The forces at work against the United States have several components, two of which are the news media and the liberal politicians. They aren’t seen as insidious, but they are when examined based on the definition of the word; the meaning is that of, craftiness, slyness, and a treachery more dangerous than seems evident. The same type people, called the Fifth Column during WWII, worked to undermine the nation and the war effort but did it more covertly. Now we see an overt effort by the two aforementioned groups.

 News outlets, the most notable being the New York Times, (L.A. Times and the Wall Street Journal also) have taken it up on themselves to put news over the nation’s security. They think it is right to divulge certain types of operations that are being used in this different type of warfare since the public has a right to know. Apparently they never stop to consider that the efforts they are exposing are helping to protect them as well. The key words to remember about the reason for using the methods to counter the enemy are a different kind of war. The enemy doesn’t wear uniforms or have visible military equipment. They are faceless and hide amongst us, using our open society and the liberties we enjoy to operate their schemes designed for our downfall. Since they use our government and social processes in a clandestine way to bring about carnage, we must fight them in ways that aren’t of the usual type.

Data mining is the name of the game which points to patterns that begin to develop over time that indicate certain people and their behavior are more than highly suspicious. The descriptive word is deadly if the activity is allowed to continue. After all the wailing about the methods, not one news hound can point to anyone whose liberties or privacy has been invaded. (Thugs, terrorists, and their ilk don’t count.)

The other group is liberal politicians who pontificate on talk shows, in Congress, and in print. Puffed up men like John Kerry, slimy Harry Reid, the late John Murtha, the woman, Nancy Pelosi, and others rattle and ramble about what we should do or not do. The point needs to be made to representatives and senators that the Constitution doesn’t put them in charge of the military or the war. They wail about the methods being used and declare we can’t win, yet claim they support the troops. How can they, on the one hand claim to support the troops and on the other hand demean them by opposing the war? It is tantamount to supporting a team while at the same time not wanting them to be in the game or complain when the coach supports his athletes playing the sport. As with the news media, do the politicians not understand that the efforts at winning the war are protecting them too?

Taken together, the media and the politicians are playing a dangerous game driven by hatred of the past President. The danger is the peril that they create for the nation. The enemy becomes emboldened by the harangues against the war. By reporting all the negative items, along with the mouthing of the partisan politicians, the enemy sees it as a sign of fracture and a weakness of resolve on our part to win. Nothing is farther from the truth but that is the signal those forces are sending to the terrorist enemy.

In another day and time, those who ran news outlets wouldn’t have printed the type of news that would reveal methods used in the war effort against Japan and Germany. Though politicians didn’t like FDR, they supported him in the war effort. In another day and time, the words for what the media and the politicians are now doing are treason and traitors. In Sorting It Out, those who give aid and comfort to the enemy by their words, and those releasing sensitive and classified items should be charged and prosecuted, as was done several times years ago. Only then can we be free of the insidious forces that are attempting to aid our downfall.

© 05-23-2010 DEC