What I just encountered

[freshwest]

34. Hehehe! I've run into them and they're quite hostile when confronted by non-cultists. They tried to

take over at a precinct meeting where Kucinich was talking to my local Democrats.

They'd littered the literature tables with material. The regulars were speechless. Dennis skillfully, but firmly, shut them down when they started their 'Impeach Obama' spiel during the Q&A.

I know some who have had problems with these cult members in their community, because that's how they behave. They are an international group and are on community access stations with their weekly broadcasts. I don't know how they are supported financially to go out and do these things, but they remind me of the WBC group in vitriol if provoked - which is not hard to do.

My last encounter was at the local post office. They'd gathered near the door with their signs. My views were not in evidence, no button, bumper sticker or anything like that. They survey to see if you're going to take their literature or high five.

Just the act of walking past as I did at my Post Office a few days before the presidential election, got a hostile response. They glared at me the whole time for not stopping to talk, though I was trying to avoid eye contact and get about my business.

They have a rather successful history:

The LaRouche movement has been accused of violence, harassment, and heckling since the 1970s.[27][28][29][30]
[edit] 1960s and Operation Mop-Up

In the 1960s and 1970s, LaRouche was accused of fomenting violence at anti-war rallies with a small band of followers.[31][32] According to LaRouche's autobiography, it was in 1969 that violent altercations began between his members and New Left groups. He wrote that a faction of Students for a Democratic Society which later became the Weathermen began assaulting LaRouche's faction at Columbia University, and there were later attacks by the Communist Party, and the SWP.[33] These conflicts culminated in "Operation Mop-Up", a series of physical attacks by LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) on rival left-wing groups.[34] LaRouche's New Solidarity reported NCLC confrontations with members of the Communist Party and Socialist Workers Party, including an April 23, 1973 incident at a debate featuring Labor Committee mayoral candidate Tony Chaitkin that erupted in a brawl, with chairs flying.[35] Six people were treated for injuries at a local hospital.

In the mid-1973 the movement formed a "Revolutionary Youth Movement" to recruit and politicize members of street gangs in New York City and other eastern cities.[36][37][38] The NCLC allegedly trained some members in terrorist and guerilla warfare.[36][39][40] Topics included weapons handling, explosives and demolition, close order drills, small unit tactics, and military history.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaRouche_movement#1960s_and_Operation_Mop-Up

Even the narrative posted in a reply on this thread is mentioned on that page. Uh, I don't like them.