Regular Joe wrote:

Hi. I just happened to be searching wikipedia looking up information on the different political parties of america and their leaders when i came across the lyndon larouche article. So i had a bit of a read and i came "Operation Mop up", Now what is interesting here is that it says that Larouche party members attacked Communist Party member with nunchuks. Now seriously this sounds like something out of a bruce lee movie. You should have said baseball bats, that would have been more believeable. I mean else does this Mr Larouche have: Ninja Death Squads.

To conclude, get real.

The reason Wikipedia is so great is that it's an instrument of education. When we read it we learn new things, including things that may be amazing or even unbelievable. Occasionally that's because someone has vandalized an article but more often because "truth is stranger than fiction".

In the case of this fact, the basic details have ben reported in many ways in many places and aren't disputed (except for whether the violence was in self-defense). The LaRouche movement in the 1970s was engaged in street action, disruption of opponents' meetings, and harassment. The movement mellowed in the 1980s, but LaRouche was heavily armed guards, traveled in an armored sedan, and there was still harassment of perceived enemies (including killing of pets). Recent decades haven't seen the same kind of violence or threats.

The Washington Post has an archived article that does a good job of recounting LaRouche's remarkable history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/larouche/main.ht...

Read and learn.

Will Beback