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The first group of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has arrived in a neutral camp in
southern Sudan following the recent truce ending 19 years of conflict. The LRA says it is
willing to release women and children seized in the war, during which it kidnapped an
estimated 20,000 young people and turned them into soldiers and sex slaves. A permanent
peace will likely depend on whether or not LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants
are granted amnesty. The victims are so desperate for an end to war that they want to
forgive and forget, which is said to be the way local culture treats even ordinary murderers
if crimes are admitted and compensation is given.
Lyndon LaRouche
Two Wayne State University students, political science and philosophy major Katrina
Fenton, and her friend Ed Capps, told recently of an attempt by members of the LaRouche
Youth Movement (LYM) to recruit them. LYM members engaged Fenton in a sidewalk
conversation and told her that the education she was pursuing was essentially inadequate.
The students‘ subsequent visit to the off-campus LYM office included reading LaRouche
literature aloud in chorus, a tour, listening to a LaRouche radio program, and a discussion of
why LaRouche‘s approach was the only way to save the world. The LYM people then
―pitched‖ dropping out of school in favor of a special education with them. The two were
then driven back to the campus. Fenton says she‘s received 20 phone calls in the last month
urging her to return. Although apparently annoyed, she is not ready to dismiss the
LaRoucheites, saying they are at least trying to reform an apathetic society. ..Journalist
Chip Berlet, who researches the LaRouche organization, says that it recruits students, who
are attracted to its anti-war, anti-bush, and anti-Cheney rhetoric, as well as residents of
inner-city and black communities. ―They‘re masterful at preying on the guilt of people, if
you believe in helping the working classes,‖ he says. Paul McClung, who was a LaRouche
follower from 1978–2004, says, ―LaRouche sees himself as God,‖ and thinks ―he knows
more than anybody, including his hero, F.D.R.‖
A former Scotland Yard forensic expert has produced a report, based on an examination of
the photographic evidence, which suggests that Lyndon LaRouche follower Jeremiah
Duggan‘s death in 2003 may not have been suicide, as German authorities concluded.
Duggan was found dead on a street in Wiesbaden not long after he phoned his parents in
Britain and told them he was under pressure and in grave trouble.
Magnificat Meal Movement
Debra Geileskey, head of the Toowoomba, Australia-based Magnificat Meal Movement
(MMM), has been ―caught‖ running a gold investment scam, according to Mike Garde, who
is writing a dissertation on the group. He also says she‘s been forced by a court to repay a
wealthy follower a $680,000 property-purchase loan. Garde adds that she allegedly
presented promissory notes — determined to be non-negotiable — totaling $530 million to a
New Jersey bank to establish Caledonia Australis. Geileskey began to attract followers
in1990s, when she says she received messages from Christ and the Virgin Mary, but many
left when her husband said she was a fraud. Local authorities have sold off five MMM
properties belonging to cult members who refused to pay rate arrears on the ground that
their names are copyrighted. In response to notices asking for payment, they had
demanded a great deal of money for breach of copyright. Geileskey‘s neighbors say they
hope authorities will investigate MMM‘s business affairs, but doubt that the recent expose
will persuade apparently brainwashed followers to leave.
Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan, saying he‘s seriously ill, has asked Nation of Islam leaders to carry on
in his absence to make sure the movement ―will live long after I and we have gone.‖ The
leaders will be tested, he said, to prove to the world that ―the Nation of Islam is more than
The first group of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has arrived in a neutral camp in
southern Sudan following the recent truce ending 19 years of conflict. The LRA says it is
willing to release women and children seized in the war, during which it kidnapped an
estimated 20,000 young people and turned them into soldiers and sex slaves. A permanent
peace will likely depend on whether or not LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants
are granted amnesty. The victims are so desperate for an end to war that they want to
forgive and forget, which is said to be the way local culture treats even ordinary murderers
if crimes are admitted and compensation is given.
Lyndon LaRouche
Two Wayne State University students, political science and philosophy major Katrina
Fenton, and her friend Ed Capps, told recently of an attempt by members of the LaRouche
Youth Movement (LYM) to recruit them. LYM members engaged Fenton in a sidewalk
conversation and told her that the education she was pursuing was essentially inadequate.
The students‘ subsequent visit to the off-campus LYM office included reading LaRouche
literature aloud in chorus, a tour, listening to a LaRouche radio program, and a discussion of
why LaRouche‘s approach was the only way to save the world. The LYM people then
―pitched‖ dropping out of school in favor of a special education with them. The two were
then driven back to the campus. Fenton says she‘s received 20 phone calls in the last month
urging her to return. Although apparently annoyed, she is not ready to dismiss the
LaRoucheites, saying they are at least trying to reform an apathetic society. ..Journalist
Chip Berlet, who researches the LaRouche organization, says that it recruits students, who
are attracted to its anti-war, anti-bush, and anti-Cheney rhetoric, as well as residents of
inner-city and black communities. ―They‘re masterful at preying on the guilt of people, if
you believe in helping the working classes,‖ he says. Paul McClung, who was a LaRouche
follower from 1978–2004, says, ―LaRouche sees himself as God,‖ and thinks ―he knows
more than anybody, including his hero, F.D.R.‖
A former Scotland Yard forensic expert has produced a report, based on an examination of
the photographic evidence, which suggests that Lyndon LaRouche follower Jeremiah
Duggan‘s death in 2003 may not have been suicide, as German authorities concluded.
Duggan was found dead on a street in Wiesbaden not long after he phoned his parents in
Britain and told them he was under pressure and in grave trouble.
Magnificat Meal Movement
Debra Geileskey, head of the Toowoomba, Australia-based Magnificat Meal Movement
(MMM), has been ―caught‖ running a gold investment scam, according to Mike Garde, who
is writing a dissertation on the group. He also says she‘s been forced by a court to repay a
wealthy follower a $680,000 property-purchase loan. Garde adds that she allegedly
presented promissory notes — determined to be non-negotiable — totaling $530 million to a
New Jersey bank to establish Caledonia Australis. Geileskey began to attract followers
in1990s, when she says she received messages from Christ and the Virgin Mary, but many
left when her husband said she was a fraud. Local authorities have sold off five MMM
properties belonging to cult members who refused to pay rate arrears on the ground that
their names are copyrighted. In response to notices asking for payment, they had
demanded a great deal of money for breach of copyright. Geileskey‘s neighbors say they
hope authorities will investigate MMM‘s business affairs, but doubt that the recent expose
will persuade apparently brainwashed followers to leave.
Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan, saying he‘s seriously ill, has asked Nation of Islam leaders to carry on
in his absence to make sure the movement ―will live long after I and we have gone.‖ The
leaders will be tested, he said, to prove to the world that ―the Nation of Islam is more than
