Posted on 06/20/2020 8:07:57 AM PDT by Perseverando
"We have seen the treacherous use of the 'fifth column' by which persons supposed to be peaceful visitors were actually a part of an enemy unit of occupation ...
... These trouble-breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The term "fifth column” referred to ancient warfare, where two columns of soldiers were in the middle of the battlefield, with two flanks on either side.
The fifth column was spies who had infiltrated the enemy camp to demoralize and confuse them.
This practice was used by Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, who took gold from the mines near the Greek city of Amphipolis and used it to bribe citizens of Athens to betray their city.
These paid betrayers and bribed politicians would organize around themselves what have been referred to as "useful fools" or "useful idiots," naive people who actually believed their propaganda.
Cicero addressed the Roman Senate, c.42 BC:
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself ...
He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
In 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist General Emilio Mola marched toward Madrid
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I know some folks here on FR don’t like Michael Savage, and that’s OK, but I think he is credited with this very true statement about the media:
“The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.”
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Leftists Reserve all Power To Themselves
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Time For America To Vomit Out That Poison ...
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