Full coverage on Ken Kronberg's suicide and the crisis at LaRouche's headquarters

(Date at beginning of each recent item is the date of posting, not necessarily of publication.)

  • May 20 posting: "Ken Kronberg's Funeral, a Year Ago Today." Description by "eaglebeak" of the April 19, 2007 funeral of businessman hounded to death by Lyndon LaRouche. "The one person who wasn't there, of course, was LaRouche....It is rumored that the night before the funeral Molly Kronberg had called up Nancy Spannaus and said "If that man comes, I leave the church."

  • May 6 posting: LaRouche just can't stop sliming his loyal old-timers. The same month as the anniversary of Ken Kronberg's suicide, LaRouche with his usual crassness repeats (April 2, 2008) his claim that the organization's boomers such as Kronberg were/are nothing but slackers. This morning briefing, with commentary added by LaRouche's critic "eaglebeak," reveals more clearly than ever that LaRouche is serious about carrying out a "boomer pogrom"--thus guaranteeing that after his death the organization will end up under the control of a ruthless new generation of brainwashees.

  • April 14 posting: Hounded to death! Statement by Factnet's "Eaglebeak" on the first anniversary of Ken Kronberg's suicide. "When Ken left the house that morning he did not intend to kill himself"...but then he read the LaRouche/Papert suicide memo. Eaglebeak's posting also includes a Nov. 22, 2004 LaRouche memo trashing Ken that was found on his nightstand after his death.

  • April 12 posting: Life in LaRouche's "Inner Ring." Postings from Factnet (edited by DK) re the sadomasochistic manipulation and just plain bullying that are the dreary lot of Der Abscheulicher's Leesburg "boomers." Includes the text of a July 6, 2006 memo in which LaRouche heaps humiliation on two of his most loyal disciples--Ed Spannaus and Ken Kronberg.

  • March 21 posting: Conservative newsletter provides more evidence of LaRouche's historic links to the Republican Party--and the hypocrisy of his attacks on Molly Kronberg for her donations to Republicans. The Right Report (Nov. 19, 1976) discloses that "[l]iterally hundreds of conservatives and Republicans have already been approached by this cadre group, which obviously has compiled a thick file on the U.S. right." And: "A handful of top Republican party officials and prominent conservatives are now actively cooperating with the U.S. Labor party." Names several Republicans involved and claims that the finance chairman of the Oklahoma Ford campaign had helped funnel money to the USLP.

  • Feb. 25 posting: "If I were you, Molly, I'd have my brakes checked." New documentation from Factnet of LaRouche's callous and hostile treatment of Ken Kronberg's widow.

  • Jan. 23 posting: "His biggest mistake was his suicide"??? Handwritten letter by top LaRouche aide Nancy Spannaus to Ken Kronberg's widow (Aug. 14, 2007). "I do have regrets...," Spannaus adds. "But what's important now is to honor [Ken's] memory by doing the work which he dedicated his life to....I ask you again to join...in that mission." (For background and a print version of this letter, see Jan. 5 posting below.)

  • Jan. 20 posting: Once again it's blame-the-widow time. LaRouche announces that Molly Kronberg caused his 1988 fraud conviction. This nonsense is supposed to absolve Der Abscheulicher and his Leesburg Suicide Club of any responsibility whatsoever for Ken Kronberg's death. Posting includes devastating point-by-point rebuttal by ex-LaRouchian "eaglebeak."

  • Jan. 5 posting: Holding LaRouche's feet to the fire. More criticism by ex-LaRouchians re the monstrous attitude of Dear Leader (and his top aides) towards the Kronberg family tragedy.

  • Dec. 30 posting: A former LaRouche follower provides new evidence re LaRouche's art of "inducing suicide." Der Abscheulicher has now admitted that induced suicide exists--but is trying to pose as the great champion against it. As to those who criticize on the internet his treatment of Ken Kronberg, LaRouche compares them to Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition!

  • Dec. 28 posting: LaRouche's obsession with the suicides of people he doesn't like is reflected in a rant against a former college classmate. Future journalist Murray Gart apparently said something to LaRouche at Northeastern University in 1947 that really, really angered the budding Hitler wannabe. In "The Aborted Suicide of [Washington] Star Editor Murray Gart," written 30 years later, LaRouche not only comes close to equalling the maliciousness of his tirades against Henry Kissinger, but also sheds light once again on his own psychological demons.

  • Nov. 19 posting: LaRouche says Ken Kronberg's widow is an evil person because she donated to Republican election campaigns in 2004, but LaRouche himself and his top aides served as Republican errand boys and dirty tricksters for over 12 years! Here's documentation of one of the first of many such efforts: the wave of lawsuits that LaRouche caused to be filed in 1976 in an attempt to overturn Jimmy Carter's election on grounds of "vote fraud." The suits were filed with the support of then National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Guy Vander Jagt and RNC executive director Ed Mahe. LaRouche's role as an impresario of GOP dirty tricks only ended when he couldn't cadge a pardon out of President George H. Bush after being sent to prison for stealing the life savings of senior citizens.

  • Nov. 16: LaRouche's 1974 "Manchurian candidate" speech available on the web for the first time. Here is the idea of inducing suicide (especially in Jews) already worked out in LaRouche's imagination: "The [brainwashed] person goes into a final total caricature....Pathetic. Worse. Like a dead cow....Automatic crematoria. No gas ovens required. The person is programmed to self-destruct."

  • Oct. 29: Crisis in the LaRouche Cult: A Special Report (updated)

  • Oct. 29: LaRouche wrote (2001): "The easiest way to destroy a selected victim, is to to induce him to destroy himself"

  • Oct. 27: LaRouche slimes Molly Kronberg, the Boomers, Al Gore and, of course, Felix Rohatyn in Oct. 21 speech

  • Sept. 22: More on the "culture of abuse"--suicide joke and smears against former LC printer Dalto

  • Sept. 22: LaRouche trashes the Kronbergs again; ex-LCer strikes back

  • Aug. 29: Hypocrisy! The truth about LaRouche's support for the same Republican Party that he blasts Mrs. Kronberg for supporting

  • Aug. 25: Ex-LaRouchians rip Lyn's latest lies and excuses to shreds (new postings on 8/23 file)

  • Aug. 23: A rational mind examines Lyn's lies in detail

  • Aug. 23: More spin from Lyn

  • Aug. 20: LaRouche slimes Ken's widow, boasts that the cult has "no reason to feel any sort of guilt" re her husband's death. Dennis King replies with new appeal to Boomers.

  • July 31: SHOCKER: LaRouche and the art of inducing suicide

  • LaRouche's insults to families of Ken Kronberg and Jeremiah Duggan continue

  • Nicholas F. Benton's April 19, 2007 article in the Falls Church News-Press that first revealed the facts about the April 11 "suicide" memo

  • From our archives: LaRouche's self-serving response to Michael Gelber's 1994 death

  • April 11 "suicide" briefing (issued only hours before Kronberg's death)

  • Second LaRouche statement on April 11 suggested "virtual suicide" as solution for burned-out followers

  • LaRouche blames everyone but himself for collapse of PMR

  • LaRouche brags about himself in crass statement on Kronberg's death

  • Nancy Spannaus presents the official ICLC spin

  • Kronberg family web page (homily at funeral, statement by Molly Kronberg, etc.)

  • Ex-LaRouchians comment on Kronberg's life and death

  • LaRouche served notice on his Jewish "boomers" in 2005

  • Kronberg published laudatory volume to celebrate LaRouche's 80th birthday, but it wasn't enough to save him from being dumped

  • Dennis King: What should be done?

  • LaRouche says KIng's proposals emanate from "the evil Lynne Cheney"!

  • Who's next on the list for LaRouche's "boomer pogrom"?

  • Anti-LaRouche message board predicted in 2004 the boomer purge and the PMR crisis

  • Wasted lives, untimely deaths: More tragedies in the LaRouche movement

  • LaRouche predicts the "suicide" and "funeral" of Dennis King

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