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Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, who faces a conspiracy charge, claimed Wednesday that the National Security Council (NSC) helped fabricate a case against him because he opposes aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
LaRouche said the case was constructed to undermine his 1988 presidential campaign but actually may have helped him earn name recognition.
``The National Security Council ... was running an operation against us - an operation which in part led to the indictment against me,`` LaRouche said.
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At a news conference, LaRouche accused the Contras of smuggling drugs. He said former NSC aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and his colleagues often solicited funds to help the Contras from the same people who were being asked to contribute to the LaRouche presidential campaign.
``They were trying to raise money from people who were in touch with supporters of LaRouche, and the LaRouche supporters told them not to give money because (the Contras) were drug runners,`` LaRouche spokeswoman Dana Scanlon said.
``There's pretty direct knowledge that this led to some pretty angry reactions from the people who were involved with Col. North's fund-raising operations.`` [..]
— LaRouche claims security council behind indictment; [CITY Edition] St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jul 9, 1987. pg. 7.A
Last month, at an antiwar conference in Chicago held by the LaRouche organization, a featured speaker was the editor of Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam whose leader, Farrakhan, has been condemned for anti-Semitic comments, including his reference to Judaism as a "dirty" religion. The same conference featured an address by the Iraqi cultural affairs attache.
Many activists question the judgment of Ramsey Clark, former US attorney general, who heads the Coalition to Stop US Intervention in
the Middle East. The coalition, which sponsored a rally in Washington Saturday, has not condemned Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and has opposed economic sanctions against Iraq.
A second major peace group, The National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East, which is headed by veteran organizer Leslie Cagan, includes more traditional progressive antiwar groups, many that can be traced to the days of the Vietnam War. The campaign, in contrast to Clark's coalition, has condemned the Iraqi invasion and has not taken a position on economic sanctions. The campaign's Washington rally is scheduled for next Saturday.
According to a number of organizers, several right-wing groups became associated with Clark's coalition through their alliances with the LaRouche group. Clark is representing LaRouche in an appeal from his recent conviction for loan fraud.
Clark could not be reached on Friday. A spokesman for the national LaRouche group did not return a phone call.
But a spokesman for Clark's coalition, Paul Wilcox, said the LaRouche group has no formal relationship to the coalition. He added, however, that the coalition "is open to any and all people who want to be active against the war. We don't exclude anyone."
Clark was quoted recently as saying he felt the US government had "demonized" both Saddam Hussein and LaRouche. [..] Jon Hillson, a coordinator of a Cleveland peace group, said in a recent interview: "The LaRouche people are a big problem. They are anti-Semitic, home-grown facists. They use traditional epithets, like Zionist bankers, media overlords, to deride Jews."
Another organizer, noting that the appearance of right-wing organizations in the peace movement is confounding many mainstream activists, said: "The big challenge with groups like LaRouche is how to handle them without polarizing the peace movement. That discussion has already begun among a number of groups."
Lois Levine, a St. Louis peace activist, said, "I tell people that it is legitimate to criticize Israeli policy, just as we can criticize the policy of any government. But when people talk of Israel as intrinsically evil or illegitimate, that is anti-Semitic."
— Peace activists express concern about anti-Semites in movement Ross Gelbspan, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Jan 22, 1991.
The biggest push is coming from supporters of the ultra-right wing Lyndon LaRouche, who built a shadowy financial empire to support his presidential ambitions and in 1989 earned a 15-year prison sentence for tax evasion and mail fraud conspiracy.
Since November, LaRouche supporters have popped up with literature at anti-war rallies all over the country.
In Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, investigative reporter Dennis King chronicled La-Rouche's move from Marxist revolutionary to a right-wing anti-Semite. LaRouche's support of Star Wars was a ploy to gain respectability within the Reagan administration. LaRouche's organization, which still draws substantial profits from computer services, has shifted emphasis in trying to forge alliances with blacks.
— Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement; [CITY Edition] JASON BERRY. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Feb 24, 1991. pg. 8.D
But nothing could match the conspiracy theories of American fringe politician and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who believes all evil emanates from planet earth's super-Svengali Henry Kissinger - the chief executor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Proving that not even the most deft Middle Eastern propagandist can outdo an antisemitic political Neanderthal, he blamed the UN-conspiracy and the war against Saddam Hussein on - are you ready for this - "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel," whose annexation program of the West Bank is "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the Hollinger Corporation, which has taken over The Jerusalem Post for that purpose."
So now you know how Saddam's army was defeated: inflamed by the Kissinger-dictated Jerusalem Post, Israeli pilots in American planes painted with Iraqi insignia bombed the daylights out of the Iraqi army and brought it to its knees. Crafty, those Jews!
— FANTASIES David Bar-Illan. Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem: Mar 29, 1991. pg. 08
A newly formed group that fears "a tragedy of apocalyptic proportions" among the civilian population of Iraq yesterday called for an immediate end to international trade sanctions against that country in conjunction with the airlifting of food and medicine for its children.
The Committee to Save the Children in Iraq, in news conferences here and in other parts of the United States yesterday, said it intends to "mobilize the political will" of the country in order to allow Iraq to sell its oil.
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The withholding of aid and restrictions on Iraq's ability to export oil will mean death to thousands of children from disease and malnutrition, said David Kilber, a representative of the Schiller Institute, at a news conference in front of the Federal Building downtown.
Kilber called the Bush Administration policy "deliberate, unneeded, unexcusable genocide. Whether you like Hussein or not, innocent civilians are dying."
The Schiller Institute is associated with Lyndon LaRouche, a political extremist currently imprisoned for mail and tax fraud.
An institute spokesman, however, said the committee is composed of intellectuals, religious leaders, human rights activists, trade unionists and others who feel that Iraq's civilian population faces devastation unless the country quickly rebuilds its economic base.
— Group urges end to Iraq sanctions; [5,6,1,4 Edition] Ed Jahn. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 13, 1991. pg. B.8.5.6
addam Hussein needn't sit up nights brooding over his lack of friends. He has just found one strange enough to compensate for all the ordinary folk who would as soon wrestle with a rabid raccoon as come within spitting distance of him.
I am speaking of Lyndon LaRouche, the nutty professor of American extremism, mastermind of a wide-ranging covert intelligence network, sometime U.S. presidential candidate, and now, supporter of "starving Iraqi children."
In New York last month, street corners near the United Nations were commandeered by smiling young men in yuppie clothing sitting at makeshift desks neatly adorned with books on international relations.
They greeted passersby with, "You don't look like somebody who was happy that we went to war in the gulf."
Those who paused long enough to bat an eyelash were drawn into a discussion of cruel American-instigated sanctions, aimed particularly at the starving children, and at the need to give up the Iraqi embargo by tomorrow morning at the latest.
The smiling young men were working for the Schiller Institute, a literary-sounding organization that in fact sprang from the pocket of LaRouche. Its interest in Iraq is obscure, but no doubt fits into the mind-boggling geopolitic of its devotees.
And, oddly enough, within a week of the street-corner offensive, the U.N. General Assembly was pelted with papers and its debate interrupted by 15 anonymous people shouting slogans about starving Iraqi children.
— Starving kids pawns in scuffle over Iraq; [HO2 Edition] Olivia Ward TORONTO STAR. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Oct 14, 1991. pg. A.11
Like many cult leaders, LaRouche has developed a highly effective arsenal of mind-control techniques based on his self-proclaimed "groundbreaking" psychological discoveries. Those who question his reported assassination plots are diagnosed as "paranoid." Politicial doubts are ascribed to a "mother complex," homosexuality or sexual impotence. Dependence is enforced not only in group therapy sessions, during which LaRouche explains the worthlessness of each member without the organization but also in private, one-on-one sessions. "The people who were the leaders and movers and shakers were all psychologically crushed, broken almost physically sometimes," says an ex-member. "They were locked in a room and ego-stripped for days." Another member recalls that the most brilliant members of the organization were "psychologicaly castrated" and then "assigned for rehabilitation to write reports, and locally, to sell newspapers."
— Donner, Frank, and Randall Rothenberg (August 16-23, 1980). "The Strange Odyssey of Lyndon LaRouche", The Nation, pp. 142-147.
As for the Latino community, again, LaRouche demonstrated elemental racism in a 1973 essay of his own called "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party." In this extended polemic, LaRouche attacked the PSP with racial stereotypes: "...the political life of the PSP is the principle of the sexual impotence of the 'Machismo' extended into the domain of political commedia ... all Latin politics is permeated with the same pathetic, self-defeating quality." The cult boss then analyzes "the psychological truth which every Latin [emphasis added] can recognize in his own personal thoughts as the essence of 'Machismo' as sexual impotence." LaRouche .doesn't neglect Latin women, referring to their "frigidity, their sadistic semi-bestiality, and selfbestialization as potential 'mothers.' " He ridicules Puerto Rican popular culture as "garbage," a "poor imitation culture of whatever refuse decaying Spanish heritage or Yanqui imports have discarded into the streets." Island independence is "a degrading mythos," and Latin music is "psychopathological."
— The Racist Roots of Mad Melvin, Joe Conason, Village Voice, 9/28/82.
As an example, there is an article about LaRouche in this week's issue of Newsweek magazine, which will be read by millions.
The article digs into LaRouche's past and pinpoints a period of his life when former followers say he underwent a severe personality change. And why.
It seems that sometime in the 1960s, he and his first wife split. This was after LaRouche had been a Marxist, a Socialist and a follower of various left-wing philosophies.
It's not clear exactly where on the political spectrum he was wandering at that time. But after his wife left him, he began living with one of his female followers.
Apparently his magnetism was lost on her because eventually she went away with another man.
Ah, the pain of rejection. That, according to Newsweek, is when LaRouche became even more unhinged, brooding in his apartment while surrounded by canned goods and bodyguards.
After that, he became even more extreme and began playing "ego- stripping" head games with members of his cult, whose heads weren't screwed on too securely to begin with.
So it appears that the trauma of being dumped by a girlfriend may have sent LaRouche lurching into his present political dream world. Until recently, though, few knew or cared.
— LIGHT OF PUBLICITY LAROUCHE'S RUIN; [SPORTS FINAL, C Edition] Mike Royko. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Apr 2, 1986. pg. 3
Carl Mingo," who left the national office staff in 1984, described a "militarized" atmosphere in the fundraising office. "There'd be a roll call in the morning. You were given these gargantuan quotas, and you were expected to work from 9 a.m. until you met the quota, even if that was 11 or 12 at night." Mr. Mingo said that the openly acknowledged policy was to "get loans at any cost and not pay them back -- unless the victim was politically important or threatened to sue." He described intense psychological pressures to meet the quotas: "If you didn't, you'd be an object of ridicule, or they wouldn't give you a day off, or your relationship with your spouse would become the subject of an all-night ego-stripping session."
— King, Dennis, and Patricia Lynch (May 27, 1986). "The Empire of Lyndon LaRouche", Wall Street Journal, pg. 1
In documents from the early days of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, LaRouche talks about the wideranging role he plays in members' lives.
He warned members in 1973 that devotion to him would involve some stress. "In respect of the mental processes, absolutely nothing is secret; there is merely blindness. . . . In Germany I am Der Abscheulicher (the abominable one); I shall soon be regarded similarly here," he said The beginnings of his U.S. movement in place, LaRouche wrote in a confidential message to organizers in 1973, titled, "The Politics of Male Impotence," that he had set up a European base "on the premise that our growing importance in the world would close borders to me very soon."
He also predicted seizure of world power within the decade-through curing the sexual impotence of his followers.
"The principal source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . . If you are sexually impotent-as most of our members inevitably are-then you are impotent as political organizers," he wrote. Sexual performance and motherhood were common themes in LaRouche's early essays.
"All Germany is a heaving mass of sexual impotence," he writes. Latin machismo "is nothing but the fear of homosexuality, of male impotence in the extreme." Blacks have a special problem, he said: "Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the black ghetto mother?"
In a 1981 memo, wired "highest priority" to all points, LaRouche declared that democratic rule of the group was unacceptable.
"I do not wish to hear, ever again, that I must wait until our legal council (sic) has assessed the wisdom of one of my decisions or that some members personal sensitivities must be taken into account. . . .
"I promise you that I shall function, unrestrained, as a commanding general of a combat organization. Anyone who opposes my orders will, in the moral sense, be shot on the spot for insubordination."
His single-minded view has not always proven popular to followers. Two long-time members of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, Donald and Alice Roth, protested to the National Executive Committee in 1981 about LaRouche spreading the claim that Hitler oversaw the extermination of far fewer Jews than commonly believed.
"That . . . was the sign of a mind which has become dangerously ill. . . , " the Roths said in a resignation letter. But by all accounts, the members feel great affection for LaRouche, who was born a Quaker in New Hampshire.
— Authorities See Pattern of Threats, Plots Dark Side of LaRouche Empire Surfaces; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 14, 1986. pg. 1
During the same period, LaRouche also propounded ideas which were widely perceived to represent outright racism. LaRouche, for instance, offended the Hispanic community in a November, 1973 essay (published in both English and Spanish) titled "The Male Impotence of the Puerto-Rican Socialist Party." An internal memo by LaRouche asked "Can we imagine anything more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?" He described the majority of the Chinese people as "approximating the lower animal species" by manifesting a "paranoid personality....a parallel general form of fundamental distinction from actual human personalities." As early as the spring of 1973 LaRouche had begun to articulate a psychosexual theory of political organizing and began descending into a paranoid style of historical analysis that stressed not Marxist dialectical materialism and class analysis, but macabre conspiracy theories and a subjective egocentric analysis. LaRouche warned of a global plot by the CIA/KGB to kidnap and program his membership to assassinate him. His homophobia became a central theme of the organization's conspiracy theories. He said women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of sexual organs near the anus which caused them to confuse sex with excretion.
A September, 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal <Campaigner> charged that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives...." Writing in an August, 1973 memo, LaRouche propounded the startling and sexist psychological theory that "the principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother." LaRouche claimed only he could cure the political and sexual impotence of his followers. NCLC members were forced into what was called psychological therapy and "deprogramming" but were what former members call "brainwashing" and "egostripping" sessions. The NCLC rapidly became totalitarian in style, with a peculiar obsession with sexuality and homophobia used as a weapon against internal dissent." To the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me," LaRouche told his followers in August, 1973, "I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexualimpotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem."
— Clouds Blur the Rainbow, Chip Berlet, 1987 by Political Research Associates
In 1973, LaRouche started writing long essays on the interrelation of political and sexual impotence. He also began the lengthy and belittling sessions of his followers that are said to continue even today. "He took an ideology and overlaid it with psychological conditioning," Berlet said.
Such sessions, according to the government's trial brief in the LaRouche case, are now even a part of his organizations' fund-raising tactics. The indictment describes relentless fund-raising quotas that individuals were required to meet and the consequences if they did not:
"Those having failed were accused of disloyalty and told to stay at the chapter all night to catch up. They were ridiculed in front of other members. . . . They were taunted publicly that their sex life had obviously failed and would continue to do so if their fund-raising did not improve. They were berated as homosexuals, lesbians, drunks or prostitutes, all in front of their peers."
— LAROUCHE TRIAL TO OPEN TOMORROW Susan Levine. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa.: Oct 19, 1987. pg. A.9
What happened to cause this dramatic shift? Some say it was a dramatic incident in LaRouche's personal life. In 1972 LaRouche's common-law wife, Carol Schnitzer, left him for a young member of the London NCLC chapter named Christopher White, whom she eventually married. For LaRouche, it was a crushing blow. His first wife Janice had similarly walked out on him a decade earlier, taking with her the couple's young son. This personal event apparently triggered LaRouche's political metamorphosis. LaRouche went into seclusion in Europe, and defectors tell of his suffering a possible nervous breakdown. In the spring of 1973, he returned. His previous conspiratorial inclinations had now grown into a bizarre tapestry weaving together classical conspiracy theories of the 19th century and post-Marxian economics. He began articulating a `psycho-sexual' theory of political organizing.
Sexism and homophobia became central themes of the organization's theories. A September 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal Campaigner charged that "Concretely, all across the U.S.A., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives. . . ." The problem with making the revolution, LaRouche apparently had concluded, was that women are castrating bitches. One former member left in disgust when she was told women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of female sexual organs near the anus which caused women to confuse sex with excretion.
In an August 16, 1973 internal memo, "The Politics of Male Impotence," LaRouche told his followers:
"The principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . .to the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me, I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexual-- impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem. . . . I am going to make you organizers--by taking your bedrooms away from you until you make the step to being effective organizers. What I shall do is to expose to you the cruel fact of your sexual impotence, male and female. . . .I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee. I shall not pull you back from fleeing, but rather destroy the place to which you would attempt to flee."
In a cruel sense, LaRouche was true to his twisted words, those members who challenge the increasingly macabre political and social theories expounded by their leader were confronted by loyalists as politically and sexually inadequate traitors to the cause. LaRouche also developed a fevered, comprehensive paranoid fantasy about the importance of his role in history--and a militant, new-found resolve to act upon it, wiping out all opposition to his leadership of the U.S. revolutionary movement. The result was Operation Mop-Up. Lyndon LaRouche took his sexual identity crisis into the streets.
— Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag, by Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman March 10th, 1989, Political Research Associates
According to court records, the LaRouche organization used heavy-handed tactics to raise money. Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Wertz, who was in charge of raising money, set high goals for fund-raisers. Mr. LaRouche was said to have blamed inadequacies of his fund-raisers on sexual impotence.
— Appeals Court Upholds Convictions of LaRouche and Four Others. New York Times January 23, 1990:A.21.
LaRouche and Wertz set high fundraising goals for the organization, for each office, and for each individual fundraiser. LaRouche was said to have blamed the fundraisers' inadequacy on "sexual impotence." Wertz and regional fundraising supervisors reacted angrily to fundraising shortfalls and the individual fundraisers, when failing to meet established quotas, became hysterical, distraught, and depressed.
— 896 F.2d 815 UNITED STATES v. Lyndon H. LAROUCHE, No. 89-5518. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied Feb. 16, 1990.
It was around that time that [ Fred Newman ] fell under the spell of another, more powerful ideologue working at the intersection of psychology and politics: Lyndon LaRouche. Though once a figure respected on the left, by the early '70s LaRouche had descended into a gothic world of conspiracy theories, a place where the CIA was brainwashing his security guards to kill him and where only he had the power to end "your political-and sexual-impotence." To maintain total command over the hundreds of disciples he sent out onto the streets to assault rival political parties with lead pipes and brass knuckles, he forced them into psychological therapy sessions, called "deprogramming."
In 1974, when most of the left was quite literally running from LaRouche, Newman led nearly 40 of his followers into an official alliance with LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees. For several weeks, the two groups held joint forums and political meetings. It is unclear how much the Newmanites participated in the LaRoucheans' more militant activities. But, according to Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, which has tracked both groups, Newman used the interaction as an apprenticeship, a way to learn how to control a mass organization. It was then, Berlet says, that Newman mastered "ego-stripping group-therapy sessions"to discipline his rank and file. He also developed his ideology, a crude form of Marxism, which contended that the United States was ruled by a handful of moneyed elites-- most notably the Jews, whom Newman decried, despite his upbringing, as "dirty," "self-righteous dehumanize[s]," and "the storm troopers of decadent capitalism."
IT DIDN'T TAKE long, however, before apprentice and mentor fell into a fierce rivalry. "There was room for only one charismatic leader," says Berlet. And, after just a few months, Newman walked out with most of his original followers forming his own breakaway faction: the International Workers Party (IWP).
Operating through Leninist-style cadres and explicitly committed to a workers' revolution, the IWP adopted LaRouchean elements such as a cult of personality. But at its core was Newman's evolving theory of "social therapy," which many say encourages the patient to reject almost everything he has been taught by society and cede to the therapist enormous power over every facet ofhis life: hisjob, his friends, his family, even his sexual partners. Though many participants speak effusively of its success-"Fred saved my life," enthused one-early on there were reports of abuse. Several former IWP members said that, as part of their salvation, they were persuaded to hand over all their assets. IWP members told a local New York reporter, Dennis King, that Newman broke up at least two marriages because the relationships were too "bourgeois"-an allegation Newman denies. Others have said Newman encouraged them to participate in what he called "friendosexuality" a practice that Newman cheerfully recommends in his book Let's Develop.
Ironically, it was the LaRoucheans who first circulated documents stating that the Newmanites were too bizarre. One 30-cent leaflet complained indignantly of the IWP's "totally destructive social relations" and "methods of brainwashing. " Newman, in turn, charged that LaRouche's members were even worse-"mindfucked not brainwashed." ("[A]n organization based on ... mindfucking cannot lead the class;" he wrote. "It will destroy itself.")
— Coming soon to a presidential campaign near you David Grann. The New Republic. Washington: Dec 13, 1999. Vol. 221, Iss. 24; pg. 20, 6 pgs
The LaRouchian cult-style ego-stripping mind-control techniques involve recruits being probed for sexual peccadilloes, especially their sexual relationship with their mother.xv The "Witch Mother" or her surrogate is blamed for a recruit's neuroses and is hunted down for exorcism: by a recruit denouncing the "Witch Mother", recruiting his wife to the cause, or leaving his wife and family, he will be declared "unblocked", "potent" and a "beautiful" person.xvi There have been several documented cases of recruits severing ties with their families as a result of the ego-stripping sessions.xvii National Secretary Craig Isherwood also apparently uses the techniques to unmask "threats" from within the CEC and then devises strategies to counter them, thereby promoting himself as the organisation's "dragon slayer".xviii
— 2001 Anti-Defamation Commission (Australia) briefing paper
At this time, LaRouche still identified himself as a Marxist, and he blamed all the problems of the Left on women. In one lengthy 1973 article he described it thus: Capitalist ideology within the individual is primarily matrilocal and matrilineal…
Mother’s magic, perpetuated as fantasy through the dependency of Ego-identity on the internalized voice of the superstitious mother-image, is the basis for the hostility to “theory” among workers, the bitter invective against Marxist “elites”…and the general hostility to revolutionary socialism generally. “Who do you think you are to imagine you can go against the system?” mother’s voice warns.20
In this treatise, LaRouche also says that witches are real in the sense of being the subconscious image children have of their sadistic and dominating mothers, making them apt symbols of the feminist movement:
The witch image is the associated quality of the female Ego otherwise identified with female sexual impotence and its correlated forms of social impotence generally. Hence, the clinical significance of the acronym, WITCH, for the cited radical feminist group. Such variety of “radical feminism,” as distinct from its sane bitter factional opponent, Women’s Liberation efforts, is essentially an outbreak of the most pathetic, most sadistic form of lesbianism. The method of indoctrination used by groups such as WITCH, so-called “consciousnessraising sessions”…represented the…most efficient means for turning a merely intensely neurotic young woman into a virtual psychotic. …A woman reduced to this psychotic state, must tend to become a prostitute, or a lesbian, or both.21
(WITCH, the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, was a New York City group founded on Halloween 1968 by feminist author Robin Morgan and others. It conducted theatrical feminist actions such as putting a “hex” on Wall Street to oppose the Vietnam War and capitalist war profiteers.) In 1973, LaRouche also published an extensive psychosexual diatribe against the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Women were to blame, LaRouche said, for the supposed impotence and emasculation of men in Latin culture:
The oppressor is the mother-image, an internalized monster within the mind of the child, a monster based not on the existent woman, the mother, but the mother’s bourgeois- family relationship to her husband and children… The woman who is banalized and otherwise degraded by capitalist culture is stripped of every possible power over society except the role of the female sadist. Until she is confronted with her real oppression—her banality—and her real oppressor—her internalized mother image, and unless she is also offered a real alternative, human role in society, she will cling with rage and terror to the one power—female sadism—bourgeois society offers her.22
Since these glory days, LaRouche gives the impression of having pulled himself together on the woman issue, at least publicly. Many of his supporters and leading cadre are women. Searching LaRouche’s websites for the term “women,” “feminism,” and “abortion” turned up only a few times where he revealed himself.
— Lyndon Larouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium, by Helen Gilbert 2003 ISBN 0932323219
"I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU ORGANIZERS -- by taking your bedrooms away from you . . . What I shall do is expose to you the cruel act of your sexual impotence . . . I will take away from you all hope that you can flee the terrors of politics to the safety of 'personal life.' I shall do this by showing to you that your frightened personal sexual life contains for you such terrors as the outside world could never offer you. 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."
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During this period, LaRouche wrote about psychological techniques for transforming recruits into faithful organizers. In one treatise, "Beyond Psychoanalysis," he wrote that organizers should strip recruits of their egos and reduce them to a state called "little me," in order to rebuild their personalities around a new socialist identity. LaRouche opined in another manifesto, "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party," that "Sexual impotency is generally the causal root of Left political impotency." To become politically potent, he said, leftists must confront their sexual problems, such as their fear of and desire for their sadistic mothers.
For three decades, LaRouche and his followers have accused enemies, including American, Soviet and British intelligence agencies, of sending brainwashed zombies to assassinate him. In December 1973, a 26-year-old British LaRouche associate named Christopher White claimed that he had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche. LaRouche activists announced that they'd been forced to put White through a grueling "de-programming," and offered recordings of the sessions to a New York Times reporter as proof.
"There are sounds of weeping, and vomiting on the tapes, and Mr. White complains of being deprived of sleep, food and cigarettes," the resulting Times story says. "At one point someone says 'raise the voltage,' but (LaRouche) says this was associated with the bright lights used in the questioning rather than an electric shock."
"During the intensive questioning on one day, Mr. White complains of a terrible pain in his arm," the story says, adding that LaRouche can be heard telling him: "That's not real. That's in the program."
Soon afterward, the Times reported, another LaRouche follower, Alice Weitzman, wrote a desperate note claiming that she was being held prisoner, folded her plea for help into a paper airplane, and sailed it out the window of her New York City apartment. According to the Times, when police arrived, they found several LaRouche followers who said they were "staying" with Weitzman because she had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche.
Brainwashing hysteria quickly spread through the LaRouche organization, Kacprzak says. He attended LaRouche meetings in the United States where there were "people writhing on the floor saying, 'I've been brainwashed, somebody de-program me!' "
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The group's leaders, Winstead says, "were constantly asking us if we would die for these ideas." At one retreat of about 100 young people, a LaRouche organizer asked for a show of hands. "Most of the group raised their hands," Winstead says. "I think I did. The thing is, they frame it along the lines of Martin Luther King's [notion that] a man who hasn't found anything to die for isn't fit to live."
Visits home were frowned upon, he says. Parents were derided as "brainwashed baby boomers" or agents of the worldwide conspiracy against LaRouche.
LaRouche followers were expected to work six days a week, he says, beginning at 8 a.m., when a few dozen activists would gather at the office to sing -- typically old slave spirituals. Then they'd listen via speakerphone to an organization leader give a news briefing highlighting events that, Winstead says, "support their view that the world is crumbling basically and the economy is collapsing."
By 9 a.m., older members, some of whom had followed LaRouche for decades, were working the phones to raise money. Younger recruits loaded card tables and literature into cars, then fanned out to troll for new members. Everyone was given a daily quota of money to raise, Winstead recalls. If they hadn't made quota by late afternoon, they'd stake out intersections with long red lights and work the left-turn lane. "There's a horrible war," Winstead would tell anyone who'd roll down the window. "Lyndon LaRouche is going to stop it. Here's the paper; make a donation."
By 5:30 p.m., Winstead and his colleagues returned to the field office for another news briefing before dinner. Then they'd launch a new round of work: telephoning potential recruits. "That generally goes on until 10 at night," he says. "If it's not done, then you are pretty much in trouble."
Winstead was pretty much in trouble. He turned out to be not much of a true believer after all. He thought meetings where members professed that they were unworthy to follow LaRouche were like parodies of tent revivals. He wondered why, for all their talk of saving the world, LaRouche activists didn't seem to accomplish much other than raising money and recruiting new members.
He was stunned, at first, to find out what happened when he asked questions or complained. "Maybe you are too [expletive] busy [masturbating] thinking about your mother to go out and organize," he recalls one of the leaders barking at him. "How much money did you raise today?"
"I'm caught off-guard, like, what the hell just happened?" Winstead recalls. "The yelling goes on for maybe five or 10 minutes while I'm furiously backpedaling."
Eventually, he became accustomed to the humiliating insults and tirades. "They call it making somebody a self-conscious organizer," he says. "It is about getting somebody to break down and cry, just to have an emotional collapse. Once you do that, then people are malleable."
LaRouche declined to discuss how members of his youth movement are treated, characterizing a series of questions about those practices as "simply garbage."
According to Winstead, attacking someone for having "mother issues," being homosexual or sexually perverse seemed to be a common strategy for controlling members in the office where he worked. Leaders directed the group to gang up on colleagues for minor infractions, a phenomenon Winstead calls "wolf-packing." It was effective, he says.
Once he witnessed organizers surround and berate a woman, he says. The sobbing woman tried to leave, but one organizer wrestled her back into a chair, Winstead says. She didn't resist again, he says.
Another time, Winstead says, a member having second thoughts about the group asked him for a ride to the bus station so he could visit relatives. Winstead obliged, infuriating movement leaders. "That whole week I just got pounded [by] everyone in the organization. It was comments like . . . 'Mike, you've been driving people away from this movement! You are an agent, aren't you?' "
One day a member of LaRouche's inner circle of advisers was giving a lecture when he touched upon a favorite topic in the movement -- brainwashing. He mentioned a 1957 book on the subject, Battle for the Mind. Curious, Winstead tracked down the book at a library.
"Various types of belief can be implanted in people, after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger or excitement," the author, William Sargant, wrote. "Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgment and heightened suggestibility."
Chinese communists "spread their gospel," the author noted, through psychological conditioning: inventing enemies, isolating trainees in special locations, keeping them exhausted by performing demeaning tasks and learning difficult new terminology, using informers to keep people tense and uncertain, and forcing them to sever ties with family and friends, even encouraging their recruits, as Hitler had, to denounce their parents.
Winstead felt ill, he says. "I sat there and I read exactly what I had been going through for the last six months," he says. "It definitely had worked on me quite a bit, more than I'd like to admit to myself then or now."
Now Winstead wanted out. He was scared, he says.
That night Winstead returned to the house he shared with LaRouche organizers. Before he went to bed, he piled furniture in front of his bedroom door. Next to the bed he placed a chef's knife, just in case he had to defend himself.
He repeated that ritual for several nights, he says, while he compiled an "intelligence report" outlining what he'd read about brainwashing techniques. The day he left the LaRouche Youth Movement, he says, he stuffed the memo into the mailboxes of other members, packed up his car, drove to his mother's house and hid.
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He's a Bad Guy, But We Can't Say Why Schiller Institute Website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Beback ( talk • contribs) 11:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Chip Berlet. 2005. “Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium.” Paper presented at the conference: Reconsidering “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”: 100 Years After the Forgery, The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University, October 30-31, 2005.
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Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, who faces a conspiracy charge, claimed Wednesday that the National Security Council (NSC) helped fabricate a case against him because he opposes aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
LaRouche said the case was constructed to undermine his 1988 presidential campaign but actually may have helped him earn name recognition.
``The National Security Council ... was running an operation against us - an operation which in part led to the indictment against me,`` LaRouche said.
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At a news conference, LaRouche accused the Contras of smuggling drugs. He said former NSC aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and his colleagues often solicited funds to help the Contras from the same people who were being asked to contribute to the LaRouche presidential campaign.
``They were trying to raise money from people who were in touch with supporters of LaRouche, and the LaRouche supporters told them not to give money because (the Contras) were drug runners,`` LaRouche spokeswoman Dana Scanlon said.
``There's pretty direct knowledge that this led to some pretty angry reactions from the people who were involved with Col. North's fund-raising operations.`` [..]
— LaRouche claims security council behind indictment; [CITY Edition] St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jul 9, 1987. pg. 7.A
Last month, at an antiwar conference in Chicago held by the LaRouche organization, a featured speaker was the editor of Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam whose leader, Farrakhan, has been condemned for anti-Semitic comments, including his reference to Judaism as a "dirty" religion. The same conference featured an address by the Iraqi cultural affairs attache.
Many activists question the judgment of Ramsey Clark, former US attorney general, who heads the Coalition to Stop US Intervention in
the Middle East. The coalition, which sponsored a rally in Washington Saturday, has not condemned Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and has opposed economic sanctions against Iraq.
A second major peace group, The National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East, which is headed by veteran organizer Leslie Cagan, includes more traditional progressive antiwar groups, many that can be traced to the days of the Vietnam War. The campaign, in contrast to Clark's coalition, has condemned the Iraqi invasion and has not taken a position on economic sanctions. The campaign's Washington rally is scheduled for next Saturday.
According to a number of organizers, several right-wing groups became associated with Clark's coalition through their alliances with the LaRouche group. Clark is representing LaRouche in an appeal from his recent conviction for loan fraud.
Clark could not be reached on Friday. A spokesman for the national LaRouche group did not return a phone call.
But a spokesman for Clark's coalition, Paul Wilcox, said the LaRouche group has no formal relationship to the coalition. He added, however, that the coalition "is open to any and all people who want to be active against the war. We don't exclude anyone."
Clark was quoted recently as saying he felt the US government had "demonized" both Saddam Hussein and LaRouche. [..] Jon Hillson, a coordinator of a Cleveland peace group, said in a recent interview: "The LaRouche people are a big problem. They are anti-Semitic, home-grown facists. They use traditional epithets, like Zionist bankers, media overlords, to deride Jews."
Another organizer, noting that the appearance of right-wing organizations in the peace movement is confounding many mainstream activists, said: "The big challenge with groups like LaRouche is how to handle them without polarizing the peace movement. That discussion has already begun among a number of groups."
Lois Levine, a St. Louis peace activist, said, "I tell people that it is legitimate to criticize Israeli policy, just as we can criticize the policy of any government. But when people talk of Israel as intrinsically evil or illegitimate, that is anti-Semitic."
— Peace activists express concern about anti-Semites in movement Ross Gelbspan, Globe Staff. Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext). Boston, Mass.: Jan 22, 1991.
The biggest push is coming from supporters of the ultra-right wing Lyndon LaRouche, who built a shadowy financial empire to support his presidential ambitions and in 1989 earned a 15-year prison sentence for tax evasion and mail fraud conspiracy.
Since November, LaRouche supporters have popped up with literature at anti-war rallies all over the country.
In Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, investigative reporter Dennis King chronicled La-Rouche's move from Marxist revolutionary to a right-wing anti-Semite. LaRouche's support of Star Wars was a ploy to gain respectability within the Reagan administration. LaRouche's organization, which still draws substantial profits from computer services, has shifted emphasis in trying to forge alliances with blacks.
— Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement; [CITY Edition] JASON BERRY. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Feb 24, 1991. pg. 8.D
But nothing could match the conspiracy theories of American fringe politician and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who believes all evil emanates from planet earth's super-Svengali Henry Kissinger - the chief executor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Proving that not even the most deft Middle Eastern propagandist can outdo an antisemitic political Neanderthal, he blamed the UN-conspiracy and the war against Saddam Hussein on - are you ready for this - "Israeli-controlled Moslem fundamentalist groups" and the "Ariel Sharon-dominated government of Israel," whose annexation program of the West Bank is "dictated by Kissinger and company, through the Hollinger Corporation, which has taken over The Jerusalem Post for that purpose."
So now you know how Saddam's army was defeated: inflamed by the Kissinger-dictated Jerusalem Post, Israeli pilots in American planes painted with Iraqi insignia bombed the daylights out of the Iraqi army and brought it to its knees. Crafty, those Jews!
— FANTASIES David Bar-Illan. Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem: Mar 29, 1991. pg. 08
A newly formed group that fears "a tragedy of apocalyptic proportions" among the civilian population of Iraq yesterday called for an immediate end to international trade sanctions against that country in conjunction with the airlifting of food and medicine for its children.
The Committee to Save the Children in Iraq, in news conferences here and in other parts of the United States yesterday, said it intends to "mobilize the political will" of the country in order to allow Iraq to sell its oil.
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The withholding of aid and restrictions on Iraq's ability to export oil will mean death to thousands of children from disease and malnutrition, said David Kilber, a representative of the Schiller Institute, at a news conference in front of the Federal Building downtown.
Kilber called the Bush Administration policy "deliberate, unneeded, unexcusable genocide. Whether you like Hussein or not, innocent civilians are dying."
The Schiller Institute is associated with Lyndon LaRouche, a political extremist currently imprisoned for mail and tax fraud.
An institute spokesman, however, said the committee is composed of intellectuals, religious leaders, human rights activists, trade unionists and others who feel that Iraq's civilian population faces devastation unless the country quickly rebuilds its economic base.
— Group urges end to Iraq sanctions; [5,6,1,4 Edition] Ed Jahn. The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 13, 1991. pg. B.8.5.6
addam Hussein needn't sit up nights brooding over his lack of friends. He has just found one strange enough to compensate for all the ordinary folk who would as soon wrestle with a rabid raccoon as come within spitting distance of him.
I am speaking of Lyndon LaRouche, the nutty professor of American extremism, mastermind of a wide-ranging covert intelligence network, sometime U.S. presidential candidate, and now, supporter of "starving Iraqi children."
In New York last month, street corners near the United Nations were commandeered by smiling young men in yuppie clothing sitting at makeshift desks neatly adorned with books on international relations.
They greeted passersby with, "You don't look like somebody who was happy that we went to war in the gulf."
Those who paused long enough to bat an eyelash were drawn into a discussion of cruel American-instigated sanctions, aimed particularly at the starving children, and at the need to give up the Iraqi embargo by tomorrow morning at the latest.
The smiling young men were working for the Schiller Institute, a literary-sounding organization that in fact sprang from the pocket of LaRouche. Its interest in Iraq is obscure, but no doubt fits into the mind-boggling geopolitic of its devotees.
And, oddly enough, within a week of the street-corner offensive, the U.N. General Assembly was pelted with papers and its debate interrupted by 15 anonymous people shouting slogans about starving Iraqi children.
— Starving kids pawns in scuffle over Iraq; [HO2 Edition] Olivia Ward TORONTO STAR. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Oct 14, 1991. pg. A.11
Like many cult leaders, LaRouche has developed a highly effective arsenal of mind-control techniques based on his self-proclaimed "groundbreaking" psychological discoveries. Those who question his reported assassination plots are diagnosed as "paranoid." Politicial doubts are ascribed to a "mother complex," homosexuality or sexual impotence. Dependence is enforced not only in group therapy sessions, during which LaRouche explains the worthlessness of each member without the organization but also in private, one-on-one sessions. "The people who were the leaders and movers and shakers were all psychologically crushed, broken almost physically sometimes," says an ex-member. "They were locked in a room and ego-stripped for days." Another member recalls that the most brilliant members of the organization were "psychologicaly castrated" and then "assigned for rehabilitation to write reports, and locally, to sell newspapers."
— Donner, Frank, and Randall Rothenberg (August 16-23, 1980). "The Strange Odyssey of Lyndon LaRouche", The Nation, pp. 142-147.
As for the Latino community, again, LaRouche demonstrated elemental racism in a 1973 essay of his own called "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party." In this extended polemic, LaRouche attacked the PSP with racial stereotypes: "...the political life of the PSP is the principle of the sexual impotence of the 'Machismo' extended into the domain of political commedia ... all Latin politics is permeated with the same pathetic, self-defeating quality." The cult boss then analyzes "the psychological truth which every Latin [emphasis added] can recognize in his own personal thoughts as the essence of 'Machismo' as sexual impotence." LaRouche .doesn't neglect Latin women, referring to their "frigidity, their sadistic semi-bestiality, and selfbestialization as potential 'mothers.' " He ridicules Puerto Rican popular culture as "garbage," a "poor imitation culture of whatever refuse decaying Spanish heritage or Yanqui imports have discarded into the streets." Island independence is "a degrading mythos," and Latin music is "psychopathological."
— The Racist Roots of Mad Melvin, Joe Conason, Village Voice, 9/28/82.
As an example, there is an article about LaRouche in this week's issue of Newsweek magazine, which will be read by millions.
The article digs into LaRouche's past and pinpoints a period of his life when former followers say he underwent a severe personality change. And why.
It seems that sometime in the 1960s, he and his first wife split. This was after LaRouche had been a Marxist, a Socialist and a follower of various left-wing philosophies.
It's not clear exactly where on the political spectrum he was wandering at that time. But after his wife left him, he began living with one of his female followers.
Apparently his magnetism was lost on her because eventually she went away with another man.
Ah, the pain of rejection. That, according to Newsweek, is when LaRouche became even more unhinged, brooding in his apartment while surrounded by canned goods and bodyguards.
After that, he became even more extreme and began playing "ego- stripping" head games with members of his cult, whose heads weren't screwed on too securely to begin with.
So it appears that the trauma of being dumped by a girlfriend may have sent LaRouche lurching into his present political dream world. Until recently, though, few knew or cared.
— LIGHT OF PUBLICITY LAROUCHE'S RUIN; [SPORTS FINAL, C Edition] Mike Royko. Chicago Tribune (pre-1997 Fulltext). Chicago, Ill.: Apr 2, 1986. pg. 3
Carl Mingo," who left the national office staff in 1984, described a "militarized" atmosphere in the fundraising office. "There'd be a roll call in the morning. You were given these gargantuan quotas, and you were expected to work from 9 a.m. until you met the quota, even if that was 11 or 12 at night." Mr. Mingo said that the openly acknowledged policy was to "get loans at any cost and not pay them back -- unless the victim was politically important or threatened to sue." He described intense psychological pressures to meet the quotas: "If you didn't, you'd be an object of ridicule, or they wouldn't give you a day off, or your relationship with your spouse would become the subject of an all-night ego-stripping session."
— King, Dennis, and Patricia Lynch (May 27, 1986). "The Empire of Lyndon LaRouche", Wall Street Journal, pg. 1
In documents from the early days of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, LaRouche talks about the wideranging role he plays in members' lives.
He warned members in 1973 that devotion to him would involve some stress. "In respect of the mental processes, absolutely nothing is secret; there is merely blindness. . . . In Germany I am Der Abscheulicher (the abominable one); I shall soon be regarded similarly here," he said The beginnings of his U.S. movement in place, LaRouche wrote in a confidential message to organizers in 1973, titled, "The Politics of Male Impotence," that he had set up a European base "on the premise that our growing importance in the world would close borders to me very soon."
He also predicted seizure of world power within the decade-through curing the sexual impotence of his followers.
"The principal source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . . If you are sexually impotent-as most of our members inevitably are-then you are impotent as political organizers," he wrote. Sexual performance and motherhood were common themes in LaRouche's early essays.
"All Germany is a heaving mass of sexual impotence," he writes. Latin machismo "is nothing but the fear of homosexuality, of male impotence in the extreme." Blacks have a special problem, he said: "Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the black ghetto mother?"
In a 1981 memo, wired "highest priority" to all points, LaRouche declared that democratic rule of the group was unacceptable.
"I do not wish to hear, ever again, that I must wait until our legal council (sic) has assessed the wisdom of one of my decisions or that some members personal sensitivities must be taken into account. . . .
"I promise you that I shall function, unrestrained, as a commanding general of a combat organization. Anyone who opposes my orders will, in the moral sense, be shot on the spot for insubordination."
His single-minded view has not always proven popular to followers. Two long-time members of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, Donald and Alice Roth, protested to the National Executive Committee in 1981 about LaRouche spreading the claim that Hitler oversaw the extermination of far fewer Jews than commonly believed.
"That . . . was the sign of a mind which has become dangerously ill. . . , " the Roths said in a resignation letter. But by all accounts, the members feel great affection for LaRouche, who was born a Quaker in New Hampshire.
— Authorities See Pattern of Threats, Plots Dark Side of LaRouche Empire Surfaces; KEVIN RODERICK. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 14, 1986. pg. 1
During the same period, LaRouche also propounded ideas which were widely perceived to represent outright racism. LaRouche, for instance, offended the Hispanic community in a November, 1973 essay (published in both English and Spanish) titled "The Male Impotence of the Puerto-Rican Socialist Party." An internal memo by LaRouche asked "Can we imagine anything more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?" He described the majority of the Chinese people as "approximating the lower animal species" by manifesting a "paranoid personality....a parallel general form of fundamental distinction from actual human personalities." As early as the spring of 1973 LaRouche had begun to articulate a psychosexual theory of political organizing and began descending into a paranoid style of historical analysis that stressed not Marxist dialectical materialism and class analysis, but macabre conspiracy theories and a subjective egocentric analysis. LaRouche warned of a global plot by the CIA/KGB to kidnap and program his membership to assassinate him. His homophobia became a central theme of the organization's conspiracy theories. He said women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of sexual organs near the anus which caused them to confuse sex with excretion.
A September, 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal <Campaigner> charged that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. that "Concretely, all across the USA., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives...." Writing in an August, 1973 memo, LaRouche propounded the startling and sexist psychological theory that "the principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother." LaRouche claimed only he could cure the political and sexual impotence of his followers. NCLC members were forced into what was called psychological therapy and "deprogramming" but were what former members call "brainwashing" and "egostripping" sessions. The NCLC rapidly became totalitarian in style, with a peculiar obsession with sexuality and homophobia used as a weapon against internal dissent." To the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me," LaRouche told his followers in August, 1973, "I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexualimpotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem."
— Clouds Blur the Rainbow, Chip Berlet, 1987 by Political Research Associates
In 1973, LaRouche started writing long essays on the interrelation of political and sexual impotence. He also began the lengthy and belittling sessions of his followers that are said to continue even today. "He took an ideology and overlaid it with psychological conditioning," Berlet said.
Such sessions, according to the government's trial brief in the LaRouche case, are now even a part of his organizations' fund-raising tactics. The indictment describes relentless fund-raising quotas that individuals were required to meet and the consequences if they did not:
"Those having failed were accused of disloyalty and told to stay at the chapter all night to catch up. They were ridiculed in front of other members. . . . They were taunted publicly that their sex life had obviously failed and would continue to do so if their fund-raising did not improve. They were berated as homosexuals, lesbians, drunks or prostitutes, all in front of their peers."
— LAROUCHE TRIAL TO OPEN TOMORROW Susan Levine. Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa.: Oct 19, 1987. pg. A.9
What happened to cause this dramatic shift? Some say it was a dramatic incident in LaRouche's personal life. In 1972 LaRouche's common-law wife, Carol Schnitzer, left him for a young member of the London NCLC chapter named Christopher White, whom she eventually married. For LaRouche, it was a crushing blow. His first wife Janice had similarly walked out on him a decade earlier, taking with her the couple's young son. This personal event apparently triggered LaRouche's political metamorphosis. LaRouche went into seclusion in Europe, and defectors tell of his suffering a possible nervous breakdown. In the spring of 1973, he returned. His previous conspiratorial inclinations had now grown into a bizarre tapestry weaving together classical conspiracy theories of the 19th century and post-Marxian economics. He began articulating a `psycho-sexual' theory of political organizing.
Sexism and homophobia became central themes of the organization's theories. A September 1973 editorial in the NCLC ideological journal Campaigner charged that "Concretely, all across the U.S.A., there are workers who are prepared to fight. They are held back, most immediately, by pressure from their wives. . . ." The problem with making the revolution, LaRouche apparently had concluded, was that women are castrating bitches. One former member left in disgust when she was told women's feelings of degradation in modern society could be traced to the physical placement of female sexual organs near the anus which caused women to confuse sex with excretion.
In an August 16, 1973 internal memo, "The Politics of Male Impotence," LaRouche told his followers:
"The principle source of impotence, both male and female, is the mother. . . .to the extent that my physical powers do not prevent me, I am now confident and capable of ending your political--and sexual-- impotence; the two are interconnected aspects of the same problem. . . . I am going to make you organizers--by taking your bedrooms away from you until you make the step to being effective organizers. What I shall do is to expose to you the cruel fact of your sexual impotence, male and female. . . .I shall destroy your sense of safety in the place to which you ordinarily imagine you can flee. I shall not pull you back from fleeing, but rather destroy the place to which you would attempt to flee."
In a cruel sense, LaRouche was true to his twisted words, those members who challenge the increasingly macabre political and social theories expounded by their leader were confronted by loyalists as politically and sexually inadequate traitors to the cause. LaRouche also developed a fevered, comprehensive paranoid fantasy about the importance of his role in history--and a militant, new-found resolve to act upon it, wiping out all opposition to his leadership of the U.S. revolutionary movement. The result was Operation Mop-Up. Lyndon LaRouche took his sexual identity crisis into the streets.
— Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag, by Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman March 10th, 1989, Political Research Associates
According to court records, the LaRouche organization used heavy-handed tactics to raise money. Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Wertz, who was in charge of raising money, set high goals for fund-raisers. Mr. LaRouche was said to have blamed inadequacies of his fund-raisers on sexual impotence.
— Appeals Court Upholds Convictions of LaRouche and Four Others. New York Times January 23, 1990:A.21.
LaRouche and Wertz set high fundraising goals for the organization, for each office, and for each individual fundraiser. LaRouche was said to have blamed the fundraisers' inadequacy on "sexual impotence." Wertz and regional fundraising supervisors reacted angrily to fundraising shortfalls and the individual fundraisers, when failing to meet established quotas, became hysterical, distraught, and depressed.
— 896 F.2d 815 UNITED STATES v. Lyndon H. LAROUCHE, No. 89-5518. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied Feb. 16, 1990.
It was around that time that [ Fred Newman ] fell under the spell of another, more powerful ideologue working at the intersection of psychology and politics: Lyndon LaRouche. Though once a figure respected on the left, by the early '70s LaRouche had descended into a gothic world of conspiracy theories, a place where the CIA was brainwashing his security guards to kill him and where only he had the power to end "your political-and sexual-impotence." To maintain total command over the hundreds of disciples he sent out onto the streets to assault rival political parties with lead pipes and brass knuckles, he forced them into psychological therapy sessions, called "deprogramming."
In 1974, when most of the left was quite literally running from LaRouche, Newman led nearly 40 of his followers into an official alliance with LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees. For several weeks, the two groups held joint forums and political meetings. It is unclear how much the Newmanites participated in the LaRoucheans' more militant activities. But, according to Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, which has tracked both groups, Newman used the interaction as an apprenticeship, a way to learn how to control a mass organization. It was then, Berlet says, that Newman mastered "ego-stripping group-therapy sessions"to discipline his rank and file. He also developed his ideology, a crude form of Marxism, which contended that the United States was ruled by a handful of moneyed elites-- most notably the Jews, whom Newman decried, despite his upbringing, as "dirty," "self-righteous dehumanize[s]," and "the storm troopers of decadent capitalism."
IT DIDN'T TAKE long, however, before apprentice and mentor fell into a fierce rivalry. "There was room for only one charismatic leader," says Berlet. And, after just a few months, Newman walked out with most of his original followers forming his own breakaway faction: the International Workers Party (IWP).
Operating through Leninist-style cadres and explicitly committed to a workers' revolution, the IWP adopted LaRouchean elements such as a cult of personality. But at its core was Newman's evolving theory of "social therapy," which many say encourages the patient to reject almost everything he has been taught by society and cede to the therapist enormous power over every facet ofhis life: hisjob, his friends, his family, even his sexual partners. Though many participants speak effusively of its success-"Fred saved my life," enthused one-early on there were reports of abuse. Several former IWP members said that, as part of their salvation, they were persuaded to hand over all their assets. IWP members told a local New York reporter, Dennis King, that Newman broke up at least two marriages because the relationships were too "bourgeois"-an allegation Newman denies. Others have said Newman encouraged them to participate in what he called "friendosexuality" a practice that Newman cheerfully recommends in his book Let's Develop.
Ironically, it was the LaRoucheans who first circulated documents stating that the Newmanites were too bizarre. One 30-cent leaflet complained indignantly of the IWP's "totally destructive social relations" and "methods of brainwashing. " Newman, in turn, charged that LaRouche's members were even worse-"mindfucked not brainwashed." ("[A]n organization based on ... mindfucking cannot lead the class;" he wrote. "It will destroy itself.")
— Coming soon to a presidential campaign near you David Grann. The New Republic. Washington: Dec 13, 1999. Vol. 221, Iss. 24; pg. 20, 6 pgs
The LaRouchian cult-style ego-stripping mind-control techniques involve recruits being probed for sexual peccadilloes, especially their sexual relationship with their mother.xv The "Witch Mother" or her surrogate is blamed for a recruit's neuroses and is hunted down for exorcism: by a recruit denouncing the "Witch Mother", recruiting his wife to the cause, or leaving his wife and family, he will be declared "unblocked", "potent" and a "beautiful" person.xvi There have been several documented cases of recruits severing ties with their families as a result of the ego-stripping sessions.xvii National Secretary Craig Isherwood also apparently uses the techniques to unmask "threats" from within the CEC and then devises strategies to counter them, thereby promoting himself as the organisation's "dragon slayer".xviii
— 2001 Anti-Defamation Commission (Australia) briefing paper
At this time, LaRouche still identified himself as a Marxist, and he blamed all the problems of the Left on women. In one lengthy 1973 article he described it thus: Capitalist ideology within the individual is primarily matrilocal and matrilineal…
Mother’s magic, perpetuated as fantasy through the dependency of Ego-identity on the internalized voice of the superstitious mother-image, is the basis for the hostility to “theory” among workers, the bitter invective against Marxist “elites”…and the general hostility to revolutionary socialism generally. “Who do you think you are to imagine you can go against the system?” mother’s voice warns.20
In this treatise, LaRouche also says that witches are real in the sense of being the subconscious image children have of their sadistic and dominating mothers, making them apt symbols of the feminist movement:
The witch image is the associated quality of the female Ego otherwise identified with female sexual impotence and its correlated forms of social impotence generally. Hence, the clinical significance of the acronym, WITCH, for the cited radical feminist group. Such variety of “radical feminism,” as distinct from its sane bitter factional opponent, Women’s Liberation efforts, is essentially an outbreak of the most pathetic, most sadistic form of lesbianism. The method of indoctrination used by groups such as WITCH, so-called “consciousnessraising sessions”…represented the…most efficient means for turning a merely intensely neurotic young woman into a virtual psychotic. …A woman reduced to this psychotic state, must tend to become a prostitute, or a lesbian, or both.21
(WITCH, the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, was a New York City group founded on Halloween 1968 by feminist author Robin Morgan and others. It conducted theatrical feminist actions such as putting a “hex” on Wall Street to oppose the Vietnam War and capitalist war profiteers.) In 1973, LaRouche also published an extensive psychosexual diatribe against the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Women were to blame, LaRouche said, for the supposed impotence and emasculation of men in Latin culture:
The oppressor is the mother-image, an internalized monster within the mind of the child, a monster based not on the existent woman, the mother, but the mother’s bourgeois- family relationship to her husband and children… The woman who is banalized and otherwise degraded by capitalist culture is stripped of every possible power over society except the role of the female sadist. Until she is confronted with her real oppression—her banality—and her real oppressor—her internalized mother image, and unless she is also offered a real alternative, human role in society, she will cling with rage and terror to the one power—female sadism—bourgeois society offers her.22
Since these glory days, LaRouche gives the impression of having pulled himself together on the woman issue, at least publicly. Many of his supporters and leading cadre are women. Searching LaRouche’s websites for the term “women,” “feminism,” and “abortion” turned up only a few times where he revealed himself.
— Lyndon Larouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium, by Helen Gilbert 2003 ISBN 0932323219
"I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU ORGANIZERS -- by taking your bedrooms away from you . . . What I shall do is expose to you the cruel act of your sexual impotence . . . I will take away from you all hope that you can flee the terrors of politics to the safety of 'personal life.' I shall do this by showing to you that your frightened personal sexual life contains for you such terrors as the outside world could never offer you. 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."
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During this period, LaRouche wrote about psychological techniques for transforming recruits into faithful organizers. In one treatise, "Beyond Psychoanalysis," he wrote that organizers should strip recruits of their egos and reduce them to a state called "little me," in order to rebuild their personalities around a new socialist identity. LaRouche opined in another manifesto, "The Sexual Impotence of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party," that "Sexual impotency is generally the causal root of Left political impotency." To become politically potent, he said, leftists must confront their sexual problems, such as their fear of and desire for their sadistic mothers.
For three decades, LaRouche and his followers have accused enemies, including American, Soviet and British intelligence agencies, of sending brainwashed zombies to assassinate him. In December 1973, a 26-year-old British LaRouche associate named Christopher White claimed that he had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche. LaRouche activists announced that they'd been forced to put White through a grueling "de-programming," and offered recordings of the sessions to a New York Times reporter as proof.
"There are sounds of weeping, and vomiting on the tapes, and Mr. White complains of being deprived of sleep, food and cigarettes," the resulting Times story says. "At one point someone says 'raise the voltage,' but (LaRouche) says this was associated with the bright lights used in the questioning rather than an electric shock."
"During the intensive questioning on one day, Mr. White complains of a terrible pain in his arm," the story says, adding that LaRouche can be heard telling him: "That's not real. That's in the program."
Soon afterward, the Times reported, another LaRouche follower, Alice Weitzman, wrote a desperate note claiming that she was being held prisoner, folded her plea for help into a paper airplane, and sailed it out the window of her New York City apartment. According to the Times, when police arrived, they found several LaRouche followers who said they were "staying" with Weitzman because she had been brainwashed as part of a plot to kill LaRouche.
Brainwashing hysteria quickly spread through the LaRouche organization, Kacprzak says. He attended LaRouche meetings in the United States where there were "people writhing on the floor saying, 'I've been brainwashed, somebody de-program me!' "
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The group's leaders, Winstead says, "were constantly asking us if we would die for these ideas." At one retreat of about 100 young people, a LaRouche organizer asked for a show of hands. "Most of the group raised their hands," Winstead says. "I think I did. The thing is, they frame it along the lines of Martin Luther King's [notion that] a man who hasn't found anything to die for isn't fit to live."
Visits home were frowned upon, he says. Parents were derided as "brainwashed baby boomers" or agents of the worldwide conspiracy against LaRouche.
LaRouche followers were expected to work six days a week, he says, beginning at 8 a.m., when a few dozen activists would gather at the office to sing -- typically old slave spirituals. Then they'd listen via speakerphone to an organization leader give a news briefing highlighting events that, Winstead says, "support their view that the world is crumbling basically and the economy is collapsing."
By 9 a.m., older members, some of whom had followed LaRouche for decades, were working the phones to raise money. Younger recruits loaded card tables and literature into cars, then fanned out to troll for new members. Everyone was given a daily quota of money to raise, Winstead recalls. If they hadn't made quota by late afternoon, they'd stake out intersections with long red lights and work the left-turn lane. "There's a horrible war," Winstead would tell anyone who'd roll down the window. "Lyndon LaRouche is going to stop it. Here's the paper; make a donation."
By 5:30 p.m., Winstead and his colleagues returned to the field office for another news briefing before dinner. Then they'd launch a new round of work: telephoning potential recruits. "That generally goes on until 10 at night," he says. "If it's not done, then you are pretty much in trouble."
Winstead was pretty much in trouble. He turned out to be not much of a true believer after all. He thought meetings where members professed that they were unworthy to follow LaRouche were like parodies of tent revivals. He wondered why, for all their talk of saving the world, LaRouche activists didn't seem to accomplish much other than raising money and recruiting new members.
He was stunned, at first, to find out what happened when he asked questions or complained. "Maybe you are too [expletive] busy [masturbating] thinking about your mother to go out and organize," he recalls one of the leaders barking at him. "How much money did you raise today?"
"I'm caught off-guard, like, what the hell just happened?" Winstead recalls. "The yelling goes on for maybe five or 10 minutes while I'm furiously backpedaling."
Eventually, he became accustomed to the humiliating insults and tirades. "They call it making somebody a self-conscious organizer," he says. "It is about getting somebody to break down and cry, just to have an emotional collapse. Once you do that, then people are malleable."
LaRouche declined to discuss how members of his youth movement are treated, characterizing a series of questions about those practices as "simply garbage."
According to Winstead, attacking someone for having "mother issues," being homosexual or sexually perverse seemed to be a common strategy for controlling members in the office where he worked. Leaders directed the group to gang up on colleagues for minor infractions, a phenomenon Winstead calls "wolf-packing." It was effective, he says.
Once he witnessed organizers surround and berate a woman, he says. The sobbing woman tried to leave, but one organizer wrestled her back into a chair, Winstead says. She didn't resist again, he says.
Another time, Winstead says, a member having second thoughts about the group asked him for a ride to the bus station so he could visit relatives. Winstead obliged, infuriating movement leaders. "That whole week I just got pounded [by] everyone in the organization. It was comments like . . . 'Mike, you've been driving people away from this movement! You are an agent, aren't you?' "
One day a member of LaRouche's inner circle of advisers was giving a lecture when he touched upon a favorite topic in the movement -- brainwashing. He mentioned a 1957 book on the subject, Battle for the Mind. Curious, Winstead tracked down the book at a library.
"Various types of belief can be implanted in people, after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger or excitement," the author, William Sargant, wrote. "Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgment and heightened suggestibility."
Chinese communists "spread their gospel," the author noted, through psychological conditioning: inventing enemies, isolating trainees in special locations, keeping them exhausted by performing demeaning tasks and learning difficult new terminology, using informers to keep people tense and uncertain, and forcing them to sever ties with family and friends, even encouraging their recruits, as Hitler had, to denounce their parents.
Winstead felt ill, he says. "I sat there and I read exactly what I had been going through for the last six months," he says. "It definitely had worked on me quite a bit, more than I'd like to admit to myself then or now."
Now Winstead wanted out. He was scared, he says.
That night Winstead returned to the house he shared with LaRouche organizers. Before he went to bed, he piled furniture in front of his bedroom door. Next to the bed he placed a chef's knife, just in case he had to defend himself.
He repeated that ritual for several nights, he says, while he compiled an "intelligence report" outlining what he'd read about brainwashing techniques. The day he left the LaRouche Youth Movement, he says, he stuffed the memo into the mailboxes of other members, packed up his car, drove to his mother's house and hid.
— Witt, April (2004). No Joke, The Washington Post, October 24, 2004.
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