John Birch SocietyThe documentary offers clear and convincing evidence to show even the most skeptical person that there is , indeed , a shadowy cabal of globalists hoping to install themselves as masters of humanity . The New American , 9242015 So , the New American , which is the journal published by the ultra right wing John Birch Society , really , really loves this film , so it should fit right in with Bernie Sanders and the left . Am I right ? Yes ? The John Birch SocietyValuesThe organization supports limited government and opposes wealth redistribution and economic interventionism . It opposes collectivism , totalitarianism , and communism . It opposes socialism as well , which it asserts is infiltrating U . S . governmental administration . In a 1983 edition of Crossfire , Congressman Larry McDonald DGeorgia , then its newly appointed president , characterized the society as belonging to the Old Right rather than the New Right . The society opposed the 1960 s civil rights movement and claimed the movement had Communists in important positions . In the latter half of 1965 , the JBS produced a flyer titled What ' s Wrong With Civil Rights ? , which was used as a newspaper advertisement . In the piece , one of the answers was For the civil rights movement in the United States , with all of its growing agitation and riots and bitterness , and insidious steps towards the appearance of a civil war , has not been infiltrated by the Communists , as you now frequently hear . It has been deliberately and almost wholly created by the Communists patiently building up to this present stage for more than forty years . The society opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , claiming it violated the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and overstepped individual states ' rights to enact laws regarding civil rights . The society opposes one world government , and it has an immigration reduction view on immigration reform . It opposes the United Nations , the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA , the Central America Free Trade Agreement CAFTA , the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA , and other free trade agreements . They argue the U . S . Constitution has been devalued in favor of political and economic globalization , and that this alleged trend is not accidental . It cited the existence of the former Security and Prosperity Partnership as evidence of a push towards a North American Union . CharacterizationsThe society has been described as ultraconservative , far right , and extremist . Other sources consider the society part of the patriot movement . The Southern Poverty Law Center , for example , lists the society as a ' Patriot ' Group .