Culture Lyndon Larouche dead at 96

Lyndon LaRouche, a notorious conspiracy theorist who ran for president eight times — once from prison — on platforms asserting that Queen Elizabeth II was a drug dealer and that numerous top government officials were Soviet agents, has died, his political organization confirmed Wednesday.

He was 96.


The group, LaRouche PAC, didn't report a cause of death in an announcement that trumpeted the "big ideas for which history will honor him."

In addition to his thoughts about the United Kingdom and its queen, LaRouche espoused other bizarre theories that managed to encompass extreme elements of both the left and the right, including that:

• Jews control the pornography trade, and the Holocaust was a hoax.
• Wall Street is a cancer.
• Only the restraining influence of the U.S. military has prevented successive presidents from launching a nuclear war.
• People with the HIV virus that causes AIDS should be quarantined from the rest of the population.
• Global warming is a fraud.
• The United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are antithetical to the Platonic ideal of a "perfectly sovereign nation-state republic."

n 1984, LaRouche lost a defamation suit against NBC News after NBC aired two news segments reporting that LaRouche's organization was violent and anti-Semitic and quoting former members saying he had floated the idea of assassinating President Jimmy Carter.

In 1988, LaRouche was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion; he was paroled in 1994. That didn't stop him from running in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1992, however.

Jim Bakker, the disgraced evangelist who served time with him in the same prison, said LaRouche received a daily intelligence report from followers in his cell, which LaRouche believed was bugged, The Washington Post reported in 2004.

"To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak," Bakker said.

his really strange crossfire appearance
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[Billy_Sama]

Larouche was the Queen the entire time.

 

[ColorfulCassowary]

Didn't they quote this guy in the UN paper that Anita and Zoe Quinn took part in?

 

[ICametoLurk]

RIP to the Trotskyist who formed a fascist, Anglophobic cult that wormed its way into a position of influence within certain sectors of the Reagan administration (the National Security Council mainly).

You know we may disagree, but an enemy of Anglos and their constitutionally required effete tea parties and drunken vehicular manslaughter, is a friend of mine.