Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
For his part, Gary Allen himself was a member of, and official shill for, the John Birch Society (JBS), being arguably one of America's most unapologetically extreme right-wing groups (still 'Johnny Walker' by the way). This organization did much to keep the anti-Communist fervour alive throughout the halcyon daze (sic) of the Cold War. The JBS -- satirised and immortalised hilariously in an early Bob Dylan song called Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues -- was in essence an organization founded on - and sustained by - a conspiracy theory; that being there were Commies under every second bed in America waiting to rise up and consign American democracy and freedom to the trash bin of history.
To the extent this was ever true and/or whether the communist movement as a whole could ever have achieved its purported aims is now itself a conspiracy theory we might safely debunk. Along with the aforesaid establishment of the Federal Reserve - and with it the unconditional, and to all intents and purposes, irreversible relinquishment of control of the financial system to private interests - the faux ideological divide between East and West and/or right and left was itself arguably one of history's greatest, and most irrefutable conspiratorial constructions. Herein we're not talking strictly from the point of view of the Bolsheviks and assorted godless 'communistas' that followed in their wake. This "divide" helped create the so-named military-industrial complex, one that has since morphed into the even more monolithic, malevolent National Security and Surveillance State.
As for the Birchers and their ilk, they were at the forefront of putting meat on the bones of that creation. To illustrate, the Birchers didn't just disagree with the aims and objectives of the Civil Rights movement; such was the depth of their paranoia they even promoted it as being a front for the Comintern. This again is another mythical conspiratorial construct that a never-ending conga line of politicians dined out on throughout the movement's heyday, and is also itself one we can now safely consign to said "dustbin".
One of the things Allen's book did do was highlight the role in geopolitical affairs of various organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. The raison d'Ã ªtre of these and assorted affiliate organizations would be well known to fans of Alex Jones himself, for better or worse, the 'go-to' man on all things conspiratorial, especially so when it comes to the "globalist agenda". So in this respect, Allen's book still was ahead of its time. He did indeed alert people to the powerful forces at play in world politics and world economics, especially that of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers and the Wall Street/City of London financial cabals. We're talking here the New World Order sh*t!
However these beliefs and ideas are now as much a part of the thinking of those on the left as they are on the right. Yet it's not as if Allen's warnings were that well heeded, as these forces are more powerful and entrenched - and indeed, less accountable - than ever, some four-plus decades after his book was published. This is despite the reality that more and more people - again interestingly right across the political spectrum - are now much more aware of the respective and collective power and influence of such organisations. And regardless of what people think of Jones and his self-styled "Infowars" crusade, there is no doubting his appeal crosses notional political and even ideological lines of demarcation.
This is particularly the case with 9/11, another of the great conspiracy theories that from the off has appealed to both people up and down and across the political spectrum. And one might opine for good reason. As for the 9/11 Thing being an integral and undeniable part of the conspiratorial zeitgeist, Webster G Tarpley's 911: Synthetic Terror -- Made in the USA, states the following:
"... [O]bjections to the 9/11 official version are often dismissed as conspiracy theories. Supporters of the official version use this as a term of contempt, even though it is clear that to label a point of view as a conspiracy theory is in no way to refute it...".
Tarpley leaves us in no doubt as to where he stands. In his view the 'accusation' or 'insult' of conspiracy theory is not only "demagogical", it is also "intellectually dishonest", since any official version represents a conspiracy theory of a "peculiarly fantastic type". For those of us at least skeptical if not indeed dismissive of the official 9/11 narrative, this is something that's easily digestible. Tarpley further adds,
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