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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Subject: Re: Just when you thought it was going to be a dull election...
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 16:04:53 EDT
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I hope that you're right that Lyndon LaRouche and his so-called
National Democratic Policy Committee don't merit taking seriously.
Sometimes, though, a few of his techniques send shudders up and down my
spine.  The comparisons between his followers and brownshirts are
apparently not without some justification; back in the days when he had
just made his dramatic move from the far left to the far right, his
people had a habit of showing up at campus political meetings and
breaking them up with clubs and bricks.  Whether they still use such
tactics I couldn't say.

Right now I would find more humor in his political campaign if it
weren't for the fact that at least some of the several hundred NDPC
candidates will win.  You see, in addition to silly quixotic attempts
in presidential and statewide races, LaRouchites do things like running
in local school board elections and such on anti-drug platforms without
identifying themselves strongly with the national campaign.  They lose
most of those, too, but sometimes they are successful.

I don't have any paranoid fears of waking up to find that LaRouche has
taken over the country, but I might wake up to find a fascist on my
school board.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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