BS: New Zombie Movie

Subject: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 May 11 - 09:33 AM

Talk about the un-dead! The Birchers are lurching around again!!

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Birchers find new kindred spirits

Leader tells crowd he sees tea party as sign of growing support
By TIM O'BRIEN Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

COLONIE -- For many years, the John Birch Society existed on the fringes of the Republican Party, deeply suspicious of its establishment and questioning even its most revered figures, like former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

With the advent of the tea party movement, the group is finding kindred spirits for its fears of impending one-world government.

At the Marriott Hotel in Colonie on Monday, some 400 people came to hear the society's 20-year president, John F. McManus. President Barack Obama got only passing mentions; the talk's focus was on the "Betrayal of the Constitution: an expose of the Neo-Conservative Agenda."

"Conservative vs. liberal is meaningless," McManus said before his speech. "You're either for the Constitution or not. At the John Birch Society, we don't call ourselves conservatives. We call ourselves constitutionalists."

While the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the organization as past its zenith and McManus as one of the most dangerous people in America, he wore the designation as a badge of honor. He sees the tea party movement as a sign of growing support. "The influence is soaring," he said prior to his talk. "All the new groups starting have gotten people off the couch. You'd have to be a little bit brain-dead not to know the country is in trouble."

The society opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, described as unacceptable intrusions into the affairs of other nations. In his talk, McManus denounced President George W. Bush and his father, calling the elder Bush a socialist. The society, he said, led the fight to prevent the United States, Canada and Mexico from becoming one North American Union.

He made a series of comments about neoconservative leaders. starting with Irving Kristol, considered the father of the movement. "He accepted the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, and that's socialism," McManus said as the audience called out "That's right!"

He described the society's view as "noninterventionist." "We don't have global responsibilities," he said. "We have responsibilities to the American people."

At times, the event took on the tenor of a revival meeting, with audience members shouting encouragement. At the back of the room, books, DVDs, magazines and booklets condemned the United Nations, Newt Gingrich and even Abraham Lincoln's "real agenda and unnecessary war."

McManus wrote a book denouncing conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. as a Trotskyite and establishment tool. McManus urged his audience to get Congress to cut spending.

"We take our country back through the House of Representatives," he said. "Do not expect to steal it back through the presidency." Mitch Goldstein of Glenmont was happy to hear the message.

"I am an enthusiastic supporter of the Constitution," he said. "I'd like to see the country follow the ideas of the founders. Our federal government was created to defend a citizen's life, liberty and property from outside incursion, including being set upon by the government."

Carol Morris of Rotterdam Junction said she wants the nation to avoid wars, like McManus said. "It would be nice if there were a lot of people elected in favor of less government, a much smaller government," she said. "These people go to war and put it on our tab."


Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Birchers-find-new-kindred-spirits-1362693.php#ixzz1LIde2WYp

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 May 11 - 09:53 AM

And here I was assuming that you were talking about a Brad Pitt movie called World War Z


I love it when the title of the thread hasn't got squat to do with it's contents.

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 May 11 - 10:02 AM

Gee, Wes, you obviously know nothing of the history of the Birch John Society & even less about humor and irony.

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 May 11 - 10:25 AM

By Bob Dylan:


Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue
I didn't know what in the world I wus gonna do
Them Communists they wus comin' around
They wus in the air
They wus on the ground
They wouldn't gimme no peace . . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!

Now we all agree with Hitler's views
Although he killed six million Jews
It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist
At least you can't say he was a Communist!
That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria

Well, I wus lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds
I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed
Looked in the sink, behind the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find 'em . . .

I wus lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere
I wus lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair
I looked way up my chimney hole
I even looked deep down inside my toilet bowl
They got away . . .

Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat
Figured they wus in my T.V. set
Peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones

Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol' Betsy Ross . . .

Well, I investigated all the books in the library
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away
I investigated all the people that I knowed
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go
The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outa things to investigate
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

Copyright © 1970 by Special Rider Music; renewed 1998 by Special Rider Music

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 May 11 - 01:03 PM

That's way pre-1970, Wes; Dylan recorded it in 1964, if not earlier.

Then there's

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
(Michael Brown)

Oh we're meeting at the courthouse at eight o'clock tonight
You just come in the door and take the first turn to the right
Be careful when you get there, we'd hate to be bereft
But we're taking down the names of everybody turning left

'Cause we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save this country from a communistic plot
We're the John Birch Society, help us swell the ranks
To get this movement started, we need lots of tools and cranks

Now there's no one that's certain that the Kremlin doesn't touch
We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much
We only hail the hero from whom we got our name
We're not sure what he did, but he's our hero all the same

Join the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Socialism is the ism dismalist of all
Join the John Birch Society, there's so much to do
Have you heard they're serving vodka at the W.C.T.U.

Well you've heard about the agents that we've already named
Well M.C.A. has agents that are flatly unashamed
We're after Rosie Clooney, we've gotten Pinky Lee
And the day we get Red Skelton won't that be a victory

For we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Norman Vincent Peale may think he's kidding us along
But the John Birch Society knows he spilled the beans
He keeps on preaching brotherhood, but we know what he means

We'll teach you how to spot 'em in the city or the sticks
'Cause even Jasper Junction is just full of Bolsheviks
The CIA's subversive and so's the FCC
There's no one left but thee and we, and we're not sure of thee

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 hands and hearts, and if we must, we'll use our heads

BRIDGE: (O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain)

spoken: Friends, do you want Justice Warren to be your Commissar?
Do you want Mrs. Khrushchev in there with the DAR?
You cannot trust your neighbors, or even next-of-kin
If mommy is a Commie then you gotta turn her in

To the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right
Join the John Birch Society, as we're marching on
We'll all be glad to see you when we're meeting in the John
In the John, In the John Birch Society

- Copyright: 1961, Sunbeam Music Corp, New York

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 03 May 11 - 01:13 PM

Yes Greg, I think it's about time for the Chad Mitchell Trio to update that classic song!

And here I was thinking that this thread had to do with a revived, zombiefied Osama Bin Laden...

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 May 11 - 01:15 PM

HOWEVER, the Birchers were and are far from a comedy act. They did a great deal of harm- opposing the Civil Rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Anti United Nations campaign, fear of "One World Government" etc.One of the founding members Fred Koch, of Koch Industries. Remember him? And on & on.

Difference is that they were -and are- seen by the vast majority of the population, including Republicans and Conservatives, as idiots and lunatics.

However, the TeaBaggers - no less ignorant, blatently dishonest and delusional - are taken seriously.

I suppose its inevitable that these two groups sharing the same psycoses should get together- but what will they call themselves?

Birch-Baggers?

Subject: RE: BS: New Zombie Movie
From: Greg F.
Date: 03 May 11 - 01:16 PM

I was thinking that this thread had to do with a revived, zombiefied Osama Bin Laden...

Stay tuned, Jay - I'm sure some of the regular cadre of conspiracy theorists will come up with that one before too long.