Chris Sayre and fellow protestor Bob Wesser with the controversial LaRouche Political Action Committee stood in front of Syosset Post Office on Wednesday asking, “Sir, are you ready to impeach Obama?”
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Some agreed with the pair, offered donations and signed up for the group’s mailing list. Others disagreed and nodded to their poster depicting President Barack Obama sporting an Adolf Hitler-style moustache. “You Republicans are destroying the country,” one passerby said to the men. Yet both Sayre and Wesser, of Hackensack, New Jersey consider themselves Democrats.
The polarizing reactions they receive on the street last week is just another day’s work for the group, which argues global warming is a hoax, calls for colonizing Mars and wants the world to return to a gold-backed monetary system. The group and its affiliates, named for 87-year-old felon and fringe political leader Lyndon LaRouche—famous for, among other things, his wild conspiracy theories—are not an easy organization to label. They’ve been called everything from a cult to “what may well be one of the strangest political groups in American history,” according to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Sayre said that Obama is implementing a Hitler-like health care plan and is conspiring to destroy NASA. “[This is] bone crushing austerity against the population, Obama is attacking the Constitution,” said Sayre.
“Get Obama out, stop the bailout,” said Wesser. “This country is ready for a fight and for a change,” added Wesser, while using one of the campaign buzzword used most by the man that he and his group are speaking out against.
LaRouche supporters have been setting up in front of Post Offices throughout Long Island and across the Tri-State area while trying to raise awareness for the crimes they accuse the President of committing. But this is by no means a new movement, it is just the latest focus for an organization that has been around since the 1960s.
LaRouche decided that the President was impeachable after he announced his plans for health care reform in July. A pamphlet from LaRouche states, “We are at the very threshold of the President and his henchmen ramming through this same Nazi plan, which would serve as a giant step toward a genocidal dictatorship.”
The LaRouche group’s association of Obama and Hitler are particularly ironic—aside from the contradictory concept of an African-American Nazi—considering a New York judge’s 1980 ruling that the Anti-Defamation League’s characterization of him as an anti-Semite are “fair comment.” LaRouche, who is reportedly very sensitive about being called an anti-Semite, had sued ADL, unsuccessfully claiming they libeled him.
ADL, which advocates against the prejudicial treatment of Jewish people, condemned LaRouche‘s latest Nazi-image-related campaign. “It is bad enough that Holocaust imagery has entered into the debate over health care reform, but it is worse when you realize that the major source of this imagery is a man who has a long track record of anti-Semitic fear mongering,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, said last summer. “The Nazi imagery helps LaRouche accomplish his goal of changing the subject and drowning out any meaningful public discussion of this important issue.”
[...] says: February 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm Why even give serious journalistic coverage to these loons? Followers of Lyndon Larouche? [...]
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Jerry says, “The use of fiscal considerations to decide “end of life care” is a policy for which Nazi doctors were tried at Nuremberg and hung, for crimes against humanity.”
Nice wording/euphemisms for the gasing of 6 million people, which is what they were really tried for. Don’t give me your slippery slope arguments for what you think Obama is going to do by trying to mention some obscure document Hitler’s doctor distorted to first mistreat mental patients and then the Jewish population.
All that the new plan called for was for consultations with doctors about these issues (i.e. living willis) to be covered by insurers, which they previosuly weren’t.
Move on to some other conspiracy theories. The snow will soon be melting in the mountains – prime time for bigfoot sightings.
Hilarious !
Where were these clowns when NIXON, RAYGUN, BUSH1 and BUSH2 was destroying the goodwill and productivity this nation built up over the last 100 years?
Here is a news flash…..
Like it or not, you guys lost.
Now be quiet and try solving some problems instead of just complaining constantly.
What a bunch of jerks.
Sure, Impeach Obama.
Do you really want the vice president in his seat?
I think not.
Let the voters remove him on election day.
BOR~
Clinton WAS impeached, and the perjury was on something far from National Security. W on the other hand, lied along with his cronies, to get us involved in a war with people for reasons other than justifiable. In fact in Britain, Tony Blair is being brought up on charges that he falsified information. In the US we’ll never bother to string up W or Cheney or any of the other idiots. We let them slide and pension them off, just like we do with all the other crooks and SOB’s that get caught.
In the meantime Cheney is getting A #1 health care for his latest chest pains. You and I would be in the street in 24 hours And stuck with a huge co-pay top boot. Unless of course you have one of those Cadillac plans that the rest of us have heard so much about.
There are no “death panels” in any proposed legislation. We do, however, currently have a for-profit health care industry more concerned with maintaining executive pay levels reaching in the tens of millions of dollars while denying care to people in need.
It’s hard to take anyone making Hitler comparisons seriously. It usually seems to be an approach taken when one does not have any arguments based on fact. It seems to come from emotional folk easily swayed by fear. And fear is a liar and a thief
Why would the LaRouche clan want to impeach someone that agrees to their socialist/communist agenda?
The comparison between the Obama-sponsored health reform and the Adolf Hitler-sponsored Tiergarten Vier (T-4) policy of October 1, 1939 is accurate and precise. The Obama administration’s Peter Orszag pushed and endorsed the IMAC policy in the Senate version of the bill which is a virtual copy of the T-4 policy of the NAZI Hitler. The use of fiscal considerations to decide “end of life care” is a policy for which Nazi doctors were tried at Nuremberg and hung, for crimes against humanity.
Impeachment …talk about delusion and pipe dreams…
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922)
He was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in 1988 for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax code violations, but continued his political activities from behind bars until his release in 1994 on parole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
Why even give serious journalistic coverage to these loons? Followers of Lyndon Larouche? Really?!?! These Hitler comparisons are so offensive I don’t even know where to start. What in anything Obama has ever done suggests he is going to gas millions of men, women, and children to create a master race? Before you sign a petition like that, do some research. Is anyone paying attention to facts anymore? Stop getting sound bites from entertainers pretending to be newscasters. Obama is not right about everything and will most likely be a disappointement like all Presidents are these days, but the lack of knowledge sought out by the public is so damaging to our country’s future.
Cranky: There was no reason to impeach Bush. On the other hand, Bill Clinton PERJURED himself and was not impeached.
We couldn’t get an impeachment against the idiot George W Bush who truly deserved to be canned, but these fools will probably succeed~