To: unclewest who wrote (63176 ) 8/23/2004 4:16:14 PM From: KLP Read Replies (1) | Respond to More on Fifth Column groups like Weathermen, Moveon.org, etc... The Fifth Column Is Alive And Well americandaily.com It’s especially puzzling since his post-service anti-war activities place him squarely in the ranks of The Fifth Column. Quite frankly, it should be puzzling to everyone, but I digress. The Fifth Column, as witnessed in the Vietnam Era, came to us in the form of those who tore at the fabric of our nation. They are the ones who aped for the television cameras while they spat on and called our soldiers “baby killers” as they returned home from halfway around the world, changed forever by the horrors of war. They are the ones who donned North Vietnamese, Chinese and Soviet military garb in a twisted display of unity with the very enemy our soldiers were sent to fight. They are the Jane Fonda’s, Abby Hoffman’s and Jerry Rubin’s of the world, those who supported propaganda producing movements such as the Winter Soldier Investigations, Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen. These organization and individuals did what no military force could do to the American soldiers of that era; they undermined a certain victory into a self-imposed and mandated defeat. Today, disturbingly, we are seeing some of the same players using the same tactics in an effort to undermine the progress of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Whether you agreed with the way the reasons to intervene were presented or not, the battles in Iraq are part of a greater War on Terror that simply must be won. But familiar names such as Ted Kennedy, Jane Fonda and John Kerry are re-emerging as darkness on the horizon. There is even a new Clarke as opposed to the old Clark. The Fifth Column rolls on. Groups that organized protests and bastardized the laws of the land by advocating violence and the overthrow of the US government, such as the Weathermen and the Students for a Democratic Society, have now been replaced by groups with names like MoveOn.org and America Coming Together. These “new” groups have already started organizing protests to disrupt targeting the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. They have stated publicly they hope the demonstrations will be reminiscent of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. And they are under scrutiny for violating campaign finance reform legislation, their fund raising efforts clearly a bastardization of the law’s intent. >>>>> to organize protests and their fund raising tactics with John Kerry’s no vote on the $87 billion for our troops in Iraq and Ted Kennedy’s, “Iraq is George W. Bush’s Vietnam” rhetoric and the fog on the mirror of the past starts to clear. Add a liberally slanted mainstream media that spews its hatred of the current administration through their positioned reporting and slanted commentary of talking heads like Katie Couric, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, and it is easy to see that The Fifth Column is up to its old tricks once again. upi.com
