ADL attacks Larouche over Obama-Hitler imagry

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I don't know much about this Lyndon Larouche character except that people say he's a crazy conspiracy theorist so I'm going to assume that he's probably at least telling the truth about some things. The only other thing I know that is that his Executive Intelligence Review published that book The Ugly Truth About the Anti-Defamation League and I guess that is why they are smearing him.

Lyndon LaRouche, Holocaust Imagery & the Health Care Debate

Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a fringe political cult that defies categorization, and his supporters have contributed to the divisiveness surrounding the public debate on health care reform by producing and disseminating materials comparing President Barack Obama and other government officials to Hitler, Nazis and fascists, and by attending Congressional "town hall" meeting and other events around the country.

LaRouche's organization is built upon a cadre of loyal supporters and publications that promote his conspiratorial world views. LaRouche, 86, has a long record of advancing conspiracy theories linking the AIDS crisis, the drug epidemic and international financial crises to prominent Jews and Jewish organizations. For many years, LaRouche has employed Holocaust imagery to express his opposition to a wide range of political issues.

Since May 2009, LaRouche and his network of supporters, many of which are part of the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC), have focused on health care reform, producing signs, banners, pamphlets and other items that employ Nazi imagery, including the Hitler comparisons.

In a May 4, 2009, LPAC statement, LaRouche described the Obama administration's health care proposals as "Nazi stuff...We're looking for what is the difference between President Obama and Hitler on health policy. We've done a lot of research, and we've not yet been able to discover the difference."

In his publication, Executive Intelligence Review, and on his Web site, LaRouche consistently refers to the reform proposals as "Hitlerian" and "genocidal" and almost exclusively refers to the proposal as a "Nazi health plan." In August, LaRouche said Obama is "impeachable" because his health care proposal is based on "cost-effectiveness criteria--exactly the infamous 'T-4' policy imposed by Adolf Hitler in 1939."

LaRouche spokesperson Nancy Spannaus said LaRouche and his organization "have declared war against Obama's so-called health care reform because it is a direct copy of the policy Hitler declared in October 1939, when Hitler issued the order for euthanasia against those determined, by a board of medical experts, to have 'lives unworthy to be lived.'"

"Our Obama mustache poster," Spannaus said, "symbolizes the fact that the president is attempting to implement a Hitler health care policy...At any town hall, you'll know LaRouche people are there if you just look for the mustache."

LPAC members have promoted these offensive materials at many public forums around the country.

So I posted this at another forum and one of its members replied that Larouche has a problem with Jews and then posted the link below to "prove" Larouche's "anti-Semitism" and of course it was chock full of intersting bits.

The Anti-Semitism of The Larouche Movement: A Summary

 On the duty of Jewish followers of LaRouche to prove themselves worthy of survival

In demanding that his Jewish followers join him wholeheartedly in denouncing Zionism as an "evil, racist doctrine," LaRouche wrote: "You have no right to hide behind the whimpering, morally degraded profession: 'I am only one little person....' You are personally, individually accountable for the ultimate consequences of what you do or fail to do....Either you take responsibility for the ultimate consequences of your conduct or you have no moral right to complain against whatever evil the world's developments bestow upon you.

If you say, 'As a Jew, I must be concerned primarily with what is good for Jews,' you are already on the pathway to becoming a Nazi. You were better advised to ask yourself, 'What is a Jew good for? What can a Jew contribute to humanity generally which obliges humanity to value the Jew?" Ibid. [It should be noted that LaRouche makes no such demands on any other ethnic group, nor does he deny the right to a national consciousness of any other group. Indeed LaRouche, the opponent of Zionist nationalism, is a staunch promoter of German and Argentine nationalism.]

On the Holocaust:

"The contemptible but impassioned sophistry which the Zionist demagogue offers to all foolish enough to be impressed with such hoaxes is the 'holocaust' thesis.  It is argued that the culmination of the persecution of the Jews in the Nazi holocaust proves that Zionism is so essential to 'Jewish survival' that any anti-Zionist is therefore not only an anti-Semite, but that any sort of criminal activity is excusable against anti-Zionists in memory of the 'six million Jewish victims' of the Nazi 'holocaust.'

This is worse than sophistry. It is a lie. True, about a million and a half Jews did die as a result of the Nazi policy of labor-intensive 'appropriate technology' for the employment of 'inferior races,' a small fraction of the tens of millions of others--especially Slavs--who were murdered in the same way Jewish refugee Felix Rohatyn proposes today."  Ibid.  [Felix Rohatyn, a New York banker, was involved at the time in helping to clean up the finances of New York City municipal government which were in a state of near collapse; the process involved temporary cutbacks in some city services. The implication is that if Mr. Rohatyn was indeed plotting, as a "Jewish refugee," to commit genocide against tens of millions of people, then the Nazis' murder of only a "million and a half Jews" was really not so bad in comparison. Indeed LaRouche asserts in the next sentence that "[e]ven on a relative scale, what the Nazis did to Jewish victims was mild compared with the virtual extermination of gypsies and the butchery of Communists."]  

The views of LaRouche's wife Helga (who is expected to take over the organization when the elderly LaRouche dies or becomes incapacitated) are every bit as extreme as her husband's. When an American TV series about the Holocaust was aired in Germany in 1979, Helga lashed out against this alleged "Holocaust swindle" which she regarded as a slander against her fellow Germans:

"The Zionist-British circles that produced and propagandized the 'Holocaust' film and whose West German representatives are presently setting in motion in the Federal Republic a totally artificial and controlled debate over it are those very people who are plunging the world into a holocaust that will make the crimes of Nazis look like a picnic....[T]here is not the slightest qualitative difference between the morality of the Zionists and that of the worst Nazis."—Helga Zepp-LaRouche, "ELP Chairman's Statement:  The Zionists' Holocaust Today," New Solidarity, January 26, 1979.

LaRouche himself also lashed out at the Holocaust TV series in a May 20, 1979 speech: "[W]hat the people who put this film on in New York City about what the Nazis did are prepared to do to the human race makes the Nazi thing look like a slight mistake!" [Quote is from a correction (published in a mid-June 1979 issue of New Solidarity) to the text of the speech as originally published June 8, 1979.]

The Dreyfuss libel--Jews function as spies and traitors within gentile societies:

"Literally thousands of operatives for the Zionist Lobby have penetrated the halls of Congress, the State and Defense Departments, the CIA, and American business and labor organizations to gather information which is then transmitted up the chain of command to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the Maltese Order....

These agents gather information and intelligence on U.S. national security policy, corporate policy, and financial policy for transmission to the enemy. Their loyalties lie not with the United States but with the Zionist-British organism....

The Zionist octopus must be eliminated...."—unsigned editorial, "Register the Zionist Lobby As Foreign Agents!" New Solidarity, Sept. 5, 1978.

"The sentencing of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard...doesn't close the book on the sordid story of Mossad operations against the United States. In order to accomplish its purpose, it must lead to a whole new round of housecleaning...that will get the Sharon mafia out of the U.S. government once and for all."—unsigned editorial, "Pollard Should Be Only the Beginning," New Solidarity, March 16, 1987.

"Henry Kissinger, since the early 1950s, has been a British agent and traitor to the United States. Kissinger subverted the U.S., attempted to destroy its political institutions and government, and worked to undermine the power of the U.S. economy."—Costas Kalimtgis, "Expel Britain's Kissinger for Treason," New Solidarity, Feb. 14, 1978.

"Kissinger Mafia Pollutes the Holy Land," New Solidarity headline, 1978.

On how to handle humanity's "anti-social" problem (the Jews)

Many Holocaust deniers today are fearful to openly call for a new Holocaust, but LaRouche has found sly ways of evading the strictures of human decency. When Jewish author Arthur Koestler (and Koestler's wife) committed suicide in 1983, New Solidarity suggested that Kissinger, Kissinger's wife, and Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker (the arch-usurer, in LaRouche's eyes) follow Koestler's example. In a chilling allusion to the Holocaust, the article asked: "Why should the worthwhile vast majority of the human race settle for attempts to solve its antisocial problems on a case-by-case basis? Why not get organized to settle with such characters all at once?" "Koestler Takes His Own Advice; Kissinger to Follow?"-- New Solidarity, March 14, 1983.

Jews as exploiters in gentile society:

 "Milton Friedman Finally Gets His Pound of Flesh," New Solidarity headline, May 3, 1985. [Reference is to the noted University of Chicago economist.]

"So, a British agent by the name of George Soros [U.S. financier of Hungarian Jewish descent—DK], a man of very unpleasant antecedents, in terms of his personal history and practices, together with a few other hedge funds, all centered around London, but largely operating on the basis of drug-money laundering...targeted Myanmar, and Thailand, and, also, Malaysia....

So, this entire region of the world is about to blow up, for no good reason:  because we allowed a bunch of speculators, thieves like George Soros, with the blessings of our Secretary of State [LaRouche is referring to Madeleine Albright who, like Soros, is from a Jewish refugee family], who, between dances, does some other terrible things, other exhibitions. When she goes to Israel, she dances the Hora. It's called a 'Hora show.' So, they got this Soros going...." [emphasis added]  -- LaRouche, "How the top one percent of American citizens think," speech to conference of the Schiller Institute, Alexandria, Va., Jan. 17, 1998.

On 9/ll and Zionist plotters:

"It is...the IDF [Israeli Defense Force], which, as part of its war aims, has carried out an aggressive espionage and covert operations penetration of the U.S.A., including the recruitment of American-born assets. It is so far unknown, but strongly suspected, that some of these Israeli assets may have contributed an included feature of the rogue networks whose complicity abetted the successful attacks of Sept. 11."-- Jeffrey Steinberg and Edward Spannaus, "EIR Blows Israeli Spies' Cover in Sept. 11 Case," EIR, Dec. 28, 2001.  [According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Report No. 9, Sept 13, 2002 ("The Events of September 11 and the Arab Media: The New Antisemitic Myth"), Jeffrey Steinberg has appeared on Al-Jazeera and his articles "are regularly translated into Arabic by the Saudi daily Al-Watan."]

"This Israeli spy network inside the United States was unable to achieve their objective [war with Iraq] until President Bush was entrapped by the events of Sept. 11, 2001....Lyndon LaRouche demands to know:  Is this not the motive that explains the who and why of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001?" -- "The Pollard Affair Never Ended!" leaflet issued in 2002 by "LaRouche in 2004" (LaRouche's Democratic primary Presidential campaign committee).  

 "Among senior intelligence analysts...the fear is growing that Ariel Sharon is about to covertly launch a Sept. 11-type terrorist attack targeting the United States—in order to drag President Bush into war against Iraq....

One factor emboldening Sharon to attempt a 'made in Baghdad' or similar terror attack on U.S. soil or against American targets abroad, is the John Ashcroft-led coverup of the Israeli spy scandals that form an integral part of the events of Sept. 11, 2001"--
Jeffrey Steinberg, "Sharon in 9/11 War Provocation?" EIR press release, Aug. 28, 2002.

On the evil oligarchical species:

On the American far right, there is a major conspiratorial theme, dating back to the 19th century, that mixes anti-Semitism and Anglophobia and contends that the British Royal family's intermarriage with Jews resulted in the Rothschild family's exerting total control over the financial centre called the City of London, which in turn is alleged to control world finance. The theory was also picked up by the German Nazis and can be seen in Hitler's Mein Kampf as well as in writings by other Nazi leaders.

LaRouche puts this conspiracist tradition upfront in his propaganda and ideology. According to his pseudo-history of the world, the "oligarchy" moved its headquarters from Venice to London in the 17th century, used its wealth to become the dominant force in the British empire, and has engaged in a variety of fiendish attempt to control the rest of the world and ultimately to kills off the majority of people on this planet and usher in a New Dark Age. LaRouche writes:

"The British monarchy is best viewed as the rallying point for an assemblage of oligarchical families, both British and Commonwealth nations, and also strata of the allied oligarchical families of Europe. These oligarchic families, together with their most trusted political servants, gather around and behind the screen of the powers and privilege of the British monarchy. Through such and related means, and through the vast networks of influence they have developed among many nations over recent centuries, these combined forces control and deploy one of the most powerful forces on earth, and the most efficiently evil force existing today."—LaRouche, "Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites," The Campaigner, May-June 1978, p.10.

LaRouche identified the "British" oligarchy (which naturally has a branch on Wall Street) as the chief enemy of humanity in the late 1970s and has never wavered from this conviction. He and his followers have attempted to ridicule the idea that "British" is a code word for Jewish, but the proof is in LaRouche's own publications. In 1978, the LaRouche newspaper New Solidarity, in tirades against the "British" oligarchy made frequent references to "Zionist-British" agents and even let slip the crypto-Nazi term "Zionist-British organism" (emphasis added); but even without such phraseology the meaning of the term is clear. For instance, LaRouche writes:

"The policy-shaping kernel of the enemy forces centered in the British monarchy is a group of private banking families...These are notably the family interests of the Lazard Brothers, Barings, N.M. Rothschild, Hill Samuel, and other small private banking houses."—LaRouche, "Anti-Dirigism Is British Tory Propaganda," New Solidarity, Feb. 3, 1978.

In the same article, LaRouche carefully defined "Britain" as meaning "these same families' interest." All the named families are Jewish, except for the Barings (and in anti-Semitic lore, the Barings are regarded as being of Jewish descent). LaRouche goes on in the same article to enumerate a long list of key institutions in Britain said to be controlled by "these same families." In LaRouche's conspiracy theory, the Anglican Church, the Free Masons, Fabian socialism, and Freudian psychotherapy are all oligarchical-Jewish tools for controlling the Christian majority.

To drive home the very point to his followers that he would deny to outsiders, LaRouche illustrated one of his articles on the "British" conspiracy with a large Star of David. At the top is Queen Elizabeth, flanked by Henry Kissinger and the economist Milton Friedman (the very individuals who were being utilized most frequently at the time as symbolic evil Jews in LaRouchian publications). [See "Mickey Mouse & Pluto Move to Washington," New Solidarity, Oct. 17, 1978.]

Although LaRouche sometimes mentions British gentile aristocrats apart from the Jews, there can be no doubt that he believes the Jews to be the dominant partners in the oligarchy. In "The Zoo Called 'The House of Lords'" (New Solidarity, Dec. 29, 1978), LaRouche raved against the British aristocracy and the Windsor family.  He described them as feeble-minded products of inbreeding and a "bestial" mode of education. The net result is a pathetic group incapable of ruling anyone or taking any initiative in a world conspiracy unless one hypothesizes a hidden hand controlling and directing them. The giveaway in this article comes when LaRouche refers to how the British "have taken over commercial sports as well as Hollywood, magazines and most TV in the United States." This is a stereotypical accusation against American Jews, not English aristocrats, and is frequently used in the United States by black nationalists and neo-Nazis.

The above examples stem from the late 1970s, when LaRouche was less guarded in his terminology. Nevertheless, the British equals Jewish equation has continued to play a prominent role in LaRouchian propaganda throughout the past quarter century.  The 1994 pamphlet, "Why the British Kill American Presidents," discusses the alleged involvement of Jews and Jewish-linked entities in a long series of assassination plots against American presidents from Lincoln to Clinton. For instance the murder of President James Garfield in 1881 is blamed on "Disraeli's 'Venetian Party'" in league with the "Rothschild-Morgan syndicate." The pamphlets includes a chart with Conrad Black's Hollinger Corporation at the top with downward arrows to suggest central control of the Rothschilds, the Bronfmans, Henry Kissinger and assorted British aristocrats.

A 1997 EIR article alleges a "British" plot to blow up the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. As in the alleged plot to kill Clinton, the guiding figures are "the constellation of interests centered in the British-Canadian Hollinger Corp." The article also fingers "British casino operator Cyril Stein" and "California casino operator Irving Moskowitz, who is the primary patron of both [Israeli prime minister] Netanyahu and the terrorist sects." – Joseph Brewda, "London is haven for global terrorism," EIR, Nov. 21, 1997.  Other EIR articles from recent years include such titles as "Direct British Control of the U.S. Media" (an obvious reference to Jews), "War on the British, or How to Save the Economy" and the pamphlet, "Defeat Britain's Terror War Against the U.S.A.!"

 An "Anglo-Dutch" variation (apparently referring to the fact that the Sephardic Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition to the Netherlands before entering England in the 17th century) was expressed by LaRouche in a 1998 speech at a Schiller Institute/ICLC conference (printed as "How the top one percent of American citizens think," EIR, January 17, 1998). In this speech, LaRouche used biological analogies and charges of cosmopolitanism similar to those employed by Hitler's Nazis:

 "The governments of Europe became quasi-nations, which had a financier oligarchy of the Anglo-Dutch type, squatting on top of them, sucking the blood out of them, with this financial usury of various forms, while, underneath you had people in Europe who were struggling to develop a nation-state form.

So...You had a symbiosis between the host and its parasite. The parasite, the financier oligarchy; the host the national economy, the people who produce things, the real inventors...."

 Finally, we should note that LaRouche's web sites are saturated with articles attacking the supposed British-Jewish oligarchy, often using easily recognizable allusions to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. At LaRouche's American Almanac site, we are greeted by such headings from the 1990s as "Venice—The Oligarchical System," "Venice: The Methodology of Evil," "Venice Moves North—the Metamorphosis of England," "How the Venetians Took Over England and Created Freemasonry," "How the Venetian System Was Transplanted into England," and "How the Venetian Virus Infected and Took Over England." (This should make clear the reference in Why the British Kill American Presidents to Britain's great Jewish prime minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) as the leader of the "Venetian Party.")

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Good, then LaRouche must be doing something right.