Paul paints with a rather broad brush. I’m surprised to see such trash on townhall.com.
“THE MORE WE DO TO YOU, THE LESS YOU SEEM TO BELIEVE WE ARE DOING IT”
Joeseph Mengele
I also object to the total misunderstanding of the Birchites and their ideology. The John Birch Society is Ron Paulite down the line. They have been against every single war since Vietnam and oppose the "Patriot Act," Guantanamo, etc. They often sound like Code Pinkos.
The JBS has always had a dark side (I should know; I was once a member), but with the collapse of Communism they have gone nuts. They are practically anarchist now, hate the Republican party (which they now claim was founded by "the Conspiracy"), and even print stuff by people like Sheldon Richman, the avowed "left libertarian" who supports "gay rights." John Birchers are more likely to be protesting the treatment of accused terrorists than threatening them in any way.
The one thing that ties all the twists and turns of the Birch line together from their days as apologists of George Papadopoulos to their current status as apologists of Murray Rothbard is their hostility to Israel. To a John Bircher, all pro-Israel chrstians and conservatives are "neo-cons."
The real cancer eating away at the GOP isn’t “extremism,” it’s the stealth-liberalism of the McCains, Roves, and Bushes that has come to dominate the party’s thinking on a wide range of issues. The author of this hit piece seems to think that what the Republican party needs is more of the same.
"see what has befallen Islamic civilization since it was once renowned for its arts and sciences, its tolerance and hospitality, its architecture"
Total PC bullsh*t, Islam conquered the wealthiest and most learned part of the old Roman Empire and then the Eastern Roman Empire itself. It was a world of Christian believe, commerce and education. Advances in science and math were made by the ruminants of that older civilization not the Islamists. Or stolen from the great Indian civilization. After a few hundred years under Islam the last vestiges of the older cultured died and the people degenerated into what we now call Islamic culture. Raving women beating homicidal lunatics. Thank the Hellenistic culture for whatever greatness briefly existed after the Islamists took over.
/Giggle.
Paul Greenfield expects me to buy his argument by using a variant of Godwin’s Law to smear people he doesn’t like.
Nice try.
Greenberg sounds like a concern troll.
If they're in your neck of the woods and they embarrass you you might make more of it than that, but maybe it's just bad manners.
The spoiled, trouble-making hags and SNAGs (sensitive New Age guys) of the “progressive” fascists are intentionally fomenting the hysteria and panic. Their public announcements and publications have recently often included exaggerated/unfounded disaster predictions and implied threats to further tax, illegally spy on and rob Americans. Their television media trash does the same. Are you a “progressive?”
Paul, you ignorant slut.
Guys like the author are the cancer.
Dear Paul seems to be overlooking the fact that the Birchers have been shown by the passage of time to have been CORRECT! While he is fast to trot out Mein Kampf, etc. he seems to know nothing of CLoward-Piven or “Rules for Radicals”. Curious. Again, there may well come a day when such “journalistic” malpractice will be called before a court. With a little luck we may only have to prosecute a few and the rest will “self deport”.