[Understanding the viewpoint of this essay is essential, in my view, for anyone who wishes to become educated in the politics of the United States. The strongest internal political factions or parties acting upon this nation are in ideological opposition. Some say that this is a healthy condition of checks and balances of power. This essay demonstrates that the opposite is true. That the opposition to our nation's republic is essentially socialist, and inspired by Marxist-Leninist ideology. The idea, for instance, that Islam is based upon "peace", may be viewed from the perspective that the Koran calls for the death of the infidel, and that people who pray five times a day, are prone to fulfilling the directives of their deepest belief system against Ameicans, should their salvation be brought into question. Popular socialist movements within the nation's higher institutes of learning embrace anti-American views as noble. It seeks freedom and justice for the worker class of the world by destroying our present system of government. It considers the homeland sinister and evil, embraces Islam, creating a divided house. History shows clearly, such houses fall. I, for one, seek to unify rather than to create any further polarity in this country. I think the following essay may shed light on the present "state" of the union.]
In a previous essay, I described a 'diaspora' of Americans who alienated themselves from our nation's traditions and history. This alienation became generational with the counter-culture revolution of the mid-1960s and 70s. The radicals of the Boomer generation influenced the elites of that generation to view America as an oppressive state without authority to impose Western thought, traditions, and principles on them - or on generations succeeding them. Then, in the 1990s, those same radical elites of the counter-culture revolution became the power elites - as their generation elected their icons, the Clintons, into executive power.
These modern liberals and their supporters (primarily the voters in the 'blue' portion of the 'red-blue' year-2000 presidential election map), approximately 50 percent of the voting population, have been the vast sea within which the 'terrorists' of the '60s and '70s swam - undetected. Members of the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Black Panthers - many who committed crimes, including murder, in carrying out their terrorist activities were not apprehended until decades later. Kathleen Soliah, Katherine Ann Powers, Emily Harris, Elizabeth Anna Duke, Leo Frederick Burt, and Stephen Bingham are recent examples of this fact. Why were they not apprehended for their crimes for such a long time? Because, as the ancient Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, tells us - the terrorist 'fish' swims in a great sea of those who sympathize with his revolutionary guerilla goals. I have chosen to label these 'vast seas' our enemies within. In the May/June 2002 issue I described the indigenous component of our enemies within - the power elites of the Boomer generation. This group is the most powerful component of America's enemies within. They are the driving force behind our nation's inability to deal with other groups of enemies within - those foreign nationals who 'swim' within the diaspora of their own ethnic, religious, and cultural peoples residing here as American citizens.
Our indigenous 'enemies within' are primarily responsible for hindering our efforts to protect ourselves from the terrorists who planned and executed the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America. Immediately after these dastardly attacks, our nation's major newspapers were awash with articles reminding us of our sordid past when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, we interred 'Japanese-Americans' in relocation camps. Our modern liberals cried to high heaven that this was a disgraceful and shameless act.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, a former internee, implemented a policy that forbade airport screening personnel from using key factors such as sex, language and national origin in their efforts to identify potential terrorists. Mr. Mineta presumably opposes the use of group scrutiny because as a child he was sent 'along with the rest of his 'Japanese-American family' to a relocation camp during World War II. In a speech on 12 October 2002 at the University of Rochester, he dwelled on his concern about scrutinizing young male Arab passengers rather than about the safety of crew and other passengers. This led to the absurdity of random airport searches of senior citizens, young mothers with babies, and, yes, uniformed military personnel.
Mineta's reaction to the need to 'profile' the enemy - Middle Eastern and East Asian Islamic fundamentalists - was presaged by Greg Robinson in a book published in 2001. This book asserted a President Franklin D. Roosevelt's racial prejudice toward the Japanese as a reason for his Executive Order 9066 authorizing the expulsion of 112,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from their homes on the West Coast, seventy percent of whom went to barbed-wire enclosures patrolled by armed guards. The author asserts that Roosevelt "…sought reasons to incarcerate thousands of innocent people, overruled advisers who recommended against it and - for partisan political reasons - refused to begin closing the camps until six months after the 1944 elections, when the West Coast had long ceased to be a military theatre of operations." The book reviewer cautions that "…There's a warning here for our own time, as we shift to a wartime footing and rush to enact what may seem to be eminently reasonable security measures that come at little apparent sacrifice of personal freedoms. The choices we make may not be controversial either - until our children see what we have done and judge us accordingly."
This book may have influenced some modern liberals on the issue of 'racial/ethnic profiling' in our nations defense against terrorism at home. Alan Colmes, the modern liberal on the Fox News program, 'Hannity and Colmes,' was heard angrily chastising President Roosevelt for his racial prejudice in 'profiling' the Japanese by his issuance of the executive order. His railing against the WWII hero of his political party of choice, the Democrat party, was an unusual tirade in the aftermath of Bill Clinton. Holmes was one of Clinton's staunchest public defenders during the impeachment process in 1998-99.
This politically correct view of the world and our place in it is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, after the attack on Pearl Harbor there was widespread fear that the West Coast would be attacked by the Japanese. Indeed, there were sightings of Japanese submarines off the coast and "…[the Japanese] took…six civilian lives in the 48 contiguous states of that day (all of them victims of a single balloon-borne Japanese fire bomb that exploded in south central Oregon on May 5, 1945."
William J. Hopwood rebuts Mineta and his anti-profiling minions in the case of the Japanese interment camps. First, he sets the record straight on Mineta's childhood history. "In 1942 [Mineta] was the 11-year-old child of Japanese nationals (not Japanese-Americans), who, under the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 (which is still in effect) were subject to detention in time of war. His parents and others similarly situated were evacuated from the West coast because our World War II government had obtained intelligence by decoding Japanese diplomatic messages that revealed the existence of espionage and the potential for sabotage involving both resident aliens and citizens within the Japanese community."
Hopwood continues, "In light of such evidence, President Roosevelt, not one to hesitate when national security was at stake, issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the evacuation from military areas of 'any or all persons' considered to be potential security risks. At the time, 60% of the adults affected by the order were Japanese enemy aliens and two-thirds of the American citizens of Japanese ancestry affected were, as was Norman Mineta, the minor children of enemy aliens."
"Ethnic Japanese who were not living in the specified military areas (some 10,000) were not affected by the order at all. As the Supreme Court later stated in its wartime Korematsu decision upholding the government's action (a decision that stands to this day): 'There was evidence of disloyalty on the part of some…the need for action was great, and time was short.'"
Hopwood reaches a reasoned conclusion. "We now face a situation involving resident Muslims that is not entirely unlike the situation our country faced in World War II with residents of Japanese ancestry. In that earlier time, our country's leaders took prompt and decisive action with the result that threatened acts of sabotage did not occur. To be as successful in our present war against terrorism, we must not allow common sense security measures to be subverted by those among us [our indigenous 'enemies within'] who would play Russian roulette with the nation's defense for the sake of political correctness."
I, the editor of this journal, have had personal experience with this phenomenon. Two of my eleven grandchildren are teenagers who attend high school in a very well-respected public school district. Their instruction in the sciences, English, languages, and team sports is exceptional. But, even there, one finds (if one is inquisitive enough to read their text books, homework assignments, and other materials) that extreme political correctness dominates their social studies and Language Arts. In the latter course, both of these grandchildren were tasked (two years apart) with the same assignment (from two different teachers). The assignment was to write an essay containing the answers to certain questions (the same questions - teacher generated - each time around) about World War II obtained from family members who might have been alive during those years.
I was a prime interviewee. At ten years of age when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, I was fourteen when the war ended - ages at which the emotional impact of the war was highest and a youngster's fascination with the war's events was at a peak. I could remember the movie newsreels which showed Japanese soldiers bayoneting Chinese babies in practice exercises. I could remember the barbaric treatment of our prisoners of war and the viciousness in which the Japanese soldier fought. I could remember the fanatic Japanese kamikazi (suicide) attacks on our aircraft carriers in the Battle of the Pacific. And I could feel the fear that was resident in the American psyche that our homeland might be attacked in the early days of the war. And, most importantly, as a child at a very impressionable age, I could sense the dread that the adults felt in considering the eventuality of a defeat by the barbaric Japanese. It was, indeed, a war for the America' survival - and our own with it.
As it turned out, I was also an observer with direct practical experience with the content of the questions posed (by the teachers). And those questions were vividly revealing of the mind-set and agenda of the teachers who taught the course. Of the 13 questions posed, nearly half dealt with the (you guessed it) 'isms' that are so important to the modern liberal. Racism toward both blacks and Japanese, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the terrible internment of Japanese-Americans in prison camps in the U.S., and other associated 'isms' of which America is today to be ashamed. And, tellingly, the questions were posed in the form of "How did you FEEL about?' Not what did you 'think' about.' Nor what did I 'believe' about? The central framework of the essay questions posed was the ubiquitous New Age, how did you FEEL?
To most of the questions (right out of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory approach), I was able to relate how it felt to be in a war in which your own personal freedom, life and nation's survival were at stake. One does not have a true sense of the primordial human reaction to a situation in which one's survival is at stake unless one has experienced such a situation. It is akin to facing down a man-eating beast in the wild with only one's instincts, intelligence, and bare hands at ones disposal. In that state, all other considerations of life are beneath consideration. Everything else is irrelevant. Consequently, the answers were rationally arrived at and easily given.
Indeed, there was very little public discourse on the subject of racism. Everyone was in the same boat. Everyone was focused on winning the war with an external enemy who threatened our very existence. Blacks fought as well and diligently as whites. Japanese-American Nisii troops fought as gallantly as blacks and whites in the prosecution of the war - and under their own circumstances of the times. Any differences of opinion on the matters of race and/or ethnicity would be worked out after we WON the war - together, against a common enemy. There was absolutely no disagreement or controversy about using the atom bombs - they would save the lives of thousands of family friends and relatives who were ready to invade Japan in a fight to the last man.
The question of the internment of Japanese-Americans was a matter with which I, as a youngster in a farming community, had direct and personal experience. I knew and worked among Japanese managers and laborers on a muck farm in Michigan. We white youngsters would climb aboard a stake truck in town at six o'clock in the morning, travel about ten miles to the fields, work 'til dark, and then return via the same mode to town. We worked for 35 cents per hour and were supervised by and worked alongside - you guessed it - Japanese who were 'interned' on the farm. Not one person that I knew felt the least bit of animosity or distaste toward them. They were hard workers and decent supervisors. If anyone was at the bottom of the 'self respect' totem pole, it was we who were working at the lowest rung for 'peanut' wages. But we didn't know any better - and we loved it. I also remember graduating from high school with a Japanese 'internee,' Richard Tanaka. He was treated as well as the rest of us and we got along well. He was a better student than most of us.
Later in my life, when the Navy sent me to the University of Michigan for a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, we lived next door to a Japanese-American couple with three young children - the same age as ours. They played together and became close friends, as did my wife and I with their parents. They met in a Japanese internment camp, married, took advantage of America's opportunity and Bill Higuchi earned a doctorate and became a professor at the U of M. I am certain that the Higuchi family is as grateful as my family is for the opportunity America - and only America - afforded us, despite the different paths traveled. They certainly harbor no animosity, nor resentment, about being a part of America's caution during the World War II years when Japanese nationalism attempted to subjugate American freedom.
It was clear after my grandchildren interviewers digested the content of their interviews with me that they had not received from their teachers the same context with respect to the question material as was given by someone who had actually lived through the experience. It was very clear that the historical record being taught in the Language Arts class was far different than the 'lived experience' of those of us who had lived it. This is a sad commentary on what our public schools have become - even the good ones - over the past several decades. Indeed, our indigenous 'enemies within' have set the stage, even with our teenagers, for a negative public reaction to our nation's common sense attempt to use all of the reasonable tools available, including 'profiling' to defend against Islamic terrorist attacks at home.
In the meantime, political correctness prevails. Paul Craig Roberts reports that Maneta, a Clinton-era holdover, has made a trip to the airport more painful than a trip to the dentist. "All over the country, American citizens, who fit no terrorist profile, are being patted down in long airport security lines, their luggage rifled. Young mothers with children, elderly couples, even flight attendants and pilots are searched. It is mindless and pointless. If an airline pilot wants to hijack his airliner, he doesn't need a weapon…Instead of profiling young Muslim males, [Maneta] is profiling everyone else."
The power elites of the Boomer generation, under the executive power of the Clinton administration, did everything in their power to promote the idea that America had shamefully treated Japanese-Americans during World War II. For example, President Clinton presented the Medal of Honor to George T. Sakato and 21 other Asian American veterans at a White House ceremony on 21 June 2000. During this politically motivated move, Clinton said, "Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people so ill treated."
The modern liberal press went ga-ga over this belated politically-motivated effort to remind America of the 'shame' of its treatment of minorities during World War II. The Washington Post trumpets the line, "…seven are among 22 Asian-Americans, most of Japanese descent, who fought heroically during World War II as their relatives endured prejudice, even internment, back home…'They rose above any sense of personal injustice to sacrifice all that they held dear in order to keep our country strong,' Army Secretary Louis Caldera said before the Arlington ceremony in their honor.
The multiculturalist Clinton Army Secretary had reviewed more than 100 instances in which the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest medal, was given to Asian-Americans. One recipient, who was originally awarded the Silver Star, was upgraded to Medal of Honor status. The brazen political motivation for upgrading lower medal awards to the highest award in the land was not addressed in the liberal mass media. It was one of the recipients who let the truth out of the bag. "'We had to prove our loyalty to America, so we had to fight,' said [George T. Sakato]. To this day, however, Sakato finds it difficult to blame the United States for its anti-Japanese sentiment, triggered by the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. 'People say that you don't have discrimination, but that's impossible. I'm kind of prejudiced myself,' he said." Another belated honoree, Rudolph Davila, who single-handedly protected a company of 130 men caught in open fire by Germans at Artena, Italy, said he "…did not feel slighted by the racism of the time and desired only to accomplish the tasks, however brutal, at hand. 'I didn't think about it at all,' he said, 'and I didn't know our job was above and beyond the call of duty - I just did it.'"
Paul Craig Roberts sees similar overreaction to the response to John Walker Lindh. "Taliban John's problem is not treason. He is ashamed, or, more likely, afraid of being white. He learned from mainstream university culture that to be white is to be evil, hegemonic, racist, sexist, homophobic, exploitative, oppressive. Unsettled by the demonization of whites and the future that demonization implies, he opted out and became a Muslim."
In line with our indigenous 'enemies within,' "Fear of being white is a new but growing malady. Rachel Toor, an admissions officer at Duke University wrote in her recently published book that she is 'ashamed of her whiteness.'"
"Extreme racist criticism of whites as the font of all evil has made many younger whites uneasy with their skin color. In a café recently, I overheard two young women giving a third fits for hanging out with minorities. Forced to explain herself, she said she didn't want to have white children."
"If we need a catharsis of convicting someone for treason, charges should be brought against Hanoi Jane Fonda or Weather Underground terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. The American public responded to Miss Fonda's treason by flocking to her movies and purchasing her exercise videos. Mr. Ayers was rewarded with a professorship at the University of Illinois. Ms. Dohrn runs the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University. It somehow doesn't seem [right] just to shoot John Walker."
Farrukh Dhondy, a writer living in England, gets it right in an article in the Wall Street Journal. "It didn't start with the Marin County Talib [John Walker Lindh]. In Britain and other parts of the West, Islamic militants take advantage of a liberal society to spread doctrines of hate…Mohammad Junaid, after Sept. 11, ditched his $70,000-a-year job as a computer techie and joined the Taliban to 'Kill Americans.' He did so to the cheers of his mother, who, astonishingly, had been rescued from the World Trade Center."
Dhondy writes, "We may not have many John Walkers, but how many Junaids does the U.S. harbor? Britain's experience with its Muslims suggests that the number may be high. The Muslim migration to Britain, chiefly from Pakistan, began more than 30 years ago. The immigrants, most from peasant backgrounds, took it for granted that they would have the right to work and live within the cultural and religious freedom that Britain's liberal civilization guaranteed. Many found work in the old textile mills of the north. They settled around the mosque and the stores that sold the food that made these towns feel like home. The first generation that arrived imagined making money quickly and then returning home. That future never arrived. Their children and grandchildren have grown up as Lancastrians and Yorkshiremen - Muslim Lancastrians and Yorkshiremen."
The mills closed in the 1980s. The general depression of the mill-and-mosque towns that resulted was reflected in run-down, restless schools, without ambition or excellence. The ambulance-chasers of the Left called for more multiculturalism in these schools, which gave cover to the ex-peasant community's demands for Islamization. They demanded that girls and boys be taught separately, that girls cover their heads and limbs, that schools serve halal meat, that Arabic and the Quran be taught, that history classes depict Britain primarily as an exploitative nation. Principals who resisted were branded racists."
"It was around this time that identification with a militant Islam emerged as a politically distinct force in Britain. While the earlier generation of Muslim immigrants had gone their way without bothering to adopt Western dress, their children grew up wearing Air Jordan sneakers in imitation of American blacks. The great cliché of their generation is that they were caught between cultures. Some resolved this tension by adopting the politics, philosophy, and culture of fundamentalist Islam…Their puritan disgust for the West's popular culture and sexual license, their support for laws that decree the stoning to death of adulteresses, became the profession of an allegiance alienated from the Britain that allows them the freedom to express these views."
"These new zealots had been brought up in a traditional way by parents whose religious views were generally orthodox but not extremist. But in the 1980s, a new Muslim leadership of mullahs, financed by various Islamic powers around the world, was setting up mosques and schools in Britain, thanks to an immigration-law loophole that allows clergymen open-ended permission to stay. Muslim adolescents attracted to this radical preaching came under the domination of the new mullahs, who offered a luminously simple explanation of the cosmos and promised membership in an organization that would dominate the world. 'We carry Islam as a political belief, a complete system,' says Muhammad Omar Bakri, a poisonous cleric who runs a London Muslim organization. 'We don't carry Islam as a religion. It's an ideology.'"
Dhondy reminds us that "After all, if you prostrate yourself to an all-powerful being five times a day, if you are constantly told that you live in the world of Satan, if those around you are impervious to literature, art, historical debate, and the values of Western civilization, your mind becomes susceptible to fanaticism. Your mind rots. [One might observe that this is precisely the ideological dogma, cultural Marxism, that has been preached by the Boomer power elites on America's campuses over the past two or three decades and which pervades our public and political discourse in America today.] Worse, it can become the instrument of others who send you on suicidal missions."
Upscale Muslim organizations in Britain [and the U.S.] expressed regret at the atrocity of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America. Yet, outside Britain's mosques, Dhondy reminds us, "Young men of jihadi persuasion bellowed slogans supporting the terrorist attack, exhorting worshipers to 'join the war' against America. A poll by the Sunday Times found that 40% of British Muslims think Osama bin laden is 'justified in his war and that the British citizens who joined the Taliban were right to do so. Yet Britain has given permission to stay to [their Islamic 'enemies within']. The very liberalism against which they preach has nursed this Fifth Column."
"When liberal Muslims declare that Sept. 11 was an atrocity contrary to the Quran, the majority of Muslims around the world don't believe them. They accept the interpretation of fundamentalists, whom liberal Muslims have allowed to remain unchallenged."
"What Islam needs is a reformation, and if this very concept is forbidden in the unchangeable word of the Quran, there is enough Islamic history to support a reforming interpretation of the law of living with others. The Muslims in Britain and the U.S. who are educated in Western disciplines and culture must spark this reformation. As for the officials of the U.S. and Britain, they need to redirect the energy that they have poured into race relations and multiculturalism into a defense of the values of freedom and democracy. Their future depends on it."
The British experience with Muslims is being repeated, in slightly different form but with the general context intact, in America. The Tampa Tribune tells us that "Two years ago, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was moving on an ambitious plan...designed to thwart terrorists from taking advantage of the loosely controlled student visa program...in 1993 it became apparent that a terrorist involved in the initial World Trade Center bombing [in 1993] had used a student visa to stay in the United States."
"The program ran into a roadblock: fierce lobbying by colleges and universities that considered foreign students a major revenue source...The schools complained it was a privacy violation to conduct in-depth checks of applicants whose backgrounds raised red flags of possible terrorist involvement. They objected to scrutinizing students bank accounts, parentage, birthplaces and travel histories. 'We, like most Americans, are very uncomfortable with any form of profiling,' said Terry Hartle, vice president of the American Council on Education. 'We are not law enforcement officers.'"
Meanwhile, we find that all of the 19 hijackers of the 9-11 suicide flights entered the U.S. legally. They had "...legally entered the country on tourist or student visas." In addition, there is evidence that terrorists have been recruited in America from a cadre of American citizens of Islamic faith. "A confessed operative of a Silicon Valley terrorist cell says he recruited 10 U.S. citizens into Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization during his 12-year residence in California, according to a news account of his statements to an Egyptian military court."
"Bin Laden personally congratulated Khalid Abu-al-Dahab, 37, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen and confessed member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, for recruiting Islamic Americans into al Qaeda, Dahab told investigators after his 1998 arrest in Cairo on terrorism charges. Dahab said bin Laden was eager to recruit American citizens of Middle eastern descent because their U.S. passports could be used to facilitate international travel by al Qaeda terrorists, according to the account of the confession. It was published Oct. 10 in the London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat...Dahab's confession supports the view of many terrorism experts that al Qaeda has 'sleeper' operatives in the United States for future terrorist attacks."
An aside on a related subject was revealed by The Washington Post (but not connected in any aspect of the story) when it revealed that "Two Fairfax County [Virginia] men were denied entry into Israel after authorities found a letter written in Arabic inside their carry-on bags that the FBI says was a farewell note in preparation for a suicide terrorist mission, according to a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday. The men, Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed El-Yacoubi, U.S. citizens born and raised in Northern Virginia, turned up for their Dec. 13 flight from New York to Tel Aviv and drew suspicion, the FBI says in an affidavit. The young Muslim men had paid cash for their tickets and were carrying $2,000. They had no checked baggage, no hotel reservations and no stated itinerary. Their passports were only three days old. The letter, written by El-Yacoubi's brother, is about 'Jihad' and 'traveling to Allah.' All three [the two suspected terrorists and the brother] graduated from the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria [Virginia]."
Islamic terrorist 'sleeper cells' exist in the United States of America. "California is host to several terrorist cells, say state officials who are trying to ferret out 'sleeper' agents from the Mexican border to the San Francisco Bay. That effort now centers on San Diego County, where three of the Sept. 11 airline hijackers lived after February 2000. Police anti-terrorism units here warned as early as 1995 of active cells operating in the area. San Diego County at that time had 'within its borders, all the significant Middle East terrorist groups,' said their report, leaked to the Sacramento Bee last week."
"'We know that some of them sought airline training in San Diego, and we know there are plenty of places in the city where terrorists can run for cover and meld into neighborhoods,' says Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, head of the new California terrorist tracking network. The three San Diego-based hijackers - identified by the FBI as Hani Hanjoor, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Al-Midhar - are believed to have crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. They found it easy to fit into San Diego's large Islamic community. They joined flying clubs, lived in apartment complexes and played at soccer fields, primarily with other Arab immigrants, attracting no attention. When the purported leader of the coordinated hijackings, Mohamed Atta, visited them in San Diego last summer, he also drew no attention...'Terrorists don't look particularly sinister, so in a multicultural society, they can fit right in,' said Dipak Gupta, professor of urban studies at San Deigo State University."
Another source found that, "One balmy January evening just after the end of Ramadan, a Saudi graduate student named Omar Al-Bayoumi hosted a party to welcome a pair of recent arrivals into San Diego's large Muslim community. The guests - two dozen men to whom Al-Bayoumi had spread invitations at mosques around the city - squeezed into the newcomers' first-floor garden apartment. They feasted on whole baked lamb, a delicacy provided by their host, who circulated with a video camera. And who were the polite young Saudis who'd moved to town? Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, two of the hijackers who would commandeer a commercial airliner and crash it into the Pentagon...From their arrival here in late 1999 until they departed a few months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Alhazmi and Almihdhar repeatedly enlisted help from San Diego's mosques and established members of its Islamic community. The terrorists leaned on them to find housing, open a bank account, obtain car insurance - even, at one point, get a job."
"In this way, San Diego is distinct from most other places in the country where the 19 hijackers prepared for the attacks. In Florida, New Jersey and suburban Washington, the terrorists operated on the margins, relying on cheap hotels and rented cars. Here, they burrowed in; Alhazmi was listed in the San Diego phone book."
The Washington Times reminds us that "Making San Diego even more convenient for would-be terrorists is the huge forgery industry that has operated here for decades, providing false documents to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants yearly. 'The flow of aliens we have here is so great that the scrutiny is less than it would be in many other places. And the document mills we have here, they'd have an easy time getting driver's licenses, green cards, Social Security cards - whatever they might want,' said [an INS official on condition of anonymity]."
California is not the only state which contains Islamic terrorist 'sleeper cells.' Virginia is also fertile territory for masking the activities of those who would do America harm. For example, "Past the green 'Muslims of America' sign and the stark concrete booth where an armed guard sometimes keeps watch over this rural conclave sits the tidy brown trailer where Vincente Rafael Pierre's eight children live. Their father is in an isolation cell at the Roanoke jail because federal prosecutors allege that he is a local leader of a violent African American Muslim group known as Al-Fuqra. Their mother, accused of buying guns for her husband, was released on bond but is banned from returning to her community, which authorities say has offered haven to Al-Fuqra members linked to firebombings and killings."
"Scholars say Al-Fuqra, which was formed in Pakistan, emerged in the United States in the early 1980s as a religious movement. Its leader, Sheik Mubarik Ali Gilani, a Muslim mystic, preached of 'healing' and leaving behind the 'commotion and nonsense,' said New York University anthropologist Robert Dannin. But during the late 1980s and early 1990s, law enforcement officials began linking Al-Fuqra to arsons and bombings in the United States and Canada. Federal authorities say its members target Jews, Hindus and other Muslims. A 1993 report by the Anti-Defamation League counted Al-Fuqra among a 'shadowy group of fanatical religious extremists."
"An agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms testified that members of the group had been planning to buy a machine gun. He also described Pierre's involvement a decade ago in a Colorado Al-Fuqra cell that was linked to fraud, a firebombing and a killing...The Colorado cell associated with Pierre was linked to a 1984 firebombing of a Hare Krishna temple in Denver and the 1990 slaying of a Muslim cleric in Tucson. Virginia authorities note that a 1989 search of an Al-Fuqra storage locker in Colorado turned up explosives, a plan to kill the cleric and bullet-riddled papers with human outlines used for target practice. Officials have testified that Pierre's handwriting was on those papers."
"Another cell member convicted of conspiring to kill the cleric fled Colorado before his sentencing and was arrested last summer after spending time in Red House [Virginia, the location of the group's compound]. 'These are very dedicated people. They are...fanatical in their dedication,' said [an authority]."
The Muslim community at Red House, VA is one of a handful of isolated Islamic settlements established across the country by followers of the Muslims of the Americas, a group that promotes advanced studies in Islam and encourages its members to live in small villages...[Their leader] told his followers that "...'Zionist plotters' plan to rule the world. [He also] told them to take their children and flee the nation's cities. For the past two decades, they have done just that, creating rural enclaves across the United States and Canada, including the group's headquarters in Hancock, N.Y., in the western Catskills."
"In the early 1990s, Al Fuqra was linked in Congressional testimony to the planning of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. And detectives said that Clement Rodney Hampton-El, one of the men convicted in a related plot to blow up New York City landmarks, worked with Al Fuqra. More recently, a man who was staying at a Muslims of the Americas community near Badger, CA, was charged in the killing of a Fresno County deputy sheriff."
Of course, this evidence and the growing tide of feeling among Americans that there is a 'vast sea' of Muslims in which the 'terrorist fish swim' in America has resulted in an outcry by other Muslims. For example, "Several hundred people met last night in Sterling to hear speakers denounce last week's searches of Muslim homes and businesses in Northern Virginia as reminiscent of government tactics in the McCarthy era. The speakers promised to seek congressional hearings into the raids and called on listeners to support the fundraising efforts of the groups that were searched. Speakers also pledged a renewed effort to organize the American Muslim community."
"Among the businesses raided was Leesburg's Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, which trains Muslim clerics, including for service in the U.S. military. Several of the businesses were centered in Herndon [Virginia], including the International Institute for Islamic Thought. Officials have said that group gave money to a Florida group that the Justice Department said raised money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas."
Fund raising by Islamic organizations all over America has contributed to the terrorist campaign. For example, "Agents from the Maryland Comptroller's Office, who earlier this month alerted the FBI to possible links between cigarette smugglers and terrorist organizations, have arrested two more suspected smugglers and say the problem is more widespread than initially thought...Agents working undercover ...arrested two men transporting 4,660 packs of untaxed cigarettes worth more than $16,962 from Virginia into Maryland....After the Sept. 11 attacks, [authorities] were being mindful of the fact that smugglers might have links to terrorist organizations."
"[Maryland authorities] turned over the names of 212 persons suspected...of smuggling cigarettes to fund terrorist activities. Sixty-one of the 212 suspects have been arrested for smuggling cigarettes...All 61 have names that appear to be of Arabic or Middle Eastern origin. [Maryland authorities] began suspecting links to terrorist groups last March when federal prosecutors in Charlotte, N.C., indicted four persons with ties to a Lebanese cigarette-smuggling ring supplying cash and military equipment - radar devices and night vision goggles - to the guerrilla group Hezbollah."
"[Maryland authorities] said cigarette smugglers make their money by purchasing cigarettes in low tobacco tax states such as Virginia, then reselling them illegally in high tobacco-tax states such as Maryland. Virginia has a cigarette tax of 2.5 cents per pack. In Maryland, the tax is 36 cents per pack. Last year, the head of the U.S. Customs Service told Congress that cigarette imports into the United States surged in 1999, and that profits from cigarette smuggling now rival those from drug traffiking."
All of this activity, legal and illegal, is shielded from public criticism in America by a very well funded and sophisticated political apparatus. That is, "Muslims in the United States are among the world's most educated and diverse, and as a political community in the West, they are also one of the best organized. That is the assessment of scholars and surveys attempting to describe a largely immigrant community from many countries, which has multiplied dramatically in number since 1970."
"'Within the Muslim community, there is tremendous diversity,' said Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which recently drew 40,000 participants to its 38th annual convention in Chicago. While certain features of this group, whose U.S. population estimates range from fewer than 3 million to more than 7 million, stand out. Black Americans who joined the Black Muslim movement in the 1950s gave Islam its first U.S. prominence, though immigrant Muslims have always formed the largest number of adherents here."
"After the 1965 immigration act reopened U.S. doors to the Middle East, Africa and Asia, immigrant Muslims began to make a mark. Over the next two decades, Islam's best educated came here, many tied to a new religious resurgence of Islam abroad. They often fled governments such as Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan that had cracked down on radical Muslims who wanted to make the Quran, their holy book, the final word on law. 'The number of radicals who migrated to the United States is substantially larger than the moderates,' said Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and critic of what he calls the 'Islamist' movement."
"'England has a yet more radicalized population than we do,' [Pipes] said. 'While working-class Muslims migrated to Europe, doctors, lawyers and students came to the United States.' Nearly eight in 10 U.S. Muslims were born abroad, and no imams, or prayer leaders at mosques, are American-born, according to an American Muslim Council (AMC) survey in 2000."
This situation has been commented on by Georgie Anne Geyer, a syndicated columnist. "The crucial 'internal enforcement' capacity of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has become all but nonexistent. The Justice Department has identified and sent out a list of about 6,000 young men from Middle Eastern countries who have ignored deportation orders, which is obviously an attempt to round up the remaining terrorists and their sympathizers in America...But [in Houston, TX], at another 'ground zero,' the local office of the INS says frankly that a special 'anti-fugitive' operation last fall was a complete failure...In short, the war in Tora Bora against al Qaeda may turn out to be far easier to win than America's internal war to put its immigration and citizenship house in order...Today, there are close to a million immigrants annually, 8 million to 9 million men and women in America illegally, and America's ethnic mix has been totally skewed toward the Third World through deliberate policies such as 'family reunifications.'"
"More than 314,000 foreign nationals have remained in the country illegally after they were ordered deported. The 6,000 Middle Easterners are only a small number of these, but the intention here, of course, is to first apprehend absconders from countries that export terrorism...[But] just the week before September 11, [the Bush] administration was ready to declare an amnesty for illegal aliens, whose numbers would soon have reached 9 million. The fact is that, over these three decades - and particularly over the last 10 years when the Clinton administration adamantly refused to crack down on the student and tourist visa violations that led directly to September 11 - the institution empowered with implementation of the law has been crippled."
An especially troublesome aspect of the Islamic diaspora in America is the attitude of its young people. Many have obviously not been 'assimilated,' that is, grounded in the principles set forth by our Founding fathers. One of those principles is that along with the opportunity afforded by American citizenship is a concomitant responsibility to the Constitution. For example, "Many American Islamic leaders say they support the war on terrorism, but some younger Muslims here say they are not willing to fight that war against others of their faith...Altaf Husain, 31, a Howard University PhD student, strikes a [negative] note. 'Most Muslim students hold widespread grievances about America's role in the Middle East conflict, its sanctions against Iraq and the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia,' he says. Mr. Husain insists that this does not mean such students feel any less patriotic about being Americans, but he concedes he would not be willing to fight against other Muslims. 'Not under these circumstances and not for this war,' says Mr. Hassain, the U.S.-born son of Egyptian parents and president of the National Muslim Students Association. ' It doesn't sit well to say Afghan people should suffer when they have not done anything. He regards Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden as merely a suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a belief shared by [other students there]."
"Some young Muslims condemn Osama bin Laden's terrorism, but say his grievances against the Unite States are legitimate. Rania Tarbush, 21, a graduate student of biology at American University, says her family 'is back in Palestine, suffering attacks by Israel every day. The day after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was on the phone with them and I could hear the shelling in the background."
"George Washington University student Faisal Matadar says U.S. policies are responsible for suffering the world over. 'There is no justification for the [Sept. 11] attacks, but there is an explanation,' says Matadar, 21, an American-born student whose parents are from India."
The Washington Post interviewed several students at the Muslim Community School in Potomac, MD and found that "...six young people, all born in this country, all American citizens, told me that no, they did not believe Osama bin Laden was necessarily the bad guy the president says he is, and no, they did not think the United States should be attacking Afghanistan, and, no, they might not be able to serve their country if it meant taking up arms against fellow Muslims. 'What does it really mean to be an American?' asked seventh-grader Miriam. 'Being American is just being born in this country.'"
"'If I had to choose sides, I'd stay with being Muslim,' said eighth-grader Ibrahim. 'Being an American means nothing to me. I'm not even proud of telling my cousins in Pakistan that I'm American.' Tenth-grader Fatemeh said the question about loyalty was proof of the bias Muslim Americans now face. 'I'm an American, born and raised here,' she said, with a thrilling indignation. 'Why shouldn't I feel part of the patriotism? By being American, you represent freedom and democracy.'
"'Fighting a person who has the same beliefs would be tough,' added Kamal, the son of an American convert to Islam and a Moroccan man. 'I guess there is a conflict between being loyal to the government and being loyal to your faith.' Almost no matter what they were asked, the students answers often included something about how the United States should focus not just on bin Laden's terror network but on 'the real terrorists,' which is their code for Israel, which they refer to as 'the illegitimate Zionist regime.'"
The school which these students attend is the Muslim Community School which shares space and directors with the Islamic Education Center, which runs religious and language classes and has close ties to the Iranian Interests Section in Washington, and, according to U.S. officials, is 'entirely controlled by the government of Iran...Several leaders of Muslim groups in Washington did not want to be quoted criticizing an Islamic institution, but privately said that the Potomac school's political leanings are heavily influenced by Iran and are at odds with what's taught at other Islamic schools in the region. That view was bolstered by the sharp contrast between the school's students, who seemed to have the natural curiosities and passions of teenagers, and their principal, who seemed to have an angry agenda...a 'media relations guide sheet' distributed at the school advised telling visiting reporters that 'there is as much evidence pointing away from' bin Laden as there is' circumstantial evidence' pointing toward him."
The reporter interviewing the principal of the school asks the rhetorical question, 'Is the Muslim Community School teaching hate?' He reports that, "[The principal] said that was impossible, that Islam is a faith of peace. 'Our kids are not insensitive or uncaring,' he said. 'It's not that they are targeting somebody. These are the reference points we are exposing them to, because we don't see ourselves in nation-state terms. We are our own nation.'" Wow! That says it all. The Islamic Fifth Column is alive and well in America - even at the level of grade-school educational institutions. While America sleeps!
The attitude of the youngsters in Islamic educational institutions in America is about the same as that of the diaspora's Islamic leaders. The Washington Times found that "...some of these leaders appeared reluctant to identify the perpetrators [of the 9-11 attacks] as part of an Osama bin Laden or Islamic-fundamentalist conspiracy...And some leaders yesterday said the United States, to avoid making more enemies abroad, must first prove to the world that the people it targets for retaliation committed the crime. Although most Arab-American leaders say this is not the time to bring Middle East policy into the discussion, some of these leaders are now hinting that anti-American terrorism is rooted in American foreign policy in the region [obviously our support for Israel]...'We have to understand when people abroad are angry with this country and come up with solutions,' Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], said in an interview."
So, what is the answer? Is Islam a peaceful religion? Will the Islamic diaspora in America be able to put its citizenship above the mandates of its religion? The answer, despite all of the public relations announcements to the contrary, is in the negative. Roberto de Mattei, writing on 'Lepanto: A Category of the Spirit,' in the April 2002 issue of Chronicles writes, "To reduce radical Islamism to terrorism or to the deliriums of a psychotic...is to insult both Islam and our own intelligence. Radical Islam is an interpretation that is coherent and widely spread through the world of Islam. It may not be the majority opinion, but it is strong precisely because it is radical and coherent, and it will, therefore, expand within Islam, which even in its modern version has always had as its goal - derived from the Koran - the subjugation of the entire world to the word of Allah. This is a teaching that characterizes all Islam. Islamic terrorism is simply a strategic variant of the broader project of conquest whose ultimate goal is the Islamicization of our society."
"The clash of civilizations was not invented by Samuel Huntington; it is a reality, whether we wish it or not. To acknowledge its existence is not the same as to desire it, and if we were to eliminate the phrase from our language, we would not so easily eliminate the reality. It would be wonderful if we could avoid war by simply refusing to label an aggressor as 'the enemy.' Unfortunately, in a war of defense, it is not up to us to choose the enemy: the enemy chooses us."
An astute letter-to-the-editor writer in the Sebring, FL 'Highlands Today' newspaper observes, "If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny how some of our people have this silly fascination with Islam and Muslims since 9-11. A few examples are: According to the New York Post, schools in New York are required to set aside a room in the school for the Muslim children to pray in. They are required to schedule the student's classes so that they could go pray without interfering with their studies. (Christians and Jews are not included.)"
"According to the Assist News Service (ANS), schools in California require seventh-grade students to study a three-week course in Islam. The study plan calls for the children to: 1) Learn the tenets of Islam, 2) Study the important figures of the faith, 3) Wear a robe, and adopt a Muslim name, 4) Memorize verses in the Koran, 5) Chant, 'Praise Allah, Lord of creation."
"ANS obtained a copy of the textbook and reported that it presented Islam in an entirely positive manner while showing Christianity in a negative light going so far as to highlight events such as the inquisition and the Salem witch hunts in bold black type. Nancy Castro, principal of a school where the course is taught, defends the course, saying it's not taught as a religion but as ancient culture and history."
"Where is the anti-Christian Legal Union, ACLU? Where is the 'Separation of Church and State' crowd? They are no doubt tickled 'pink' over this. (No pun intended.) Just think what screaming and lawsuits there would be if a course in Christianity were taught that required the students to (horror of horrors) memorize Bible verses."
"The Koran directs Muslims to kill 'infidels.' An 'infidel' is described as anyone who doesn't believe in Islam and Allah. Do we need to know more? Should we be tolerant and understand someone that five times per day prays to a God that instructs him or her to kill us? The president goes to great lengths to show that Islam is peace. This just isn't so. For adultery a person is beheaded or stoned to death. If anyone has a question about Islam, ask someone who lost a relative at the World Trade Center on 9-11."
"We just lost thousands of our citizens at the hands of Muslims. When the little 'black box' was recovered, the last voice heard said, 'akbar Allah." Folks, many anti-American things start in California, aka, 'The Left coast.' This is just one of them. Parents, you had better watch what your children are taught in the government schools. This could come to the local level as a mandate from the federal Eduction Department and your local school officials would have no choice in the matter. Perhaps the reason the ACLU and other leftist liberals are not objecting is perhaps there is no prohibition against 'Mosque and State.' Remember, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Balint Vazsonyi summarizes this dilemma better than anyone I know. "The brutal murder of journalist Daniel Pearl has shaken even our own television news analysts. Are we mad enough yet? It was exactly 30 years ago: images of three huge jet airliners, packed with American passengers, sweltering in the desert, guarded by Arab terrorists for days and nights on end. Then came the Marine barracks in Beirut. Pan American Flight 103. The embassies. The USS Cole. The twin towers and the Pentagon. Now, a journalist who, ironically, was endeavoring to bring the terrorists' message to the readers of the Wall Street Journal. Are we mad enough yet?"
"Our president said, 'All Americans are sad and angry.' But he also said, referring to the killers, 'these crimes only hurt their cause.' Cause? What cause? If they have a legitimate cause, we ought not to be angry. If we are truly angry, we ought not to legitimize murderers by acknowledging some 'cause.' Did Nazi Germany have a cause when it built Auschwitz-Birkenau? Did the Japanese have a cause when they raped Nanking? Did the Russians have a cause when they ordered everyone trying to get from East Berlin to West Berlin killed? Are we mad enough yet?"
"I wonder if anyone else has had a sufficiency of television sermons by Arab and Muslim speakers on assorted talk shows. An unmistakable consequence of the September 11, 2001 [attacks], seems to be the endless lineup of guests who lecture Americans on any number of topics. It was a welcome change of pace to watch the distinguished actor James Woods on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor. James Woods is the last person to be accused of prejudice, discrimination, bigotry of any kind. Still, he found himself having to offer a mild apology for using the epithet, towel-heads. 'And yet,' he added looking into the distance, '19 of 19 killers on September 11 were Arab Muslims - not a Swede among them, or among the others who terrorize us.' Are we mad enough yet?"
"Because if we are mad enough, we ought to do something about it. No - not anything vicious or barbaric. But the time may have come to ask, perhaps even to require, Arabs and Muslims living among us to come forward and publicly dissociate themselves from what we politely call 'Islamic extremists.' We are entitled to the comfort of knowing that the person next to us in the supermarket line is one of us, and wishes to be recognized as such."
"And if we are mad enough, we could ask our neighbors who fit the bill to help out during these trouble times by submitting voluntarily to questions or searches, and by conceding that certain others needn't be deprived of their time, their dignity, their fingernail files. After all, Germans learned to live with the suspicious looks when World War II was over. And Russians, some day, will accept blame for enslaving tens of millions for decades. Arabs and Muslims would be well-advised to say to the rest of us: 'This is being done in our name. We share in the responsibility, and in the duty to rid the world of this pestilence.' Come to think of it, they should be mad enough by now."
Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell writes on the context of the Islamic fifth column, our immigrant 'enemies within' in confluence with nation's most prominent fifth column, our indigenous Boomer power elite 'enemies within.' In discussing the treasonous Taliban John Walker Lindh, Sowell reveals that "[Walker] is more than just [an] isolated individual. Other Americans who have not gone so far have nevertheless rejoiced at our tragedy in public statements on college campuses around the country and still others have hastened to blame us for bringing the September 11 attacks on ourselves"
"The history of the 20th century is full of examples of treason by privileged people in free countries on behalf of totalitarian dictators. A former president of the United States has depicted the terrorist attacks against Americans as somehow due to slavery and past wars of conquest against the Indians. And he was applauded at one of our most prestigious universities for saying it."
"Nothing like this happened during World War II. Even those who had grievances knew, as Joe Louis put it, 'There's nothing wrong with this country that Hitler is going to cure.' But just putting the issue in those terms was radically different from the mindset that pervades much of our educational system, the media and the intelligentsia today. Too many people today compare the United States, not to other countries, but to their own ideals." They desire a utopia - an unreachable destination."
"What this means is that the most privileged people, living in the freest and most prosperous country on Earth, can go around discontented. Worse, they can turn to some foreign country or foreign ideology as embodying what they want, even if they know pathetically little about what such countries are really like and what such ideas have actually led to."
"Most Americans today of course remain loyal and patriotic. But they also remain largely unaware of the anti-American bias of our own educational establishment and the classroom brainwashing of whole generations of young Americans by people who glory in considering themselves agents of 'change.'" Recall the Clinton campaign refrain in 1992, 'Have the courage to change.' "Such a bias toward generic 'change' might make sense in a bloody dictatorship, where almost any change would be for the better. But what sense does it make in a country whose existing institutions and traditions have produced far more freedom and prosperity than any of the alternatives that have been tried around the world?"
"Many of those who run our education establishment, and those who control what we are told by the media, are not interested in having the next generation understand the benefits they have inherited from American and Western institutions and traditions. Instead, the whole orientation is that of compiling grievances to complain about, often combined with a sanitized and romanticized vision of the glories of other countries and cultures."
"Do you wonder that some of the young succumb - some tragically? The history of the 20th century is full of examples of treason by privileged people in free countries, on behalf of totalitarian dictatorships that murdered millions in cold blood."
"While we are rightly concerned about enemy aliens in our midst [the Islamic Fifth Column], the deeper and longer-lasting problem of alienated Americans may be more dangerous and harder to solve. Conceivably, we may someday get around to tightening our recklessly loose immigration policies and practices. But we cannot expel our home-grown enemies within [our indigenous Fifth Column]."
"What too many educators call 'critical thinking' is uncritical negativism toward American society and hopelessly naïve praise of other societies, including those that are enemies of ours and enemies of human freedom in general." Indeed, the power elites of the Boomer generation, our indigenous Fifth Column, the 'foot soldiers' of the Frankfurt School revolutionaries have used and are using Critical Theory to undermine our nation's effort to win the war against Jihadistan.
Wesley Pruden, the Editor in Chief at The Washington Times agrees with Sowell. He writes, "A culture is a terrible thing to waste, as the Afghans have learned at the cost of considerable pain. And since culture is more than clay statues and ancient archaeological artifacts, there's an important lesson in the rubble of Afghanistan…The systematic destruction [by the Taliban] of the Afghan culture was steeped in religious fanaticism, but driven by political correctness as well, and therein lies the lesson for others elsewhere. We've got a ministry in waiting for the protection of virtue and prevention of vice in America, and it's alive, well, and already practicing a venomous hatred for all that displeases."
"The political correctness running amok in America, if unchecked, could be as destructive as the religious quackery in Afghanistan. Some of America's greatest heroes, with whom every American schoolchild was once familiar, have been thrown out or are about to be. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, only yesterday regarded as Virginia's most beloved sons, icons of generations of Southerners and held in veneration nearly everywhere else as an authentic American hero, are regarded now as villains by the cultural elites, who have spooked a lot of people who know better."
"And not just white Southerners, though dead white men are particular targets. American Indians have forced Christopher Columbus off the calendar in many places. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are under assault from certain blacks for having owned slaves. (Abraham Lincoln will no doubt be under similar assault as soon as the red-hots learn to read and find out what he thought about the idea of social and political equality for blacks.) In California, Hispanics not only won the establishment of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday, as a state holiday in California, but forced the state to replace a statue of an American hero of the U.S.-Mexican War with a statue of the pagan Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Mark Twain is an annual target of the sensitivity police...Not all yahoos wear turbans, grow long beards and pray five times a day."
In this regard, Paul Craig Roberts reveals how language is a weapon in the hands of our indigenous 'enemies within' in their agenda for changing America into a utopia of their own enlightened imagination. He writes that "Language was a prime factor in the murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialists in Germany and 60 million to 80 million 'class enemies' by communists in Russia and china. Today similar language is being used in American colleges and universities to annihilate the history, culture and self-esteem of white people."
"Halls of learning have become re-education camps where legions of 'diversity educators' and 'sensitivity trainers' strive to get inside 'the minds of white students and replace private conscience, identity and belief with group guilt. Propaganda and emotional manipulation are used to teach whites to think the best about 'people of color' and the worst about themselves. Whites are cold, logical and distant ('ice people'). Blacks are warm, intuitive, empathetic and spontaneous. Whites are relentlessly acquisitive. Blacks in harmony with nature. Whites as a group use the 'power structure' that they control to victimize blacks as a group."
"The most prominent of the re-educators is Jane Elliot. She teaches that 'white people invented racism' and are a parasitic race who even stole the English language from people of color. She uses the film, 'Blue Eyed,' to teach white students self-contempt and blood guilt for their racist evil. Jane Elliot thinks of herself as a kind, loving woman who is a tireless foe of racism. Corporations, government agencies [including the Defense Department], and universities pay Miss Elliott $6,000 a day to teach white people to hate themselves. The media lionizes her. Disney plans to make a movie of her life." Indeed, our indigenous Fifth Column, our American 'enemies within' have buried themselves deep into our social fabric.
"While teaching whites to hate themselves, 'diversity educators' are simultaneously teaching 'people of color' to hate whites for their racist oppression. The 'privilege' of white skin can only be remedied by legal privileges for blacks - thus, the necessity of racial quotas and affirmative action. In the re-education camps that masquerade as universities, it is an axiom that reverse discrimination is a myth. The discrimination that white students experience in university admissions and sensitivity training is not considered to be discrimination, but necessary re-education to rescue whites from impermissible ways of being."
"'Diversity educators' also deny that our culture is being Balkanized. What really is happening is that 'evil racist white culture' is being stamped out, and whites are finding a new existence as allies of the oppressed. Once whiteness is extirpated, we will all be warm, intuitive, and love one another. If you want to read more, consult Alan Charles Kors, 'Thought Reform 101' in the March [2000] issue of Reason Magazine. Mr. Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, reports white students are experiencing the fate of Winston Smith, the fictional character in George Orwell's '1984' whose 'false consciousness' has to be purged to make him fit with the new society. Mr. Kors says the urge to 'remold' whites has led re-educationists to pursue white students into the 'ultimate refuges of self-consciousness, conscience and private beliefs' in an attempt to break down individual identity."
"Mr. Kors does not say so, but this is genocide. Moreover, it can lead to physical genocide. German intellectuals pursued the Jews with words for 60 years before the rise of Adolf Hitler. V.I. Lenin and his followers murdered 'class enemies' first with words, and then with re-education camps. It is extraordinary that white taxpayers and donors are pouring billions of dollars into re-education camps dedicated to the destruction of 'white consciousness.'"
"As happened under the Nazis and communists, once a race or class is assigned collective guilt, all protections fall away. White students are everywhere experiencing the demise of due process and their First Amendment rights…Students know the situation is out of hand. A recent Zogby poll found that 95.7 percent believe high academic standards and diversity of ideas are more important than ethnic diversity; 92.7 percent oppose racial quotas; 57.9 percent say there is too much politics in the classroom; and 55.4 percent say 'political correctness' restricts what they can learn and say." Yes, indeed, America's indigenous 'enemies within' have set the stage wherein we will not be able to protect ourselves from the alien Islamic terrorists among us. We have been so conditioned to accept all cultures - including radical Islamic cultures - as equivalent to ours that we cannot use commonsense measures to root out the Islamic fifth column living in our midst.
Balint Vazsonyi, the author of the authoritative book, 'America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning,? Informs us that we can neutralize America's indigenous fifth column by changing a single word in our public discourse. He writes, "We might be within one step - I wish I could call it one easy step - of rescuing our political system…[we] still refer to the promoters of the socialist agenda as 'liberals.' …That last step is to reject the untenable, intolerable designation of persons who impose speech codes, set admissions and hiring quotas, aim to destroy our national defense, deconstruct our entire civilization, see everything as class or race war, and turn our young into instruments of the state, as 'liberal.'"
"The day we start calling them socialist, which is patently what they [our indigenous 'enemies within'] are, the tables will have been turned. They have good reasons for running from that word. Most Americans don't much care for socialists. We could start with members of the 'Progressive Caucus' in the U.S. House of Representatives. Until exposed they shared a web site with the Socialist International. They now peeled off, but their agenda remains the same. Nothing in it sets apart their purpose from that of the Socialist International's."
"We could continue with the Senate. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, with his blatantly socialist rhetoric, is an excellent candidate. "What?' I hear you say, 'JFK's brother, a socialist?' Well, why not? His father was enamored with the National Socialists of the Third Reich. Once you scratch the surface, there is little difference in the underlying ideology."
"Of course, socialists hang desperately on surface differences. A debate with the [modern liberal] columnist E.J. Dionne at the monthly luncheon of chiefs of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives proved most revealing. The topic was the 'Third Way,' a popular ruse of socialists, first applied - can you believe that? - to the 'Bolshevik' wing of the Russian Communist Party. As I progressed in making the case for the existence of only two truly different political philosophies (we might call the 'American' and 'Socialist') Mr. Dionne ran out of arguments. But at the end, making certain there would be no time for me to respond, he delivered an impassioned soliloquy of outrage that I would dare to put Josef Stalin and today's 'benevolent' European socialists in the same camp."
"Ever since Karl Marx went to a lot of trouble in the 'Communist manifesto' to identify seven versions of socialism, explaining why his own brand was different, socialists have been running from the failures and crimes of 'other forms' of socialism - especially those of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. But whatever the qualifier that precedes 'Socialism' ('National,' 'Soviet,' 'Democratic'), all share the basic tenets of corrupting history, concentrating power in the hands of an 'enlightened' ruling class, suppressing the individual as well as the voluntary community, and dismantling freedom."
"Above all, they share a commitment to terminate the influence of Anglo-American political philosophy and practice. After various attempts at the physical destruction or takeover of the English-speaking world had failed, the only remaining course was to dismantle it from within. That is what 'Liberals' are doing in the United States…What we need is to start calling socialists what they truly are. If they don't like it, they can simply stop being socialists. America is generous and will welcome those who come to see the light." Vazsonyi has it just right. Our indigenous 'enemies within' are the 'Liberals' among us - those with a socialist agenda, America's indigenous Fifth Column.
Paul Craig Roberts gives further evidence of the demise of American civilization - a result of the activities of our indigenous 'enemies within' over the past three decades. "Demography is destiny. In 1960 people of European stock comprised one-quarter of the world population. Today white people make up one-sixth of the world population. By 2050 people of European descent will comprise only one-tenth of the world population."
"Whites are shrinking into a minority even within their own countries. Massive uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration, together with collapsing fertility rates of whites everywhere, foretell a vanishing race. In the U.S. whites are no longer a majority in California. Many are now leaving the state looking for a place to live that bears some resemblance to the country they grew up in. Before a lifetime passes, there will be no place. In 1998, President Clinton boasted to a cheering Portland State University audience that by 2050 whites would be a minority in America. 'No other nation in history,' he said, 'has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.'"
"A changing racial composition would not mean the death of the West if immigrants from Third World countries were assimilating. But the 'melting pot' no longer exists. Discarded as racist and hegemonic, the 'melting pot' has been replaced by the multicultural 'salad bowl.' As Jacques Barzun wrote in his recent history of Western civilization, 'From Dawn to Decadence,' not even native-born whites are being assimilated to their culture."
Roberts then explains why this is occurring. "Americans are largely unaware, but Cultural Marxism reigns in our universities and public schools. The old Marxists blamed capitalists and the economic system for oppression and exploitation. The new Marxists blame the white race and Western civilization itself. As Susan Sontag (among many) puts it, 'The white race is the cancer of human history.' Ms. Sontag is highly respected by American intellectuals. A survey found her to be the most respected intellectual of our time. She was awarded a MacArthur foundation 'genius grant.' Had she said anything good about 'the white race,' she would be as demonized as Pat Buchanan."
Ms. Sontag represents the most the most virulent of America's indigenous 'enemies within.' Arnold Beichman, a Hoover Institutions research fellow reminds us that "Probably the most repellent statement ever made by a contemporary American intellectual was that of Susan Sontag, when she wrote; 'The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballet et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. It is the white race and it alone - its ideologies and inventions - which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself."
"Sontag's anarcho-racist language is on a par with an equally repellent statement made by a contemporary British intellectual, E.M. Forster: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' And there is the comment just after September 11 by tenured history Professor Richard Berthold at the University of New Mexico, who told his freshman class that 'anyone who can blow up the Pentagon has my vote.'"
"I was reminded of these 'blame America' reflections on noting publication of a book by University of Chicago professor Mark Lilla, 'The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics.' He poses the question: 'What is it about the human mind that made the intellectual defense of tyranny possible in the 20th century?' That question applies to intellectuals like Susan Sontag, an admirer of Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro, who described the September 11 tragedy as no tragedy at all but, to quote her words in the New Yorker, 'an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions.'"
"It is one of the anomalies of our time that it was highly intelligent people who willingly and actively supported Lenin, Stalin, Hitler or Mao during the 20th century supremacy of these master genocidists. These irrationalist intellectuals - a 'chorus for tyranny' Mr. Lilla calls them - all lived in democratic societies, so that their assent was born not out of fear but out of a conscious decision to ignore reason. Mr. Lilla has coined a phrase for these reckless minds: the 'philotyrannical intellectual,' This 'social type,' he says, comprised 'distinguished professors, gifted poets and influential journalists [who] summoned their talents to convince all who would listen that modern tyrants were liberators.' Perhaps they were inspired by Hegel, the 19th century German philosopher, who wrote: 'A mighty figure must trample many an innocent flower underfoot and destroy much that lies in its path.' Osama bin Laden and his Bombintern would certainly agree with the observation of this Teutonic infidel."
"These 'philotyrannical' intellectuals are with us today, as they were back in 1932 when Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, Lincoln Steffens, Malcolm Cowley and Upton Sinclaire among others, signed a joint letter endorsing the communist presidential candidate because, they wrote, 'It is capitalism which is destructive of all culture and communism which desires to save civilization and its cultural heritage from the abyss to which the world crisis is driving it.'"
"In his recently published study, 'Public Intellectuals: a study of decline,' Richard Posner, himself a public intellectual as well as a U.S. Court of appeals judge, ascribes to them a 'proclivity for taking extreme positions, a taste for universals and abstractions, a desire for moral purity, a lack of worldliness and intellectual arrogance.' These attributes he writes, 'work together to induce in many academic public intellectuals, selective empathy, a selective sense of justice, an insensitivity to context, a lack of perspective, a denigration of predecessors as lacking moral insight, an impatience with prudence and sobriety, a lack of realism and excessive self-confidence.'
"The striking consequence about these failures to serve truth is their malignant influence on society. As Lionel Trilling once wrote: 'This the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking and nowadays the errors of academicism do not stay in the academy; they make their way into the world and what begins as a failure of perceptions among intellectual specialists finds its fulfillment in policy and action." Indeed, America's indigenous 'enemies within' are a virulent breed which wishes to destroy American civilization.
Roberts continues, "Cultural Marxists assault not only our history, but also the family, the chastity of women and Christianity, important pillars of our civilization. Cultural Marxists use education, entertainment and the media to create a new people that shares their values…In the U.S., native-born whites already are second-class citizens in their own country. Unconstitutional group privileges have arisen based on race, gender and disability. White males no longer have equal rights. As the current chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission says, 'Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.' The protections in our legal system that make law a shield of the people, not a weapon in the hands of government, have largely been eroded."
"But the most fearsome fact is that the demonization of white people in the universities today is more extreme than the demonization of the Jews that was a prominent feature of German university life for 60 years prior to the rise of National Socialism. Demonization of whites is the weapon used by multiculturalists to break up Western civilization. But teaching hatred has other consequences. Demonization has already demoralized some whites, making them ashamed and fearful of their skin color."
"By the time whites become political minorities, decades of demonization will have prepared the ground for legislation prohibiting their propagation and, perhaps, assigning them to the gulag as a final solution to 'the cancer of human history.'"
"None of this is ordained. Faculties could replace multicultural propagandists with real scholars, and legislation could halt or reduce immigration to assimilable numbers. Is Western civilization worth the effort? Does anyone any longer know what Western civilization is?" Of course, the answers to these questions must first recognize that a dangerous Fifth Column exists in America which would oppose this course of action. Our indigenous 'enemies within' would fight to the last man against any attempt to implement such reforms.
Pat Buchanan gets right to the heart of this matter in his new book, 'The Death of the West.' The Washington Times summarizes, "As Europeans fought Hitler's armies to preserve liberal societies and national independence, so Pat Buchanan believes we must wage a cultural counter-revolution to preserve two great goods endangered today: the Christian religion and the European peoples. Put starkly, Buchanan argues [in his book] that white people are too rich, selfish, godless and guilt-ridden to have children, and so are contracepting themselves out of existence. Now, it's up to the individual to decide whether or not this is a good thing - recall Susan Sontag, who considers herself a cell in the 'cancer of the human race' - but the empty cradle is there and no honest person can dispute it…"
"Currently workers outnumber retirees in Europe and America by about 4 to 1. At current birth rates, that would drop by 2050 to less than 2 to 1. Of course, such a crushing burden could not be sustained. But 'First World' citizens seem unwilling to raise any more children - so developed nations face a choice between mass euthanasia and mass immigration. The West today (which includes Japan) is self-absorbed and hedonistic literally to the point of sterility. As it is today it richly deserves to be replaced by the poor, fertile people of the earth. And it will be."
This theme has been given a foundation by Pat Buchanan's new book, 'The Death of the West.' Thomas Sowell describes Buchanan's stance as follows. "What sets Pat Buchanan apart from those conservatives who are happy if the Dow Jones is up and the tax rates are down is that he understands we are in a culture war - and that only one side is fighting all out. Meanwhile, all too many other Americans are unaware this war is going on. Mr. Buchanan also understands that the ultimate stakes in the culture war are the survival of American society and Western civilization."
"In [Buchanan's book], he presents an overwhelming case that the key cultural institutions of American society - the schools, the colleges, the arts, and the media, including Hollywood - have been consciously and systematically undermining the foundation of beliefs and traditions of American and Western civilization for years." Yes, our indigenous Fifth Column has been at their task for over three decades in America. Sowell is describing these indigenous 'enemies within' precisely and comprehensively.
"In addition to this widespread ideological assault against the value of the West by people in positions of trust that they have betrayed, this book shows demographic realities which threaten that civilization, whether in Europe, the United States, or Israel. The native-born populations in almost all Western countries are failing to have enough children to reproduce themselves."
"These countries have also been importing large numbers of immigrants from other countries with values at cross-purposes - often dangerously so, as we learned last September 11. Because these culturally different immigrants typically have a much higher fertility rate than the populations of the countries to which they are moving, the very composition of the Western world is changing in irreversible ways that threaten the survival of the existing culture."
"Nor is this concern merely a matter of parochial loyalty to a familiar way of life. Despite an unceasing barrage of propaganda from many sources, proclaiming that all cultures are equal, the inescapable fact is that the actual behavior of peoples from virtually all the cultures in the world says the direct opposite of what the intelligentsia proclaim."
"The movement of immigrants is overwhelmingly from other cultures to Western cultures. Virtually the whole human race has voted with their feet as to which economic and other benefits they prefer to have. The problem is that the cultural baggage of the immigrants is often incompatible with the culture that produces the benefits they seek. At one time, it was possible to assimilate immigrants into the existing culture, even if there were sometimes painful transitions. Today, the intelligentsia's dogmas of cultural equality and the ugly political realities of ethnic identity politics make this much less likely. Keeping various groups separate, aggrieved and hostile to American society is a major activity, promoted by ideological movements and funded by leading foundations and even by government programs." The leaders of these institutions are, indeed, America's indigenous 'enemies within.'
"In addition, the sheer magnitude of today's immigration into Western countries threatens to overwhelm any society's ability to absorb so many strangers and so many incompatible cultures. As just one example, the virtue of tolerance has been extended to cultures that are unabashedly intolerant. As Pat Buchanan says, 'try setting up a Christian church in Istanbul.'"
"Do we want to import people who are preaching hatred toward other American groups, such as the Jews who are already here? If we Balkanize America, incessant repetition of the word 'diversity' will not save us from the fate of the Balkans." That is precisely the point I made in my 1996 book, 'The New Totalitarians: Bosnia as a Mirror of America's Future.'
Shelby Steele, an American patriot who happens to be black, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of 'A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America,' describes the dilemma of whites living in our 'multicultural' society. "…[an] ugly fact [is that] institutions today lose their mainstream legitimacy unless white guilt defines their approach to racial matters…White guilt is best understood as a vacuum of moral authority. Whites live with this vacuum despite the fact that they may not feel a trace of personal guilt over past oppression of blacks. Whites simply come to a place with blacks where they feel no authority to speak or judge and where they sense a great risk of being seen as racist. It is a simple thing, this lack of authority, but it has changed everything."
"One terrible feature is that it means whites lack the authority to say what they see when looking at blacks and black problems. Political correctness is what whites have the authority to say about blacks, no matter what they see. It is a language of severely limited authority, of euphemisms that steer whites around associations with racism. The black power brokers {Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton]…[tell us that we] must put clothes on the naked emperor, or shame [ourselves]."
"The muteness that white guilt imposes on whites undergirds black power. It lets blacks live inside the silence of whites, and have our weaknesses be unutterable by whites even as they are plainly visible. Mssrs. Jackson and Sharpton are enforcers of white silence. And when whites are silent, black mediocrity is no deterrent to black advancement…[Thus whites must] make a strong endorsement of affirmative action - which formalizes white silence on black mediocrity into policy. In this realm of guilt and power, a white man's endorsement of affirmative action is nothing less than a vow of silence."
"Everywhere that minorities press institutions today as groups, there is an erosion of excellence. The reason for this is that white guilt allows institutions to respond only with deference - deferring to the greater moral authority of minorities by lowering standards, and remaining mute to minority mediocrity, to save the institution from the racist label."
"So whites have made it socially virtuous to defer and stand aside as institutions erode. The public schools are all but devastated, universities are stunted by ideology, corporations are more unctuous than churches, the media are more unctuous yet, and American politicians - of left and right - speak in barren clichés about all of this when they speak at all."
"The value system that controls our institutions is an adaptation to white guilt…a vacuum in white authority becomes cancerous. Deference [to affirmative action] makes so much administrative sense that it becomes procedural, an utterly neutral business practice. Institutions send a double message to blacks: develop excellence, but it's OK if you only live off the largesse of white guilt. The mediocrity [of black professors such as Cornell West at Harvard] is visible everywhere across the landscape of black academia, where so much deference corrupts black talent. Nearly every campus has at least one black professor whose special talent is the racial indignation that white guilt loves to reward. Yet in a field like jazz, where white guilt does not intercede, black excellence is the norm."
"But deference will never redeem white authority. There is something that will. When practiced with discipline, a commitment to fairness for the individual delivers a moral authority that neutralizes white guilt." Indeed, America's indigenous 'enemies' can be neutralized with a large dose of fairness - in exposing, publicly the truth in racial matters.
Alan Wolfe, writing in 'Race Experts,' in the 9 December 2001 issue of the New York Times, claims that there is an underlying mechanism at work in the 'white guilt' that Shelby Steel describes so well. Wolfe reveals that "America's obsession with the therapeutic is often traced to the wave of humanistic psychology - in the 1950s and '60s. But [Elisabeth] Lasch-Quinn, a historian and the author of 'Black Neighbors,' believes that the story really begins with Kurt Lewin, who in the '40s pioneered the T-group, or sensitivity training group, to promote interracial harmony…"
"Instead of asking Americans to live up to their own moral creed, as Gunnar Myrdal had done in 'An American Dilemma' - or asking them to reform Congress or business practices - psychological approaches, as Lasch-Quinn puts it, 'altered not only the means by which change could be seen to come about, but also the ends themselves. The desired goal was no longer civic equality and participation, but individual psychic well-being…"
"Although psychology offers people certain comforts…Lasch-Quinn believes that the turn to New Age therapy has had disastrous consequences for racial equality. For one thing, while the promise is self-fulfillment, the experience is actually somewhat authoritarian: group leaders, the experts, know the 'right' answers to questions, and those who trust their own feelings and experiences are often treated as pariahs."
"There is also the whiff of self-interest: Consultants [e.g. the re-educator, Jane Elliot] must find evidence of racism to sell, often at quite high prices, their methods of curbing it. Finally, psychological techniques are, literally, endless: there is always another defense mechanism to be overcome." Of course, Kurt Lewin is the father of 'sensitivity training' in America. His association with the Frankfurt School intellectual gurus of the counter-culture revolution in America in the mid-1960s and '70s is well documented, if not well known. Indeed, the cultural Marxists had a major role in training their 'foot soldiers,' the indigenous 'enemies within,' the power elites of the Boomer generation in America.
Balint Vazsonyi puts this discussion of the therapeutic 'sensitivity training' in its proper historical perspective. He writes, "The reason native-born Americans [do not recognize the presence of socialist-communist attitudes and practices in our daily lives], while people of my ilk do, is that growing up in Hungary we had no choice in the matter. At school, we were required year-after-year to be trained in Marxism-Leninism. It was considered everyone's major, taking precedence over one's real major - in my case, piano."
"Americans, people of exceptional good will, have been persuaded that Marxist-Leninist ideas and practices are congruous with basic American principles and do, in fact, fulfill the Founders' intentions. Even a cursory comparison of the reality of socialist-communist societies with that of America ought to convince anyone that such notions are preposterous. And now come the examples."
"Christmas is an appropriate beginning because it is the season, and because those who labor to eliminate it bit by bit cite the U.S. Constitution as their basis. While that excuse crumbles the minute one actually reads the Constitution, or the intent of the Founding Fathers, history teaches us that Marx, Lenin, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin all endeavored to do away with tradition."
"Fascism is a word we use when we mean Nazism. During the 1930s, it was Stalin who instructed communists around the world to use the word. Because Hitler's party was called 'National Socialist German Workers' Party,' simply another version of socialism, the association proved increasingly inconvenient [to Stalin]."
"Capitalism is how too many of us describe our economy. The idea of 'capitalism' was invented and defined by Karl Marx. It requires a rigid class society in which the proletariat owns nothing, now or ever. American never had such a system. Ours is a free-market society with unlimited opportunity. By calling the system 'capitalist' [instead of entrepreneurial], the negative connotations of the word color how the system is viewed."
"'Reactionary' and 'progressive' have long been the classic communist designations of enemies and friends of the [socialist] ideology. Political correctness is an idea forged by Lenin (Hitler preferred the term 'socially correct'), extensively used in the works of Anton Semionovich Makarenko, Lenin's education guru."
"Preference quotas were introduced in Hungary within weeks of the communist takeover, prescribing specific percentages of workers and farmers for certain advantages. This group affiliation, as opposed to ability, determined university or job placement, leading to increasing inefficiency."
"Working Americans is successor to 'workers,' as in people who work - distinct from those who don't. This Marxist-Leninist division of society implies that those who don't work had acquired their possessions illegitimately. Communists apply this to class, Nazis applied it mostly to the Jews. Since in America everyone works, the designation is pointless, except to create artificial divisions."
"Sensitivity training is the precise equivalent of engaging in public self-criticism and submitting to party education, the standard communist punishment meted out to those who had strayed outside the party line. Hate crime and hate speech are pseudonyms for political crime - far more vigorously pursued in any totalitarian state than ordinary crime. Until recently, the concept of political crime would have been unthinkable in America." Of course, our 'enemies within' have seen to it that, over the past three decades, this concept has become a fundamental fact of life in America.
Vazsonyi continues, "'Native American' is an example of constantly changing designations, serving a number of purposes. They instill the habit of not calling things what they are, keeping people off-balance and increasing thought control all the time. 'Native American' also downgrades most who live here, whereas 'undocumented immigrant' upgrades illegal aliens. In the Soviet realm, one simply scoured the official party newspaper to find out what things needed to be called that day or week."
"There is much more, of course, but this should suffice to persuade Americans that so much of what is said and done with good intentions comes, in fact, from a most detestable source. Everything in socialist-communist thought and practice - legal, moral, economic - is the opposite of the principles upon which America was founded and with which Americans have succeeded. There is no way the opposite of 'good' can also be good." Indeed, Vazsonyi has completely and precisely defined what America's indigenous 'enemies within' have accomplished over the past three decades.
The materials collected above reveal a loose connection between the two Fifth Columns at work in America today - our indigenous 'enemies within' and our alien Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who swim in the sea of those Muslum American citizens who are sympathetic to the terrorists way of thinking, both by religious ties and anti-American sentiments. The one common thread is their strident opposition to the traditions of the founding of American civilization. The two Fifth Columns interact in ways that cast grave doubt on whether or not America can marshal its resources to defeat the Islamic terrorist threat to our existence. The indigenous Fifth Column gives cover to the alien terrorist Fifth Column - without actually joining the foundational beliefs of the latter. The former would tie the hands of those who seek to defeat and destroy the Islamic fundamentalist enemy - both at home and abroad.
An description of how the alien Fifth Column is evolving in America is taken from the more extensively developed Islamic Fifth Column in Britain over the past several decades. Don Melvin, an American correspondent in Britain writes, "Jafar Ishaq says he is a peaceful person and Islam is a peaceful religion. But as he looks at American policies around the world, he sees much that he considers unfair. Many of his Muslim friends in London are angry enough to resort to violence, Ishaq said, though he added, 'I'm not going to give you their names.'" This is precisely the situation that the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun-Tzu described in his treatise on guerilla warfare wherein the terrorist 'fish' swim in the sea of those who sympathize with their agenda. It exists in Britain now, and it is visible. It exists in America as well but is not yet so transparent.
Melvin provides some background for the British situation and gives some differences in the Islamic diaspora in Britain and the United States. "Ishaq, 35, is in some ways typical of Muslim immigrants in Britain. While many Muslims came to the United States as students and stayed on to become professionals - doctors, scientists, professors and bankers - many Muslim families who came to Britain arrived decades ago as laborers and factory workers…a greater percentage of the Muslim community in Britain is working-class than in the United States." While this is meant to diminish the perception of an Islamic Fifth Column threat in the U.S., one must remember that the Islamic terrorists who planned and carried out the 9-11 attack on America were offspring of well-to-do Muslims and had the benefit of college education in Western universities. Consequently, this group of terrorists is much more dangerous than those who might come from a lower working-class.
Britain has a much smaller Muslim disapora than the United States. "Estimates put the number of Muslims in Britain at 1.5 million to 2 million in a country of nearly 60 million…Many sympathize strongly with Muslims they see suffering around the world…[they sympathize with a] very powerful argument [that] there's a conspiracy against Muslim peoples…simple explanations are sometimes the most effective. That view of conspiracy is widely held in London's Muslim community. And while most Muslims in Britain are peaceful, this is also the community that gave rise to alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, who was born and raised in suburban London."
""This was also home to Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Pakistani who is the prime suspect in the fatal abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl…The wrath of this community already feels is likely to increase further if British Prime Minister Tony Blair supports an American-led effort to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. 'We are completely against it,' said Dawood Patel, 54, as he lef afternoon prayers at London's Central Mosque. Patel, a travel agent who emigrated from India 32 years ago, argues that the U.S.-led attack against Afghanistan was prompted by anger against one man, Osama bin Laden. Yet many innocent Afghans died,' Patel said." This is further evidence of the danger of a diaspora of Islamic fundamentalist sympathizers in the United States. It is not only a breeding ground and safe-haven for the terrorists themselves in America, but it can have a great deal of political influence on the conduct of the war against terrorists of global reach.
Martin Gross, a nationally syndicated columnist, highlights the danger facing America in light of the Islamic diaspora and the alien terrorists who hide in its midst and the interaction of that Fifth Column with the politically correct indigenous Fifth Column which furthers the alien cause. He writes, "Political correctness is hindering our [domestic defense system]. [Secretary of Transportation] Minetta, who still harbors resentment that his parents were interned in World War II, has directed that no one is to be given extra airport screening for reason of race or religion. Result? A 73-year-old Anglo grandmother was put through a rigorous screening at the Denver Airport, as was an 86-year-old winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor elsewhere. The answer? We need the total airport screening of all Middle Eastern [and East Asian] visa holders, the most likely source of [domestic] terrorism [in America]."
"We invite in some 600,000 foreign students a year without a system to keep track of them. One of the hijackers, Hani Hanjour, was a 'student' who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon. Another Middle Eastern student, who never showed up at school, helped engineer the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Who is at fault? The State Department, the INS and college authorities who want the student money and have been lobbying congress not to crack down. The answer? Eliminate, or severely cut down, student visas for Middle Easterners until we have a good tracking system."
"The 6,000 Middle Easterners the government wanted questioned by local officials were never fully interrogated. Why? Because some local police refused to participate as did some of the visas holders. We haven't even revoked their visas. The INS admits that there are more than 300,000 visas holders ready for deportation, but that they are missing. In addition, the Census bureau tells us there are 115,000 Middle Easterners living in the U.S. illegally."
"Only Connecticut refused to give drivers licenses to foreign visa holders. We need a national law that forces all states to do the same. Otherwise, the present ludicrous situation, in which terrorists can get an 'American ID' to show police when stopped, and to identify themselves at airports without revealing that they are foreigners, will continue."
These examples of the weaknesses in our homeland defense against domestic terrorists and those of global reach only illustrate how the two Fifth Columns in America - our indigenous 'enemies within' and our Islamic aliens work in concert - to weaken America's defenses. This connection is not a direct 'connect the dots' conspiracy. It is, however, a confluence of interests stemming from completely different roots which, by the law of unintended consequences, act precisely as if they were 'joined at the hip' from the same conspiratorial master. The explanation is found in the science of surprise - chaos theory.
This confluence of interests among the two Fifth Columns in America today is brilliantly elucidated by Balint Vazsonyi. He writes about our domestic conflict in conjunction with the war against terrorists outside our borders. "...the war that counts - because its outcome determines the outcome of all other wars - is the one right in our midst...In other words, it is of little long-term importance to save America from those who would destroy it from the outside if we stand by idly while others are hard at work to alter it beyond recognition from the inside. Who are we, and who are they? We are the ones who believe that the law of the land is the Constitution of the United States, as properly amended, and the laws pursuant thereof. They hold that the law must be subservient to social justice, and social justice is whatever they decide over the breakfast cereal."
"We think of rights as pertaining to individual citizens - every one of them - as affirmed by the Framers of the Constitution, who carefully avoided the notion that rights were granted by mortals to mortals. They confuse the power of legislators to propose and enact laws with the authority to grant rights to groups of their momentary preference."
"We hold that a person's possessions are owned absolutely, because a government that can take your property can also suspend your rights. We note that absolute ownership is the sole proven incentive for the betterment of the human condition. They think that certain people are especially suited to determine what everyone else should have."
"We have learned through experience that a nation must believe in itself as a nation in order to make the sacrifices necessary for survival. They encourage an unending roster of separate identities...clearing caves halfway around the world is useless if the former inhabitants can stay in the homes of their fellow jihadists while they apply for driver's licenses in Virginia, Tennessee or other hospitable states of the Union."
Yes indeed, there are two separately defined wars going on in America today - the domestic culture war being waged against our indigenous Fifth Column, the power elites of the Boomer generation and the war against foreign terrorists who have an alien Fifth Column operating within [Sun-tzu's] 'vast sea' of sympathetic Islamic sympathizers in our land. The confluence of these two groups of 'enemies within' is becoming more apparent each and every day. Stay tuned!
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