The Birch Society is much more than a mere “American political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a constitutional republic and personal freedom.”
If that were an accurate description of the JBS, there would be no problem whatsoever — even if it had some unorthodox viewpoints.
But central to JBS ideology is the predicate that virtually all of our national leaders and prominent politicians during the 20th century were Communist traitors or “agents” of a criminal conspiracy whose objective was (and is) destruction of our freedom and bringing us into a one-world socialist dictatorship.
Which is why virtually the entire conservative movement in our country has rejected the JBS and that is also why senior officials of the FBI during J. Edgar Hoover’s tenure as FBI Director described the Birch Society in internal FBI memos as “extremist”, “irrational”, “irresponsible” and a hindrance to effective anti-communism.
CONSERVATIVE CRITICS OF ROBERT WELCH and BIRCH SOCIETY:
Contrary to claims made by the Birch Society about the alleged “left-wing” origins of JBS criticism, the most potent adverse comments about the JBS have always originated from the right-side of the political spectrum. This report presents a representative sample of such comments.
http://sites.google.com/site/ernie124102/jbs-4
Critics have included such prominent conservative Americans such as:
Sen. Barry Goldwater, Cong. Walter Judd, Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Russell Kirk, Eugene Lyons, Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Robert Bork, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Philbrick, Frank S. Meyer, Cong. Gordon H. Scherer, William F. Buckley Jr., Patrick Buchanan, Fred Schwarz, Lee Edwards, the editors of the conservative newspaper, Human Events, George Sokolsky, Roy Cohn, Anthony Bouscaren, plus even many former Birchers such as: Alan Stang, Gary Allen, Milorad Draskovich, John Rees, William Norman Grigg, Mrs. Robert Welch -— and many many more.
Well, I think there is some common ground there, especially with this administration. BO seems to like his global government Sharia flavored.