John Birch, funny name. Didn't they name a tree after him?
According to JBS, John Birch was the first American missionary killed by the Communists in China.
One of my intellectual mentors, the late, great Dr. Russell Kirk, once formed (jokingly) an organization "dedicated to the preservation of wooden toilet seats." He called it the Birch John Society.
I always figured there had to be more than a few Birchers around FR and well what do you know? You gotta remember they had their peak back in the pre-cable, pre-web days, totally different world. They had some points sure but by and large they let the nuts drown out the common sense, sorta like the right wings version of Lyndon LaRouche.
Do you know who John Birch was? If you did you wouldn't make such dumb@$$ comment!
Capt John Birch helped Doolittle's men escape through Japanese controlled China after their "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" raid.
After the end of the war he was considered the first KIA in the 'cold war'. He was assassinated by Communist Chinese in 1945.
From what I heard, he was a Christian missionery who became a US Army officer in WW2 and was later was killed by the Communist Chinese. That is what I heard, and it is possible he would never have wanted his name to be used for anything.