And Justice For All

What comes to mind when you hear the term morality? Doing the right thing? Doing the right thing when no one is watching? For Robert Welch, founder of our organization, morality went hand-in-hand with freedom derived from our God-given rights. He felt so deeply about morality that he wrote extensively on it, including a compilation of 20 resolutions that he published in the December 1970 Bulletin as "The John Birch Resolutions."
We continue our reprinting of them with resolution numbers 14 though 18:

14. I believe, emphatically and earnestly, in justice as an ideal which every social organization should strive to provide, through its laws and customs and attitudes, for all human beings. The only deviations from justice should be on the side of mercy, in situations where mercy is dictated by a humane public conscience.
It should be noted, as a plain and tragic historical fact, that the human race has not known any reasonable degree or dependable certainty of justice except in fortunate areas, under unusual circumstances, for comparatively short eras. But the expectation of justice is strong enough in most human beings, especially throughout their early years, to be one of the great driving forces towards the formation of a truly civilized national life. And we should do all we can to promote the fulfillment of this divinely inspired hope and ideal.

15. I shall never accept the satanic sophistry that the end justifies the means. Nor the parallel and equally fraudulent theory presented as "situation ethics."
Not all of the moral principles we are recording here have yet reached such universal and longtime acceptance that they can be regarded as absolutes. But many have, and they are not to be mocked at the whim of transgressors. Nor can any of the others be sacrificed to merely convenient excuses. For then morality ceases to be vigorously alive, and loses its value in determining the future happiness of a people.

It is quite common today to hear parents express themselves as follows. "Five years ago, what our youngsters are now doing, or many actions which they are urging us to accept as suitable conduct, would have seemed to me to be grossly immoral. Now I do not know." Such parents should face up to the reality that any such yielding on their part is a combination of blindness, weakness, and nonsense. The truth is that this confusion has been deliberately planned and contrived by evil forces to serve their own nefarious aims. What was morally wrong five years ago is just as wrong today. And every intellectually honest person knows it.

As to the end justifying the means, who is to decide what end is noble enough to justify means of what degree of foulness? Why, the person who wishes to commit the foul deeds, of course. And who is to decide what otherwise clearly immoral act is to be reassessed as morally all right under some particular circumstances, as permitted by "situation ethics"? Why, the person in those circumstances, of course, who wants to commit the immoral act.

So what happens when either escape from moral limitations is accepted or condoned? The answer is obvious. A whole system of morality rapidly disappears, and is replaced by nothing more than a miscellaneous, inconsistent, and undeterminable aggregate of individual value judgments. There simply is no morality left, and its supposed substitute is utterly useless as a guide for civilized conduct. This is the basic reason why the pretense that the end justifies the means is, and always has been, utterly indefensible; and why the moral trap known as "situation ethics" is a deliberate fraud contrived for the very purpose of destroying morality.

16. I shall not yield to any of the specific forms of immorality, which the enemies of God and man are now trying to get widely practiced and accepted, especially by our young people, as fashionable, or "modern." And I shall do my utmost to have all of these grossly immoral practices understood, resisted, and made the object of deserved contempt by young and old alike.
Most flagrant among the bestialities to which I refer are: (a) Sexual perversion;
(b) sexual promiscuity outside of marital ties;
(c) the use of narcotic drugs which seriously damage either the mind or the body (or both) of the user:
(d) the flaunting of dirty hair and dirty clothes over dirty bodies; and
(e), the stupid and sometimes criminal manifestations of rebelliousness against an inherited civilization of which these rebels do not have the slightest understanding.

17. I shall always be industrious.
The devil not only finds too much mischief for idle hands to do, but increasingly in our contemporary world he causes idle minds to turn inward on themselves. There is no time and little temptation for those who work hard on their jobs and their responsibilities to engage in vandalism, arson, or similar recreations of contemptible parasites. And for those who are objectively concerned with producing or supplying what the world needs most in goods and services and construction, and in scientific or spiritual progress, there is no opportunity for active minds to develop such subjective ills as neuroses, psychoses, and other manifestations of "mental illness." A primary cause of the problems and troubles which beset us today is the vacuum that has been left for man's (and women's) energies by the accomplishments of our forefathers in conquering so large a continent and creating so great a nation. To the fullest extent that my own age and health will permit, I shall remain occupied with the world's work to be done as long as I live. And with whatever leisure hours and spare energy I do have left, I shall be equally busy at legitimate and respectable hobbies which I have always loved, and for which I have never had sufficient time.

18. I shall try hard to preserve a sense of moderation and balance with regard to all of my appetites, desires, and expectations.
The intensity of my urge to learn, to see, to do, to understand, and to experience all that life has to offer, will always be kept under control, to the best of my ability, by all of the common sense, sound judgment, and weighing of conflicting considerations that I can muster for the occasions when they are needed.

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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, was one of Robert Welch's favorite quotes from James Anthony Froude.
Ready to Save Your Country?
Tomorrow JBS officially turns 56! JBS Founder Robert Welch held a two-day founding meeting for 11 businessmen back in 1958 in Indianapolis. The first day was used to discuss the current state of the problems with the United States and the next day was devoted to explaining the solution.

Mr. Welch published this presentation as "The Blue Book" and for many years new members were given a copy to read. Current members can download a digital copy by logging into JBS.org and looking in the Member Download section.

In "The Blue Book," Mr. Welch wrote, "We are not beginning any revolution, nor even a counter-revolution, in any technical sense; because, while we are opposing a conspiracy, we are not ourselves making use of conspiratorial methods. Yet our determination to overthrow an entrenched tyranny is the very stuff out of which revolutions are made."

It is this same "entrenched tyranny" that we continue to fight today. In fact, this "entrenched tyranny" is promoting free trade as a vehicle for more regional government that strips away various layers of American sovereignty, setting us and partnering countries on the path for a merger not unlike that of the European Union.

JBS CEO Arthur Thompson discusses how the free trade agenda harms the United States, as well as every family in it. Watch his Analysis Behind the News and get involved today!


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