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Originally Posted by howie

My resident Larouchie has settled back in to declare that "he owns this blog" (puzzling guy, he), and while the troll-like nature of this being leaves this as not particularly upsettable, an instructive bit of venom directed to Molly Kronberg:

<i>u want a nazi? look at george bush or cheney etc. and the rest of the war criminals that have broken US law and attempted to impose fascism on the nation… all while you sit on your blog, with all 7 people that read it, doing nothing to stop it

you are really a jumper aren’t you?

a worthless life…

make something of yourself, like ken kronberg did with his life

who cares about his wife? did it ever occur to any of you clowns that husbands and wives sometimes don’t get along? they call the end of a marriage d-i-v-o-r-c-e

i don’t care what molly says now — ken isn’t here to speak and anyone who comes around and claims to have “known” ken can go jump off a bridge for all i care</i>

So says the always elegant revenire, the Voice of the LaRouche Movement, posting on the Skull/Bones blog.

As a longtime friend of Ken's and Molly's, I really couldn't let this codswallop pass unremarked.

One thing I want to remark on is how utterly vulgar LaRouchism is.

But more--as to the identity of revenire--I still can't quite shake the feeling that the [a] the individual is drunk, [b] the individual is the misbegotten product of the LaRouche/PsyWar/Beneath the Basement project--that is, LaRouche in his cups directs his faithful Igors in various "psywar" attacks on various enemies, OR [also high probability] this is satire, something I've said before about the wildly pro-LaRouche rants that sometimes appear on this board, so overstated as to be hilarious and perhaps intentionally so.

Because as an advertisement for LaRouchean humanism, hylozoic monism, golden souls, etc., revenire is a flop.

Anyhow--comments--

make something of yourself, like ken kronberg did with his life

1. This has to be a joke, one in very bad taste. By taking his own life during the week that he was in the legal process of shutting down WorldComp and PMR, the printing operations to which he had devoted nearly 30 years of his life, Ken might reasonably have been supposed to be saying that he felt he had NOT made something of his life.

2. Everything Ken DID feel that he made of his life--in the drama work, the Shakespeare classes, the poetry classes and writing, the Yiddish Renaissance work, the study of Ancient Rome, the work on William Gilbert--all the way back, in other words--he felt was being taken from him or had been taken from him by the intellectual quicksand of the org, and in particular (the Shakespeare work) by the vicious stupidity of Lyn LaRouche and Tony Papert.

How do I know? He told me.

who cares about his wife? did it ever occur to any of you clowns that husbands and wives sometimes don’t get along? they call the end of a marriage d-i-v-o-r-c-e

Please note the complete disjunction between the first and second sentences. The first question that comes to mind: Does this mean that if someone's divorced we're not to care about them?

Second, and more serious: The thought here expressed goes to the kernel of LaRouche's small, hard, sclerotic, piece-of-coal heart: "who cares about his wife?"

Who indeed? In fact, who in the org cares about anyone else--especially if LaRouche has told you NOT to care about him or her? Who cares about Carol or Chris, Nick, Uwe, Gus, Mel, Warren, Webster, Fernando, Robyn, Linda, Christina, Pidge, Dalto, Leif, Nora, Kathy, Laura, Don, Paul, Andy, Steve, Uwe F, Gabriele, Michael, Anno, Elisabeth, Hartmut, Ortrun, Renate, Dino, Cristina, Fiorella, Philip, Hans, Laurent, Lana, Thierry, Mary, Bill, Sander, Joyce, Bobby, Sandy, Margaret?--just to name a few of the leaders and members of the org who have quit over the years.

Revenire doesn't. Lyn says these are Bad People Doing Bad Things. Why, they may even be Government Agents out to get Lyn!?!

Now, we recall, those of us (fewer than 7) who have been following revenire, that he has told us that he is not a member of the LaRouche org and not based in Leesburg.

If any of that is true, then revenire, of course, didn't know Ken or Molly or any of these people just listed. Wouldn't know them if they slapped him silly (there's a thought....)

If it's not true, then revenire as a loyal LaRouche Leesburgian knows that All Those Bad People are not to be cared about any more.

Hell, they weren't even cared about when they were IN the org.

I mean, forget "who cares about his wife?" Who cared about Ken? No one cared enough to prevent Lyn and Tony Papert from savagely attacking him.

I've always wondered what would have happened on the morning of Wednesday, April 11, 2007, if someone--say, Barbara Boyd, or Bruce Director, or Nancy Spannaus, or Dennis Small, or Jeff Steinberg--the key players, as I see it--had called Ken up and said, "gee, forget about what's in the briefing. We'll back you up. We'll fight for you...."

But strangely, no one did. No wonder Nancy Spannaus said when she called Molly the day after Ken died, "I don't know if you ever want to see my face again."

A former PMR person once said to me of Ken, "we would have backed him. We would have stood behind him." Poor thing--she didn't quite realize the stuff of which the leadership is made....

did it ever occur to any of you clowns that husbands and wives sometimes don’t get along? they call the end of a marriage d-i-v-o-r-c-e

Well, revenire, that they do. They call it divorce. They generally don't call it suicide, jumping from a very high overpass a mile from the PMR office with PMR I.D. in the car, minutes after reading Lyn's latest psychotic rant about you and your work.

That's what they generally don't call it.

Now, refresh my memory here, but I don't recall the Kronbergs being divorced. Talking about divorce. Being reported to be contemplating divorce.

No doubt the conventional wisdom in the org now is that Molly drove him to it. I mean, good Lord! We know (we do?) that she had been a Government Agent since at least 1988 (year of the Alexandria trial out of which Lyn emerged as as common criminal). The wonder is, not that Ken killed himself because his wife was a Government Agent, but that he waited 20 years to do it....

But there you see the logical kink in the conventional wisdom of the org. There's always a kink, a twist, something that doesn't quite work. The product of a fevered brain, the conventional wisdom always shows the marks of the infection of its origin.

i don’t care what molly says now — ken isn’t here to speak and anyone who comes around and claims to have “known” ken can go jump off a bridge for all i care

First--It's obvious, revenire, that you don't care what Molly says now. That's why you let the whole thing drop months ago, and haven't referred to it since.

Second--Ken isn't here--or at least, not wherever you are--but there are other ways of speaking. You have no idea what's "out there."

Third--Not quite sure about the "anyone who comes around and claims to have 'known' ken" part. Are you saying Molly didn't know Ken? Are you saying the various posters didn't know him?

I guess what you're saying is that anyone who claims to have known Ken and says that Ken didn't want to lick Lyn's boots any more is giving the org a bad name (as if it could get worse!) and therefore must be silenced.

And, as a final charitable thought, you wish they'd all jump off a bridge, every last nay-sayer.

Well, well, revenire. I must say, you've certainly made something of your life.

ENVOI

P.S. Don't worry, revenire, about my wasting hours poring over your posts and responding to them. I dash these things off in a matter of minutes.