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COMING IN FROM THE COLD

This is a very good history of the bagger roots.

Confounding Fathers
The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.

I have talked about my own experience with the right wingers.

When I was on active duty in the Army at Fort Lee VA, there was an active cell of the John Birch Party. Birch was an ex-CIA agent missionary who was killed by the Chinese Reds. The first casualty of the Third World War.

I remember going to an evening lecture on base by a captain who was a member. He was a little too rabid for me and I never went back but, over the years, I kept in touch with the activities of this outfit.

A General was discharged because he was the leader of these illegal military cells. Walker. It was similar to the recent coercion of military to listen to evangelical christian rants.

The Birch founder, the candy guy Welch, was very active in New England and they had groups set up where we lived.

I knew a few people who went. They were all of the same emotional pitch as the stereotypical tea partyist. Older with a lot of resentments, often ex-military and prone to see conspiracies everywhere.

Beck, the new voice of the fringe has taken it all a step back and goes to the perfidy of Woodrow Wilson, the master of deceit who started all this socialist takeover stuff. In this light Woody predates the Marxists in Russia.

Anyway. More tea. No matter how you smoke it there is the same blend of craziness and just a tad of history thrown in to make it seem credible to the disaffected.

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