August 5, 2010
LaRouche supporters table in Freeville
When I first heard there were big "Impeach Obama" signs in Freeville, complete with the Hitler mustache on Obama, I was worried that the worst of Tea Party excesses had arrived in Dryden. When I got to Freeville, though, I calmed down pretty quickly. The protesters were Lyndon LaRouche supporters, who have busily protested all kinds of political and economic policies since before I was born, jumping from extreme left to extreme right in ways that are just hard to explain or even categorize.
LaRouche signs in Freeville.
The LaRouche folks seem to be working around the fringes of the Tea Party these days, offering literature with cheerful titles like "Act Now to Stop Obama's Nazi Health Plan!" and "Your Enemy George Soros", along with visions of an economy rebuilt by colonizing the moon and Mars. Bob Wesser was disappointed that I wouldn't take any, despite my recounting a few of LaRouche's previous greatest hits. (I already have more than enough in my attic from when I collected it in the 1990s.)
Bob Wesser shares a LaRouche literature collection.
They're apparently on a "Western New York tour", and I found this article on an earlier appearance in North Tonawanda.
Their arrival provoked Jean Simmons to get out her Obama/Biden sign and put up a new sign encouraging people to sign a petition for the August 10th "Fight Washington Corruption" rally in Cortland. She also had signs questioning the recent Citizens United decision freeing corporations to spend all the money they want on politics.
Jean Simmons sets up a table.
Hopefully the LaRouche tabling won't add too severely to the conspiracy theories already out there. I didn't have the heart to ask if they still thought the Queen of England is the head of a drug-dealing cartel.
Posted by simon at August 5, 2010 3:26 PM in Freeville , politics (national)Note on photos