Posted on 11/23/2013 3:19:50 AM PST by defeat_the_dem_igods
You’re wasting your time sending me these diatribes.
I’m already aware that you’re as crazy as Captain Ahab and that the John Birch Society is your Moby Dick.
No, political extremism is my “Moby Dick”. The JBS just happens to be one exceptionally good example of how many ordinary decent intelligent and well-meaning people nevertheless succumb to extremist propaganda and, arguably, the JBS has been the best organized and most successful, longest-existing and best financed extremist organization in our modern history.
In that sense, I join such other notable “Captain Ahabs” as Sen. Barry Goldwater, Sen. John Tower, Russell Kirk, James Burnham, Frank Meyer, Herbert Philbrick, J. Edgar Hoover, Cong. Walter Judd, and many others in criticizing the JBS and those who support/endorse such extremist groups.
Back in the 1960s Lazar as a teenager was a liberal--if not a radical--and would have political discussions with a police relative over the issues of police brutality, drug use, and police corruption.[4] One day he obtained a copy of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin from the same relative containing J. Edgar Hoover’s comments on a particular subversive organization. Lazar decided to write a letter to the editor of his local paper concerning Hoover’s remarks. Lazar took offense when a member of the John Birch Society challenge his letter and replied, "Is it just coincidence that Ernie’s words so arty, sound just like the Communist Party?"[5]
He soon began his lifelong research--some calling it an obsession--on the John Birch Society and by 1980 started requesting files from the FBI seeking to obtain personal information on members of the organization. He eventually obtained the entire file on the John Birch Society, all 12,000 pages from the FBI. From there he branched off into investigating other conservative and nationalist organizations.
I guess your ultimate points are that
(1) nobody should ever research anything on an ongoing basis or they are “obsessed” and
(2) bigoted websites are our best sources of information
“(2) bigoted websites are our best sources of information”
Nice try. You’re a kook. Own it.
Pelham’s definition of “kook”:
Anybody who presents FACTUAL information which Pelham cannot refute.
Did you get bored hanging out with the other kooks over at DU?
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