{"id":17258,"date":"2024-03-07T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T08:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2024-03-07T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T08:41:55","slug":"us-government-past-and-present-the-new-sixth-columnists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/us-government-past-and-present-the-new-sixth-columnists\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government, Past and Present: The New &#8216;Sixth Columnists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We have heard of Fifth Columnists &#8212; &#8220;a group of people who support the enemies of the country they live in and secretly help them,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/fifth-column\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the Cambridge Dictionary.<\/em><em>It sometimes appears as if there are American elected officials, such as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, veering in that direction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>They recently made an &#8220;under the radar&#8221; (meaning secret?)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/02\/28\/ilhan-omar-pramila-japayal-progressives-cuba\">visit to Cuba<\/a>\u00a0and returned to plead the case &#8212; not for the human rights of the starving, destitute Cuban people &#8212; but for the human rights of the dictators causing them to be starving and destitute. They also both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-resolution\/760\/all-actions?overview=closed&amp;q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D\">voted &#8220;no&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0to House Resolution 760,<br \/>\n&#8220;Expressing solidarity with Cuban citizens demonstrating peacefully for fundamental freedoms, condemning the Cuban regime&#8217;s acts of repression, and calling for the immediate release of arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Increasingly, there appear to be federal employees, US Representatives and Senators, judges, political appointees, and the vice president take this sacred\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2021\/01\/i-do-solemnly-swear-the-oath-of-office-and-what-it-means\/\">Oath of Office<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; but who then abrogate it:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;I, ___, do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The president&#8217;s oath, required by Article 2, Section 1, of the US Constitution, is:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hence, we see increasingly see US officials allowing open borders; more than 100,000 Americans being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/drug-overdose-deaths.html\">killed by fentanyl<\/a>\u00a0from China each year, a number greater than all the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2023\/dec\/19\/nikki-haley\/haley-is-correct-that-fentanyl-deaths-top-casualti\/\">service members killed<\/a>\u00a0in Afghanistan, the Korean War and the Iraq War combined; turning a blind eye to Chinese Communist Party espionage and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2023\/07\/factchecking-haleys-claim-on-china-u-s-farmland-and-military-installations\/\">purchases<\/a>\u00a0of nearly 400,000 acres of farmland throughout America, often next to sensitive US military bases; Iran-backed proxy groups, including the Houthis, launching more than 150\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-backed-attacks-us-troops-middle-east-since-oct-7-2024-01-28\/\">attacks<\/a>\u00a0on US service members just since October, with no serious adverse consequences, and Iran about to possess\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-785373\">nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>US officials, some elected, some not, who appear to have been compromised both from within and from abroad, now seem to be trying to enlarge their voter base with an invasion of &#8220;Sixth Columnists&#8221;:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2455010\/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration\/\">more than 10 million<\/a>\u00a0people illegally crossing into the US (with an estimated nearly two million &#8220;gotaways&#8221;) just in the last three years &#8212; &#8220;more than the individual populations of 41 states&#8221; &#8212; presumably in the hope of increasing the incumbent administration&#8217;s voter base. As there is no voter identification required in many states, it is unclear if these 12 million people will be sent mail-in ballots, perhaps even multiple ones, which they could use even if they are not US citizens. Who would be able to check?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Some of our political parties, and the spirit of Roosevelt, Truman and JFK, may well have been replaced by Marxists, the Squad and Sacred Oath abrogators.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The government and voters should hold violators accountable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>\u00a0egretnewseditor@gmail.com\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have heard of Fifth Columnists &#8212; &#8220;a group of people who support the enemies of the country they live in and secretly help them,&#8221;\u00a0according\u00a0to the Cambridge Dictionary.It sometimes appears as if there are American elected officials, such as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, veering in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":17260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17261,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions\/17261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}