JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY COLUMN 1

 

Between 1866 and 2004 there have been many organizations formed in the U.S who say they are founded on Christian values and THEY are the protector of  “liberty” and  “freedom”  however these organizations often spread fear and hate which destroys freedom and liberty.

 

According to the web page, www.kkk.com , the Ku Klux Klan, formed in 1866,  alleges our nation is under the judgment of God and the KKK based on the Christian way of--law and order--love of family--love of nation is our best hope of deliverance from the violent, wicked socialist new world order.

 

In 2004 the Tea Party was founded on Christian values by people who say they are “patriots” with 15 non negotiable core beliefs people who pledge their lives and sacred honor to defy tyranny and demand liberty.

 

Examine with me information about the John Birch Society (JBS) founded by Robert Welch Jr. on December 9, 1958 to protect freedom from Communism.  The JBS fear of Communism is set out in “The Blue Book of the John Birch Society” and is in part as follows:

 

“Both the U.S and Soviet government are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalist, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians.  If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S government would betray the country’s sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a one –world socialist government.  There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, collectivism in general but Communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction.”  

 

The JBS meet weekly in small groups, sponsor a speaker’s bureau and pioneered grassroots lobbying combining, educational meetings, petition drives and letter writing campaigns under the tight control of Welch. Three years after JBS was formed Welch claimed 60,000 to 100,000 members with a staff of 28 in the home office, 30 major coordinators who were paid a salary and expenses, and 100 volunteer coordinators or section leaders

 

The following are some Welch statements which were believed and repeated as gospel by JBS members and supporters:

 

President Dwight Eisenhower was a “conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy and his brother Milton was his superior in the Communist apparatus and that other top government Communist officials were former Presidents Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and former CIA Director Allen Dulles.”

 

In  March 1961  “Some 7,000 members of the U.S. clergy were Communist or Communist sympathizers.”

 

In 1965 “The U.S. was 60-80 percent Communist dominated.”

 

President Johnson’s  “fight against communism in Vietnam was part of a communist plot aimed at taking over the Unites States.”

 

On January 1, 1961 “We are aware that the whole Supreme Court is a nest of socialist and …a successful impeachment of Earl Warren would put the fear of God in the whole pro Communist hierarchy that already controls our government.”

 

Described Brown v. Board of Education   “the most brazen and flagrant usurpation of power that has been seen, in a major court in the whole Anglo-American system of jurisprudence, in three-hundred years.”

 

Racial issues were “being fomented almost entirely by the Communist to stir up such bitterness between blacks and whites in the South which would result in civil war.”

 

Welch offered college students $2,300 for the best essay on “grounds to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

JBS bumper stickers and billboards proclaimed “Save Our Republic-Impeach Earl Warren” “Get The U.S. out of the U.N and the U.N out of the U.S.”

 

Bircher Fred Koch founder of Koch Industries and the father of David and Charles Koch was one of the founding members of the JBS who wrote a book entitled “A Businessman Looks at Communism.”  In his book Koch outlined the steps which he believed the Communist planned to use to take over America: “Infiltrate high offices of government and political parties until the President of the U.S was a Communist followed by a general strike which would bring our country to it’s knees.”

 

Bircher General Edward Walker in his testimony before a Special Senate Preparedness Subcommittee on April 1962 questioned the loyalty of Secretary of State Dean Rusk.  Walker afterwards resigned his Army commission and became the flag bearer for “constitutional conservatism” making speeches all across the nation denouncing President Kennedy’s foreign policy as a “world Communist conspiracy.”   Walker was one of the protestor at the Old Miss James Meredith riots and called on “Americans in every state to march to Mississippi and HELP GOVERNOR BARNETT KEEP JAMES MEREDITH OUT OF OLE MISS.”

 

Bircher Paul Weyrich  “I don’t want everyone to vote .  As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

 

Column 2 on JBS will appear next Friday---Article 1 of  column 2

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