John Birch Society

[Peter Lemkin]

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Now that is interesting, indeed. We have some of the leaders as suspects in the Assassination and they were helping MacAruthur and his man Lansdale, who are also suspects. Add to the mix the strange story of the self-proclaimed <mind-controlled> assassin in the Phillipines, after, and it is quite a mix....Ruby's mention is also interesting. ...

MacArthur confuses the hell outta me. On the one hand he was a thundering looney. Plenty of evidence there. Hell, Truman fired him because he was out of control. He attacked his own men, military men, aka the Bonus Army, on US soil in 1932. A mean thundering looney.

On the other hand he met with President Kennedy early on and reportedly counciled him. Told JFK that the chickens were coming home to roost and JFK was in the chicken house. That could be taken as a warning or a threat (and was chillingly similar to Malcolm X's notorious statement after the assassination). Whichever it was, JFK was supposedly impressed with MacArthur.

Dunno. Was MacArthur involved in the assassination? It's certainly not as crystal clear as Edwin Walker's role. And it confused me. I hope for clarification.

...I believe on the EF there was some discussion of this by a former member...

Are you referring to Harry Dean? He's a member here. Perhaps he'll comment on the subject.

Excerpt{s} from 1990 manuscript/book YROJ JFK Connection
In the flow of events during my regular Intelligence/informant activities in
1962, I was made aware of the Conservarive Movement/John Birch Society and became a sincere member as did a great number of other Republicans.
The John Birch Society {JBS} was an invention and political extention of the
Church {Latter Day Saints {LDS} Mormon. The JBS infrastructure was an
exact miniture of the Church designed to serve as it's political arm in reaching
where the Church was forbidden by U.S. laws of Church-State separation to go.
An extremely costly seizure of the Republican Party was the urgent and
powerful first step taken by LDS-JBS for entrance into the legitimate political
scene {a relentless goal of the Church hierarchy since it's 1830 founding.

Their revival and use of the name "Conservatism" was merely as a title, a
semantic weapon, to display opposition to the liberalism that dominated both
Democrat and Republican parties, choking and limiting both political conservatism and Church ambitons.
The more important purpose in exploiting this title was it's value to draw-in
sincere, and ideological conservatives to serve our cause in many ways.

We were instructed to infiltrate the Democratic Party at every level. The
Democratic Party was taken over from the bottom and the top and it's
liberalism was forever neutralized!
Through it's revolutionary JBS front, the LDS Church dumped millions of it's
yearly billions into subverting operations and brilliantly devised, twisted and
fiery propaganda causing a national foreboding and fear that the U.S.
Goverment might actually be under communist influence and direction.

No honest conservative really believed that we were trying to do more than
call the liberal establishment communist sympathizers in order to replace
liberalism with conservatism. But we unknowingly were being used to help
install this present system that is surrreptitiously wielding every power of
the U.S. government to force the extension of a purely materialistic-religious
empire that is intent on redesigning the entire world in it's own "communal" image! An effort that includes brute force and isolation of resistant individuals and entire nations.

This long twilight struggle against the elected government of the United States was for world power. That power lay within an almost impotent United
Nations Organization. Control and direction of that body would be realized by
the subversives upon neutralizing, then seizing the government by shock
force.{JFK Assassination}.

Yes I was a follower until 22November 1963.

H.J. Dean

Thanks for that Harry! Above Myra seems confused about McAurthur - and lets put his mental 'state' aside - for I think if we look at the mental 'status' of most all of those who were involved in things involved with Dallas (and similar) we'd find great psychopathology. His intelligence man was Lansdale and Lansdale many (including me) beleve was at Dallas and played a role. David'd observation that JBS played a role in laundering the Phillipine / Japanese Gold is amazing and fits the whole thing together neatly. Look who its big funders were and their roles (or suspected roles) in Dallas. I remember well growing up in the very progressive and politcally active family I did in NYC that we were very aware of the JBS, but took them to be nutty right-wingnuts - and we did not know of the great money and power behind them. They kept a folksy 'front' of the average enraged anti-communist/anti-socialist/anti-progressive cornpone American as behind it. The JBS, to me, was front and center involved in the events of 11/22/63, along with other persons and groups who shared that kind of viewpoint. Ruby's mention of JBS and Johnson, I think, are taken too lightly, as Ruby was not the most articulate person - he also was not stupid and knew which side the bread was buttered on!