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Showing Original Post only (View all)When calling the teabaggers "Birchers," remember we have quite a few left wing Birchers here [View all]
I didn't include their stuff about 9/11 and usually avoid the 9/11 conspiracy stuff here but probably some who agree with them on that too.
The first is from wiki the last three straight from their own website.
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.
The powers of Congress are described in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, and the creation of a central bank like the Federal Reserve is not listed as one of those powers. The Federal Reserve is charged with protecting the value of the dollar through managing our nation's monetary policy. However, since its inception in 1913, the dollar has lost 95 percent of its value under the Federal Reserve's monetary oversight. The John Birch Society advocates abolishing the Federal Reserve.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1801, I deem the essential principles of our government [to be] peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. America would do well to heed this advice by abandoning its current role as global policeman and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.
The JBS views trade agreements as entangling alliances that should be avoided. America should trade with all friendly nations but not enter into any regulated trade agreements including free trade agreements. If trade is to be free, it doesnt need to be regulated by thousands of pages of binding arbitration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society