You're a lot kookier than the average Bircher. I've read a couple of copies of the New American, and they weren't extremist, kooky, or otherwise undesirable. What caused you to post this rant???
The Birch Society is full of kookery.
You may have read my article so quickly that you didn't notice that I am not presenting my personal opinions...Instead, I am summarizing comments made by FBI officials from FBI documents.
Furthermore, reading "a couple copies" of a JBS magazine which is intended for a general audience is probably not the best information for making informed judgments.
Many prominent, respected anti-Communist conservatives have repudiated the Birch Society over the years including persons who initially were JBS endorsers or contributed articles to JBS magazines.
Among the conservatives who rejected the JBS as "extremist", "irresponsible" and "irrational" and causing harm to the anti-Communist movement in the U.S. are: Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, James Burnham, John Chamberlain, Sen. Barry Goldwater, Sen. John Tower, Roy Cohn, the editors of Human Events, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer. Even Robert Welch's widow withdrew her support.
You might want to peruse Alan Stang's website (I presume you know that Stang was a major JBS author and confidant of Robert Welch).
http://www.alanstang.com/default1.htm
Numerous former Birchers (including prominent Chapter and Section Leaders, Coordinators, Major Coordinators, JBS HQ officials and JBS National Council members---including several "life members" who first joined in the 1960's)left the JBS and posted their horror stories about JBS leadership and direction on Stang's website. Some former Birchers have even concocted a conspiracy theory which "reveals" that many JBS National Council members were actually secret CFR/Illuminati/Freemason agents.
See, for example: http://watch.pair.com/belmont.html
You might also want to read the trial transcript of a historic and precedent-setting libel case (Elmer Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc). After 14 years of litigation, including arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, the JBS paid $400,000 to Gertz for their libel.
However, the JBS (which claims to be an "educational" organization) never bothered to inform its members that the article was published, as the court concluded, "with utter disregard for the truth or falsity of the statements contained in the article about Gertz."
Finally, if you would like a copy of my 22-page Report on the JBS which is based, primarily, upon FBI file documents, I'd be happy to send you a copy.