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| The mysterious death of Lyndon LaRouche's printer |
| 2007-11-12 |
| For forty years, the Lyndon LaRouche movement has been a ubiquitous, if diminishing, presence in the political landscape of America, and of Washington. LaRouche has made eight runs for the presidency, including one campaign from prison. At D.C. press conferences and think tank events, a reporter for a LaRouche publication called Executive Intelligence Review can often be heard asking strange questions about the grain cartel. Young, malnourished LaRouche acolytes frequently stop Hill staffers on their way home from work and hand them pamphlets with titillating titles like "Children of Satan" or "The Gore of Babylon." Stopped clock shows correct time . . . blind squirrel finds nuts . . . A peek inside offers details on LaRouche's many enemies, such as the "Conrad Black–backed McCain–Lieberman–Donna Brazile cabal." That one's too loopy even for the likes of DU. One of the LaRouche movement's longest-serving loyalists was Ken Kronberg. A handsome classics scholar and drama teacher, Kronberg owned and managed PMR Printing, the outfit that has generated the idiosyncratic propaganda that sustains LaRouche's entire enterprise. Last year, the LaRouche organization spent more than $2.5 million—at least 60 percent of its publicly reported expenditures—on printing and distributing pamphlets. Most of this money went to PMR. . . . On April 11, 2007, Kronberg sat in PMR's offices in Sterling, Virginia, forty-five miles northwest of Washington, to read the "morning briefing," a daily compendium of political statements that reflect the outcome of the executive committee meetings held at LaRouche's house in the nearby town of Round Hill. This particular briefing struck unnervingly close to home. Written by a close associate of LaRouche's and addressed to the movement's younger followers, the brief bitterly attacked what it called the "baby boomers" in the organization—members like Kronberg who had joined LaRouche in the late 1960s and early '70s. The brief named "the print shop"—Kronberg's operation—as a special target. "The Boomers will be scared into becoming human, because you're in the real world, and they're not," the brief read. "Unless," the writer added, the boomers "want to commit suicide." This note may have had an effect. At 10:17 a.m., Kronberg sent an e-mail to his accountant instructing him to transfer $235,000 held in an escrow account to the IRS. He got in his blue-green Toyota Corolla and drove east. He mailed some family bills at the post office, then turned around onto the Waxpool Road overpass. Just before 10:30 a.m., Kronberg parked his car on the side of the overpass, turned on his emergency lights, and flung himself over the railing to his death. At least, that's the official story. As surely as night follows day, as surely as blind squirrels grope aimlessly for nuts, LaRouche's current and former followers immediately burst forth with conspiracy theories. . . . "Betcha it was Queen Elizabeth, a couple of Wall Street investment houses, the McCain–Lieberman–Donna Brazile cabal, and Colonel Mustard, in the parlor, with a candlestick." "Nah. It was the Carlyle Group, Howard Dean, and Mrs. White, in the library, with the rope." Go read the rest. It's amusing. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 I recall an interview where Henry Kissinger was asked about Larouche's paranoid claims that he was a murder target of the Doctor. Kissinger doesn't laugh much; he laughed at that. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-11-12 21:43 |
| #4 Larouchians = Thruthers = Ron Paul neophytes = Birchers = anti-Floride birkestock wearing retro hippies = Harold Stassen interns = those people in Barnes & Noble coffee shops with huge 3 ring binders full of thousand of pages of copious notes = The homeless guy out front of the WH in Lafayette Sq. with all those signs about War and Peace = Dan Rather's molester = The guys who wear tinfoil hats = Tiny Tim afficianodos = Rantburg trolls. Is that clear enough picture of who these people are? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-11-12 16:22 |
| #3 There actually (twice???) had been a larouchian among the candidates for the french presidency, Jacques Cheminade, they've got front orgs here and in Germany. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-12 13:53 |
| #2 People who's moms have kicked them out of her basement and blame the Carlyle Group... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-11-12 13:12 |
| #1 Wow, Lyndon LaRouche is still alive? What kind of person would, in this day and age, follow such a nutbag? |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-11-12 11:59 |