LaRouche supporter engages a post office patron.
Two fresh faced traveling foot soldiers in the Lyndon LaRouche National Youth Movement set up an inflammatory display of Obama-as-Hitler posters in front of the Lodi Post Office on Tuesday afternoon, hoping to engage shoppers in political discourse. Joe E. and his teenaged sidekick were promoting impeachment parties, restoration of the Glass Steagall Act, and support for the LaRouche write in candidate for Congress, Summer Shields. Both young men appeared fixated on conspiracy theories, offering that the British Empire controls the American political system, the World Wildlife Fund is promoting war, and that “DDT is banned because we don’t want brown people to have it,” so they will die of malaria. In a discussion about the AIDS epidemic, Joe E. maintained that the British were implicated in the spread, and ”Prince Phillip is dead and he’s been reincarnated as the deadly virus he always wanted to be.” Pamphlets they offered encouraged colonizing Mars.
Lyndon LaRouche controls a large political movement (frequently described as cult-like) which seems largely based on conspiracy theories. He’s run for president of the United States eight times, including once from a prison cell where he was serving a fifteen year sentence for mail fraud and violating tax codes. He remains a highly controversial figure and has been accused of racism, anti-semitism, homophobia, and sexism. He once sued NBC and lost after they aired an unfavorable documentary about him, and he asserts that he is a media target in constant danger of assassination. Further punctuating his paranoia of the British, he once claimed, “The Beatles had no genuine musical talent, but were a product shaped by the British Psychological Warfare Division specifications, and promoted in Britain by agencies which are controlled by British intelligence.”
As they were packing up, Joe E. boasted that they’d interested many locals in the LaRouche platform during their afternoon stint in front of the Post Office. They loaded up their literature and umbrella and were off to retrieve two other true believers who had been posted in a small foothill town for the day. In our thirty minute discussion Joe continually tapped his finger on one of LaRouche’s books as if it contained Biblical prophecy; their candidate, Summer Shields, seemed barely an afterthought.
They should get Mel Gibson to be their candidate instead.
So many cukoos, so few comets,
I always knew it was the Beatles’ fault. Damn hippies.