The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-11-03
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

rightists have every reason to be rid
ing high.
And while the Governor is beating
his breast and painting for national
fame, Jim Battin, Republican Eastern
District Congressman, is scheduled to
address a Freedom Forum meeting
in California this month. Freedom
Forum is another of the 'front.' orr
CARNATIONS promoted by the Birchers.
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| The revival of the radical right is
frightening. Their hundreds of front
organizations and we'll organized
grass roots activities are now being
extended to secretly trained squads
ready to go into action at the whim
of God knows who. The story else
where in this issue details this move
ment.
The Missouri Farm Bureau publ
cation most recently and the eastern
Montana publication, the Vigilant
Citizen, have carried articles against
what they term movement to regis
ter all firearms in this country.
The Missouri Farm Bureau article
concludes with this paragraph:
"The rifle or shotgun is as
closely tied to the American
farmer and American history as
the pillow and the axe. Let us not
give them up There might come
time when well-aimed bullet
will be as important as those
fired at Concord and Lexington
by men who minutes earlier had
their hands on the. plow''.
In the light of developments ma
tionally and. the international mad
ness of the Russian leadership which
is giving succor to the radical right
it might be well to reprint here from
the Birch Society Blue, Book por-
tion of an article in the April 81,
VOICE of this year. s,s, ia, v.
At page Ill of the Blue Book:
eve would put our weight into
the political scales of this country
Just as fast and far as we could.
For unless we can eventually, and
in time, reverse by political action
the gradual surrender of the United
+ States to communism, the ultimate
alternative of reversal by military
uprising is fearful to contemplate.
. And at page 169: .sa
20 "Our determination to overthrow
an entrenched tyranny is the very
stuff Of which revolutions are
made.''
The John Birch Society opposes
such things as social security, for
eign aid, income taxes, American
participation in the United Nations
and the North Atlantic Treay Or
ganization. tr
Since a reversal of these things
by conventional political action
seems most unlikely, how long must
we wait for the reversal by mill
tary uprising" which they accept
as "the ultimate alternative?
Russian leadership has been quoted
S saying they would destroy this
ountry without firing a Russian bull
1t. With secretly armed groups
rganizing as se1f-styled arbiters of
ur national destiny Mr.. K. only has
keep on rafting his bombs, and
anic and hysteria will take care of
-merica, and democracy will be bur-
I'd in civil strife.
Violence and mob action are the
&c IN the hole of the radical right.
That is their time table? Putting
lelr weight into the political scales
this country just as fast and far
they can, when do they consider
ley must implement "our determine
on to overthrow an entrenched tyr
my which is "the very stuff of
hich revolutions are made?
The signs of the times are ominous. re
And these are the people who areoio
wing expressive support to a Cow
nor and Congressman. US gsIsrr