Dec 09 2008
Subversive Historian – 12/09/08
The John Birch Society by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Exactly fifty years ago on this day in people’s history, the John Birch Society was founded in Indianapolis. On December 9th, 1958, Robert Welch proposed the idea for the organization before those gathered in a meeting he convened. Before his small audience of twelve men, Welch outlined the extreme right-wing ideology that would characterize the John Birch Society. Taking its name from a Christian missionary turned intelligence agent in China killed by communists, the organization sought members attracted to Welch’s conspiratorial vision that a ‘one-world socialist government’ was the aim of internal “traitors.†Of course, “comrade†Liberals were central to this notion as was the United Nations. The organization, which founded its first chapter months after the Indianapolis meeting, would go on to oppose civil rights legislation during its most influential period in the sixties.
Thankfully it can be said on this fiftieth birthday of the JBS, they no longer wield such powerful influence.
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our history!
One Response to “Subversive Historian – 12/09/08”
The history of the postwar conservative movement cannot be understood or written without paying attention to the influence of the John Birch Society.
Many people “graduated” from the JBS to form their own organizations or publish their own newsletters and books which reflected the ideas and conclusions they learned during their association with the JBS.
For a 65-page report on the JBS based, primarily, upon first-time-released FBI files and documents, see: http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/jbs-1