Reply #7: I was one of them in the sixties [View All]

I am now 68 years old and was a dedicated Republican from 1956 until 1983. And I think this has been in the works at least since the sixties, more likely since McCarthy in the fifties. I took part in the studies, read the plans, and voted the party line for a long time. But I had reservations. After my studies with the John Birch Society in the sixties, and the attitude of my political "brethren" when Kennedy was killed, it still took me twenty years to truly believe that such fringe thinking could come to manipulate, direct, control and destroy what was my party. I didn't think they could do it. But they did, they have and they are.

In 1983 I felt it would destroy my country. It is doing so. If we, the only viable opposition do not become sufficiently activist in getting out the vote, they will be unstoppable--if it isn't already too late, with Ashcroft and his "patriot act."

Keep up the good fight.