Okla-homey
12/9/2010, 07:53 AM
Dec 9, 1958: John Birch Society founded
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Perhaps best known for these and similar signs all over rural America
52 years ago today, in Indianapolis, retired Boston candy manufacturer Robert H.W. Welch, Jr., establishes the John Birch Society, an organization dedicated to fighting what it perceives to be the extensive infiltration of communism into American society.
Welch named the society in honor of John Birch, considered by many to be the first American casualty in the struggle against communism. In 1945, Birch, a Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence specialist, was killed by Chinese communists in the northern province of Anhwei.
The John Birch Society, initially founded with only 11 members, had by the early 1960s grown to a membership of nearly 100,000 Americans and received annual private contributions of several million dollars. The society revived the spirit of McCarthyism, claiming in unsubstantiated accusations that a vast communist conspiracy existed within the U.S. government.
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The society was no fan of JFK.
In the 1960's the Birchers ran a campaign against the flouridation of drinking water, claiming it was some sort of sinister plot. "General Jack Ripper" in the movie "Dr. Strangelove" was based upon the John Birch Society's anti-fluoridation campaign
Among others, the organization implicated President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. However, after the debacle of Senator Joseph McCarthy's public hearings in the early 1950s, America became more wary of radical anti-communism, and few of the society's sensational charges were taken seriously by mainstream American society.
The society opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying it was in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and overstepped the rights of individual states to enact laws regarding civil rights. The society is against "one world government", and has an immigration reduction view on immigration reform. It opposes the United Nations, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and other free trade agreements.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/birch200606nasco_home_page_09.jpg
The very idea of this international commerical corridor drives Bircher's crazy
The John Birch Society remains active today, and its members seek "to expose a semi-secret international cabal whose members sit in the highest places of influence and power worldwide."
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/birch250px-USOutOfUN.jpg
Perhaps best known for these and similar signs all over rural America
52 years ago today, in Indianapolis, retired Boston candy manufacturer Robert H.W. Welch, Jr., establishes the John Birch Society, an organization dedicated to fighting what it perceives to be the extensive infiltration of communism into American society.
Welch named the society in honor of John Birch, considered by many to be the first American casualty in the struggle against communism. In 1945, Birch, a Baptist missionary and U.S. Army intelligence specialist, was killed by Chinese communists in the northern province of Anhwei.
The John Birch Society, initially founded with only 11 members, had by the early 1960s grown to a membership of nearly 100,000 Americans and received annual private contributions of several million dollars. The society revived the spirit of McCarthyism, claiming in unsubstantiated accusations that a vast communist conspiracy existed within the U.S. government.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/birchuntitled.jpg
The society was no fan of JFK.
In the 1960's the Birchers ran a campaign against the flouridation of drinking water, claiming it was some sort of sinister plot. "General Jack Ripper" in the movie "Dr. Strangelove" was based upon the John Birch Society's anti-fluoridation campaign
Among others, the organization implicated President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. However, after the debacle of Senator Joseph McCarthy's public hearings in the early 1950s, America became more wary of radical anti-communism, and few of the society's sensational charges were taken seriously by mainstream American society.
The society opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying it was in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and overstepped the rights of individual states to enact laws regarding civil rights. The society is against "one world government", and has an immigration reduction view on immigration reform. It opposes the United Nations, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and other free trade agreements.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/birch200606nasco_home_page_09.jpg
The very idea of this international commerical corridor drives Bircher's crazy
The John Birch Society remains active today, and its members seek "to expose a semi-secret international cabal whose members sit in the highest places of influence and power worldwide."