talk about synchronicities

so, on my way back from lunch just now, i came across a group of lydon larcouche supporters tabling and leafletting on broadway, between 75th & 76th streets. they brandished large signs reading, "larouche was right, cheney is a liar" and "democrats for larouche! let's make larouche #1!"

i approached them saying, "i think dick cheney and george bush are total fucking liars and that their behavior is abhorrent and dispicable, but how on earth could you possibly support lyndon larouche? the man is a right-wing fascist and known to be an antisemite."

instantly a gentleman responded by saying, "aw, come on—"

but i cut him off before he could even start his disinformation shtick, "what about that jewish kid who recently attended a right wing anti-war conference with a group of larouche supporters in germany, and was found dead soon thereafter?"

"where'd you hear that?" he asked.

"the uk guardian."

"you read this in a british paper?"

"yep."

"i'd love to see the article."

"ok."

so i ran back to my office and printed out the article crandan recently posted along with this piece from protest.net on larouche's antisemitic "conspiracism" and hand-delievered the items to him.

a woman standing there asked, "did you sign up for our list?"

"not a chance," i said, and walked away.

i hope, at the very least, i got that fool to question his allegience to larouche. but i fear that, because, to some extent, we harp on the same issues as these fascist wing-nuts, it reflects poorly on us, and makes our calls of "liar!" seem ludicrous and less palatable to the man in the street. and while we may be fighting, again to some extent, for the same cause, our ends are completely different. that fact, however, will be lost on the average citizen. at the same time, i'm compelled to ask, what the hell is a right-wing fascist like larouche doing running on the democratic ticket? hiding the fact that he's a megalomaniacal fascist from behind a centrist-socialist platform?