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Larouche's Tangled Web
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Feb 16, 2008 05:09pm |
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| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Monday, June 9, 1986 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Just a few months ago, Lyndon LaRouche was widely regarded as a weird joke. A 63-year-old former Communist, he now lives in millionaire-style luxury on a heavily guarded, 174-acre compound in Virginia, wages fringe presidential bids and is head of an eccentric and paranoid political movement. At airports around the country, his impassioned, clean-cut followers hawk propaganda calling for the quarantine of AIDS victims and accusing numerous notables, including Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, of being Soviet agents. But when two LaRouchites posing as mainstream candidates won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of state in March, the bhagwan of American politics became a force to be reckoned with. The more so since his National Democratic Policy Committee, all but unnoticed, claims to have fielded more than 750 candidates in primary contests around the country, including 149 would-be Congressmen and 14 aspirants for the U.S. Senate.
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In Chicago last week, an arrest warrant was ordered for the Democratic nominee for Illinois secretary of state, LaRouchite Janice Hart. Judge Morris Topol accused Hart of "thumbing her nose at the court" by failing to appear on a disorderly conduct charge brought last year, when she purportedly disrupted a lecture by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland. To protest the cleric's alleged support of the International Monetary Fund, a perennial LaRouche target, Hart handed Weakland a piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning for patriots" in that country's upcoming parliamentary elections. Hart garnered attention earlier this spring by leading an anti-drug parade through Chicago's Loop. She rode the streets in a 1942 armored vehicle with Robert Patton, a LaRouchite Senate candidate in New Hampshire. |
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