We’ve been fairly fortunate in this area to have been spared the full brunt of nutty political protests on a regular basis. No big Tea Party gatherings. No Obama Is Hitler signs. Very little to be seen around these parts. It’s not that the people who support these causes aren’t around because they are out there. Oh, yeah. They’re out there.
Yesterday, we got our first taste of it on a personal basis at our local Horseheads, NY post office. On the the front corner of the property was a table with posters all around, saying the typical things like Impeach Obama. Nothing remarkable. Then I spotted it.
The Obama poster with the Hitler moustache.
I am all for First Amendment Rights, being able to make the public stage your own bully pulpit, but something about this just went against the grain for me. There is something truly hateful in that poster that goes beyond mere protest. Surely it shouldn’t be allowed on postal property.
So we complained and the post office supervisor apologized, saying she had tried everything but so long as they didn’t approach folks going in and out of the post office itself and weren’t campaigning, they were unable to have them removed. She said she had received a non-stop stream of complaints all day and was clearly flustered by the ruckus.
Leaving, I noticed at the top of their posters the name of the website behind this crap. It was Lyndon LaRouche! The conspiracy-driven schemer, de-frauder and ex-con was behind it! I’m not going to go into the absurdity that is Lyndon LaRouche here. There are thousands of sites to find out more for yourself. His movement is classified by many not as a politcal movement but as a cult and has made him a wealthy man over the many decades he has been in action.
So the Obama-Hitler poster is his product! The anger I felt at the fools standing in front of them turned quickly to a real sadness. The sadness that comes from seeing weaker minded people being exploited. Sad that these people, who were concerned and upset with our nation and with their lot in life, had fell prey to someone espousing such hate and nonsense. Someone who played to their deepest fears and stood to profit from it.
Even now, as I sit here this morning, it is not outrage I feel but a queasy mixture of sadness and worry. Worried that their are so many others like these people out there, waiting rise up, without questioning with their own commone sense, at the call of someone like LaRouche. I had always seen the Obama Hitler poster as idiocyand hate but now see it also as a symbol of exploitation…
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Sorry to hear of your experience with the Adolf/Obama poster. I’ve seen that very image, not daily, but probably weekly on the corner of Connecticut and K Street, where the LaRouche “supporters” often roost. Saddly, I am now desensitized to it.
(Note: I say “supporters” because I secretly think they hire young actors to hand out fliers… they are suspiciously younger and more hip than what I suspect the typical LaRouche supporter would appear.)
The “supporters” here are not young and hip but appear to be middle-aged working class guys, which adds to the sense of sadness about the whole thing. You get the feeling that these are guys who feel like they have lost control of their lives and futures as industry has shrank and are prime targets be used as pawns by someone like LaRouche. And sadly, they don’t see it…
Unbelievable. The LaRouche crew showed up at my little post office about two months ago. Their approach here had less to do with Obama than with BP – we were in the middle of the oil spill crisis, and there was high anxiety and anger. There were no Hitler mustaches, only the BP logo, and people were drawn to it immediately.
What’s truly amazing is that in the Congressional District across the lake from me, home of the Johnson Space Center, the winner of the Democratic primary is a LaRouche supporter. I do remember that during the campaign she was a daily fixture on Nasa Parkway, carrying a sign that said, “Save NASA – Impeach Obama”.
Sigh.
What bothes me about these people, these goofy movements, is that they’re all a bout reaction. They stir people with catchphrases and imagery but without any realistic plan of action.
The sigh is mutual.
These are not “volunteers” or “supporters” but very sick people who are cultists. The Larouche cult has them traveling around the country to make millions for him while they get a few bucks per DAY. The millions feed Larouche’s insanity which has been going on for a good 4 or 5 decades.
Larouche and dozens of other cult members were convicted of stealing over 34 million dollars from their elderly supporters in a worthless promossory note scam.m Larouche lived like a king on a vast estate while his zombies hijacked the entire life savings of many elderly people. I doubt that they ever paid a dime back after being caught and convicted.
You can read about this very sick cult on sites like these.
laroucheplanet.info
lyndonlarouchewatch.org
justiceforjeremiah.com
or just google larouche and fraud, anti semitism, holocaust denial or cult.
When you see a middle aged or elderly cult member at these card table shrines, the person there has usually been in for 3 decades or so doing this for 6 or 7 days a week, 16 hours a day to feed Larouche’s delusions.
Be wary of your bank accounts as they are convicted and have served many years.
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Thanks for the additional info and the links. More people need to shed light on people like Larouche.