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There is one poster around here that goes into a legendary anti-JBS rant whenever their name shows up....

Talks about lawsuits bla bla bla.

That version of the JBS is totally alien to the folks that I knew back in the day in Belmont, MA.

Those folks were intelligent, courteous and friendly—took time out of their schedule to share information with the very young me. They were happy to answer any questions and have an open discussion on any topic.

I immediately noticed the contrast with the leftist professors on campus who were self-righteous jerks who tolerated no dissent from their views.

So—I always give the JBS the benefit of the doubt when they are under attack.

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Go back a few decades, and I was a neighbor of the Boston chapter President of JBS. He majored in English, and should have been much more prosperous had he taken different employment. "Bob" (long deceased) lived in Belmont, MA.

Robert Philbrick Clark was a "Wikipedia" of The Constitution, and extremely worthy to have led the Boston chapter.

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“Those folks were intelligent, courteous and friendly”

The point is that “intelligent, courteous and friendly” people can, nevertheless, be gravely mistaken in their views.

That is why even J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI concluded that the Birch Society was a “right wing extremist” group that did NOT deal in facts or reality.