November 07, 2007

The mysterious death of Lyndon LaRouche's printer. 'The LaRouche movement has been called many things: Marxist, fascist, a political cult, a personality cult, a criminal enterprise, and, in the words of the Heritage Foundation, "one of the strangest political groups in American history." More than anything else, however, what it resembles is a vast and bizarre vanity press...One of the LaRouche movement's longest-serving loyalists was Ken Kronberg. A handsome classics scholar and drama teacher, Kronberg owned and managed PMR Printing, the outfit that has generated the idiosyncratic propaganda that sustains LaRouche's entire enterprise.'
posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • inhaling this now. Great shit, man. The Rouchies are funny as hell. Do they still have that table in the lower level of the Seattle airport terminal?
  • I thought my printer died a mysterious death, but it turned out that it just needed a new toner cartridge.
  • Excellent article so far (still reading). I didn't know that much about LaRouche, other than the occasional wacko quiz-show anecdote about him. I read things like this:
    Events took an even darker turn in 1972, when LaRouche became convinced that Chris White, his ex-wife's new boyfriend, had been brainwashed by the British to assassinate LaRouche. He undertook a two-week "deprogramming" of White, a process that started in Kronberg's apartment on West Seventy-third Street. According to a tape recording later obtained by the New York Times, these sessions were marked by "sounds of weeping and vomiting." At one point, according to the Times, a voice could be heard saying, "Raise the voltage."
     ...and I find I am sucked in. Explains much of my fascination in Scientology scandals, I suppose. I don't know what that says about me.
  • If someone out there wasn't exploring the crazy edges of the map...
  • So, who's voting for the Citizens Electoral Council in the upcoming Australian election?
  • I'll vote for anybody as long as it's not John Howard. Currently I'm voting for a guy who eats his own earwax.
  • More Australian voters would like to see Labor Opposition leader Kevin Rudd naked than their current prime minister, John Howard, a poll showed on Sunday just two weeks out from a hard-fought general election.
  • general erection
  • racist