Why We Fight
The forces seeking absolute despotism over free men did not disband with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Similar to Thomas Jefferson and the founders of our country, Robert Welch and the founders of The John Birch Society saw a long chain of abuses and usurpations which they believed "evinced a design." They had lived through a series of events, pursuing invariably the same object, that could not all be dismissed as "unintended consequences" or "bad decisions." Believing that the object still being pursued is absolute despotism, The John Birch Society has always called the design behind this objective - a conspiracy.
Who We Fight
Enlightened socialists and other self-proclaimed benevolent dictators.
As many despots and their surrounding mandarins have inflated notions of their personal importance, at times they cannot help but to boast of their power and success. The John Birch Society offers the statements below as proof that there is clearly a design which continues to motivate the world's would-be overlords.
The bottom line is that it's not a matter of whether a design exists. It's a matter of whether you believe those attempting to execut it are using noble means to achieve what they have determined is best for the common good.
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Edward Mandell House |
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 "Through all the rough-and-tumble of Texas politics House sustained a vision of ideal government. In 1911 he took interest in finding a candidate for the presidential election of 1912 who could be depended on to work for the causes in which he believed. These causes he had endorsed by writing an anonymous novel, Philip Dru: Administrator, in which his fictitious hero, making himself a benign dictator, abolished protective tariffs, set up a system for social security, and arranged for the representation of labor on corporate boards and for a sharing of profits among the workers. Moreover, he imposed a graduated income tax, and developed a banking system that presaged the Federal Reserve; and he united the Great Powers of the world in a league for collective security"
-- From The Historical Signifigance of the House Diary, Yale Library
The "ideal government" described in Philip Dru, was "socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx" with "a spiritual leavening." Woodrow Wilson, the presidential candidate of 1912 who House helped bring to power, refered to House as his "alter ego." After the failure of the US to join other "Great Powers" in the League of Nations, House went on to become a founder of the Council of Foreign Relations. |
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Carroll Quigley |
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 "There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Group has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, of any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it...but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
-- Professor Carroll Quigley (a mentor of Bill Clinton), page 950 of his book Tragedy and Hope |
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
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 If socialism (i.e., the ownership by the state of all significant means of production) is to preserve democracy, it must be brought about step by step in a way which will not disrupt the fabric of custom, law, and mutual confidence upon which personal rights depend. This is, the transistion must be piecemeal; it must be parliamentary; it must respect civil liberties and due process of law...The classical argument against gradualism was that the capitalist ruling class would resort to violence rather than surrender its prerogatives...The British experience is illuminating in this respect, and the American experience is not uninstructive. There is no sign in either nation that the capitalists are putting up a really determined fight...
There seems no inherent obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United States through a series of New Deals...the next depression will certainly mean a vast expansion of Government ownership and control.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from The Future of Socialism - 1947 May/June issue of Partisan Review as entered in the Congressional Record of Sept. 26, 1961 by John Rousselot |
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David Rockefeller |
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 "For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure one world, if you will. If thats the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
-- David Rockefeller, page 405 of the paperback edition of his book 'Memoirs'
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