The Fifth Column Is Alive and Well

ChronWatch.com ^ | April 19, 2004 | Frank Salvato

[veronica]

The Fifth Column, a shadowy element that works against the well-being and success of our country, is alive and well right here in the United States. We are all familiar with The Fifth Column whether we know it or not. In fact we feed off the ''information'' it offers daily, sometimes not realizing it. And at this very moment we are engaged in a struggle with The Fifth Column that could very well hold the future of our country in the balance, at least in the long run.

We first saw it at work during the Vietnam War, an event thrust back into the light of day courtesy of John Kerry’s need to validate himself as some sort of foreign policy genius. Of course, the idea that someone would somehow possess and elevate knowledge of foreign policy simply because he skippered a swift boat in Vietnam while carrying out free-fire missions in the Mekong Delta, is puzzling to me. It’s especially puzzling since his post-service anti-war activities place him squarely in the ranks of The Fifth Column. Quite frankly, it should be puzzling to everyone. But I digress.

We saw The Fifth Column at work during the Vietnam War. It came to us in the form of radical anti-war protesters. Now, before you start your e-mail to me stating your outrage toward that statement, let me clarify: not all people who harbored anti-war sentiments during the 60’s and 70’s were bona fide members of The Fifth Column. Many who showed concern for the events that took place were guided by a sense of right and wrong as portrayed to the American public through the mainstream media. Remember, the Vietnam War was the first regularly televised police action in American history. There were many among us who saw the daily body counts and concluded that 50,000+ killed in action and 500,000+ ''in country'' (a far cry from today’s numbers in Iraq by the way) were prices too high to pay for the politics of the Cold War.

No, the average person that felt our soldiers didn’t deserve to sit behind lines of restriction drawn by politicians like Ted Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson weren’t members of The Fifth Column. The Fifth Column, as witnessed in the Vietnam Era, came to us in the form of those who tore at the fabric of our nation. They are the ones who aped for the television cameras while they spat on and called our soldiers ''baby killers'' as they returned home from halfway around the world, changed forever by the horrors of war. They are the ones who donned North Vietnamese, Chinese and Soviet military garb in a twisted display of unity with the very enemy our soldiers were sent to fight. They are the Jane Fondas, Abby Hoffmans, and Jerry Rubins of the world, those who supported propaganda-producing movements such as the Winter Soldier Investigations, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen. These organization and individuals did what no military force could do to the American soldiers of that era; they undermined a certain victory into a self-imposed and mandated defeat.

Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPI’s editor at large, penned a brutally honest piece on this very subject titled, ''Analysis: A Mini-Tet Offensive In Iraq?'' I urge everyone to read it.

Today, disturbingly, we are seeing some of the same players using the same tactics in an effort to undermine the progress of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Whether you agreed with the way the reasons to intervene were presented or not, the battles in Iraq are part of a greater War on Terror that simply must be won. But familiar names such as Ted Kennedy, Jane Fonda, and John Kerry are re-emerging as darkness on the horizon. There is even a new Clarke as opposed to the old Clark. The Fifth Column rolls on.

As the old adage goes, ''The more things change the more they remain the same.''

While Kennedy is still a U.S. senator (why defies the rational mind), John Kerry has shed his GI-issued green fatigue jacket and 60’s styled haircut for the uniform of the U.S. Senate and $120 Chistoph quaffs. Where Kerry used to speak through a bullhorn on the steps of the Capitol Building (Ted Kennedy by his side giving advice), he now uses the lectern of the Senate floor and the presidential campaign trail (Ted Kennedy by his side giving advise). Groups that organized protests and bastardized the laws of the land by advocating violence and the overthrow of the U.S. government, such as the Weathermen and the Students for a Democratic Society, have now been replaced by groups with names like MoveOn.org and America Coming Together. These ''new'' groups have already started organizing protests to disrupt targeting the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. They have stated publicly that they hope the demonstrations will be reminiscent of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. And they are under scrutiny for violating campaign finance reform legislation, their fund raising efforts clearly a bastardization of the law’s intent.

Mix MoveOn.org’s ability to organize protests and its fund-raising tactics with John Kerry’s no vote on the $87 billion for our troops in Iraq and Ted Kennedy’s “Iraq is George W. Bush’s Vietnam” rhetoric, and the fog on the mirror of the past starts to clear. Add a liberally slanted mainstream media that spews its hatred of the current administration through their positioned reporting and slanted commentary of talking heads like Katie Couric, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, and it is easy to see that The Fifth Column is up to its old tricks once again.

The U.S. is fighting more than just a War on Terror; she is fighting a homegrown cancer born of her own freedom. This cancer threatens to turn our country, founded on Judeo-Christian philosophy and capitalistic in nature, into a monotone, gray, socialistic nanny state, a tool of the United Nations. This cancer comes to us courtesy of The Fifth Column.

[cynicom]

Decay starts from within.

[livius]

Good article bump.

[Schnucki]

Here's a link to Analysis: A mini-Tet offensive in Iraq?.

[counterpunch]

Two names missing from the list of 5th Column operatives are Vietnam Vets Against the War and Walter Cronkite.

[Dead Corpse]

This is what you idiots get for outlawing Dueling and for raising the standard for Treason.

[Esther Ruth]

"The U.S. is fighting more than just a War on Terror; she is fighting a homegrown cancer born of her own freedom."

This "cancer" we are fighting is called sin and has been with us since the beginning of time. God gave us a free will, and the freedom to choose right or wrong, to obey Him or disobey Him. The freedom we were given isn't the cause of this "homegrown cancer". Don't want to thrown out the baby w the bath water because some abuse so badly the freedoms here, and choose evil and disobedience. They are the problem - not the freedom we have.

[veronica]

There are plenty missing from this list. Jew-hating nutters who scream about "neocons", paleoconservatives who rail against Bush, anti-America conspiracy nutcakes - the 5th column is working hard to give the Islamofascists a victory.

[prairiebreeze]

ping

[King Black Robe]

BTTT

[Burkeman1]

Mix MoveOn.org’s ability to organize protests and its fund-raising tactics with John Kerry’s no vote on the $87 billion for our troops in Iraq and Ted Kennedy’s “Iraq is George W. Bush’s Vietnam” rhetoric, and the fog on the mirror of the past starts to clear.

Not really. Kerry's war position is little different from our current POTUS. In fact- the "appeaser" Kerry just called for more Americans to be sent to Iraq to the cheers of the "liberal" press and the "conservative" Weekly Standard.

[Hanging Chad]

All have always wondered about the origin of these terms:
I know what they refer to but I don't know how they came to be called that.
Third World
Fourth Estate
Fifth Column

[counterpunch]

You are correct. I should have been more specific about these being Vietnam era operatives.

[Delphinium]

They are the problem - not the freedom we have.

Well said

It is people allowing themselves to be used of evil, which are the ones that are attacking our God given freedom.

Including silent Christians.

[genefromjersey]

I've just spent a few hours confirming the essential truth of what Mr. Salvato is saying.

Let me ask all of you a question: What have you read in the papers,or seen on TV, about the deliberate ambush murder of US corrections officers at the UN prison compound in Kosovo ?

Associated Press,Reuters,and Agence France Presse all submitted stories describing the incident as a "gunfight" between UN personnel "sparked by a quarrel over the Iraq war."

When the story was printed in my local paper it was buried on an inside page. A follow up this morning was about a paragraph long,said nothing new,and....you guessed it: was buried among the little "filler squibs" newspapers run to fill blank spots.

Why isn't it on Page 1,above the fold ?

My gut feeling is NOBODY WANTS TO EMBARASS THE UN .

Later on today,you can read my account at:

http://www.biohazardnews.net/index.htm

I suggest you access the site,bookmark it,and check it out this afternoon or evening.

[Carry_Okie]

See tag-line.

[Esther Ruth]

"silent Christians"

THAT is a oxymoron, no such thing, impossible. Someone who has the Spirit of the Living Loving Holy God of this world living in their life - cannot help but speak, and speak boldly - And all God's people said Amen!

[Burkeman1]

Interesting tagline for a conservative. What questions, if any, should have asked by the press at our Presidents last conference?

Do you have any questions for Bush?

[Mo1]

He pretty much nailed that one

[Delphinium]

Analysis: A Mini-Tet Offensive In Iraq

Did you post it? I can't figure out to link it but I will try.

> Analysis: A Mini-Tet Offensive In Iraq

[Delphinium]

THAT is a oxymoron, no such thing, impossible. Someone who has the Spirit of the Living Loving Holy God of this world living in their life - cannot help but speak, and speak boldly - And all God's people said Amen!

AMEN!

Thats a sad thing because I know many, many church goers that won't even vote, much less speak up.

[ExGeeEye]

As I understand it:

First World Industrialized democracies. The West.

Second World Industrialized dictatorships. The Soviet Bloc, China and so on.

Third World The squalid, famine- and disease-ridden remainder where life is "nasty, brutish, and short."

I don't know about the "Fourth Estate", but it may have to do with the "Estates General" in France's (pre-?)revolutionary period, when the clergy and non-titled business interests made up two of the (I thought only three)estates.

Fifth Column During the Spanish Civil War there were four columns of troops advancing on Madrid. One of the leaders boasted of a Fifth Column working in the city (spies, saboteurs, journalists, terrorists and so on).

I think allthat is more or less accurate, if grossly simplified.

[Delphinium]

One of the leaders boasted of a Fifth Column working in the city (spies, saboteurs, journalists, terrorists and so on).

That pretty much sums up what we have going on here.

[Hanging Chad]

That's some good stuff, thanks !

[Carry_Okie]

Frankly, the questions I would have asked would have worked to clairfy why it was possible for an airplane to hit the Pentagon.

I would like to have the nation understand the degree to which Clinton had destroyed operational readiness. I would like questions that would ask the President to detail how the sabotage Bubba and crew performed during their hasty exit from the White House, the stupidity in Florida, and the stalling on Presidential appointments played havoc in getting a read on our military readiness. From what I saw, it was a good six months before Bush had his people in place to do an assessment. 911 was only two months later.

I have heard that the two National Guard F-16s were unarmed but for lead ammunition, that fuel was short, etc. There weren't even soldiers equipped with Stingers. What the hell were we paying hundreds of billions of dollars for if we couldn't even defend our own command and control center? Where did that money spent under Bill Cohen go?

[Guvmint_Cheese]

The Fourth Estate refers to journalists or The Press as a whole. Edmund Burke referred to it in contrast to the other three "estates" of the British Parliament (Lords Temporal, Lords Spirtual, and House of Commons).

However, in this country, it seems that the Fourth Estate IS the Fifth Column in many cases...

[shortstop]

Fourth Estate=Fifth Column

[EQAndyBuzz]

The fifth column is to America what the snake was to Adam and Eve.

The apple is our freedom.

Marxism is the result of taking the bite from the apple.

Every day we bare witness to the death and destruction of societies because of the temptation by the fifth column. Nazi Germany, Rwanda, our own Indian nation, the Inquisition. You name it, the temptation has been there.

Always has. Greed, power, avarice to those without the means to make it on their own are the pawns in this passion play.

The human condition is that God gave everyone the ability to create our own destinies. The challenge has been accomplishing those goals with the constraints of society as the primary obstacle.

Whether it is Nazism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, pick an "ism", as long as human thought is subjugated, there can never be true freedom. We proved that the only "ism" that has worked is Capitalism. Becasue it is the only societal value that allows humans to achieve using their own creative thought process which is not restricted.

A world comprised of the "elite" functioning under the auspices of an international body is Marxism at the grandest of scales. The fifth column is driving this by tempting the "moneyed elite" with more money and power.

This is the reality. The only thing that keeps us from aquiescing to this form of lifetime servitude is our belief in God and our ability to resist temptation.

Now you know why a godless society can never exist. It is our fight and on election day make sure your choice is clear.

[Peach]

The Fifth Column - Enemy #2 - right behind the jihadists.

I hope they are proud of the company they keep. I find them despicable. More and more so every day.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Many forces are agressively pursuing the dismemberment and utter destruction of the United States of America. Never forget that elements of these forces are one election away from the highest office in the Land.

[vandykelastone]

Kerry and his fellow-travellers are almost enough to make a Jehovah's Witness vote in order to keep him out. Almost. (Did you hear that, Ma?)

[TXFireman]

A good read.