The pervasive fraud in Pipes' dogma, is that he evades the fact, that the primary issue is whether a certain type of, or particular report of a conspiracy is truthful, or not.
On this account, he perpetrates the widely practiced fraud of petitio principii : asserting that the mere evidence that a conspiracy is implied in an argument of a case, is presumptive proof that that argument is therefore axiomatically false, without further consideration, [29]. In the s and s, LaRouche was particularly focused on the supposed danger posed by globalists such as Nelson Rockefeller believing that they were attempting to rescue a debt-strapped international financial system by imposing austerity and forced-labor programs on impoverished populations in order to facilitate debt collection.
Wells and the evil Bertrand Russell. LaRouche claims there is also a conspiracy by the "Establishment" and the press it allegedly controls to deny him coverage and prevent his views becoming known.
According to Chip Berlet and Dennis King , LaRouche has always been stridently anti-British and has included Queen Elizabeth II , the British Royal Family, and others, in his list of conspirators who are said to control the world's political economy and the international drug trade. In addition, "The Sexual Congress for Cultural Fascism" names the British Fabian Society as a potential source of international conspiratorial authority, citing the membership of prominent British democratic socialists and social democrats , especially within the Labour Party and the British government.
LaRouche is known for alleging conspiracies by the British. This is based primarily on three books authored by members of his organization:. LaRouche publications have also frequently referred to a speech by Henry Kissinger made at Chatham House in , as evidence for a theory that Kissinger was a British agent. Steinberg, however, "refused to rule out" the possibility that Prince Philip had ordered an assassination of Diana.
In , an article in the LaRouche-controlled Executive Intelligence Review accused senior advisers to the Royal family and MI6 of threatening to assassinate him, after a British women's magazine called Take a Break published an article about him entitled "Shut This Man's Mouth. His director of counterintelligence, Jeffrey Steinberg, has said that he "could not rule out" that Prince Philip was behind the death of Princess Diana.
Beginning in , LaRouche's presidential campaign committee distributed a series of pamphlets entitled "Children of Satan", which were later consolidated into a book by the same name. The pamphlets charged that there was a conspiracy dominated by what are called Straussians followers of Leo Strauss within the Bush administration, and that the dominant personality in this conspiracy was Dick Cheney.
They claimed that the Straussians created the Office of Special Plans in order to fabricate intelligence and bypass traditional intelligence channels. An important part of this theory was the LaRouchian analysis of the ideas of Leo Strauss , which borrowed heavily from the writings of Shadia Drury. Bartley quotes the pamphlet's assertion that a "cabal of [Leo] Strauss disciples, along with an equally small circle of allied neo-conservative and Likudnik fellow-travelers" have plotted a "not-so-silent coup.
LaRouche has chosen an Aryan-nation phrase for Jews descendants of Cain, who was the result of Satan seducing Eve, in this perfervid theology ," Bartley terms the "Children of Satan" title "overt anti-Semitism.
The Encyclopedia Judaica interprets the title "Children of Satan" to be a form of "masked anti-Semitism. In a twisted irony, the pamphlets imply the neoconservatives are the real neo-Nazis. LaRouche has charged that various projects were initiated in the post-World War II era to change the culture of the United States and Europe, in order to eradicate the vestiges of policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Among the key agencies of this social engineering project, according to LaRouche, were the Frankfurt School and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. LaRouche has asserted that he is a target for assassination. I have a major personal security problem…[Without the permits] the assassination teams of professional mercenaries now being trained in Canada and along the Mexico border may be expected to start arriving on the streets of Leesburg…If they come, there will be many people dead or mutilated within as short an interval as 60 seconds of fire.
According to the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, LaRouche says he has been "threatened by Communists, Zionists , narcotics gangsters, the Rockefellers and international terrorists. Since late , I have been repeatedly the target of serious assassination threats and my wife has been three times the target of attempted assassination…My enemies are the circles of McGeorge Bundy , Henry Kissinger, Soviet President Yuri Andropov, W.
Averell Harriman, certain powerful bankers, and the Socialist and Nazi Internationals, as well as international drug traffickers, Colonel Gadaffi, Ayatollah Khomaini and the Malthusian lobby. Regarding LaRouche's paramilitary security force, armed with semi-automatic weapons, [48] a spokesperson said that they were necessary because LaRouche was the subject of "assassination conspiracies".
While surrounded, LaRouche sent a telegram to President Ronald Reagan saying that an attempt to arrest him "would be an attempt to kill me. I will not submit passively to such an arrest, but. I will defend myself. When convicted he predicted that he would be assassinated in prison. A cellmate, televangelist Jim Bakker , later wrote, "To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak.
In his autobiography, LaRouche says the raid on his operation was the work of Raisa Gorbachev , whom he describes as outranking her husband Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in the nomenklatura due to her leadership of the Soviet Cultural Fund.
Gorbachev also hated my guts and called for my assassination and imprisonment and so forth. LaRouche has charged that much negative press coverage during the s, as well as aspects of his trial, was orchestrated by powerful persons from outside the journalistic community. In particular he names John Train , who he says "took charge of key aspects of the propaganda and witness tampering. LaRouche wrote a series of articles while imprisoned for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax evasion in the s, in which he discussed the relationship of artistic creativity to scientific creativity, and how an original discovery may be communicated to others; these articles were entitled "On the Subject of Metaphor.
Central to LaRouche's theory of economics see above is the idea that there are certain higher mental capacities, associated with hypothesis formation, that are the essential topic of study in economics, and LaRouche came to believe that classical art, and in particular classical music , provided the most useful domain in which to investigate these capacities.
Consequently, classical music has played a central role in the history of LaRouche and his network, and brought LaRouche into a collaborative relationship with artists such as Norbert Brainin and William Warfield. LaRouche's views about several other areas of culture have been controversial; especially comments about Jews and the Holocaust , women and feminism , and AIDS and homosexuals. LaRouche condemns anti-Semitism in his published writings. He writes, "Religious and racial hatred, such as anti-Semitism, or hatred against Islam , or hatred of Christians, is, on record of known history, the most evil expression of criminality to be seen on the planet today.
From the early s he regularly criticized Zionism. In NCLC publications during the s, some Jewish individuals were accused of running the slave trade , controlling organized crime , and the drug trade. LaRouche also claimed that the "Zionist lobby" significantly influenced the U. Any American professing "Zionist loyalties" was, he said, a "national security risk. Dennis King has described LaRouche as expressing anti-Semitic ideas in both open and coded form.
As an example of the open form, King cites LaRouche's statement under the pen name L. Marcus [63] in The Case of Ludwig Feuerbach , where he said that "Jewish culture … is merely the residue left to the Jewish home after everything saleable has been marketed to the Goyim. LaRouche has also been accused of Holocaust denial. LaRouche places the word "holocaust" in quotation marks British: inverted commas , or scare quotes.
LaRouche's critics claim he is a "disguised anti-Semite", in that he takes the classical anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and substitutes the word "Zionist" for the word "Jew", and ascribes the classical anti-Semitic caricature of the "scheming Jew" to particular Jewish individuals and groups of Jews, rather than to the Jews as a whole.
LaRouche's stated principal target in his article is " Zionism. LaRouche believes that Zionism is an underground conspiracy existing since the 16th century. LaRouche denies equating "Zionism" with Judaism. Dope, Inc. Later editions left out cites to The Protocols. This is the genesis of the claim that LaRouche has said the Queen of England runs drugs.
When asked by an NBC reporter in about the Queen of England and drug running, LaRouche replied, "Of course she's pushing drugs…that is in a sense of responsibility: the head of a gang that is pushing drugs; she knows it's happening and she isn't stopping it.
LaRouche has said, Zionism is controlled by the financiers of London: "Zionism is the state of collective psychosis through which London manipulates most of the international Jewry", and "Zionist cultism is among the most important of the levers through which British criminality and miscalculation is plunging the world towards [war]. LaRouche has never explicitly repudiated the views expressed in the article.
In , New York state Judge Michael Dontzin ruled that: "Upon consideration of the voluminous evidence presented to the court, it is clear that ADL's characterization of plaintiffs as anti-Semitic constitutes fair comment. Plaintiffs have continuously expressed highly critical views about prominent Jewish figures, families and organizations, such as ADL and B'nai Brith and have connected them with plaintiffs' critical views on Zionism, Zionists, Mid-East foreign policy and international monetary policies.
The charge of anti-Semitism in the LaRouche network resurfaced in the media in in accounts of the death of a young Jewish student, Jeremiah Duggan , who had been attending a Schiller Institute event in Germany; and in criticism of how the LaRouche group framed the issue of the U.
This speech, and related articles from the LaRouche movement, attacked Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites. Chip Berlet argues that LaRouche indirectly expresses anti-Semitism through the use of "coded language" and by attacking neoconservatives.
According to Berlet:. In the early s, LaRouche published controversial comments about psycho-sexuality and political leadership. In , LaRouche authored an article called "Beyond Psychoanalysis". In the article, he uses the ideas of Sigmund Freud and also Lawrence S. Kubie author of The Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process as a springboard for a theory that the understanding of difficult concepts, and the realization of a political sense of identity, were often "blocked" by neurotic habits of thinking that were cultural in origin.
He theorized that each culture had characteristic flaws that resulted in blocks to effective political organizing. He wrote that "the classical case is the sexually athletic Macho who regards himself as a successful performer in bed, the Macho who has much to say and think respecting his capacities for various modes of penetration and frequency and cubic centimeters of ejaculations.
The ugly secret of the matter is that he is almost totally sexually impotent. Since the woman has a special, doubly-hard struggle to realize a socially potent intellectual life, it is necessary to go beyond mere self-consciousness of adult individual roles, to self-consciousness of the process of struggling against the special kinds of problems which confront women in their efforts to play a positive role in the socialist movement. LaRouche's critics cite anonymous disaffected ex-members, who claim that LaRouche held theories of sexual dynamics and female domination of men which resulted in a breakdown of relations between the sexes and the break up of dozens of relationships as women were attacked for being "sadistic bitches" and "witches", and for "mother-dominating" men.
Several sources refer to an unpublished internal memo, dated August 16, and entitled "The Politics of Male Impotence. He wrote:. I will take away from you all hope that you can flee the terrors of politics to the safety of 'personal life. I will thus destroy your rabbit-holes, mental as well as physical. I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee He said he did not know who paid his bills.
His conspiracy theories included a claim that the International Monetary Fund was "engaged in mass murder" by spreading AIDS through its economic policies, that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Vice President Walter Mondale were Soviet "agents of influence" and that the Queen of England was involved in the drug trade.
He said former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos "was opposed to me and he fell as a result. LaRouche called for a quarantine of AIDS victims and said most medical warnings about how the disease was spread were lies. He also referred to Zionism as "cult nonsense" and said the Holocaust was "mythical.
Based outside Washington in Leesburg, Virginia, LaRouche's organization continued to operate during the years he was in prison. His followers could be found at major airports, where they distributed publications and tried to raise money. The commitment of LaRouche followers reportedly inspired some people to hire so-called "deprogrammers" to kidnap his devotees to stop them from giving him their fortunes.
One high-profile case involved a supposed conspiracy to kidnap DuPont heir Lewis duPont Smith and his wife to deprogram them. Every element of "Lyndon LaRouche Theater" came right out of his movement's publications. Only the casting with Jon Lovitz as Prince Charles to complete the scenario was really inspired. A dozen years ago, I wrote this column pointing out that LaRouche -- after some time in prison for credit-card fraud and few years of keeping low-key while on parole -- had his followers out recruiting a new generation of supporters from college campuses.
The need to replenish the movement's ranks was urgent. His original band of disciples many of them recruited from Ivy League universities in the late s and early '70s had shrunk as some defected from the movement and others showed a diminishing commitment.
After decades of reading LaRouche's treatises and listening to his very long speeches, an appetite for the feast could not be summoned at will. Flagging enthusiasm seems to have infuriated LaRouche even more than apostasy, and the old members who did stick around were proving less efficient at fund-raising. An influx of people in their teens and 20s who did not need much sleep and could display sufficient awe while LaRouche ran through the conspiratorial links between Aristotle and the Zika virus -- that was the movement's future.
The recruitment effort enjoyed a measure of success. LaRouche's rather canny move as the Iraq quagmire set in was to position himself as kind of elder statesman in exile of American politics at war with the George W.
Bush presidency and with Dick Cheney in particular. But the momentum did not continue through the next presidential election. The LaRouche resurgence seems to have been cresting around the time my article appeared. Even so, the proselytizing campaign had done its work. The political ghoul got a taste of fresh blood. The young members brought with them the skills needed to burnish the movement's previously dismal web presence.
It might be funny if not for the realization that those people were sacrificing their lives, talents and minds at the altar of a megalomaniac's narcissism.
Thomas Pynchon might as well have had LaRouche in mind when, in The Crying of Lot 49 , he referred to "the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself. But in revisiting LaRouche here after all this time, I want to end on an encouraging development that seems likely to be repeated, in various forms, before too long.
In September , several young recruits who were being groomed as leaders "compile[d], in as much detail as possible from our combined experiences, a report of the events leading up to our departures from the LaRouche organization.
But in brief:. The older generation of supporters is made up cliques almost as hostile to one another as they are to the younger generation of supporters.
LaRouche celebrates the younger ones at every opportunity, permitting them to do the fun part of being his disciple -- i. Various backstabbings occur. The nonagenarian LaRouche becomes noticeably confused at times.
He also tries to woo a woman not quite a third his age.
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