Re: [A-List] William Engdahl?

[Hudsonmi@xxxxxxx]

Dear A-List,
       Regarding the "anti-Semitic" slander, I have an interesting story. Both Dennis King and I tried to get ADL support for our exposure of LaRouche. the ADL refused to do anyithing against LaRouche, because they explained that they agreed with his politics!
       These were old Schachtmanites who had become ultra-rightists. (I've blocked out the head of their research department's name.) In Dennis's talks with them, they made it clear that they put support of right-wing politics above any concern with anti-Semitism.
       So of all the arguments against LaRouche, I don't think anti-Semitism should be one of them. Rather, LaRouche cultivated Jewish followers who were breaking away from their parents (usually CP members, I think) and replaced them. Only the Jewish members ever made any Jewish jokes in my presence.
       If anything, LaRouche had an obsession with the Queen of England. I imagine that when he was along writing at 4 AM he would pace around his desk stamping, muttering, "I am Queen Elizabeth. I am Queen Elizabeth," until he got up enough energy to keep on writing some more of his stream of consciousness.
       Michael Hudson