From: roten@cuba.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten)
Subject: Re: Insiders 1 of 4
Organization: The COBE project ???  Organized ?!?!?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:32:37 GMT
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In article <C1C1K3.826@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu 
(Chunde Shi) writes:

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>From: lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe)
>Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
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>Subject: Repost: "The Insiders" part 1 of 4
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Yeeesh !  Chunde, I've got to warn you .. I grew up in a political 
culture _SATURATED_ with conspiracy theories.  Hence, I tend to 
automatically discredit a post from the alt.conspiracy group ...  

But things get better later .. :-)  

>=============================================================================
>    File Name:      ins1of4.txt
>    Description:    BOOK: "The Insiders" - part 1 of 4


>    Original copies of this material may be ordered from:

>		       The John Birch Society
                       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>		       Post Office Box 8040
>		       Appleton, Wisconsin 54913
>		       (414) 749-3780

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!                                                                 !
!      The _JOHN_ _BIRCH_ _SOCIETY_ !!  GAAAAACCCCKKK !!!!        !
!      There went my breakfast ...  :-)  ;->                      !
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Chunde, I don't really know what point you are trying to make here.  
Maybe you feel SCC netters should know about some dark conspiracy inside 
the American government.  Or, perhaps you think the opinions cited in 
the article you reposted are typical of American political thinking.  I 
really don't know.  

But I _GREW_ _UP_ during a period when the John Birch Society was much 
more active than it is today.  And even the politcal conservatives of 
that time discounted them for the lunatics they so obviously were (and, 
clearly, still are).  And the liberals just laughed at them.  The 
Republicans avoided them like the plague when anything serious was in 
the works.  And the Democrats would not touch them with a ten-foot pole.  

American politics has these marginal groups .. the so-called 'lunatic 
fringe'.  They tend to use conspiracy theories a _LOT_, since they never 
have hard facts to back up their case.  In fact, the use of conspiracy 
theories is one of the things that should put anyone's political bogosity 
detector into high gear.  

From the look of things, the Bircher's paranoia has not changed much in 
the last 30 years.  Put them in the same category as Lyndon LaRouche's 
little band of nuts .... candidiates for the political equivalent of a 
padded cell in an asylum.  In fact, thinking about it, that is where 
they are already.  :-) :-)  They are so marginalized, and have such low 
credibility outside their own little cults that their influence on _ANY_ 
political decision is zero, or maybe even less.  :-)  :-)  

Take my advice .. don't waste your time with _BIGTIME_ _LOSERS_ like the 
John Birch Society.  They haven't a clue in this world, and never did.  
In fact, they don't even know what a clue _looks_ _like_ ...  And 99.9% 
of the American public and power structure has known it for decades.  

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