LaRouche Youth Movement

[Ted the dog]

I saw the usual LaRouche youth movement people in downtown LA today. I started talking to one of the guys and he invited me to a "cadre school" ....(...not sure if I'm spelling that correctly...or if hat's even the correct word), which he described as a "3 day camp up off the grapevine"...that sounded a little weird to me.<br><br><br>I've read about LaRouche a bit, but what's with the LaRouche Youth Movement? <p></p><i></i>

[PeterofLoneTree]

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[mourningdove]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46883-2004Oct20?">No Joke by April Witt- Washington Post</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> For all LaRouche's attacks on the "dummy" and the "beast-man," the Bush-Cheney administration has been good for LaRouche. The nation at war has been good for LaRouche. It has allowed him to recruit students who weren't born when he was convicted of multiple felonies. The LaRouche Youth Movement has "hundreds" of members in the United States and "perhaps a lesser number abroad," LaRouche says by e-mail.<br><br>His new acolytes believe him when he says he can stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and save the world. They also believe that he's shaping them to help rule the world. He does so, they say, not merely by educating them about politics, history and the arts, but by turning them into authentic geniuses.<br><br>"You can actually teach genius," says 21-year-old Ed Hamler, one of LaRouche's new followers.<br><br>MEGHAN ROUILLARD, 20, LEFT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY to join the LaRouche Youth Movement. "Being a patriot means doing everything in your power to change the country," she says as she and other youths mill about the Marriott lobby after the Webcast.<br><br>LaRouche is preparing them to wage a new American revolution, Matthew Ogden, 21, says. He was a music student, studying bassoon at Indiana University, when planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Now, like Rouillard, he spends much of his time trying to persuade other young people to escape "the whatever generation, the culture of dullness" and become "historic individuals."<br><br>Youth movement members attend LaRouche-sponsored classes where they learn how great figures of history such as Benjamin Franklin are similar to LaRouche. "You understand how they were operating in history and, even though they are dead, now you are actually carrying on their mission," Ogden explains. Hamler left Philadelphia University, where he'd been studying graphic design, two years ago to work fulltime for LaRouche, he says. "Morally , I couldn't not join," says Hamler who grew up in what he describes as a Philadelphia ghetto. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[starroute]

A friend of my son's from high school is now a LaRouche Youth member and insisted on hauling my son to one of their meetings. My son came back very conflicted about it. He said it was refreshing to meet people his own age who were actually informed and could speak intelligently about history and current events -- but at the same time, they were clearly cult members are were mindless robots when it came to anything involving LaRouche.<br><br>The LaRouche cult is fascinating because as you dig into it, you reach level on level of increasing weirdness. Look! There's a level where the British royal family and the World Wildlife Fund are the masterminds of a plot for world domination! And down below that, there's a level where it turns into very traditional anti-Semitism and the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>real</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> masterminds are the Rothschilds and the Likud party. And beyond that yet it's really Satanism -- see <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.skepticfiles.org/xhate/satanicl.htm">How All My Enemies Will Die.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> And if you google on LaRouche and beastmen, you wind up with densely occult arguments about Anthroposophy.<br><br>One wonders how much of this they're telling to the youth groups. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=starroute>starroute</A> at: 7/14/05 10:49 pm<br></i>