Perennial presidential candidate and gadfly Lyndon LaRouche has some words of wisdom regarding the exploration of Mars. Quote: “When you go from Earth to Mars … it’s not like taking the train, from someplace to someplace. You’re actually going through a very large part of the Solar System…. There are a lot of things going on there. This is not simply empty space.”
If you (dare to) read on, you’ll find he criticizes Beagle 2 for taking the “el cheapo” approach as well as push for his own 40-year plan to establish a human base on Mars. No doubt there are a few people out there who would like to send him to Mars…
I’m no fan of LaRouche, for all the obvious reasons (I don’t really like fascism). I remember the gubernatorial election in Illinois in 1982 when a couple of his associates got the Dem nominations to state office and it cause the party to split into two with Adlai Stevenson heading the new Solidatiry Party after bailing from the Democrats. Anyway, Mr. LaRouche has one good point: he’s long advocated settling Mars, and even made it a cornerstone of his 1998 presidential campaing. Most of us probably remember the 30-minute Mars infomercials he had that year. I wonder if that’s where Perot got the idea for having sitdown chats on camera with poster slides and charts.
Matt
Some of you called LaRouche ‘Facist’, ‘Comunist’, ‘CIA agent’, ‘Perennial’. All of this people never touch a single page about his extense bibliography but insist to call him with this contradictory adjetives.
You’re losing the best oportunity from FD. Roosevelt.
He was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party, which is obviously a communist organization, from 1945 to 1965. As for anti-semitism, here are some Larouche quotes:
“Judaism is not a true religion, but only a half-religion, a curious appendage and sub-species of Christianity.”
“Judaism is ideological abstraction of the secular life of Christianity’s Jew, the Roman merchant-userer who had not yet evolved to the state of Papal enlightenment, a half-Christian, who had not developed a Christian conscience.”