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(Before David’s passing, he worked on a number of articles with Front Page Magazine’s writers. ‘The Enemy We Face’, originally titled ‘Fifth Column’, was one of those articles. David was never able to finish working on this article, but it carries his voice and his message. As does the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Help us preserve David’s legacy.)
America is being invaded from the outside, but the greatest assault is coming from within.
When the term “fifth column” was coined, it referred to four columns attacking from the outside and one, a fifth column, attacking from the inside. These days the numbers have switched and we have one column coming from the outside, and four columns striking at us from the inside.
The flood of illegal alien migrants did not overwhelm our border security, instead the men who were supposed to be securing the border were retasked by the Biden administration to act as coyotes, escorting illegals through, dismantling security measures put up by states like Texas and Arizona, and then putting the illegal invaders on buses heading around the country.
The ten million illegals who entered the country were a column, but it took a much smaller number of government officials, activists and judges to let them all in. That’s why the fifth column is the ultimate force multiplier. A thousand traitors can bring in ten million invaders.
Islamic terrorists aren’t outsmarting us, they’re taking advantage of national and local government officials that not only let them into the country, but welcome them into the highest levels of power, dismantling law enforcement oversight and leaving them free to attack us.
Even after one of the most decisive elections in recent history, Democrat judges are fighting to keep the border open, the illegals coming and the terrorists already here from being deported.
When Democrats rallied to support Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian from a Columbia University hate group that called for the “destruction of western civilization,” “Death to America” and the murder of Jews, it was because they, like him, were enemies of all three.
That’s what a fifth column is. It’s the enemy within allied with the illegals and terrorists outside.
The four columns attacking us from within consist of the first column of deep state disloyal government officials, insurrectionist judges, and enemy bureaucrats, the second column of extremist academics, toxic teachers and leftist miseducators, the third column of news media manipulators and entertainment industry brainwashers, and the fourth column of professional activists, street protesters and the organizations behind them.
These four columns, the disloyal officials, the miseducators, the liars and the rioters, are waging war on us from within with the aim of empowering all the external enemies at war with us.
To defeat that world of enemies, we first must identify and defeat these four columns.
The Trump administration is correctly identifying and taking on these four enemy columns. And the fight is bringing them out into the open and exposing the alliances between these groups.
The showdowns with Columbia University, the Associated Press, USAID and activists tackle all four columns, and have them on the ropes. Universities, the second column, are starting to sue for peace, the AP, the third column is still protesting futilely that its privileges of access to government events are really rights, while the fourth column of rioters who wrecked universities and took over campuses are facing deportation, and they all depend on the first column.
Federal judges from the first column have chosen to challenge the power of the presidency and the constitutional checks and balances, with an unprecedented campaign of blocking President Trump’s policies and orders not just locally, but on a nationwide basis. This judicial coup is not just a power struggle between federal courts and the White House, it’s the first column of enemies and traitors rallying to the defense of the other beleaguered three columns.
And in the process, these Clinton, Obama and Biden judges who are intervening to protect terrorists, illegal aliens and government bureaucrats are exposing themselves as not only insurrectionists, unconstitutionally seizing power from the rightful president, but as traitors to this country who are colluding with other leftists embedded across our political and cultural institutions whose ultimate aim is not any single policy, but the destruction of America.
The Trump administration has shown that it can take on three of the four columns, the liars, the miseducators and the rioters, but the real test will come from the first column, the government employees and officials covertly hijacking and sabotaging his policies from within, the state and local officials running sanctuary states and cities in defiance of the law, and the judges who directly match their powers against the president’s, seeking to govern in his place.
The challenge of the ‘fifth column’ comes from the reality that the government could defeat the nation’s enemies, if only it could use its power, instead of being subverted and tied in knots. The enemy within paralyzes and corrupts our institutions, and no enemies are more dangerous than those embedded within the centers of power than those who do their dirty work inside.
That’s why the ultimate battle will be against this greatest of our enemies who lurk ‘within’.
No previous administration ever offered a serious challenge to the four columns as they did their work of devastating, corrupting, robbing, maligning, misleading and manipulating our country. Now the four columns are reeling as their funds are being cut off, their activists rounded up and their decisions are being challenged, not just in court, but in the court of public opinion.
The American people recognized that there is a primal struggle between their interests, values and aspirations and the institutions that have taken control of their lives. That’s why they chose Trump. The more the four columns attack Trump, the more Americans recognize that they have a champion that is fighting for them. And that is why the constant attacks on Trump aren’t working. And as long as Trump keeps getting results by taking on the four columns, they won’t.
Generations of politicians have promised change. And by change, they meant empowering these same rotten institutions that brought us to our lowest point in over a century.
When Americans asked for change, they didn’t mean more unaccountable government agencies, more taxes to fund those agencies and the special interests that profit from them, more corruption by those special interests, even as their lives grew worse every year.
Everything from our economy to our military to our schools to the safety of our communities has gone downhill even as government budgets and taxes climbed to unprecedented heights. This was not an accident or incompetence, it was the deliberate policies of these four columns that were waging a systemic war of total infiltration and destruction against the United States of America. Now, the majority of Americans recognize that someone is fighting back for them.
America cannot be great until the four enemy columns are defeated and the nation can mobilize its best resources to resist its outside enemies once it is no longer being hobbled by its traitors.
The evil and the rot come from the universities until that changes the slow collapse of America and the West will continue.
Whilst academics tend to be mostly foolish these days, the real fifth column is standing tall and proud in Turtle Bay NYC.
And the four columns of traitorous moslems reminds me of the main four columns of lefties and………communism.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Every one that aids and abets an illegal is in violation of U S law, 8 USC 1324. That includes judges, congressmen, governors , churches, literally anyone and everyone. If the U S wants to stop this internal enemy they can start by enforcing the their own laws.
There must be a “But” or “Except” added because it seems that our Amendments, like the 1st and 2nd… have now “except” added by the Com-Left.
The Com-Left Judges, ordered and controlled by the ACLU, also rule that everything Trump does is now “unconstitutional” which puts the brakes on all then taking months and years to reach SCOTUS which then rules in Trump’s favor, but the Com-Left goal was a Mission Accomplished anyway!
Every one that aids and abets an illegal is in violation of U S law, 8 USC 1324. Great call.
They also violate OUR Constitution.
As if our silly universities actually matter today. And since you were too lazy to go college why do you even care? Why don’t you say what your real goal is….turn each and every university into Objectivist propaganda factories.
President Trump and the GOP deserve credit for taking on the universities. They clearly do matter. There is nothing silly but instead everything dangerous about students being taught it is “social justice” to have open borders, a higher “minimum wage,” that women only earn 82 cents for the same work for which a man receives one dollar, and that any unequal outcome is irrefutable evidence of systemic discrimination.
See Jason Riley’s new book : “The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.” If colleges truly valued viewpoint diversity, it would be exactly such books students should be reading and discussing. Unfortunately, it is much more likely they’ll be assigned Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Raise an Anti-Racist.” Ignored by so many leftists is that the welfare programs they have supported have disproportionately undermined the black family. That children raised by two parents end up on average doing much better should be a no-brainer.
Mr. Johnston unless you enjoy hitting your head against a cinder block may I suggest that you stop trying to engage in civil and intellectual discourse with “Intrepid “, you are thoroughly wasting your time.
May I suggest a very good essay for you to read? It’s titled “ Assault from the Ivory Tower: The Professors’ War Against America “ by Leonard Peikoff you can find it online.
THX 1138,
Thank you for the advice. However, I will continue to respond. I’ve paid a price as a conservative professor who conspicuously challenges leftist dogma. It has been worth it. We need more people willing to confront lame assertions that do not stand up to scrutiny. If the nastiness and childish name-calling continue, I will start a series consisting of the postings on my office door. Readers can judge for themselves whether it is laughable to assert I am a liberal.
As for the recommendation, thank you. When the semester is over I will add it to my reading list.
And our Objectivist proselytizer strikes again.
Ritchie’s a big boy, sort of. Stop trying to change and control everyone around you and let him do what he wants. He has papers to grade.
Both of you are very much alike. You have your silly Lenny Piehole and Ayn Rand screeds repeated ad nauseum. Ritchie has his faux intellectual insults designed to make him feel très supérieur and clever, also repeated ad nauseum.
As far as civil and intellectual discourse goes, a few years ago you likened the crucifixion to getting “nailed to a tree.” One of your very mature and truly low rent moments. Standard THX and atheist fare. I believe it occurred during Easter. How very “civil and intellectual.” And you bitch about me ridiculing your mommy? You still whine about it, especially to your new boyfriend. Stung, didn’t it.
Effing weak-ass pu$$y. A true mammoni.
Ayn Rand is dead and mouldering in her grave.
Her power and influence are insignificant.
“Objectivists” have made little headway against any of the
ills they object to.
The Founders were believers in the Creator, the ONE
who “endowed us with unalienable rights,” and the
Only One who can enforce those rights for any of us.
I wasn’t talking about students making the universities silly. College students are naturally silly. Not surprised you think it’s them.
I was talking about the liberal and communist pinheads who teach at, and or, run these “institutions” of lower learning, of which you are a part.
Yes, Ayn Rand was mouldering long before she died.
Trying to burnish your nonexistent conservative bona fides? Not impressed.
This is going to be fun. You’re desperate. Here’s the first of what will be many postings from my office door. Surely you won’t object if others decide whether they are indicative of whether I am a conservative, or a liberal. #1 Right above the large poster of Thomas Sowell on my office is the following:
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization–including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain–without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
Any guesses as to the quote is from?
We’re still waiting for your critique of my Tea Party speech.
Commence with the name-calling and gay jokes and pretend you have a clue.
Richardgay@morontondickinbigmouth probably has a sign on his his “office” (more like orifice) door which probably probably read’s “Mens Room.” or “Toilet stall” or probably even more likely reads “Tranny unisex ladies room. Manpons ten dollars each.” In today’s vile college culture.
I bet he takes it up the butt every chance he gets. “I’ll give you an A in Tranny Studies if you nail my A-hole.”
Referring to your next post I give you your standard responses.
1) This going to be fun……
2) It certainly seems to be important to you if others tell you what I already know. It looks like no one seems to care if you are gay because they aren’t paying attention to you
3) We’re still waiting for your critique of my Tea Party speech. So am I. Have a nice wait.
4)Commence with the name-calling and gay jokes and pretend you have a clue. Haven’t even warmed up yet.
You need some new insults. Same old Ritchie, just another day. Maybe it’s true what they say. Third tier dink professors in bumf*ck Ill just aren’t that bright
and once you’ve done reading this book, go and find, then read, just about anything by Thomas Sowell. Make sure you understand his background, though. Criical to this discussion. Many will NOT like what they read….
Sorry Ritchie. I am not your student and this is not your “little man” classroom. So take your silly reading list and shove it up your ass. And I don’t do book reports anymore either. I think that idiotic practice for me stopped when I was in the 10th grade
What the universities are doing is grooming youth to a life of want and despair, graduating with the mindsets to oppose USA standards – these dorks are going to be in position of leadership? Hopefully the corporations recognize this and will do deep background searches and if these wannabee employees had any of these antisemitic and pro jihad terrorists without the personal experience of living under this, they should never be employed. Their psychology is ruined and they will ruin businesses, or at least try to.
My generation protested for Civil Rights and against the Vietnam war which was the first protracted war USA was involved in that made a lot of war profiteers wealthy enough to go into Iraq and Afghanistan less than 2 decades later.
The dorks are not “going to be” in positions of leadership. It’s already happening with more to come. We’ve got more than one brainwashed generation. America has morphed into something unrecognizable. We must all be truth tellers within our sphere of influence. Not only is this necessary, but it’s a way that David’s memory lives on and his work continues to advance.
The odds are stacked against us on multiple fronts. How do we move forward?
Start punching D-Bag America haters in the face.
Shouldn’t you put a period or semicolon after the word universities?
Actually, the rot comes from each human heart.
The universities are a symptom of the rot in mankind.
God gives the remedy: His law and repentance of sin.
If students honored their parents, much intellectual and behavioral
deterioration would turn around over night.
Just put the word in parentheses where it belongs.
As rare as this is . . . We fully agree.
It was the Leftist and feminist “Long March through the institutions” of the Educational Industrial Complex that caused the rot. It starts with primary education. Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, who should be collecting night soil on a commune, is paid over one half million dollars per year.
Democrat Plan: “OVERWHELM THE SYSTEM!”
OVERWHELM BP, housing, hospitals, schools, services.
OVERWHELM the Justice System and Courts one immigrant at a time making it impossible to deport Millions.
TREASON! OVERWHELM JAILS WITH THE ENEMY WITHIN… AKA DEMOCRATS AND THE. ACLU!
There has to be a law to make thousands of arrests starting with Biden, Kamala, and Mayorkas. Coordination with Venezuela to flood the country with T de A alone is TREASON. The lack of attacking and deporting gangs/terrorists is TREASON! Sanctuary States and Cities, and authorities WHO TOOK THE OATH TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION from all enemies and ILLEGALS who will never take The Oath to prove Allegiance..
THIS CONSPIRACY ALL FOR FUTURE VOTERS. With those new millions of votes, they could win every election which means our country’s future and leaders will be decided by people who will always wave their flag WHILE BURNING OURS giving Democrats their American Dream: ONE-PARTY RULE!
LADY LIBERTY DEMANDS JUSTICE. HISTORY WILL APPROVE! JUSTICE IS NOT REVENGE!
DEMOCRAT PLAN-THIS ISN’T THE PROBLEM-WE DON’T HAVE AN AMERICAN PLAN!!! Anybody looking
for solutions from REPUBLICANS-THEY’RE WORSE THAN DEMOCRATS! OH, they know how to wave their
arms around and make noise but don’t look to them for solutions-TOTALLY FECKLESS! EVER NOTICE JIM
JORDAN-HE ALWAYS APPEARS WITHOUT HIS SUIT COAT-MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE HE’S ACTUALLY
WORKING-YEAH RIGHT! POLITICIANS …ALL POLITICIANS ARE WORTHLESS!!!
SUPPORT TRUMP!!!!!!!!!
What you are describing is exactly what Cloward-Piven theorized about how they could bring down the capitalist system. They just wanted to do it with economics, but the leftists of today are not content with just economic flooding the zone but the Progressive marxists have been busy with the decapitation of America on 10 different fronts at the same time. Its going to be a long march back through the institutions to get the nation back to any semblance of a Constitutional Republic.
The greatest danger the world faces today is the Democratic Party in America, because if they succeed in their plan to destroy American, the whole world will enter into a new dark age.
I share your concerns. As an Aussie, our greatest danger, and Democrat equivalent, is the unbelievably re-elected Albanese Trotskyite Labour government, voted in for a second term of three more years. This government is hell-bent on destroying Australia with the aim of making Australia a third world renewable energy super power. How Aussie voters, who’ve now got the world’s highest electricity costs, highest cost of living expenses, weakest armed forces and greater reliance on government welfare voted for yet another three years of the same government and continuing rot, is beyond understanding.
Not only destroy America but movement towards supporting world governance looms darkly on the horizon with the advance of technological means to make it possible and to make it happen!
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for s/he is known and carries his/her banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his/her sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; s/he speaks in accents familiar to his/her victims, and s/he wears their face and their arguments, s/he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men (and women). S/He rots the soul of a nation, s/he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, s/he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
An excellent article, Mr. Greenfield. You have laid it out very well. Now, how do we fight these enemies?
By defunding the UN.
The Problem is that we have the whole place bugged. Their cars and homes too. It would be nice to get a “Civilized United Nations” and start over to get rid of the JIHADISTS and COMMUNISTS that always rule against Civility, the Rule of Law, and the USA! They can start their own where Nicaragua or Cuba are in charge of the Human Rights Council.
PLUS to weed out OUR COMMUNISTS who have infiltrated all levels of government.
Americas #1 Worst Enemy is the United Nations and it always has been and always will be they have yet to End Wars
George Washington used force to free our land from British tyranny.
Lincoln used force to free our land from slavery.
General Flynn told Trump to use martial law to stop the stolen election of 2020.
Will force be used again to free our land from tyrannical judges?
IT’S THE ACLU AND NLG that write the “it’s unconstitutional” orders to then pass them on to their members who are Judges. How can a Judge, with their docket filled months in advance, have time to write a fifty-page order within hours or days of a Trump EO or deportation?
SOLUTION: CATCH THE ACLU TEACHING “ASYLUM SEEKERS” TO LIE TO AUTHORITIES! “Don’t say that. Say that you are in danger, in fear of your life. There were gunfights in your neighborhood…. RIGHT? Bullets went through the wall and almost hit my kids… RIGHT?”
SURELY, AUTHORITIES LISTENING TO THIS BS CAN ASK IF THEY WERE COACHED AND BY WHOM…. RIGHT?
GET THEIR TESTIMONY. GET THE KID’S TESTIMONY! ALSO, ARE THEY EVEN FROM THE COUNTRY THEY CLAIM TO COME FROM…. SINCE I BET… MOST ARE FROM MEXICO. Verify the schools, teachers, friends, neighbors to see if all are on the same story. EASY!
CATCH, AND INDICT, THE ACLU AND ALL THIS WILL BE OVER!
Very few understand and appreciate the gravity of the issues concerning the judiciary’s recent obscene overreaches into the executive branch’s province currently pending before SCOTUS. If SCOTUS doesn’t reign in its little black robed brothers & sisters completely, absolutely and w/out any ambiguity, our constitutional system of check & balances among the three (formerly) co-equal branches of governance as originally, purposefully & brilliantly designed to guarantee that fundamental purpose for constituting our nation’s establishment – to guarantee against the alienation of each of our inalienable natural rights of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness founded on basic principles of self-determination, the only means by which, logic and the brutal and tragic lessons of history has shown throughout human history, can have any hope of succeeding is by the establishment & constant oversight of very limited and vastly disbursed governance authority which – as a freaking reminder – is derived solely by and through the consent of we the governed, and most certainly NOT by and through the cleverness, greed & dishonesty of the overeducated, self-proclaimed morally superior & unaccountable enemies, traitors and treasonous civil servants embedded in the darkest confines like poisonous ticks in the darkest confines of our institutions of governance.
Not hyperbole. Not exaggeration. Not overly dramatic. This is an existential fork in the road – and nine unelected judges reviewing the obviously existential threat posed by their little brother & sisters of their very own branch of governance will decide which road the nation continues on – one allows the republic to survive yet another day; the other guarantees it’s demise. Yet very few understand and appreciate this. And that’s what scares the living sh*t out of me and should you.
SCOTUS had the chance in today’s ruling allowing the trans ban in the military to continue in effect pending litigation but it ducked. It could have said that this was an intrusion into the President’s Article III powers (it sort of did) AND that nationwide restraining orders by District Court judges exceed their jurisdiction, but it did not. I don’t think especially Roberts has the will to do it even though it is an obvious necessity and legally correct.
Lincoln did not use force to successfully free one slave. He DID use fedgov power to destroy and thus subdue much of the south, which had lawfully seceded from the rest of the Union. The false flag operation a for Sumpter was a psy-op, Lincoln had sent the Navy to invade a sovereign nation and staged a false flag event to “justify” the attack on that fort.
Slavery was already on the way out and would have peaceably ended within a decade or two… less time than the so-called “reconstruction” dragged out. Men like Eli Whiney and their mechanical inventions would have rendered slavery economically unsustainable.
Instead of the overnight “freeing of the slaves” an ordered and considerate transition plan introducing a measured changeover, da gummit imposed the overnight expulsion of millions of “freed” black slaves from the only homes and lives they had known. How would they eat, but by simply taking what they could find? Where would they live but by laying down a bedroll wherever they found themselves?
Instead of fixing that “peculiar institution” they traded it for a different one just as evil.
I think it isn’t enough to fight them–he must REPLACE THEIR CADRE.
This Frontpageman.com article truly but tragically starts off in it’s first sentence with the sad reality that “America is being invaded from the outside, but the greatest assault is coming from within”.
As is observed with those American Universities and Colleges across the United States that have heads of those institutions ‘sold out” to the influence of the stealth jihadists, who are, no doubt, backed by oil rich nation as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, those institutions of “higher education” which have become more of indoctrination centers for Islam and Islamic causes rather than genuine places of advanced education.
This is betrayal of all those young people who entered into those universities and colleges who sincerely wanted an actual, real, education. This is also betrayal the true spirit of America.
For example the former United States President, William Howard Taft, who in a speech, wisely, declared, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Furthermore there should really no place in America for such un-American indoctrination centers, therefore such universities and colleges need to reform or closed down, For those places are now doing more harm than good.
As the other former US President Theodore Roosevelt, had, rightly, announced in a speech that “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
As this article reads “America is being invaded from the outside, but the greatest assault is coming from within.”
One example of this is that Muslim who is a stealth jihadist politician Ilan Omar ,who is so subversively dangerous with her Islamic agenda which is pro- Sharia anti- US Constitution and anti-Israel that she could fittingly be viewed the epitome and personification of the seditious treacherous movement known as the “stealth Jihad.”
In addition, Omar, should be impeached and removed from the political office she now holds. Maybe she should even expelled from the United States as a security threat. For even an American Imam had described her as so dangerous that he referred to her as “ISIS with lipstick” [1]
Omar with her stealth jihadist schemes to promote Sharia over the US Constitution as the rule of law upon America is ,in essence, very un-American of her.
Related to this, are the wisdom of former US President, Theodore Roosevelt had, rightly, said in a speech “There can be no fifty -fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Furthermore, Omar with her Islamic anti-Jewish and anti- Israel politics and policies is also very un-American of her.
Therefore, the other former US President, William Howard Taft had, wisely, declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cur out. It has no place in America.” – Neither should Omar have a place in America.
[1] The video documentary titled TRUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza,
She also told an audience of Somalis that she is Somalia’s representative in the U.S. government making her an unregistered representative of a foreign government. And her constituents keep re-electing her and the Democratic Party keeps supporting her.
if memory serves aright, she is also guilty of serious immigration crime. Seems she go here and claimed her brother was her husband so he could come in, too. Could be someone else, but I’m pretty certain it is she. Such criminal misuse of the immigration process warrants rescinding HER residency and deportation. Along with the creepy lil bro.
No conservative or republican judges tried to stop Biden admin from doing the things they did, like judges are doing with Trump, WHY? Not one republican, or conservative, not even Trump is trying to jail these left wing nuts like Mayorkis, Why? Not even one dempcrap has been arrested for allowing in 20 million illegal aliens, Why?
Why did so-called “Border Patrol Agents” go along witht he Biden invasion of the south border? Why did the military not protect our borders from invasion?
It’s an oligarch uni-party of America hating RINO’s and DemoCrap criminals, that’s why.
I don’t think it is possible to overcome the demographic shift that has occurred since 1965. The large number of hostile 3rd world populations together with the native traitors make any recovery almost impossible to image. The non-hispanic white population is now only 57% of the total. This population is the only one that have contributed to their own destruction by voting for representatives (both native and foreign) who seek their destruction. We are becoming another South Africa much like most of Western Europe. Recall that Clinton told an audience at the University of Oregon in the 1990’s that our immigration polices threatened the bonds of our nation. The audience reacted by cheering and a standing ovation. Pat Buchanan’s predictions have come to fruition.