The School shootings.. the road rage shootings.. the random hate crimes… the doorstep murders or stand-your-ground murders.. the murders of protesters… the murder of the mentally ill and the infirm and homeless… the clutching of the bibles.. the anti-christian sloganism… the money buried in the walls of the faux churches.. the molestations… the minority attacks.. the vitriol.. the nightly misinformation propaganda campaigns.. the oil wars.. the culture wars… they are all the activities of the 5th column currently attacking America with the goal of splitting it up and undermining our allies and global alliances.. All done under the guise of religious Zealotry and anti-globalism and fear. It’s a disease of hate and intolerance…
– Trinity
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation
For other uses of the term, see Fifth Column (disambiguation).
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“Much will be discussed by our future children and the governments around the world about the events happening today. This is the “decisive decade” of our lives. Americans should look deeply into their hearts and minds and pull from them the best qualities they wish to show the world. If we align together today we can achieve peace tomorrow. War criminals must be held accountable for their actions. The invasion of Ukraine was an insane miscalculation and a grave error of reason. Those who wish to align with the genocidal forces that currently occupy Ukraine do so at their own peril. #SlavaUkraini ” – Trinity
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[some excerpts From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. According to Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz, “fifth columns” are “domestic actors who work to undermine the national interest, in cooperation with external rivals of the state.”[1] The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. Forces gathered in secret can mobilize openly to assist an external attack. This term is also extended to organised actions by military personnel. Clandestine fifth column activities can involve acts of sabotage, disinformation, espionage, and/or terrorism executed within defense lines by secret sympathizers with an external force.
The term “fifth column” originated in Spain (originally quinta columna) during the early phase of the Spanish Civil War. It gained popularity in the Loyalist faction media in early October 1936 and immediately started to spread abroad.[2]
The exact origins of the term are not clear. Its first known appearance is in a secret telegram dated September 30, 1936, that was sent to Berlin by the German chargé d’affaires in Alicante, Hans Hermann Völckers. In the telegram, he referred to an unidentified “supposed statement by Franco” that “is being circulated” (apparently in the Republican zone or in the Republican-held Levantine zone), and he suggests that in that statement Franco had claimed that there were four Nationalist columns approaching Madrid, and a fifth column waiting to attack from the inside.[3] The telegram was part of the secret German diplomatic correspondence and was discovered long after the civil war.
The first identified public use of the term is in the October 3, 1936, issue of the Madrid Communist daily Mundo Obrero. In a front-page article, the party propagandist Dolores Ibárruri referred to a statement very similar (or identical) to the one that Völckers had referred to in his telegram, but attributed it to General Emilio Mola rather than to Franco.[4] On the same day, the PCE activist Domingo Girón made a similar claim during a public rally.[5] During the next few days, various Republican papers repeated the story, but with differing detail; some attributed the phrase to General Queipo de Llano.[6] By mid-October, the media was already warning of the “famous fifth column”.[7]
Historians have never identified the original statement referred to by Völckers, Ibárruri, Girón, de Jong, and others.[8] The transcripts of Francisco Franco‘s, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano‘s, and Emilio Mola‘s radio addresses have been published, but they do not contain the term,[9] and no other original statement containing this phrase has ever surfaced. A British journalist who took part in Mola’s press conference on October 28, 1936, claimed that Mola referred to quinta columna on that day,[10] but by that time the term had already been being used in the Republican press for more than three weeks.[11]
Historiographic works offer differing perspectives on authorship of the term. Many scholars have no doubt about Mola’s role and refer to “fifth column” as “a term coined in 1936 by General Emilio Mola”,[12] though they acknowledge that his exact statement cannot be verified.[13] In some sources, Mola is named as a person who had used the term during an impromptu press interview, and different – though detailed – versions of the exchange are offered.[14] Probably the most popular version describes the theory of Mola’s authorship with a grade of doubt, either noting that it is presumed but has never been proven,[15] or that the phrase “is attributed” to Mola,[16] who “apparently claimed” so,[17] or else noting that “la famosa quinta columna a la que parece que se había referido el general Mola” (the famous fifth column that General Mola seems to have referred to)[18] Some authors consider it possible if not likely that the term has been invented by the Communist propaganda with the purpose of either raising morale or providing justification for terror and repression; initially it might have been part of the whispering campaign, but was later openly floated by Communist propagandists.[19] There are also other theories afloat.[20]
Some writers, mindful of the origin of the phrase, use it only in reference to military operations rather than the broader and less well-defined range of activities that sympathizers might engage in to support an anticipated attack.[a]
World War II poster from the United States denouncing fifth columnists (above)
- In 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin called Russian citizens who are against the invasion of Ukraine as fifth columnists and “national traitors.”[45]
- see more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column
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