Please may I correct the misinformation here about the despicable Koch
Bros. Charles is not the father and not the founder of the John Birch
Society, despite all; the other bad things he has done. Charles is ONE
OF THE BROTHERS, of which there are four, and of the political
manipulators only two area part of that. The father and Bircher was
Frederick Koch, who was a president of Koch engineering based here, that
provided many important technological improvements in the oil refining
process. I memory serves, they were groundbreaking in the practical
application of catalytic cracking. Ironically, he made a great part of
the family fortune in selling refining technology to the USSR in the
fifties.
Fred and Mary Koch had four sons, Charles, David, William and Frederick.
Charles and David are the political activists, as David was the
sacrificial candidate of the Libertarian party several times, and those
two both are basically Libertarians, although they have many allies in
the Republicans. Bill, who once poured millions of dollars into an
attempt to win the Americas cup, and was written up in detail in the New
Yorker for suing dealers and auction houses that sold him counterfeit
bottles of very old wine, and his brother Frederick, a very highly
regarded set designer for operas, seem to take no interest in politics
in public.
Of the John Birch Society, several of the founders were from here, along
with Fred Koch, there was the brother of the founder of the Coleman
Company of lantern fame, and Bob Love, owner of very profitable Love Box
Company, maker of cardboard boxes, now a part of Pratt Industries.
The thing that irritates me most is that people refer to the Koch
Brothers as a monolith, certainly not true. I suspect that Charles is
the most far right of all, with David close behind.
Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Beckrich
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 9:00 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] Fwd: Re: One Big Ass Mistake America
FWIW- Charles(?) Koch, father of the infamous Koch Boys was the co-founder
of the Birchers.
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From: "Paul Braun" <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jun 21, 2015 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] One Big Ass Mistake America
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
I'm well aware of that. At one point in its history, my alma mater,
Valparaiso University, almost ended up being owned by the Klan.
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.". -- Berthold
Auerbach
> On Jun 21, 2015, at 07:44, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Consider the source. That section of Indiana, (Hell, all of it south of
Rt
> 30) and adjoining portions of Ohio were the heart of the John Birch
> Society, one of the original hate groups.
>> On Jun 21, 2015 8:20 AM, "Paul Braun" <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I can't remember this much blind hatred towards any other president in
my
> lifetime. Even when the actual facts show that a lot of the things
they're
> accusing him of are wrong or were also done, often more, by recent
> presidents who didn't happen to have his skin color. It's pretty
> frightening.
>>
>>
>> Paul Braun
>> Certified Music Junkie
>>
>> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.". -- Berthold
> Auerbach
>>
>>> On Jun 20, 2015, at 19:48, Chris Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Last Saturday, I photographed this building covered in anti-Obama
> slogans in
>>> the small town of Hicksville, Ohio.
>>>
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>>>
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