Welcome To "Change" (Can We Stop It Now?)

"Jerry had been a student at the British Institute in Paris but he had travelled to Wiesbaden to attend what he thought would be an anti-Iraq war conference. 'He was an idealistic boy who wanted to change the world,' his mother said. 'He was angry about the upcoming war and wanted to do something about it. But he was also excited because he was beginning to learn about politics.'

The conference was organised by the Schiller Institute, an extremist political think-tank linked to a right-wing conspiracy theorist, Lyndon LaRouche. He is an 87-year-old convicted fraudster who has made eight unsuccessful attempts to run as an independent candidate in the US presidential elections. Some of LaRouche's more unusual claims include that the British monarchy and MI6 are behind the global drugs trade.

In the States, he is largely regarded as an amusing sideshow whose apocalyptic writings attract vulnerable people looking for answers.

The LaRouche Movement: A 'sinister' cult

Former members have accused it of brainwashing members, as well as promoting anti-Semitic, homophobic and misogynistic conspiracy theories."

-- Jerome Taylor, on the mysterious and gruesome death of Jerry Duggan, an English Jew - the newest victim of the "amusing sideshow" of "vulnerable people looking for answers" - and yet another body, cruelly piled up on this blog, and in the pages of The Independent.

Needless to say, TMR is not amused,...but then, I'm not a cynically idealistic journalist.