Chris Parker goes toe-to-toe with Tea Party (Compares to KKK and the John Birch Society)

Scarlet & Black, The Grinnell College Newspaper ^ | November 14, 2014 | Jon Sundby

[Sherman Logan]

I think I would question the motives of anyone wanting to rule a country much less the world.

I quite agree.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Chris Parker goes toe-to-toe with Tea Party

I didn't notice any representative from any Tea Party organization referenced. How can one go "toe to toe" when the opponent is in absentia? It looks more like the little radical was lobbing stink bombs from afar, maybe because he is not equipped to deal with any objections. Seems likely.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s actually already happening. When those on public assistance can afford a cellular phone, indoor plumbing, heating & air conditioning, big screen televisions, an automobile, fashionable clothes & shoes, the Internet & cable/satellite service, tasty & nutritious food, education, leisure time, vacations and a plethora of things that royalty, nobility and tycoons could scarcely dream of in centuries past, we’ve arrived at your destination.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Reason 1,234 why I haven’t joined MENSA.

[Sherman Logan]

Why I did not renew my membership.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve heard from several people that it’s becoming a nerd prom and swinger’s hook-up.

[searching123]

If you think there is “nothing wrong with the Birch Society” then you must never have read the denunciations of the JBS written by prominent conservatives.

Robert Welch and the JBS declared since the inception of the JBS in 1958 that our nation’s most indisputably knowledgeable, authoritative and reliable source of factual information about the communist movement in the U.S. (and about internal security matters generally) was J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

So, it should be particularly significant to JBS admirers to learn that Hoover’s FBI falsified virtually every major JBS argument.

Hoover observed that:

“I think the extreme right is just as much a danger to the freedom of this country as the extreme left. There are groups, organizations, and individuals on the extreme right who make these very violent statements, allegations that General Eisenhower was a Communist, disparaging references to the Chief Justice and at the other end of the spectrum you have these leftists who make wild statements charging almost anybody with being a Fascist or belonging to some of these so-called extreme right societies.”

“Now, I have felt, and I have said publicly in speeches, that they are just as much a danger, at either end of the spectrum. They don’t deal with facts. Anybody who will allege that General Eisenhower was a Communist agent, has something wrong with him.” [Warren Commission testimony, Volume 5, page 101)

AND

“Personally, I have little respect for the head of the John Birch Society since he linked the names of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the late John Foster Dulles, and former CIA Director Allen Dulles with communism.” [HQ 62-104401, #2381, 11/20/64 and HQ 100-114578-152, October 22, 1965 and 62-104401, #3865, 3/24/72.]

AND in 1962 and 1963, Hoover declared that:

“The Communist Party in this country has attempted to infiltrate and subvert every segment of our society, but its continuing efforts have not achieved success of any substance. Too many self-styled experts on communism, without valid credentials and without any access whatsoever to classified factual data regarding the inner workings of the conspiracy, have engaged in rumor-mongering and hurling false and wholly unsubstantiated allegations against persons whose views differ from their own. This is dangerous business. It is divisive and unintelligent, and makes more difficult the task of the professional investigator.” [Hoover statement in February 5, 1962 letter to Mrs. W.R. Brown of Bountiful Utah; also published as letter-to-editor in Tri-Cities Daily newspaper of Sheffield, Alabama on Sunday March 31, 1963. Copy of Hoover letter in FBI HQ file 94-1-369, serial #1676]

[uncitizen]

The media and academia are working overtime trying to discredit the TEA Party. They’re scared shirtless of us. All they can do to counter the movement is to make weak people fearful of joining us. Which is fine. We don’t want weaklings among us anyway.