[Ernie.cal]

Carolyn:

Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Birchers often chastise me because they seem hypersensitive to any data which contradicts their views or brings the JBS into disrepute.

Many JBS members that I have met over the years have been very fine, honorable, decent, and intelligent people.

However, fine, honorable, decent and intelligent people can nevertheless be misled about important public issues, and/or can write inaccurate and defamatory articles and books.

Ideas have consequences. Mistaken ideas usually have undesirable consequences. My messages are meant to respond to decades of misinformation circulated by the JBS and I attempt to use sources which heretofore even the JBS has considered reliable and authoritative.

Doesn't seem to make much difference though---because even when I cite J. Edgar Hoover, or FBI, or the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, etc. Birchers still engage in ad hominem attacks upon me (and I'm only the messenger!). Perhaps something you should think about when you consider whether or not to support a group that seems to speak for "constitutional government".

Incidentally, I have prepared a detailed 22-page report regarding the FBI evaluation of the JBS. If you're interested in reading it, let me know and I can send you a copy.

Ernie

[CDHart]

"Perhaps something you should think about when you consider whether or not to support a group that seems to speak for "constitutional government". "

I'm not supporting them -- I haven't been a member for thirty five years.

Carolyn

[jammer]

I'm sure you will correct me if I am wrong, but I got the impression that if a gman comes out of service and praises the Federal Bureau of Incineration, he is a-okay. But if he criticizes it, he is an extreme anti-communist, suffering from delusion. Isn't that a good summary of the "case" the article makes?

Pretty good technique that we've seen used in many cases, but not honest. It's called ad hominem. Perhaps you should examine your obsession.