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eh BMtmu Gwutlt J2T7JS Paid Advertisement Paid Advertisement Paid Advertisement Paid Advertisement Paid Advertisement What Is The John Birch Society? The Truth May Surprise You! (1) The Communists seek unlimited power for themselves, over the whole human race. The John Birch Society does not want any power at all over anybody, either now or in the future. Agreeing with Lord Acton that "power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely," the Society seeks to make progress towards its goals only by education and persuasion. (2) The Communists believe that any means may be used to attain their ends. The Society believes that improper means are never justified by even the noblest of aims, and that means are as important as ends in any worthwhile civilization.

(3) The Communists always accuse their enemies such as The John Birch Society of exactly those crimes which the Communists themselves are committing. We do not bear false witness against anybody, about anything. (4) The Communists believe that words should be used to conceal thoughts, and that promises are made to be broken. The John Birch Society believes that simple truth is the very core or morality; and that when we can persuade enough people to make truth the prerequisite to all statements and the accepted guide to all action, at least half of the world's problems will rapidly disappear. (5) The Communists operate in secrecy and darkness.

We follow the preponderant custom, among all American voluntary associations, of not publishing the list of our members. With that exception, The John Birch Society has absolutely no secrets of any kind. (6) The Communists seek to break down all morality, all tradition, and to destroy the whole spiritual and esthetic sense of values which we have inherited. The Society believes that reverent continuity in human affairs is of extreme importance; and that even the most desirable change should be made cautiously, in order to be sure that it constitutes improvement. (7) The Communists believe that man is just a material combination of atoms, with no other purpose than satisfaction of the desires of the physical entity thus assembled.

The John Birch Society believes that a Divine Creator has endowed man with a purpose and an "upward reach" which are far superior to, and frequently prompt a willing sacrifice of, the desires and needs of the individual himself. (8) The Communists Lenin, Lunacharsky, and many other leaders openly preach that "men must learn to hate," and that only through spreading sufficient hatred can the Communists succeed in ruling the world. The John Birch Society hates nobody, not even the Communists, bur only the evil which they do. The Society believes that love for one's neighbor and good will towards all men should be a fundamental motivation in all relationships. The Communists also pretend to believe and some of them undoubtedly do believe that Communism is "the wave of the future." We believe, instead, that the whole world is now tired of so much strife and bestiality, treason and immorality, cruelty and confusion, blasphemy and destructive-ness, bitterness and fear, doubt and despair that always go hand in hand with Communism.

We believe that mankind may be about ready to arise, shake off this Communist tyranny and terror, and move forward again towards a more enlightened and humane existence. We are doing everything in our power, by all honorable means, to create the understanding that will produce this result. If you have what it takes, in character and courage, then by all means join us now in our epic undertaking. With the added effort of people like yourself, and with God's help when and because we have deserved it we shall break up this immense criminal conspiracy, and return a world gone crazy to sanity once again. members now operate some 350 "reading rooms that sell books," scattered throughout the country most of them under the name of American Opinion Libraries.

We have certainly helped to re-awaken, restore, and strengthen, in tens of thousands of Americans, the three great basic human loyalties: Loyalty to God, loyalty to country, and loyalty to family. The Communists know that they simply must destroy all three of these foundations of our civilization. For they can never rule "peacefully" that is, without constant resistance in any place or at any time where there is loyalty to anything except to the Communist state. We were the first organization in the United States to start calling widespread attention to the world-wide Communist plot to discredit, demoralize, and destroy local police forces. Our members have distributed in leaflet form literally millions of our messages explaining what the Communists were doing in this area, and why.

As a result, our Support Your Local Police drive has now won tremendous backing from patriotic citizens everywhere. We are engaged in an entirely proper and constitutional movement to bring about the impeachment of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. As only one result of our educational efforts in support of that movement, we have awakened hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens to the vital differences between a republic and a democracy. Many of them have come to realize the lengths to which our Founding Fathers went in order to give us a republic (not a democracy) if we could keep it! And a growing number now understand how important it is to the Communists to convert this republic into a democracy as rapidly as they can. Through the distribution by our members of huge quantities of books and pamphlets, we have brought a sizable and increasing fraction of the American people to recognize the high degree of Communist planning, influence, control, and purposes involved in the "civil rights" movement.

Our increasing ability to get able, informed and patriotic Negroes to join us in this effort, especially through continuous and widespread speaking engagements, has been an important part of this service to our country. We have helped mightily to offset the emotional and extravagant tendencies of the prejudiced and the poorly informed to blame Communism on any one group or race or organization. The historical facts clearly reveal that the international Communist conspiracy reaches through every conceivable body it can utilize in any way to promote its ends. And we have insisted from the beginning that we are fighting the Communists and nobody else. The Factfinding Subcommittee of the California Senate ended the twenty-five thousand word report of its two-year investigation with these paragraphs: "We believe that the reason the John Birch Society has attracted so many members is that it simply appeared to them to be the most effective, indeed the only, organization through which they could join in a national movement to learn the truth about the Communist menace and then take some positive concerted action to prevent its spread.

"Our investigation and study was requested by the society, which had been publicly charged with being a secret, fascist, subversive, un-American, anti-Semitic organization. We have not found any of these accusations to be supported by the evidence." What we have accomplished, above all else, is to keep The John Birch Society alive and growing, as a rallying point for the increasing number of informed and patriotic anti-Communists. Our members have achieved this result, through staggering labor and sacrifice, despite unceasing ha-rassments, and distortions of their actions, and pressures amounting in many instances to serious persecution. And we intend to keep on growing. For we believe the incredibly vicious and massive attacks on the Society have been due, in any final analysis, not to our mistakes and our failures, but to our successes and our progress.

V. Which Do You Choose? We cannot give you here the full basis for that choice. But let's put down a few point by point comparisons of the Society with its Communist enemies. Dec 9th we celebrated seventh anniversary. We are glad to take the occasion therefore, to give as much of an answer to the above question as space will permit, for those who really want to know.

So I. Let's Start At The Begi nning The John Birch Society was founded in Indian-apolis, on December 9, 1958. It was chartered under the General Laws of Massachusetts as a nonprofit educational organization. We have lived up meticulously to those specifications (including not making any profit!) for seven years. During these seven years we have sought to bring into The John Birch Society only men and women of good character, humane consciences, and religious ideals.

For we are striving to set an example, by dedication, integrity, and purpose in word and deed which our children's children may follow without hesitation. Members of the Society are of all races, colors, and creeds. We are of all social, economic, and educational levels. We are individualists who disagree among ourselves about many things. But we are firmly united in devotion to those beliefs, principles, and purposes which we do hold in common.

For we have voluntarily joined together: (1) To combat more effectively the evil forces which now threaten our freedom, our lives, our country, and our civilization; (2) To prevail upon our fellow citizens to start pulling out of the deepening morass of collectivism, and then climb up the mountain to higher levels of individual freedom and responsiblity than man has ever achieved before; (3) To restore, with brighter lustre and deeper conviction, the faith-inspired morality, the spiritual sense of values, and the ennobling aspirations, on which our western civilization has been built. The longrange objective of the Society has been summarized as less government, more responsibility, and a better world. II. So We Collide With Communism These purposes bring us immediately into conflict with the Communists, on two levels. For on the ideological plane the Communists seek always and everywhere to bring about more government, less individual responsibility, and an amoral world.

And on the plane of action, until the Communists can be stopped from completing their subjugation of the whole world, there will be no opportunity for us to move forward at all towards our permanent goals. We have undertaken, therefore, to play a leading role in slowing down, stopping, and eventually routing the Communist conspiracy. We realize that the one thing no conspiracy can withstand is the light of day on its activities. The only danger to their gigantic conspiracy which the Communists fear is exposure. For this reason, we do all that we can to bring to our fellow citizens more knowledge and a better understanding of the methods, the progress, and the menace of the Communist machine.

In this undertaking we have become a new form of opposition to the Communists which they 'have never faced before in any of the vast areas they have already taken over. So the Communists, grasping this fact very early, set out in 1961 to destroy us. The most official Communist publication in the United States is The Worker, in which the line is laid down for the faithful. During the last six months of 1961 there was, we believe, only one issue of this weekly paper which did not contain an attack somewhere in its pages on The John Birch Society; and a number of issues contained as many as six or seven separate attacks on us at that many different places. The Comsymps got the point, and have been carrying out the indicated program with increasing furor ever since.

Of course the Communists follow Lenin's basic strategy of advancing Communism by non-Communist hands. They could never impose the tyrannical rule of some three percent of a population over the whole population which they repeatedly do in one country after another unless they could inveigle enough non-Communists and even anti-Communists among that other ninety-seven percent into doing their dirty work for them. Deceptively appealing, for instance, to every motivation in human character, from sordid selfishness to "practical politics" to misguided idealism, they have gradually beguiled a lot of very good Americans into joining the attack on us. Until the maligning of The John Birch Society has now probably exceeded, in intensiveness and extensiveness, that faced by any other organization in all American history. And in general our defamers do not even try to refute the facts on which we focus attention.

They merely call us names for bringing these facts to light. III. And Stir Up The Politicians The John Birch Society is in no sense a political organization. We try to give our members infor-' mation, understanding, and we hope even inspiration, which will make them better citizens. As good citizens they may take an active part in politics.

But each member does so entirely on his own, working in the party of his choice, for the candiate of his choice, exactly as do members of the American Legion or of the Knights of Columbus or of the Rotary Club or a Baptist Church. For we regard education as the means, and political action as only the mechanics, for bringing about improvements in government. The mechan-ice will automatically be used when sufficient education has prepared the way. We mean it quite literally, therefore, when we say that education is our total strategy, and truth is our only weapon. Or, as made clear throughout the Blue Book and emphasized on its last page, our gigantic task is simply to create understanding.

Members of The John Birch Society, however, are extremely hard working, highly respected in their local communities, and always earnestly determined on behalf of any cause or candidate that they support. When circumstances bring any appreciable number together behind any particular candidate, their weight is out of all proportion to their numbers. And that weight is usually felt, of course, on the side of the Conservatives of either party. So the Liberals of both parties naturally raise all the clamor they can against Birchers in politics. As the stranglehold of the Liberals on both parties now steadily increases, even Conservative politicians feel unceasing pressures to "improve their image" by joining the chorus of attack on The John Birch Society.

Very few of them indeed have ever realized the extent to which they were running interference for the Communists. A related part of the mammoth and many-faceted campaign which the Communists have now generated against us is the deliberate and widespread attempt to associate The John Birch Society in the public mind with the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and other so-called "extremists of the left and of the right." Our approach to the problems of today is so different from the viewpoint of the Klans that we have never knowingly admitted a member of any Klan into the Society. We estimate that about forty percent of our total membership Catholic. Many of our finest Chapter Leaders are Jewish. And we are very proud of our small but growing number of Negro members, who are working so hard and so courageously with us to show our fellow citizens, both white and colored, how the Negroes are being used today by the Communists to serve Communist purposes.

So we have no similarity or sympathy whatsoever with the Klans. While the so-called American Nazi Party, accordingly to J. Edgar Hoover, has less than one hundred members, it is visibly given immense publicity by some media for the very purpose of using it, by utterly false association, to discredit The John Birch Society. Nor is this campaign intended to serve simply the purpose of a vague and general discrediting of the Society; or of merely discouraging our members and prospective members. There are plotters behind it who are obviously working towards a more specific goal.

They wish to establish in the public mind, and then to formalize, the concept that since the Communists and Ku Kluxers and John Birchers are all "just alike," and since the Communists and Ku Kluxers are visibly "subversive," then The John Birch Society is "subversive" too. We believe it is to this end, at least in part, that so many high ranking politicians have been seduced into speaking out against us. IV. What Have We Accomplished? We have established a nationwide educational army. It has a fully paid field staff.

This army is fighting with facts as its only weapons. And the whole army knows that to be better informed is to be better armed. For help towards informing ourselves first, and then others, we established a publishing division. It is now turning out books and pamphlets with a retail value of about four million dollars per year. We also serve as very sizable distributors of the Conservative books and reprints of approximately one hundred other publishers.

And our IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE Introductory Packet 1.00 Special Packet 5.00 (A thorough introduction to the Society.) ONE DOZEN CANDLES 8.00 (Twelve famous books, in per bound editions, which give you a thorough introduction to the workings of the Communist conspiracy.) ONE DOZEN TRUMPETS 50.00 (Twelve albums, of two full length records each, to be played in numbered sequence, which give you a comprehensive survey of all the subject matter of this advertisement.) All prices postpaid. For the above materials, or simply to have somebody from the Society get in touch with you, write to the address given below. Executive Committee: Wm. J. Grede, Chairman, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Laurence E.

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