Archive/File: larouche larouche.015 Last-modified: 1993/05/06 XRef: index larouche, larouche larouche.ihr When a civil liberties group sued the Los Angeles Police Department's former Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID), seeking to halt its alleged abuses, local MCLC members popped up as fanatical police supporters. They launched a smear campaign in 1980 against leaders of the Citizens Commission on Police Repression (CCPR), including its founder, Linda Valentino. The LaRouchians "made our lives miserable," she said. "They passed out, it must have been, a quarter of a million leaflets, accusing us of terrorism and drug pushing." The leaflets listed the home and work phone numbers of activists involved in the suit. "for days, we received harassing calls," Valentino said, "I got obscene calls at home in the early morning hours." The leaflets were filled with blatant anti-Semitism, charging that the Israelis, the Lubavich Order of Hasidic Jews, the Jewish Defense League, Simon Wiesenthal, and a Jewish city councilman, Zev Yaroslavsky, were all in a plot to destroy the PDID so that "Israeli dopers" could take over. One leaflet bore the title "Smash the 'Kosher Nostra' - Defend the LAPD." Said another: "If your child's mind is eaten away by PCP provided to him by Meyer Lansky's drug runners, or if the mayor of your city has his legs blown off" by a JDL hit squad, "the person to blame is Zev [Yaroslavsky]." The leaflets were authorized and paid for by LaRouche's 1980 presidential campaign committee. (King, 237) Work Cited King, Dennis. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. New York: Doubleday, 1989