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The society opposed aspects of the 1960s 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 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 to favor of political and economic globalization, and that such alleged trend is not accidental.

It cites the existence of the Security and Prosperity Partnership as evidence of a push towards a North American Union.

Stuart A. Wright has said that their political racism however was no different from both Republicans and Democratic politicians of the time.