Who is a John Birch society member

[rayfieldclement]

I am not a member but I did read The New American and DO read it when I can.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Good Lord, are those wackos still around?

 

[Printer Bandit]

the first rule of the John Birch Society

 

[rayfieldclement]

the first rule of the John Birch Society

I don't know the first rule.

 

[techs]

the first rule of the John Birch Society

Holy frak, the google is fast. I searched for the first rule and your post was the first that came up.

 

[techs]

Good Lord, are those wackos still around?

The founding member was Fred Koch. Father of those right wing wackos the Koch Brothers.

So, not only around but major players.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The founding member was Fred Koch. Father of those right wing wackos the Koch Brothers.

So, not only around but major players.

Idiots by association if nothing else.

 

[BoomerD]

Gawd...I haven't heard anything about the JBS in years. I assumed they'd closed shop...

I guess true nutcases never completely go away...

http://www.jbs.org/

 

[techs]

The founding member was Fred Koch. Father of those right wing wackos the Koch Brothers.

So, not only around but major players.

Idiots by association if nothing else.

The nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[woodie1]

Good Lord, are those wackos still around?

That was my first thought too.

I remember hearing about them when I was a kid in 1950s and it was a curiosity to me. Now I don't remember what they stood/stand for.

 

[BoomerD]

That was my first thought too.

I remember hearing about them when I was a kid in 1950s and it was a curiosity to me. Now I don't remember what they stood/stand for.

US out of the UN...NOW!

As I remember, that was their biggest platform...getting the US of A out of the UN.
Looking at their website, it appears it's STILL one of their biggest platforms.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

That was my first thought too.

I remember hearing about them when I was a kid in 1950s and it was a curiosity to me. Now I don't remember what they stood/stand for.

They were/are right wing loonies who saw Commies under every bush, hell bent on poisoning our precious bodily fluids. I thought they'd forted up in their underground bunkers long ago.

 

[techs]

That was my first thought too.

I remember hearing about them when I was a kid in 1950s and it was a curiosity to me. Now I don't remember what they stood/stand for.

Basically right wingers. Far, far right wingers. Racists too.

Reuben Fleet was rumoured to be one of the founders too.
Fleet owned Consolidated Aircraft when WW2 broke out. He had been in the Army and for some years early in the 1900's he had been assigned to break up unions in Southern California.

When WW2 broke out Consolidated had the PBY Catalina and B-24 Liberator planes in production. When the government institued war profiteering rules to prevent munitions suppliers from overcharging, Fleet went ballistic. He quickly sold Consolidated to Vultee aircraft company and left the company.

Fleet wasn't a bad guy. He worked as an advisor to FDR and by all accounts did his best to help win the war. But he refused to participate in what he felt was Communism.

He was one of those people who grew up at the turn of the century and just couldn't accept the modern world despite being a big part of what made the world modern. Whether Fleet subscribed to the idea that welfare was a secret plan to move black people to cities so that they could overthrow the government, I don't know.

But that is what the John Birch society was all about.

 

[manimal]

Weren't they the flouride is a mind control substance people
?

 

[techs]

Weren't they the flouride is a mind control substance people
?

Yep.

And these are the guys behind the tea party.

 

[woodie1]

US out of the UN...NOW!

As I remember, that was their biggest platform...getting the US of A out of the UN.
Looking at their website, it appears it's STILL one of their biggest platforms.

In that case then they can't be all bad.