Author: FalconsLairFalconsLair Date: Apr 8, 2008 07:45
4/8/2008: Commentary: Meet the American "Fifth Column"; Alive - well
and dangerous:
America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by
experts as America's Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia
Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to "A clandestine group or
faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's
solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal."
As Britannica notes, the term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal
Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). As four of
his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant
supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on
undermining the loyalist government from within.
Does such a group of subversive agents' intent upon undermining
American unity actually exist today? If they do, who are they, what
are their methods and what is their goal?
Britannica states that "A cardinal technique of the fifth column is
the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation
under attack and, particularly, into positions of policy decision and
national defense."
| 
