Liberty lovers lost a fighter with the death of former John Birch Society president

John F. McManus (Courtesy photo)

To the editor:

In the empty minds of generations of youth, the Marxist heroes like the Beatles, Fidel Castro and the freakish rock revolution of pot, rock and revolution filled their minds with the lie that there is no God. John Birch is a hero that American youth were not allowed to know. Another great American Patriot, my friend Jack, suffered the same silence.

John F. McManus (Jack), former President Emeritus of The John Birch Society, passed into eternity on March 4th, 2024. I first heard Jack speak at Newburyport, Mass., Town Hall in the fall of 1968. I was mesmerized with his brilliant evaluation and exposure of the fraudulent portrayal of the true nature of political and economic systems. He revealed, with candid eternal truths, the difference between the American Republican form of government ("Americanism") and all other forms of governmental systems. From that encounter, Jack became my mentor in my now 55 plus year war to help expose the powerful worldwide conspiracy to destroy American independence by means of promoting United Nations ("UN") world government. Sadly, many American citizens lead the way to betray our liberty by passively supporting the UN Agenda through their inaction.

If history books for posterity ever ring true, Jack will be considered one of the greatest Americans of his time. He could be honored equally with our founding generation, men inspired by almighty God, to give us our biblical based blessings of liberty. Jack was Americanism's greatest teacher. Jack taught that the founding premise of Americanism was antithetical to of all other governmental systems in history. Jack echoed Jefferson's powerful challenge to all the despots of his era and continues to resonate through the halls of history. Jack produced a two and a half hour presentation called "Overview of Our World" that graduated to a powerful 29 minute DVD, in the 1990s, called "Overview of America" detailing the key to Americanism's success: moral character and limited government. Self-limitation in hand with governmental-limitation produces the only lasting deterrent to totalitarianism. The core of our liberty once again goes back to the Declaration of Independence. The words of the birth of a nation never before contained: "We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights." For the first time God was given credit as the author of all liberty. No other government described itself, as Jefferson so eloquently did, with a challenge to that generation and generations throughout all posterity, that governments are instituted among men to secure the God given rights of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Jack's work had a combined reach of hundreds of millions of American's starving for the truth about the ever-increasing loss of their liberty.

The 89-year life of John F. McManus was rooted in historical roots of of Americanism. Our Founding generation poured out their lives, fortunes and sacred honors. Jack lived their creed through his John Birch Society leadership. His beloved Birch Society is named for a martyred Baptist Christian Missionary, Captain John Birch. Birch served God from 1940 to Pearl Harbor preaching Christ to the Chinese people. Thereafter, he became an U.S. Army intelligence officer serving his country coordinating America's war against Japan on the Chinese mainland. Read the full story of coverup and brutal murder of John Birch by Robert Welch called "The Life Of John Birch." For as Welch prophetically wrote finalizing his book: 'With his death and in his death the battle lines were drawn in a struggle from which either Communism or Christian-style civilization must emerge with one completely triumphant and the other completely destroyed".

John Birch was the first American to die in our current war for liberty. The battlefield has shifted from soldiers and guns to worldwide government encroachment orchestrated by the UN. John McManus inspired myself and millions of others to give their lives fighting this war in the public arena. Marxism has made its mission to boxout Christ and his followers because liberty hinges on a people self-governed by moral character. John McManus taught America its long hidden true identity more than any man. If we are to win this battle that John Birch and Jack gave their lives for we must invite Jesus Christ back into the American system of government. Once there were men like John F. McManus; may God give us more like him.

- Russ Payne,

Merrimack