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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Lyndon LaRouche
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 13:54:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 13:54:41 1984
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Reply-To: rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: Thorazine time....

[ they're coming to take me away, to the bug farm today, haha! ]

It's not just Lyndon Larouche who is crazy;  his followers are not my
idea of stable either.  In 1980 I was working for a Congressman during
the election season.  Late one afternoon I got a call from someone 
who identified herself as being from the "National Democratic Policy
Committee" (the Larouche attempt to confuse people into thinking he has
something to do with mainstream politics).  Why did they want to talk to
my boss?  To get a US ambassador recalled for not providing enough 
security to a Larouche conference in Europe;  in particular, for not
providing Marines to guard Mr. Larouche against assassination attempts 
which "we know are being planned", in her words.  
	I already knew who L.L. was at that point, and really wanted to ask
the woman if these were "Queen Elizabeth's Death Squad" that Larouche
had been raving about a few weeks earlier;  but of course, you can't
do that sort of thing in talking to a voter, no matter how crazy.  So
I just politely told her I'd look into the matter and get back to her,
and then put down the phone and tried to decide whether to laugh or
panic.
	By the way, someone suggested in a related posting that L.L. should
not be taken seriously.  Not so:  at the national level he may be no
threat, but at the local level (at least in parts of Illinois) his
people are running well-financed campaigns for seats in both local
govt. (i.e., school boards) and for positions in national party 
organizations.  Some heretofore uncontested Democratics party positions,
for example, are being threatened by "AntiDrug Coalition" members of
the "National Democratic Policy Committee", which in a small town
sounds pretty good.  Take these people seriously.  
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Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
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