Now I have ONE question for you.
If, as a result of my research, I had discovered that senior FBI officials...
* AGREED with the John Birch Society's scheme of things and
* APPROVED of JBS "educational" efforts, then...
(1) WOULD YOU STILL OBJECT TO ME POSTING MESSAGES ON FR which discussed that agreement and approval?
(2) Would you be "suspicious" of my "intentions"?
Isn't it significant that while the JBS purports to be an "educational" organization and "an army fighting with facts", nevertheless both the JBS and its sympathizers express outright hostility toward anyone who does historical research to determine factual information?
NOTE: First off, I'd like to point out to anyone who may be reading this that Ernie.C DID NOT answer my question. Amazing! He couldn't even admit that communism is a far greater threat to American democracy than anti-communism. He dodged the question entirely, and posed another one as a straw man to throw me off his non-answer. It won't work.
I'll ask it again, bold as I can. DOES COMMUNISM OR ANTI-COMMUNISM POSE THE GREATER THREAT TO DEMOCRACY?
Now on with the show, Ernie.
You'll have to excuse me, but I don't belong to the JBS, as you seem to think that I do. I could care less about them to tell you the truth. The JBS didn't enslave or execute hundreds of millions of men, women, and children in the U.S.S.R., China, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Zimbabwe, Angola, Nicaragua, Ghana, and dozens of other nations. The JBS isn't devoted to taking away my 1st and 2nd-Amendment Constitutional freedoms, abolishing God from the state and stealing my personal land and private property. No, I'd say that the Birchers should be beside the point here.
What I am concerned about is the disturbing possibility that you, ernie.c, are using the Freerepublic boards to wage a one-man war against an anti-communist organization when you have so far proven unable or unwilling to acknowledge the overall legitimacy of the anti-Communist cause. What do you tink of Sen. Goldwater? Pres. Reagan? PM Thatcher?
Pouring over your last 3 pages of posting history, I have not found you EVEN ONCE citing the proven atrocities of communism or it's inherent emphasis (admitted by no less than Karl Marx himself) on the *necessity* of ideological WORLD DOMINATION to it's cause. You have not ONCE admitted the threat that the corrupt, greedy, absolutely repressive "ideology" of communism posed once, and still poses, to the basic tenets of freedom in a human society (which are, among others, at least a heavy degree of Democracy in government and Capitalism in economics).
You are chicken little preaching that "the sky is falling" over what is essentially (Yes) a well-intentioned but excessive and often inaccurate organization while missing that the ground is really falling out from under you because of the very real and inherent threat of communism, the most insidious form of government yet devised by man (okay, equal with the Nazis for brutality and injustice).
At best, You have the worst kind of tunnel vision. At worst, you are a fool. Is that perfectly clear?