Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 1/4/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.politics,net.space,net.flame,net.tv,net.sf-lovers Subject: Just when you thought it was going to be a dull election... Message-ID: <1078@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 1-Jul-84 17:42:16 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1078 Posted: Sun Jul 1 17:42:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jul-84 03:30:42 EDT Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 48 I know this has been discussed on net.space (I sought it out), but I think it's just too good to keep there. About two weeks ago, I was watching a late movie on the tube when a political braodcast came on. Since the only other program on was Three's Company (a program I detest), I decided to stick around. A fellow by the name of Lyndon H. LaRouche came on, running for the democratic presidential nomination. It started off making some comments on how we should beef up our space program, especially "Star Wars" defenses, and I got fairly indignant, as the moderators made lots of slanted statements in their descriptions (their opponents "whined", "lied", "cried", etc.). LaRouche then started to make references to people as Communists and "fellow travellers" to certain people, and my indignation gave way to amusement (I'm sorry, but these guys are such twits...). He even refered to Henry Kissenger as an "overt Communist agent"! Frankly, I think ol' Henry works only for ol' Henry.... I was still somewhat upset, though, as he made lots of nasty references to the L5 group, who, as far as I understand, have only one major (and in my opinion, noble) goal... to get a permanent space station in orbit. LaRouche implied that most of the L5 people (and in fact, all science-fiction fans, too) were a bunch of gullible adolescents. And then it got good. LaRouche went bannanas, talking about how the flying saucer groups were the greatest threat to national security ever; the groups are apparently run from "the highest levels in Moscow" (funny, I thought they were run from the National Enquirer :-) ), and that they participated in TM, a "devious form of brainwashing... psuedo-sexual in nature". And to top it all off, he turns out to be a megalamaniac, too, by saying that "The Soviets fear me as they fear no other..." Quite an entertaining half hour. Now, maybe I should be less joking about this; maybe this is another Joe McCarthy on the horizon... but I just find it hard to take this moron seriously. I believe that most people in the US are nowhere near brain-damaged enough not to figure out that this guy is a complete whacko. The only thing I worry about is the people who funded him enough to put this thing on before the CBS late movie... Just another garden variety Communist dupe... Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer UUCP: {princeton,ulysses}!allegra -\ {decwrl,qubix}!sun -\ {akgua,gatech,harpo,purdue,uf-crgl}!sb1 -\ {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver -- fluke!moriarty {hplabs,megatest,nbires}!lbl-csam -/ {microsoft,ssc-vax,telmatic,teltone,uw-vlsi} -/ ARPA (?): fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA