JBS was out-of-control perhaps, but I believe a fear of communism is healthy (200 million dead last century, compliments of the left).
“a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters.”
Oh, do you mean islamofascists?
“accused the Council on Foreign Relations and the Rockefellers of puppeteering the election of Jimmy Carter to pave the way for One World Government”
Wow, that is just SO out there. Not!
Those who don’t think communism is a threat are going to experience a very uncomfortable awakening. They may not proudly refer to themselves as ‘communist’ but the ideas are alive and well, and in the White House.
I don’t know how anyone can look at the past ten years, especially the last year, and think that the hard-left is no threat to us.
Ripliancum, I read the Wikipedia article already and for all I know it stays edited by JBS especially with all the scrutiny now. LoL. It doesn’t go into too much detail about what exactly taints its legacy.
Hi Boucheau, I agree with many of your points. And as I said, the intentions of many of its members may be good...but at the same time, conspiracy theories can be taken a wee bit too far. While I understand Palin’s reasons for her foreign policy views, I don’t think anyone who “questions” our policies regarding Israel are automatically anti-Semites—the problem remains though that many actually are.
I would personally like to know more about the organization’s religious affiliations, and if they play a significant role in defining the overall worldview and agenda of the organization. So, the founder was supposedly a Christian, that’s no red flag, but are most of the members active Mormons or Masonic even?
Okay now I’m beginning to sound conspiratorial :p. Okay either way, its legacy is too tainted and it’s co-sponsoring an even with a bizarre combination of other groups, and that’s not cool.
The problem with totalitarians is they think they can control every aspect of life. The problem with the Birchers is they think totalitarians can control every aspect of life.
If I subscribed to the Bircher vision of an omnipresent conspiracy pulling every string and commanding every leader in the never ending plot to (redundantly) take over the world I don’t know why I’d bother with politics at all. What would be the point?
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I must say ... you make a darned good point.