European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday june 13, 1986 letters writers reply to letter from Larouche Backer this letter is a response a the writer supporting the followers of Lyndon Larouche. The Beauty of american politics and democracy in Gen eral is that a wide variety of ideas and beliefs can be Pul Forth for the majority to decide upon unlike countries where candidates of Only one party Are placed on bal lots in a democracy the cd change of ideas and information is not Only allowed but is necessary for the Good of the country. No one. Certainly not Adlai Stevenson would Call for the silencing of any candidate or group of like thinking individuals instead it is the Lifeblood of he american political scene for anyone with an idea to have a voice and a platform to disseminate ideas in Hopes of attracting enough Vales so As to be placed in a policy making position in government. The problem with this Freedom is that sometimes the ideas and information put out is not based upon facts. When inc speech or tic newspaper article is based solely upon inflammatory rhetoric and misrepresents the truth of a matter Tome people Tan be misled whether it is a far right candidate raising the Specter of the evil red menace in every Corner of american life or a far left candidate decrying the bogey of the All con rat Ling capitalist there Are some who will buy these lines and May even vote or donate that Way. In general however the american people have beet Able to Weed out such demagogues and in meal cases pay them Little or no attention. They respond mostly to fact. And demand the truth from those who would try to Lead. Your letter was full of accusations but it was not full of facts. You made quite a few claims but gave no basis for the claims. You claimed that the presidential elections of i960 and 1976 were rigged but you offer nothing More than that. You even made the potentially libellous statement that the Carter Mondale Campaign told people to vote Early and again share the evidence of this crime with us. Adlai Stevenson is not a sore loser. He did t lose. He has however Likely Given up his Chance to be governor of Illinois. He is doing this because he is a Man of principle. Since under Illinois Law the governor and lieutenant governor run As a team. Or. Stevenson Felt that he could not in Good conscience run with or. Fairchild. He fell that he could not risk that a person with or. Fairchild s beliefs would hold such an important office in the state that he loves. He faces a Tough Uphill Battle against an incumbent Republican governor. As have said he will now Likely lose. But he could not Bear the though of a lieutenant governor who called for Trie virtual imprisonment of people wih aids. Check Fairchild s own statements for inc evidence he could Noi inflict upon his slate someone who believes that the Queen of England is running a drug smuggling operation someone who is so Blind and blatantly anti semitic a to deny thai the most horrible crime Ever committed against the human race Ever happened. Check some Larouche literature for the evidence of this. He has Eft the ticket to fail without him. He has ensured that or. Fairchild and is. Hart will not be elected on his coattails. You paint All candidates who arc not Larouche candidates with the same Brush asking if we will continue to vote for candidates who Are owned by the if Chase Manhattan Tri later lists first you use that conglomeration of terms As if every one should know what you Are referring to and if fact that everyone will revile them As you do again without offering any substance for your allegations and inference. Then you attempt to allude thai any candidate who is not from the Larouche Camp is in fact thus owned by special interests All without evidence As if there could be any evidence for such nonsense. Bui the american people Are open 10 evidence they Are open to people of vision o Tead our nation into inc 21st Century. We will require of such leaders thai they cannot Only turn a phrase but that they have the ability Loback up their phrase with the truth. So support Larouche. It Al. That is your right As a free american. Perhaps you can be influenced by something Jess than the truth. Perhaps you can accept someone else s interpretation of things without seeing any evidence. But for the rest of us we stand ready to see the evidence. So. A tints p. Vennest Erin gun Germany the letter was saturated with misinformation half truths outright lies and unsubstantiated claims of elec Tion and government Agency fraud. For example the writer claims As popular and Well Luv cd As Juk was. The fad remains that his election was a rigged he also claims As fact thai or. Car Ter was elected through fraudulent methods including voter registration of College students from out of slate people off the streets drunks and although i believe strongly in his right of free express Ion. I am dismayed that inc writer has represented his opinions and biases As facts without offer of Concrete evidence to support his Chillis moreover Ilic writer stems to hint that transient groups of cilj7cns which Likely do not support his Raj Iii Cal views should not in the electoral process he waver. Legal requirements for voting qualification in clude citizenship age in for All elections since the at lip Mianof the 26th amendment in 1971and residence Congress in the voting rights act of 1970. Provided that 30 Days residence would qualify citizens to Vole in Federal elections. This legislation was to protect the voting rights of americans Whu frequent relocation specially Slu dents Ami military personnel. Any political debate however should be rooted in fact not supposition or Blind subscription 10 parly Ide ology. The writer s emotional Appeal is nothing More than an attempt to manipulate he facts and dupe the Public into believing Larouche has a for every problem we face in our dynamic political Arena Ellen m. Miles rams ten Germany. In 1980, i was a Young Campaign Volunteer work ing for a candidate whose Headquarters was in washing Ion . It wa5 in arc i first encountered Lyndon la Rouchl or. And his strange followers. During primaries i heard both Republican and democratic aides As i visited different campaigns talking about inc Larou Thies As a Lunatic let us look More closely Al this Man who is the sup posed Savior of the democratic parly in i94s. Lyn Don Larouche or. Joined the socialist workers party. Although a College dropout with to years As an army private he taught marxist economics at the free University in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s. In 1976, running As the . Labor Par candid talc far president he received 40,043 Voles nationwide. A convenient conversion to he democratic party in 1980 landed him 177,784 votes and s52fi,000 in match ing funds. His avowed desire to return inc nation to the Gold Standard. Is rejected by every credible and academically qualified economist. Larouche is not Short on ego. Asked during inc i9h4 Campaign Why someone should Vul for him. He responded i m the Busl economist in inc world and everyone else is a he has written some economic works. Including a textbook bul you will not find them in any University i know of. He suggested president Reagan was drugged Dur ing the 1984 Campaign and said about using or Henry Kissinger who is a soviet agent of influence is control Ling the Reagan administration s policies and has been since the Middle of 19b2." during May i9k4, he stated except for president Reagan there is no Public figure in the United Stales who is in More danger than i 1984 democratic parly chairman Charles Manull called Larouche followers a fanatical in turn Larouche called manat trash and a nazi known for their support of Star wars repeal of the Gramm Ruu Inan Hailings Federal Bulan caul bldg i it. Widespread testing for aids and an end to what they irm illegal laundering of drug dealers Money by Banks it is unclear if the Larou chies have any real understanding of the mechanics of government. For example during a Washington press conference Janice Hart said tanks would rumble Down stale is acct in the War on drugs. She claimed Kissinger is part of an International drug asked later if she believed jewish persons were behind the drug traffic she said. Thai s totally nonsense. I Don t consider Henry Kissinger a jew. I consider Henry Kissinger a Homo sex in 1934, the Federal election commission fined la Rouchl after discovering he Hall misreported hundreds of $00-a-year subscriptions to his executive Intelli Genic review a Magazine he and his group put out. As political contributions eligible for Matching funds. Larouche sees the world in terms of an International conspiracy composed of the trilateral commission a group of american Western european and japanese politicians and businessmen who meet periodically to discuss world Issue the Kab the Cia drug dealers the jesuits and the British Royal family to name a few Insl cad of offering a reformation of the democratic party la Rouchis seek to cloak their loony policies within a recognizable parly Label. Few would vote for such right Wing extremists if they knew their policies. Being an uninformed voter can be dangerous As the Illinois democratic primary illustrated. Before you Check that Box or pull the handle know who you re voting for and what their positions Are. When you vote without knowledge you give these people a serious Chance. Having dealt with these people during iwo presidential campaigns and knowing their strange ideas. I personally researched so your readers will nut have the idyllic picture of him painted in inc recent letter sprc.4 Christopher d. Sofii of main amb Chr Germany since when docs the stars and stripes the Auchu ried unofficial publication for the . Armed support partisan let alone Radical political views by printing such ill cars in its pages ? Gran cd. Your columns and comments Page which carries Well known nationally syndicated columnists such As Buckley Rasion. Rowan and will contains a Greal Deal of partisan rhetoric but most of i hair com ments Are factually Correct i hair reputations depend pm stand their thought Iff quite raid of Lac Road when compared to the fringe extremism of Larouche and his supporters. To fact several weeks Agu you even published a very concise a article about Larouche not to rehash the entire a article. But the in a informative Points the reporter made concerned the political Agenda of the Laro this Agenda includes attacking the International drug lobby which is headed by none other than the Queen of England controlling aids by quarantining Al aids patients immediately testing the entire country then quarantining anyone else who less positive the a article failed to mention thai Laruche s own literature Stales that aids is a soviet inspired plot supporting the strategic defense initiative with billions of dollars More than is now being appropriated and seeking out and destroying All influence of Henry Kissinger inc designer of former president Nixon s realpolitik foreign optic it in con temporary . Foreign policy., within the context of american political move ments the Larouch Niks represent a classic populist movement based upon fear ignorance and disinformation the Ever increasing complexity of our modern m Cicily leaves inc average citizen dazzled just trying to earn a do cell living and correctly fill out his income ins farms let alone contemplate the physics involved in ski. The health risks posed by aids or inc lending policies of the world Bank. Thus it is Fasy for fringe politicians like Darauche who by the Way. Began his political career As a Trotsky it marxism la Garner support from bedazzled Middle americans. The american political landscape today is Millered with Small group of extremist political move minis. All of whom accept the populist principle of us against so far inc conspiracy minded Darauche supporters have confined their aggression to harassing a scr by in airports not to mention tie articles which you have recently printed concerning one Darauche supporter starting a fight with television Host Phil Donahue. The general conspiracy theory to which these groups adhere holds that the Power elite who Cun Irol big Busi Ness big finance and big government Are nothing More than greed Ridden capitalists leading America Down the path of decadent destruction. Sounds a Greal Deal like soviet propaganda Doo it no ? should be cause both soviet marxists structural interpretations and american populist movements Harc a common be Lief they both presuppose the existence of an amoral ruling class of corrupt capitalists and bureaucrats who arc Binl on taking Oscr the entire world b Hook or by Crook. However like most mythology there May have been some excess in the pail to perpetuate the original myth be it inc global ambitions of the former european empires or inc outrageous practices of pc antitrust Cra american business bul today the incredible diversity and free political will of americans reveals thut conspiracy cannot exist within America s pluralistic system there lire just led Many diverse political economic and social interests filled against each other in open Competition for a shadowy conspiracy of internationalists to be maintained. Sure corruption and greed still exist in american business and polities but not to the Elleni the conspiracy advocates would have you believe. America s greatness As a democracy Al de toe Lueville observed Over a Century ago is derived from its centrist political tradition a tradition which values moderation Over extremism. Larouche is a fringe american extremist nothing More nothing less. His politics play upon fear and disinformation sol. Jiwon Moses Augsburg Germany baggers not paid a you like to work for free no thought not. Well neither do your grocery baggers. It t hard work and there s no wage strictly lips think about it. Darmstadt Germany
