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The John Birch Society (JBS) is an advocacy group supporting anti-communism and limited government.〔(Principles of the John Birch Society, 1962. ) "We believe that a Constitutional Republic, such as our Founding Fathers gave us, is probably the best of all forms of government"〕〔(LectLaw ) "We believe that our system of government, a Constitutional Republic, is the finest yet developed by man."〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The JBS Mission )〕〔 〕〔 〕 It has been described as radical right.〔〔Webb, Clive. ''Rabble rousers: the American far right in the civil rights era''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010 ISBN 0820327646 p. 10〕 Businessman and founder Robert W. Welch, Jr. (1899–1985) developed an organizational infrastructure in 1958 of chapters nationwide. Its main activity in the 1960s, said Rick Perlstein, "comprised monthly meetings to watch a film by Welch, followed by writing postcards or letters to government officials linking specific policies to the Communist menace". After an early rise in membership and influence, efforts by people such as conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. and ''National Review'' led the JBS to be identified as a fringe element of the conservative movement, mostly in fear of the radicalization of the American right. Originally based in Belmont, Massachusetts, it is now headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, with local chapters throughout the United States. The organization owns American Opinion Publishing, which publishes ''The New American''. ==Values== The organization supports limited government and opposes wealth redistribution and economic interventionism. It opposes collectivism, totalitarianism, and communism. It opposes socialism as well, which it asserts is infiltrating U.S. governmental administration. In a 1983 edition of ''Crossfire'', Congressman Larry McDonald (D-Georgia), then its newly appointed president, characterized the society as belonging to the Old Right rather than the New Right. The society opposed the 1960s civil rights movement and claimed the movement had Communists in important positions. In the latter half of 1965, the JBS produced a flyer titled "What's Wrong With Civil Rights?", which was used as a newspaper advertisement. In the piece, one of the answers was: "For the civil rights movement in the United States, with all of its growing agitation and riots and bitterness, and insidious steps towards the appearance of a civil war, has not been ''infiltrated'' by the Communists, as you now frequently hear. It has been deliberately and almost wholly ''created'' by the Communists patiently building up to this present stage for more than forty years." The society opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming it violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and overstepped individual states' rights to enact laws regarding civil rights. The society opposes "one world government", and it has an immigration reduction view on immigration reform. It opposes the United Nations, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and other free trade agreements. They argue the U.S. Constitution has been devalued in favor of political and economic globalization, and that this alleged trend is not accidental. It cited the existence of the former Security and Prosperity Partnership as evidence of a push towards a North American Union. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Birch Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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