Ron Paul Addresses John Birch Society 50th Anniversary

[L. Coyote]

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[formercia]

1. I remember my parents taking us to JBS meetings in the 50's

Scary people, some of them.

[L. Coyote]

4. I went to a HS speech contest without knowing the judge was the local Bircher

The 'county President' of the John Birch Society. Wahooo.
Yes, in the 50's paranoid politics was organized atthe county level! :rofl:

I was opposing the war in Vietnam. I did not win that contest!

[formercia]

6. They made my mother so paranoid

that she would buy copies of Soviet Life and leave them out to see if any of her kids would read them, thus showing communist tendencies.

I used to enjoy them. They were a real hoot.

[razors edge]

2. Pretty benign really.

Paul is a decent type, he just runs as Republican because it works for him.

He doesn't scare the shit out me like McCain does.

[formercia]

3. Paul isn't scary.

I I think his speech echoes a lot that is said here. Any extreme group is scary, no mater what the political agenda.

The JBS is plain vanilla compared to what it used to be.

[Ranting_Wacko]

10. Sorry, but he is...

As someone who lived in his district and had to see him giving a speech about the evils of FEMA and federal disaster aid (this was back in the late 90s before Brownie took over) as a flood was destroying parts of Victoria, Texas... I have nothing but contempt for this racist lunatic.

[Reform]

5. its because hes not a NeoCon

Neocon's despise Paul

[paulkienitz]

7. haha: "founded 50 years ago to promote smaller government and increased personal responsibility"

translation: founded 50 years ago to fight the menace of international Communism, which was seen as the visible arm of a vast hidden conspiracy that controlled all of history (essentially the Zionist conspiracy opened to non-Jews) and numbered even Dwight Eisenhower among its secret agents.

I wish I still had my copy of A. Ralph Epperson's The Unseen Hand. It was a hoot.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. I am so glad Paul didn't win the nomination.

I think I'd shoot myself if I had to listen to his whiney voice for more than a minute. Had he chosen Palin as his VP, it'd be the most annoying ticket in American history.

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. Isn't it interesting that today the GOP (rather than the JBS) is the TRULY SCARY outfit ?

Today's GOP now has all the old Wallace supporting hate-mongers, hates habeas corpus, believes in the "unitary executive" (and meets most of the descriptive criteria which have been used to define fascism, albeit of a softened variety).

Meanwhile the 2008 JBS folks do not want to use the power of government to enforce their agenda, and spend as much of their time fighting for habeas corpus & other civil liberties as they do fighting for less government in the economic sphere.

[Ranting_Wacko]

11. Remember - he's not a racist!

He just took money from racist groups to keep it from going to more evil causes.

No doubt this is part of some other infiltration scheme.

*eye rolls* At least I can enjoy my weekends without having to see his cultists standing in the streets shouting about the gold standard...