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I dont understand how wanting to follow the Constitution and not spend ourselves into oblivion is hate.
Because liberals are masters of projection. THEY HATE the fact we are for the Constitution and not spending ourselves into oblivion. THUS, we must also have such hate.
It's part of their narcissism.
And yet...Liberals value the WHOLE Constitution while Tea Baggers only value the second and tenth amendments
Wait, let me get this straight.
Obama has been calling everybody including his OWN GRANDMOTHER a racist since 2008, but it's John Bircher to call Obama a racist????????
FUNNY!
The Birchers called JFK a communist.
The Tea Party called Obama a communist.
That wasn't to hard? Was it?
OH there you go! Who can argue with that evidence!!!!!
Was something in my post, false?
Feel free to dispute it. And maybe throw in a fact or two.
This is a remix of the "they hate us for our freedoms" song and dance from the Iraq war album
Um, that was said about muslim terrorists NOT Iraqis.
And if it isn't true, explain 9/11
(and please do not cop out with the usual "Saddam Hussein" didn't do 9/11, WE KNOW JACKASS. We sure know muslims terrorists did!)
You know?
Then why exactly..was Iraq attacked, destroyed and conquered.
If you know and all..
Truth is Welch and the Birchers were largely right about communist influence in the USA Government of their time, in particular if you take a close look at those around FDR.
Ike a commie????? Maybe, maybe not, BUT......he does appear to have cooperated with the NKVD in the murder of General Patton and he certainly did NOTHING to stop Operation Keelhaul..
The Zionists. Of course Beck being one of their more vile golems misses that part.
Easy...because they had WMDs
oops
they had shovel ready projects their too..oh wait..
Attacking countries, killing people and destroying things for no good reason is the same as walking back comments?
In what universe?
　CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world, Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. I want to explain why I have decided, with the unanimous recommendation of my national security team, to use force in Iraq; why we have acted now; and what we aim to accomplish. Six weeks ago, Saddam Hussein announced that he would no longer cooperate with the United Nations weapons inspectors called UNSCOM. They are highly professional experts from dozens of countries. Their job is to oversee the elimination of Iraq's capability to retain, create and use WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, and to verify that Iraq does not attempt to rebuild that capability.
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROGRAMS." -- From a letter signed by Joe Lieberman, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara A. Milulski, Tom Daschle, & John Kerry among others on October 9, 1998
"This December will mark three years since United Nations inspectors last visited Iraq. There is no doubt that since that time, Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his WEAPONS PROGRAMS. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to refine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer- range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." -- From a December 6, 2001 letter signed by Bob Graham, Joe Lieberman, Harold Ford, & Tom Lantos among others
Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROGRAMS. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998
"Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement." -- Barbara Boxer, November 8, 2002
The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability." -- Robert Byrd, October 2002
"What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs." -- Jacques Chirac, October 16, 2002
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, AND WILL KEEP TRYING TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002
"I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out." -- Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Cohen in April of 2003
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998
Saddam Hussein's regime represents a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally, Israel. For more than two decades, Saddam Hussein has sought WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION through every available means. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons. He has already used them against his neighbors and his own people, and is trying to build more. We know that he is doing everything he can to BUILD NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and we know that each day he gets closer to achieving that goal." -- John Edwards, Oct 10, 2002
"I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction." -- Dick Gephardt in September of 2002
"Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Bob Graham, December 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002
"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." -- Carl Levin, Sept 19, 2002
"Over the years, Iraq has worked to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. During 1991 - 1994, despite Iraq's denials, U.N. inspectors discovered and dismantled a large network of nuclear facilities that Iraq was using to develop nuclear weapons. Various reports indicate that Iraq is still actively pursuing nuclear weapons capability. There is no reason to think otherwise. Beyond nuclear weapons, Iraq has actively pursued biological and chemical weapons.U.N. inspectors have said that Iraq's claims about biological weapons is neither credible nor verifiable. In 1986, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran, and later, against its own Kurdish population. While weapons inspections have been successful in the past, there have been no inspections since the end of 1998. There can be no doubt that Iraq has continued to pursue its goal of obtaining weapons of mass destruction." -- Patty Murray, October 9, 2002
"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998
Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed. Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents. Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. This agent is stored in artillery shells, bombs, and ballistic missile warheads. And Iraq retains significant dual-use industrial infrastructure that can be used to rapidly reconstitute large-scale chemical weapons production." -- Ex-Un Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in 1998
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources -- something that is not that difficult in the current world. We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002
"Saddams existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraqs enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002
"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Administrations policy towards Iraq, I dont think there can be any question about Saddams conduct. He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts." -- Henry Waxman, Oct 10, 2002
Who is behind the Glenn Beck Revision Of American History?
The John Birch Society was one of the decade’s most controversial right-wing organizations. Founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, a candy manufacturer from Massachusetts, the society took its name from a Baptist missionary and military-intelligence officer killed by Communist Chinese forces in 1945, whom Welch called the first American casualty of the Cold War. The group was founded at a propitious time. After Senator Joseph McCarthy’s fall, in 1954, many of McCarthy’s followers felt bereft of a voice, and Welch seemed to speak for them; by the mid-sixties, his society’s membership was estimated to be as high as a hundred thousand. Welch, exploiting fears of what McCarthy had called an “immense” domestic conspiracy, declared that the federal government had already fallen into the Communists’ clutches. In a tract titled “The Politician,” he attacked President Dwight D. Eisenhower as “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy” who had been serving the plot “all of his adult life.” Late in 1961, after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, he accused the Kennedy Administration of “helping the Communists everywhere in the world while pretending to do the opposite.”
Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as “always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.” Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal government’s role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson “more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism.”
In the nineteen-sixties, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but “a tool of the total conspiracy.” This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the eighteenth century, in the “uniformly Satanic creed and program” of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called “the Insiders,” the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. Since the early twentieth century, they had done a good deal of their evil work under the guise of humanitarian uplift. “One broad avenue down which these conspiratorial forces advance was known as progressive legislation,” Welch declared in 1966. “The very same collectivist theories and demagogic pretenses which had destroyed earlier civilizations were now paraded forth in the disguise of new and modern concepts.”
Still, the most outlandish of the era’s right-wing anti-Communists was not Welch but Willard Cleon Skousen. A transplanted Canadian who served as a Mormon missionary in his teens, Skousen was considered so radical in the early nineteen-sixties that even J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. watched him closely; one 1962 memo in his extensive F.B.I. file noted that “during the past year or so, Skousen has affiliated himself with the extreme right-wing ‘professional communists’ who are promoting their own anticommunism for obvious financial purposes.” Skousen was himself employed by the F.B.I., from 1935 until 1951, much of that time as a special agent working chiefly in administration. These desk jobs, he claimed implausibly, gave him access to confidential domestic intelligence about Communism. Skousen also maintained that he had served as Hoover’s administrative assistant; Hoover informed inquirers that there was no such position.
Skousen taught for years in the speech and religion departments at Brigham Young University, interrupted by a stint, from 1956 to 1960, as the police chief of Salt Lake City. His time in office was contentious, and after he raided a friendly card game attended by the city’s right-wing mayor, J. Bracken Lee, he was promptly fired. Lee called Skousen “a master of half truths” and said that he ran the police department “like a Gestapo”; Skousen’s supporters placed burning crosses on the Mayor’s lawn.
After losing his police job, Skousen founded a group called the All-American Society, which Time described in 1961 as an exemplar of the far-right “ultras.” Although he did not join the Birch Society, Skousen worked with its American Opinion Speakers’ Bureau, and, in 1963, wrote a rousing tract titled “The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society,” which condemned the society’s critics for “promoting the official Communist Party line.” (This was a tic of Skousen’s; he later defended the Mormon policy of denying the priesthood to blacks with a pamphlet called “The Communist Attack on the Mormons.”
By the time Skousen died, in 2006, he was little remembered outside the ranks of the furthest-right Mormons. Then, in 2009, Glenn Beck began touting his work: “The Naked Communist,” “The Naked Capitalist,” and, especially, “The 5,000 Year Leap,” which he called “essential to understanding why our Founders built this Republic the way they did.” After Beck put the book in the first spot on his required-reading list—and wrote an enthusiastic new introduction for its reissue—it shot to the top of the Amazon best-seller list. In the first half of 2009, it sold more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies. Local branches of the Tea Party Patriots, the United American Tea Party, and other groups across the country have since organized study groups around it. “It is time we learn and follow the FREEDOM principles of our Founding Fathers,” a United American Tea Party video declares, referring to the principles expounded by Skousen’s book. If Beck is the movement’s teacher, “The 5,000 Year Leap” has become its primer, with “The Making of America” as a kind of 102-level text.
Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the Republicans : The New Yorker
You Tea Party people are drinking some rancid -- but old -- kool aid. Wake the Fuck Up, people.
TeaPartySamurai either (1) does not know the history of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, and Cleon Skousen, or (2) does not know the writings of Cleon Skousen, or (3) does not know the far far reactionary LDS connection to the JBS, or (4) does not know the LDS chuch states that belonging to such organizations as the JBS is the first step to apostasy, or (5) that Glenn is LDS, or (5) TPS knows all this and is being a propaganda fail too again. She really thinks people don't know these things, and she can say whatever she wants. She is Fail, like for the 249th time this month.Where did he says he believed in the John Bircch Society? ///
That is your own closed mind, not his!
An example of how loony the right has become - Far-Right John Birch Society 2010 - The Note
This weeks Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington has a co-sponsor from the far-right fringe of American politics: The John Birch Society.
According to Ian Walters, a spokesman for CPAC, its the first time the John Birch Society has sponsored the conference. Thats not surprising, considering that the Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders.
William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as idiotic and paranoid. Buckleys condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement. Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy and that the U.S. government was under operational control of the Communist party. Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party.
The Tea Party is nothing more than a modern day Birch Society.. Except it's being accepted by the Republican Party, whereas the Birch Society wasn't. But even it is now.
Wait, let me get this straight.
Obama has been calling everybody including his OWN GRANDMOTHER a racist since 2008, but it's John Bircher to call Obama a racist????????
FUNNY!
That's "typical white behavior" on your part, Tea
An example of how loony the right has become - Far-Right John Birch Society 2010 - The Note
This weeks Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington has a co-sponsor from the far-right fringe of American politics: The John Birch Society.
According to Ian Walters, a spokesman for CPAC, its the first time the John Birch Society has sponsored the conference. Thats not surprising, considering that the Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders.
William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as idiotic and paranoid. Buckleys condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement. Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy and that the U.S. government was under operational control of the Communist party. Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party.
The Tea Party is nothing more than a modern day Birch Society.. Except it's being accepted by the Republican Party, whereas the Birch Society wasn't. But even it is now.
<absolutely nothing of worth from TPS>:
they had shovel ready projects their too..oh wait..
Attacking countries, killing people and destroying things for no good reason is the same as walking back comments?
In what universe?
Yeah that's what the Democrats thought. It was for no good reason!
　
"Saddams existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraqs enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002
"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Administrations policy towards Iraq, I dont think there can be any question about Saddams conduct. He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts." -- Henry Waxman, Oct 10, 2002
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That's why he was ostracized and died of alcoholism.McCarthy was if anything, vastly understating the extent to which Soviets ran the State Department.
Hey GWB was a liberal, yea thats the ticket! Plenty on Conservatives opposed his spending, they just were never heard from or seen, yeah, that's what happened. TRUE Conservatives were against his nasty spending ways, totally! You should've seen the uproar in Conservative Television, no not Fox News....Other channels, like on the CB radio n stuff. Boy were we mad...scouts honor.
Blah, that's conservatives....Even when they are wrong they are right. Conservatives lost the house and senate NOT because ppl rejected their ideas....NOOOOOOOOooo of course not. They rejected them because they lost their conservative way. See, Conservatism is never wrong anything bad that happens is the fault of someone else, Communists, Liberals, the boogie man...EVERYONE!
Would you like to compare spending and the deficit of the two admins??????????
US Federal Deficit As Percent Of GDP
2001 -1.25
2002 1.48
2003 3.39
2004 3.48
2005 2.52
2006 1.85
2007 1.14
2008 3.18
2009 9.91
2010 10.64
US Federal Deficit As Percent Of GDP in United States 1900-2010 - Federal State Local
Now that's the real story. Liberals can keep lying that Bush spend just like Obama, but the truth is Obama TRIPLED and QUADRUPLED the deficit in the two years he's been in office.
The numbers don't lie unlike liberal propaganda.
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Crusader knows that the leaders of the GOP, including Ike, pulled down and destroyed politically the alcoholic monster from Wisconsin.That's why he was ostracized and died of alcoholism.McCarthy was if anything, vastly understating the extent to which Soviets ran the State Department.
Who is behind the Glenn Beck Revision Of American History?
The John Birch Society was one of the decades most controversial right-wing organizations. Founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, a candy manufacturer from Massachusetts, the society took its name from a Baptist missionary and military-intelligence officer killed by Communist Chinese forces in 1945, whom Welch called the first American casualty of the Cold War. The group was founded at a propitious time. After Senator Joseph McCarthys fall, in 1954, many of McCarthys followers felt bereft of a voice, and Welch seemed to speak for them; by the mid-sixties, his societys membership was estimated to be as high as a hundred thousand. Welch, exploiting fears of what McCarthy had called an immense domestic conspiracy, declared that the federal government had already fallen into the Communists clutches. In a tract titled The Politician, he attacked President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy who had been serving the plot all of his adult life. Late in 1961, after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, he accused the Kennedy Administration of helping the Communists everywhere in the world while pretending to do the opposite.
Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom. Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal governments role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism.
In the nineteen-sixties, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but a tool of the total conspiracy. This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the eighteenth century, in the uniformly Satanic creed and program of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called the Insiders, the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. Since the early twentieth century, they had done a good deal of their evil work under the guise of humanitarian uplift. One broad avenue down which these conspiratorial forces advance was known as progressive legislation, Welch declared in 1966. The very same collectivist theories and demagogic pretenses which had destroyed earlier civilizations were now paraded forth in the disguise of new and modern concepts.
Still, the most outlandish of the eras right-wing anti-Communists was not Welch but Willard Cleon Skousen. A transplanted Canadian who served as a Mormon missionary in his teens, Skousen was considered so radical in the early nineteen-sixties that even J. Edgar Hoovers F.B.I. watched him closely; one 1962 memo in his extensive F.B.I. file noted that during the past year or so, Skousen has affiliated himself with the extreme right-wing professional communists who are promoting their own anticommunism for obvious financial purposes. Skousen was himself employed by the F.B.I., from 1935 until 1951, much of that time as a special agent working chiefly in administration. These desk jobs, he claimed implausibly, gave him access to confidential domestic intelligence about Communism. Skousen also maintained that he had served as Hoovers administrative assistant; Hoover informed inquirers that there was no such position.
Skousen taught for years in the speech and religion departments at Brigham Young University, interrupted by a stint, from 1956 to 1960, as the police chief of Salt Lake City. His time in office was contentious, and after he raided a friendly card game attended by the citys right-wing mayor, J. Bracken Lee, he was promptly fired. Lee called Skousen a master of half truths and said that he ran the police department like a Gestapo; Skousens supporters placed burning crosses on the Mayors lawn.
After losing his police job, Skousen founded a group called the All-American Society, which Time described in 1961 as an exemplar of the far-right ultras. Although he did not join the Birch Society, Skousen worked with its American Opinion Speakers Bureau, and, in 1963, wrote a rousing tract titled The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society, which condemned the societys critics for promoting the official Communist Party line. (This was a tic of Skousens; he later defended the Mormon policy of denying the priesthood to blacks with a pamphlet called The Communist Attack on the Mormons.)
By the time Skousen died, in 2006, he was little remembered outside the ranks of the furthest-right Mormons. Then, in 2009, Glenn Beck began touting his work: The Naked Communist, The Naked Capitalist, and, especially, The 5,000 Year Leap, which he called essential to understanding why our Founders built this Republic the way they did. After Beck put the book in the first spot on his required-reading listand wrote an enthusiastic new introduction for its reissueit shot to the top of the Amazon best-seller list. In the first half of 2009, it sold more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies. Local branches of the Tea Party Patriots, the United American Tea Party, and other groups across the country have since organized study groups around it. It is time we learn and follow the FREEDOM principles of our Founding Fathers, a United American Tea Party video declares, referring to the principles expounded by Skousens book. If Beck is the movements teacher, The 5,000 Year Leap has become its primer, with The Making of America as a kind of 102-level text.
Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, and the Republicans : The New Yorker
You Tea Party people are drinking some rancid -- but old -- kool aid. Wake the Fuck Up, people.
To you it may be rancid -- but old -- kool aid but if you look closely to what was said back in the 50's many thing they were dead right on. Trying to change the history of what was said will do nothing but make you fail.
But of course you will not watch the video
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TeaPartySamurai either (1) does not know the history of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, and Cleon Skousen, or (2) does not know the writings of Cleon Skousen, or (3) does not know the far far reactionary LDS connection to the JBS, or (4) does not know the LDS chuch states that belonging to such organizations as the JBS is the first step to apostasy, or (5) that Glenn is LDS, or (5) TPS knows all this and is being a propaganda fail too again. She really thinks people don't know these things, and she can say whatever she wants. She is Fail, like for the 249th time this month.Where did he says he believed in the John Bircch Society? ///
That is your own closed mind, not his!
An example of how loony the right has become - Far-Right John Birch Society 2010 - The Note
The Tea Party is nothing more than a modern day Birch Society.. Except it's being accepted by the Republican Party, whereas the Birch Society wasn't. But even it is now.
<absolutely nothing of worth from TPS>:
Buckley hated the JBS with a passion as the frankenstine monster of Welch feasting on the far right of the GOP. These were the bozos who called Ike a knowing communist dupe.
Anybody who defends the JBS is not an American, period. This is beyond debate. The JBS and their defenders are the evil side of politics.
