I have no idea if he is/was a card carrying Bircher but his rhetoric is basically the cold war anti-communist conspiracy paranoia of the jbs. Don't be fooled by the innocuous looking jargon you'll find today on their website. They are basically a corporate financed far right group which sees: "collectivism" as the main threat to Western Civilization, and liberals as "secret communist traitors" who provide cover for the gradual process of collectivism, with the ultimate goal of replacing the nations of western civilization with one-world socialist government. "There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general," he wrote, "but Communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Wow so you're a red Birch Baiter!