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As you say, that young woman continued to interrupt Dean after he promised to hear her, right after his speech was finished. I didn't hear what was said later, but she gave a big dramatic SIGH as she handed him a flyer.

I am pro-impeachment myself and would've been interested to address that topic, but I'm also anti-disrespect for those who deserve respect.

I was told Jim McDermott got a similar treatment from LaRouchies at a recent event.

I was at the Gore Town Hall you mention where 4 or 5 stood up and began singing a Gregorian-chantlike piece in the middle of his talk (and were quickly escorted out, but I could hear the choir outside for quite awhile). "Those are the LaRouche cult," Gore said ruefully. "For some reason they've taken a liking to me..." From this remark, I figured he encounters this regularly in his travels across the country.

Do these LaRouchies only dis Democratic activists, or do they confront Republicans? That wuld be interesting to find out.

I see this in some people who are not in cultlike movements.  They start from good evidence and intentions.  Then they follow one line of logic through, without deviation, to its end (at times to truth but, just as easily, to absurdity) -- forgetting to look at the whole context or to have compassion for others.  

The biggest problem is if you say "Thanks, but not interested" they don't leave you alone.  Instead they keep interrupting you and saying why you have to LISTEN RIGHT NOW.  The closest similarity in my lifetime was the co-worker who tried to convert everyone to his religion at every slow moment in the day.

Most LaRouchies need to understand the patience and give and take that comes with being an activist.  If you can't get someone to shut up or leave you alone once you're talking, why start the conversation in the first place?

Chad is right - the tactics of most LaRouchies (I've met an occaisional exception to the rule) turn people off, even if they might support some of their views.

Why on Earth do they think they're "Democrats"? I wish there was some legal way to stop LaRouche from advertising himself as a "Democratic Candidate for President", which I've seen on all the literature I've had forced on me.

If there was some way of siccing them on the Republicans, I'd be all for it, but they've made themselves our problem.

My only hope is that - eventually - LaRouche will have to retire (not that I'm wishing ill-health on him) and since it's a pure cult of personality, the whole business should fold up shop once he's not actively turning out new, crazy, half-baked conspiracy theories.

I asked H.D. if he remembered me and he smiled, "How could I NOT, with you wearing that getup?"