{"id":7973,"date":"2018-10-19T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:58:10","slug":"attacks-smears-jbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/attacks-smears-jbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks on Trump Echo Smears of John Birch Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDone to death by slanderous tongues,\u00a0<\/em>Was the Hero that here lies.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare<\/p>\n

\u201cO Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 Psalm 120:2<\/p>\n

Slanderous tongues and wicked lips, unfortunately, have been a fact of life in our fallen world from time immemorial. In the 20th century, however, with the rise of the totalitarian \u201cisms\u201d \u2014 communism, fascism, Nazism \u2014 slander and deceit have been weaponized and honed by state-sponsored propaganda departments into lethal instruments for demonizing, then criminalizing, all opposition.<\/p>\n

Americans have taken comfort in the belief that we have a \u201cfree press\u201d not subject to the controls of government propagandists. Once upon a time that was true; the Fourth Estate, protected by the First Amendment, was a vital part of the checks and balances that protected our liberties from the danger of oppression by omnipotent government. But the media watchdogs of the Republic have become the lapdogs of the Deep State. The \u201cFake News\u201d meme has stuck to the \u201cmainstream\u201d media because it fits. It describes perfectly what the American public witnesses each and every day. More and more Americans have come to realize that the major corporate media are not merely infected with a \u201cliberal\u201d bias, but that these institutions have actually become house organs and transmission belts for the globalist insiders who are the \u201cpermanent government\u201d that runs Washington, D.C., regardless of which party of the Republican-Democrat duopoly holds the White House or Congress.<\/p>\n

The relentless, coordinated leaks and attacks against President Donald Trump by this Big Government-Big Media cabal demonstrate how perilously close America has come to being transformed into something more closely resembling Communist China, Soviet Russia, or Putin\u2019s Russia today. For the past two years, the Big Media universe \u2014\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, Associated Press, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Yahoo! News, NPR, PBS, etc. \u2014 has marched lockstep in outraged, unceasing opposition to Donald Trump, to \u201cTrumpism,\u201d and to Trump\u2019s base, that \u201cbasket of deplorables.\u201d Whatever opinions one may hold about Trump, his policies, and his style, it is clear that the political insiders and their media cohorts view him as a serious threat to their long-laid plans for global government in a New World Order, which is why they have been running in no-holds-barred, full-tilt-treason, smear-and-destroy mode since November 2016. When President Trump booted their Deep State co-conspirators out of their perches atop our intelligence agencies \u2014 James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, et al. \u2014 these serial liars and leakers were welcomed into Big Media, where they have carried on their treasonous efforts to overthrow the results of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

A new low in this Deep State propaganda effort was struck on September 5 with the publication in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0of an incredible op-ed by an anonymous \u201csenior official in the Trump administration\u201d who admitted, nay\u00a0boasted<\/em>, that he\/she, along with many colleagues, is part of the \u201cresistance\u201d sabotaging the Trump administration from within.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0op-ed, entitled \u201cI Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,\u201d carries this subtitle: \u201cI work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his article \u201cBureaucracy vs. Trump, America, Constitution,\u201d in our special \u201cDeep State\u201d issue of The New American (January 8, 2018), Alex Newman pointed out that, according to an analysis of election donations by\u00a0The Hill<\/em>, \u201csome\u00a095 percent<\/em>\u00a0of the money donated by federal employees who gave in the 2016 presidential election went to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are literally thousands of these Obama-Clinton cadres still in place, actively subverting the Trump administration\u2019s program from within, while their Marxist-Maoist, street-rioting comrades and their virulently anti-Trump allies in the media attack from without.<\/p>\n

Playing the Race Card<\/h3>\n

The most vicious lines of attack on President Trump \u2014 which the far-left and the establishment media never tire of employing against anti-communists and conservatives \u2014 are the constant charges of racism and anti-Semitism. The communist Antifa thugs chant \u201cNo Trump, No KKK, No Racist USA!\u201d as they riot and burn America\u2019s cities. The leftist punditocracy at the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, CNN, and the rest of the Fake News cabal echo these smears with a continuous flood of stories and op-eds likening Trump to Hitler and Mussolini, and label-lynching him and his followers with the usual defamatory tags: Nazi, neo-Nazi, fascist, white nationalist, white supremacist, racist, anti-Semite, xenophobe, anti-immigrant, etc.<\/p>\n

There are, of course, real people who genuinely qualify as racists, anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, fascists, etc. However, they comprise a pretty small cohort of the American population and are politically insignificant, except for providing the Left with a pretext for ad hominem attacks on those who oppose Big Government statism.<\/p>\n

The incredible volume and vehemence of the attacks on President Trump by the media and political elites are unprecedented for any White House occupant. One must go back to the 1960s to the concerted smear offensive against The John Birch Society to find anything comparable. Founded in December 1958, the organization quickly alarmed both the communists and the globalists with its education-and-action program.<\/p>\n

On February 25, 1961, the official Communist Party newspaper on the West Coast, the\u00a0People\u2019s World<\/em>, launched a Kremlin-directed attack on the upstart group in an article entitled \u201cEnter (from Stage Right) THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY.\u201d The article depicted the Birchers as a dangerous, secret, fascist society. Coming from a recognized communist publication, the\u00a0People\u2019s World<\/em>\u00a0hit piece would have had very limited impact, except for the fact that the \u201cliberal\u201d establishment media soon joined in to amplify the baseless charges.\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine was one of the first, followed by almost the entire \u201cmainstream\u201d press. An avalanche of media stories and editorials proceeded to falsely accuse the Society of being racist or anti-Semitic. Others achieved the same effect with the \u201csandwich smear\u201d \u2014 placing the Society\u2019s name in-between virulent groups such as the KKK and Nazis, in story after story, knowing that thousands of repetitions would establish this false association as fact in many minds.<\/p>\n

At the request of JBS founder Robert Welch, the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities, chaired by Senator Hugh M. Burns (a Democrat) extensively investigated these charges. To the chagrin of the Society\u2019s accusers, the 62-page report issued by the subcommittee exonerated the JBS of the scurrilous charges. Among its many findings, the investigative panel wrote: \u201cWe have not found the Society to be either a secret or a fascist organization, nor have we found the great majority of its members in California to be mentally unstable, crackpots, or hysterical about the threat of Communist subversion.\u201d Moreover, according to the report, \u201cOur investigations have disclosed no evidence of anti-Semitism on the part of anyone connected with the John Birch Society in California, and much evidence to the effect that it opposes racism in all forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, racism is a form of collectivism, which is anathema to Birchers, who are staunch individualists and believe each individual must be judged on his own merits. Leonard Patterson, a black member of the JBS and its speakers bureau, had previously been a high-level leader of the Communist Party USA. He had been trained in Moscow, Russia, where he roomed with Gus Hall, who would later become the longtime head of the CPUSA. Lola Belle Holmes was another black ex-communist who joined the Society and became a speaker, warning about the communist plans to foment racial warfare in America. Other prominent black Americans who belie the claim of Birch Society racism are author-columnist George Schuyler, Reverend Freeman Yearling, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, Reverend Steven Craft, Charles E. Smith, Alvin Smith, and former FBI undercover operatives Julia Brown and Gerald Kirk.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the anti-JBS propaganda, the Birch Society also has always welcomed Jews as members. Prominent New York businessman Alfred Kohlberg was a founding member of the National Council of the Society. The late David Eisenberg, an Arizona aeronautical engineer, was a faithful member for more than five decades, serving many of those years on the Council. Authors Samuel Blumenfeld and Georgia Gabor (a Holocaust survivor) were speakers for the Society, as was the late Avraham Shifrin, a survivor of the Soviet \u201cGulag\u201d system, the slave labor camps that were the graveyard for tens of millions of Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and victims of other nationalities. Shifrin, who eventually emigrated to Israel and wrote\u00a0The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union<\/em>, toured the United States for the Society in the 1980s, exposing the reality of communist tyranny, as well as the fact that U.S. government aid and trade policies were subsidizing and propping up the Soviet regime.<\/p>\n

The Buckley Betrayal<\/h3>\n

The incessant, malicious attacks by the communists, socialists, and their liberal media allies inflicted damage on the young Birch Society, but the most serious toll was exacted by William F. Buckley, Jr. and his neoconservative\u00a0National Review<\/em>. The mainstream media mavens, who have never been friendly to genuine conservatism, continue to regularly praise Buckley for \u201cpurging\u201d the JBS from the conservative movement in the 1960s. Buckley, a member of the glob\u00adalist Council on Foreign Relations and Yale\u2019s secretive Skull & Bones society, as well as a veteran of the CIA and a boon companion of\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0publisher Abe Rosenthal, relentlessly savaged the JBS for, supposedly, \u201cdiscrediting\u201d conservatism and anti-communism with \u201cparanoid\u201d conspiracy theory. He was rewarded by his Deep State confreres by being anointed as\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0spokesman for conservatism \u2014 as it was redefined. Buckley and\u00a0National Review<\/em>\u00a0became the prophets of \u201cBig Government conservatism,\u201d an oxymoronic philosophy that defended and embraced much of the welfare state of FDR\u2019s New Deal, JFK\u2019s New Frontier, and LBJ\u2019s Great Society. Buckleyism reoriented modern conservatism, making it more \u201cstylish\u201d and \u201crespectable\u201d and more amenable to key liberal positions and institutions (gay \u201crights,\u201d \u201cpro-choice\u201d on abortion, gun control, internationalism, the United Nations, the Federal Reserve, NAFTA, WTO, UN treaties, NATO, the European Union, etc.).<\/p>\n

Buckley, the liberals\u2019 favorite conservative, was given a plum media platform at the socialist PBS for his\u00a0Firing Line<\/em>\u00a0television program, which he used not only as a peacock throne for his own advancement, but also as a friendly forum to boost avatars of the Left such as George McGovern, Henry Kissinger, Allen Ginsberg, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Jack Kerouac, Noam Chomsky, Huey Newton, Timothy Leary, Allard Lowenstein, Hugh Hefner, and other enemies of Christian morality and limited constitutional government. But Robert Welch and the Birch Society, according to Buckley, were pariahs who must be ostracized. He and his\u00a0National Review<\/em>\u00a0acolytes later extended that ostracism to L. Brent Bozell, M.E. Bradford, Joseph Sobran, Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, and other former Buckley allies who strayed from the new \u201cconservative\u201d party line dictated by the Buckleyite enforcers of globalist group think. While left-wing organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, People for the American Way, and Media Matters attack genuine conservatives\/constitutionalists from the left flank, the Buckley faction hammers them in a pincers attack from the faux right flank.<\/p>\n

This controlled right-left pincers strategy was on full display during the 2016 election cycle, as Buckley\u2019s neoconservative heirs at\u00a0National Review<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Weekly Standard<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 William Kristol, David French, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowry, George Will, Mona Charen, Andrew McCarthy, et al. \u2014 formed the core of the \u201cNever Trump\u201d Republicans. Their smearbund attacked Trump more ferociously than even many of Trump\u2019s detractors on the Left. The fact that Trump overcame this combined left-right ambush to win the White House is an indication that a great many more Americans have become awakened to this deadly con game and are no longer willing to follow the \u201cleaders\u201d assigned by the glob\u00adalist thought cartel.<\/p>\n

Pro-globalist socialists have twisted virtually every word and action of Donald Trump to make them bad \u2014 just as they have done with the JBS for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014 \u201cDone to death by slanderous tongues,\u00a0Was the Hero that here lies.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare \u201cO Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Psalm 120:2 Slanderous tongues and wicked lips, unfortunately, have been a fact of life in our fallen world from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":7976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[237,62],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jbs","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17135,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/17135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}