My life is in his hands, and I am not turning back."" Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. According to an autopsy, Birch had been shot in the leg, then hogtied. He was then shot in the back of his head. His Communist murderers proceeded to defile his corpse (Ingraham, The New American). .
Welch, using his contacts in Congress was able to access thousands of documents and transcripts of hearings about political figures. He spent nine years (Welch, 5) studying these documents and came across a quotation from Birch. His life was changed forever. .
He began to study the spread of Communism and began to hate the very ideals it stood for. It violated the good "American- values he was brought up with. According to The New American, Welch traced the origins of the conspiracy back the Illuminati, .
founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt. "he found that this conspiratorial band had participated in the French Revolution of 1789, which infamous uprising, as we know, .
struck out with intense savagery against God and civilization and resulted in the murder of roughly a million human beings. Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). .
Then he began to put the pieces together and started to realize that America was at great risk. He told his fellow founders in Indianapolis that Communists were telling American GI's that war is a horrible act of violence. "Communists have been penetrating and working quietly for years, until now they are in virtual control of everything- (Welch 5). Welch then cited Look at the Score when describing the urgency of this conspiracy. "We are living, in America today, in such a fool's paradise as the people of China lived in 20 years ago, as the people of Greece lived in a dozen years ago, as the people of North Vietnam lived in five years ago, and as the people of Iraq lived in only yesterday- (9).
