The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 35 Issue: 18 - Wednesday, August 18, 2004

The Traitors Among Us
by Jack Kinsella

The National Center for Public Policy Research has posted online an e-mail
received from a soldier, Spc. Joe Roche of the 1st Armored Division, who
says Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 is "making the rounds" among
soldiers at U.S. military bases overseas and is "shocking and crushing
soldiers, making them feel ashamed" of their service in Iraq.

Reading the letter brought tears to my eyes.  Some excerpts:

"Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11, is making the rounds here at U.S.
bases in Kuwait. Some soldiers have received it already and are passing is
around. The impact is devastating. Here we are, soldiers of the 1st
Armored Division, just days from finally returning home after over a year
serving in Iraq, and Moore's film is shocking and crushing soldiers,
making them feel ashamed.

Moore has abused the First Amendment and is hurting us worse than the
enemy has. There are the young and impressionable soldiers, like those who
joined the Army right out of high school. They aren't familiar w/ the
college-type political debate environment, and they haven't been schooled
in the full range of issues involved. They are vulnerable to being hurt by
a vicious film like Moore's."

"Specialist Janecek, who is feeling depressed because a close family
member is nearing the end of her life, just saw the film today. I saw him
in the DFAC. He is devastated. 'I feel sh***y, ashamed, like this was all
a lie.'

Not only is he looking at going straight to a funeral when he returns
home, but now whatever pride he felt for serving here has been crushed by
Moore's film. Specialist Everett earlier after seeing the film: 'You'll be
mad at s**t for ever having come here.' And there are others.

Mostly the comments are absolute shock at the close connections Moore
makes between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia.
'Bush looks really really REALLY corrupt in this film. 'I just don't know
what to think anymore,' is a common comment to hear. Some of these
soldiers are darn right ashamed tonight to be American soldiers, to have
been apart of this whole mission in Iraq, and are angry over all that
Moore has presented in his film."

"Right now, just days away from what should be a proud and happy return
from 15 months of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom, your U.S. soldiers are
coming back ashamed and hurt because of Moore's work."

"I sometimes want to be mad at my fellow soldiers for being susceptible to
Moore's distortions, but I can't really blame them. These are good
Americans, who have volunteered to serve our country. Nothing says they
all have to be experts in Middle Eastern issues and history and politics
to serve. That would be silly. ...But this is, of course, the
vulnerability that Moore has exploited."

"I wonder how damaging and shocking a Moore project would have been in the
1940s making such a video of Franklin Roosevelt."

Assessment:

It may take a bit to reach my point, I hope you will bear with me.

During the Second World War,  troop morale overseas was deemed to be a
matter of national security.  Defeatism was not only discouraged, it was
censored.  The 1st Amendment survived.  So did the United States of
America.

Combat action reports were heavily censored to prevent useful intelligence
from falling into enemy hands.  Even personal mail from GI's in the field
had to pass the unit censors before being mailed out.  American families
back home grew used to receiving letters from their husbands and sons with
whole lines blacked out by the censors.  The 1st Amendment survived. So
did the United States of America.

Back home, Hollywood produced propaganda movies, with the propaganda being
aimed at raising American morale.

Meanwhile, the enemy broadcast radio messages to Allied troops, using
radio announcers like Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose to try and break US
morale.  After the war, Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) was tried by the
British for treason.  He was executed on January 3, 1946.

Tokyo Rose (Iva Ikuko Toguri) was tried after the war for treason. She was
stripped of her American citizenship, sentenced to ten years in prison,
and fined $10,000.

With the Vietnam War, treason became fashionable.  What led Lord Haw-Haw
to the gallows and put Tokyo Rose in prison put John Kerry in the Senate,
for example.

'Treason' as an indictable crime, has a specific legal definition.  But
Webster's defines the meaning of 'treason' as follows:

"The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to
which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the
hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery."

John Kerry's antiwar activities are a textbook example of a person
betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Screaming,  "1st
Amendment privilege," Kerry handed the North Vietnamese all the propaganda
they needed to break US morale and ultimately hand Hanoi victory.  That is
a matter of historical record.

Michael Moore's antiwar 'documentaries' like Fahrenheit 9/11 are further
examples of leftist treason, according to Webster's definition.  Both
Kerry and Moore are guilty of betraying the state into the hands of a
foreign power by their conduct.  In Kerry's case, the betrayal was
complete and the victory went to Hanoi.

In Moore's case, the betrayal is ongoing.  Screaming, "1st Amendment
privilege,"  Moore's wild, unproven allegations about the war in Iraq and
why we are there is sapping the will of America to stay the course, and,
heartbreakingly, the will of the men in harm's way.

"Some of these soldiers are darn right ashamed tonight to be American
soldiers, to have been apart of this whole mission in Iraq," writes Spc
Roche, still in combat in Iraq.

In Spc Roche's letter, one can hear echoes of John Kerry's 1971 question,
addressed to the Senate hearing before whom he was testifying; "Who wants
to be the last man to die for a lost cause in Vietnam?"

Stop, for a second, and allow the spin to wind down.  Remember where this
all began.  Saddam Hussein was a vicious dictator who was being propped up
by corruption and black marketeering, conducted at the highest levels of
UN, France, Germany and Russia.

Prior to 9/11, regime change in Iraq was already a matter of US national
policy. After 9/11, removing Saddam (or leaving him in power) could easily
have become a matter of national survival.  (What was Saddam going to do
with that yellowcake uranium from Niger, anyway?)

And every day Saddam was in power, thousands of innocents in Iraq were
being butchered. Every day invasion was delayed, thousands more died.
Those Iraqis were real people, not just numbers.

Those were the reasons our troops went to Iraq, and they were proud to do
it. Those I've met who returned from Iraq were filled with a sense of
accomplishment and the rightness of their mission.

Michael Moore betrayed them, stole their pride, and instilled in them a
sense of futility that may well get some of those who are still in combat
killed.  Moore knows that -- he's been told by experts.

Treason is evidently no barrier to high office, as John Kerry's candidacy
makes clear.  And treason is no barrier to wealth, fame and high honors,
as Michael Moore's wildly successful enemy propaganda films testify to so
eloquently.

To them, America is the enemy, but to their twisted way of thinking, that
makes them 'patriots' - so say the likes of Michael Moore, John Kerry,
Alec Baldwin, Teddy Kennedy, etc., etc.

At the risk of repeating myself,  Paul's description of society in the
last days bears more than a passing resemblance to our own crumbling
social edifice.  Consider, for a moment, the platform, tone and spirit of
those who represent the American Left.

Picture such faces in your minds eye as John Kerry's, or Michael Moore,
or Alec Baldwin,  Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle. . .  ok, got it?

Now look at what they stand for. Abortion rights.  Gay rights. Secular
humanism.  The suppression of Christianity. Same sex marriages. Children's
rights (and the corollary erosion of parental rights)  Even UN rights over
US sovereign matters like national defense.

Now, look at how they advance their causes.  By creating division - the
'two Americas' the 'rich against the poor' (class warfare is a technique
perfected by the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Czar. It is classical
Marxism).

By fomenting civil unrest.  By advocating civil disobedience. Recall all
the illegal gay 'marriages' performed by elected officials in defiance of
the law, for example.  (Also classical Marxism)

Let's return to Paul's comments, one more time. Bear with me.

First, the historical context of which Paul is framing his description:

"This know also, that in THE LAST DAYS, perilous times shall come."
Having established the historical context as being in the 'last days'
Paul describes the social conditions that constitute  'perilous times' for
the Church in those last days.

"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy." (2nd Timothy
3:2)

Allow me to paraphrase Paul to illustrate my point (with apologies to the
Author).  "For men shall be supporters of secular humanism, wanting power at
all costs, boasters (Was Kerry in Cambodia in 1968?) supporters of the
ACLU, supporters of restricting parental rights, unthankful and unholy."

"Without natural affection (gay marriage) trucebreakers (Kerry's promise
to bug out of Iraq) false accusers (Bush lied, Bush was AWOL, SWIFT Boat
veterans are all partisan liars, etc) incontinent (Teddy Kennedy) fierce
(Terry McAullife: Bush was AWOL) despisers of those that are good (GOP
taken over by the "religious right")"

"Traitors (see assessment) heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more
than lovers of God,  having a form of godliness (Kerry the Catholic
believes life begins at conception but supports abortion 'rights'), but
denying the power thereof :(One nation, under God?) . . . to which, Paul
warns the Church,  "from such turn away."

This is not intended as an exhortation for one political party or a
condemnation of the other.  They stand either condemned or justified on
the weight of their own positions.

The point of today's Omega Letter is actually contained in 1 Timothy 1:1.

Before presenting a literal description of the worldview of the America
liberal left, Paul opens by saying;

"This know also, that IN THE LAST DAYS, perilous times shall come."

Questions, anyone?