It was a stunningly beautiful day here in Boston, yesterday. Completely uncharacteristic for post-Thanksgiving weather in the Massachusetts Bay area, the comfortable temperature brought with it warmth, courtesy and friendship — to a point.
While pedestrians once again took to the streets in full force, they were certainly not alone. Swarming stressed out students like mosquitoes, the intrusive and parasitic reactionaries who call themselves political activists, set up shop right outside the GSU yesterday afternoon.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m talking about those who support the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement. In addition to the fact that this wrinkly senior citizen has himself a youth movement, this fervent anti-Semite and extreme liberal LaRouche comes complete with pie-charts, graphs and more packets than votes cast for the American League MVP.
And I’m sure he’s been whining for a long time. I mean, how desperate are you to hand out packets after an election, at a time when most people around here voted for mayor, and the only mode of technology is a webcast?
A webcast. Even Ralph Nader, everyone’s favorite loser, could garner more exposure — on TV, radio and in newspapers. A webcast. Oy.
Is anyone really paying attention?
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once said, “When you hand me a flyer, it’s like saying, ‘Here, you throw this out for me.'”
By distributing pamphlets with concurrent images of Dick Cheney on a backdrop of Hell and Hitler, these activists are proving Hedberg’s theory.
I, frankly, don’t have the patience to look at some of their insensitive, inaccurate, offensive and idiotic material that’s a waste of paper. And how could liberals be doing this? Wasting paper hurts the environment!
Most of LaRouche’s ideology is, according to one of those Pulitzer Prize-losing pamphlets, “to organize America to transform her economy, and defeat the fascist plotters bent on her destruction.” The man who dons the cover, Vice President Cheney, of course, leads those plotters. This stems more from hatred toward the vice president than opposition to his politics. Unfortunately for Mr. LaRouche, this immediately strikes down any semblance of credibility.
Common sense can’t even help this guy out.
An economic crisis? What about the 20,000 students walking around campus going from class to class? They’re each paying about $40,000 a year for this higher education. Now I’m no economist, but I think our parents are doing just fine!
Oh, and do you think a convicted felon (tax fraud, embezzlement) can help?
Fascist government? I didn’t vote for President Bush, but even I respect and honor our democracy. If he would like to see a real fascist government bent on America’s destruction, I have plenty of frequent flyer miles to send him on a trip to Tehran. It’s too bad, though, because the Iranians actually have a fascist government, and they would kill LaRouche like any other American.
Oh, and does Iran promote free speech?
Dick Cheney? He may be an evil oil lord, but any student who knows something about American politics recognizes that the vice president has only one constitutional power, and that’s to break a tie in the Senate. The only person he really has control of is his cardiologist. Alan Greenspan, on the other hand, sets interest rates and basically controls the economy as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. His successor will be Ben Bernanke.
Oh, and did Dick Cheney even appoint them?
The absurdity certainly doesn’t end there. I think I can speak for much of the Boston University student body when I say these guys have crossed the line.
Average people will listen to educated, lucid, articulate and eloquent protests. News reporters will pay attention to people with power, purpose, sincerity and authenticity.
But a picture of Cheney against the backdrop of Nazis?
Some vision, Mr. LaRouche. Hate speech is not free speech. Not in this country — and you don’t have to be a Bush supporter to say that.
I usually don’t like to venture into the world of politics, especially with all the, err, support the Campus Conservative gets every week. But sometimes these politicians get you as riled up as Howard Dean during a primary.
A webcast? AHH!
I think it’s time to play some Javanoid.