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What About the Constitution?
By: jbs editor
January 4, 2008
John F. McManus, President of the John Birch Society and Publisher of The New American.
Speech to the Liberty Forum, January 6, 2008, Nashua, New Hampshire



My name is John McManus and I approve this message.
Now that might sound like I’m running for some office. I’m not. Did you know that the British never run for office; they stand for one. Being of Irish heritage, I hate to admit that the British may have something there.

Some years ago, a visitor from England came across the ocean to see for himself what The John Birch Society was all about. At the time, we were headquartered in Massachusetts, now in Wisconsin. Over two days, several of us showed this man all about the Society and he was very impressed. Then I took him to Lexington and Concord to visit the American shrines where the breakaway from Mother England began. It was most enjoyable to tell this Englishman about John Hancock, Sam Adams and the forcible resistance to the Redcoats.

As you’re probably aware, over 800 British regulars had marched all the way from Boston in order to seize the guns of the farmers. Back then, virtually every American knew that anyone who wanted to take their gun wanted to take their liberty. So I made sure my British acquaintance knew what the King’s men were after. It was more fun telling a Brit than telling any American. Soon, he smiled and started to refer to me as a “colonist.â€