Gary Allen; Larry Abraham; John G Schmitz

None Dare Call It Conspiracy (Paperback)

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09/10/2020
Read this if you value your freedoms
Exposes the frightening not-so-silent epidemic of socialism in America-- this revolution has been going on for several decades and only now is rearing its ugly head
Andrew

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01/02/2020
None Dare Call it Conspiracy is an over-sized political conspiracy pamphlet penned by John Birch Society spokesperson Gary Allen. Allen was a speechwriter for segregationist George Wallace when Nixon defeated him in 1968, and apparently Allen never got over it. The book is designed as a handout (hence the four million copies printed) in a pyramid-scheme hook that has the author recommending handing out copies of his own book as one of the four ways to stop the conspiracy. The conspiracy, of course, involves socialism. Like most Republicans, Allen was a huge fan of the McCarthy era, and keeping the Red Scare alive is an important enough aspect of demonizing socialist policies that Allen's big pitch is that all Communist conspiracies are actually the secret plan of international socialist bankers to destroy America and the Constitution to make way for a NEW WORLD ORDER. Much of what now constitutes the disinformation strategies of modern right-wing politicians and media is inherent in this slim volume, and try not to feel too depressed when you discover that the tactics - as well as talking points - haven't changed in the fifty years since its publication. Allen spends a few chapters building up all of the straw man arguments needed to smooth over the holes in his logic, At the core of Allen's producerism fever-dream is the real-life conspiracies that generally involve people with excessive money and/or power doing everything they can think of to amass more wealth/power, but that core is layered with thousands of imaginary lines drawn by Allen to illustrate a world where everything happening in history that he doesn't agree with is actually an intentional act on behalf of a global socialist New World Order conspiracy. From a scholarly standpoint, the book is a mess. Allen purposely leaves out any information that contradicts his narrow world view, pulls numbers and supposed universal truths out of thin air with no supporting data, spends way too much time making up what he believes average people think without actually asking them, and repeatedly makes tenuous connections between things then immediately treats it as solid fact. In the first chapter, Allen states that there are two schools of historian, those who think all historical events are ransom coincidences, and those who think all historical events are planned and orchestrated. This statement is absurd, but believing you only have two choices of how to examine history is the only way Allen has a chance of making you believe his version of the world is anything less than a paranoid delusion. Picking apart even a few of the inconsistencies and inanities sprinkled throughout this book would take more time and space than I'm willing to commit, and if you're a Trump supporter or Alex Jones fan, you're not going to listen to reason anyway. I recommend this book only to fans of bizarre conspiracy theories, and those who actually believe in a global conspiracy of international socialist bankers, as those are the only two types of people that might derive any enjoyment from it.
smichaelwilson
  • 5.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    09/10/2020
    Read this if you value your freedoms
    Exposes the frightening not-so-silent epidemic of socialism in America-- this revolution has been going on for several decades and only now is rearing its ugly head
    Andrew
  • 1.00 out of 5 stars review
    Verified Purchaser
    01/02/2020
    None Dare Call it Conspiracy is an over-sized political conspiracy pamphlet penned by John Birch Society spokesperson Gary Allen. Allen was a speechwriter for segregationist George Wallace when Nixon defeated him in 1968, and apparently Allen never got over it. The book is designed as a handout (hence the four million copies printed) in a pyramid-scheme hook that has the author recommending handing out copies of his own book as one of the four ways to stop the conspiracy. The conspiracy, of course, involves socialism. Like most Republicans, Allen was a huge fan of the McCarthy era, and keeping the Red Scare alive is an important enough aspect of demonizing socialist policies that Allen's big pitch is that all Communist conspiracies are actually the secret plan of international socialist bankers to destroy America and the Constitution to make way for a NEW WORLD ORDER. Much of what now constitutes the disinformation strategies of modern right-wing politicians and media is inherent in this slim volume, and try not to feel too depressed when you discover that the tactics - as well as talking points - haven't changed in the fifty years since its publication. Allen spends a few chapters building up all of the straw man arguments needed to smooth over the holes in his logic, At the core of Allen's producerism fever-dream is the real-life conspiracies that generally involve people with excessive money and/or power doing everything they can think of to amass more wealth/power, but that core is layered with thousands of imaginary lines drawn by Allen to illustrate a world where everything happening in history that he doesn't agree with is actually an intentional act on behalf of a global socialist New World Order conspiracy. From a scholarly standpoint, the book is a mess. Allen purposely leaves out any information that contradicts his narrow world view, pulls numbers and supposed universal truths out of thin air with no supporting data, spends way too much time making up what he believes average people think without actually asking them, and repeatedly makes tenuous connections between things then immediately treats it as solid fact. In the first chapter, Allen states that there are two schools of historian, those who think all historical events are ransom coincidences, and those who think all historical events are planned and orchestrated. This statement is absurd, but believing you only have two choices of how to examine history is the only way Allen has a chance of making you believe his version of the world is anything less than a paranoid delusion. Picking apart even a few of the inconsistencies and inanities sprinkled throughout this book would take more time and space than I'm willing to commit, and if you're a Trump supporter or Alex Jones fan, you're not going to listen to reason anyway. I recommend this book only to fans of bizarre conspiracy theories, and those who actually believe in a global conspiracy of international socialist bankers, as those are the only two types of people that might derive any enjoyment from it.
    smichaelwilson
  • 2.00 out of 5 stars review
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    03/07/2009
    This books thesis is ...
    This book's thesis is common to lunatics of Right and Left: A conspiracy of Very Rich Men secretly runs Everything. Gary Allen is slightly better informed than the average conspiracy theorist, but his analysis is vitiated by his premise: "Either things happen by accident neither planned nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they are planned and somebody causes them to happen." So, for instance, the Great Depression must have been the intended outcome of the Federal Reserve Board's monetary policies. A minute's reflection on the Law of Unintended Consequences dissolves all of Mr. Allen's diagrams of alleged influence and control.
    TomVeal