Kelly testified in 1976 about the LaRouche movement:
A "violence-oriented organization of 'revolutionary socialists' with a membership of nearly 1,000 located in chapters in some 50 cities ... involved in fights, beatings, using drugs, kidnappings, brainwashings, and at least one shooting. They are reported to be armed, to have received defensive training such as karate, and to attend cadre schools and training schools to learn military tactics..."
Association with Roy Frankhouser and Mitch WerBell
In the later 1970s, the U.S. Labor Party came into contact with Roy Frankhouser, a felon and government informant who had infiltrated a variety of groups. The LaRouche organization believed Frankhouser was a federal agent assigned to infiltrate right-wing and left-wing groups, and that he had evidence that these groups were being manipulated or controlled by the FBI and other agencies. Frankhouser introduced LaRouche to Mitchell WerBell III, a former Office of Strategic Services operative, paramilitary trainer, and arms dealer. Some members allegedly took a six-day "anti-terrorist" course at a training camp operated by WerBell in Powder Springs, Georgia. In 1979, LaRouche denied that the training sessions took place. WerBell introduced LaRouche to covert operations specialist General John K. Singlaub, who later said that members of the movement implied in discussions with him that the military might help "lead the country out of its problems", a view which he rejected. WerBell also introduced LaRouche to Larry Cooper, a Powder Springs, Georgia police captain. Cooper, Frankhouser and an associate of Frankhouser named Forrest Lee Fick later made allegations about LaRouche. Cooper said in an NBC broadcast interview in 1984 that LaRouche had proposed the assassination of Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Joseph Luns, and David Rockefeller. In 1984, LaRouche said that he had employed WerBell as a security consultant, but that the allegations coming from Werbell's circle were fabrications that originated with operatives of the FBI and other agencies.
Labor unions
In 1974 and 1975, the NCLC allegedly targeted the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Farm Workers (UFW), and other trade unionists. They dubbed their campaign "Operation Mop Up Woodcock", a reference to their anti-communist campaign of 1973 and to UAW president Leonard Woodcock. The movement staged demonstrations that allegedly turned violent. They issued pamphlets attacking the leadership as corrupt and perverted. The UAW said that members had received dozens of calls a day accusing their relatives of homosexuality, reportedly at the direction of NCLC "security staff". Leaflets called an Ohio local president a "Woodcocksucker". The leadership of the AFL–CIO was also attacked. During the same period, the LaRouche movement was closely associated with the Teamsters union which was in a jurisdictional dispute with the UFW.
1980 New Hampshire presidential primary
LaRouche put substantial effort into his first Democratic Primary, held February 1980 in New Hampshire. Reporters, campaign workers, and party officials received calls from people impersonating reporters or ADL staff members, inquiring what "bad news" they had heard about LaRouche. LaRouche acknowledged that his campaign workers used impersonation to collect information on political opponents. Governor Hugh Gallen, State Attorney General Thomas Rath and other officials received harassing phone calls. Their names appeared on a photocopied "New Hampshire Target List" acquired by the Associated Press, found in a LaRouche campaign worker's hotel room; the list stated, "these are the criminals to burn – we want calls coming in to these fellows day and night". LaRouche spokesman Ted Andromidas said, "We did choose to target those people for political pressure hopefully to prevent them from carrying out the kind of fraud that occurred in Tuesday's election." New Hampshire journalist Jon Prestage said he was threatened after a tense interview with LaRouche and his associates, and found several of his cats dead after he published an account of the meeting. A LaRouche associate denied responsibility for the dead cats.
Political opponents
According to courtroom testimony by FBI agent Richard Egan, Jeffrey and Michelle Steinberg, the heads of LaRouche's security unit, boasted of placing harassing phone calls all through the night to the general counsel of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) when the FEC was investigating LaRouche's political contributions.
During the grand jury hearings followers picketed the courthouse, chanted "Weld is a fag", distributed leaflets accusing U.S. Attorney William Weld of involvement in drug dealing, and "sang a jingle advocating that he be hanged in public".
The Schiller Institute sent a team of ten people, headed by James Bevel, to Omaha, Nebraska, to pursue the Franklin child prostitution ring allegations in 1990. Among the charges investigated by the grand jury was that the Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadman and other men had sex with a 15-year-old girl at a party held by the bank's owner. The LaRouche groups insisted there was a cover-up. They distributed copies of the Schiller Institute's New Federalist newspaper and went door-to-door in Wadman's neighborhood, telling residents he was a child molester. When Wadman took a job with the police department in Aurora, Illinois, LaRouche followers went there to demand he be fired, and after he left there followed him to a third city to make accusations.
In the 1970s, Nelson Rockefeller was a central figure in the movement's theories. An FBI file described them as a "clandestinely oriented group of political schizophrenics who have a paranoid preoccupation with Nelson Rockefeller and the CIA." The movement strongly opposed Rockefeller's nomination for U.S. vice president and heckled his appearances. Federal authorities were reportedly concerned that the situation might turn violent.
One target of LaRouche's attention has been Henry Kissinger. LaRouche allegedly has called Kissinger a "faggot", a "traitor", a British or Soviet agent and a "Nazi", and has linked him to the murder of Aldo Moro. His followers heckled and disrupted Kissinger's appearances. In 1982, a member of LaRouche's Fusion Energy Foundation, Ellen Kaplan, asked Kissinger at an airport terminal if it were true that he slept with young boys; Kissinger and his wife, Nancy, were on their way to a heart operation. In response, Nancy Kissinger grabbed the woman by the throat. Kaplan pressed charges and the case went to trial. In 1986, Janice Hart held a press conference to say that Kissinger was part of the international "drug mafia". Asked whether Jews were behind drug trafficking Hart replied, "That's totally nonsense. I don't consider Henry Kissinger a Jew. I consider Henry Kissinger a homosexual."
A LaRouche organization sold posters of Illinois politician Jane Byrne described by Mike Royko as "border(ing) on the pornographic." In 1986, two LaRouche candidates, Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild, won in the Democratic primaries for two statewide positions in Illinois, Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor. Campaign appearances by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III, who refused to share the ticket with them and shifted instead to the "Solidarity Party" formed for the purpose, were interrupted by a trio of singers that included Fairchild and Chicago Mayoral candidate Sheila Jones. Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan's home was visited late at night by a group of LaRouche followers who chanted, sang, and used a bullhorn "to exorcise the demons out of Neil Hartigan's soul". Before the primaries a group of LaRouche supporters reportedly stormed the campaign offices of Hart's opponent and demanded that a worker "take an AIDS test".
In 1984, a reporter for a LaRouche publication buttonholed President Ronald Reagan as he was leaving a White House press conference, demanding to know why LaRouche was not receiving Secret Service protection. As a result, future press conferences in the East Room were arranged with the door behind the president so he can leave without passing through the reporters. In 1992, a follower shook hands with President George H. W. Bush at a campaign visit to a shopping center. The follower would not let go, demanding to know, "When are you going to let LaRouche out of jail?" The Secret Service had to intervene.
During the 1988 presidential campaign, LaRouche activists spread a rumor that the Democratic candidate, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, had received professional treatment for two episodes of mental depression. Media sources did not report the rumor initially to avoid validating it. However, at a press conference a reporter for a LaRouche publication, Nicholas Benton, asked President Reagan whether Dukakis should release his medical records. Reagan replied "Look, I'm not going to pick on an invalid." Within an hour after the press conference Reagan apologized for the joke. The question received wide publicity, and was later analyzed as an example of how journalists should handle rumors. Republican candidate Vice President George H. W. Bush's aides got involved in sustaining the story, and Dukakis was obliged to deny having had depression. To avoid the negative backlash on his own campaign, Bush made a statement urging Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, which he signed upon gaining office and which became one of his proudest legacies.
At a 2003 Democratic primary debate repeatedly interrupted by hecklers, Joe Lieberman quoted John McCain, "no one's been elected since 1972 that Lyndon LaRouche and his people have not protested". The first reported incidence of heckling by LaRouche followers was at the Watergate hearings in 1973. Since then, LaRouche followers have repeatedly disrupted speaking events and debates featuring a large variety of speakers.
Conflict with journalists
In the 1980s, journalists including Joe Klein and Chuck Fager from Boston's alternative weekly, The Real Paper, and Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko alleged harassment and intimidation by LaRouche groups. After Royko wrote about a LaRouche organization, Royko said that leaflets appeared, alleging he had had a sex-change operation. He also said his assistant found a note with a bullseye and a threat to kill her cat on her door; Also according to Royko, LaRouche supporters picketed the newspaper offices, calling Royko a "degenerate drug pusher" and demanding he take an AIDS test. LaRouche supporters denied such charges, saying they were part of a campaign against them by the "drug lobby."
In 1984, Patricia Lynch co-produced an NBC news piece and a TV documentary on LaRouche. She was then impersonated by LaRouche followers who interfered with her reporting. LaRouche sued Lynch and NBC for libel, and NBC countersued. During the trial followers picketed the NBC's offices with signs that said "Lynch Pat Lynch", and the NBC switchboard received a death threat. A LaRouche spokesman said they had no knowledge of the death threat. An editor of the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania reported that a LaRouche TV crew led by Stanley Ezrol talked their way into his house in 1985 implying they were with NBC, then accused him of harassing LaRouche and producing unduly negative coverage. At the end of the interview, Ezrol allegedly asked, "Have you ever feared for your personal safety?", which the editor found to be "chilling". Another LaRouche group, including Janice Hart, forced their way into the office of The Des Moines Register's editor in 1987, haranguing him over his paper's coverage of LaRouche and demanding that certain editorials be retracted.
Dennis King began covering LaRouche in the 1970s, publishing a twelve-part series in a weekly Manhattan newspaper, Our Town, and later writing or cowriting articles about LaRouche in New Republic, High Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and other periodicals, culminating in a full-length biography published in 1989. King alleges numerous instances of anonymous harassment and threats. Leaflets appeared from the NCLC accusing King, a newspaper publisher, and Roy Cohn, the newspaper's lawyer, of being criminals, homosexuals, or drug pushers. One leaflet included King's home address and phone number. In 1984, a LaRouche newspaper, New Solidarity, published an article titled "Will Dennis King Come out of the Closet?", copies of which were distributed in his apartment building. Jeffrey Steinberg denied the movement had harassed King. LaRouche said that King had been "monitored" since 1979, "We have watched this little scoundrel because he is a major security threat to my life."
Public altercations
From the 1970s to the 2000s, LaRouche followers have staffed tables in airports and other public areas. The tables have carried posters with topical slogans. LaRouche followers have been alleged to use a confrontational style of interaction. In 1986, the New York state elections board received dozens of complaints about people collecting signatures on nomination petitions, including allegations of misrepresentation and abusive language used towards those who would not sign.
In the mid-80s, the Secretary of State of California, March Fong Eu, received complaints from the public about harassment by people gathering signatures to qualify the "LaRouche AIDS Initiative" for the state ballot. She warned initiative sponsors that permission to circulate the petitions could be revoked unless the "offensive activities" stopped. An altercation in 1987 between a LaRouche activist and an AIDS worker resulted in battery charges filed against the latter, who was outraged by the content of some of the material on display; she was found not guilty.
In California in 2009, several grocery chains sought restraining orders, damages and injunctions against LaRouche PAC activists displaying materials related to Obama's health care plan in front of their stores, citing customer complaints. In Edmonds, Washington, a 70-year-old man from Armenia, grew irate at what he viewed as comparisons of Obama to Hitler. He grabbed fliers and tussled with LaRouche supporters, resulting in assault charges against him.
Latin America
Brazil's Party for Rebuilding of National Order (Prona) was described as a "LaRouche friend" and one of its members has been quoted in the Executive Intelligence Review as saying "We associate ourselves with the wave of ideas which flow from Mr. LaRouche's prodigious mind". Prona gained six seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002. After gaining two seats in the 2006 election, the party merged with the larger Liberal Party forming the Republic Party. However, there is no independent evidence that Prona or its leaders recognized LaRouche as an influence on their policies, and it has been described as being part of the right-wing Catholic integralist political tradition.
The Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) has been described as an offshoot of LaRouche's Labor Party in Mexico. During peace talks to resolve the Chiapas conflict, the Mexican Labor Party and the MSIA attacked the peace process and one of the leading negotiators, Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, whom it accused of fomenting the violence and of being controlled by foreigners. Posters caricaturing Ruiz as a rattlesnake appeared across the country.
The movement strongly opposes perceived manifestations of neo-colonialism, including the International Monetary Fund, the Falklands/Malvinas War, etc., and are advocates of the Monroe Doctrine.
Australia
LaRouche supporters gained control of the formerly far-right Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) in the mid-1990s. The CEC publishes an irregular newspaper, The New Citizen. Craig Isherwood and his spouse Noelene Isherwood are the leaders of the party.
In 2000, former Labor MP Adrian Bennett established the Curtin Labor Alliance, a LaRouchite political party formed as a joint venture of the CEC and the Municipal Employees Union of Western Australia. In a speech to its inaugural conference, Bennett predicted an imminent global financial collapse and described Lyndon LaRouche as the "world's leading economist", and attributing the LaRouche criminal trials to a conspiracy by the "global oligarchy".
The CEC opposed politician Michael Danby and the 2004 Australian anti-terrorism legislation. For the 2004 federal election, it nominated people for ninety-five seats, collected millions of dollars in contributions, and earned 34,177 votes. The CEC is concerned with Hamiltonian economics and development ideas for Australia. It has been critical of Queen Elizabeth II's ownership of an Australian zinc mine and believes that she exerted control over Australian politics through the use of prerogative power. It has been in an antagonistic relationship with the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation Commission, which has been critical of the CEC for perceived anti-semitism. It has asserted that the Liberal Party is a descendant of the New Guard and other purported fascists such as Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes and Sir Robert Menzies. The CEC also says it is fighting for "real" Labor policies (from the 1930–40s republican leanings of the Australian Labor Party).
Europe
In Germany, the leader of the Green Party, Petra Kelly, reported receiving harassing phone calls that she attributed to BüSo supporters. Her speeches were picketed and disrupted by LaRouche followers for years.
Jeremiah Duggan, a student from the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement in 2003, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, after he ran down a busy road and was hit by several cars. The German police said it appeared to be suicide. A British court ruled that Duggan had died while "in a state of terror." Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him. The German public prosecution service said her son committed suicide. The High Court in London ordered a second inquest in May 2010, which was opened and adjourned. In 2015, a British coroner rejected the suicide verdict and found that Duggan's body bore unexplained injuries which indicated an "altercation at some stage before his death."
In Sweden, the former leader of the European Worker's Party (EAP), Ulf Sandmark, started as a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU), and was assigned to investigate the EAP and the ELC. After joining the EAP, he had his membership in SSU revoked. Following the Olof Palme assassination on February 28, 1986, the Swedish branch of the EAP came under scrutiny as literature published by the party was found in the apartment of the initial suspect, Victor Gunnarsson. Soon after the assassination, NBC television in the U.S. speculated that LaRouche was somehow responsible. Later, the suspect was released. No connection with LaRouche was shown.
Polish newspapers have reported that Andrzej Lepper, leader of the populist Samoobrona party, was trained at the Schiller Institute and has received funding from LaRouche, though both Lepper and LaRouche deny the connection.
In February 2008, the LaRouche movement in Europe began a campaign to prevent the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, which, according to the U.S.-based LaRouche Political Action Committee, "empowers a supranational financial elite to take over the right of taxation and war making, and even restore the death penalty, abolished in most nations of Western Europe." LaRouche press releases suggest that the treaty has an underlying fascist agenda, based on the "Europe a Nation" ideas of Sir Oswald Mosley.
Asia, Middle East and Africa
The Philippines LaRouche Society calls for fixed exchange rates, US/Philippine withdrawal from Iraq, denunciation of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, and withdrawal of U.S. military advisors from Mindanao. In 2008 it also issued calls for the freezing of foreign debt payments, the operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, and the immediate implementation of a national food production program. It has an office in Manila, operates a radio show and says on its website, "Lyndon LaRouche is our civilization's last chance at world peace and development. May God help us." On the matter of internal politics, LaRouche operative Mike Billington wrote in 2004, "The Philippines Catholic Church, too, is divided at the top over the crisis. The Church under Cardinal Sin, who is now retired, had given its full support to the 'people's power' charade for the overthrow of Marcos and Estrada, but other voices are heard today." Later that year, he wrote:
The U.S.-orchestrated coup which overthrew the government of Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 was a classic case study of what John Perkins describes in his recent book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, as the post-World War II preferred method of imposing colonial control under another name. In the Philippines case, George Shultz performed the roles of both the economic hit man, destroying and taking full control of the Philippine economy, and the coup-master, deposing the Philippine President in favor of an IMF puppet – while calling the operation 'people power.'
According to Billington, representatives of LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review and Schiller Institute had met with Marcos in 1985, at which time LaRouche was warning that Marcos would be the target of a coup, inspired by George Shultz and neoconservatives in the Reagan administration, because of Marcos' opposition to the policies of the International Monetary Fund. In 1986, LaRouche asserted that Marcos was ousted because he hadn't listened to LaRouche's advice: "he was opposed to me and he fell as a result."
The LaRouche movement is reported to have had close ties to the Ba'ath Party of Iraq. In 1997, the LaRouche movement, and the Schiller Institute in particular, were reported to have campaigned aggressively in support of the National Islamic Front government in Sudan. They organized trips to Sudan for state legislators, which according to The Christian Science Monitor was part of a campaign directed at African Americans.
The Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LaRouchePAC) has been vocal in its support for the construction of the Thai Canal across the Kra Isthmus of Thailand.
Periodicals and news agencies
The LaRouche organization has an extensive network of print and online publications for research and advocacy purposes.
Executive Intelligence Review
Main article: Executive Intelligence ReviewThe LaRouche movement maintains its own press service, Executive Intelligence Review. According to its masthead, EIR maintains international bureaus in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Lima, Melbourne, Mexico City, New Delhi, Paris, and Wiesbaden, in addition to various cities in the U.S.
Broadcast
In 1986, the LaRouche movement bought WTRI, a low-powered AM radio station that covered western Maryland, northern Virginia, and parts of West Virginia. It was sold in 1991.
In 1991, the LaRouche movement began producing The LaRouche Connection, a Public-access television cable TV program. Within ten months it was being carried in six states. Dana Scanlon, the producer, said that "We've done shows on the JFK assassination, the 'October Surprise' and shows on economic and cultural affairs".
Internet
In January 2001, LaRouche began holding regular webcasts every 1–2 months. These were public meetings, broadcast in video, where LaRouche gave a speech, followed by 1–2 hours of Q and A over the internet. The last occurred on December 18, 2003.
Other
- The New Federalist (U.S.), weekly newspaper
- New Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS)
- NSIPS Speakers Bureau
- Nouvelle Solidarité, French news agency
- Neue Solidarität, published by Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität in German
- Fidelio, a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft", published quarterly by Schiller Institute
- 21st Century Science and Technology, a quarterly magazine covering scientific topics
- ΔΥΝΑΜΙΣ (Dynamis), the "Journal of the LaRouche Riemann method of physical economics"
Books and pamphlets
- LaRouche, Lyndon, The Power of Reason (1980) (autobiography)
- LaRouche, Lyndon, There Are No Limits to Growth (1983)
- LaRouche, Lyndon, So, You Wish To Learn All About Economics (1984)
- LaRouche, Lyndon, The Power of Reason 1988 (1988)
- LaRouche, Lyndon, The Science of Christian Economy (1991)
Defunct periodicals
- New Solidarity
- Fusion
- International Journal of Fusion Energy
- The Loudon County News
- Investigative Leads
- War on Drugs
- The Young Scientist
- Campaigner Magazine
- American Labor Beacon
- Middle East Insider
Lawsuits
In 1979, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was sued by the U.S. Labor Party, the National Caucus of Labor Committees, and several individuals including Konstandinos Kalimtgis, Jeffrey Steinberg, and David Goldman, who claimed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, and assault on account of the ADL's accusations of anti-Semitism. A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled that it was "fair comment" to describe them as anti-Semites.
United States v. Kokinda was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990. The case concerned the First Amendment rights of LaRouche movement members on Post Office property. The Deputy Solicitor General arguing the government's case was future Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. The Court confirmed the convictions of Marsha Kokinda and Kevin Pearl, volunteers for the National Democratic Policy Committee, finding that the Postal Service's regulation of solicitors was reasonable.
Characterizations
According to a biography produced by the LaRouche-affiliated Schiller Institute, the movement is based on a commitment to "a just new world economic order", specifically "the urgency of affording what have been sometimes termed 'Third World nations,' their full rights to perfect national sovereignty, and to access to the improvement of their educational systems and economies through employment of the most advanced science and technology."
The LaRouche movement has often been considered a far-right political movement. The LaRouche movement has attracted devoted followers and developed some specific and elaborate policy initiatives but has also been referred to variously as formerly Marxist–Leninist in its beginnings during the 1960s, and since the 1970s as an American fascist, antisemitic, a political cult, a personality cult, and a criminal enterprise, reflecting LaRouche's shift from a left-wing Marxist to a right-wing anti-communist and American conservative. In 1984, LaRouche's research staff was described by Norman Bailey, a former senior staffer of the United States National Security Council, as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world". The Heritage Foundation called it "one of the strangest political groups in American history", and The Washington Monthly called it a "vast and bizarre vanity press". The LaRouche movement is also seen by some as a fringe political cult.
John Rees, a government informant resident in the United States who was active in the Western Goals Foundation and the John Birch Society, wrote in his Information Digest that the movement has "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party", and that LaRouche is given "blind obedience" by his followers. He has also called the movement a "cult of personality". In rebuttal, LaRouche called the accusations of being a cult figure "garbage", and denied having control over any of the groups affiliated with him. According to longtime critics Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons:
Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a 'humanist' elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions.
In the summer of 2009, LaRouche followers came under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for comparing the then United States president Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. Media figures as politically diverse as Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart criticized the comparison.
Organizations
Current organizations
- Executive Intelligence Review Press Service (U.S.), a hub of the LaRouche movement
- National Caucus of Labor Committees (U.S.)
- Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement (international)
- LaRouche Political Action Committee (U.S.)
- Schiller Institute (international, based in Germany and U.S.)
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (Germany)
- International Caucus of Labor Committees (international, especially Canada, Australia, and others)
- Australian Citizens Party formerly Citizens Electoral Council
- Philippine LaRouche Society
- European Workers Party (Sweden)
- Comités Laborales de Nuevo León (Mexico)
- Solidarité et progrès (France)
United States businesses
- PMR Printing, Virginia
- World Composition Services, Inc. (a.k.a. WorldComp) (Ken Kronberg, former president)
- New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, Inc., Leesburg, Virginia
- American System Publications Inc., Los Angeles (Maureen Calney, president)
- Eastern States Distributors Incorporated, Pittsburgh (Starr Valenti, president)
- South East Literature (South East Political Literature Sales & Distribution, Inc.) Halethorpe, Maryland
- Southwest Literature Distribution, Houston, Texas (Daniel Leach, president)
- Midwest Circulation Corp., Chicago
- Hamilton System Distributors, Inc., Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
Defunct organizations
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People
Members
According to The Washington Post, LaRouche has told his followers that they are "golden souls", a term from The Republic of Plato. In his 1979 autobiography he contrasted the "golden souls" to "the poor donkeys, the poor sheep, whose consciousness is dominated by the infantile world-outlook of individual sensuous life". According to Dennis King, LaRouche believed that cadres "must be intellectually of a superior breed – a philosophical elite as well as a political vanguard". In 1986, LaRouche said during an interview, "What I represent is a growing movement. The movement is becoming stronger all the time..."
During the criminal trials of the late 1980s, LaRouche called upon his followers to be martyrs, saying that their "honorable deeds shall be legendary in the tales told to future generations". Senior members refused plea agreements that involved guilty pleas as those would have been black marks on the movement.
Former members report that life within the LaRouche movement is highly regulated. A former member of the security staff wrote in 1979 that members could be expelled for masturbating or using marijuana. Members who failed to achieve their fundraising quotas or otherwise showed signs as disloyal behavior were subjected to "ego stripping" sessions. Members, even spouses, were encouraged to inform on each other, according to an ex-member. Although LaRouche was officially opposed to abortion, a former member testified that women were encouraged to have abortions because "you can't have children during a revolution." Another source said some group leaders coerced members into having abortions. John Judis, writing in The New Republic, stated that LaRouche followers worked 16-hour days for little wages.
Former members have reported receiving harassing calls or indirect death threats. They say they have been called traitors. New Solidarity ran obituaries for three living former members. Internal memos have reportedly contained a variety of dismissive terms for ex-followers. One former member said that becoming a follower of LaRouche is "like entering the Bizarro World of the Superman comic books" which makes sense so long as one remains inside the movement.
E. Newbold Smith, who married a du Pont, was indicted along with four associates for planning to have his son, Lewis du Pont Smith, and daughter-in-law abducted and "deprogrammed" after they joined the LaRouche movement and donated $212,000 of Lewis's approximately $10 million inheritance to a LaRouche publishing arm. The incident resulted in serious legal repercussions but no criminal convictions for those indicted, including private investigator Galen Kelly. E. Newbold Smith also successfully had his son declared "incompetent" to manage his financial affairs in order to block him from possibly turning over his inheritance to the LaRouche organization.
Kenneth Kronberg, who had been a leading member of the movement, committed suicide in 2007, reportedly because of financial issues concerning the movement. His widow, Marielle (Molly) Kronberg, had also been a longtime member. She gave an interview to Chip Berlet in 2007 in which she made critical comments about the LaRouche movement. She was quoted as saying, "I'm worried that the organization may be in danger of becoming a killing machine." In 2004 and 2005, Kronberg made contributions of $1,501 to the Republican National Committee and the election campaign of George W. Bush, despite the LaRouche movement's opposition to the Bush administration. According to journalist Avi Klein, LaRouche felt that this "foreshadowed her treachery to the movement." Kronberg had been a member of the movement's governing National Committee since 1982 and was convicted of fraud during the LaRouche criminal trials.
Associates and managers
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche, widow, head of Schiller Institute and Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
- Amelia Boynton Robinson, SI vice chairwoman
- Michael Billington, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
- William Wertz, chief fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
- Edward W. Spannaus, legal adviser (convicted of mail fraud)
- Dennis Small, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
- Paul Greenberg, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
- Joyce Rubinstein, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
- Paul Gallagher
- Anita Gallagher, born Anita Gretz (1947– )
- Laurence Hecht
- Donald Phau
- Robert Primack (deceased)
- Ulf Sandmark, leader of European Workers Party, the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.
- Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for the East Coast, chairwoman of the LaRouche campaign (1988)
- Kenneth Kronberg, editor and cofounder of Fidelio (deceased; suicide)
Political candidates
For a more comprehensive list, see U.S. Labor Party § USLP candidates.- Mel Logan, Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 2000
- Janice Hart, ran for Illinois Secretary of State in 1986, won Democratic Party nomination
- Mark J. Fairchild, ran for Illinois lieutenant governor in 1986, won Democratic Party nomination
- James Bevel, vice presidential running mate, 1992
- Craig Isherwood, head of Australian CEC
- Adrian Bennett, former Australian Labor Party federal MP, chairman and candidate of the Curtin Labor Alliance
- Jacques Cheminade, French politician
- Nancy Spannaus, ran for U.S. Senate in Virginia, 2002
- Eliott Greenspan, ran for Governor of New Jersey in 2001
- Ron Bettag, ran for mayor of Chicago, Illinois (announced his candidacy with press release datelined "Germany". Most local issue: "Washington, D.C. General Hospital now under KKK-Katie Graham siege")
- William Ferguson, ran for U.S. Congress in Massachusetts in 2001
- Kesha Rogers, Democratic candidate for Congress in 2010 and 2012 in 22nd Texas district
- Daniel Burke, candidate for US Senate in New Jersey in 2020
- Diane Sare, candidate for U.S. Senate in New York in 2022 and 2024.
- Solomon Peña, Republican nominee for New Mexico House of Representatives' 14th district in 2022 and suspect in attempted murder plot of several New Mexico politicians
Researchers, writers and spokespersons
- Jeffrey Steinberg, Director of Counterintelligence, EIR
- Allen Salisbury, author of The Civil War and the American System
- Anton Chaitkin, co-author of The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush
- Jonathan Tennenbaum
- Harley Schlanger, U.S. West Coast Spokesman
- Marsha Freeman, writer
- Richard Freeman, senior economics staff, EIR
- John Hoefle, banking columnist, EIR
- Marcia Merry-Baker
- Tony Papert
- Kathy Wolfe, economist, EIR (former member)
Former associates
- Nicholas F. Benton, aide to LaRouche, Washington, D.C. bureau chief, and White House Correspondent for Executive Intelligence Review
- Ortrum Cramer, a member of the management of the Schiller Institute
- Robert Dreyfuss, co-author of Hostage to Khomeini
- F. William Engdahl, author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
- Roy Frankhouser, security consultant (deceased)
- David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler, co-author of The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman and Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War against the U.S.
- Laurent Murawiec, former contributor and editor of Executive Information Review (deceased)
- Webster Tarpley, co-author of The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, former president of the Schiller Institute in the U.S.
Notes
- Examples include: J. Bowyer Bell, Andrew Bernstein, Julian Bond, Jerry Brown, Richard R. Burt, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Bob Kerrey, John Kerry, Lawrence Klein, Richard Lamm, Joseph Lieberman, Sir Robert Mark, Paul Martin, Walter Mondale, Ralph Nader, Oliver North, Ross Perot, Rick Santorum, Paul A. Volcker, and Leonard Woodcock.
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