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To: searching123
JBS is stridently anti-communist.

That's a good thing.

I've been exposed to their materials over the years, and in several instances found myself in vehement disagreement on one point or another.

Having said that, I find efforts to demonize the JBS to be laughable.

While I'm not a member, I don't particularly have problems with those who are, and judge them overall as individuals.

Consider the NRA, for example, versus GOA.

Most around here know that GOA is more conservative than the NRA, and has some things "right" which the NRA is too "moderate" on.

Does that mean every member of the NRA is squishy on gun-rights? Of course not.

Does it mean that very GOA member thinks each American male should have a machine gun in their closet? OK, bad choice of questions. ;-)

My point is, being a member of—or reviewing content from—any "political" organization isn't some kind of scarlet letter.

My experience as an individual is that nobody has everything right.

As for JBS, I'm not with the derision of that organization, and I think that it serves an important role in the pantheon of anti-communist organizations.

One JBS adage seems to be: "One thing they often neglect to mention about McCarthy when disparaging him is that he was basically right!"

65 posted on 10/11/2017 9:17:19 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: sargon

Well, Sargon, virtually the entire conservative movement has denounced and rejected the JBS as an extremist organization.

JBS critics have included such prominent conservative Americans as:

Sen. Barry Goldwater, Cong. Walter Judd, Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Russell Kirk, Eugene Lyons, Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Robert Bork, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Philbrick, Frank S. Meyer, Cong. Gordon H. Scherer, William F. Buckley Jr., Patrick Buchanan, Fred Schwarz, Lee Edwards, the editors of the conservative newspaper, Human Events, George Sokolsky, Roy Cohn, Anthony Bouscaren.

Even many former Birchers became critics such as: Alan Stang, Gary Allen, Milorad Draskovich, John Rees, William Norman Grigg, Don Fotheringham, Mrs. Robert Welch and many more.


72 posted on 11/03/2017 12:03:10 PM PDT by searching123
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