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.
Enough of this technical junk. Sure, the JBS may have been a little extreme, but your continued attacks on that little, outdated organization as your entire Reason for Being on this site have made me a little suspicious of your intentions. You do know that Freerepublic is a site devoted to promoting the values of American conservatism, Democracy, and capitalism, right?
I've sent you a private post about this, but here it is point blank. Just answer *ONE* question for me, and I'll leave you be.
What was in the 50's, and today remains, the greater threat to the security of America's freedom: Communism or Anti-communism?
Do answer that as directly as possible. I don't need one of your patented 1000-letter posts.