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  John Birch Society - SourceWatch
The John Birch Society (JBS) is a conservative U.S. organization that was founded in California in 1958 to fight the perceived threat of Communism.
The society was named in honor of John Morrison Birch, a Fundamentalist Baptist missionary from Georgia, who had served as an intelligence officer in China during World War II and was killed by Chinese communists in 1945 and dubbed "the first American victim of the Cold War" by the Society.
Birch Society influence on US politics hit its high point in the years around the failed 1964 presidential campaign of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, who lost to incumbent President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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 John Birch Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The John Birch Society is an Americanist organization founded in 1958 to fight what it saw as growing threats to the Constitution of the United States especially a perceived communist infiltration and to support free enterprise.
It was named after John Birch, a United States military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II who was killed in 1945 by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China, and whom the JBS describes as "the first American victim of the Cold War." His parents joined the society as life members.
The John Birch Society was established in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 9, 1958 by a group of twelve "patriotic and public-spirited" men led by Robert Welch, Jr.
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 John Birch Society - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY [John Birch Society] ultraconservative, anti-Communist organization in the United States.
America under attack: in Immigration Invasion, John Birch Society President John F. McManus warns that the illegal immigration invasion must be ended if the nation is to survive.
John Birch Society to Hold Briefing on Panama Canal Transfer.
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 PublicEye.org - Website of Political Research Associates - John Birch Society
At its core, however, the Birch view of the conspiracy does not reveal it to be controlled or significantly influenced by Jews in general, or a secret group of conniving Jews, nor is their evidence of a hidden agenda within the Society to promote suspicion of Jews.
In a sense, the Birch society pioneered the encoding of implicit cultural forms of ethnocentric White racism and Christian nationalist antisemitism rather than relying on the White supremacist biological determinism and open loathing of Jews that had typified the old right prior to WWII.
That the Birch Society clearly attracted members with a more hate-filled (even fascistic) agenda is undeniable, and these more zealous elements used the JBS as a recruitment pool from which to draw persons toward a more neonazi stance on issues of race and culture.
www.publiceye.org /tooclose/jbs.html   (3310 words)

  
 Unwarranted Attacks on the John Birch Society
The John Birch Society was begun in December 1958.
Society members and other like minded Americans in various other groups began an all-out campaign to warn members of Congress that the move to cripple HCUA was a pet project of the Communist Party.
John Birch Society members didn't deserve all the credit for helping to kill the pro- Communist measure, but their efforts attracted attention and they were soon to become the target of intense retaliation.
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 Commentary Magazine - The John Birch Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Westin, Alan F. The John Birch Society has become the most appealing, activist, and efficient movement to appear on the extreme right since the fertile decade of the 1930's.
...The Politician is to the Society what Leninist dogma is to the Communist front groups in Western or neutralist nationsit is the ultimate truth held by the founder and his hard-core, but it is too advanced and too powerful to present, as yet, to the "masses" being led...
...Birch membership at present is probably close to sixty thousand and is distributed widely throughout the nation, with particular strength in traditional centers of fundamentalism like Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Wichita, and Boston...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I2P7-1.htm   (6426 words)

  
 The John Birch Society Battles On [Free Republic]
Recently, G. Vance Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the John Birch Society, was interviewed at the Society's headquarters in Appleton, Wisconsin by William F. Jasper, senior editor of THE NEW AMERICAN, concerning this escalating phenomenon.
This is an attempt to associate the John Birch Society and other groups involved in legitimate, legal, principled dissent with those who are involved in violent, illegal activities during a time of heightened fear over bombings, church burnings, and other violence.
The Society definitely has a predilection for Catholicism and the "churches of chr*st" as well as with reconstructionism because of their stress on reclaiming the current world order and their hostility to apocalypticism.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a390bdb966e62.htm   (9350 words)

  
 The John Birch Society
Various sources cited therein document that the early members of the John Birch Society were also members of the liberal Establishment they pretended to oppose, and represented in great measure the corporate interests of America, which are advanced by the oaths of loyalty to one another in a secret brotherhood -- organized Freemasonry.
John Birch Society founder, Robert Welch, was succeeded upon his death in 1983 by the former Congressman Larry McDonald.
John Singlaub, Daniel Graham, and Mildred Jefferson, are members of the national policy board of the American Freedom Coalition, a political organization with extensive ties to the Unification Church...
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 We Hold These Truths - Pharisee Watch
Carlson could be unaware of the Council for National Policy, considering that the John Birch Society was instrumental in founding this now 450+ member organization of high-profile national and religious power brokers.
The JBS is famous for its promotion of anti-Communist literature and at least one former John Birch leader, Robert Morris, served on the steering committee of Liberty Lobby, a faction of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL).
By creating the perception that the conspiracy is Communist, the John Birch Society diverts suspicion from the Radical Right, whose principals have been discovered in cooperation with same.
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 History: John Birch Society
The John Birch Society was established by Robert Welch in 1958.
It was estimated in 1964 that the John Birch Society was spending $10 million a year on 7,000 weekly television and radio broadcasts.
The John Birch Society (JBS) was an invention and political extention of the Church (Latter-Day Saints, Mormon}.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbirchS.htm   (3413 words)

  
 John Birch Society's Endless Enemies
A major portion of this Report is devoted to the Birch Society's attack on Dr. Harry Overstreet because it reveals how the JBS did damage to our country by attacking and impugning the integrity and loyalty of Americans who did not share their warped viewpoints.
Birch Society representatives around the country often made requests for large quantities of FBI publications that they wished to distribute to the public.
There are numerous similar instances where self-identified Birch Society members wrote letters to Hoover but the Bureau chose not to acknowledge receipt or reply to them because comments made by JBS partisans were considered irrational and extremist in tone and substance.
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 Theory: John Birch Society
The former agent infiltrated the John Birch Society for several months and gathered firsthand information about the group's activities including plans of certain members to kill the 35th president of the United States.
Some John Birch members were oil barons, and the oil men made up an overlapping group which, when it came to its opinions of the President, had a great deal in common with the Society.
In the minds of many, the conspirators could very easily have come from the ranks of either the John Birch Society or the oil men, which is not to say they didn't belong to both groups.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKSinvestBirch.htm   (2281 words)

  
 John Birch Society — Infoplease.com
The big smear: knowing that The John Birch Society could foil their plans, the architects of America's engineered decline have long......
As the son of legal immigrants, the John Birch Society's immigration spokesman Sam Antonio......
Remembering Larry McDonald: the distinguished congressman and chairman of the John Birch Society was an effective and implacable foe......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0826415.html   (408 words)

  
 John Birch Society Advertisement Blaming Communism for the JFK assassination
John Birch Society Advertisement Blaming Communism for the JFK assassination
For five years The John Birch Society has said that, regardless of the external threat, Communism was a serious internal menace in the United States.
The John Birch Society is an educational army, and our only weapon is the truth.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /birch.htm   (710 words)

  
 John Birch Society - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The John Birch Society (JBS) is an ultra-conservative membership-based organization in the United States which was originally founded in 1958 by Robert W. Welch Jr.
The JBS supports an interpretation of the United States Constitution in accordance with what it considers to be the original intent of the Founding Fathers, and sees itself as dedicated to restoring and preserving constitutional freedoms.
The Society was named after John Birch, an American intelligence officer during World War II and Baptist missionary who was killed in China in 1945 by armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/John_Birch_Society   (225 words)

  
 Buckley Fiction by Marcus Epstein
Woodrow ends up quitting the Society after reading Revilo Oliver’s piece on the JFK assassination which essentially says Kennedy was as much a criminal as was Oswald.
When dealing with the John Birch Society, he spends more time on General Walker and Revilo Oliver, a man who was eventually forced out of the Society for his anti-Semitism, than on Robert Welch.
In fact it was not really the kookiness of the John Birch Society that led to their excommunication.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/epstein11.html   (924 words)

  
 Religious Right and the John Birch Society
The Society, named after Fundamentalists missionary to China John Birch,2 is an extension of the Joseph McCarthy movement.
The John Birch Society is a peculiar blend of patriotism and anti-government sentiment.
On the one hand the group portrays the role of a super patriot condemning flag burning and foreign aid.22 On the other hand their paranoid view of a conspiracy and the government has caused critics to claim they are a threat to national security.23 The September 16, 1996, issue of the "New American" said.
www.livingston.net /wilkyjr/link20.htm   (1629 words)

  
 Talk:John Birch Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I have several books and numerous pamphlets from the John Birch Society, published in the 1960s and 1970s, where the JBS opposed the Civil Rights Movement on the basis that it was a communist plot.
Birch Society bulletins proclaimed that most "American Negroes" didn't want trouble, were content with slow, peaceful progress, and that the Civil Rights movement had been instigated by "the Communist Conspiracy" and was under its control.
Actors John Wayne, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, and Walter Brennan were all members of the JBS but they seem to have terminated their membership rather quickly as they became more aware of the premises upon which Birch dogma was based.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:John_Birch_Society   (5559 words)

  
 Questions and Answers About the John Birch Society
The Society welcomes and enjoys the participation in its ranks of individuals from every walk of life and from all ethnic, racial,and religious backgrounds.
They named their endeavor after the remarkable missionary-turned-soldier, Captain John Birch, who was slain by Chinese Communists a few days afterthe end of World War II.
The John Birch Society has the capability of informing and guiding a sufficient number of fellow Americans so that our precious heritage of liberty can be passed on to the next generation -and even shared with many in other nations.
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 John Birch Society
Having respected the New American I first approached members of the John Birch Society as the organization that might be interested in searching for the truth.
As a result of the lack of action from organizations such as American Legion, VFW and John Birch Society, some GW Veterans have now filed a complaint with the United Nations.
Whenever either our Society or its affiliated magazine, The New American, is approached with a request to incorporate a particular cause into our agenda, even to give it space, our procedure calls for a thorough examination of the issue.
www.gulfwarvets.com /jbs.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Boycott John Birch Society!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
For years, the John Birch Society has been one of the most well known conservative political activist organizations in the united States of America.
The John Birch Society’s official mission statement and declared agenda does not match their actions.
According to the JBS web site, “Since 1958, members of The John Birch Society have led the movement to restore and preserve freedom under the U.S. Constitution.” In reality, they oppose U.N. free zones and disallow Second Amendment material at their events.
www.americansovereign.com /articles/brent/birch.htm   (591 words)

  
 The John Birch Society
The Rockefeller interests have not overlooked and have made good use of the monopoly of labor that is afforded to unions, to effect monopolies of industry that would be recognized as illegal if they had been effected by a monopoly of machinery.
Typical of the files in these cartons was a four-decade dossier on a state supreme court judge, compiled to assess his possible bias against police intelligence practices.
Birch Society member, John Rees, whose Information Digest supplied information to the FBI, CIA, and the National Security Agency, was one of the earliest members of the Western Goals Foundation and its principal espionage agent.
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/john_birch_society.htm   (9345 words)

  
 How the secular humanist grinch didn't steal Christmas - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
In 1959, the recently formed John Birch Society issued an urgent alert: Christmas was under attack.
The John Birch Society was generally regarded as a crank, far-right outfit whose paranoid conspiracy theories (it believed fluoridated water was part of an evil communist plot to poison America's brains) put it outside the pale of reasonable discourse.
In October, Fox News anchor John Gibson published a book titled "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought," which envisions a vast conspiracy with tentacles reaching into many aspects of American life.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/11/21/christmas/index_np.html   (1045 words)

  
 John Birch Society Questions - THR
Even if there are merits to the positions expoused by the Brich Society, the general public perception of them is that as a group, they are extremist, not centralist.
The actual John Birch was quite a hero, both a missionary and OSS operative.
The Society welcomes and enjoys the participation in its ranks of individuals from every walk of life and from all ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds.
www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=3755   (2705 words)

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