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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:33 PM
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What's the name of the wacky right organization that has always freaked out about the one world gov?
On the tip of my tongue.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:33 PM
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1. as soon as I posted it! John Birch Society
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 08:34 PM by usregimechange
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:34 PM
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2. Are you sure it's not Burch?
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Terry in Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:57 PM
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5. Blast from the past
Wow, the Birchers were the fave righ twing clowns during the Khrushchev years of the Cold War. There was a great http://www.lyricsdownload.com/chad-mitchell-trio-the-john-birch-society-lyrics.html">popular song by the Chad Mitchell trio, circa 1961:

Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society holding off the Reds
We'll use our hand and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads

They went on to be a fairly well-known act in folk music circles.

The young Bob Dylan also had a tune called "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:36 PM
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3. Christianity.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:58 PM
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6. Tell that to Jim Wallis or Tony Campolo...
...Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton might have found it interesting as well.

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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:37 PM
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9. Fundies often do but not all.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:53 PM
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4. Republican Party?
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 08:59 PM
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7. If it wasn't the Birchers, it's probably the LaRouchies...
(Not their official name, but followers of Lyndon LaRouche.)

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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 09:00 PM
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8. never mind
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