[HighSierra5]

They should have an amendment outlawing communism and all its forms. Maybe next time.

[newfreep]

“I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church
And I ain’t even got a garage you can call home and ask my wife”

[Pontiac]

True the Constitution is far from perfect, but the Constitution and its first ten amendments is far better than the law we live under today.

Repeal everything after the Bill of Rights and you have a workable government.

The only addition I might add is an amendment to allow the States to over ride a Supreme Court decision with a simple majority vote.

[Dalberg-Acton]

JBS is right.

[escapefromboston]

History has shown the JBS to be more right than wrong

[Fiji Hill]

The John Birch Society--The Chad Mitchell Trio (1962)

Now, there's no one that we're certain the Kremlin hasn't touched.
We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much.
We only hail the hero from whom we got our name.
We're not sure what he did, but he's our hero just the same.

[Fiji Hill]

Talkin' John Birch Society Blues--Bob Dylan (1963)

[Glad2bnuts]

Sorry, but the JBS is neither the enemy or the “Stalking Horse” presented. The problem with the US is that “We the People” became fat, lazy and satisfied. The Media has been “feeding” the people, “keeping them in the lounger, and filling their heads with the “fluff” that comes from those who control FB, Google, Twitter et al.

[ChessExpert]

I hear little about the JBS. Has their influenced waned in recent decades?

I once received literature from an anonymous source. JBS? In any case, I read it. It emphasized Jewish influence in the press. I think the authors were on the wrong track.

I thought, and think now more than ever, that there is a problem with the mainstream media. There is seeing a problem, and there is understanding a problem - two different things. The authors of the literature that I received at least saw a problem. In my estimation they did not understand the problem.

If the JBS saw a communist under every bed, they were mistaken; but no more so than a great many people who have no concern over communism.

As to the article above, there is no doubt in my mind that the US Supreme Court has decided unconstitutionally in the past, then built upon their precedents as though they had the force of law.

We may all have amendments we would like to see. As an economist, I would like to see a prohibition on all wage and price controls. As a potential patient, I do not see why I need a doctor’s prescription for HCQ, Ivermectin, or anything else. I can consult the doctors of my choice, in person or on the internet, and make my own decisions.

[Fiji Hill]

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the JBS, for some reason, was cool, and at times even hostile to the Reagan movement, which alienated it form many grass-roots conservatives. Also, for some reason, they were hostile to Rush Limbaugh, and the New American, their house organ, ran a couple of articles denouncing Rush. They also feuded with conservative publisher and polemicist William F. Buckley in a rhubarb that dated back to the early sixties.

However, today the JBS is on the Trump train and is at one with the MAGA crowd on issues such as Amendment Two, mask and vaccine mandates, election fraud, border security, and so on.

[SuperLuminal]

Based on our 100-year history of frittering away our rights to freedom & liberty that were originally protected in the final Constitution, this author, and all of us, are not in a very favorable position to criticize JBS...

[sauropod]

When it comes to its talking points, The John Birch Society (JBS) is thick with assertions and thin with evidence and history.

Really, Rodney? Do tell.

[GeorgianaCavendish]

JBS has been saying for years that Marxist doctrine has been leaking into textbooks in schools.

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The point that the author gets wrong is that Madison promised delegates from states like NY that he would get a Bill of Rights into the Constitution. They were mostly concerned about the Judiciary [see the antifederalists]. Madison’s argument AGAINST a Bill of Rights consisted of the notion that the national government could only do that which was expressly ENUMERATED, and no more. Madison’s second concern was that in adding a Bill of Rights, later generations might think that the only rights people had were those protected in the Bill of Rights. Hence, the 9th and 10th Amendments were added. The Bill of Rights doesn’t mean that these are the only rights of the people, but that those rights listed, are the very least of the rights that people have. The Constitution limits the government, not the people.

The Constitution was amended because there was a promise to the antifederalists in states like NY, that some further protections would be provided. Most states, then and now, have Bill of Rights in their state constitutions.

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Last note, if I’m correct, I believe that letter George Mason wrote had a response from George Washington. If I’m correct, GW publicly rebuked GM in a letter and many people disregarded GM after that.