John Birch Society Featured In New York Times

I don't know much about the John Birch Society- not sure if they are good or bad- I have heard 'stories' about them but I have maintained a neutral position. However, it is interesting that they are getting some mainstream press- but this, in itself, I think is a way of desensitization (i.e. to associate the facts of secret societies with 'fringe' ).

Holding Firm Against Plots by Evildoers

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On a buzzing boulevard in this busy shopping town, across from a supermarket and not far from a PetSmart, there sits a building that might be mistaken for a place where you can have your teeth cleaned, were it not for the name affixed to the brick: The John Birch Society.

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For some, that name means nothing. Or it sparks flashbacks to the 1960s, when the John Birch Society was synonymous with seeing red here, there and everywhere. Maybe you displayed a Birch bumper sticker on your car; maybe you enjoyed the Chad Mitchell Trio song mocking the Birch obsession with communism:

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You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin
If mommy is a commie then you gotta turn her in.

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Yet for others, the John Birch Society is urgently relevant to the matters of today, in its support of secure borders and limited government, its distrust of the Federal Reserve and the United Nations, and its belief in a conspiracy to merge Mexico, Canada and the United States.

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This so-called North American Union, it asserts, is part of a larger plot by an amorphous, amoral group of powerful elite — including but not limited to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Rockefellers — to take over planet Earth. Call it the New World Order.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26Land.html?ref=us

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Here is CNN's Crossfire from 1983. Congressman McDonald was chairman of the John Birch Society and only three months later, McDonald died in the Korean aircraft that was shot down that year by the Russians. It is interesting to hear his words in this video because McDonald was really a pioneer in the unveiling of the New World Order. It is also interesting to note that one of the hosts, Tom Braden, was a former CIA agent turned news man (that happens a lot).


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