Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.
Welch founded the John Birch Society (JBS) in December 1958. Its original membership consisted of only eleven men but Welch's wealth allowed the organization to have a wide impact and sponsor a number of publications. At its height, the organization claimed it had approximately 100,000 members, but its political views limited its ability to form alliances with other groups (even other anti-Communists like Richard Nixon and, to a lesser extent, Ronald Reagan, were denounced by the Society as being too liberal)[citation needed] and diminished its real impact...
Welch was the editor and publisher of the monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly "The Review of the News". He also wrote The Road to Salesmanship (1941), May God Forgive Us (1951), "The Politician" (about Eisenhower) and The Life of John Birch (1954). A collection of his essays were also edited into a book "The New Americanism".
In the 1960s, Welch began to believe that even the Communists were not the top level of his perceived conspiracy and began saying that Communism was just a front for a Master Conspiracy, which had roots in the Illuminati; the essay "The Truth in Time" is an example [1]. He referred to the Conspirators as "The Insiders," seeing them mainly in internationalist financial and business families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and organizations such as the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He did avoid the antisemitism, anti-Freemasonry, and anti-Catholicism of other Conspiracy theorists, saying that such prejudices would "neutralize" anti-Communist, anti-Conspiracy efforts...
"Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as 'always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.' Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal government's role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson 'more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism' ... In the 1960's, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but 'a tool of the total conspiracy.' This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the 18th century, in the 'uniformly Satanic creed and program' of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called 'the Insiders,' the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission."
— Sean Wilentz, Princeton University historian, October 2010 [3]
Welch accused Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower of being communist sympathizers and possibly Soviet agents of influence. He alleged that President Eisenhower was a "conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy",[16] and that Eisenhower's brother Milton was the President's superior in the communist apparatus. President Eisenhower never responded publicly to Welch's claims...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch,_Jr.
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youtube search of the title below shows when Jones had the president of the JBS on his show:
Alex Jones welcomes John Birch Society President John McManus
Uploaded on May 17, 2009
I was still listening trying to figure these guys out and heard this the online podcast. So she knew exactly what she was doing, she went on the show that supports her views. Jones is no stranger to these groups. He was still shilling for Ron Paul through 2012. And against the IRS saying the Amendment that created the Income Tax as a European banker plot and warning people of black helicopters in the late nineties.
Now he takes people out the country to practice shooting down drones. His films are part of a new mythology. He harps on the
PoliceState© and false flag operations, etc. He's anti-vaccine and anti-abortion and has encouraged those who listen to pass laws against the latter and refuse the former, as he says that's when they inject you with microchips or viruses that will give you cancer or make you sterile or gay.
Thus his Libertarian statement about being a 'creator' like the job creator vs. parasites reference there. That's straight Ayn Rand terminology, and it is the guide for many GOP and the Tea Party. They see the UN and New Deal and social safety net as communism.
Jones is against gays, unions, feminists, public workers, the post office, immigrants, gun control and all government. He incites fear against Mexicans and Asians as he terms them invading armies who intend to slaughter white people. He's also into the World Zionist Banksters and anti-Israel stuff.
But, he's 'not racist,' you know. He spoke highly of Putin and has a following in several other countries.
Rand Paul grew up with this. People that follow this CT don't want to believe how regressive these guys are but they will eventually swallow the entire poison pill. They get excited about the
Truth© amd think it's something 'new.'
The JBS put up
Wanted For Treason billboards against Justice Earl Warren of the USSC for his decision on Brown vs. the Board of Education to desegregate schools, and they put up
Wanted For Treason posters in Dallas the weeks before John F. Kennedy was killed.
Scratch the surface of the conspiracy crowd and they hate Democrats, FDR, liberals, 'statists' and Obama because they follow some form of this, but most don't even know it.
Triana has posted a lot on this, and these people have not gone away. Hartmann linked the Koch Family as co-founder of the JBS and details their multi-generational propaganda organization. It's here at DU:
Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227
You may know all of this, just answering your question there.
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