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It opens with an interview of Scott Camil, a Brooklyn-born Floridian raised by a cop who was an active John Birch Society member; Camil joined the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam.

Camil says his stepfather was involved in the John Birch Society and hammered into him that his job would be to stop communism in any way he could.

The flag is studded with the names of people who have pushed those freedoms to the brink, from Harriet Tubman to the John Birch Society.

Walker, a supporter of the John Birch Society, espoused radical right-wing, anti-communist views he used to indoctrinate his troops, andopenly accused public figures such as Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Dean Acheson of being communist sympathizers.

The John Birch Society was the post-WWII fringe group so committed to rooting out its perceived Communist menace here at home that it saw Commies and their conspiracies even where there were none.