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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLyndon La Rouche dead at 96
The Alex Jones, before there was Alex Jones has passed on to his great reward.
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)It's like a Monty Python skit.
Bring out your dead. But I'm not dead. But you're about to be.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)About time he took a dirt nap.
struggle4progress
(118,204 posts)By Timothy R. Smith February 13 at 4:20 PM
... LaRouche... cut a shadowy and alarming path through American politics for half a century. He built a political organization often likened to a cult and ran for president eight times, once while in prison for mail fraud ...
... LaRouche drew headlines for his more outrageous claims that Englands Queen Elizabeth II was a drug trafficker and that the International Monetary Fund created and spread the AIDS virus. He also said the CIA, the KGB and British intelligence officials were plotting to assassinate him ...
During the 1984 presidential election, Mr. LaRouche received more than 76,000 votes, his highest count. Calling himself a conservative Democrat that year, he aligned his followers with the strong military and defense posture of the Reagan White House ...
His operation suffered a massive blow in 1988 after he was convicted of income tax evasion, mail fraud and a scheme that took money without permission from the credit card accounts of elderly donors. He served five years of a 15-year sentence and ran his 1992 campaign from a federal prison in Rochester ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-jr-conspiracy-theorist-and-presidential-candidate-dies-at-96/2019/02/13/22170d42-2f21-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.debaa39298e5
doc03
(35,292 posts)in 2020?
rpannier
(24,326 posts)The grave may not stop him