<p>Do you guys have to deal with his supporters on your college campus? Just wondering how widespread his presence is.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm amused by him. It actually forces me to think about the thoughts of others more - LaRouche followers may seem extremely irrational - but the thoughts of much of the American public can also trend towards the very irrational as well.</p>
<p>Urrrrrrk!</p>
<p>I had one of their cult minions (LR is officially listed by the FBI as a cult -- as a high percentage of its followers are kids who end up dropping out of college to devout themselves to LR fulltime acc. to the Rick Ross institute, I'd tend to agree with that assessment) follow me around, harass me, then SNAP PICTURES INCESSANTLY. All of this only because I saw a friend by their table and jokingly told him about all the crackpot theories LR comes up with on a monthly basis, since we're both very interested in cults in general.</p>
<p>Besides the obvious harm they inflict on the kids they lure in, they've also been implicated in harassment of drop-outs and journalists (see the kid they were involved in the suicide of in Germany, where they're even more active than they are here), sabotage of investigations against them, charges of anti-semitism by the anti-defamation league... LaRouche himself was in prison for fifteen years for fraud and embezzlement of old people, for God's sake.</p>
<p>Don't buy into the "interesting, brilliant thinker that's been slandered and misunderstood" story they're trying to sell people. This is a tightly controlled, manipulative, occasionally violent group phraming all its irrational doctrine in a way that appeals to free-thinking college kids that deserve so much better than getting sucked into this fringe of insanity.</p>
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Cultural, economic, and scientific initiatives</p>
<p>Eurasian land-bridge. Lectures and writes on behalf of a "Eurasian land-bridge", a massive high-speed maglev railway project to span continents and re-invigorate industry and commerce.</p>
<p>Verdi tuning. Agitates in favor of the so-called "Verdi tuning", in which A=432Hz, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to A=440 Hz.</p>
<p>Colonize Mars. Recommends colonization of the planet Mars (on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification).</p>
<p>War on AIDS carriers. Demands identification and isolation of HIV carriers (in light of the virus's swift adaptability, which he argues could mutate into a lethal, possibly airborne pandemic), and proposes use of directed energy beams for cure.[21]</p>
<p>SDI. Supported directed beam weapons for use against ICBMs, and claims credit as the first to propose this to Ronald Reagan. (Does not support rocket-based defense such as anti-ballistic missiles).
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<p>...and then there's the whole "Jews are running Britain and Washington", "Queen of England is pushing drugs", etc etc thing.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, never, EVER, give them your e-mail or phone number, even just to get rid of them. They are infamous for hounding people with phone calls 24/7 - my friend made this mistake, and had them drive up to his house after apparently finding out his address and calling him to come outside so they could drive him to their meeting.</p>