One day I was reading J. Edgar Hoover's "Introductory Message" and I noticed a comment he made that explicitly refuted what a local Bircher had just written in a letter-to-the-editor published in my local newspaper. So, I responded to her letter and I quoted Hoover plus the California Senate Subcommittee on UnAmerican Activities.
After my reply was published, two things happened:
(1) I received anonymous phone calls from persons who said things like "we're watching you", and
(2) a Bircher sent a poem into my local newspaper (which was published) and its concluding paragraph was:
"Is it just coincidence that Ernie's words so arty, sound just like the Communist Party?"
I never understood (then, or even now) how my quoting Hoover and the California UnAmerican Activities Committee could associate me with the CPUSA!
Thus began my life-long interest in the JBS (and similar groups).
Subsequently, I frequently visited American Opinion bookstores. During my chats with JBS members they chastised me (correctly) for not reading more of their literature. Usually, our conversations ended with some words to the effect that: "Nobody has ever found any errors in our publications".
So, I decided to take them up on their challenge.
Ironically, even though I always try to use sources which for many years Birchers have told me were knowledgeable, reliable, and authoritative (such as J. Edgar Hoover, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and the California Senate Subcommittee on UnAmerican Activities), nevertheless, Birchers just dismiss EVERYTHING I present as a "smear" or an "attack" upon them.
It is extremely rare for Birchers to refute my evidence---instead, they almost always prefer to engage in ad hominem attacks on my character or integrity---even though they don't know anything whatsoever about me---and they never ask questions about my evidence.
Keep in mind that the JBS describes itself as an "educational" organization "whose only weapon is the truth" and they claim to be "an army fighting with facts".
Most "educational" organizations are engaged in a SEARCH for truth and, consequently, they welcome new data and debate or discussion of new evidence.
By contrast, the JBS believes it already possesses an Ultimate Final Truth---and, consequently, they have utterly no interest whatsoever in ANY DATA that contradicts what they currently believe or their fundamental premises or conclusions.
Which is why Birchers are so umremittingly hostile to my JBS Report and so singularly non-curious about any other data I might have. Some education!