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 he is known and carries his banners, openly.
But the traitor moves among those,
within the gate (the gated population) freely, his sly whispers restling through all the
alleys, heard in the very halls of government,
itself. For the traitor appears
not [to be] “traitor,” he speaks in the
accents of his victims – he wears their face and their garments [but] he
appeals to baseness that lies deep within the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to
undermine the pillars of a city; he infects
the body politic so that it can no longer resist - a
murderer is less to be feared
-- a translation of words written
by Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Couple this with Michelle Obama’s depiction of her radicalized
husband:
May of 2008, MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack
knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to
change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our
history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."
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