Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
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#3
09-21-2003, 10:17 PM
#4
09-22-2003, 01:01 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
It is this relentless pursuit of truth and unyielding opposition to subversion, treason, and conspiracy that continues to mark the John Birch Society for savaging in the dominant left-wing media. In the past few years the Society has come under increased assault by this thought cartel because of its successes in awakening a sizable segment of the American public with evidence that there is indeed a ruling elite — operating in our federal government and permeating many of our commercial, social, educational, and religious institutions — laboring to merge the United States into a Soviet-style one-world tyranny under the United Nations.
A prime example of the new smear campaign is to be found in an article entitled "When Conspiracy Theory Replaces Thought," which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor of May 13, 1996. The article by Ira Straus begins: "What is the milieu in which criminal groups of ‘freemen’ and Oklahoma City bombers grow? It is the underworld of conspiracy theory.... For decades, the John Birch Society has spread word of the Conspiracy...."
Warns Straus: "Conspiracy theory is doing America real harm.... It irrationalizes thinking on every issue. It kills." In fact, he insists, in the past few years, the "paranoids" and "crackpots" who believe in conspiracy "suddenly became dangerous — capable of blowing up federal buildings."
On April 19, 1998, the third anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivered a similarly venomous smear. Entitled, "Targeting the Government: The Road to Oklahoma City Was Paved by 40 Years of Fringe Movements," the malevolent screed decries the "angry minority of Americans who see their government as a tyrannical enemy that must be destroyed by violence." The article contends that the origins of this "violent antigovernment movement" are to be found in the JBS: "The passions of the Cold War proved a fertile setting for the growth of the anti-government movement. When Boston candy manufacturer Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society in 1958, his rhetoric seemed little different from that of mainstream anti-communists.... But the John Birch Society marked something of a departure in the evolution of post-war right-wing movements, with Welch escalating the levels of rhetorical paranoia...."
Similarly, an NBC special report on "Conspiracy Theories" warned its television audience: "There is a group of people here in the United States who would love to see the United Nations out of New York and out of the country for that matter. These people believe that U.S. sovereignty is in some way threatened by the United Nations and that the UN or some nebulous new world order is out to take over America." NBC then interviewed the predictable "experts" about the dangers of this rampant paranoia, while the camera focused on covers of several issues of The New American magazine.
What is new about the current demonization campaign is its lead-handed attempt to criminalize the John Birch Society through tortured efforts to link the Society to terrorism, "hate crimes," and violent criminal elements. Since these establishment media shysters have not a shred of evidence to indicate that the JBS has ever operated in any other than a completely peaceful, honorable, principled, and legal manner, they have made the incredibly audacious leap of claiming that Birch members must be considered guilty as "ideational conspirators" since they have, supposedly, infected the violent criminal types with the Birch Society’s "rhetorical paranoia."
A prime example of the new smear campaign is to be found in an article entitled "When Conspiracy Theory Replaces Thought," which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor of May 13, 1996. The article by Ira Straus begins: "What is the milieu in which criminal groups of ‘freemen’ and Oklahoma City bombers grow? It is the underworld of conspiracy theory.... For decades, the John Birch Society has spread word of the Conspiracy...."
Warns Straus: "Conspiracy theory is doing America real harm.... It irrationalizes thinking on every issue. It kills." In fact, he insists, in the past few years, the "paranoids" and "crackpots" who believe in conspiracy "suddenly became dangerous — capable of blowing up federal buildings."
On April 19, 1998, the third anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution delivered a similarly venomous smear. Entitled, "Targeting the Government: The Road to Oklahoma City Was Paved by 40 Years of Fringe Movements," the malevolent screed decries the "angry minority of Americans who see their government as a tyrannical enemy that must be destroyed by violence." The article contends that the origins of this "violent antigovernment movement" are to be found in the JBS: "The passions of the Cold War proved a fertile setting for the growth of the anti-government movement. When Boston candy manufacturer Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society in 1958, his rhetoric seemed little different from that of mainstream anti-communists.... But the John Birch Society marked something of a departure in the evolution of post-war right-wing movements, with Welch escalating the levels of rhetorical paranoia...."
Similarly, an NBC special report on "Conspiracy Theories" warned its television audience: "There is a group of people here in the United States who would love to see the United Nations out of New York and out of the country for that matter. These people believe that U.S. sovereignty is in some way threatened by the United Nations and that the UN or some nebulous new world order is out to take over America." NBC then interviewed the predictable "experts" about the dangers of this rampant paranoia, while the camera focused on covers of several issues of The New American magazine.
What is new about the current demonization campaign is its lead-handed attempt to criminalize the John Birch Society through tortured efforts to link the Society to terrorism, "hate crimes," and violent criminal elements. Since these establishment media shysters have not a shred of evidence to indicate that the JBS has ever operated in any other than a completely peaceful, honorable, principled, and legal manner, they have made the incredibly audacious leap of claiming that Birch members must be considered guilty as "ideational conspirators" since they have, supposedly, infected the violent criminal types with the Birch Society’s "rhetorical paranoia."
#5
09-22-2003, 01:11 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
Why are these folks in such a froth that they are inventing incredibly nasty things about this organization that they alternately insist is an inconsequential fly speck on the body politic, a relic of a bygone era? Because they’re scared. Of what? Of exposure, and of steadily accumulating evidence that more and more Americans are looking seriously at the John Birch Society’s "wacko conspiracy theories."
Certainly one of the most telling studies is the extensive survey concerning American political beliefs conducted by the Gallup Organization and the Post-Modernity Project of the University of Virginia. Entitled, "The State of Disunion: 1996 Survey of American Political Culture," the study involved face-to-face interviews with a national sampling of over 2,000 adults. Among the many findings reported in the survey were these:
Three out of four Americans (77 percent) agree with the statement that "the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves." (Twenty-nine percent completely agree.) Similarly, 63 percent of all Americans say that America’s governing elite is "only concerned about its own agenda." This same percentage agrees that "our country is run by a close network of special interests, public officials, and the media." (Twenty-five percent completely agree.)
The survey also revealed that "one quarter of the population do repeatedly express the conviction that the government is run by a conspiracy, and one in ten Americans strongly subscribes to this view."
So, is this cohort populated principally by UFO nuts, neo-*****, Oliver Stone lefties, environmental wackos, and Marxists? Apparently not. According to the survey, it is made up of normal, conservative folk. The study found that "those who harbor fears of a governmental conspiracy are likely to oppose restrictions on the sale and use of handguns and to favor reductions in the size of the federal government." They "especially question the character of ‘big government’ types like Ted Kennedy and President Clinton." But are these individuals dangerous "anti-government" extremists? Not according to the survey, which found them to be better than average citizens. Their suspicion of the ruling elites "does not lead ‘strong conspiracy’ types to reject the American system as a whole or to withdraw from political participation altogether." In fact, the survey reported, "Not only are those who suspect an elite conspiracy likely to vote, but they are actually more engaged politically than other Americans, if writing letters and discussing politics is considered political engagement." And these same folks "are as likely as anyone to say that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world."
Certainly one of the most telling studies is the extensive survey concerning American political beliefs conducted by the Gallup Organization and the Post-Modernity Project of the University of Virginia. Entitled, "The State of Disunion: 1996 Survey of American Political Culture," the study involved face-to-face interviews with a national sampling of over 2,000 adults. Among the many findings reported in the survey were these:
Three out of four Americans (77 percent) agree with the statement that "the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves." (Twenty-nine percent completely agree.) Similarly, 63 percent of all Americans say that America’s governing elite is "only concerned about its own agenda." This same percentage agrees that "our country is run by a close network of special interests, public officials, and the media." (Twenty-five percent completely agree.)
The survey also revealed that "one quarter of the population do repeatedly express the conviction that the government is run by a conspiracy, and one in ten Americans strongly subscribes to this view."
So, is this cohort populated principally by UFO nuts, neo-*****, Oliver Stone lefties, environmental wackos, and Marxists? Apparently not. According to the survey, it is made up of normal, conservative folk. The study found that "those who harbor fears of a governmental conspiracy are likely to oppose restrictions on the sale and use of handguns and to favor reductions in the size of the federal government." They "especially question the character of ‘big government’ types like Ted Kennedy and President Clinton." But are these individuals dangerous "anti-government" extremists? Not according to the survey, which found them to be better than average citizens. Their suspicion of the ruling elites "does not lead ‘strong conspiracy’ types to reject the American system as a whole or to withdraw from political participation altogether." In fact, the survey reported, "Not only are those who suspect an elite conspiracy likely to vote, but they are actually more engaged politically than other Americans, if writing letters and discussing politics is considered political engagement." And these same folks "are as likely as anyone to say that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world."
#6
09-22-2003, 01:14 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
No wonder the Insider power elites are concerned. This pool of informed and active citizens constitutes a genuine threat to their statist schemes. And those *@#%! John Birchers are responsible. The cumulative effect over the years of disseminating many millions of copies of carefully researched books like None Dare Call It Treason, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, The Rockefeller File, The Invisible Government, The Insiders, The Shadows of Power, and Global Tyranny, as well as millions of magazines and article reprints, audio and video tapes, and petitions, has been to convince a sizable percentage of the American public that the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve, the United Nations, and other globalist organizations and institutions are indeed a real threat to freedom.
This is a signal accomplishment and is the basis for so many other victories. It indicates that a significant portion of the voting public recognizes that America’s economic, moral, and political slide toward the abyss is not solely — or even principally — the result of natural causes. They realize that we are being pushed there by an identifiable organized conspiracy of evil men who intend utterly to destroy our freedom. Accordingly, these informed patriots vigilantly pay heed to the writings, public utterances, and activities of the conspirators and frequently sound the alarm and expose their schemes. Following is a small portion of the examples which could be cited to illustrate the power of truth in the hands of a determined few.
This is a signal accomplishment and is the basis for so many other victories. It indicates that a significant portion of the voting public recognizes that America’s economic, moral, and political slide toward the abyss is not solely — or even principally — the result of natural causes. They realize that we are being pushed there by an identifiable organized conspiracy of evil men who intend utterly to destroy our freedom. Accordingly, these informed patriots vigilantly pay heed to the writings, public utterances, and activities of the conspirators and frequently sound the alarm and expose their schemes. Following is a small portion of the examples which could be cited to illustrate the power of truth in the hands of a determined few.
#7
09-22-2003, 01:16 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
er of truth in the hands of a determined few.
Get US Out!
As already noted, the John Birch Society, from its inception, recognized in the UN an insidious scheme to establish a tyrannical world government. Thus, opposition to the UN became a primary agenda item. The Society’s "Get US out!" billboards, bumper stickers, and petition drives, together with its books, magazines, pamphlets, film showings, lectures, and radio broadcasts, are in large measure responsible for the low esteem with which the UN is generally held. Between 1975 and 1982 the JBS delivered "Get US out!" petitions with over 11 million signatures to Congress. In 1994, at the behest of Oklahoma City JBS Chapter Leader Clark Curry, State Representative John Monks introduced a resolution (which passed without opposition) calling on Congress to cease appropriations and support for UN military operations and/or for "any form of global government." Alabama followed suit, and soon similar resolutions were popping up in many state legislatures.
In 1997, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) succeeded in obtaining the first vote ever in Congress on a measure to get the U.S. out of the UN. Fifty-four members of the House voted in favor of Paul’s amendment to the State Department funding bill. While the measure did not pass, it nonetheless has provided an essential first step in the effort toward actually removing the UN monstrosity from our shores. It was due largely to the cumulative long-term efforts of the JBS, as well as the Society’s direct support of Paul’s measure, that the vote was possible and that it attracted 53 supporting votes.
The New American magazine, which is affiliated with the John Birch Society, is the only major conservative magazine to send reporters to UN conferences in such locales as Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Copenhagen, and Rome. The New American accurately reported to the American public concerning the incredibly subversive agendas of these affairs, including the dangerous treaties these summits promoted, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Treaty, the Global Warming Treaty, and the new International Criminal Court Treaty.
Is the message getting through? Absolutely. During a 1997 press conference, President Clinton was asked by a reporter about "rumormongers" who are "scaring people to death" and have persuaded a large segment of the public that "the United Nations is taking over whole blocks of counties in Kentucky and Tennessee." Although Mr. Clinton and the assembled reporters laughed at the supposed absurdity of these concerns, the President acknowledged, "There is a not insubstantial number of people who believe there is a plan out there for world domination and I am trying to give American sovereignty over to the UN." Surprisingly, he then went on to vindicate the central premise of these concerns when he rhetorically asked, "How can we be an independent, sovereign nation leading the world in a world that is increasingly interdependent...?"
But a great many Americans aren’t buying that spin. In March 1998 the John Birch Society received an urgent call from the program director for nationally syndicated talk-show host Barry Farber in New York City. Mr. Farber wanted an immediate on-the-air interview with a JBS spokesman who could clarify the facts behind accusations from callers that the United Nations was taking over our national parks. William Norman Grigg, senior editor for The New American, responded to the opportunity. Although initially skeptical of the UN threat, Mr. Farber became convinced of the reasonableness of the cause for concern as Will Grigg walked him through the collectivist agenda of the UN’s World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserve programs. Under these UNESCO schemes, millions of acres of American soil, including such famous national parks as Yellowstone and the Everglades, have come under UN "protection." Farber was so impressed with the authoritative information provided by Will Grigg that he commented enthusiastically to his audience, "The John Birch Society makes house calls for those who are feeling the pains of ignorance."
Get US Out!
As already noted, the John Birch Society, from its inception, recognized in the UN an insidious scheme to establish a tyrannical world government. Thus, opposition to the UN became a primary agenda item. The Society’s "Get US out!" billboards, bumper stickers, and petition drives, together with its books, magazines, pamphlets, film showings, lectures, and radio broadcasts, are in large measure responsible for the low esteem with which the UN is generally held. Between 1975 and 1982 the JBS delivered "Get US out!" petitions with over 11 million signatures to Congress. In 1994, at the behest of Oklahoma City JBS Chapter Leader Clark Curry, State Representative John Monks introduced a resolution (which passed without opposition) calling on Congress to cease appropriations and support for UN military operations and/or for "any form of global government." Alabama followed suit, and soon similar resolutions were popping up in many state legislatures.
In 1997, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) succeeded in obtaining the first vote ever in Congress on a measure to get the U.S. out of the UN. Fifty-four members of the House voted in favor of Paul’s amendment to the State Department funding bill. While the measure did not pass, it nonetheless has provided an essential first step in the effort toward actually removing the UN monstrosity from our shores. It was due largely to the cumulative long-term efforts of the JBS, as well as the Society’s direct support of Paul’s measure, that the vote was possible and that it attracted 53 supporting votes.
The New American magazine, which is affiliated with the John Birch Society, is the only major conservative magazine to send reporters to UN conferences in such locales as Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, Copenhagen, and Rome. The New American accurately reported to the American public concerning the incredibly subversive agendas of these affairs, including the dangerous treaties these summits promoted, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Treaty, the Global Warming Treaty, and the new International Criminal Court Treaty.
Is the message getting through? Absolutely. During a 1997 press conference, President Clinton was asked by a reporter about "rumormongers" who are "scaring people to death" and have persuaded a large segment of the public that "the United Nations is taking over whole blocks of counties in Kentucky and Tennessee." Although Mr. Clinton and the assembled reporters laughed at the supposed absurdity of these concerns, the President acknowledged, "There is a not insubstantial number of people who believe there is a plan out there for world domination and I am trying to give American sovereignty over to the UN." Surprisingly, he then went on to vindicate the central premise of these concerns when he rhetorically asked, "How can we be an independent, sovereign nation leading the world in a world that is increasingly interdependent...?"
But a great many Americans aren’t buying that spin. In March 1998 the John Birch Society received an urgent call from the program director for nationally syndicated talk-show host Barry Farber in New York City. Mr. Farber wanted an immediate on-the-air interview with a JBS spokesman who could clarify the facts behind accusations from callers that the United Nations was taking over our national parks. William Norman Grigg, senior editor for The New American, responded to the opportunity. Although initially skeptical of the UN threat, Mr. Farber became convinced of the reasonableness of the cause for concern as Will Grigg walked him through the collectivist agenda of the UN’s World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserve programs. Under these UNESCO schemes, millions of acres of American soil, including such famous national parks as Yellowstone and the Everglades, have come under UN "protection." Farber was so impressed with the authoritative information provided by Will Grigg that he commented enthusiastically to his audience, "The John Birch Society makes house calls for those who are feeling the pains of ignorance."
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#12
09-22-2003, 04:35 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
I gotta say Mike...
I gotta admire your style in reaching this point. You sure diddled around a long time before hitting your nadir; I was getting very interested and started to get frustrated but have now been satisfied. How refreshing to build and build and build and then...stand back...let the floodgates go. Doesn't happen often here or elsewhere.
I still think you're off your rocker though.
Whistler
I gotta admire your style in reaching this point. You sure diddled around a long time before hitting your nadir; I was getting very interested and started to get frustrated but have now been satisfied. How refreshing to build and build and build and then...stand back...let the floodgates go. Doesn't happen often here or elsewhere.
I still think you're off your rocker though.
Whistler
#13
09-22-2003, 05:48 PM
Do you know how the John Birch Society got it's name?
Wow! That may not be the best rant I've read, but it is the longest. "Inconsequential fly speck on the body politic", "relic of a bygone era", "wacko conspiracy theories" - sounds about right to me.
Mike, did you forget to take your meds again? Try a cold shower - that is if you don't think floride in the water is part of a government plot to pollute your vital body fluids.
Dono
Mike, did you forget to take your meds again? Try a cold shower - that is if you don't think floride in the water is part of a government plot to pollute your vital body fluids.
Dono
