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The JBS is dedicated to restoring the Republic according to the vision of the Founding Fathers: limited government, individual liberty, and the rule of law. Along with America's Founders, we believe that governments are instituted to protect individual rights and liberties, and are not formed to provide for the wants of individuals. To label JBS radical or extreme for agreeing with our nation's Founders is to place that same label on them.
Correcting civil rights abuses that do exist should be accomplished at the state and local level, something The John Birch Society members - of all races, colors and ethnic backgrounds - have always supported. Civil rights legislation should have come from the states and the communities rather than being used as a steppingstone toward our present-day out-of-control federal government
originally posted by: Revolution9
a reply to: kellyjay
Yeah, he was "right", but not in the way you mean it. He was a right wing extremist. He was anti federalist. He was out for the U.S to live like the good old days of the War for Independence and the Civil War, lol. Oh and Dust Bowl blues, Great Depression blues, Prohibition blues, etc.
He argues for getting rid of the federal government to all intents of purposes and for the U.S having only a selfish sense of foreign policy, like just taking from the world and giving nothing back.
The only thing I agree with him on is that communism was a scourge.
Old fashioned patriot right wing speech belonging to an old fashioned world. Put it back in the dusty old basement.
The only thing I agree with him on is that communism was a scourge
originally posted by: greencmp
a reply to: kellyjay
I grew up in the people's republic of Cambridge where JBS was reviled and children were taught in school (this may be selective memory but, I think so) that they were evil racist boogeymen.
I never did get an explanation and the culture of fear and hatred toward all things constitutional and individual was pervasive.
It took a while to make sense of it, a longer time than I care to admit but, once you see it for what it is, the ugliness is distressing.
originally posted by: Revolution9
a reply to: kellyjay
By today's standards the Founding Daddies would be seen as extremists for sure. Their foreign policy would take the U.S into a dark age.
Yes, I am an extremist when it comes to commies. I really despise communism for all its nasty destructive waste of humanity.
I was being a bit mean. He is part of U.S political history and I can totally understand why you find him inspiring.
Lol, compare those days to Obama's Rainbow House. Those guys would be turning in their graves at what he did when he lit the White House up that night.
I am being a bit flippant here because I am very cynical about politics.