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Less Government, Individual Responsibility, And — With God's Help — A Better World
We Can Save Our Nation!by John F. McManus
When Robert Welch founded the John Birch Society on December 9, 1958, he summed up to a small group of friends and associates just what needed to be done: "All we must find and build and use, to win, is sufficient understanding. Let's create that understanding and build that resistance, with everything mortal men can put into the effort — while there still is time."Mr. Welch realized that no conspiracy can withstand exposure, and he continued to his dying day to encourage good Americans to diligently light the way for their friends, neighbors, and loved ones with the truth — and, above all, not to give up.
It is certainly not difficult to find Americans who have given up. Their conclusion is that the enemy is too powerful, too strategically placed, too well-heeled, or too close to its ultimate objective of world domination. They have lost hope and allowed discouragement to take control. Often that lost hope is a consequence of bad information — such as the myth that the country is already occupied by countless thousands of UN/Soviet troops, our freedoms have already been lost, etc.
What these discouraged patriots overlook, of course, is that we still possess freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press — including the freedom to publish a magazine such as this. We are still able to sound the alarm with our voices, our pens, our resources, and our influence. We can still effect change in government through the simple process of informing our fellow citizens. In short, we can still use our freedoms to save our freedoms. if it were too late, such freedoms would no longer be permitted and the conspirators for global control would no longer have to pretend.
As we continue to reach out to fellow Americans to create needed understanding and build effective resistance to conspiratorial designs, we must realize that there are many reasons for hope that our efforts will bear good fruit. Here are five:
· History is made by the dedicated few. Small groups of activists will always succeed against disorganized and apathetic majorities. No one knows this better than the conspirators themselves. It won't take millions to stop them, but it will take more than are involved today. If everyone who is aware helps another to understand; if the newly informed also awaken others; and if many of them come together in an effective action program to expose the Conspiracy, the tide of battle will be turned.
· There are more than enough good people in our nation to accomplish this goal. The struggle which consumes our attention is, at its core, a contest between good and evil, light and darkness, truth and falsehood. Robert Welch, who always chose his words very carefully, often referred to our adversary as a "satanic and diabolic conspiracy." We agree. Locating enough good people and energizing them with this fundamental assessment will lead to victory.
· No one wants to be a slave. It is fairly easy to demonstrate that a continuation of present U.S. policies will in the not-too-distant future lead all but the conspirators themselves into political and economic slavery. We are promoting freedom and responsibility; they are promoting abject slavery. Clearly, we have a distinct edge in the battle for the minds of men — if we use it.
· We have truth on our side! Conspirators must always work in the shadows and hide their goals in a blizzard of lies, deceit, and confusion. But it only takes a pound of truth to overcome a ton of falsehood. Our mission of bringing truth to light is much easier than constantly spreading the lies needed to deceive men into choosing their own slavery.
· Hope for victory exists because the enemy is a conspiracy. We are not being victimized by the unfolding of unchangeable historical forces. That's Marxist determinism. If some can make history for evil purposes, others can make history for good and decent ends. Instead of wringing our hands and lamenting that nothing can be done, we can shape history our way by demanding that principles guide this nation's actions and by exposing and routing the most foul and determined conspiracy mankind has ever experienced.
If we hope to succeed and to receive God's blessing for our efforts, everything we do must be based on morality. As Robert Welch noted in 1964: "We must oppose secrecy with openhandedness. We must publish to the world our beliefs, our purposes, and our methods as fully as the collectivists conceal and disguise their own. We must oppose conspiracy, not with counter conspiracy, but with exposure, justice, and education. We must oppose falsehoods with truth; blasphemy with reverence; foul means with good means; immorality and amorality with more spiritual faith and dedication; rootlessness and chaos with tradition and stability; relativity with absolutes; pragmatism with deeper purposes; hedonism with a more responsible pursuit of happiness; cruelty with compassion; and hatred with love."
Every element of what Mr. Welch said undergirds the great organization he founded, the John Birch Society. Education is the key to returning this world gone crazy to sanity once again. Men and women of good conscience and humane ideals are cordially invited to join us in this monumental endeavor (see page 70).
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