The John Birch Society is a wonderful organization (run by among others very good Catholics like President John F. McManus and Editor Gary Benoit).  Buckley on the other hand was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, etc. Buckley also said white supremacy should continue in the south because blacks were too uncivilized for rights. Sorry, but Michael Sean Winters has it exactly backwards here.