Talk:Lyndon LaRouche/Significant Omissions

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[edit] Significant Omissions from the current version

I am retiring my portion of this list, because I now believe that the LaRouche articles have reach a state where they are in conformity with Wikipedia NPOV policy. I'll let Weed decide if his suggestions still need to be addressed. --Herschelkrustofsky 03:36, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• One of the most revealing, and as well fascinating, aspects of the LaRouche story is the story of the "Get LaRouche" task force, comprised of an astonishing goulash of leftist counterculture freaks like Dennis King and Chip Berlet, combined with neoconservative billionare funders, intelligence community spooks, and assorted representatives of the "mainstream" press:

Eyewitness reports and court testimony have established that a series of meetings were held in 1983 at the Manhattan home of investment banker John Train, with the participation of reseachers Dennis King and Chip Berlet; John Rees, of the John Birch Society; Roy Godson, then a consultant to the National Security Council and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB); Mira Lansky Boland, head of Fact Finding at the Washington, D.C. offices of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; at least one representative of Freedom House, a private research organization headed by PFIAB Chairman Leo Cherne; Richard Mellon-Scaife, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman, whose tax-exempt foundation would later come under federal criminal investigation for illegally financing the arming of the Nicaraguan Contras (Mellon-Scaife later became notorious for his involvement in the Paula Jones case, and other activities intended to discredit President Bill Clinton); and several dozen journalists from major national media outlets, including NBC-TV, Readers Digest, Business Week, The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal. Out of these meetings came a wave of news coverage that was highly critical of LaRouche, describing him variously as a fascist, communist, racist, anti-Semite, cult leader, and conspiracy theorist. Stories circulated that LaRouche had orchestrated the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, and that he had attempted to assassinate U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

• The current, protected version of Political_views_of_Lyndon_LaRouche is something of a misnomer, because it contains very little content about LaRouche's views, being instead a sort of compendium of attacks cooked up by the various poison pens in the employ of LaRouche's opponents.

• In addition to LaRouche's political views per se, there ought to be a summary of his views on science and the arts, which are more or less inextricable from his views on politics and economy.

--Herschelkrustofsky 20:54, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest the following -- (Weed Harper 20:24, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC))

• Some other LaRouche legal cases, such as LaRouche vs. Fowler, where LaRouche sued the DNC under the Voting Rights Act for excluding his delegates from the Convention in 1996 (just like Fanny Lou Hamer). The DNC responded by calling for the Act to be overturned. Also the case of the Arkansas primary in 2000, where LaRouche won over 50,000 votes and 7 delegates, and the DNC simply confiscated them and awarded them to Gore. Can you imagine the US response if a third world country did something like that?

• LaRouche's speech in Berlin, Oct 12 1988, where he forecast the collapse of the Warsaw Pact economies, and the reunification of Germany with Berlin as the capitol.

• Something on the LaRouche youth movement, especially the "curriculum" that they operate on -- Gauss, Bach, and so on.

• More on LaRouche and the third world, the proposals for debt moratoria, and so on. This really gives the lie to the whole business about LaRouche being "right wing" during the 1980s.