ALL the LaRouche people I’ve ever met came across like religious zealots.
Particularly the “free fusion power can save the world” people.
I’m assuming that since all the wonderful solutions and technological widgetry that will lift mankind to the stars hasn’t been INVENTED yet, they just have to take it on faith.
And when all you’re running on is faith… well… what’s that, if not a religion?
I have been seeing LaRouchies my whole life. They camp out at DMVs, college campuses and the like. I notice that there is a large concentration in the Metro DC area. Is that his base of support?
If so I am very frightened.
Yeah, since the early 1980s Lyndon’s home base, if you will, was (is still?) Loudoun County, VA.
He ran for Congress in the 10th District several times. As I recall his party title on the ballot was something similar to “Democrat-Independent.” One of his most precious campaign pamphlets carefully explained how Jack Kent Cooke (then-owner of the Washington Redskins and fellow Loudoun resident) was in cahoots with the Queen of England to have western Loudoun secede from the U.S. so that it could be the North American hub of the Queen’s international heroin trade. Or something. Apparently the Dulles Greenway is part of the sinister plan somehow.
He had the classic walled complex complete with guards toting AK-47s and the like, according to contemporary news accounts like the article above.
We used to joke about the ongoing “turf war” between the Hare Krishnas and the LaRouchies out at Dulles Airport, but I’ve seen those crazy bastards so often–notably today, at the Rosslyn Metro–that I can no longer remember if they’re even permitted to set up their shenanigans at the airports.
One thing I’ve noticed after all these years is the remarkable consistency of their booth propaganda–it’s always carefully written in magic marker with a block print which often seems to be by the same hand. I sometimes imagine LaRouche locked away in his redoubt, sitting on the floor surrounded by thousands of pages of poster paper, sniffing a Sharpie and cackling to himself wildly…
I used to work for a Senator, and one day some kids stopped by to talk about LaRouche. I was designated to talk to them about stuff, and they were just strange. They started talking about algebra and geometry and some strange way of figuring everything out. As people have said here, they were complete zealots, although they were very nice. The stuff they were saying was completely unconvincing to a skeptic like me, but to them it was Gospel truth. Say what you will about him, but his followers definitely believe in whatever it is he’s pushing (of course, I had no idea what that was even after talking to them).
Some of my friends ran into a rabid LaRouche supporter in Manhattan. The guy kept asking them to ‘prove’ the Pythagorean Theorem. It sounded funny.
Jesus… my wife and I ran into a LaRouche supporter at the airport a couple years ago. I had never heard of him at the time, and the guy made a pretty convincing case. I wound up giving him five bucks for some literature, which later got lost. I promptly forgot about LaRouche until now.
Now, I’m ashamed that I gave him five bucks. 
Been done to a fare-thee-well.
what exactly about this do you have a hard time believing?
'nilla, what, precisely, do you believe that Icke says?
Opium Wars, if that was during the 19th century, wouldn’t that make Queen VICTORIA the drug dealer, and NOT Queen Elizabeth II?
Posted by Daoloth:
I’ve been following the LaRouchies sporadically since the '80s, but its news to me they’ve developed a kind of skepticism about the conventional understanding of mathematics.
Anyone who doubts the validity of the Pythagorean theorem (a) does not understand enough about logic or geometry to follow the innumerable rigorous proofs of that theorem, or (b) understands perfectly well that the theorem depends on the validity of Euclid’s parallel postulate, which is the one part of his system that is NOT logically self-evident – which is why there exists such a thing as “non-Euclidean geometry,” explored by Lobachevsky, among others. (“One man deserves the credit, one man deserves the blame . . .”) Non-Euclidean geometry reasons the same way as Euclidean, except that it rejects the parallel postulate. As pure math, non-Euclidean geometry has just as much internal logical consistency as Euclidean. The only conceivable reason for preferring one over the other, in fact, is not, strictly speaking, mathematical, but scientific: Do we live in a Euclidean or non-Euclidean physical space? That is an unresolved question, so far as I know. In Euclidean geometry, the internal angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees. In a non-Euclidean world, the internal angles of a triangle might sum to more than 180 degrees, or to less. Either way, the same rule would hold throughout that universe – either all triangles would sum to more than 180 degrees, or all would sum to less. (I think.)
Is non-Euclidean geometry what the LaRouchies are on about? Or is it something weirder?
Guin,
he presents evidence that seems to make sense about the U.S. government knowing about the 9-11 attacks and not only letting but wanting it to happen.
You may want to check out the latest book by him.
Also, that our presidents are not exactly picked by the citizens.
I do not believe anyone is reptilian.
Oh, okay.
Well, I don’t agree, it would be more like they brushed it off, and thought, if it DID happen, it wouldn’t be that bad. That’s all.
Other than that, the guy’s as mad as a hatter.
paranoids are prophets sometimes…
Perhaps, but they’re always paranoid.
Let’s get the paranoids! God forbid they should be disappointed!
I think some people say I’m paranoid.
I was once accosted by a LaRouche supporter when getting my plates. I listened carefully to his speach, and he asked me to sign up for a news letter or something. I told him “I’m sorry, I’m an anarchist…I don’t believe in government”. His jaw dropped…and as seemed to not have anything more to say, I went to my car. As I drove out of the parking lot he was still standing there with his mouth open staring at me.