Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

charges and received a 15 year jail sentence,of which he served 5 years, being parole inJanuary 1994. Other members of hisorganisation received jail sentences of 32, 70and 81 years for fund-raising without asecurity dealer’s licence.LaRouche forces have the ability to"get up the nose" of certain establishmentfigures. LaRouche has always protestedhis innocence and refused to plea bargain.Wherever LaRouche goes, there is bound to be a reactionand the inevitable fireworks. Considerable media effort inthe USA is put into discrediting the man and his colleagues.Since the late 1960s, LaRouche networks have beenpolitical forces on the fringes of politics, various leftistgroups and in particular with extremist Zionist (Jabotinskyite)forces and ultra-orthodox groups such as the Lubavitchers.Since the late 1970s LaRouche has had a particular hatred forthe Jewish free-rnasonic group known as the B'nai B'rith,groups which he claims are in the service of the modern day"British East India" forces.LaRouche has been accused of being "anfi-semitic," aludicrous charge considering that many Jewish people areactive in the organisation. LaRouche has also been accused of"racism," also a ludicrous accusation given LaRouche's Christianhumanist philosophy and the fact that the black civil rightsleader Jim Bevel (a former confidante of the late Martin LutherKing) is a close political partner of LaRouche.In his earlier days LaRouce worked closely with Jewishpolitical networks. LaRouche confesses in his memoirs that inthe late1960s members of the radical Zionist outfit, HashomerHatzair, recruited LaRouche to the leadership of a Students forDemocratic Action (SDS) chapter on a campus he was attending.From this initial recruitment LaRouche drifted into the Lynnbranch9