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LaRouchies in front of the Post Office

Started 1 year ago by HMC Rich
Latest reply from shed22

HMC Rich
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My wife and another lady older than 55 gave the LaRouchies with the Obama/Hitler mustache signs a piece of their minds.

I am proud of her because this type of protest or propoganda is offensive. Not only is seeing a Hitler stache on our President offensive, it is just weird. It is utterly ridiculous to use Mr. Obama and Hitler in a comparison.

If any of you actually support Mr. LaRouche and his organization, can you please "enlighten" me as to why you are being so crass and what point(s) you want to make?

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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many thanks to your wife and her friend...did they get any kind of intelligent response?

Posted 1 year ago #
HMC Rich
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My wife said. "Do you know what Hitler did? (She is British) and found it offensive. They condescendingly said "Do You?" The other lady was defending our President and saying he is doing his best. Misguided 20 somethings.

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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dontcha just love it when they get belligerent and answer a question with a question....and get all "uppity" about it...

Posted 1 year ago #
HMC Rich
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Kind of like my four year old. :)

Posted 1 year ago #
Ken
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You will never see a Larouchie older than 24. It is a cult for the young and gullible.

Posted 1 year ago #
anonyme
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They use well established brainwashing and intimidation techniques. I was foolish enough to engage them in conversation once. They converge in pairs, never answer a direct question, and hammer you with questions you're never allowed to answer without interruption. I actually started laughing because the situation was so laughable - albeit scary and pathetic.

Posted 1 year ago #
TDe
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HMC.. Glad your wife and friend took them on, although it sounds like the La Rouchies aren't open to anything other than their own propaganda. I've noticed them around West Seattle occasionally, but when I saw them in front of the post office, it just seemed more offensive, somehow. I'm not into any cult of Presidential worship, but to align the man that the people of this country elected to lead them with the madness and horror of Hitler is deeply offensive to me. Many thanks to your wife.

Posted 1 year ago #
charlabob
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Good for your wife and her friend (and you for posting this.) I'm really happy to hear this -- I'm convince that even if you have no impact on the Larouchies, you do have an impact on people walking by or listening to them.

They have been around forever and I can't imagine what they think they accomplish. I ran into a bunch of them at a John Kerry appearance during his presidential campaign. They had posters of Kerry with a hitler 'stache. Yeah, I tried to argue with them -- I'm intrepid. They were annoying. I moved on to the bar.

Posted 1 year ago #
DP
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If any of you actually support Mr. LaRouche and his organization, can you please "enlighten" me as to why you are being so crass and what point(s) you want to make?

Rich, please tell me I did not just hear what I thought I heard.

LaRouchies: Listen closely.

I'm going to count to three and then snap my fingers. When I snap my fingers, you are going to wake up and forget everything you just heard.

When you wake up, it will be as if there was never a West Seattle Blog, never a West Seattle Post Office, and never even any West Seattle.

Posted 1 year ago #
DP
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DP
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Posted 1 year ago #
SarahScoot
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Ugh. A few months ago I was walking southbound on California near Hotwire Coffee and saw up ahead a nice-looking group of people about my age (mid-to-late 20s) at a folding table stacked with literature. Thinking they were an animal welfare organization or something (since they were right in front of Hotwire), I gave a smile when one made eye contact with me, and I returned a greeting.
Then I saw all the LaRouche propaganda, narrowed and averted my eyes, and walked straight past.
I smiled at one of them. I still feel dirty. *Shudder*

Posted 1 year ago #
Jiggers
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Another example how the younger generation is totally clueless. So under educated.:(

Posted 1 year ago #
Kimberley
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What the bloody hell is a LaRouchie when it's at home? Yes, I'm going to search for it now.

Posted 1 year ago #
Sonoma
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I saw a couple of LaDouche culties in Kirkland last summer. Pathetic doofuses. As a descendant of German refuges forced out by Hitler, I was furious about the stupid Hitler-moustache signs. So pissed off and offended, that I accidently on purpose tore the sign from their little card table and -- oops! -- spilled my latte on it. Darned waste of a good latte.

Posted 1 year ago #
supersued
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I encountered these LaRouche followers in front of the WS post office today. I too was completely offended by the Hitler moustache photo and told the two idiots just that. The man started talking about the 35th amendment whatever that is. What the hell!!! After reading the blog here I'm motivated to also tear the sign down. I encourage others to do the same.

Posted 8 months ago #
datamuse
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They hang out in front of the post office near my work, too. Last time I encountered them, they asked me if I wanted to help fight evil.

I said "no" and kept walking.

Posted 8 months ago #
JayDee
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It is funny that serendipity placed this revitalized post next to a forum request for pest control. I cannot top that one.
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Lyndon LaRoush (like Al Davis of the Raiders) is one of those people who you thought died a long time ago.

Posted 8 months ago #
datamuse
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OMG JayDee, that's funny! lol!

And you're right--after that encounter I mentioned above I actually Googled him and was surprised to discover that he wasn't dead yet.

Posted 8 months ago #
miws
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JayDee, with the recent Seahawks Raiders game, the name Al Davis came up among a small group I was in and I said something like; "Isn't he, like, 150 years old by now" ;-)

Mike

Posted 8 months ago #
mehud7
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They were in front of the post office a few weeks ago with their Obama/ Hitler poster. I told the nice postal employee how offensive they were. He said sadly that there was nothing the pose office could do as the sidewalk was public property. On my way out I told these men how sad it was that they couldn't be removed.

Posted 8 months ago #
datamuse
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They marched around the UW campus when I was in grad school there (and still do, for all I know) and could for the same reason: it's a public institution.

The university where I work now is private, so they're stuck hanging out in front of the post office near campus. Which was a source of amusement for me over the summer, since the neighborhood around campus is dead during that time...

Posted 8 months ago #
JoB
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At the Westwood post office they stand next to the door. Is that public property because it is in a mall?

I don't know.

I complained to the Westwood Mall about them and they told me that they couldn't do anything because they were at the police office.

As for the young men, I simply told them to stop acting as though they were representatives of the man who wore that mustache.

I had the satisfaction of watching both of them catch flies before their programming reset.

Posted 8 months ago #
metrognome
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frankly, I'm glad they're out there (and equally glad I can't stand up and provide a reason for them to need serious dental surgery.) Why? Their visibility reminds us that this kind of intolerance still exists and that we need to continue to be vigilant. If they were invisible, we run the danger of being complacent and unaware until it is too late. So, next time, simply thank them for the reminder that hatred still exists ... and then go find a WWII vet and thank them for their service.

Posted 8 months ago #
charlabob
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Thank you, metrognome. Well said!

Posted 8 months ago #
metrognome
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you're welcome. And I should have mentioned Rosie the Riveter and the civilian women pilots who risked their lives to ferry new fighters to the flyboys and the kids who picked up tin foil for the war effort and the Merchant Marine sailors who braved the freezing waters and the U-Boats and ...

Posted 8 months ago #
datamuse
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As for the young men, I simply told them to stop acting as though they were representatives of the man who wore that mustache.

Nice one, JoB!

Posted 8 months ago #
DBP
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I don't associate the LaRouchies primarily with hatred. Rather, I consider them poster children for untreated mental illness.

I'd like to stand across from them at Westwood with a giant placard that reads:

Governor Gregoire !
For the love of GOD . . .

RESTORE MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING !

Posted 8 months ago #
kootchman
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Ahhhhh...let them have their voice. It keeps a lid on things. As my dad used to say...the only harm people who "don't know sh==t from shinola" can do is have scruffy shoes... but they probly' think the same about any of us... that self reinforcing thing... y'know what people do who think they have no voice? That old stump in the village square is a good social regulator. Derison is the last and final step to violence.... use it sparingly.

Posted 8 months ago #
shed22
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Free speech does not represent intelligent speech. I learned this from the Christians who bought preaching rights at Westlake (downtown) over the past few months.

Posted 8 months ago #