[URBAN NOTE] Randy meets the LaRouchites
Oct. 9th, 2009 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAs I was walking west down Harbord Street towards the heart of the University of Toronto's main campus and Robarts Library, I saw a gathering of people gathered around a table on the corner by Robarts. Presuming that was part of one of the campus movements that try to recruit students at the beginning of the year, I went over. Who was there?
LaRouchites!
Advertising their website www.larouchepub.com, the LaRouchites had an array of impressive displays, everything from pamphlets promising Britain Delenda Est to posters featuring Obama wearing a Hitler mustache next to Prince Philip to a painting of a spacesuited astronaut on Mars holding a fossil-bearing rock in awe.
As I was standing there, a handsome guy approached me. He was personable enough, explaining that the current economic crisis was precipitated by the world not doing was LaRouche wanting, arguing that an alliance founded by the US and China then expanding to the rest of the BRIC should reform the system (not the Eurozone, incidentally, which actually makes sense given that currency union's complete lack of coordination in dealing with the crisis). "And in thirty years," he triumphantly concluded, "we'll be on Mars."
What can you say to that? I smiled, took a pamphlet, gave him an E-mail address I never use for them to send materials then, and briskly walked north.
LaRouchites!
Advertising their website www.larouchepub.com, the LaRouchites had an array of impressive displays, everything from pamphlets promising Britain Delenda Est to posters featuring Obama wearing a Hitler mustache next to Prince Philip to a painting of a spacesuited astronaut on Mars holding a fossil-bearing rock in awe.
As I was standing there, a handsome guy approached me. He was personable enough, explaining that the current economic crisis was precipitated by the world not doing was LaRouche wanting, arguing that an alliance founded by the US and China then expanding to the rest of the BRIC should reform the system (not the Eurozone, incidentally, which actually makes sense given that currency union's complete lack of coordination in dealing with the crisis). "And in thirty years," he triumphantly concluded, "we'll be on Mars."
What can you say to that? I smiled, took a pamphlet, gave him an E-mail address I never use for them to send materials then, and briskly walked north.
