Title:
Astray: My life in a radical political organisation.
By Aglaja
Beyes-Corleis.
"Verirrt" Mein Leben in einer
radikalen Politorganisation. by Aglaja Beyes -Corleis:
Published Herder/Spektrum1994. ISBN 3-451 -04278-9
The
author was a member of the LaRouche network for 16 years. She left at the
end of 1990. When a person sets out to do something valuable to help the world
this positive desire could be manipulated in such a way as to recruit them to
the LaRouche organization. All prevailing crisis in world affairs are used to
make an individual feel that unless they join up the world will end in
destruction. It is at these times of crisis that fundamental changes can be
made to a person’s persona and life goals.
The
author describes a method of “self-induced brainwashing.” She tells how the
individual is brought to the point where they can no longer bear the stress,
shame and guilt anymore. It is taken as a positive sign when this point of
breaking down is reached. It is at “break- down” point when the ideas of the
LaRouche movement can be transplanted in the place of previous beliefs.
How
are people changed? It was through the propaganda in this sea of emotion that
the individual is successfully manipulated into first tolerating such
propaganda and then spreading it.
Specific
means are used to exert the maximum pressure. The new recruit is told he cannot
trust his own independent thought because he is not capable of independent
thought because he has been subjected to years of “false information” from
family, friends, the media and his schooling.
It
is useful to remove the new recruit from his familiar milieu in order to carry
out these pressures to maximum affect. Long hours of lectures and activities so
as to cause physical fatigue and increase suggestibility. Little time to think,
little time to read, little time to eat, little time to relax all intensify the
process of inducing a personality change.
The
notion that what you thought was truth is really lies, turns everything you
knew on its head. Everything is aimed at the emotions. Everything is aimed to
heighten suggestibility and prey on the idealism and vulnerability of the young
mind searching for world solutions.
For
example Lyndon LaRouche gave lectures in which he stated; Stop believing, that
“the Germans” brought Hitler to power. It has been Anglo-American financial
interest fuelled by the Jewish forces. Look at all these persons who have
Jewish names. The idea about the Jewish cartel being in the background is dealt
with in the following way. It is said that if you find anything strange about
mentioning the Jews in connection with the forces behind the plan for a take-
over of world wide fascism, then this is because you deny that there can be
Jewish criminals.
LaRouche
is a master of manipulation and conspiracy theory turning even the
unsuspecting,Jews into self hating Jews.
In
an internal conference in 1976 the author heard LaRouche make the following
statements:
“There
are people involved in this thing on the Temple Mount who want to start a
nuclear Armaggedon! And they are supported by the majority of the
fundamentalists in the US. They are supported by Ariel Sharon and the Kahane
movement. These integrist movements must be destroyed and put in concentration
camps, not killed, but put out of circulation.”
“Put
in concentration camps” that phrase found its way into the Briefings the next
day. No one dared to speak against it.
This
book (written by Aglaja Beyes-Corleis, an ex member of the LaRouche network ) was published for a few
years and now is out of print. Why? Many people have asked to read it – in many
different languages. Learn more in a
fuller summary: Press here