“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”...
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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.