I remember reading the little 1/2 page pamphlets from the John Birch Society. At the time I thought they were just some crazy old men who were just too simple to understand a new and modern world. I repent from my ignorance as I now watch the country I love rapidly slipping into financial impotence and owing the future to communist governments. Those old men had it figured out.
Here is an article published by one of the most influential non-governmental organizations that Robert Welch warns of concerning sovereignty in their own words:
"And the fact that we are at war is to be the excuse and the means for suppressing all opposition to such policies, for brutally tightening the arbitrary enforcement of government regulations, for making all opposition to government policies synonymous with treason, for ruthlessly liquidating all resistance, and for irresistibly fastening the shackles of the Police State around the bodies and over the lives of all the American people." -- Robert Welch
On the war machine note I am reading a book about the American Revolution. In it reference is made to how the colonists looked back over the past several centuries of European history, and all they could see was the efforts of government to build up power to extract money from the people to wage wars. The colonists obviously thought that was one of the many flaws of their government. Are we back at square one doing the same thing?