Some attribute the term “fifth column” with a remark General Francisco Franco made as he was marching on Madrid with four columns of troops, and a “fifth column” of sympathizers within the city ready to help. In actuality, the term originated in a 1936 radio address by General Emilio Mola, an insurgent during the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War.  He broadcast a message that the four columns of his forces outside the city of Madrid would be supported by a "fifth column" of his supporters inside the city.  

The term has become widely associated with people willing to cooperate with an aggressor against their own country. During the early stages of the World War II it was used in Britain as justification for the mass internment of German nationals residing within the United Kingdom to the Isle of Man.  Around the same time, using the same justification, the United States government interned Japanese citizens.  

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment of people of Japanese ancestry by signing Executive Order 9066. The order authorized local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded."  This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington.  The Supreme Court even went as far as to uphold the constitutionality of the exclusion orders in 1944, while noting that the provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings. 

In an featured editorial in Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) entitled, “Jihad's 5th Column” (11/06/2009), the paper notes the following:

“In the wake of the worst domestic military-base massacre in U.S. history, this is an outrage to say the least. And the PC blinders explain how Fort Hood commanders could have failed so horrifically in protecting their force from the internal threat there.”

“Instead, brass are actively recruiting Muslim soldiers — whose ranks have swelled to more than 15,000 — and catering to their faith by erecting mosques even at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va. More, they're hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.”

Earlier this year, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly said, "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," referring to the country he swore an oath to serve and protect from domestic enemies like himself. According to IBD, he’s not alone in his thinking:

• Navy Signalman Hassan Abujihaad last year was convicted of tipping off al-Qaida to battle group movements in the Persian Gulf, including disclosing classified documents detailing the group's vulnerability to terror attack.

• Army reservist Jeffrey Battle in 2003 pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the U.S., confessing he enlisted "to receive military training to use against America."

• Army reservist Semi Osman in 2002 was arrested for providing material support to al-Qaida and pleaded guilty to weapons charges after agreeing to testify against other terror suspects.

• Marine Abdul Raheem al-Arshad Ali trained at a suspected al-Qaida camp and was charged with selling a semi-automatic handgun to Osman.

• Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed trained Green Berets at Fort Bragg's elite special warfare school before stealing military secrets for al-Qaida and helping plan bombings at three U.S. embassies in 1998.

• Army Spec. Ryan Anderson in 2004 was convicted of leaking military intelligence to al-Qaida terrorists, including sensitive information about the vulnerabilities of armored Humvees.

• Army sniper John Muhammad was put on death row after fatally shooting 10 in the nation's capital a year after 9/11.

Much has changed in our national character since World War II. Our former backbone and courage to stand against tyranny has withered into jelly, while the rest of the world moves closer and closer to mushrooms clouds appearing over major metropolitan cities all over the planet.  

When the United States entered World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered German saboteurs to wreak havoc on our country.  In June 1942, eight agents were recruited and divided into two teams. On June 12, 1942, U-Boat U-202 landed a team with explosives and plans at East Hampton, Long Island, New York.  Their mission was to destroy power plants at Niagara Falls and three ALCOA factories in Illinois, Tennessee and New York. However, the team leader decided to turn himself in to the FBI, providing them with a complete account of the planned mission, which led to the arrest of the complete team.

On June 17, 1942, U-Boat U-584 landed at Ponte Vedra Beach with a team tasked with laying mines in the Pennsylvania Railroad in Newark NJ., canals in both St. Louis and Cincinnati, and New York City's water supply lines. The team made their way to Cincinnati, Ohio and split up, with two going to Chicago, Illinois and the others to New York. However, the Dasch confession led to the arrest of all of the men by July 10. All eight were tried and convicted by the Military Commission.  Six were sentenced to death. President Roosevelt approved the sentences.  The constitutionality of the military commissions was upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin and the six were executed by electrocution. 

Thanks to political correctness and an unwillingness among many of our civilian leaders to do whatever it takes to protect America’s sovereignty, defending ourselves against the “Jihadist’s Fifth Column” residing within our own military is no longer possible. Call it our Achilles heel if you want. Instead of putting these committed jihadists in internment camps, or executing them for treason as would have been done during World War II, we coddle and appease them with special treatment like catering to their faith and “hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.”

As the ever eloquent Reverend Wright likes to proclaim, these are America’s political correctness chickens coming home to roost. 

Reference:

Chairman Mao receives praise from a White House CZAR.

Every year for the past 15 years, Rep. John Shadegg has been trying to get a bill enacted that would simply require legislators to cite the constitutional authority for any legislation proposed (the Enumerated Powers Act, HR450).  Even though HR450 has 52 co-sponsors, it will never get to a floor vote because the Democrats will not allow it.  

"Each report of a committee on a public bill or public joint resolution shall contain the following: A statement citing the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or joint resolution."

Rules of procedure in the House of Representatives are routinely ignored.  Requiring every bill or resolution cite the constitutional authority for the proposed legislation would grind the sausage making of legislation to a halt.  

Here’s just some of the corruption Nancy continues to reward by her failure to take action:  

Charles Rangel has failed to report his income from rental property in the Dominican Republic; has used rent-controlled housing facilities for campaign activities to avoid more than $7,000 in rental payments, and much, much more.

John Murtha provides a treasure trove of investigations into all sorts of abuse of power. Murtha's earmark list contains big rewards for the same companies that appear on his contributions list.

Maxine Waters completely ignores the conflict of interest rules by using her influence to set up meetings between the Treasury Department and her friends at OneUnited Bank -- which, incidentally, wound up with $12.1 million in bailout funds.

Mr. Lamb goes on to state, “Corruption is not limited to Democrats, by any means; they just seem to be better at getting away with it.”

President Obama promised to clean up the corruption in his administration, and then proceeded to appoint people who had failed to pay their taxes, or were caught up in some kind of investigation. Remember his rigid Executive Order outlining a high bar of ethics his appointees would have to meet?  Well he then proceeded to ignore this high bar and waive the requirements for several appointees.

“It is pure corruption to deliberately give the appearance of high ethical standards, and then completely refuse to apply those standards” says Mr. Lamb. Some people call it “organized crime,” falling under the purview of the RICO Act.  

Congressmen, who arrogantly refuse to answer questions, want to increase taxes, blindly spend uncountable billions, take over health care, energy and the rest of the market place, are having targets placed on their backs by individuals and organizations all across this land. Mr. Lamb states, “What's needed is a tidal wave to wash over Washington to clean out every politician -- regardless of party affiliation -- who seeks personal power over constitutional compliance or personal profit over public accountability.”

The only way we can get back to a constitutional form of government is to make sure the people we send to represent us follow the rules that were set up to protect us from totalitarianism. Passing the Enumerated Powers Act, HR450, and enforcing House Rule XIII (3)(d)(1) would be a great place for the new class of representatives to start if the tidal wave elects them into office next November.

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1.	(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

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Genocide seems like an odd term to use in a discussion about individual liberties and how they pertain to the Second Amendment. Whether or not its “political theater,” as Jane describes to openly carry an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on your back and a 9mm pistol on your hip to a political rally, as “Chris,” a well dressed African American, recently did in Phoenix, Arizona, is up for debate.  But, to link Chris to all the homicidal maniacs who’ve carried out or threatened dastardly deeds is an exercise in intellectual disingenuousness on Jane’s part, to say the least. 

The intellectual dishonestly on Jane’s part is such a stretch of the imagination that it would be the equivalent of calling Abraham Lincoln a war criminal for suspending the writ of habeas corpus and classifying political dissent as a hate crime against the State during the Civil War. I wonder if Jane would consider the hostilities between the North and South “genocide,” since in many cases it was brother against brother.  Lincoln claimed the War Between the States was necessary to save the Union.  By Jane’s definition of genocide, does that not make Lincoln a war criminal for advocating violence to squash political dissent? If so, should a war criminal have his face on Mount Rushmore? What about Lincoln’s secret plan to send all the African-Americans back to Africa after the Civil War, as part of his “reparations” deal? Was that not a crime against humanity?

·         We've seen the biggest stock crash in history...

o   ..the biggest property crash in history...

o   ..the biggest deficits in history (four times the previous record!)...

o   ..the biggest bailouts in history (we can't even count that high)...

o   ..the biggest bankruptcies in history...

o   ..the auto industry and the finance industry have been largely nationalized...

o   ..the President of the United States of America is now making financial decisions for formerly private industries...

So what's left to see?

·         Oh yes...the depression...and hyperinflation.

On the bright side, one aspect of the economy that is flourishing is the doom and gloom financial advisory newsletter industry. 

Here’s a sampling from this past week (June 7 – 13, 2009):

The Frame of Mind of American Economic Policymakers, Part I & Part II

By Dr. Marc Faber, Hong Kong, China

By Ian Mathias, Baltimore, Maryland

"...the very day of this highly anticipated bond auction, Russia and Brazil both announced they'd soon be selling $20 billion in U.S. Treasuries in exchange for IMF bonds. It's a smart move...each nation gets to diversify out of the dollar (the IMF will pay these bonds back with a basket of global monies) and send a clear signal to the U.S. government."

Standing at the Gates of Economic Hell

By The Mogambo Guru, Tampa Bay, Florida

"I already told him that the economy is crappy; nobody has any money with which to buy things because all of their money is being used to service a backbreaking load of debt that was accumulated to fuel the booming bubbles in the stock market, the bond market, the housing market and the growth in the size of government that are all bursting, all thanks to Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve creating so, so, so much money and credit, leading us to here, a place I lovingly call, 'The gates of economic hell!'"

The Deflationary Downturn

By Bill Bonner, London, England

"The markets are clearly in a deflationary downturn. No doubt about it. After a long period of credit expansion credit is finally contracting. The smart money is probably betting on lower asset prices...We're also looking at $2.4 trillion worth of Alt-A mortgages that will need to be refinanced or reset. The peak in those resets won't happen until January 2013. So stay tuned...this housing bear market isn't going away any time soon."

In the 1986 movie Platoon, SSgt Bob Barnes (played by Tom Berenger) is hard charging veteran of the Vietnam battlefields.  He is a no nonsense soldier who treats his platoon as a well oiled machine, meaning his way cannot be compromised. SSgt Barnes has a much varied way of fighting the enemy and treating his subordinates than his counterpart, Sgt Elias Grodin (played by Willem Dafoe) who is more of a dope smoking “chill out merchant” liberal.

In the scene where the above quote was taken, SSgt Barnes is telling a young recruit, who is lying in a pool of his own blood after a fire fight, to stop yelling, and die with dignity. (Of course we all knew the recruit was doomed when he showed a picture of his girlfriend to Charlie Sheen’s character, Pvt. Chris Taylor.)

This is the message I’m getting from our elected leaders when it comes to fixing what’s broken with our economy. Those who broke it are now in charge of fixing it, and like an economics professor once told me in college, it’s like taking a “hoola-hoop” into the restroom because you ran out of toilet tissue.  

From the bailouts, to all the talk about “money for nothing and chicks for free” (Dire Straits: “Money for Nothing”) coming from the Obama Administration, I’m starting to get a bad feeling about all this. We may indeed be talking about a generation of bad economic times until we begin to see a return to the prosperity we enjoyed under President Clinton. Remember how President Clinton, who, by his own accord, created 2 million new jobs out of whole cloth? I only pray the Savior, President B. H. Obama, can do the same.  Only thing is, if they’re all public sector jobs, we’ll be paying for them with “funny money” because the private sector won’t be around much longer to foot the bill.

In the scene where the quote below was taken, the Platoon is about to engage a heavily fortified enemy, and Sgt. Red O’Neill (played by Scrubs’ very own Dr. Perry Cox, the MTL Commissioner himself, John C. McGinley) expresses his concerns to SSgt Barnes that he’s “too short” for such an assignment. 

In the video, a hero runs into the room with a sledgehammer, throwing it into the gigantic LCD/Plasma screen were “Dear Leader” (a.k.a. Obama) is giving another eloquent “Big Brother” pep talk to the minded numbed progressives who all seemed to have graduated from Ivy League institutions of higher learning. I presume they all have advanced degrees in enlightened topics like global management in a green environment because they are all dressed the same and have the same mindless expression, much like many of the talking head intellectuals the “Matrix” parades before us on a nightly basis to espouse their worldly views and tell us we are all too stupid to make decisions for ourselves.