The Patriot’s Patriot: A Tribute to John F. McManus (1935–2024)
If we can judge a man by his enemies, John F. McManus deserves the highest respect and most fervent praise. Throughout his more than half-century career with The John Birch Society (JBS), he braved every epithet of the leftist lexicon: racist, antisemitic, right-wing extremist, and many others. His enemies had to use fraudulent slurs. The man himself was above reproach.
How else could the stone-throwing never have deterred him from tireless efforts to expose the powerful elites who seek to undermine American sovereignty and establish one-world government? A lesser man would have failed. On the contrary, the diabolical ad hominems only encouraged him; they meant he was over the target.
Still, none can imagine the resistance he faced and trials he endured — both overt and occult — as chief JBS spokesman, especially through the long, dry years before the internet and social media opened the floodgates of supportive alternative news sources, and Covid diminished the stigma of the CIA-coined gaslighting term “conspiracy theory.”
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