LaRouchies

[Jimmie Higgins]

Man they are crazy. Are they androids? I saw a couple of them on the street and they had a chart. The chart had no numbers or anything, it was just a line graph. One of the Larouche followers stoped a pedestrian and began asking him what he thought about his chart and what he though of this evidence that there was going to be an Iron shortage. THe pedestrian responded that he didn't know what to think because the graph had no numbers. The LaRouchie cut him off there and told the pedistrian that it wasn't a graph, it was an "animation" which prooves that there will be this shortage soon. The pedestrian continued to insist that the graph was meaningless because it had no numbers or reference points and the LaRouchie member interupted him everytime to insist that it was an "animation" not a graph or chart.

Then I walked passed and the LaRouchie asked me my opinion of the "coming Dark ages".

People join this group on a dare and then are killed and replaced by identical LaRouche-programed robots. Please, someone tell me this is how this organization operates. Otherwise I'd have to believe that people joined of their own free will and I don't know if I could handle that.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

That's just fucking loony. I doubt that any LaRouchites are mentally stable, as one has to give up one's critical faculties in order to become one, and few people do that willingly.

I wonder what would happen if you told them you were a member of the Illuminati? :lol:

[Severian]

There've been a number of topics about 'em recently, like this one (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=41052&hl=worried\)?

Are they on some kind of propaganda blitz or something, I wonder? Maybe pre-election?

"People join this group on a dare and then are killed and replaced by identical LaRouche-programed robots. Please, someone tell me this is how this organization operates"

Interesting theory. Others have suggested that the LaRouche organization uses brainwashing techniques....sometimes claiming they are "deprogramming" people supposedly brainwashed by their enemies.

That doesn't explain why some people join in the first place, of course.

[Dimentio]

People join all kinds of idiotic groups. Take for example ANUS, Church of Euthanasia, Westboro Baptist Congregation, the LSNGP, the IE, and other more or less strange sects, often centered around a dominating leader.

The LaRouche-ites are neither left or right actually. Economically, they are centrist, and politically, both in ideological and philosophical essence, they are quite reactionary and simple-minded.

[Gnosis]

I have been to one of their meetings.
I met them on the street in Boston.
They had fliers that said things like "Children of Satan" on the front.
I thought it was a joke, but it was not.
I stopped to talk because that's what I do.
They asked us or our e-mail and phone number so that if anything interesting happened they would call.
And they did.
They called every thursday for about a month.
Then they asked if we wanted to go to their meeting.
They said they would give us a ride, and they did.

They are exactly like robots, and it is quite amusing on one hand.
On the other hand, I was nervous.

They liked the fact that I an dmy husband are so poor.
They claim to be a movement of the poor, but the group I saw was made up of rich kids whose parents are paying for their college.
They liked that we were poor because it made us their poster children.
That was odd.

They wanted us to stay over night that night, but we insisted on going home.

They tried to seperate me from my husband because I was the more opened minded of the two, and he was calling them androids from the moment we walked in ( he has no sense of 'polite' and thats one reason why I like him).
They tried to convince me to go to their school for the weekend.
I said I would think about it because I felt pressured and I did not want to commit to anything without thinking it through first at home.

They called every day for the next week.
That freaked me out.
I told them I did not want to go becuase they were too pushy.
They did not understand my feelings.
My husband could not make it, he needed to work.
They actually asked him to take time off of work, even though we had told them how much we need to eat that week...
They were very pushy and did not stop calling until finally I was like
"Look, you think you are the only one's who know the shit is gonna hit the fan? You're not. I know, and I don't need your propaganda or your alliance to survive when it all goes down. I live what you only speak, I know what you only dream about, stop calling me, I do not need you."
And they did not understand.

For people so bright, because they were bright, they were so fuckin stupid that it made MY head hurt.

They talked about the universal physical pricipal, they talked about Keplar and mathematics and the golden ratio and music theory and all sorts of topics which were incredibly "intellectual".
They were trying to recreate the discovery process, to really learn what it was to learn.
But their politics were appauling.
The panphlets and books they used were so obviously written towards stereotipical blacks and poor that it made me sick.
They talked using generalizations of words of which the meaning is a total matter of opinion.
Example: "Insane".
They used that word to describe Dick Cheney and G.W., but they never explained what it ment, they just assumed I would get it, and get it the way the expected me to.
That night was quite the trip.
I am glad I never went on their vacation.
I had a feeling not to, and so I stayed home.
I told them "I dont want to go alone"
and the person on the phone laughed at me and said "You won't be alone, a group of your peers will be there"
As if I trusted them.
I trusted them to be who they were and do what they did, but trusting them with my body and life is a different level of trust which I was not prepared to give.

I still have the books they gave me.
"Children of Satan" in which they talk about "spoon-benders" and "baby-boomers"
and "The next fifty years" which is self explainatory in title.
I never read them.
I suppose I should because I would be able to talk more about their philosophy.

Honestly Id rather put the experience behind me, but if anyone has any specific questions or wishes for more information they should PM me and ask.

Ill tell you everything I can.

I went to them in the first place out of sheer curiosity.