VIDEO: Robert Welch, Founder of the John Birch Society

YouTube ^ | March 23 | JBS

[RandFan]

Robert Welch predicts how the elite will cripple America and bring her under their international control. From a John Birch Society meeting.

Watch...

[ml/nj]

Sad that it only has a relative handful of views.

ML/NJ

[Article10]

Constitutional Convention. The founding fathers knew that at some point the senate or the house would possibly make rules for themselves, that’s the check on the elected body. When the taxpayers and voters override them. It’s sort of the last stop before the bullet box

[CharlesOConnell]

I can see that in the intervening time, there’s a reasonable inversion of #9 peacenik-ism, to perpetual war as the foundation of our economy, the violation of which was Trump’s original sin.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Birchers are completely against a Convention Of States. So f’em.

[Albion Wilde]

Welch was virulently anti-communist and he opposed by nearly every lever of the conservative establishment of the day.

Including William F. Buckley, whose positive legacy collapsed soon after his death, if not before. National Review practically appeared to support Obama by putting his picture on the cover throughout his first campaign instead of building the Republican talking points, and couldn't have come out more blatantly against Trump, who carried the anti-communist torch in 2015 and today.

Reading the biography of John Birch himself on Wikipedia, it is deeply ironic that his engagement against communists in China was the reason for his death. The course of his life is almost a direct metaphor for the course of America over the past 75 years since WW2. Read it and see. Linked in post 16 above.

[Albion Wilde]

Back in the early 70s, I considered joining, but got talked out of it by my Dad. He supported everything they stood for, but knew that associating with them would put a target on your back.

What both the Left and the Establishment Right did to JBS was the pre-internet version of cancel culture. The media and liberals had already sharpened their knives on Eisenhower, who, whatever his missteps, was the only other true American patriot president besides Reagan and Trump since Herbert Hoover.

[Albion Wilde]

JBS members... were mainly spot-on (hindsight), but like everything else there were some wingnuts aboard. There always are.

We see this today with the "Q" adherents, and lone wolf shooters claiming maga. Necessary social change (i.e. peaceful revolution as envisioned by the Founders) is hard, very hard. It's an uphill slog, and one crazed loon can push decades of effort back down the slope, or off a cliff. That's why today's jackboots are trying to kill all methods of grassroots organizing, such as social media platforms that allow conservative speech.

[elteemike]

“The John Birch Society supports limited government and opposes wealth redistribution and economic interventionism. It opposes collectivism, totalitarianism, anarchism and communism. It opposes socialism as well, which it asserts is infiltrating U.S. governmental administration.” — Wikipedia

Robert Welch was and JBS has been consistently right about the Communists and their evil doctrine...

The smear against Welch and JBS started soon after its founding in 1958 and persists today...Your Dad was right about the “target on your back”...

Anyone interested in the truth about JBS can go here:

https://jbs.org/about/faqs/

[JonPreston]

Well said and 100% correct. WFB, for all his brilliance,drove a spike in the heart of the Birch society. I can only speculate as to why he did it, but his legacy is tarnished because of it, IMO.

[Albion Wilde]

It was not my dad; the reference in my post was quoting a freeper Psalm73.

My dad was firmly anti-communist, but never joined any political organizations other than registering to vote. In fact, he warned me and my brothers to be very careful about signing anything, particularly petitions, since he had heard of groups in the DC-Baltimore area trying to trap people into “signing the Communist Party register,” presumably for blackmail purposes if such persons ever took a security job.

[Texas Fossil]

“It’s sort of the last stop”

Yes, sort of.

[Texas Fossil]

However, Birch’s commanding officer, Major Gustav Krause, later said he had urged Birch and others to act with diplomacy in the delicate post-war environment. “Birch made the Communist lieutenant lose face before his own men,” Krause told TIME. “Militarily, John Birch brought about his own death.”

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His Commanding Officer was full of crap.

[wita]

There aren’t many Birchers left today

You know this how?

I would guess there are as many members of the John Birch Society, as there are Freepers, only far fewer factions among them. So in that respect you are probably right.

Their twice monthly publication “The New American” expands on what the mainstream media won’t touch with an infinity pole, and is well worth the read. www.thenewamerican.com

[wita]

I might enjoy a conversation on your statement “What a contrast”. I would be on the side of there isn’t much contrast, as Bircher’s and Members of the Church of Jesus Christ regard the Constitution of the United States as God given.

[JonPreston]

There aren’t many Birchers left today You know this how?

There membership is down 87.9% from their heyday in 1967.

[JonPreston]

Their

[Texas Fossil]

On that point we agree. But the two groups are almost mutually exclusive.

I lived among many of both.

[wita]

It might be a start at the very least.

[wita]

I seem to recall this: Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

[wita]

Birchers are completely against a Convention Of States, and... remaining comments self censored. Why don’t you attempt to explain why COS would have everyone believe there isn’t a single thing to worry about promoting an Article V convention. After that, why don’t you lay out for all to see what you thing THE problem is in your opinion.

Article V issues are divisive among those who love the Constitution and the other founding documents. Split down the middle it pits Constitutional conservative patriots against others of like mind while the democrats other Communists and their willing accomplices in the media wait to take advantage of the potential opportunity, not necessarily to achieve success through ratification of any amendments but to further prove the Constitution as an impediment to progressive policies.

JMHO.