[Source] One evening back in the mid-1960s, my father and I were listening to a radio show called The Joe Pyne Show. Pyne was interviewing a guest who had written a book exposing the dark side of the FBI. Pyne brutally ridiculed the guest, who started suggesting that Pyne must be working with the FBI. Pyne succeeded in making the guest look totally paranoid—that was the impression the show left on my father and me. However, years later, it was revealed that the FBI had been closely working with Pyne, and had briefed him on what to say—the entire interview had been a setup to discredit the guest and his book.
I have received information from sources within The John Birch Society that I am now banned from speaking at JBS events. If they could have, they would have probably expelled me from the Society, but since I haven’t been a member for ages, they couldn’t do that. So the speaking ban was the next best thing. This is no loss for me, since I have only spoken once at Birch Society events in the last 13 years. However, it does call for some discussion.
The ban was the result of a series of events that I described in a recent news post.
On July 8, I was interviewed by Alex Newman—at the request of his Operations Manager—to discuss the fall of Shah of Iran in 1979.
The interview went well, but subsequently the Operations Manager informed me that the Birch Society’s “editorial team” had censored the interview due to its “fixation on the Jews.”
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