LYNDON LAROUCHE AND THE NEW AMERICAN FASCISM

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LYNDON LAROUCHE AND THE NEW AMERICAN FASCISM

Postby Doodad » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:14 pm

http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/newamericanfascism.htm

full html version of the book by Dennis King
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Postby Jeff » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:08 am

Thanks for that link.
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Postby Doodad » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:36 am

Jeff wrote:Thanks for that link.


No prob. Looks like a good read.
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Postby theeKultleeder » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:04 am

Excerpts from Part 7: Conspiracies and Code Words

http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/fascism27.htm


While laying out their argument they must avoid triggering a premature revulsion or feeling of embarrassment in their audience. They must also protect themselves against the backlash from their ideas--negative press coverage, social ostracism, or even physical assault from members of the targeted ethnic groups. Racists thus talk about "states' rights" in the South and "law and order" in the North. Anti-Semites call themselves "anti-Zionists." Naturally, not all advocates of states' rights or law and order are racists, nor are all critics of Israel Jew-haters. This is precisely what makes the code words so convenient.


This means that the conspiracy theory--the basis of political paranoia--cannot just focus on contemporary politics. Ideally it should extend into every field of thought and every period of history so that no matter what topic the captive mind thinks about, it can only think about it in paranoid terms of us versus them (with "them," of course, being infinitely evil).

The lynchpin of LaRouchism, as of more primitive systems of paranoia, is the fear and hatred of an evil and secretive force.

The Protocols, he said, has a "hard kernel of truth" but is only of limited significance--it represents only a small piece of the real conspiracy of the "oligarchy."[Sounds like Icke]

LaRouche's attacks on the evil "Babylonians,"

LaRouche also rails against the "Persian Empire"

In LaRouche's view the chief instruments of Persian-Babylonian infiltration of the West (Greece and Rome) were the Dionysian cults and Isis worship.


The LaRouchians praise the legendary Pharaoh Sesostris, who supposedly marched east to subjugate evil Babylon; Alexander the Great, who marched east to crush evil Persia; and Timur the Great, who carried out an early version of the Final Solution against the medieval descendants of the ancient Persians and Babylonians. LaRouche also expresses reverence for the memory of Hassan ibn Saba, the "Old Man of the Mountain," who headed a medieval cult of assassins. Hassan didn't march east, but he did live in a castle called the Eagle's Nest--the same name as Hitler's mountaintop lodge in Bavaria. LaRouche wrote in 1978 that if only the Old Man of the Mountain were alive in Germany, he'd mop up left-wing terrorists in short order.

LaRouche finds certain recurring patterns in history--the result of the oligarchs using the same strategy of control again and again. Ancient Babylon (dominated as it was by rich Jews) concocted the "synthetic" religion of the Old Testament, brainwashed the Jewish masses with it, and then sent them back to Judaea to serve as a strategic military colony. In the twentieth century, Britain (the new Babylon, also dominated by rich Jews) brainwashed the Jewish masses with the synthetic ideology of Zionism and sent them back to Palestine to serve as a garrison state.

The British-Jewish theory was given symbolic expression in New Solidarity in 1978 by a Star of David with Queen Elizabeth at the top flanked by Henry Kissinger and economist Milton Friedman. The caption alluded to "satanic connections." Thus was made clear the real meaning of LaRouche's accusation that the Queen pushes drugs.


The oligarchy, he taught, largely controls the world. This means it determines most of the science, philosophy, religion, art, and so on that we imbibe. But since the oligarchy is totally inhuman and hostile, anything it creates is hopelessly tainted

LaRouche's racialism, like Hitler's, doesn't just target the British. In a softer form it applies to most of the human race, which LaRouche accuses of being mired in sheeplike bestiality and thus requiring close surveillance by LaRouchian shepherds.

On close inspection, LaRouche's racialist universe appears to have three species unknown to zoology: the Western oligarchs (the British-Jewish branch of Dravidian Babylon); the Eastern oligarchs (the Russian Orthodox branch); and the bestial masses. The human species, it would appear, is a fourth species composed solely of LaRouche and his followers.
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Postby Doodad » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:31 pm

You know, I have always wondered who it was that "started," the whole 911 conspiracy notion, figuring that would be a big clue as to what is really going on.

I don't know the accuracy of this statement but it would appear this site thinks it was LaRouche.

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LaRouche was the very first public figure to challenge the story that the 9/11 attacks were done by Bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
While interviewed by Dr. Jack Stockwell, he was commenting live during the attacks against the Twin Towers:
Stockwell: […]And that is that the Arabs don't have the ability to pull something of this level off. You feel pretty strongly about that?
LaRouche: I know that. I know the Arab governments. I've been talking to them directly or indirectly over some period. At least, the key ones. And they don't want this kind of thing. But I know who does want it.
Stockwell: Alright. Now, you were talking about possibly the idea of the Israeli government --
LaRouche: Or certain factions within it.
LaRouche interviewed by Dr. Jack Stockwell, September 11, 2001



http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwik ... NineEleven

Whether I believe it or not, I have to tell you I have been very aware of the LaRouchian aura around all of this; and, I hate to say, not just the 911 stuff. And, there are quite a few posts on RI which could just as well have come from LaRouche's mouth.

Of what import that is, I'm not quite sure at this juncture since I come late to the party.
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Postby Sepka » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:41 pm

Doodad wrote:You know, I have always wondered who it was that "started," the whole 911 conspiracy notion, figuring that would be a big clue as to what is really going on.

I don't know the accuracy of this statement but it would appear this site thinks it was LaRouche.


That would make a great deal of sense, actually.
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Postby jingofever » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:38 pm

Alex Jones was in on it early. Of course he will tell you that he predicted it.
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Postby Doodad » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:47 pm

jingofever wrote:Alex Jones was in on it early. Of course he will tell you that he predicted it.


Any idea if he was ahead of LaRouche on this?
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Postby Doodad » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:14 pm

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Postby jingofever » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:47 pm

From a page on the history of the conspiracy theories:

September 11, 2001: First speculations of an inside job and controlled demolition. Controlled demolition was speculated by David Rostcheck (see here). Inside job and all the usual conspiracy roar was bullhorned by Alex Jones (his September 11 show on torrent here). Alex Jones is not mentioned here as an originator of any particular claim, since he parrots everything he hears and claims conspiracy around every corner.

LaRouche isn't mentioned but he was on the air before Jones.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:14 am

I suspected something was up with the twin towers within an hour or so of hearing about it. And wondered about CD within a couple of hours. Tho i am less certain of CD now, alot less. But I still think something is up with the whole thing.

BTW LaRouche is a tool. My parents have a friend in melbourne who is a Larouchite, er Larou shite. (Did I just coin that?) While some of the issues they raise may be valid, their answers are offten highly suspect.

And whats weirdest of all is the cult like fervour this guy had for LaRouche.

"Look in my eyes, what do you see.
I'm the cult of personality."
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Postby thurnundtaxis » Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:19 pm

Larouche latched on to 9/11 very early from my recollection. I was in Omaha
NE at the time and found one of his "newspapers" claiming that it was an engineered event involving factions of our own government, with some lengthy references to Jacobite and Jacobin tactics.

This paper came from early October 2001, I believe. I have a copy of it somewhere, and if I can find it I'll try to post some of it.

But yes, he was one of the first.
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Postby chiggerbit » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:18 pm

http://911-disinformation-watch.blogspot.com/

Fred Smart
Fredrick K. Smart III, more commonly known as Fred Smart, is a well known constitutional activist living in the Chicago area. He is also the State Coordinator for the Illinois We The People Congress. His work can be seen at his Freedom Fellowship blog. Under the pseudonym "The Freedom Fellowship" he has over forty blogs, all devoted to one aspect of the constitutional cause or another. He was the publicity director for Aaron Russo's documentary film "America: From Freedom to Fascism." More recently he has worked tirelessly on the Ron Paul campaign, spreading the word by blog, meetup and in the street. He has donated directly to the Ron Paul campaign, putting himself personally and financially on the line for his beliefs. From these examples, he certainly appears to have a sincere passion and enthusiasm for supporting the constitutional rights of others, their right to free speech, privacy and self defense, and safe expression of those rights in whatever aspect of their lives they chose; on or offline.


But there is another side to Mr. Smart, probably unknown to his political and business associates in the Ron Paul campaign. He has had a long association with members of the discredited branch of the 9/11 Truth movement that has suggested such debunked theories as particle beam weapons for the collapse of the towers, and no planes were involved in any of the attacks, including the World Trade center. More disturbing than these theories, however, is the viciousness with which any of the self identified "no-planers" will attack other activists who do not tolerate either their unfounded theories or their prolific attacks and accusations on message boards. One of these self identified noplaners is Rosalee Grable, also known as "Webfairy".



Mr. Smart in this radio program of September 10, 2007, tells us he stumbled across Grable's work in 2003. Grable had set herself up as a computer consultant in the Chicago area as early as 2001. By Smart's account, Grable was the first to point out that the "amorphous blob in one of the videos could not possibly be a plane...She was one of the first on the internet to point this out". He further relates he was the first to present her work in Chicago. In the weeks after that, according to Smart, "they" (he does not specify who) "tried to put her into a hospital ". He claims to be instrumental in rallying support "from all over the country" to get Grable out of the hospital permanently.

Ironically, at the same time he was hosting a radio program discussing his noble deeds, the Kennebunkport controversy still raged. This started in late summer of 2007 when Webster Tarpley, Bruce Marshal, Craig Hill and Laurie Dobson, had all arranged for a document called the Kennebunkport Warning to be signed by Cindy Sheehan Dalia Wasfi, Ann Wright and Jamilla el sharif. Unfortunately what these four women remember signing and what the document was later to say was at odds; in this dispute Dahlia issued a joint statement asking for all four of there names to be withdrawn whilst continuing to assert her solidarity with the 911Truth movement. Shockingly, they found themselves under unprovoked attack by Webster Tarpley and his associates, called liars and worse. Following this pattern, members of the 911 Truth movement who defended these four women found themselves the target of a bizarre campaign involving slander, accusations of being FBI agents, co-intelpro and with Al Qaida, and a series of videos alleging to expose where they lived and demanding to hunt them down, in some cases explicitly calling for their deaths.

The first and main producer of these videos was a YouTube poster under the alias of Dog4Tree. Others with similar code names would follow: kitten14weed, rat8bush, dog22peach. All used the same style, combining stills and text with a combination of audio clips from radio and music sources to make a picassoesque result that would make no sense to an outside observer, but, to the targets these videos sent a clear message: stop defending these women or your life will be in danger. Some examples can still be found at Youtube: here the video description calls for:

"AGENT ORANGE is a known supporter of terrorism and an associate of STERLING. He should be rendered in accordance with the PATRIOT Act, interrogated for useful information, and disposed of. YOU HAVE SEVEN DAYS!" "Agent Orange" is apparently Anthony Lawson who is being targeted for his devastating indictment of the video "September Clues".

Another example can be found here. This one is even more concerning as it explicitly supports Webster Tarpley, then, in the description, goes on to list people to be targeted, some of whom there is no evidence of having anything to do with the Kennebunkport controversy.

Although any threats should be taken seriously, what many do not know is that the four people who set up the document to be signed at Kennebunkport, whatever its content, are long time LaRouche associates and LaRouche associates have a disturbing pattern of leaving some who cross them dead in their wake.

The LaRouche connections of those whose actions are in dispute are as follows:

Webster Tarpley: In 1986 ran for U.S. Senate in New York on a Larouche platform. More recently, in the late 1990's, hosted a TV show called The LaRouche Connection. He was also president of Larouche's Schiller Institute.

Bruce Marshall: outspoken admirer of Larouche as this article he wrote on a Middlebury college site.

Craig Hill: Posed as a Green candidate, but according to this Green Party site, they were not fooled.

Laurie Dobson: Now also attempting a run for U. S Senate, but who has financially supported LaRouche in the past.


And the following people are known to have ended up dead as a result of challenging Larouche's organization, followers, or policies, sometimes after disturbingly similar campaigns of vicious attacks against them:

Petra Kelly

Michael Gelber

Jeremiah Duggan

Ken Kronberg

One would think that Webster Tarpley, being well aware of this pattern in connection to LaRouche, would have done everything is his power, in the interests of saving his credibility if nothing else, in denouncing a campaign of harassment and attacks calling for "hunting people down". But, displaying the same level of political tone-deafness in attacking "Dahliar4", whilst he denied involvement, he never once spoke out against the Dog4Tree campaign that labeled activists who disagreed with Tarpley's actions as WQ2RX terrorist agents.

So where does Smart fit in all of this? Smart is more than a knight in shining armor defending Grable against the threat of forced hospitalization. Smart appears to be her patron and benefactor, occasionally supporting her financially in her various video projects, as well as helping her distribute and promote "no planes" video material, including 911Octopus:

911 Octopus, is a film produced by someone under the alias Fred AKA bsregistration which attempts to prove that no planes hit the world trade center complex on 911. "The proof" presented in 911Octopus is a mix of selective shots (in some cases showing signs of tampering), insistent voice overs and out right slander against live eyewitness statements and calling traumatized people "actors".

Reasonable possibilities are not pursued. Instead FredBSReg leaps to the conclusion that, not only was there no plane, but the studio crews were "in on it", reporting planes where there were none. One aspect he glosses over is, if this was doctored footage on a live feed, why the studio crew would have to be "in on it" at all. According to this theory wouldn't they be just as fooled as the viewing public?

"Fred" BSreg ends his film, encouraging people to blog, share and embed his film, with the credits urging his viewers to "Fight the Octopus" , followed by the names of others, who are presumably "fighting" with him including: Killtown, Webfairy, Fred, Nico Haupt, 911Researchers.com, Rick. He also adds text saying "you're either with us or with the terrorists", a strange Bushism for "Fred" to imitate if he does indeed believe the Bush administration was responsible for 911.

His encouragement to "fight back" includes propagating his video through a variety of online media.

This last tactic--encouraging people to blog and go online to spread a message--is noteworthy as it echoes Smart's approach to activism, as shown in this video :

Fred Supports Ed & Elaine Brown

This may be an indication they are consciously using the same tactics.

Smart's involvement and influence in Grable's life is amply documented:

-In an email made public by Grable here,
"Fred Smart who who sponsors
Webfairy (not just for the Chicago conference fee but for a roof over her
head as told to me by Rosalee herself.) "


-He exchanges email correspondence with Rick Siegel and James Fetzer, among others, infamously known to endorse "no planes" theories.

-Nico Haupt claims Smart bought a site called noplanes.com. Unfortunately, like many of Haupt's claims, this cannot be substantiated. A whois search reveals an Andrew Chapman of Locologic Limited as the domain registrant. Smart's involvement was probably just wishful thinking on Haupt's part. However it does show that Smart has done much to place himself in high regard in the "No planes" crowd and is quite concerned if Rick is in a pickle.

-Smart has also had the pleasure of visiting Grable's residence for private viewings:
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Postby chiggerbit » Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:04 am

Yeah, yeah, it's by the ADL. So what?

http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/larouche_obama.htm

Health Care Debate

Updated: August 28, 2009
Posted: August 21, 2009



Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a fringe political cult that defies categorization, and his supporters have contributed to the divisiveness surrounding the public debate on health care reform by producing and disseminating materials comparing President Barack Obama and other government officials to Hitler, Nazis and fascists, and by attending Congressional "town hall" meeting and other events around the country.





LaRouche's organization is built upon a cadre of loyal supporters and publications that promote his conspiratorial world views. LaRouche, 86, has a long record of advancing conspiracy theories linking the AIDS crisis, the drug epidemic and international financial crises to prominent Jews and Jewish organizations. For many years, LaRouche has employed Holocaust imagery to express his opposition to a wide range of political issues.



Since May 2009, LaRouche and his network of supporters, many of which are part of the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC), have focused on health care reform, producing signs, banners, pamphlets and other items that employ Nazi imagery, including the Hitler comparisons.




In a May 4, 2009, LPAC statement, LaRouche described the Obama administration's health care proposals as "Nazi stuff…We're looking for what is the difference between President Obama and Hitler on health policy. We've done a lot of research, and we've not yet been able to discover the difference."



In his publication, Executive Intelligence Review, and on his Web site, LaRouche consistently refers to the reform proposals as "Hitlerian" and "genocidal" and almost exclusively refers to the proposal as a "Nazi health plan." In August, LaRouche said Obama is "impeachable" because his health care proposal is based on "cost-effectiveness criteria--exactly the infamous 'T-4' policy imposed by Adolf Hitler in 1939."



LaRouche spokesperson Nancy Spannaus said LaRouche and his organization "have declared war against Obama's so-called health care reform because it is a direct copy of the policy Hitler declared in October 1939, when Hitler issued the order for euthanasia against those determined, by a board of medical experts, to have 'lives unworthy to be lived.'"



"Our Obama mustache poster," Spannaus said, "symbolizes the fact that the president is attempting to implement a Hitler health care policy…At any town hall, you'll know LaRouche people are there if you just look for the mustache."



LPAC members have promoted these offensive materials at many public forums around the country. For example:


August 25, 2009 – LaRouche supporters set up a booth featuring signs comparing Obama to Hitler outside a Congressional town hall meeting in Reston, Virginia.

August 25, 2009 – A LaRouche supporter held a large sign of Obama with a Hitler mustache at a Congressional town hall meeting in Tacoma, Washington.

August 25, 2009 – A LaRouche organizer interviewed outside a town hall meeting in Springfield, Virginia, said that she was there to protest health care reform because “it’s the matter of stopping this, this fascist Nazi health bill.”
August 17, 2009 – A woman identified by the LPAC Web site as a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement held up a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache at a town meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and asked Congressman Barney Frank, "Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?"
August 17, 2009 – LaRouche supporters held signs of Obama with a Hitler mustache outside a Congressional town hall meeting in Dallas, Texas.
August 6, 2009 – LaRouche supporters protested a town meeting in Romulus, Michigan, holding up a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache. The several hundred attendees of the meeting, according to an EIR article, went "wild with approval" at the sight of the sign.
June 16, 2009 – LPAC members held up a large banner on the street in Chicago, Illinois, with a picture of Obama wearing a Hitler mustache and the words, "Is this your President? Ask your local health care provider."
June 12, 2009 – LPAC members went to a town meeting led by Obama in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and circulated a pamphlet titled "Stop Obama's Nazi Health Plan!"
June 4, 2009 – LPAC member Alan Egre went to a town meeting in Detroit, Michigan, and carried a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache and the slogan, "Is this your president?" According to the LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review, Egre was arrested but was released after 2 hours. LaRouche responded: "This is a real civil rights case. The President of the United States is recommending the same policy as Hitler on health care, and the Detroit police are trying to prevent the truth from being told…Why is a Michigan law enforcement official supporting fascism?"

In addition to attending public forums, LaRouche supporters have set up tables with information condemning Obama's health care plan outside several Motor Vehicle Administration offices in Maryland. LaRouche tables have also been appeared in New York City, Philadelphia, Ventura, California, and elsewhere.



LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review has been particularly caustic in its criticism of Obama and the administration's health care proposal. For example:


August 28, 2009 – An article charges that Obama is suffering from an “August meltdown” because of opposition to the administration’s health care proposals. “LaRouche’s intervention, exposing the Nazi nature of the Obama health-care reform initiative…catalyzed what has become a mass movement, with the LPAC poster of Obama sporting a Hitler mustache having become its most identifiable symbol.”
July 31, 2009 – LaRouche described Obama as "unstable" and alleged that the administration's approach to health care is characterized by a "Nazi mentality" because of its disregard for human life and its willingness to use "force, not reason, to work one's will." LaRouche went so far as to argue that the difference between Obama and Hitler is that only Obama is willing to pursue his "fascist assault" in public.
June 26, 2009 – An article arguing that Obama is not doing enough to protect Americans from swine flu notes, "Indeed, the Obama health-care 'reform' plan, while gutting everything that President Franklin D. Roosevelt stood for, is totally in line with Britain's Prince Philip and Prince Charles, who preach Malthusian genocide, and would welcome a biological holocaust that would wipe out 80% of the human race."
June 12, 2009 – The issue's front cover contains the title of the feature article: "Evidence for a new Nuremberg: Obama's Nazi Health Plan" with a black and white picture of the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials. Another article in the issue contains the allegation that "The President is fully guilty of a policy of genocide," and that provisions of the health care will pay for "euthanasia" but not health care and has "euphemisms" just like a Nazi Germany euthanasia program.
May 22, 2009 – In an article titled, "Obama has Revived Hitler's Genocide Program," LaRouche says, "The Hitler program has been revived by the Obama Administration. This is straight Nazi stuff. It's not a quibble; it's not an interpretation. This is a direct copy of the philosophy of the Nazis…People who condone this are criminals, because they either knew, or should have known, what they are doing." The issue also contains an article describing doctors and administration officials that have worked on the health care reform proposal as "Nazi doctors."
May 14, 2009 – LaRouche charged that Obama would defend not providing care to the elderly or terminally ill and that Obama had to "have been brainwashed" by his advisors. An article by one of the EIR editors alleges that the health care proposal was developed by Jack Kevorkian. The issue also contained an editorial piece titled "Stop Nazi Health Care!"

LPAC takes credit for injecting Holocaust rhetoric into the health care debate. An August 7 press release claims that the opposition to health care reform is “informed by the aggressive campaign which LaRouche PAC has been waging” and that the group’s “aggressive exposé of the Nazi T4 program, which is the model for Obama's health ‘reform,’” is now also being used by other health care reform opponents. In another press release issued on August 12, LPAC affirms that they are now escalating their “interventions into the town meetings” in order to protest the “Nazi health plan” and to promote LaRouche’s alternative proposals for solving the financial crisis.



LaRouche and his supporters, who have employed Holocaust imagery to express opposition to various issues over many years, are not solely responsible for the widespread use of Holocaust imagery to condemn health care reform proposals.



These comparisons have appeared from a variety of sources. In March 2009, for example, the Traditional Values Coalition, a relatively marginal Christian conservative group based in Anaheim, California, posted to its web site a picture of Obama dressed as a Nazi, substituting his campaign logo for the swastika. As far back as May 2008, numerous YouTube videos and other online media featured such images.
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Postby chiggerbit » Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:59 pm

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http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/Kronberg.html

The death of Kenneth Kronberg
Based on an interview with his widow, Molly Kronberg

Molly and Ken Kronberg
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Ken Kronberg died on April 11, 2007 - another victim of the brutal internal politics and policies of the international network of groups commanded by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. A long-time member of the LaRouche organization, Ken Kronberg joined in the early 1970s as an idealistic young progressive activist.

LaRouche has run for the U.S. Presidency eight times since 1976. In the late 1960s, he was an older mentor for a faction of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society. Over the years, LaRouche has surrounded himself with hundreds of loyal followers who assert he is the world's greatest living political analyst, economist, and philosopher. Few outside the LaRouchite organization share this view. In the mid 1970s LaRouche began a swing toward the political right, and increasingly embraced convoluted conspiracy theories that often incorporated historic antisemitic assertions about Jewish control of political and economic institutions.

Ken Kronberg ran PMR Printing Co. and World Composition Services Inc. in Northern Virginia - companies that were closely allied with LaRouche's network of affiliated groups. Kronberg built the printing and typesetting companies into thriving businesses that often prepared and printed LaRouche literature at a deep discount - or even at a loss. This is what precipitated a confrontation between Ken Kronberg and Lyndon LaRouche.

The events leading up to the suicide of Ken Kronberg were first detailed in an article by journalist Nick Benton,

According to reports, the companies were among other things in serious arrears in tax payments, including employee withholding, due largely to lack of payment for printing jobs by other LaRouche entities.

In the morning just hours prior to the Kronberg suicide on April 11, a daily internal document, the "morning briefing" circulated among members of the LaRouche entities, lashed out, in a paraphrase of LaRouche, at what it called the failures of the "baby boom" generation, including among the entities' own members, and singled out "the print shop" as "among the worst." It then went on to state, speaking to the younger generation, "the Boomers will be scared into becoming human, because you're the real world, and they're not. Unless they want to commit suicide."

According to Benton, himself a former member of the LaRouche group:

The "morning briefing" is considered authoritative within all the LaRouche entities that many, including many former participants, contend operate collectively like a cult. The April 11 version, written by Tony Papert of LaRouche's inner leadership circle, his National Executive Committee, appears to assert that the only way the "baby boom" generation, ostensibly including those among LaRouche's own associates, can be in the "real world" is through suicide.

[The full text of the "Morning Briefing" is available
on a website maintained by journalist Dennis King]

Shortly after this memo was circulated to members of the LaRouche group, according to several of his close friends, Ken Kronberg shifted all the available assets of the companies into an account set up to pay the back taxes, and then drove to a nearby highway overpass, and leapt to his death.

The story of Ken and Molly Kronberg story goes back more than thirty years to when Molly was a young activist.

Molly Kronberg: Around 1973 when I came into the Labor Committee, I could see things that those members who came out of more radical families did not see. One of the first times I noticed anti-Semitism was in an obnoxious formulation in an article written by Lyn.

The telltale text was in a footnote to an article penned by LaRouche, writing as Lyn Marcus. The article, titled "The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach," appeared in the Labor Committee Journal, The Campaigner, in December 1973.

Campaigner, December 1973

According to LaRouche:

"Judaism is the religion of a caste of subjects of Christianity, entirely molded by ingenious rabbis to fit into the ideological and secular life of Christianity. In short, a self-sustaining Judaism never existed and never could exist. As for Jewish culture otherwise, it is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the Goyim."

Molly Kronberg still vividly recalls her encounter with LaRouche's antisemitism:

Molly Kronberg: I remember exactly where I was when I read that. It was in our apartment on West 73rd Street in New York City. I was sitting on the sofa.

Ken and Molly Kronberg
Copyright 2007, Molly Kronberg, used with permission

Ken was sitting at the table in the living room, a few feet away. I jumped up and yelled, 'Ken! You have to read this!'

I went to show him the footnote. It was outrageous stuff, but to him it did not mean so much, because he had not been raised as a religious Jew.

Ken was proud of being Jewish, but he was not raised in a religious family, so he was not acquainted with Jewish religious history, or with anti-Semitism in the sense of enmity toward the Jewish religion.

The Labor Committee members raised as secular Jews had no adequate idea of the ancient culture, the rich traditions, and the history of intellectual life, that were associated with Judaism as a religion.

Like many leftists at the time, they saw Jews primarily as a group forced into a specific economic sector with the rise of Capitalism. As she explains:

Molly Kronberg: Most Jewish members of the Labor Committee saw themselves as Marxists, and accepted that there was an economic 'Jewish Question' to be debated

Ken Kronberg appearing in a play staged at
St. Johns college in the late 1960s
Copyright 2007, Molly Kronberg, used with permission

- and that view was not limited to the Labor Committee. These concepts about Judaism and Jews as some kind of caste of agents of the money economy created by the aristocracy and other elites were picked up by Labor Committee members from Karl Marx and his concept of 'dirty-judaical,' a repellent phrase Marx used to describe a specific 'capitalist' attitude toward money.

But LaRouche grafted the "Jewish Question" onto historic conspiracy theories about Jews plotting global control through banks, the media, and traitorous elected officials.

Molly Kronberg: In the course of Ken's and my history in the Labor Committee, I had been saying for many years that LaRouche was an anti-Semite. At first Ken argued, but over time he stopped arguing, and we began to talk about the anti-Semitism.

Lyn was hostile to the religion, to the Old Testament - to the great contribution Judaism made to the world. He developed a theory that all the "good stuff" in Judaism came from the (non-Semitic) Egyptians and that everything "bad" came from those 'dirty Semites' from Mesopotamia.

The Campaigner magazine published numerous conspiracy theories that were antisemitic

He claimed, and European members tried to develop the historical support for the claim, that Moses was really Egyptian."

Over time Lyn seems to have concluded that many of the good people of history were white or 'Aryan,' while many of the 'bad' people were Semites. But principally, anti-Semitism for LaRouche is not so much a separate dogma as just a particularly stark example of his basic hostility toward humanity; he cannot deal with actual, concrete individuals in front of him. He can deal only with humanity in the abstract."

Ken began to play a leadership role for Jewish members in the organization, working with people on presentations, and later working with people on articles having to do with Jewish culture and its application to world culture.

Ken and Molly Kronberg
Copyright 2007, Molly Kronberg, used with permission

In the early 1980s, Ken began to work on the Yiddish Renaissance - the effect on Eastern European Jewry of the culture expressed by Moses Mendelssohn and Heinrich Heine; the consequent flowering of Yiddish in the works of Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Peretz, and Mendele Mocher Sforim."

When I became pregnant in 1983, Ken began for the first time to read about Judaism as a religion, and secondarily about Christianity. At the same time, I went back to the Episcopal Church. When our son was about four began holding Passover Seders and celebrating Hanukkah at our home, although we kept it quiet. Ken grew increasingly interested in the preservation of Eastern European Jewish culture and began to give donations to the Institute for Jewish Research - YIVO. As he grew older, our son became interested in theology; now, among other things, he is studying Hebrew."

Ken Kronberg was one of the early members of the Labor Committee that LaRouche and his top aides put through intense psychological manipulation. This developed strong bonds between LaRouche and his followers.

Molly Kronberg: To this day I can't figure out why Ken retained his loyalty to LaRouche - to the extent he did, because his loyalty to LaRouche eroded over the years, with LaRouche's increasingly brutal behavior. Still, in terms of keeping Ken's loyalty, I don't know how Lyn did it.

Molly and Ken Kronberg
Copyright 2007, Molly Kronberg, used with permission

How could someone as brilliant, as educated, as loving as Ken - superior to LaRouche in every way, in my opinion - be suckered by this? To the end Ken really cared about what LaRouche thought of him. At the same time, he came to realize that LaRouche had feet of clay - that LaRouche was not a good, moral, or caring man. The only way Ken could escape this terrible tension, and his legal and financial entanglements on behalf of the organization, was to kill himself."

When Ken died, I asked that people give donations to the Institute for Jewish Research, YIVO, in Ken's memory. That was certainly closer to what he would have wanted than, say, donations to LaRouche….

At one point, LaRouche decided he wanted to work with the Roman Catholic Church - he was hoping to get in with the Church. So, suddenly, he was pro-Catholic. At that point, many members converted to Catholicism. But when he discovered that the Catholic Church wanted no part of him, in 2000, LaRouche launched a vicious attack on the Catholic members of the organization, including commissioning items for the daily internal briefing memos attacking members for going to church. In a savage campaign, he drove most of the Catholics out of the organization. Then, after years of vilifying Judaism, Lyn basically announced that he was now the protector of the Jewish members against the "vicious Catholics" he just had purged."

I'm worried that the organization may be in danger of becoming a killing machine.


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