fifth column

It’s a sad state of affairs, but the facts are undeniable… we no longer have a ‘Fourth Estate’ in this country… instead it has morphed into a subversive, secretive Fifth Column.

The statue of Edmund Burke in Washington DC

The term ‘Fourth Estate’ is used to refer to the press, a term attributed to Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish statesman. Journalism has generally had a favorable reputation in this country until recently, deservedly or not.

Actually, a close look at the history of journalism in this country will reveal a picture of contentious partisanship and political bias. The print media always had huge impact on public opinion in this country, starting with colonial ‘handbills’ posted in public places, denouncing King George and his tax collectors.

With the advent of the linotype machine, print journalism was revolutionized and multiple-paged newspapers became common. With the introduction of news wires, information would flash from coast to coast in minutes.

Most journalists, from the late nineteenth century onward, prided themselves in their objectivity. This was especially true during the war years of the last century, although during World War Two news was censored to prevent vital information reaching enemy ears. There were just certain things you were not permitted to write about and most people understood the necessity of it.

During the Korean War, television journalism was in its infancy and reporting out of Korea was sporadic and sketchy. There was no network news and local television reporting was decidedly primitive by today’s standards. All of this had changed by the time we were engaged in the war in south-east Asia. The press gradually drifted from reporting the news to trying to influence opinion back home by coloring the information coming out of Vietnam and, in many cases, outright lying. Many Vietnam vets still feel that it was the press that lost the war for us. Notably, after the US forces withdrawal, North Vietnamese Commanding General Vo Nguyen Giap admitted that, after the Tet Offensive, his forces were on the ropes.

As an aspiring journalism student, I was to experience the leftward lurch of journalism instruction in college. Being a Marine veteran my views (and a penchant for investigative reporting on matters that made the school administration uncomfortable) often clashed with my leftist professors. That period, to me, was the beginning of the real decline of any semblance of objective reporting.

What we have today is something far more sinister. The term ‘fifth column’ was coined to denote a subversive element working to undermine a legitimate government. The so-called mainstream media of today is as far left as any subversive group has ever been. That their chosen weapon is the spoken word and not bombs means little, just as there is little to no objective truth in the Marxist garbage they spew at the command of their radical Marxist masters.

The silver lining here is that the internet has spawned the nemesis of the DeMarxist lapdog media. The new media has the DeMarxists and their servants in a quandary. They can scarcely open their lying mouths anymore without the truth being almost instantaneously disseminated around the globe. It’s made it very difficult to do business as usual… witness the plunging polling numbers across the board for Barack Hussein Obama and the cabal of Demarxist thieves. Americans are getting the truth and the truth is going to set them free.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL…

I have a friend who insists that Americans have been emasculated. That somehow we just aren’t what we used to be. I take umbrage with a world view that American exceptionalism has somehow fallen by the wayside. It’s very true that the liberals would LIKE to see an androgynous Homo-Americanus that they could mold into their perverted Utopian one-size-fits-all Marxian world.

The 1960s produced some startling social demographic changes starting with the ’sexual revolution’. It’s also true that they made some inroads in that direction by the attempted feminization of the male population through the radical feminist movement, with the resultant ‘compliant’, ’sensitive’ male that we’ve heard described as ‘metro-sexual’ and other less savory descriptions. It’s significant that when they obtain the resultant male they’d been looking to produce, they weren’t satisfied with him either and went around complaining that men aren’t masculine and assertive. The other problematic half of that equation is that the type of female that is produced by adherence to feminist ideals is not the kind of woman a real male wants anyway.

1960s Feminist Demonstration.

I don’t intend to demean feminists. They are what they are and they do what they do. Just don’t get mad at us if we don’t care to play in that ball court.

America was drugged to sleep in the 1960’s. We had a steady drumbeat of socialist dogma coming from our news media and our universities. We had hundreds of thousands of American men fighting a war thousands of miles from home that was never CLEARLY defined for the American people, and an active communist fifth column operating pretty much in the open in our schools. The main stream Americans, the ones no one ever heard from in what is now called fly-over country, knew pretty much only what the available news media of the day was telling them and its message had already been largely usurped by the liberal hard left, which was also making inroads into the Democratic party.

The long overdue civil rights movement, which it should be remembered was opposed ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BY DEMOCRATS, was piggy-backed into the “Great Society” of President Lyndon Johnson and was a democrat-for-life social welfare modern plantation system that exists to this day. Keeping minorities in poverty rather than lifting them from it. Still, Americans embraced what was good in it and the result has been a far more integrated and color blind society.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

The advent of talk radio, the internet and instantaneous communications have changed everything. The lies of the left no longer go undisputed. In fact, they are usually challenged in minutes instead of hours or days. We as a people began to start paying attention to what our kids were being taught in our public schools. We came out of the haze that had been produced by the frenetic 60 hour working weeks of the 80s and 90s and saw what our resultant inattention had wrought. We saw our country and our freedoms being stolen from us.

Another miracle occurred… we started talking to each other. People from all over this country rediscovering what is meant by AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM and the blessings that are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights – that it is our duty and sacred trust to maintain the freedoms that have been gained at so great a price. Millions upon millions of Americans are rising up and saying HELL NO!

This is it. This is the new year. This is 2010. This is the YEAR OF THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!!

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

According to the British press, a committee of Parliament is recommending that all British subjects be issued carbon credit cards which they would need to present when buying gasoline, paying for their electricity or purchasing items that produce greenhouse gases.  Canada is considering placing a carbon tax on activities that produce CO2.  Commodities brokers like the Chicago Carbon Exchange are gearing up for a booming business in the trading of carbon credits.

It does not require a crystal ball or a genius level I.Q. to see the future that awaits America in a few short years if the conservative movement fails to turn back the tide.  The chances of that happening are growing less every day.  Millions of Americans and thousands of reputable scientists understand that the claim of anthropogenic global warming is nothing more than a colossal international hoax.  In spite of this, the environmentalist movement is continuing to win the debate at every turn.  

There are a number of reasons for this.  First, conservative opinion makers have conceded the basic premise of man-made global warming and are concentrating on mitigating the damage caused by the proposed schemes for curbing CO2 emissions.  Second, politicians view the widespread acceptance of climate change as an opportunity to expand and consolidate their power base.  Third, major corporations are seizing on the phenomenon of the world wide epidemic of “enviromania” as an opportunity to increase profits by catering to those infected, and from emerging markets in “green“ technology.

The next three years promise to be the most critical in our nation’s history.  The great experiment in democracy launched in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention is on the verge of following the Russian experiment in communism into oblivion.  The nation will survive, the government will survive, but America as a land of liberty will not.  The good news is that the majority of the American people will not feel the loss of liberty as much as former generations would have.

Like the proverbial bullfrog in a pan of water, most of the present generation has been gradually habituated to the loss of liberty through the gradual encroachment of government on their daily lives since the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt.  The biggest problem facing America today is the failure of the public to understand the nature, strength and agenda of their domestic enemies.  

The coalition between the environmentalist, the socialist movement and the leadership of the Democratic Party that has formed over the past decade has become a fifth column in America working to impose the international agenda of socialism on the United States.  Should they gain the victories they expect in the 2008 elections some of the things we can look forward to are, open borders, increased taxes, rationed energy---either outright or through taxation, increased prices due to carbon taxes added to products we buy, and an inferior quality of nationalized health care.

The conservative movement is without the leadership necessary to counter the threat which leaves the rank and file conservatives dependent on what they can do on their own.  The danger of backing John McCain in the coming election is that his supporters will spin his possible victory as vindication of his agenda and campaign strategy, marginalizing the influence of the conservative base of the Republican Party.  

If he wins the election, among the first initiatives he will propose will be a cap-and-trade system for controlling CO2 emissions and “comprehensive” immigration reform.  His $5,000 per family health insurance tax credit is little better than Obama or Hillary’s socialized healthcare schemes, so far as bringing down the costs of health care is concerned.  It will be even more difficult to successfully oppose these threats from McCain than if offered by a Democratic President because Republicans in Congress will feel some compulsion to support the policies of their new President.  

One course I am considering, but not recommending---at least not yet--- is to vote for a third party candidate as a protest vote while supporting conservatives running in local elections.  This strategy would probably assure the election of Obama, but would put the Republicans in Congress on notice that their future depends on conservative support.  Perhaps it would encourage those left in Congress to develop the backbone needed to stall the socialist policies proposed by Obama for two years while the conservative movement regrouped.

For those of us who are concerned about international terrorism and looking for the security offered by McCain as President, perhaps we need to admit the threat from the enemy within is more immediate than the enemy without.

The incompetence of Obama and the negative potential of his policies will become evident, even to the most distracted voter, during his first couple of years in office.  Hopefully such an eventuality would have the effect of Clinton’s first two years in office resulting in the conservative takeover of Congress in 1994.  I would be interested in seeing readers’ comments on the subject.